Wouldn’t hold my breathe😀😀
You’re advocating NATO put boots on the ground?
Could you please elaborate on your source of this information that you describe as fact that because of the raid by Ukraine "the whole force was captured or killed" and that the information released by Ukraine about the same raid that stated that their force had now returned from Crimea and had been involved in a battle with russian forces that suffered significant losses is as you claim "propaganda".
This is FIFA they can sanction teams and associations ,it won't look good but they are well known for corruption, it's not as it we will see our senior team quality for major tournaments ,I don't see it being anything but tokenism especially once there is money involved and Players wanting to get noticed by clubs ,
This has been the biggest issue since the start,we know that there's a shortage of everything now ,when you get senior NATO officials saying we're approaching the bottom of the barrel this isn't something to take lightly,there is no infinite supply of equipment and weapons in NATO and yes someone Will counter with neither does Russia, but Russia is still physically occupying large parts of Ukraine, despite having no men , tanks, artillery and barrels,money they are still holding ground,
A few f16s won't change anything in the bigger picture,they have mig 29s and with air 2 air weapons,but Russia holds and advantage in air defences even with a few f16s they won't be able to achieve air superiority, one Ukrainian commander wanted something like 160 f16s they will be eventually get something like 50 sometime in the future, zelensky said 42 was coming from the Dutch alone but they said we didn't agree on an actual figure,
NATO and the US went HiTech, Ukraine and Russia are fighting an analogue war using pretty much last centurys equipment and strategies, yes they both have drone but for most part they are fighting Artillery duels and small scale infantry battles ,
There will have to be a rethink when it comes to the supports ,there is several year waits for new equipment when it's paid for in advance by governments ,one of the companies that produces tanks along side rhemimenthal can only produce a maximum of 50 new tanks a year, and they said they haven't seen any new orders, air defence systems are the same the Newest systems are built to custom orders , nobody has warehouses full of launchers and missiles, were rapidly approaching year three of this war and still haven't been able to get the equipment and weapons to Ukraine in any great numbers, they need more air defence systems more than anything especially with now it's winter to protect vital infrastructure, we've seen Russia is getting drones and missiles through,but they still don't have the ability to protect against Air attacks on the front lines ,
If they can't get them all of the equipment they need then they need to put boots on the ground and finish this ,
It is mad as you could probably say there were hundreds of deaths/injuries on the Ukrainian side from these airstrikes in the month of September. Possibly 1 per airstrike? I know a lot would miss but some airstrikes would hit multiple of people. Not a nice thought what so ever.
You have to convince US Republicans of that. As it stands they'd love nothing more than to hand the war over to Putin. Without their obstruction, missile defense systems can show up by the end of the month. And more.
However they see much more in common with the Anti-LGBTQ co-kompromat Russian counterparts these days then they did middle easterners in the War on Terror.
FIFA can't make a team play another team. It's u17s here. FIFA don't realise the message they're sending to all the countries that are abhorred by this ongoing Russian military action and genocide. FIFA is concerned about Russian funding to FIFA.
Correct course of action by Ireland. It'd make you proud to live here.
This is the number one thing hampering Ukrainian logistics and advances. The only way to stop this is sending more patriots and western fighter jets with long range air to air missile's.
Ukraine may have a bit of an artillery advantage but Russia has a massive air superiority advantage.
Also look how many airstrikes they've conducted around Kherson where there's no real risk either side advances. This is why Ukraine probed around here. It's drawn some of the Russian fire power away from where it's needed.
Click on the tweet and have a look at the other images and details he included. Some decent insights.
The question will be what will FIFA do if we do refuse to play Russian teams,it would be interesting to see how many Russian teams Irish teams have played against in junior tournaments , I think the senior international team have played Russia less than 8 times ,
Be some craic if the u17s start the Z, V, black orange ribbon craic.
FIFA obviously don't mind genocide.
It's way too soon for this Fifa crap not when the genocide and war is still continuing.
There's many trying to belittle what Ukrainian people are suffering with this. Not to mention the Russian hit teams deployed around the world for Putin.
The opportunity was or is there to really stick it to Russians for what they allow in their country and now outside their borders and now you've people or organisations wanting to take the foot off the throat to normalise all that Russia has done. The Russian people haven't suffered in anyway. The 250k dead soldiers have. But we're painted the picture from Russians that they're a cold uncaring people who wouldn't give a care of those soldiers. So themselves haven't by admission suffered.
It's wrong and too soon from Fifa. Damn glad to live in Ireland that would refuse to play a team from Russia at this stage.
As expected from FIFA they have lifted the blanket ban on Russia taking part in international football events for all under 17s saying it's wrong to punish children for what adults are doing, and at the same time last year forced the Ukrainian football team to remove a map of Ukraine including Crimea from their jerseys as it was claimed they were making a political statement
That does not change the fact that no matter which Country it is, mud makes normal travel impossible. I've driven truck-trailers on the ice and snow in Russia and the Balkans ( chains for the snow, but they are worse than useless on the ice.) and in the mud in Liberia. A two day summer trip between Monrovia and Harper in the Summer, may take 2 -3 months in the rainy season. The mud is the problem. You can drive on the ice or snow. But Standard travel equipment in Liberia include a chainsaw, axes, chains, pulley block and tackle or a good winch. But yes it can be done, but only up to a point. I've seen big rigid trucks and trailers buried up to their roofs in Liberian mud holes. See pic, and bear in mind, this was only at the start of the wet season, and while difficult, the roads were still passable. A week later, that section was completely impassible and remained so for several months. Of course, the fighting in Ukraine did not stop, it just changed, but that was it, it never stops. We will have to see how Putin's latest conscripts will work out, he is already feeling the effects of a shortage of experienced troops.
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Well id like it if a few of them said what they were proposing/imagining the peace deal would look like
no WC-135 in Europe... doubt there's anything nuclear
edit: WC-135 due Mildenhall tomorrow :-D
There's quite a bit of nuclear talk (practice drills etc) doing the rounds at them moment.
Upcoming goodwill gesture?
This has been doing the rounds for the past few days and mat have some truth to it.
I'd say this is the latest in Russian saber rattling. Nuclear 'test' to scare the West.
In other news, Black Sea fleet continues to be impotent and is moving further back.
I havent read anywhere that the entire force was captured or killed
the fact it seems the whole force was captured or killed"
Where are you getting any of that from??
It's worth the risk it there is a strategic gain to made other than propaganda,but if it's just for propaganda loss of men and equipment isn't worth it ,the fact it seems the whole force was captured or killed meanwhile the propaganda is saying that it was a huge success we inflicted heavy losses on the invaders, but now the Russians have a propaganda victory of their own purely by accident
Guy looks absolutely nothing alike between the pictures apart from shaved heads. The dude on the rights ears are about half the size for example.
I have my doubts about these daring raids
You don't know anything about the FAI so ,
They did what they were told to by the lead in the European championship co-hosting competition, aka the English FA
That's your opinion and you're fully entitled to hold that opinion, you're wrong but yeah....its your right to hold that opinion.
Ukrainians killed and captured in Crimea After trying to repeat the stunt of landing soldiers to pose with the Ukrainian flag
f'ing Ruskies
Maybe you had some insight there into an operation by Ukrainian forces in Crimea with details only made public today.
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