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he’s been indoctrinated into the the Trump school and has to play like them to stay in the gang - an odious hater with money!
The only option would be to join NATO. Defence as a neutral company would be pointless.
we’d talk Russia into a ceasefire.
It’s beyond shameful that not only we can’t provide military assistance but that we can’t even defend ourselves.
How this government and obviously the future government can look themselves in the mirror and be ok with running a defenceless country astounds me
Largest missile strike of the conflict this morning with between 100- 150 missiles of all kinds launched at various targets throughout Ukraine
We are pretty good at (unintentionally) giving military aid to Russia.
Off-the-shelf Irish made parts keep showing up in their drones.
https://m.independent.ie/regionals/wexford/enniscorthy-news/irish-companys-gps-equipment-allegedly-found-in-debris-of-russian-drones-in-ukraine/a404414176.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw0nqn2znxeo
I suspect more could be done to trace and cut off sales to distributors who’s parts end up in these drones.
We could send them to Ukraine instead since they are so useful.
"You've had your chance to fire your weapon, now let me fire mine. I won't continue to engage with you if you keep firing back".
Simon Harris and Michael Martin have lots of words to provide.
If words were ammunition, Simon Harris and Michael Martin could certainly provide.
Musk is an absolute embarrassment. And I am a huge fan of what he has done with SpaceX and Tesla.
His mocking of such a dire and horrific situation in Ukraine is just crass, and he thinks he is being some kind of edgelord or something with these kind of comments.
I keep thinking that he can't get much worse with some of the nonsense he keeps on coming out with, but then he just goes and surpasses it again.
I wouldn’t even think of Ireland providing military aid. They’ve **** all to provide
The identity of the occupied territories is changing, fast. Some residents have always been pro-Russian. Now oppression, brainwashing and an exodus means that the balance has shifted further. Some 5-30% of residents in the occupied Zaporizhia and Kherson regions are pro-Russian, 20-35% are pro-Ukrainian while the rest, possibly more than half, “have a wait-and-see” attitude, according to the NRC. “That is why,” says Mr Petrov, “we should not believe in the idea that they are all ... waiting for liberators to come and free them.”
The Ukrainian national identity is being extinguished in the occupied territories.
Simon Harris and Michael Martin are very much so comfortable with this.
I wrote a letter to Leo Varadkar shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine. I asked him to provide military aid to Ukraine.
Varadkar actually replied back. He said he condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but said neutrality prevented Ireland from preventing military assistance.
The Irish government position is very clear. They will pick up the pieces left in Ukraine at the end of hostilities, assuming any pieces are left to pick up.
To show you how much of a pr!ck Musk is he was only on a call with Zelensky and Trump the other day.
On the Russians and their basement filtration camps, sectarianism against non-Russian passport holders, etc in captured towns.
If/when Ukraine splits with the western part joining liberal democracies and free markets, while eastern captured towns go with the Kremlin, there will be no way for the Russians to basement filtration camp their way out of the widening economic gap which will be evident to everyone on both sides.
Free Ukraine will experience gradual but constant growth and improvement. Kremlin Ukraine will turn to shyte.
After Putins demise (toaster-assisted or natural) the impoverished partial ghost towns will find a way to reintegrate with free Ukraine. East/West Berlin all over.
(hopefully toaster assisted)
"While I don't expect a mass back lash due to the authoritarian nature of putin's empire there is increasingly a chance that some one with wealth in putin's empire will find a way to make his reign that is so destructive to their wealth come to an abrupt end."
Let's hope it happens sooner rather than later or it might be too late for Ukraine.
HIMARSed and clustered
https://x.com/UaCoins/status/1857903799118999833
I get what you mean, they are going all out anyway…
Since Trump won, as you say we already have Russia roping in NK and throwing more soldiers into attacks in Kursk. Yes, they die and are maimed in huge numbers and old Soviet vehicles get blown to bits, but Putin doesn't seem to care ("some of you may die" etc.). They manage to kill Ukrainian soldiers, and they can gradually take ground back, so it is not good.
As for further escalation, we might see the various "friends of Russia" like China stepping in deeper to make good equipment shortages that emerge for Russia if they believe they can throw in more support and help Putin to a stronger position without consequence for a low cost, if US engagement tails off. The more help Russia's military gets off them, the more damage they can do in Ukraine unfortunately.
e.g. saw this story today on possible manufacture of military drones for Russia in China. If true, well that is the last of the "red lines" of this US admin. finally crossed as regards Chinese aid to Russia in the war, probably with no reaction at all from the US, given Biden is a lame duck now and a Trump admin. probably won't give a crap.
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-china-drone-production-russia-war-in-ukraine/
https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/11/10/kremlin-occupied-ukraine-is-now-a-totalitarian-hell
(behind soft paywall)
Excerpt
“Kiril”, a Ukrainian agent in occupied territory reached by phone, says that “this is a prison society” because the fear of being denounced forces everyone to keep their views to themselves. To be without a Russian passport these days is “like being a refugee in your own land”. Important jobs are almost all held by Russians. Anyone with pro-Ukrainian views fears being sent “to the basement”, an expression for Russia’s network of detention and “filtration” camps.
All traces of Ukraine are being expunged. Schools have switched to the Russian curriculum, and Russian youth and paramilitary organisations work in the territories. Repression combined with Russification aims to transform the social and political fabric of the territories, says Nikolay Petrov, the author of a new report for the German Institute for International and Security Affairs.
Do you reckon that'll be good for the Kharkiv front once Putin has achieved his goal? Thinks might calm down?
I wonder is this a clever ploy by Zelensky here to massage Trumps ego.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0mzgv4x901o
Fair point. I remember Putin saying in a speech last year on the need to create a buffer zone with Ukraine so maybe they are planning on just taking the territory east of the river. It looks quite plausible seeing as that region seems to be getting cut into small pieces lately and most of the bridges have been blown up.
Fortunately for Ukraine this city is split in 2 by a river which and the area that splits the city isn't that narrow either. At least if Russia end up capturing it should only be one side so it won't become a rail hub for them.
Yes anything could have happened but here is another report showing pictures of dead terrorists putin sent to their deaths in an ambush by the armed forces of Ukraine in the same area you are posting about. Also noted is the terrorists using scooters as a means to move to more advanced positions demonstrating how they no longer require armour to get killed in Ukraine.
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/in-kharkiv-region-3rd-brigade-eliminates-39-russians-in-ambush/
Anything could of happened in the last few hours, but generally when most of the mappers are saying the same thing that is what has happened. Just like quite a few are now saying about Chasiv Yar just starting to be stormed also, but that is not all of them so best to keep quiet about that one until later.
Don't think it can yet be confirmed for certain. There are conflicting accounts as to whether the battle for the city is underway or not.
It's a really important target for Russia and equally a very important hold for Ukraine so the fighting probably going to be fierce. Plus the Russians would have to cross the river for the western side of the city.
Another report seems to contradict your post:
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/russian-invaders-breakthrough-into-kupiansk-ended-in-their-death-or-capture/
Its almost like everything you post is trying to glorify putin's terrorists.
All reliable mappers now reporting on further advances in Kupyansk as the Russians have formed a stronghold in the industrial sector and reinforcement of reserves have arrived in the area.
Looks like they were not kicked out after all.
Aside from sending greater numbers to the grinder what does a Russian escalation look like?
When they run out of golf carts and dirt bikes will they be sent to the front on bicycles?
We could get to a Stalingrad scenario of the new arrival picking up the weapons of the dead.
Spending by the USA on helping Ukraine deal with putin's terrorist attacks has resulted from what I can see in a very good result for the USA in weakening the threat to international peace from putin. They have made dramatic announcements of support but in 2023 it spent less than 3% of the defense budget on mass destruction of putin's forces as russia pours quarter of their economies spending on a war where they have destroyed their reputation as a military power and pushed millions of Ukrainians to hate them for generations. Trump has said he wants to bring the war to a quick end but the only way to do this I can see is for putin to turn his terrorist forces around and march them back out of Ukraine. On balance I think there is more chance of Trump boosting US support for Ukraine and spending on US arms manufacturing to bring the conflict to a quicker end rather than cutting support and leading to the war of attrition that Ukraine is winning drag on for longer.
https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/russia-ukraine/
If Trump doesn't want Ukraine to cost him then fine. If it's really money he cares about he can empty the massive amounts of anerican weapons soon to be scrapped at a huge cost and give them to Ukraine instead. Abram's, Bradley's and many other armoured units. Helicopters, missiles, cluster munitions.
Your more advanced weapons like missiles, jets, artillery round's just sell them to Ukraine or the EU to support Ukraine. Obviously you'd rather proper American support but if Trump only cares about America first they can still do that and support Ukraine.
North Korea's appetite for eating hairy mollies! 🤣[edit; hairy mollies are caterpillars, in case people thought I was been dirty]
It's a downward spiral for them, at least while putin is around, trump may steady the ship for a few years for them, big dumb idiot that he is.
Scholz call seems a bit desperate from him, German election may have unexpected impacts here.
