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Far Right Pro Russian Party wins Austrian election.
Ahh so ... As long as the "raping" is beneficial to yourself its okay..... got it
The US is just as bad as Russia, or even worse, the difference is the US uses the pre text of bringing democracy to start their illegal wars which unnescesary killed hundreds of thousands over the past decades ... their Indirect involvement cost millions of lives.... Ireland is just lucky that a lot of these so ca.led democracy bringers have Irish roots
That doesn't address the question, it's complete whataboutery
Perhaps make an actual point and back it up instead of all these lazy quips and Clare Daly style innuendo.
You only have to look at how the war is operating to see the comparison.
Can you imagine if the US military did something like the Russian military are doing 3 times a week? A convoy of 2 dozen vehicles stumble into a minefield, half are lost immediately, more are picked off by FPV drones. Hundreds of men are killed and maimed/wounded. The retreating/surrendering men are then fired upon by their own mortars to disincentivize the rest.
Just try to imagine the **** storm in the US military high command and White house itself. They'd never survive such a public scandal. It would be a national day of mourning forevermore. But for Russia it's a Wednesday afternoon.
Sorry, is that your answer as to what's going on in Syria? Seems like it isn't.
maybe geo politics plays no part in Europe what with Germany being so on point with its energy policy nor their industry having any issues, onwards and upwards , the Wirtshaftswonder has another 50 years to go at least
Russia is a dictatorship run by an inner circle, the Siloviki, the head of whom, Putin has been the decision-maker for a quarter century. There is a subservient rubber-stamping "parliament" the Duma, for show. The judiciary, the police, everything is under their control. It's a highly corrupt kleptocratic system. They imprison, poison and murder opposition, journalists, dissidents, ex-spies, business men, you name it.
It's a mafia state.
The US is flawed but there is no comparison, yet here you are pulling an Alex Jones. The same old false equivalence lark.
The Russian army is nothing short of devil worshipping goons who have been indoctrinated to think, act, and live just as they are. It's the hallmark of the deranged man in the kremlin.
Why don't you share out your basis for your theory about Syria? Because you sound like a CTer with the 'do your own research' mantra. C'mon, should be easy for you to write a summary and back it up with data.
follow the money will get you there quicker
This was absolutely not what the last decade of unrest in Syria has been about.
I do not understand the obsession of some people to reduce everything to resource wars. It often involves utterly convoluted to the point of conspiracy thinking.
Ukraine continues its work in reducing putin's terrorists ability to attack their country with reports of another ammunition depot on fire:
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/drones-attacked-an-ammunition-depot-in-the-volgograd-region/
and of some other terrorist state areas targeted as well:
https://united24media.com/latest-news/explosions-and-fires-reported-across-multiple-russian-regions-2661
Yes Europe was independent in the 19th and 20th centuries that went well didn’t it? Should we go back to that ??
he forgot about one ‘SMALL ‘ matter. What are those in charge of the nukes - from a western perspective - on the high seas and dotted all over the the globe from the same perspective DOING. Are they all asleep in their beds or what? Maybe this is the case and Russia will nuke them all in sequence while following the relevant time zones!!!!!!!!!!!???….
meh you there is a lot of political abuse in the west these days the west seems to be trying to give china a run for its money, . the main problem I see for us Europeans is that because Europe is weak we are just treated as US vassals. A more independent Europe would have played the last 30 years differently.
I was thinking of a clear case of this and one that popped into my mind was Syria which demonstrates the 2 mafia problem quite well. Forgetting all the surface level bs arguments for general consumption it was really an energy turf war over who got to supply gas to Europe, American interests or Russian interests ie where the pipelines run from and through
At least you can speak out against the US president in the USA. You can go out on the street in the USA and publicly criticize the US president without fear of the government forces arresting you for it. ( At the moment anyway) You can run against the US president politically if you have the money and the popularity without fear of dying in a frozen gulag or being thrown out of a plane or high rise window. That is absolutely not the case in Russia. Russia is truly a mafia . Russia kills journalists , opposition politicians , critics, ex - pat critics on foreign soil, their own surrendering soldiers, innocent people in hospital beds. Massive difference.
Just another day in the russian army.
They really don't care for anything or anyone do they.
Shock, Trump does the opposite of what he said he'd do.
In fairness to RTÉ, they had a story about that Russian attack on their website today.
https://www.rte.ie/news/ukraine/2024/0928/1472486-ukraine-russia-latest/
I suppose the (headline) news is about changes; anyone paying attention knows the Russian military will shamelessly bomb a target like a hospital, and then bomb it again to hamper work of & kill civil defence, firemen, paramedics etc. that come to the site afterwards.
What is going on in the ME is older, very familiar (vs Russia/Ukraine) conflicts flaring up and there's a lot people in Ireland quite invested in it for a long time, even if what's happening in Ukraine may be more important, and will have a greater impact on them.
This is good news. What we need next is more Russian economy issues. I saw that they had to increase their interest rates from 18 to 19% there a fortnight ago. This should cause more unrest.
Another atrocious war crime, but yes, next to assassination in Lebanon not getting much attention
This war is really doing huge long term damage to Russia’s demographics.
They had demographic issues even before the Ukraine war !
Low level internal unrest is definitely taking place.
No vehicles and fuel tanks destroyed. That's a first. Have the Russians run out of them?
Another example this morning of putin's forces acting as terrorists that probably will fail to reach the news in many places as it has become so routine for them to be acting like this:
https://united24media.com/latest-news/russian-double-tap-attack-on-sumy-hospital-kills-at-least-7-2652
At the same time the Ukrainian armed forces are eliminating more terrorists and their equipment and making Europe a safer place:
maybe US public is bored and hungry for another new sexier war somewhere like say, Taiwan or Korea…
Newer wars are always "sexier" news than old wars. Ukraine only gets top billing now when something very dramatic happens, daily death and carnage is not novel enough
You understand that that poster made the post yesterday when it was being widely reported in the news that Trump would not meet Zelensky.
When Trumps lapdog, Mike Johnson, was demanding Zelensky fire some of his immediate staff. When Trump himself had just come off the podium publicly bitching and moaning about Zelensky fleecing the American public for billions of dollars.
It was a completely reasonable thing to assume that didn't come to pass in the end.
You truly are absolutely desperate for any modicum of a win against people who don't love the man who would feed Ukraine to Russia in a heartbeat. Aren't you?
Edit: In any case Trump spent most of the press conference moaning about the impeachment that Zelensky didn't throw him under the bus for. And rattling on about how he has Putins respect and they can get a deal. Not exactly a good showing for your boy here.
And now,The Weather!
What are you on about?
He met him today.
