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Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,005 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    There's no validation for Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

    Yet that's what you are attempting to do. Here comes the "but there's two parts of Ukraine" spiel. These are Kremlin talking points.

    Putin did not launch a ballistic missile at Zelensky's home town (killing people and kids near a playground) for any valid reason.

    Putin's forces did not attempt to surround Kyiv and systematically liquidate people in Bucha for any valid reason.

    You are free to come in and make excuses for this invasion, however your points will be refuted. It doesn't make those types of views any less vile, but perhaps it's a necessary evil to demonstrate how indoctrinated individual views can become.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭Emblematic


    Even after he invaded he denied it was an invasion.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,634 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Yes, it is disinformation. You made a specific claim, even referencing Boris Johnson.
    The only evidence relating to it that was provided proved that claim is garbage. It is Russian vatnik propaganda, nothing more.

    If there's countless statements - should be easy for you to provide it. And remember, when you asked others for sources, you demanded 'official sources'.
    So your inability to provide backup for your claim is proof that the claim is disinformation.

    Instead of withdrawing the claim in the face of the evidence … you repeat it:

    Countless statements from the warmongers in the west.

    That entire statement is a fabrication without merit or foundation.

    Countless statements- nope.

    Warmongers in the west - nope. The warmonger is Putin and Russia, who wage an illegal war of aggression, plunder and atrocity in Ukraine. Ukraine fights to preserve its independence, as it has every right to do so. The warmongers are those who defend and excuse Russia's war and look for them to be rewarded for their aggression and leave Ukraine unable to resist future aggression.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,427 ✭✭✭mulbot


    Yes reference to Boris Johnson because it was he who flew out to stop the negotiations at the start. Do you refute that?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,758 ✭✭✭macraignil


    From the first days of the 2022 invasion putin tried to send a column of armour directly to attack Kiev and an assault was made on the airport there that if successful could have led to more of putin's terrorist forces being flown in to directly attack Kiev which is not in the east of Ukraine. Your constant lies are just getting tedious at this stage and sound very russian to me.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,427 ✭✭✭mulbot


    You're one of those who think Russia made some declaration to take Ukraine in 3 days types. The same rhetoric here all the time, still can't admit Ukraine can't and won't win a war with Russia



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,758 ✭✭✭macraignil


    Winning against a mafia state that has a deranged psychopath as dictator and already has the largest land area of any country in the world but still wants more is difficult to gauge. I don't know why you are trying to put words in my mouth about three days but it has been three years now since putin launched a full scale invasion and over ten years since parts of Ukraine have been occupied by terrorists from the russian federation. I can't understand what putin wants to achieve by such a long terrorist campaign against their neighbour but it is not how they are going to win any friends in Ukraine or make Ukrainians want to be part of putin's empire. Millions of Ukrainians are not going to bow down and let putin order them to be killed.

    putin is being propped up by Chinese, North Korean and Iranian authoritarian governments that are happy to see him wreck his country's future for whatever deranged war of conquest he thinks he can win but by still existing Ukraine is winning. Trump offered putin an off ramp by saying they would agree to pretty much all of his demands and he did not take the offer and agree to a ceasefire. I personally can't see western European troops going in to remove putin's terrorists, but weapons and funding for the Ukrainians will increase and so will the pressure on putin's terrorists occupying parts of their country and at some point I do think the russian federation will crack and have to admit it made a mistake to invade Ukraine and be forced to withdraw. The prosperity of the EU depends on its borders being secure so they will pay the price for Ukraine to stop putin's terrorists and his dreams of westward expansion.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,427 ✭✭✭mulbot


    Had the Ukrainian regime (the installed one) simply agreed to the DPR and the LPR as being self governed there'd be none of this now. Trump could have agree all he wanted, it was the European warmongers at that point that said they'd continue to support Ukraine,so what would Putin have been agreeing to? The more the West support Ukraine, the longer this goes on, and the Russians will keep pushing west until all of Ukraine is in the same situation.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,758 ✭✭✭macraignil


    The government of Ukraine was not installed and was elected fairly. There was no legitimate reason for the DPR or LPR to leave Ukraine and putin has tried to use this idea as an excuse for terrorism and aggression against Ukraine. No one in Europe is going to tolerate a continued push west by putin's terrorists and as I said already the provision of weapons and funding for Ukraine to deal with its problem with russian terrorists will continue to increase until the russian federation withdraws or implodes under the mismanagement of its dictator. Time is not on putin's side no mater how many times his fan boys like to say it is.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,427 ✭✭✭mulbot


    The government was installed, US led coup, infamous phonecall with Nuland about installing figures into government, are you seriously ignoring this?.

    Those areas had their reasons to leave, you don't get to say what was legitimate reasoning. Of course the Ukrainian regime didn't like it, you know, cutting off pensions and postal services from their own citizens was bad enough. Europe won't do anything about Russia moving West because they're not able to, but to spare all of this, it's really a simple solution.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,758 ✭✭✭macraignil


    Can you back up any of your lies with evidence?

    You do not get to decide what I get to say.

    The simple solution to the war in Ukraine is for the russian federation to stop its expansionist empire building and for its terrorists to go back home.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,634 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Refute what? It's like trying to pin jelly to a wall. Post disinformation, feign ignorance, shift to different claim when disinformation is challenged. We've seen these tactics before, resorted to because Russia is the aggressor and any objective assessment of the evidence and facts establishes this.

    You claimed:

    "they've literally stated many times, remember the guy Boris Johnson, yea? He repeatedly said it"

    Never mind many times, you've provided none. Zero. Utterly self discrediting and proof you know you cannot support it. Your claims have no credibility.

    Now you are changing the goalposts to a different claim to deflect from being caught out posting disinformation.
    And that claim is also false and backed up by nothing from you and already debunked multiple times on the thread already, including today in a reply post to you.

    Post edited by odyssey06 on

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,427 ✭✭✭mulbot


    Oh, you're looking for a verbatim statement? Right, so unless it's exactly word for word then it's not true,, let's forget about the exact wording of Boris Johnson, are you able to admit his interference at the beginning of this had a disastrous consequence for Ukraine



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,427 ✭✭✭mulbot


    That evidence is widely available,. I don't have to provide it to you here. You don't know about the Nuland phone call?

    Oh, so you want to ignore what went on from 2012 onwards on the east, that led to where it is now. That's all lies though is it? Even, strangely enough, the reporting at the time, from Western media showed exactly what was happening.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,272 ✭✭✭brickster69


    Trump calling on Ukraine to enter Istanbul 2.0 negotiations with Russia straight away. Erdogan has confirmed this morning according to Turkish media he is ready and willing to host negotiation talks this week.

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    "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."



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,005 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    This is Russian propaganda. It's so well known on this forum there's a bingo card for it.

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    It's genuinely tiresome to have to keep up with this whack-a-mole.

    Very, very briefly: The uprising in 2014 wasn't a coup, no one was installed in power. After running on a pro-EU ticket, Yanukovych pulled a u-turn and sided with Russia, as a result people went into the streets. He used violence, which resulted in many more (100's of thousands) of people taking to the streets. He then had protesters murdered. He then fled (and was discovered to have been massively corrupt). The Ukrainian parliament legally removed him after the fact. They had full national elections afterwards.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/13/ukraine-uprising-fascist-coup-grassroots-movement

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31561769

    Credible information is available and easy to come by. If there's going to be a dismissal of the facts because this is "mainstream media", this is not the conspiracy forum.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭relax carry on


    Been a while since there was such a a live one on here. @mulbot, what do you think are Putin's aims in Ukraine? What will satisfy him to end his war? And when he ended it, what happens next given Putin and Russia can't hold to any agreements? How can a dictator ever be satisfied?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,665 ✭✭✭Rawr


    So by the looks of things, and the general gist of the messaging the Kremlin must be doling out to their Useful Individuals this day, is that they want to frame Europe as «War-Mongers» and that they are chomping at the bit for whatever this Istanbul thing ends up being.

    The goal must be to frame Europe as the villains here and somehow get the Americans to not offer defence support as part of their minerals deal. Things must be looking grim in the Kremlin these days if they’re pushing this narrative so hard. As I’ve said before; pay attention to when certain voices start screaming «Peace!!». It can tells a lot about the mindset over there.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,634 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    You are the one who posted:

    "they've literally stated many times"

    Did they literally state it or not? Yes or no? If you are unable to give a straight forward answer in support of a specific claim you made, it can be reasonably concluded your unsupported claims have no credibility. This should be borne in mind when you jump onto another unsupported claim.

    Because it turns out they didnt literally state it. They didnt state it the way you misrepresent it either.

    Im not able to admit that Russian disformation is true. That would be dishonest. Im especially not going to admit it when Ive already posted today the evidence which discredits it. The disastrous consequence was the Russian invasion of Ukraine, atrocities like Bucha etc.

    Bucha impacted on Ukraines view of negotiations. It was proof of Russias bad faith. Boris Johnson just reinforced what Ukraines leadership were already thinking.

    This article summarises that there was never a tangible deal at Istanbul due to lack of agreement on major issues like security guarantees, territory.

    https://www.intellinews.com/fresh-evidence-suggests-that-the-april-2022-istanbul-peace-deal-to-end-the-war-in-ukraine-was-stillborn-321468/

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,427 ✭✭✭mulbot


    Ah, so like I stated earlier, it's not a thread on Russia/Ukraine, it's a pro Ukraine, anti Russian thread. No matter what is mentioned with regards to the situation, if it's not from Western sources, it's lies. And you state there was no coup? Do you really want to ignore John mcCain and Victoria Nuland involvement in Ukraine, do you have any comment on Victoria Nuland and her infamous phone call talking about the take down of an elected government and what positions future handpicked officials in Government would have?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,427 ✭✭✭mulbot


    The recognition of the LPR and DPR was always a good start, strangely enough, nobody wants to comment on the Ukrainian government stripping pensions and postal services from the regions that wanted, not to join Russia but to have autonomy. Anyway, Putins points never have changed, the problem with the west, is that that they hated Putin from the day he fave his Munich speech.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,427 ✭✭✭mulbot


    Nonsense, actual political analysts, have spoken in great detail on Johnsons role in interfering. Listen, you want to argue semantics on wording, bottom line is, any support for Ukraine to stay at war with Russia, as the west has continually done, is basically asking every Ukrainian in that war to die, because that's what's what will happen.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,351 ✭✭✭Field east


    considering the response that the current pope gave to JD Vance -shortly before he was elected pope- I’d say that Pope Leo would have SOMETHING TO SAY about Prof Dugin’s thinking about the UKranians.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,351 ✭✭✭Field east


    if Ukr was BEATING Russia back to the border between them then why should The EU , American or UKr ask for a ceasefire. Your comment just show how far off your ‘trolly’ you are



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,634 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Nope. Once again you have been caught in disinformation - worse than nonsense. When your false claim is challenged with the actual facts of what actually happened, you have no credible or coherent response except vague references to unnamed 'analysts'. Oh and the facts I provided came from actual analysts too.

    Utterly unconvincing. Your entire set of claims have been discredited.

    Ukraine stays in the war today with what Western support it has, rather than agree to a bad faith deal that leaves it stripped of security and the means to resist future Russian domination and aggression, more atrocities like Bucha.

    Because that's what will happen with a Russia led by Putin who has broken peace agreement after agreement with his neighbours and Ukraine.

    Bottom line is you are defending an illegal war, a war of atrocity by Russia against Ukraine.

    Why would every Ukrainian die unless Russia plans to conduct genocide? More Buchas?

    Ukraine fights today, yes soldiers are dying but dying with guns in hand. Instead of dying in a camp or executed with hands tied behind their backs. All of which are atrocities Russia has carried out including at Bucha.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,038 ✭✭✭scottser


    I can't bring myself to give more of a shite about dead Russians than Russia does. To paraphrase Stalin, one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,634 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Strange how none of the anti Ukraine and anti Western posters criticise Putin for sending so many Russians to die isnt it bases on such flimsy justifications.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,686 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Trump fell for Putins tricks straight away 😅

    Deadline is tomorrow, seize fire, or huge sanctions, follow through



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,654 ✭✭✭Infini


    Any Russian who had any sense of self preservation and at least some cop on at the actions of their Mafia Government got out of dodge at the start of the war before shít really hit the fan. Others who got bounced into it have been shown to surrender at the first opportunity they could take when coming into contact with the Ukrainian defence as seen in all those videos of them surrendering or contacting the Ukrainian side to try and surrender as soon as possible. The rest are the idiots and fools who played the wrong game of fúck around and find out and are now on permeant sunflower duty.

    It's likely we might see an end to the fighting in the next 12 months but likely the only way to put an end to Putin's BS is for the Russian economy to flat out collapse from exhaustion, there's already mounting evidence of it happening and thanks to their shenanigans in seizing foreign assets in Russia for funzies noone with any sense is going to touch the Vatnik Kleptostate for the next 30 years. Putin might try playing the same games he's played before with ceasefires but it's not going to work the same way this time for him as everyone has long seen through his BS and the longer he drags this out the greater the chance it's all going to come crashing down on him very suddenly and he goes out the window in short order.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,005 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    It's Russian propaganda - repeated by the Kremlin.

    Some are direct falsehoods, others take a tiny kernel of truth and spin it into a distorted narrative. The Nuland narrative is a classic example, yes she said "**** the EU", yes she was skeptical if Klitschko was ready to lead, of course she had preferred candidates - it's what diplomats do. You can see how simple it was for the Kremlin to spin that into some narrative.

    Yes John McCain supported the protests, most people did. Yanukovych was highly corrupt and screwed over all the nation, hundreds of thousands of ordinary Ukrainians protested. He flip-flopped on his whole basis for election was caught red handed spending public money on a private zoo, a Spanish galleon, a fleet of cars, living in opulence. So they were absolutely right. His son a dentist funnelled millions. He had protesters shot. He's still wanted. Russia whisked him out of there and still shelters him from justice.

    Think about all the lies the Kremlin and Putin have produced - that Ukraine shot down that airliner (false), that there weren't soldiers in Crimea (Putin later admitted it), that they weren't going to invade Ukraine (days later Putin invaded), that the Crimea election results were over 95% (leaks showed it was around 50%), that Ukraine is committing "genocide" in Donbas (debunked by the UN, ICJ and 300 genocide scholars), that Russian forces are only targeting military targets (where to start), that Russian troops were welcomed as liberators, that Ukraine is a "Nazi state" (last check it's lead by a Jew), that Ukraine was created by Lenin, etc, etc.

    You are doing the equivalent of sitting in a room with a pathological liar and picking some of their lies that appeal to you.



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