Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

Stagflation.

We are not much help in defending the Atlantic against Russia anyway.

I wonder if one of the military style dones had hit and brought down Zelensky's airplane over the Irish sea as it approached Dublin there last week, what effect that would have on the war in Ukraine?

Would have been a blow to morale all the same, and a black eye for "the west". I'm not saying Zelensky is as crucial to Ukranian morale as say Churchill was to the UK during the war, but if the world saw that the leader of Ukraine could be taken out right between the EU and America, in a country with huge ties to both, it could psychologically be a heavy blow and a signal to small third world countries the west has lost it, does not have the technology, and to trust Russia and China in the future.

Now do the imaginary scenario where there are snakes on the plane and Zelensky goes all Samuel L Jackson

Saw posts on Facebook yesterday of independent TDs giving out about the €125 million donation to Ukraine. The comments underneath were an absolute cesspool had to click out of it before going too far especially when I saw people I know contributing their tuppence worth .
Irish people would do well to remember the last time a Russian president visited Ireland . Remembering that ?? He didn’t even bother to get off the plane.

That’s what Russia thinks of Ireland . Even though 31 years have passed since then it speaks volumes. Russia will never have respect for or be a friend of Ireland on any level . And would squash us like Chechnya if they could at the earliest opportunity.
At least Zelensky no matter what you say about him actually got off the plane and addressed our elected representatives.

Might also be worth noting that the infamous recent 28-point not-Trump-not-Putin Dim-Wit peace plan specifically included a "no NATO expansion" clause that would have directly removed Ireland's option to join NATO if the plain people of Ireland ever decided they'd had enough of the carry-on in Orwell Road and random Russian vessels lurking over our offshore internet cables.

Time to implement martial law in Europe. Death penalty for all serious crime etc.

Yes but that was 1994 and our economy was in a bad state then. I remember the closure of Digital in Galway.

There wasnt an internet back then, and subsea cables carrying 99% of the internet between the US and UK.

European Council president Antonio Costa is saying the drones off our coast were Russian.

other countries (even the tech bros ) are interested in our low taxation and business opportunities and cultural heritage etc. Russia is only interested in our internet cables and data centres etc . That speaks volumes. The Irish people consuming Russian propaganda don’t see that. They think Russia is this white Christian bastion against woke which it most certainly is not . It’s way more culturally and ethnically diverse than Ireland and has actual republics with quasi sharia law etc.

Catherine Connolly insisted on that clause.

if I'm in the Ukraine high command I'm going to keep ramping up the attacks on like refineries and probably more importantly- go full pirate mode on Russian tankers.

No tankers→means no method of transporting oil round the world→means bankruptcy for Russia

My grandmother in law living in Poland (is that how you say it?) has a fridge from the early 80s. Unbelievably it's still working.

Anyway she told me the day she got it she queued at the one designated shop in the town that was allowed to sell it. When she was second from the top of the queue it turned out there was only 1 fridge left. The woman in front was pregnant and lo and behold went into labour. Hence the reason how my grandmother in law came to have a Belarusian made fridge from the early 80s which is still going strong in 2025. God only knows what ozone depleting gas is in it.

Sky News reporting that a serving member of the British Armed Forces has died in Ukraine, away from the front lines, while watching the operation of a new weapon system

Said this the other day. Russias disinformation job on Ireland has worked. A roaring success.

A huge proportion seem to have swallowed the kool aid like Wallace and Daly and turned into useful idiots.

They have no idea what Russia represents and what they are actively doing to destroy the EU and countries like Ireland.

With America now gone to Russias side it feels we are slowly walking into a very dangerous time ahead for Europe.

The UK needs to admit Brexit was a mistake and get back into the EU. Rough times ahead.