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Russia fires on Ukranian vessels

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  • #62
    Gatling
    Registered Users Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    Conflicting reports about escalation in Donetsk.

    That's a near daily and weekly occurance ,till we see something like attack helicopters and jets flying into Ukraine from Russia ,it will be business as usual .
    Russian forces will fire artillery and mortors and Ukraine will return their own artillery and mortors


    And then there's sputnik
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  • #63
    SSr0
    Registered Users Posts: 299 ✭✭SSr0


    Gatling wrote: »
    But you'll expect other children from countries to fight for us.

    But give them a keyboard .


    I'm sure they will fight with key strokes

    Hahahahahahahaha!! Says the keyboard GOC of Boards ffs


  • #64
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,071 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Gatling wrote: »
    That's a near daily and weekly occurance ,till we see something like attack helicopters and jets flying into Ukraine from Russia ,it will be business as usual .
    Russian forces will fire artillery and mortors and Ukraine will return their own artillery and mortors


    And then there's sputnik

    Yeah, I agree.


  • #65
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Raheem Euro wrote: »
    I think "nuclear winter" has been debunked hasnt it?

    Yes someone did a sketch on A4 paper, and said about 6,000 (of the 22,000 global total) large ones (some each up to 100 megatons, making 'little boy' look very little) all going off...

    - would only cause a minor interference with growing potatoes and trips to the seaside for candyfloss and rainbow spotting.


  • #66
    Gringo180
    Registered Users Posts: 9,205 ✭✭✭Gringo180


    Gatling wrote: »
    But you'll expect other children from countries to fight for us.

    But give them a keyboard .


    I'm sure they will fight with key strokes

    I wont expect anyone to fight for us. Nobody is ever and I mean ever going to invade Europe when France and the UK are sitting on enough nuclear warheads to end civilisation as we know it.


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  • #67
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,071 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Raheem Euro wrote: »
    I think "nuclear winter" has been debunked hasnt it?

    No.


  • #68
    Raheem Euro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 327 ✭✭Raheem Euro


    Belen Lazy Smallness wrote: »
    Yes someone did a sketch on A4 paper, and said about 6,000 (of the 22,000 global total) large ones (some each up to 100 megatons, making 'little boy' look very little) all going off...

    - would only cause a minor interference with growing potatoes and trips to the seaside for candyfloss and rainbow spotting.

    Millions of strawmen will be radiated to death in micro seconds.


  • #69
    badtoro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 482 ✭✭badtoro


    Be terrible if that bridge got dropped, accidentally like, God knows what **** the Soviets dumped in those seas, bound to be some demolition explosive rolling around the bottom on the tides.


  • #70
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,071 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Gringo180 wrote: »
    I wont expect anyone to fight for us. Nobody is ever and I mean ever going to invade Europe when France and the UK are sitting on enough nuclear warheads to end civilisation as we know it.

    I suppose the more likely scenario would be a push up to the borders of EU. Still unlikely I think.

    The threat as it is now is via economic sanctions/interference, meddling in elections and such, cyber attacks and proxy wars. All from both sides, to some extent or other.


  • #71
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Raheem Euro wrote: »
    Millions of strawmen will be radiated to death in micro seconds.

    Anything made of straw really, and cotton, paper, concrete, steel.

    Think the very largest 100mt wasn't tested as the jet up at high altitudes (dropping it with a parachute) still couldn't escape the resulting inferno and shockwave fast enough even at Mach1/2.

    So they tested a smaller 50mt which broke someones window about 500 nautical miles away up in the arsehole regions of the siberian artic.


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  • #72
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users Posts: 18,073 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Send in bond Jimmy bond it's the hunt for Red November


  • #73
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,071 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    From what I recall, the SU did have one bigger than the Tsar Bomba, but were too afraid to test it.


  • #74
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    Armadildo wrote: »
    I have nothing to live for and would be quite happy to see the world burn.

    Speak for yourself if you were around guns going off I would say you would change your mind fast and you would probably need to change your pants too.


  • #75
    UrbanFret
    Registered Users Posts: 2,055 ✭✭✭UrbanFret


    Local schmozzle no need for outside interference.


  • #76
    Gringo180
    Registered Users Posts: 9,205 ✭✭✭Gringo180


    Its mad isnt it. This has happened no more than a couple of hours ago and some on here have the Russians invading mainland Europe and calling for a European army :pac:

    Lets wait a bit and get some facts before pointing the finger at the big bad Russians. I want to know why they shot at the Ukranian vessels in the first place? Where they illegally in Russian waters?


  • #77
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,071 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    Speak for yourself if you were around guns going off I would say you would change your mind fast and you would probably need to change your pants too.

    (S)he missed the chance to be in california recently. I'm sure another opportunity will present itself soon.


  • #78
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,071 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Anyways, it's watch and wait time.

    Hopefully this situation will fizzle out so we may all sleep soundly in our beds.


  • #79
    Raheem Euro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 327 ✭✭Raheem Euro


    Belen Lazy Smallness wrote: »
    Anything made of straw really, and cotton, paper, concrete, steel.

    Think the very largest 100mt wasn't tested as the jet up at high altitudes (dropping it with a parachute) still couldn't escape the resulting inferno and shockwave fast enough even at Mach1/2.

    So they tested a smaller 50mt which broke someones window about 500 nautical miles away up in the arsehole regions of the siberian artic.

    So you reckon Russia is going to drop a 100mt nuclear bomb on Kiev?


  • #80
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 25,399 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Armadildo wrote: »
    Won't be no nukes hitting Ireland.

    Im not in ireland


  • #81
    SafeSurfer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,415 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    I suppose the more likely scenario would be a push up to the borders of EU. Still unlikely I think.

    The threat as it is now is via economic sanctions/interference, meddling in elections and such, cyber attacks and proxy wars. All from both sides, to some extent or other.

    Absolutely. Russian interference in Brexit, US, French elections is often referred to in western media but Western interference in internal Russian or Ukrainian politics is never mentioned.

    For countries like the US and UK to bemoan foreign interference in their internal politics after their long history of regime change from South America to Africa to the Middle East is so hypocritical it’s funny.

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



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  • #82
    4068ac1elhodqr
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    Raheem Euro wrote: »
    So you reckon Russia is going to drop a 100mt nuclear bomb on Kiev?

    In a very worse case scenario? Nope.

    Too close and too many semi-fertile fields in that region.

    Elsewhere, who knows (in an 'very unlikely' SHTF event).

    Will there be a global conflict sometime in the next 50yrs, perhaps.
    Are China and others preparing for such an event, perhaps.


  • #83
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,071 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Spoke too soon maybe

    https://twitter.com/Global_Mil_Info/status/1066803481179287563?s=19

    Or just bluster?


  • #84
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,071 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    https://twitter.com/ELINTNews/status/1066803452028833794?s=19


  • #85
    namloc1980
    Registered Users Posts: 18,064 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    pri wrote: »
    Any links about the situation in Donetsk?

    Reports range from nothing at all is happening to massive artillery barrage by Ukraine. Classic fog of war stuff.


  • #86
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,071 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    pri wrote: »
    Any links about the situation in Donetsk?

    All quiet it seems, from sources on the ground. Russian disinfo at work.


  • #87
    SafeSurfer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,415 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    If this escalates it is fair to assume Ukraine has been given the support of NATO.

    Would the US have permitted Mexico to join the Warsaw Pact?

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • #88
    Gringo180
    Registered Users Posts: 9,205 ✭✭✭Gringo180


    Seems like the Ukranian navy were sailing there ships through the Kerch strait without any Russian authorisation? Why would they do that?


  • #89
    batgoat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,423 ✭✭✭batgoat


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    Spoke too soon maybe

    https://twitter.com/Global_Mil_Info/status/1066803481179287563?s=19

    Or just bluster?

    Never seen that account before so finding it a tad suspect. In addition, Ukraine Security council are apparently meeting in 40 minutes so it will be on table as possibility.
    https://twitter.com/olliecarroll/status/1066804439749660673


  • #90
    gandalf
    Registered Users Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    This is what happens when you don't deal with aggressive rogue regimes like Russia properly in the first place.

    If they are proven to be in the wrong then there needs to be a strong response from the International Community. Booting them out of the SWIFT system would be a good start along with restricting uber rich Russians ability to travel as well.


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  • #91
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,071 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    SafeSurfer wrote: »
    If this escalates it is fair to assume Ukraine has been given the support of NATO.

    Would the US have permitted Mexico to join the Warsaw Pact?

    I wouldn't assume that that support goes beyond verbal and economic. Could be wrong of course.


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