They are the ones I have the problem with and would love to see them sent home that would soften their cough pretty quick .
Surprise surprise-
"I told you last summer: Russian won't win the war and Ukraine won't retake all the stolen territory, and so far I'm right".
Sitting on the deck of the Titanic one hour before she goes down: "I told you earlier this ship won't sink, and so far I'm right"
If they're not already legitimate EU passport holding citizens then yes. Abso-fucken-lutely. It's one thing to be a freeloader and another to be a ruzzist cuckoo. But both at the same time? No thanks.
Sure. The ones in the West waving flags and putting Z and all that crap on their cars are vile, no one is disputing that
I remember when this thread was about Russia invading Ukraine
I get what you're saying. So are they marching outside the Russian embassy in Dublin? Or just keeping schtumm?
Harrods and Manchester says "hold my beer!"
When did the IRA invade the UK and abduct children, rape and pillage, blow up dams, hospitals, shopping centres and the like? The IRA we're some shower of honors but by jaysus they were nothing like the Russian army
think your on to something there,someone close that has his own fairly large powerbase but putin "'knows"' hes 100% loyal...
For sure!! Most of the Silovicki are former comrades, and that's one reason that he will not be easy to remove. They have his back, and their continued well being depends on his continued well being. He has his power base well stitched up. Even the oligarchs are pretty powerless when it all boils down, his Silovicki hold the real power in the Kremlin. But still, in a scenario taken directly from the Godfather, maybe it will be one from the inner circle, and close to Putin, who will take him out?
i think even though he was a low grade kgb officer i think he also knew a lot of the lads that became the rich gangsters,arent most of them from his home town,st. petersburg? those that really run russia today,he may have been talking to those and some of his kgb/fsb mates and said 'listen,im being chatted up by yeltsin and ill be in charge,we'll make billions,what you think?' probably over simplified but id kind of think thats the gist of it....
I've always been a bit puzzled by Yeltsin's choice for his successor. Vladimir Putin was a low ( very low) grade KGB operative in East Germany, not exactly a top notch material I thought. But then, I also thought there was method in his madness, by picking a low grade operative, he ( Yeltsin and Co) would be able to control him. I was wrong, very wrong as it turned out. The cuckoo turfed out the former resident's and assumed complete control. But did he? or was it the KGB / FSB leadership who actually took control??? And Putin is just the front man? Maybe a crazy idea, but also maybe not? Its an interesting question, I think. Thoughts anyone?
So deport anyone you disagree with?
i think by the time yeltsin was gone most of the good men had met a convienient open window or found themselves in a gulag in siberia,putin seems to have put the few that were left out windows,given special brew tea to or in siberia
The flag waving, Putin praising one's can be sent straight back to Russia by the first available means.
More kit for Ukraine announced today
Except he's right.
A very true saying, but unfortunately, when Putin took power, there were no good men in the building, never mind in the room. And in present day Russia, ( and outside it) the Good Men, don't have a voice.
Iran and Russia are two very different situations. Iran is a "new" protest, and its still gathering steam ( so to speak) Putin has hammered his Russians into a highly manipulated and controlled block, something the Ayatollahs have not been able to do, as is being proved by the Nr of ongoing executions. Protests are spreading, and each execution or atrocity carried out by the mad Ayatollah is building up a resistance. Hopefully, it will reach critical mass, and explode in Teheran and Mashhad etc. There is currently no such build up in Russia, and when there was, it was smashed to pieces. Now protest in Moscow at your peril.
The Russia Tv crowd are something https://twitter.com/vladaknowlton/status/1643110658450542592?s=46&t=I5Ng64p4m8u3ocgC9fbhIA
Puin elected? No he was never honestly elected, ballot box stuffing was rampant, thugs at the ballots made sure you voted the right way ( Putin) Russians have never had a chance to hold an honest, independently monitored and certified election. The first so called "election" he "won" was on the back of Yeltsin blowing up 4 apartment blocks, killing more than 300 people and injuring many more. Then blaming it on the Chechens, and pushing Putin as the one who could solve the "Chechen Problem". Which he proceeded to do in a manner which would characterize his future actions. He leveled Grozny, and its City's and towns. He basically hi-jacked power in Russia, and over time cemented that power until he has now got absolute power. No one can challenge him presently, at least not from the streets. The main difference between you (or I , or anyone in the west / UK /Us etc) and Russians is that, we can freely protest. Russians cannot, because Putin can kill or imprison them, and he is only too willing to do that as he has proved. He is a fraud, a mafia gangster, nothing less. He is not the legitimate President of the Russian Federation. He's an imposter. So no, not all Russians are freely participating it his murderous invasion.
There was a female member of the Russian embassy out "protesting" with those russians outside the embassy. 100% she got the names and secretly filmed and recorded everything in the protest. She even appeared on RTE television on a news report and gave an interview as a "protestor".
It didn't do her any harm as she was photographed in other celebrations/do's with the ambassador after.
The Russian machine is really a plague on the world. Need some 1798 and pikemen and women of Wexford spirit.
It would be interesting to see the reaction of all the anti-NATO types on the time to join NATO thread.
Also the reaction to our Head of State (for what it's worth)
No. None of your whataboutery countries threatened this kind of crap.
Visas should be cancelled and the Embassy staff all sent packing. Russia are an unfriendly nation to Ireland.
A Russian state TV report that simulated a nuclear attack launched off the coast of County Donegal has caused consternation in Ireland.
https://youtu.be/4xGIDYKcuKc
It does indeed, it says the ones calling for Russian citizens living in Ireland to be sent home are hypocrites.
This response says it all.
I think we can all agree that there are good Russians and that in all probability the vast vast majority are not genocidal maniacs. The problem is they are completely irrelevant in this conflict. Talking about the general Russian public is only generating hot air and rising blood pressure. They have no standing no influence a complete irrelevance until they are not. There is some way to go before they are.
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