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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,213 ✭✭✭jmreire


    I've a much better idea, how about we disband Putins kingdom?? Free the Republics, and let them choose for themselves how they want to proceed?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,300 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,076 ✭✭✭.Donegal.


    Is this the missile that putrid was boasting about could hit anywhere in no time?



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


    Unfortunately if Putin decided to lunch ICBMs tonight the first thing we would be seeing is mushroom clouds followed by many more until nobody else is alive to push more buttons ,

    Despite what was posted earlier



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,097 ✭✭✭✭briany


    Yeah, well given how paranoid Putin is about being assassinated, he seems to fear death more than anything else, so I don't think he pushes that button unless forces are literally marching on Moscow, no matter how fast the rockets bearing the warhead are. That's assuming the button is connected to anything. Someone may have sold the connecting length of wire for vodka money.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,213 ✭✭✭jmreire


    And that, will be the very last thing he does!!! 😁



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭relax carry on


    Well fair play for confirming with this reply and your later one on disbanding NATO, that you are indeed 100% tankie. Whether you acknowledge it yourself or laugh at all those sheeple who can't see the true genius of your solutions to end the war by giving Putin everything his autocratic heart has ever desired; it's not important anymore. We shouldn't hold a true international relations genius like yourself back any longer. It's time for you to bring your amazing insights to the UN, or better still Zelensky himself. No tears now, god speed you Charlie.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,819 ✭✭✭timmyntc


    Is this the missile that hit Ukraines patriot air defence?

    the truth is likely somewhere in the middle - kinzhals can be intercepted, but not a hope 100% of those launched are/were.



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




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


    I know the same People calling it a unstoppable hypersonic missile ...,

    When they were repeatedly told it wasn't but yet they kept repeating the the same hyperbolic nonsense for pages and pages



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


    Seem the Russians did damage a patriot system, May need to be returned to the states to be repaired depending on how the damage assessment goes ....






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




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭zv2


    It looks like history is starting up again.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭seenitall


    Untitled Image

    Photo by Serhii Nuzhnenko (11/05/2023)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,398 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Ukraine has to be extremely precious with US equipment. Any losses are grist to the mill of the further right Republicans.



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


    Nothing new there,

    You could write Page after Page about Russian scientists and weapons designers that have been disappeared with the aid of sham trial's over the last century....

    Russia doesn't change



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


    It won't be just republicans , democrats and here in Europe people will start asking about why their taxes are funding the war while the cost of living and inflation keeps creeping up everywhere else,



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,202 ✭✭✭Polar101


    Maybe their rental insurance covers missile strikes and they won't have to pay so much when they return the launchers.



  • Posts: 1,656 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The treason cases relate to supplying hypersonic info to China. One of them was arrested in 2021. Most likely the charges are legitimate, China has been on a hiring, bribing and spying spree in this field the past few years.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,895 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    If it was an interception missile malfunction like the photo earlier, maybe then can claim off the manufacturers insurance!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,062 ✭✭✭macraignil


    Last time the US electorate voted in to power a far right republican as president he led them to being the second worst in the wold in mortality rate per head of population from Covid 19 with a current count of well over a million dead from the disease in a country where the idxxt they voted in claimed they had the bestest health care system in the world. Not sure they would be dumb enough to vote in a far right idxxt in the same way again even if Ukraine had a lot of weapons chewed up by the moskovytes or think any such considerations should concerne the Ukrainians in a war for survival of their country.

    Fringe elements of other countries political systems have a very low chance of impacting them in my opinion. Where is the evidence that any country has decided or has a serious likelihood of deciding to back away from supporting Ukraine in their struggle against moskovyte terrorism?



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,955 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    Not the best comparison. Said administration also ended up providing said healthcare system with the access to vaccines at a level unavailable to other nations. My Texas-based wife and I both had shots in our arms before my parents, OAPs and more vulnerable that they are, living in Ireland had received theirs. The voluntary refusal of a large number of nitwits to take what the US system made available to them is not the fault of the system.

    I really don’t think there is much viable chance of the US reducing its aid before European nations no matter who is in office. There are vocal idiots in US politics, yes, but a minority. They aren’t alone, need one mention Daley and Wallace, elected as they are by the Irish citizenry?



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


    The longer this war keeps going the more Europeans will start to ask questions, even here the majority of people don't care about ukraine or what's happening in Ukraine,the cost of living, housing, inflation,job security especially in the tourism sector especially if hotels are accomodating large numbers of international protection applicants,the health service and the Total inability to defend our own waters, skies and borders, that's what people are talking about that's whats on the news, Media, papers and radio stations,

    If you look at this thread close to 100,000 replies and millions of views ,but yet an absolute minority of people contribute to the thread in this forum,

    It's the same elsewhere, outside of Ukraine, what's happening in Ukraine isn't at the front of people's minds , unfortunately the slavi Ukrani tag will be replaced with something as it's not cool or relevant the longer it goes on ,

    Eventually people will start saying fix everything wrong with our countries before anyone else's,



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,097 ✭✭✭✭briany


    I think this has been said about the war since a month or two from its beginning. In actual fact, support of Ukraine has been remarkably unwavering when you consider the typical speed of the news cycle and other things vying for out attention. Kony 2012 or Je Suis Charlie hasn't got anything on it.

    It remains that the conflict is too big for us in Europe to ignore, and the US has strategic interests in Europe which make it difficult for them to ignore the situation as well. The best way to make this all go away is to defeat Russia.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,062 ✭✭✭macraignil


    My point was not about the system in the US but the actions of the Republican party sponsored president at the time of the Covid 19 outbreak. The figures speak for themselves like the public statements from the Republican president who was on a number of occasions openly questioning expert medical advice and coming up with his own crack pot theories like could disinfectants be used to treat the disease in an infected person. He also used social media to stir up a violent mob that rioted in the USA capitol city and as well as damage to public property these riots led to a number of deaths. The fact the last right wing president of the USA is not in prison for complicity to manslaughter is a mystery to me yet people are posting on this thread that is largely about the conflict between russia and Ukraine as if fringe right wing elements in the USA are going to come out with a chance of cutting off aid to a country being attacked by terrorists because it is costing them 0.37% of their GDP. Even main stream republican party politicians have come out to say that support for Ukraine will continue for as long as it takes.

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  • Posts: 1,264 ✭✭✭ Willow Fat Neckerchief


    ”If you look at this thread close to 100,000 replies and millions of views ,but yet an absolute minority of people contribute to the thread in this forum”

    I think it’s a microcosm of the country at large IMO. Where I work for example, I honestly can’t remember the last time when Ukraine came up as a topic for conversation.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,303 ✭✭✭RoyalCelt


    There's no doubt that Russia we're testing how they'd do against Patriot AD units. There was no other purpose of the attack.

    At best they destroyed one of 8 launches in the battery. Both sides will be gathering data from the strike to make adjustments. Is this the first time America's best AD came up against Russia's best missiles?

    I'm on the verge of a site ban. Please don't rage bait me, I'm easily triggered especially late at night!



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


    People cared and had an interest at the start of the war. As long as we don't see nuclear or biological weapons deployed in the conflict it will remain in the back of people's minds. The conversations in my workplace are the usual football, office politics, latest Varadkar gaff etc... merry-go-round. Not saying it's right but people have just lost interest as they get on with their lives.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,640 ✭✭✭denismc




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


    For the last 15 months "some people" have been saying interest in Ukraine will waver, yet we have gone from supplying helmets, NLAWs and Javelins to Patriot systems, Storm Shadows, some quite spicy tanks and now the realistic possibility of F-16s, hmmm me thinks "some people" don't know what they are talking about.



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