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@correct horse battery staple

He must care a bit, if only because if he gets all his men killed, he won't be able to win this war.

'Tis but a scratch, compared to Marinka.

I'm not burying my head in the sand. I'm sure we're all well aware of what's happening, and what's happening is the same in all previous wars. No better, no worse. I don't want to cover up or suppress any information, far from it.

I don't think that boards.ie is a place to link snuff videos, to watch videos of soldiers from either side getting maimed and killed. I'm sure you'd agree that we don't post videos of rape and torture, even though that is also a common occurrence?

Are we that desensitized that we're promoting graphic videos of some Russian sod getting killed?

Surely this is against the charter:

Do not post any material that you know or should know is hateful, abusive, harassing, false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, vulgar, obscene, profane, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or illegal.

This very war is vulgar, obscene and profane, yet the thread is running to thousands of pages. Point being that in a thread about horrible and bloody war, I don't think it's unreasonable in principal to proffer this kind of footage, especially where the reader is not being forced to look at it.

I completely agree with this sentiment, I've followed this thread from the beginning and I appreciate the input from everyone and appreciate that people use links to reinforce their point of view.

I have just noticed that over the past few weeks we've gotten more link dumps of what amounts to little more than snuff videos. There should be a minimum level of decency and civility to posting. The war is horrible and bloody, but we don't need to revel in it.

From your original post

"Gif of footage from Ukrainian grenade drop on a group of sleeping Russian soldiers. Obviously there's some gore, so don't watch if squeamish."

What has this added to the discussion?

It tells us that war can be a horrible and random thing where chaos can erupt out of calm. One second you're here and the next you're not. There's no sentimental music and here's no poignant last words. Only some of the sleeping never wake up. Those who do wake up are subjected to mad shock and panic like most of us hope never to experience, and it can happen to soldiers in the field at virtually any time.

Atrocities of war are more than death. Again, would people be up for watching videos of rape and torture? I'm sure it wouldn't take long to find them. Are these links meant to be educational? How many videos are needed to drive home man's inhumanity to man?

I'm not going to labour the point, if people and mods are happy then I won't bring it up.

Meh,maybe those russians back home thinking of volunteering will watch these videos and think twice,

I don't usually revel in death, but nice to see this fella taken out.

Another shocking story about the Kremlin's tactics:-

The thought of this thread being some sort of Irish frontline in Russia's state sponsored cyber war sounds exciting but I doubt it. That's something that started here and grew legs as quickly as the lads losing them in the real war.

Every thread on here over the last 10 + years involving anything to do with Russia is proof of that ,so many people posting about how much they adored putin and the loved the way putin was putting it to the west,and at the same time telling us how much the EU and Nato were full of corruption, ukraine was full of far right neo Nazi's,

This thread has mainly become about sharing information on the war in Ukraine. While we're at that, if we can put a few trolls back in their boxes, what harm? Although I'm sure there's no-one here thinks they're helping win the war one post at a time, the trolls' little talking points do trickle down into wider public consciousness and can than affect political outcomes if allowed to run unchallenged. Troll farms wouldn't be a thing if there wasn't value in influencing online opinion.