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Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,411 ✭✭✭Suckler


     if he thinks it's ok to be forced into a war.

    Read the last line again and tell me who is forcing who in to this war. You mightn't like the answer.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,153 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    Have seen your posts multiple times here before.

    You bring up questionable info here - and it gets explained. Yet you come back with more questionable info.

    What do you think is the difference between yourself and someone who is repeating Russian propaganda.

    Russian propaganda is clever, it makes people feel smart, like are they are challenging so called information from the mainstream media and the widely accepted status quo. That they are simply asking questions that the normal people don't ask, people who just swallow convenient Western narratives about this war. People who blindly stick to the script and can't process that there's another side to this war. If these lines that I am using are already working on you, don't you think it's possible you should be concerned?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,242 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Trump wants to sell Ukraine billions and billions of weapons, so they can defend themselves, while keeping them out of Nato , a means to see Putin's mask slip, as we all know it was never about Nato, but Putin loves to bang that drum, Trump is testing him.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,577 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Factories, industries and government agencies have had a manual of "Memorandum for the Political Officer" sent to the political officer in each, direct from the Kremlin. The manual discusses the psychology to use to achieve it's aims on the employees.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,100 ✭✭✭Polar101


    This act of posting a "shocking" video full of lies, and then pretending to be upset when challenged is pretty pathetic, to be honest.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,644 ✭✭✭zv2


    Modi puts realpolitik before moral issues. Fail.

    It looks like history is starting up again.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,644 ✭✭✭zv2


    It looks like history is starting up again.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 880 ✭✭✭junkyarddog




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,741 ✭✭✭20silkcut


    Rosenberg should have pointed out to Putin that the Former Yugoslavia has been peaceful for the last 25 years. Much more peaceful than it had been before that. How is this even still a talking point??? Using a political formality of lack of UN security approval to attack the west on this issue is moral bankruptcy. The outcome speaks for itself the Serbian genocidal regime was stopped in its tracks and the former territory of Yugoslavia has been peaceful for the last 25 years. How is that not a good outcome ??????????? Who the phuck cares if yeltsin was treated like the drunk buffoon that he was????



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,434 ✭✭✭fly_agaric


    I think he is the last BBC journalist working there, possibly one of the last from any of Russia's designated "unfriendly" countries (excl. pro Putin regime propagandists of course). They have all being expelled, or in some cases arrested.

    Seems to me like they (BBC/Rosenberg himself?) have decided it's better to be quieter and allowed remain and report something of what is going on inside Russia vs openly challenging Putin and the regime more, making a nuisance of himself and inevitably getting thrown out or even arrested (as well as putting people in Russia he communicates with/interviews etc. in much greater danger!)



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,852 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Two drones into the same floor of that building. I'd be betting they had info of some high ranking official or General in there.

    (Unless it was electronic jammed)

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 897 ✭✭✭Avatar in the Post


    “How Ukraine uses Mossad tactics to hunt down Russian war criminals

    The assassination of a top Russian general in Moscow is part of a campaign to track and kill Kremlin war criminals wherever they are in the world”

    https://www.thetimes.com/world/russia-ukraine-war/article/hunt-russian-war-criminals-ukraine-mossad-2j57gldp2

    It’s one thing to suck up to a megalomaniac like Putin and commit atrocities… but, there’s a big chance there’ll be an e-scooter in your future… maybe not today, but the tomorrows may be numbered.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,741 ✭✭✭20silkcut


    in fairness I don’t think the truth of the situation should get him in trouble in this case. I understand Rosenberg situation as one of the few remaining western journalists in Russia. But yeltsin did not deserve respect and was literally a drunk buffoon who greatly disrespected this country of ours one time.

    And I certainly don’t recall any ongoing active war or massacres in the former Yugoslavia in the period between the year 2000 and the end of 2024.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,221 ✭✭✭yagan


    Citing Mossad is a bit crude considering Ukraine don't target civilians. Israeli tactics are more akin to Putin in labelling civilian deaths as an act of defense.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,177 ✭✭✭jmreire


    Heres a few samples of Russian conscription for you Luna 84…

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1865585088576033278

    https://x.com/i/status/1801885686011773299

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1727725553653076291



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,304 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    I don't think we're likely to see that poster in the thread again for a few months.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,177 ✭✭✭jmreire


    I for one won't miss him anyway, or his one sided anti Ukraine comments.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,434 ✭✭✭fly_agaric


    I'd guess he was permitted to ask his 1 vetted question at this Putin "showcase" event, not talk back or challenge Putin's response.

    A lot of which was rubbish, as you say.

    At end of clip below he also blames UK for the break down in relations, and says Russia will "cope without our former allies in the anti Hitler coalition". And they say they the UK is unhealthily obsessed with WW2…🙄

    https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cgrwqdrpzjqo



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,852 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,664 ✭✭✭brickster69


    Serious manpower shortages accelerate for the AFU as air defense troops were being transferred to infantry units as Ukraine's million man army can't replenish it's losses.

    Also the lack of willing and able troops is declining rapidly as soldiers say “Recently, we received 90 people, but only 24 of them were ready to move to the positions. The rest were old, sick or alcoholics "

    "if you get on the wrong train, get off at the nearest station, the longer it takes you to get off, the more expensive the return trip will be."



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,577 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    These pensioners would have been part of the old soviet army. So have the fighting experience of fighting the likes of the modern Putin nazis. Older people generally give no phuks of confirming to a society they see as wrong.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,577 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Russian nazi explains the money is not there to replace the homes destroyed in Kursk.

    Oh and whatsapp is a danger to Putin's state.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,795 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Hitting the Post Offices is a great idea. Oil is one thing but if no post can be delivered then call ups can't get delivered and much of the communication of state would be stopped?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,177 ✭✭✭jmreire


    They closed that loophole a good while back,, so now its not only posted to you, but also emailed and woe betide you if you don't acknowledge it and register. No excuses acceptable. Your name and details will be circulated amongst all the Govt agencies, and you will not be able to do anything involving an official stamp, and liable for arrest on sight. So bombing / burning offices will definitely slow things down all right, but not stop them permanently.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,795 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Fair enough but letters packages etc to and from the front and between agencies would be severely affected too. Not to mention the economic impacts of general trade and online purchases.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,177 ✭✭✭jmreire


    Of course! And office would be out of commision after being fire bombed, or a real bomb used. And in the past, such excuses were common amongst Russians trying to avoid mobilisation / conscription. So the military put the onus on the draftee to present himself at the induction centre, even if he hadnt received an official letter. He was presumed to have received the E mail, and that was that.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,411 ✭✭✭j62


    Looks like the North Sea fleet is now being turned into submarines

    Explosions at base in Murmansk 2000km from Ukraine



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,577 ✭✭✭✭Say my name




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,138 ✭✭✭purplepanda


    The latest BBC news story about countless Ukrainian prisoners of war being executed by the fascist Putinist murdering rapist child kidnapping vermin. Of course our resident tankie apologists for the imperial invasion by the Moscovy hordes will be along soon enough making their vile pathetic excuses for such gallant behaviour.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7ve11lr247o



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,741 ✭✭✭20silkcut


    The rubbish about Yugoslavia should be blown out of the water at every opportunity it should not even be a talking point anymore. The fact that Putin had to resort to the same ould horse sh1te as our friends on this forum speaks volumes.
    in fairness to Rosenberg he did expose the poverty of Putins record “ defending” Russian interests . That he had to resort to moaning about Yeltsins entirely self created lack of credibility and international standing. I can still see Albert Reynolds waiting at the bottom of that stairs . Yeltsin was a drunk buffoon who dragged Russia through the mud all by himself .



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