Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

An amphibious assault of Galway is not so far-fetched. Russian sympathisers have held part of the Clare coastline for the past 10 years and our armed forces have made no attempt to dislodge them.

All discussions on the war and progress of it , who is now winning , who has the initiative have constantly come down to the Russians are winning - even if it is only the proverbial field or metre or two per day. The statement Is never analysed or challenged .

For example :-

(1) the amount of losses of men and equipment is never mentioned - one loses more in progressing than the army defending

(2) there is no mention of the progress Ukr is making re knocking a lot of infrastructure of Ru facilities out of action / severely damaging same and its immediate/shortterm/longterm effect on life/economy

(3) The psychological impact of the war on both sides , the reason why it is being fought and what this is impacting on the ability to recruit and those soldiers ‘working on both sides

(4) as the war goes on the ability of Ru to adequately ‘service’ the frontlines with soldiers , equipment , clothes , food, evacuation of injured. Must be more difficult for Ru as it is in ‘ alien/foreign/unfilimiar ‘territory

Do you have any more information on this, josip?

With Farage in power in the UK, our deluded belief that the UK will come charging to our rescue could very well be shattered. Any defence contract which may be in place now could be ripped up overnight. Indeed, why should the UK or an EU country try to help us and risk the lives of their military when our State makes it crystal clear that we would not do the same for them?

Such as the scandalously weak state of our defence capabilities - that is to say a complete lack of any - that the Russians could simply rock up to a beach on the West coast in a couple of clapped-out oil tankers and offload a few thousand armed, marauding rapists. That would be sufficient to overrun the country. We - the plebs, that is - wouldn't even know they were here until they reached Dublin. Our masters, on the other hand, would have gotten wind of this and would already be jetting their way to whichever nation would take them in to form their 'government in exile'. We would be left to fend for ourselves like lambs against wolves.

To not at least acknowledge that this could happen is madness. And with each passing day of insanity emerging from America it becomes less and less unlikely.

Trump’s hotel in Dunbeg in County Clare should be of great assistance to the Russians if it ever wants a staging post in Ireland to ‘begin operations’ here.!!!!!

It is weird, but logical. But providing military support via NATO, the USA keeps European countries mostly contained in Europe. The US has hundreds (750) military bases around the world. The EU not so much (the UK has the majority of overseas outposts, afaik). By having the military control over Europe, the USA can essentially dictate the external policy of Europe, preventing it from engaging in military operations in other countries unless the USA permits it. What did the EU do in the Middle East? Syria? Ok, there were some French planes involved by Libya, but that's it.

Now if the EU is left on its own, it will have to take its security seriously. New expanded military capabilities will provide the means for the external power projection (i.e. to wage wars with countries the EU wants to influence). And if the EU wants to decide to do a regime change in some country, this may significantly affect American business interests.

Therefore what Trump's handlers want is 1) to stop providing military support to the EU, and 2) to stop the EU from becoming a coherent military power by breaking up the EU.

Logical.