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Seems to have happened
That would seem to suggest that Ukraine have either found a reliable sea-route under the Kerch Bridge, or - more likely - have destroyed any meaningful Russian air defence in/over Crimea. And they have enough real-time observation of the Azov Sea going on to identify and target significant vessels.
Once again I'm getting a very strong feeling that Crimea will be reclaimed from the Russians before they're driven out of the Donbas.
And….more of its former allies would consider it necessary to develop their own strategic nuclear deterrent once they can no longer rely on the American one.
it seems the west is not really interested in funding ukraine
https://kyivindependent.com/bloomberg-stoltenberg-abandons-plan-to-set-up-100-billion-fund-for-ukraine-aid-after-pushback/
Russians made a land grab in Sumy region. Conflicting reports they crossed the border and seized a village.
Don't worry misery guts it will be redrawn and quadrupled
@flutered Proposing to replace a plan for $100 billion over five years with a plan for $40 billion per year for the next five years. By my maths that's proposing to double the planned aid. It seems the west is very much interested in funding Ukraine.
Macrons election shenanigans might have dire effects for Ukraine if he has miscalculated.
Why? He'll still be president for another 3 years regardless.
And if that kind of uncertainty creeps into the EU/US relationship, it could also affect future requests from the US to their current EU partners to become a part in their "coalition of the willing" as they have done in the past, to re-consider future requests in a different light
Seems to be this but states that nothing mentioned by Russian or Ukrainian military about it so not sure if there holding off until a clearer picture emerges.
Makes you wonder, the US allowed Ukraine strike within Russia, but only within the Kharkiv area, to defend it. So the Russians move further up and attack Sumy. Are the Russians expecting another month long saga before the US allows Ukraine defend Sumy?
I think it's more the Russians are trying to stretch Ukrainian forces. The Ukrainians moved a lot of their forces from the east and other parts of Ukraine to defend Kharkiv and has left them a bit more thin on the ground in the east and a few other places hence some Russian advances in the East and possibly this as well.
The amount of aid to Ukraine from France (less than many others according to figures provided in the link below) is not that big compared to other countries so where do these dire effects come from?
https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker/
Seems the opposite, his problems are from left not right for Macron in his parliament
I have a theory that Putin will come to regret funding the far right across Europe, especially as it’s only a matter of time before the criminals he is hiring across Europe to carry out acts of sabotage and arson endup killing someone
And then all that anger endsup at Russia especially as more and more realise he is deliberately fuelling migration crisis
Putin is trying to terrorise Europeans and there is a tipping point where fear will turn to anger and then he is ****ed, we might already see it happening as macron done a 180 on helping Ukrainians
I did say "we prided ourselves". Not that we were. Up there with the "best fans in the world" trophy we award ourselves at any international sporting event we miraculously qualify for.
Edit: I suppose what I was trying to say - probably badly worded - was that as a nation we viewed ourselves as being those things…
Your points are all valid, but I would give us something of an exemption for the period of recent history in which we were under the yolk of the Catholic Church. A lot of private good will, open mindedness and - dare I say it, 'Christianity' - was hidden from public sight thanks to the Orwellian mechanisms of the Church. As a people, we can't really be blamed for the lack of johnnies either to be fair… that one lies with the FF/ FG governments who were terrified of the likes of McQuaid and Dev. But anyway, I digress!
Looks like Wallace will be getting the boot. Although it probably just means he'll be back in the Dail after the next general election.
If I'm reading the preliminary results right, I thought Daly looks like losing out but Wallace is still in contention ?
It could be a close run thing.
Anyways, we'll have a clearer picture later on today.
https://x.com/GabeZZOZZ/status/1799887947363393859?t=tONfU-mywIn5N8P3BXHlzw&s=19
Not sure the link is accessible ?
@gym_imposter Musk and Co recently officially switched the primary twitter domain from twitter dot com to x dot com. Twitter dot com still works but resolves to x dot com. The x dot com urls are not opening here at Boards yet so you need to manually change the https://x.com to https://twitter.com manually yourself. When x dot com link pasted here it gives you a pencil icon option to edit the url
Interesting
I hear you, but I would still say while we may have prided ourselves on such things we certainly weren't. I'd also say we've since been quick to divert and/or lay all the blame at the church* for our ills. Oh it wasn't really us to to blame, it wasn't our parents, grandparents who mostly went along behind and agreed with most of that crap, happy under that yoke. Hell I can just remember a time of many a family's pride of having a priest or nun in the family, or as a kid being dragged along with hundreds of thousands to see Pope John Paul George Ringo in the Phoenix park. I can clearly remember what I would see as the death rattle of that period where another hundreds of thousands showed up to polish rosary beads looking at "moving" statues. That was only five years later. Not much than five years after that the Church was effectively over as a cultural pressure. It can change quickly.
So when I read folks asking why the Russian people do this, or don't do that and wonder at their cultural behaviour, we can look back to a time not so long ago where we were mostly marching to a very different drum, seemingly happy out. And how quickly that can change.
*not unlike the English before them
I say hit on the ground but what happens if Russia fire a missile into the base to hit one of these targets and then let's say hits somewhere else causing casualties other then Ukrainians?
"Gabe" pinned post: "I Stand With Russia because I know the truth about the Nazis in Ukraine
You stand with Ukraine because you’ve been manipulated by the media
We are NOT the same" hmm…
I think Lindsey Graham is trying to appeal to the US Republican voters self interest (see - the US can gain great economic benefits later by supporting Ukraine now, so it's an investment, not a cost).
Could be a bit grubby, but unfortunately arguments based on common sense (not setting last 80 years of US foreign policy in Europe on fire), decency + doing the obviously correct thing did not work for some of them who have had their heads turned by pro Russia "thought leaders" in their party.
Any proof of this anywhere?
Few news outlets carrying it. But debates over damage
I've no idea who the twitter account holder is, I just copied that one , it's on multiple twitter accounts as a link
Crimea getting softened up
If Crimea was to fall, would that be a red line for Putin as he considers it Russian territory?
