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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭Curious_Case


    I don't think any of the initial 31 Abrams from the US have been sent yet.

    Perhaps the 4 Leopard 2's from Canada are in transit.

    Isn't Poland in the process of sending a significant amount of T92's

    I suggest you do some Googling to find out more. Not all equipment goes on the same wheelbarrow on the same day.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 177 ✭✭MudSpud


    Moving on from the infantilism. The Russkis are building up and moving west. Apparently stating that (the obvious) makes one a Russian spy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,208 ✭✭✭jmreire


    Not necessarily all of them would be ex Russian Military officers. First and foremost the Wagner Group are mercenaries, and as such recruit from many Country's where they operate. So could well be from Syria, or Africa etc. By any standards they are well paid, and in some Countrys they operate in, a share of the spoils, which could be quite substantial. The convicts recruited from Russian prisons are a different category from the "normal" soldiers they have. The Convict soldiers are basically front line cannon fodder, and the "Normal Wagner " soldiers are the enforcers in the second or 3rd line to ensure that the ex-cons are running in the right direction, against the Ukrainian positions.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,208 ✭✭✭jmreire


    Which begs the question, are the ordinary soldiers finally starting to turn on their officers'?? With Wagner, turning on a Commander would be an unforgivable offence, punishable by sledgehammer. What was going on in this case I wonder?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,767 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    I'm in two minds about this. They receive the lions share of EU funding so it's akin to the EU paying for this while the smaller Baltic states have given so much more of their materiel, proportionally, some are in a vulnerable position.

    So I approve on the one hand, but think EU funding needs to be rebalanced as Poland might be getting too much.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,767 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    And people expressed doubts when I, earlier said they will have 390,000 dead and over a million wounded by the end of the year, if it's still going.

    Spare a thought for the little furry animals giving their all for fur coats.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,767 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    The Ukranians report that some of the Wagner convicts are being sent forward unarmed, being expected to take them on with their bare hands. They also report that so high is the incidence of TB, HIV and STDs, that the medical staff at the main hospitals refuse to treat them. What a prospect.

    Russia has descended to the stone age in parts of this conflict, literally.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,767 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,767 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 275 ✭✭Seanmadradubh


    Flooding?

    I think you confusing the words flooding and trickling.

    If the Russians continue having "victories" at the rate and at the cost they having now they will loose this war.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,514 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    No, I am not. Your support for Russia is obvious, as is your consumption of Russian propaganda. I am trying to figure out why you dodge when asked about your support for dictatorships that encourage and reward rapt, murder, kidnapping of children, men and women…..all while they destroy and steal everything in their path. All Russian supporters refuse to address this. Can you please explain how you rationalise it internally, and how it makes you feel when thinking about your nearest and dearest?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,182 ✭✭✭Field east


    You know well that the Ukr will make sure that the Ru will be the first to know all the points you raise in your post and especially when those tanks will start to roll to the battle front and most especially the numbers rolling and when they expect them to actually start firing - and of course it’s battle strategy!!!!!!!!!!!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 355 ✭✭ElitesTeam


    Ukraine is now conscripting 16 year olds to fight. Expect a huge increase of male refugees



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,460 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    Other than this debunking of a lie from RuZZian media: https://observers.france24.com/en/europe/20230113-debunked-ukraine-child-soldiers-video

    I can't find any proof of your claim. Care to provide it?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Zelensky to visit London today



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,443 ✭✭✭Cordell


    Why are these low post count trolls allowed to post here, especially when it's clear that they have an agenda?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,514 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    We have another live one.

    Show the evidence to back up your post and hold your breath while gathering it, because I certainly won’t be holding my breath waiting.

    An easier answer for you to provide is any of your previous usernames on this thread.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,351 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Personally I'd let them, debate and let the chips fall where they may. Let's face it war is by its very nature "agenda" based. But again that's just me.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,245 ✭✭✭Mike3549


    "Wagner finding loads of bodies in Bakhmut with head and hands chopped off, i wonder why?"

    And how do they find them if they are not there yet?

    Edit: any links to back up this claim?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,514 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    No, start from the top of your post I quoted and provide evidence of all the points you made.

    Btw, no one here wants a war and it has been explained to you before.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,514 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    Yes a loss for you. You were asked for evidence, and you were extremely selective about one detail that is not really relevant to the war. You failed to back up your nonsense. So yes, it’s another loss for Russia.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,395 ✭✭✭✭Francie Barrett


    The Ukraine morning report only indicates further deterioration in the Bakhmut situation. There is now only one back road in and out of the city.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,351 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Russian military budget $69B, the USA alone has pumped $100B into Ukraine last year

    What that actually shows is the incredible gap between Russian resources and America's. The latter spends over ten times that on a yearly basis. This meme while childish has a lot of truth to it.

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    100 billion is essentially buttons to them and while they're at it, they have some of their allies in the region giving out of date Soviet/Russian kit to Ukraine, in exchange for more up to date US kit, thus increasing their arms export industry for the future. If nothing else comes out of this misadventure the Russian arms export industry is effectively on life support, if not dead for the foreseeable(never mind the sanctions that constrict supply in the first place). Well Iran and North Korea will buy some from them. Bless.

    USA carrier cant enter the Black Sea, come on you know that, so why post it?

    Fact is Aircraft carriers, jut like Battleships in WW2 are obsolete, a aircraft carrier is only good again rinky dink military's, a modern one with plenty of anti ship missiles just fires dozens at once, overwhelm the defense's only one has to hit home and the aircraft carrier is sunk.

    Indeed, as what happened to the Russian flagship in the area. Sunk by a nation who doesn't have a navy, while the rest of the Russian fleet hides on the other side of Crimea to avoid the same nation without a navy.

    My point was the level of overwhelming force actual NATO could bring to bear on Russia's conventional forces would render them ineffective in very short order(the carrier fleet would not be the first shot fired. Observe how US combined forces operate. The fleet would be in play after Russian forces would be rendered effectively blind and deaf). There would certainly be NATO losses, but Russia's would be far far higher, and they know it. Their only chip to throw in - and they mention it a lot, which should tell you something - are their nuclear weapons.

    Never mind that NATO had no and still have no intention of direct military contact. They're happy to sit back and watch, and watch Russia bleed out with none of their servicemen coming back draped in the Stars and Stripes. QV the missile that landed in Poland and killed two Poles. The Ukrainians accused Russia of it, but within hours the US and NATO were directly and publicly contradicting the Ukrainians, said it was a rogue Ukrainian missile and kept them out of the investigations. If NATO wanted a "false flag" to go, that was giftwrapped. Which again should tell you something.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • Posts: 7,946 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Zelensky doing the needful...


    Anyone thinking he's NOT playing a blinder is a fool, anyone expecting us to agree with them is trying to make fools of us.



  • Posts: 7,946 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    This post should be stickied - just goes to show how much effort Putin bots go to to spread their BS. Because, some claim Putin/Russia wouldn't bother with Boards.ie.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    @Pattonstankdivision I'll explain so you can understand, NATO troops are on the ground, in the form of "mercenaries", the fancy equipment donated by NATO is operated by these "volunteers", the Russians are destroying this equipment as it enters the battlefield..


    No they are not,no Nato troops are on the ground in Ukraine



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,208 ✭✭✭jmreire


    I think that the convicts have to wear special colored wrist / arm bands to denote which / what infection / illness they are suffering from. Imagine the effect that will have on the other soldiers...



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭Curious_Case


    These morally impoverished "pseudo-sympaths" are all the same.

    No imagination, so no sense of humour, so no ability to understand anything abstract.

    That's why their sole recourse is to pretend they're the only ones displaying the appropriate gravitas.

    Their use of language is always so strained, I guess they're just carrying out their assignments without being remotely curious enough to recognise a crock of sh!t.

    Why do they even try in Ireland?

    They would be far more productive in India.



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