Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

One for pro russian posters to ponder.

If Ukraine is as full of nazi's as Putin/Russia says, square that circle with the below

Let's hope for a lot of hits and that the majority don't get shot down

Me testing out the russian agents.

It's not that I didn't know the difference between Howth and Killiney. No sir.

*The Russian boat anchored off Killiney in July and I thought that was in north dublin.

The Army rangers may turn around and head north again..😬 In searches.

Smoking accident in Russia this evening

Left to Right. Witkoffs gloomy face when meeting Ukraine, and his happy face for Putin.

Lots of heated posts and I think the trap people are falling into is the morality argument.

Call me a downer, but I feel this conflict (and the Gaza conflict) has taught us is a lesson I think the leaders of Europe have forgotten: Might makes right.

Russia reluctantly accepted NATO expansion into its errr.. old neigborhood… in the 90s and early 00's because frankly, they were in a mess and unable to stand against a dominant US. I think the first sign that changed was the Georgian war in 08 when Putin's Russia finally felt ready to flex its military muscles again and re-assert itself as a minor regional power.

One of the reasons Europe is not being listened to isn't because our political position is fundamentally wrong (it's totally in our self-interest to see Ukraine win, or at very least humiliate Russia into a compromise) but because we don't have the strength to back up the words. We aren't taken seriously by US or Russia.

Whatever way this war ends, Europe needs to start getting serious about its military capacity. Not just in terms of raw size of the standing military, but also industrial capacity, securing reliable sources of cheap energy etc. I would also start a programme to get as many Ukrainian combat veterans as we can as instructors / consultants for our own forces. Basically I think we (Europe) need to really start preparing for the next potential conflict, as I feel Ukraine is getting boxed into a corner by Trump and Putin, while Europe is left as a hapless spectator. Lessons must be learned from this.

I don't want to be misrepresented as some kind of Russian apologist, but I feel like the direction of travel isn't good for Ukraine for about a year now. There was a time when it really looked like Ukraine could have pulled it off and Russia was about to self-destruct (via the Prigozhin / Wagner group revolt), but it feels like that ship has sailed.

Oh here we go again, it's NATO's fault, Ukraine is a lost cause. What's next on the list?

Are you regurgitating Putin propaganda or simply believing the sh1te that has been pushed the last few weeks? Russia is in trouble and they are doing chapter 2 in the propaganda manual, "Accuse others of what you are doing yourself" which this time is - tada- imploding their economy.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/5631525-russia-sanctions-bill-house-democrats/

The bipartisan sanctions bill against Russia has hit another roadblock, as some Democrats are working to remove a presidential waiver and block the president from being granted sweeping powers on tariffs

The Telegraph reports Ukrainian children deported by Russia are being sent to a camp in North Korea.

…Kateryna Rashevska, a representative from Ukraine’s regional centre for human rights, told the US Senate that at least two young girls had been sent to Songdowon camp in North Korea.

At the children’s camp, the two girls – Misha, 12, and Liza, 16 – were “taught to ‘destroy Japanese militarists’ and met Korean veterans who … attacked the US Navy ship Pueblo”, she said.

Ms Rashevska made the comments at the start of the US Senate’s hearing on Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children.

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So annoying that India and Modi get a pass, our country is increasingly full of them as is the US with the H1B visa chain, every corporate having back office in Bangalore and other cities there, UvdL and Sefcovic praising them and aiming for free trade agreement when the reality is they are the most 2 faced liars going

Your mistake is using social media comments as gospel.

1. There is a certain type of thick people who spend their lives in social media comments, especially those of newspapers
2. Many of them are probably not Irish at all

I don't believe for a second the majority of Irish people support Russia.