Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Wibbs

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118888283#Comment_118888283

That photo is from 2013. There is no evidence of their use in Ukraine today. Would I be surprised if the cúnts were at it? No, but we need to see the evidence like we have seen in Bucha, or we're not that much better than the gobshítes that saw the same Russian crimes in Bucha and claimed a raindrop on a windscreen or a wing mirror "proved" the corpses were alive and that it was false propaganda against Russia. Never mind that if the Russians were using these military mobile crematoria* to hide their barbarity and war crimes Bucha and other places seem to show they simply don't care about the optics as they exterminate "nazis".

*Two words I never expected to type in 2022.

JoChervil

US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said Washington would ask the UN General Assembly to suspend Russia's membership of the UN Human Rights Council. Two-thirds of the 193 UN member states are required to remove a country from the Council.

AFP reports that the UN General Assembly will vote on Thursday to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council.

Economics101

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118888682#Comment_118888682

I thought it was only "unfriendly" countries that had to pay in Roubles. Orban must be disappointed if the implication is that he is not Vlad's bestest friend.

Wibbs

https://twitter.com/IntelDoge/status/1511602598394085380

This is the level of truly unfathomable idiocy present in the Russian forces. Of all people Russians and Belarusians, people who have been brought up on the accident and terrrible consequences of Chernobyl. Are they brain damaged by army rations or something? SMH

1800_Ladladlad

An inscription by the Russians on the wall in Kyiv (I think Bucha): "We are Russian and we are proud of it". They were able to find someone who could spell......Which is surprising.

Gregor Samsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118888690#Comment_118888690

The only solution RBB and co. can even begin to conceive for any problem is their very specific brand of Trotskyism imposed on everyone. In their minds, that would solve everything, and nothing short of it solves anything. As with many zealots, it's all or nothing.

Dohnjoe

https://twitter.com/danriversitv/status/1511369896608817158

JoChervil

Josep Borrell, the head of the EU's foreign policy, compared how much the EU spent on financing Ukraine's defense since the beginning of the war, and how much the member states paid Russia for energy resources. The difference is colossal, because according to the words of a Spanish politician, the country defending itself against the attack received 2.8 percent of what the regime of Vladimir Putin received at the same time.

Dohnjoe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118888548#Comment_118888548

**** hell. She's one step away from Alex Jones with this stuff. Absolute fanatic, the embarrassment. Do we have to wait until 2024 to get rid of her, anything we can do about this?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118888942#Comment_118888942

Send her to Russia as diplomat and see how she copes with reality

gandalf

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118888681#Comment_118888681

Someone should have a serious look at their financing and who they have been keeping company with along with the 2 eejits in Brussels.

sjb25

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118888681#Comment_118888681

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118888681#Comment_118888681

Absolute dirtbags.....

but im sure plenty of people will vote for them in the next election

seenitall

https://mobile.twitter.com/maxfras/status/1510958377005953033?t=jsfTHj35vkIUAMIY1zh11w&s=19

storker

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118888833#Comment_118888833

The idiocy explanation is certainly plausible, although given the "mushroom" approach to informing the rank at file in that army, I wouldn't surprised if (a) they didn't know the extent of the exclusion zone (i.e. pretty bloody big) and/or (b) they didn't know they were near Chernobyl in the first place.

Unless the reactor sarcophagus was in plain view and even then...maybe...in which case we're back to stupidity.

The size of the Chernobyl exclusion zone (shape not correct): 🙂

Dohnjoe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118888971#Comment_118888971

She'd make ISIS uncomfortable with her hatred of the West.

liamtech

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118888548#Comment_118888548

struggling to prevent my blood from flash boiling into steam -

gandalf

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118888833#Comment_118888833

The average Russian conscript was born after Chernobyl and given the Russians perchance for historical revision they may not have been even aware of the danger they were in. I suspect the officers were but I doubt they hunkered down in those contaminated trenches with the grunts.

It demonstrates the sheer contempt that the higher ups in the Russian leadership have for their people. Where as western doctrine is to train the troops to the max and protect them at all costs.

It appears that the Russian doctrine is exactly as it was depicted in the "Enemy at the Gates" - "One man picks up the rifle, the other picks up the ammo. When the man with the rifle falls the other picks up the rifle" with a cocked Maxim gun trained on them from behind in case they retreat.

storker

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118889043#Comment_118889043

"Hey lads, check out that power station of there. Pretty impressive! Lucky they didn't send us to that Chernobyl place mamushka keeps talking about, eh? Anyway, this trench isn't going to dig itself..."

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118889039#Comment_118889039

She gives useful idiot a new meaning

JoChervil

https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1511284174921076736?

Francie Barrett

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118888548#Comment_118888548

I am embarrassed that Clare Daly represents this country in Europe.

Strazdas

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118889101#Comment_118889101

Is she on the Kremlin payroll? I seriously suspect she (and a couple of her chums) must have received 'favours' from the Putin regime at some point.

briany

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118888999#Comment_118888999

If the broader consensus is that Wallace and Daly are dirtbags, then I doubt they'll be getting many votes at the next EP elections. There must have been something that made them an attractive prospect (or at least more attractive than the competition) to send to Brussels in the first place.

Strazdas

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118889189#Comment_118889189

I'm hoping that these tawdry episodes end their political careers. They are an embarrassment to our country.

gandalf

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118889165#Comment_118889165

More likely they went on a Kremlin funded jolly and there is "kompromat" from it.

Loafing Oaf

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118889165#Comment_118889165

Boardsie Donald Trump (and presumably he would know😝) reported 'rumours' that the Russians have 'kompromat' on Clare and the bould Mick. To prevent nausea I chose to believe he fabricated said rumours. But if they were true they could explain a lot...

GM228

The foreign media now just as bad as Facebook and Instagram I guess as they are "accomplices" in Bucha:-

https://twitter.com/AnonOpsSE/status/1511701074578755586?t=KdmJgc4wGKYAdGqVUT86MQ&s=19

liamtech

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118888681#Comment_118888681

These TDS and their entire party make me sick to my stomach. They have NO CREDIBILITY what so ever. They are wastes of time. And they are too thick to realize this. Complete and total farce

CHRIST ITS HARD TO THINK STRAIGHT

These people consider themselves

• Socialists (Makes my blood boil)
• In touch with ordinary working class people (gimme a break)
• And Anti War

What they actually are

• GLORIFIED ACTIVISTS, without even a molecule of intelligence - They blame NATO for a conflict that NATO IS AVOIDING LIKE THE PLAGUE FOR FEAR OF NUCLEAR WAR
• POPULISTS - These people are cult-ish populists who will follow a perverse 'NATO BAD/ALL ELSE GOOD' policy - they will be UP IN ARMS the next time Israel and Palestine go at it - yet they refuse to applaud a man who is leading his people against a MILITARY INVASION IN THE 21st CENTURY
• IDEOLOGUES - They are entrenched in their own warped version of socialism - which bares NO RESEMBLANCE TO REAL CREDIBLE LEFT WING POLITICS

To my Fellow Lefties

Please - for the love of sanity

Do not vote for these people again. There are plenty of credible Left Wing alternatives incl Labor, the SocDems, and even SF. I get that you want an end to FFG duopoly - i do too - but DONT WASTE YOUR VOTES ON THESE PEOPLE - they are activists - they sound wonderful giving speeches - but they ACCOMPLISH NOTHING - and in a moment of historical importance, they chose to 'protest' as opposed to applaud -

Never forget - and punish them by refusing them a preference

greenpilot

If there are any real, passionate and honourable investigative journalists out there, now is the time to focus all your resources on Clare Daly and her cronies.

Make her your special project. Surely editors are in a position to finance and resource a deep dive into their operations and activities. It's almost your duty at this stage.

Snooker Loopy

For the record, before I say the following, I support the idea of sanctions on Israel because of Israel's occupation of the West Bank and generally appalling, murderous treatment of the Palestinian people. I also gave PBP a number three vote at the 2020 General Election (Gino Kenny in Dublin Mid-West). Never again. I also do not support Hamas, I think they are a cancer.

In relation to the PBP clowns and their utter hypocrisy re rejecting sanctions on Russia yet support for them on Israel, it is clear anti-Semitism.

You cannot hold such a double standard and not expect people to notice. They are an embarrassment both to left wing politics and to the cause of the Palestinian people, who unfortunately have plenty of people within to embarrass the whole cause.

I would also note that what Mattie McGrath said to Micheál Martin - "you are dancing with the globalists" - is an example of the most vile anti-Semitism.

"Globalists", especially when said in that tone and judged against McGrath's long record of dog whistle racism and far right Trump style "populism", is clear code for "Jewish world conspiracy".

These fuckers need to be booted out of the Dáil.