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As it stands, the government cannot protect its own citizens which I believe is against the basics of the constitution.
That is extremely relative. What is the magic number?
Do we start buying in ballistic missiles, advanced air defences?
What exactly are you getting at here?
Good job they don't need dollars to buy oil, gas, metals and things.
Disappointed with kill ratio in all honesty.
Even Fair City actors would be mortified by that performance.
Kremlin gremlin hasn't been seen in nearly 2 weeks.
Rumours inbound, unlike that weapon
Russia seems determined to escalate things.
We are at the Wunderwaffen stage folks
The west should have never started this limited range nonsense. Now Putin thinks he is entitled to say what Ukraine can and cannot do. It has given him a sense of grandiose entitlement and he is getting drunk on it.
You give these bullies an inch and they take a mile
Russians may start developing wings.
Karma coming.. Their stolen airplanes are being retired due to not being able to maintain them due to sanctions and the fact the developers of the planes consider them see you next tuesdays.
Crackpot post of the year here folks, come and get it before it’s gone. For an orderly que please!
Which of the three?
Change with the wind? I'm thinking of Louis the Fourteenth of whom it was said that he resembled a cushion, bearing the imprint of the last person to sit on him.
I think it’s pretty obvious what I’m getting at, I don’t know how to make it clearer.
Do we need ballistic missiles? Probably not.
Air defences? Well yeah? Does that not seem in any way logical to you? We have no air force to speak of, we have a navy which at best is just parked there and we have no radar to monitor our skies. Does that seem to you like a country that takes defence seriously? Or do you think we should keep the “everyone loves us” approach?
You mentioned cyber warfare, how would that help us if the Russians decided to cut data cables that run through our waters? What deterrent do we possess? How do we protect them? Ask the fishermen in Killybegs to go to them?
Quote: "We will determine the targets for destruction during future tests of our latest missile systems on the basis of threats to the Russian Federation. We consider ourselves entitled to use our weapons against the military targets of those countries that allow their weapons to be used against our facilities.And in the event of an escalation of hostilities, we will respond decisively and in a mirror manner."
Quote: "We will determine the targets for destruction during future tests of our latest missile systems on the basis of threats to the Russian Federation. We consider ourselves entitled to use our weapons against the military targets of those countries that allow their weapons to be used against our facilities.
And in the event of an escalation of hostilities, we will respond decisively and in a mirror manner."
Little Adolf is making with the big threats again.
Of course Orcistan using Iranian and N Korean weapons is obviously not the same at all…
So to summarise
Russian Trolls: It’s all a lie, Russia didn’t fire a hypersonic ballistic missile, it’s a conspiracy theory by Ukraine
Putin; yep we did it
ahhh the old trick of using a small timeframe to “show” the crazy drop. Change your graph from daily to weekly and look at the past few years. It will open your eyes.
Why you did you not post the RUB graph?
Wildly off topic, but I assume you mean Louis XVI, not XIV.
Things definitely heating up now with this new Russian missile attack.
Even if the government decided to prioritise defence, where would the money come from?
We have massive and growing spending commitments with regard to welfare, pensions, health, asylum, net zero, etc.
Other countries are managing with the same level of expenses.
I don’t agree with this we have no money logic, we do. We have plenty of cash because if we were in some dire straits we wouldn’t have parties promising all of these financial benefits in their manifestos.
We also received a whirlwind tax refund from apple.
We gave the military 100m extra essentially to spend for the year. That’s nothing if we really can’t be bothered investing properly then we may as well ask other counties to base their aircraft and ships in Ireland.
It had all gone a bit stale. Needed a bit of a shakeup alright.
It seems like the last act of a senile mad ruler to allow strikes on Russia with "USA" on them. The war machine in the US would love a war whereby they take no damage and make sure Europe are primed for attack. The EU leadership probably have their bunkers ready.
I wonder has the mad ruler in Russia his bunkers ready?
How much do you estimate it would cost to establish and maintain our sea, air and land borders for just one year including start up fees. We can't afford it, neither can we afford to get dragged into someone else's war. We haven't the money or resources to go to war with anyone. Letting some other country base their naval and air bases here with be suicide by proxy.
We need to remain neutral and reinforce our neutral stance in the world. Higgins, Martin, McDonald and Harris are doing the rest of us dirty with their carry on. Small man syndrome in all it's glory.
5 years.
I have said this on other threads as well that there is no excuse now for us now to not develop a competent fit for purpose military capability. Do we need a big conventional military no. We are an island though so proper radar and aircraft yes and especially a vastly improved navy capability as well as intelligence capabilities IMHO.
Ukrainian strike back
UA is busy again tonight
https://x.com/kardinal691/status/1859700760235429974
Sky news
Today, UK defence secretary John Healey said intelligence had revealed the frontline in Ukraine was "now less stable than at any time since the early days of the full scale Russian invasion".
Speaking on this, our military analyst Sean Bell says a "perfect storm has happened".
"Ukraine decided to mount this audacious incursion into Russia itself in the Kursk region which might have eased tension but what it has done is split its limited resources and Russia has been on the front foot," he says.
"Intelligence is suggesting it's not just equipment Ukraine needs, it's desperately running short of manpower."
Bell says normally this is not something that is admitted but the fact that it has is something to note.
Turning to Russia's missile strike on Dnipro this morning, he says intercontinental missiles are generally used for the delivery of nuclear weapons - but this is not always the case.
"They are a delivery mechanism for an explosive charge - which is any missile," he says.
Ukraine has said Russia used an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on the city, but Moscow and Western officials say a shorter-range missile was used instead.
