Please use this thread to continue discussing the war in Ukraine.
All mod instructions from the previous thread remain in force here
Original thread:
Sounds like them drones need to start dropping rat poison into every stream and lake along the front
This is what it looks like to me…. get in somewhere relatively easily, cause a bit of havoc & force Russia to react in the only way they can (losing lots of men & equipment), then when it looks like Russia can finally brute force the region back under control (losing even more men/equipment, as well as pounding the sh1t out of the area with artillery), then the very mobile AFU units simply pull out, leaving some nice surprises behind.. Then just go again somewhere else, and wait for the inevitable meat waves to come at them, get some nice target practice and pull out….. The more they kill in Russia the less they'll have to kill in Ukraine…
And as someone above mentioned, it would be very motivating for any AFU soldiers getting picked to go over the border…
Maybe Ukraine want to try force Putin into a general mobilisation.. as once the middle class kids of Moscow & St. Petersburg start dying in fields of nothingness, hopefully Swan Lake might quickly follow…
Just need to poison one to put the fear into them
Is that not a war crime?
The most important psychological impact of Ukraine invading is scrambling the Russian military dynamic from attack to not being sure where to defend next.
Logistically for Ukraine the priority of this attack is the least amount of casualities in return for maximum chaos for Russia.
It would undermine Russia confidence even more if Ukraine suddenly retreated but then invaded again somewhere else by surprise.
Yes, Iran is about the only state who may have a chance of escaping the clutches of Radical Fundamentalist Islam, and that's because they remember a pre-Islamic revolution Iran and would dearly love it back. If they succeed, (and I hope they will) that will be the last time Religion of any shape size or description will be allowed anywhere the Iranian Ballot boxes. It will become the most secular country in the world, with Constitutional changes that completely rule out any kind of religious participation. If or more likely when that happens, I could see massive retaliation against individual Mullahs and their Mosques.
and what about those ‘ordinary Russians’ that came out in Dublin /surrounds with their slogan Ed cars supporting Putin and his war????
There were quite a few glide bomb assaults today and yesterday by the Russians. I was hoping that the incursion might facilitate better targeting of those airfields and munitions storage depots now that Ukraine are a little closer to them.
Ukraine Interactive map - Ukraine Latest news on live map - liveuamap.com
If the shoe was on the other foot, its what the Russians would do, but Ukraine, I doubt it….its against the Geneva Conventions for one thing, and so far, Ukraine has been holding the moral high ground, and rightly so.
Yes, it is a war crime. Not that the Geneva Conventions ever caused any loss of sleep for Putin or his regime.
The bot farm posting on X is fairly intense from the Kremlin. Posting app links with shaded pictures just so you'd click and be caught in some cyber way.
It's another reason it'd be a bonus if the whole Kremlin were on a bus and the bus went off a cliff. Elon could be on the roof when it happens.
personally, in a situation where war crimes are committed against you… think as depraved as your cozy life allows… and all available means of getting the rats out of your state are morally acceptable, imo.
Does the Geneva Convention apply equally to the party to a conflict that is the aggressor and to the party that is the aggressee?
To hard to pin down the distinction?
To my untrained eye it feels like the aggressee shoukd be able to use any necessary force since it is in self defence but I doubt that a law can be framed to reflect that moral position.
Russia not only withdrew in 2001
But regularly use chemical weapons in Ukraine (and Syria)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Protocol
It would be awfully unfortunate if Lukashenko were suffer some unexplained calamity that took him out of the political picture and pushed Belarus into revolution. Russia would need to apportion even more forces to put that fire out.
Him falling out a window would make quite a mess.
Meanwhile, back in Kursk…
https://x.com/i/status/1823370909454864870
Are you speculating that Trump and Putin would do a "deal" and announce "peace" without the involvement or consent of Ukrainians? Shows what a dangerous sh*t Trump is (never mind Putin, who we know about already).
Russian paranoia only grows
Iran was a democratic state in 1953 but MI6 and the CIA organised a coup because they didn't like policies of the newly elected leader, I believe the root cause of the disagreement was the usual oil based one. The Shah was installed as the puppet leader and was ousted when Iran went to pot again in 1979. There's a long history of the West feckin up that neck of the woods. Iran would probably still be a democratic state if the British and American hadn't interfered all those decades ago.
I would be surprised if he didn't try that.
I assume that would be his direction of travel.
:)
Zelenski called it an 'exchange fund'
prisoners or land or both
which airfields?
Yes, and they were war crimes, regardless of who committed them or if they were signatories or not. It's still a war crime.
This is good enough for YLYL… but sadly not allowed.
Hundreds of "refuseniks" russian soldiers who refused to fight which have been detained in a camp near St.Petersburg. Have now been sent to the front line in Kursk.
Literally,first shot fired and they'll surrender
You've got to admire their sense of humor!!
🤣
If it were that easy, I imagine way more Russian soldiers would have done it. As I understand it, a big part of what keeps jaded soldiers on the front is that if they were to voluntarily surrender or desert, it would leave their comrades more vulnerable, having less numbers to attack or defend with, so not wanting that guilt is a motivator. However, even if this group were to decide to surrender as one, it might bring repercussions for their families back home in terms of government antagonism or social stigma.
