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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 170 ✭✭WheelieKing


    Be nice if that was true but come on it's just not, "100% proof"??

    That's like me saying ive 100% proof i slept with Taylor Swift last week and producing a used condom.

    Like it's a good system but the guy does himself no favours with that tweet.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,149 ✭✭✭Mike3549




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,122 ✭✭✭✭Francie Barrett




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭charlie_says


    Still would like the conflict to end. Don't care much if you believe me and I laugh hard at being called a tankie.

    Even reading and posting on this thread is mostly to voyeur on the effect of propaganda and bias in the media, and of course the cognitive dissonance.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,566 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    On the encirclement movement around Bakhmut one thing I've seen in a couple of analysis videos on Youtube that hasn't been mentioned here is that if one looks at the topographic maps, the recent local counter-offensive to the North of Bakhmut has gained Ukrainian forces some higher-ground that, once consolidated, should give them a good position from which to deploy artillery to attack Wagner forces in the city...

    Found one of the videos:




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 510 ✭✭✭AerLingus747


    I've mentioned it before that even though everyone makes Bakhmut to be a non-sensical save, it is one of the last hilly areas before extensive flatlands to the west..

    It's the reason why west Bakhmut hasn't fallen, the Russian's literally have an uphill battle.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,636 ✭✭✭timmyntc


    blasts visible with same time between them from webcam elsewhere in kyiv.

    Likely that one video is city center and other is outskirts



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,460 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    The goal of the attack has been reached. All the assigned targets have been neutralised.


    U.S.-manufactured Patriot surface-to-air missile system has been struck by Kinnzhal hypersonic glide vehicle in Kiev.

    Russian Defence Ministry

    I guess they are kinda right, the Patriot missiles were destroyed 😂

    But it gives the face now, they won't need to launch kinzhal missiles at Kyiv as they have already destroyed what they wanted. That will be their excuse if they don't want to risk the embarrassment of having their hypersonic missiles shot down again!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭charlie_says


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    6 shot down confirmed by mayor of capital



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,161 ✭✭✭relax carry on


    Everyone wants the war to end. How it ends is where the tankies are separated from functional adults. For me it ends when all of Ukrainian territory is free of Russian troops; those Russian troops/mercenaries and their leaders responsible for deliberately targeting civilians, for torturing and executing civilians and captured military personnel are handed over to the ICC to answer for their crimes; and Russia pays for the rebuilding of Ukrainian infrastructure as well as compensation to it's victims. How does the end of the war look like in your head?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,575 ✭✭✭RoyalCelt


    I'm liking the trend lately, France following UK by sending long range missile's. Just what the doctor ordered.

    Western fighter jet training commencing so only a matter of time.


    Meanwhile some of the best air defence systems and armoured vehicles have been pouring into Ukraine and will continue.

    Compared to 12 months ago Ukraine are far better off and Russia are far worse off. The fact they're now firing their most prized missiles at Kyiv tells you something. Only 10 million a pop aswell.

    Russia won't be able to afford to rebuild this army over the next 20 years unless they want everyone living in the gutter.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭ZeroThreat


    I'm sure Putin and his inner circle of Oligarchs couldn't care less about the welfare of the serfs.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭charlie_says


    Hopefully something like this: ceasefire, then negotiations about territory that are acceptable to both sides and realistic, some kind of security guarantee that is acceptable to both sides and neighboring countries.

    Talking in absolutes is not the way to approach a discussion, people who do deals regularly understand this.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,149 ✭✭✭Mike3549


    Those blasts look more like launches, than arrivals to me. But I'm not a military expert. Just my 2c



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,277 ✭✭✭TaurenDruid


    People who do deals regularly are usually negotiating with someone they can trust, and not negotiating with a proven liar. How the **** do you trust the word of someone like Putin? You can't.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,592 ✭✭✭Widdensushi


    No negotiation needed, just leave.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,362 ✭✭✭Sigma101


    Go on then.

    Tell us what "security guarantee" would be "acceptable to both sides"?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,074 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Hopium nonsense.

    Ukraine had such a treaty with security guarantees with Russia - Budapest agreement. It was Russia who repeatedly violated it and they were not deterred by promises of support from US, UK.

    So what security guarantee, short of Ukraine in NATO, do you think Ukraine should find acceptable?

    Because we've been here before, and it is Russia who repeatedly break these treaties and cannot be trusted to abide by any agreement.

    Well, for people who do deals regularly - why would you trust a deal with people who regularly break the deals they sign with you?

    Well???

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,491 ✭✭✭zv2


    Give or take a few % points I trust there is an improvement.

    airdefense.jpg


    Post edited by zv2 on

    It looks like history is starting up again.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,491 ✭✭✭zv2


    They should move the Patriots a few tens of meters every time there is a missile attack.

    It looks like history is starting up again.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭charlie_says


    Disband NATO and CSTO would solve a lot of problems. Perhaps.

    I dunno though, just stopping the shooting first will sober people up from the red mist. Work it out from there.

    Don't have any answers as I don't have faith in the info or history we get, but the killing continuing to either a total push back/collapse of Russian forces or complete subjigation of Ukrainian military seem pretty unlikely to me as the reprecussions are potentially catastrophic and would likely escalate the conflict from a localized affair to a regional or even global one.

    The idea that Russia will pull out on it's own accord I also think is hopium nonsense, infantile really, without security guarantees is pretty wild because Ukraine likely to go straight into NATO and get fully armed up with equipment that threatens Moscow.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,074 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Disband NATO?

    SO without NATO, what is stopping Russia from taking back the Baltic States and trying to dominate Ukraine again? How would disbanding the CSTO prevent that?

    Absolute nonsense.

    Ukraine already signed a treaty with Russia, giving up strategic offensive weapons, in return for Russian security guarantees. Russia violated that treaty repeatedly.

    The NATO-Russia Founding Act sets out what weapons systems could be deployed to a Ukraine in NATO, and nope, they wouldn't get fully armed up with NATO equipment that threatens Moscow.

    You don't have any answers and are clueless about actual treaties between Ukraine, Russia and NATO. That is obvious.

    Did stopping the shooting sober Russia up in Chechnya? Nope. They just returned re-armed and flattened cities.

    So you work it out from there what's likely to happen with Russia and Ukraine based on Russia's past actions with such treaties, because that is the reality not some fantasy in your head about red mists.

    Yeah you don't have faith in the history you get yet seem to accept Russia's propaganda version of why they are in Ukraine.

    A morally and intellectually bankrupt position.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,351 ✭✭✭fly_agaric


    I never called you that (maybe others did), IMO you're likely one of the other kinds of Ukraine war contrarian odd ducks that are about the place (edit: and not a "peacenik" if finding videos of stuff being blown up in Ukraine by the Russian military + posting it)! We'd all like it to "end" soon I hope, Russia seems to be (very) keen on carrying on for now and they keep escalating rather than backing off.

    That attack last night was example, where if reports on it are correct they are pulling out more of their "best" weapons in effort to try and breach Ukraine's air defences.

    Waging a war the fairly brutal way Russia has of going about it + that strategy of constant escalation when balked (as they have been in Ukraine), well that generally makes it harder & harder for people to stop fighting & then come to agreement. Levels of hate + fear + mistrust of Russia stirred up in Ukraine must be intense by now.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,636 ✭✭✭timmyntc


    From the previous videos we can see what air defense missile launches look like from each perspective. Missile are easily visible in flight immediately after launch.

    Those 2 blasts have none of these factors immediately afterwards. Not to mention the shockwaves from the closer of the 2 videos.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,029 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    Both sides nonsense again.

    This isn't a territorial dispute and it's very clear from your posts you don't grasp that. Putin is invading Ukraine. He didn't stop when he took Crimea. He didn't stop when his forces proxy invaded a significant portion of Eastern Ukraine. Rewarding him with land doesn't stop him.

    The Ukrainians are fighting and depleting Russia's ability to invade them. That is what's stopping Putin from invading. At some point there may indeed be negotiations but it will be on the Ukrainian terms as it is their land and their lives.

    More Putin talking points. NATO is the only thing keeping many countries safe from a highly aggressive expansionist Russia under Putin. If Ukraine was in NATO it's unlikely Putin would be invading it.

    No one is threatening Moscow. No country wants to invade Russia. No nation on this earth wants to attack that nuclear-armed dictatorship.

    However NATO is a threat to Moscow's plans to invade other countries. So they create this Hitler-esque propaganda that they are being threatened by a defensive alliance. Which you swallow and happily regurgitate here along with the rest of your Putin apologism.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,106 ✭✭✭Christy42


    All this is is a cry for more war. Disband NATO and suddenly you have a lot more of Eastern Europe as a target for Russian aggression, Putin didn't target a NATO country and indeed has massively increased its border with NATO given it forced Finland into the alliance.


    Complete destruction of the Ukranian military wouldn't stop the violence. It would just move it to Georgia. The only way this ends is when Russia is defeated, that is the only avenue that does not lead to another war in a few months time.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭Homelander


    How could anyone have the audacity to write that, and write that with a straight face - NATO should be disbanded to appease Putin and reward him for his colossal blunder of an illegal and incredibly barbaric invasion of a sovereign country, that's also wrecking his army and economy.

    Absolutely comical. Not even Putin himself would be so deluded to come up with even the whiff of such an absurd proposal.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,395 ✭✭✭✭Furze99


    You can't negotiate with a vicious dictatorial regime bent on empire building - Chamberlain found that out long ago among many others. The collective west has realised this and is assisting Ukraine to draw a very strong line in the sand. Russia needs to be driven out of Ukraine, massive reparations paid, Ukrainian citizens repatriated and the Russian leadership jailed or executed. The sooner Russia sues for peace the better for all.

    You're right about one thing - this war is existential for future European peace.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 510 ✭✭✭AerLingus747




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,362 ✭✭✭Sigma101




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