Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

Disgraceful stuff, should be zero trade with the orcs.

you don’t see an issue with selling viagra to a criminal state that uses rape as a tool?

Deliberately raping civilians and prisoners as a form of warfare

Viagra sales were halted to Russia back in 2022. Seriously are you trying to class Viagra as a dual use item?

How is the Irish government to know what countries companies are selling to? It's not like companies fill out a form saying they sold X amount of this product to this country etc… The CSO get the stats from surveys and customs declarations, which would be just the tariff code, value and destination.

I'll bite again.

"Your beloved Ukraine"

Ukraine is a democratic neutral country in Europe. Putin is invading it to steal their land. He is slaughtering men, women and children to do this. He's also sending Russians into a meat-grinder to do so.

There are people who supported Hitler gassing the Jews. There are people who support Putin murdering Ukrainians. Okay, but why do you support the latter?

Out of morbid curiosity, what does Putin need to do for you to stop defending him and his regime?

Who's selling viagra to russia… go on?

No not the same..once upon a time, both country's were at the same level in the world corruption index. But what can you expect from a newly independent state, where the father was Putin and the mother Russia? However, since Ukraine became independent, they have and will continue to make progress in their fight against corruption, as the present rankings prove, while Russia sinks ever deeper in the corruption quicksand, without a way to extricate themselves from it.

As for the phone call with Putin,,,no, not snapchat, far from it, and anyone unlucky enough to have made that phone call to Putin, (and assuming they survived the experience) wouldnt want to repeat it for sure. I suspect a lot of the newly arrested financial manipulators' have already made that call,like the many, perhaps even thousands of people before them in the past. And the outcome will be the same for all of them. They will singlike the proverbial canary. Expect many more arrests in the near future, based on conversations people had with Putin.

Surprising with your vast Russian Experience, that you were unaware of peoples phone calls with Putin…or were you???

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Oh very possible. And at the risk of the old "whataboutery" word that gets so much use here, the Americans do the very same, the Brits do too, but of course they do it in their lapdogs countries, and very well you must know this.

Another drone has crossed into Lithuania supposedly from Belarus..

They are prodding….

All the phones in the house just **** lit up!!!!

• This is not the first time that drones from Belarus have infiltrated Lithuania. On July 10, a UAV, similar to the Russian Herbera went down. It also came from Belarus. Later, confirmed that it was a Gerbera.
• On July 16, Lithuanian border guards shot down a drone, that had come from Belarus. According to them, it was probably not a military drone.
• July 17 Lithuania handed Belarus a note of protest over the Russian Gerbera drone that went down on July 10. The country's Foreign Ministry said it was a serious violation.

I wouldn’t want to be flying on Aeroflot anytime soon…

What goes around…..

comes around.

They want to make it illegal there to “discredit” Russian goods and services for some reason

It's funny, that's pretty much the same logic some of the more hardcore MAGA crowd employed to suggest similar against Biden/ Harris and anybody in a position of authority seen as anti-Trump… judges etc.

It's kind of jumping the shark really. Like them or loathe them, the US is a well functioning long established democracy and a majority of its population (who bothered to vote, and leaving aside the nuances of the US electoral system) saw fit to vote Trump into power for a second time, having had the benefit of seeing his first term, his enabling of the traitors who tried to take the Capitol by force, and his manifesto for government during his re-election campaign.

I don't want to live in a society where people live and die based on someone's subjective whim and power of oration/ argument. The West aspires to create a rules-based society underpinned by popular democracy where power ultimately rests with the people. The EU has tried to further that aim by copper-fastening various fundamental rights while staying on the capitalist side of the fence. The opposite of Russia in other words.

What's next… a presidential election where the loser his shot out the back while the winner is inaugurated?

The last few pages of side-tracked nonsense have been grist to the mill of Putin fan-boys, as is evident from their sudden eagerness to engage in the discussion. It's a complete distraction from the actual issues that should be concerning us, such as what are our leaders in the West doing, in real terms, to assist the Ukrainians in counteracting Russia's latest approaches on the battlefield - they need better air defence systems and more artillery to push back against Putin's new tactic of mass waves of drone attacks and relentless meat grinder assaults on Ukrainian defence lines. There's nothing nuanced about what the Russians are doing here - it should be an easy assault to repel but the Ukrainian's are starved of the right equipment.