Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

No idea why you're calling on me to justify child murder. It sounds awful.

Dodge. Awful child murder perpetrated by whom exactly? Do you think the Ukrainians are clusterbombing their own playgrounds? Come on spit it out.

In case you're unaware, Israel a US ally financed by the US has killed about 100,000 children in similar fashion. I haven't seen you Express similar outrage for the Palestinian children murdered by the US/ Israel.

Nobody asked you about Israel and I haven't been actively apologizing in the Israel/Palestine/Hamas thread on Israel's behalf like you have for Russa here. I haven't posted there much if at all to my recollection. But just for the sake of cornering your cowardly whataboutism. I think that Israel have bombed and killed children in Palestine and those who have done it are scumbags. Any land stolen from Palestine should be given back to them and they should be allowed their own sovereign state in peace. I think Netanyahu is a thug and should be dragged in front of the Hague.

Now your turn.

I don't know if there's a way out for Ukraine anymore, the de-nazification sounds similar to ending Hamas. Ideologies are difficult to destroy.

Such demented drivel. If you think the denzification sounds similar to ending Hamas then are you going to add 2+2 together here? If you believe one is an excuse to invade and steal territory then the other should be recognized in the same vein.

Why has Ukraines Nazi Regime offered a full unconditional ceasefire and negotiation process? Meanwhile Putin rejects it?

You really don't have a leg to stand on. You don't have the moral authority to cast stones at Israel given your position on Russia.

Not sure if you got my point. Ukraine had issues with Banderas and Nazi ideology. Before the war, it was apparently only a tiny minority.

Denazification sounds like an excuse for genocide. The Russian stated aims are:

1. 4 oblasts
2. No NATO
3. Demilitarization
4. Denazification

The first three are tangible but the fact that Russia has now started emphasizing the fourth sounds like very bad news for Ukraine.

Back in 2022, the Istanbul agreement seemed like a potential exit. There's been a few opportunities since but in 2025 I don't see an easy exit for Ukraine.

We get the Western media reports in Ukraine. When we get a report from the latest massacre in Gaza we also get told what the Israeli government side is but never the Hamas side

Things were not so one-sided on the Ukraine battlefield but the Western media favours Ukraine like it does Israel. The atrocities committed by Ukraine are not advertised. From the few commentaries I've listened to here Ukrainian supporters call the Russians sub human orcs while the Russians not initially seemingly as hateful now have huge hate for Ukrainian's and they seem to regard a large swathe as Nazis to be exterminated.

I don't see an easy way out for Ukraine. It feels like Russia will keep grinding Ukraine into the ground until they decide to stop.

The only option I see is a complete surrender for Ukraine and throwing themselves at the mercy of the Russian sword. Things have gone from bad to worse for Ukraine.

I can't comment effectively on single incidents like the horrific attack on the playground but have typically pointed to reports that show Ukraine in an unflattering light because I believe neither Russia nor Ukraine are innocent and hoped for arbitration but it's gone beyond that now.

As I have said before, Putin seems to be a psychopath. Thankfully , he doesn't seem to want to murder all the children in Ukraine like the Israeli's in Gaza but he solving his problems through death and destruction.

If I was a Ukrainian, I might wonder at Zelensky's order to refuse leave to men and enforced conscription. As an Irish person I wouldn't want that. I'd imagine I'd fight but wouldn't agree with forcing people to fight.

Ukraine is in serious trouble. Some say a million Ukrainian soldiers have died, some say it is less. If Zelensky the ad any honor, he would allow men to leave, surrender and accept his fate.

Anyway, I've been pretty consistent in my calls for arbitration and negotiations. Feels like it's too late now.

Again ignoring the fact that Zelensky offered a ceasefire and negotiations and Putin and Russia rejected it.

But still no condemnation of them forthcoming.

You're a hypocrite to your core.

"I can't comment effectively on single incidents…" said no alleged Dubliner ever.

I see russian press are warning citizens that the military and police are targeting gyms and fitness centres for those who haven't registered for military service. Now they are reporting that Universities are detaining those who haven't registered for the military / police.

In the same press those russians who escaped Putin's regime and have private yachts are finding it difficult in hiring butlers who speak russian and those that can be trusted.

"Whataboutery".

One of the biggest cancers on this planet mostly used by cnuts.

But but but, Hitler is just taking back what was wrongly taken from Germany after ww1.

And it's not just Germany who has a nazi problem. And some Polish regions are effectively German.

It's very easy to come up with fake reasons, but justifying an invasion is far more difficult. Why some people even bother trying to justify Russia's invasion of their neighbour?

Brent crude has fallen to $69, Orc oil should therefore be selling for $49 - they are losing money at $60 and below.

Putrid has shot himself in the foot, instructing Krasnov to destroy the US economy.

And Putin doesn't have the storage facilities, so either he stops Pumping, which will damage the pumping stations, or sell it at a loss. The proverbial rock and the hardplace……great to see the man who has squeezed others so hard, now been squeezed himself..

A guy I work with tried to convince me of this shite some months ago. You're way too late bringing it here.

On the night of April 5, Ukraine carried out a large-scale drone attack on russia, successfully striking several facilities linked to the country’s defense-industrial complex. Among the primary targets was the Optikovolokonnye Sistemy plant, russia’s sole manufacturer of fiber-optic cables used in drones and other applications. The russian army has increasingly employed drones operated via optical fiber on the battlefield in Ukraine.

Nice one. Hope it relied on hard to source western equipment.

The US has not being booted out of NATO because they have been the biggest financial backer. A new and much altered if slimmer EU NATO will have to emerge.

I believe what we're seeing under the Trump administration is a restructuring of the global geopolitical security architecture. America, under Trump, wants the Europeans to take care of, and finance, the defence in their own back yard. The US will bump up their capabilities against China and Iran. And that's the reason for some of the seemingly friendly posturing towards Russia.

Russia is centred on the world island, they have economic, and increasingly military, direct lines with China and Iran that are difficult due to geography for the Americans to break. The US doesn't want resource rich Russia being allied with those countries.

I think the Americans want to neutralise their own relationship with Russia, try to freeze the conflict on the present line of contact, and palm off any further security issues in that region off to the Europeans while they build up their overstretched military elsewhere.