Well if you don't want to go back centuries why not go back 15 years before 1954. In 1939 Karelia was part of Finland, half of Sakhalin island was part of Japan and Kaliningrad was called Königsberg and was part of Germany.
You can't just pick and choose dates as you see fit to try and maximise territory and say "See - it was really ours all along".
What's the statute of limitations here?
If the Russians think they have some god given right to Crimea then they'd better hand back those other territories or their entire argument is morally bankrupt.
Plenty of people use VPNs. I have one to my home network where a PiHole filters my traffic, I can also access everything I need to.
Loads of people use the likes of NordVPN or whatever.
Go on then. Post the videos…seeing there is no end of them. Anyone asked to provide evidence has failed. Can you buck the trend? However, we know that you are telling lies. The only people being dragged off streets are Russian citizens in Russia. Your time may come yet.
@Runningringsaroundzelenskybots why are you such an angry fella? Leave the box room and get some fresh air and exercise. It will do you a world of good.
Nothing new there. NATO are the bad guys, we're the victims facing existential threat. That's about as close as they're going to get to saying things are fcked.
Has the value of the ruble dropped? Perhaps the trolls are raising their prices.
This could get expensive for you.
Intelligent people in Russia have left the country already or have been sent to the front lines because intelligence is the enemy too.
Looking more and more possible the UK can send those missiles (would be capable of reaching Crimea)
They have been promised double time at the weekend. Chances are they won’t get paid and will literally have to join a breadline.
As expected, you don’t have Irish papers in Russia these days.
There are still lots of Europeans (including Irish) living and working in Russia, Moscow in particular. Granted some have left since the outbreak of the war but there is a real misperception of what Russia is like here
Sure some have stayed and the sensible ones would have followed their embassy’s/consulate’s guidance.
For a country in dire need to put its best foot forward, the trolls they employ to post online don’t give a good impression of much intelligence remaining in Russia.
Looks like the cleaning staff at Orwell Rd. have been let loose on the consoles
It's a swamping tactic, so time now to ignore them (him?)
The US now believes Russia has Lost 50% of it's main tank force in Ukraine,I believe that the figure is north of 60% of it's tank force ,they seem to be losing 20 + tanks week in some parts of Ukraine,along with various Apcs .
I lived and worked there myself for a couple of years. It’s a lot safer than the cities in Ireland, very little anti social behaviour. The wealthy elite control the country but the millions of ordinary people are just like the rest of us
So Russia lost ~50% of their tank force.... Anyone have the figure for Ukraine?
It's obviously increased, just wonder by how much. Excluding tanks due to arrive, like the next batch of T72's from Poland.
Tanks (457, of which destroyed: 271, damaged: 27, abandoned: 17, captured: 142)
I wouldn’t be so sure that they are just like us Irish. I can’t see people here sitting back and allowing conscription for an imperialistic war. Try to charge for water is insignificant in comparison and people were having none of it.
Yes, I get all of that, the whys and wherefores. Back in 2014 two friends of mine were working in Dunbass, and the cryptic msg out from them was typical Irish " There's two sides to every story", so that's very true. But neither did it warrant the kind of intervention that Putin brought, fact is that even if there had not been any aggro between the ethnic Russians and Ukrainians or even without the NATO excuse Putin had his mind set on bringing Ukraine ( and others) back under his control. And that's why I asked the very basic question if the poster ( Chester) if he agreed with Putin's aggression or Ukraine's defending their Country. So far, he has not answered it.
I would say the 700k that ran away from mobilization last time are like us,the ones that stayed behind are not,since they are in Ukraine now fighting for a madman in Kremlin
So Ukraine started with 900
Lost 457, captured 546 and received at least 361 from allies. So should be at about 1350 now.
I just done a quick Google on their initial quantity of 900 tanks at the start of the war.
So Russia lost 50%, Ukraine gained 50% 🤣
Before it used to be nazis running away to Argentina,now its Russian pregnant women,the irony
Must be lunchtime at the embassy it's all gone very quiet.
New prime minister appointed who is pro-EU. Hopefully they can stay the course what with the constant instability that the secessionists cause in the eastern part of the country.
About that big pipe.../ssssssssss
Ìt's happening everywhere apparently across all social media a blitz of trolling. The kremlin scutter pump is in overdrive
The reason for this war is very simple, Imperial Expansion.
Putin wants to be Peter The Great 2.0
If Russia succeeds then that will give a green light to other wanna be conquerors, the West/NATO etc MUST keep helping Ukraine and ensure their victory otherwise things could get very very nasty for a lot more people.
I’ve honestly noticed this myself. Any site that allows comments is riddled with pro russian rubbish. I wondered if that is the general view of ordinary Europeans/Irish and came to the conclusion it’s not, as anyone I know, both here and abroad has nothing but disdain for the kremlin.
The Russian trolls / right wingers / conspiracy theorists are hugely over-represented on social media. They are very loud and vocal and try to give the impression there are many millions of them (and they even claim to be the "silent majority"), but in reality it's just the same cranks and crackpots churning out thousands of tweets and comments over and over again.
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