Russia - threadbanned users in OP

How easily we forget, eh?

This country got a bit of money and the charity fell right out of it as a result.

The right wing making in roads in this country is one thing, but the gall of them playing up Ireland's past victimhood out of one side of their mouth, and demonising today's victims with the other.

It's not even somebody from Nigeria perhaps chancing their arm in this case, but a country that is very evidently getting devastated and having huge amounts of its population displaced by the most terrible of war.

If there isn't a charitable attitude to that, then there can be little hope, and it's only our arrogance that makes us think that such a rape of a country could never happen to us again where it's us begging for aid, where it's us putting our women and children on a refugee boat to some safer part of the world, not knowing if we'd ever see them again.

Russians are not too happy

100%.

What you're describing there a network of loosely affiliated groupings who all have 1 thing in common - susceptibility to disinformation. You can see this in action in an Irish context via a little exercise.

1. First you find a twitter account that is straight up racist. Those are easier to come by these days. If you can't find any then this one is a good example of the type.
2. Go to either their list of followers or their list of followed accounts and pick another Irish account.
3. Have a look at their bio and timeline and get a feel for what they are about
4. Repeat steps 3 & 4, choosing accounts you haven't views already each time

If you do this for long enough you'll start to notice that the content of the accounts changes but they'll probably be in certain areas:

• Straight Up racist and xenophobic accounts tweeting race-baiting material. Typical fare are video clips of black people acting aggressively against white people - These accounts are nearly always anonymous
• More garden variety anti-migrant accounts - sometimes named accounts
• Catholic Nationalists / Irish Traditionalists (often combinations of Historical info, migrant bashing, religious and anti-abortion content)
• Anti-vaxxers (Often still tweeting non stop about Covid vaccines and Covid disinformation)
• More general conspiracy theorists (New World Order, W.E.F, Soros & Gates etc)
• Lunatic conspiracy theories (Flat Earthers, Elders of Zion, Freemasons, David Icke theories etc)
• Sinn Fein hate accounts (the anti migrant crowd really despise them - probably because they are populists but they aren't anti-migrant)
• Irish accounts just retweeting American Conservatives and Brexiteers (lots of pro-Trump content)
• Climate Change Denial
• Anti-LGBT
• Anti-Ukrainian/Zelensky/NATO/EU

None of these will be distinct categories as any one account will have bits of many of these. The one constant though is the promotion of content that taps into people's cynicism and fears. It's designed to enrage them but also to be retweeted. Quite often this stuff is blatant disinformation but nobody cares. There's a distinct lack of humour on these timelines (Apart from "ha-ha those idiots said we were wrong but look at this" type stuff which isn't really actually humour). It's all Rage & Fear. It's bleak stuff and it's concerning that so many people get sucked into this rabbit hole.

A lot of American aggression is aimed at containing Russia and if that's the way it has to be, so be it. Russia has been mass murdering since it came into existence.

Inner anarchist.

Putin is seen as anti everything western so if you're an anarchist in the West he's a possible follow.

He's the modern day Hitler. No doubt if the guy himself was reborn and shouting the speeches there'd be followers. Putin just tries to make sure he keeps his speeches in a low voice and mellowed for fear of clips being shown simultaneously. But no less evil nonetheless.

Pizza delivery vehicle (can also deliver mines)

I'd have to disagree with the former Air Vice-Marshal. There's no reason why "we" can't keep going like this. There's plenty of weapons and financial support to give - it's up to Ukraine to decide when the war reaches a point where they don't want to keep fighting.

It's more likely Russia will reach a point where they can't go on first.

I haven't seen the interview, but what did he mean 'we don't have the weapons in our inventory'?

I assume he means the west and not specific to the UK, because the French can still give Ukraine SCALP, Germany Taurus, the US ATACMS and cluster shells. I'm not sure how Russia can hold Crimea if the bridge is destroyed and assuming Ukraine cut off the land bridge (they don't need to take the whole Donbass to do that)

Even just taking back the front line back to 2022 lines would itself be a win for Ukraine. But I still fail to see how any kind of agreement could ever be reached with Russia while they still occupy Ukrainian land.

Zelenskyy spoke to Spanish journalists and stated Russia will blow the nuke plant remotely to freeze the war to build up its army I think he could be right and then return to finish the job.

the west need to go in even for the ramdon missile attacks on civilian are a reason enough its genocide in play and more to come.

A safe buffer zone in the West where civilian can be safe and a couple of hospitals that can't be bombed.

An effective quick offence was required was a big ask for an army who have given their all but it won't work now.

Russia will blow the nuke station at some stage to their advantage the west must warn that it is the same as a bomb, not heard that said yet.

"Russia will blow the nuke station at some stage to their advantage the west must warn that it is the same as a bomb, not heard that said yet."

Don't know how you have not heard the repeated statements from NATO members that any incident caused by putin or his proxy's that leads to radioactive contamination will lead to severe consequences for putin's forces. Here is a link I already posted with further details:

Only the most optimistic would have expected the forces of putin to just collapse at the start of the Ukrainian counteroffensive. Cracks are appearing and the Ukrainians are wearing down the defenses putin has established in the occupied territories: