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That's a load of old waffley nonsense.
Zelensky has always made it 100% clear that Crimea is Ukraine, just like every other inch of sovereign territory that was set after the Soviet Union collapse.
What you and the pro kremlin set here want is that Ukraine trades territory for peace.
There were a dozen North Korean generals killed in the Storm Shadow attack in Kursk as well.
I remember around May 2022 talking with a chef who stated there was a coup in 2014 and the US has been fomenting a war. Outside this thread, most people I meet recognize things are not black and white.
However, the US has really exposed itself by supporting Israel in its genocide. Hollywood has provided huge diplomatic cover for the US but paying Israel to murder children has seriously tarnished their image. Not only that but people are watching shows from Korea and elsewhere meaning the Hollywood monopoly is in danger.
Ireland had a €10 billion surplus last year, and now it's got that massive €14 billion pile Apple have to hand over. Other countries manage it. Maybe abolish some of those wretched quangos, like the Commission on Taxation and Welfare.
I can think of another island nation that drives on the left, speaks english and has a population of 5 million, that manages to have a defence force that isn't as pathetic as the arguments as to why it can't be done.
Stop spending millions on bike sheds and security huts would help.
Is this not the graph that you meant to post?
Article on the subject:
https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/russian-rouble-hits-one-year-lows-against-major-currencies-2024-10-10/
I don't know, how much do you think it would cost? Land border? Who would we need to protect our land border from? The UK? A NATO, nuclear ally?
If I had to guess, a few billion for sure for air and sea as that is exactly where we are needed - we don't need tanks or do we?
I can't understand how people are still advocating we do **** all for our own national defence.
Again with this no money mentality, please back up where we are not financially capable of having the funds for air and sea policing? Has the country suddenly gone broke? It's a nonsense argument.
Where has it been stated we would be dragged into someone else's war? I mean jesus christ, A European country has been attacked and invaded, scratch that, the second largest European country.. We have provided assisstance and accepted their refugees so whether you want to admit or not we are in some way already involved.
How can you say we shouldn't be funding our defence forces to protect everyone that lives on the island? We can remain neutral but we can also be a neutral country that can defend itself.
Are you saying Ireland is adequately funded and adequately capable of defending itself in case of aggression? Keep in mind Russian ships came within 60km of the capital a few days ago.
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.
UA is busy again tonight
https://x.com/kardinal691/status/1859700760235429974
Ukrainian strike back
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.
5 years.
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.
I wonder has the mad ruler in Russia his bunkers ready?
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.
It had all gone a bit stale. Needed a bit of a shakeup alright.
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.
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.
Things definitely heating up now with this new Russian missile attack.
Wildly off topic, but I assume you mean Louis XVI, not XIV.
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?
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
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…
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?
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.
Which of the three?
Crackpot post of the year here folks, come and get it before it’s gone. For an orderly que please!
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.
You give these bullies an inch and they take a mile
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.
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