Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Gatling · 26-04-2022 12:43pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118978433#Comment_118978433

That's true America bought 30 mig 29s to access and use as aggressor aircraft in air combat training

RGARDINR · 26-04-2022 12:45pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118977846#Comment_118977846

Yeah I second that. I just think if numbers Russia claim areare been involved and if aircraft done same, Russia would release videos of targets been hit and destroyed.

briany · 26-04-2022 12:58pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118978007#Comment_118978007

It's good that she's been defeated, but she's only one node in the network of the new far right, and it's only one battle in the war against that ideology. I guess that, like any war, it's something you can only really tackle battle by battle, but it's depressing watching the far-right constantly trying to figure out how to whittle away at the woodwork of liberal democracy, light fires at its foundation and try to push the structure down altogether. It only takes less than a handful of big countries to flip and we're all f*cked in the West. Something Mr. Putin is only too well aware of and why he's been backing the attempts. He believes of the West what Hitler believed of the USSR in 1940 - "We have only to kick in the front door, and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.

Mecanudo · 26-04-2022 1:06pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118977982#Comment_118977982

Russia don't need a reason to invade Moldova. Just like they didn't need a reason to invade Ukraine, where we've already seen that wasting resources, soldiers and conscripts lives and an entire country is really not a big concern for them.

But I'd speculate that if they were to invade Moldova - it would be for what they see as an easy regional victory (Transnistria) over a much less well equipped and smaller country to carry in triumph for their May day celebrations.

Vlad wants his big day and looks like he'll do just about anything to get it

Grayson · 26-04-2022 1:09pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118977956#Comment_118977956

It's also the poorest country in Europe.

It's bad though. Historically it's been close to Romania. Most of it's culture is very Romanian. And for a while after the fall of the USSR it was thought it might become part of Romania. IF it was invaded, I'm not sure how Romania would handle it. And Romania is part of Nato.

26-04-2022 1:14pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118978577#Comment_118978577

Romania being part of NATO in this scenario is largely irrelevant. If Romania intervened in Moldova ultimately leading to Russia invading Romania it wouldn't lead to NATO having to come to Romania's defence. Instead, I suspect, they'd provide Romania with as much weaponry it can use.

Hobgoblin11 · 26-04-2022 1:15pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118978419#Comment_118978419

we cant, we dont live in an autocratic country, this is not a fair fight, its autocracy against liberal democracy

cnocbui · 26-04-2022 1:19pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118977927#Comment_118977927

In the first or second week of this I suggested Moldova should invite US troops in for joint exercises and training of their own forces. They still should. The airfilds in Transnistria should be obliterated immediately as there is no land or sea corridor to there and landing troops by air is the only way they can make that a real mess.

Wake up US, wake up Europe, don't wait for things to get worse and for large amounts of Orc forces to start being flown in by air to generate a western conflict to draw limited Ukraine forces from the East.

I think the horde want to land large amounts of forces in Transnistria and use them to push south and take moldovan and Ukraine territory south to the Black sea so even more forces can be landed via that route to attack Odessa, bypassing the holdup at Mykolaiv.

cnocbui · 26-04-2022 1:20pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118977953#Comment_118977953

Reports are they only have 10% of the paratroops left, having lost 90%. They wouldn't fly them over Ukraine, but from the south via the black Sea. They aren't going to care about Moldovan resistance to that idea.

The US needs to find some courage, and fast, to stop the invasion and takeover of Moldova which seems imminent.

26-04-2022 1:24pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118978638#Comment_118978638

They'll probably get recent conscripts and stick a paratrooper badge on them, 'you're now a paratrooper'. Problem solved 🙄

Manic Moran · 26-04-2022 1:28pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118978296#Comment_118978296

I’m wondering if it was a “work to rule” form of sabotage, and that the guy knew exactly what he was doing. And then vanished on his own terms.

26-04-2022 1:29pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118978678#Comment_118978678

There are less contrived ways to commit suicide.

josip · 26-04-2022 1:30pm

Size and population-wise, Transnistra is to Moldova what Cork is to Ireland.

Galling to think that somebody would take over the whole country just because of an affinity with one small part of it.

listermint · 26-04-2022 1:30pm

For all intents and purposes tranistria have largely stayed out of the conflict so far , avoiding getting involved in Ukraine. I don't think that is by accident. The region itself whilst technically Russian is probably more like DNB wanted to be. A region governed by themselves under Russian protection. They seemingly have a good relationship with Moldova and had a good relationship with Ukraine. And the permanent peace keeping force have a handy number being quite settled.

I see these false attacks as being actual more little green men from Russia attempting to stir stuff up and flood the field. Forcing some reaction from what are but aren't Russian leadership in tranistria. I'm sure the Russian troops there, are looking on going nah not having a taste of what's happening next door cheers.

I'd also say Moldovan reps and tranistrian reps are on direct and frequent discussions. The Russian troops will want to weather the storm from Moscow to mix it up. That's the only unknown quantity here. Can they, will they.

Mecanudo · 26-04-2022 1:34pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118978222#Comment_118978222

It looks like the German government is possibly either being shamed or stong armed into providing heavy weapons, which German arms manufacturers have already said are ready to go to Ukraine once the German government gets its finger out.

Forty countries are currently holding emergency talks at the Ramstein airbase in south-western Germany on bolstering the defence capabilities of Ukraine.

The US-hosted meeting is said to be focusing on doing whats necessary to generate additional capability and capacity for the Ukrainian forces

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-to-send-tanks-to-ukraine-as-us-hosts-defense-conference-live-updates/a-61590982

Scholz, whose SPD party traditionally maintains close ties with Russia, has variously argued amongst other things that it would take too long to train Ukrainian soldiers to use the weapons, that Germany had no weapons to sell, and that selling weapons could provoke Putin.

Some have also questioned Germany's commitment to NATO's mutual defence pledge because arguments used to avoid supplying Ukraine - that it could provoke confrontation with Russia - could also be used as an argument against Germany invoking the pledge.

Which side is Germany going to definitely come down in the current situation is the question.

josip · 26-04-2022 1:39pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118978715#Comment_118978715

Germany is firmly, albeit unintentionally, on the Russian side by virtue of financing its war effort.

cnocbui · 26-04-2022 1:43pm

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1518900672325988352

An excellent and cautionary example of the dangers of inbreeding.

26-04-2022 1:46pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118978638#Comment_118978638

To get to Moldova from the Black Sea they'd need:-

A) get to the Ukrainian coast without meeting the 'Roman god of the sea' and other nasties.

B) get past Ukrainian military.

Neither would seem enticing to an already overly stretched Russia.

cnocbui · 26-04-2022 1:46pm

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1518880847356743680

Lol. Beat that, Weber.

briany · 26-04-2022 1:50pm

@cnocbui

Reports are they only have 10% of the paratroops left, having lost 90%. They wouldn't fly them over Ukraine, but from the south via the black Sea. They aren't going to care about Moldovan resistance to that idea.

The US needs to find some courage, and fast, to stop the invasion and takeover of Moldova which seems imminent.#

Unless the Russians order full conscription, it seems a stretch that their military could stage an invasion of a second country to compliment to the very subpar job they're currently doing of invading the first, and even if they were to try and do a hostile takeover of Moldova, it's not as if they could teleport them in. They have to mass the requisite resources, and that would be happening under the gimlet eye of U.S. satellite cameras, so Moldova would have prior warning. While Russian troops might be welcomed into Transnistria (presumably), the rest of Moldova not so much, which is overwhelmingly ethnically Romanian.

Mecanudo · 26-04-2022 2:06pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118978749#Comment_118978749

It could also be argued that they are firmly on their own side and happy to keep largely schtum with the Russians on the thorny issue of heavy weapons for Ukraine in order to keep the oil and gas flowing freely.

Dohnjoe · 26-04-2022 2:13pm

https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1518905292007870464

26-04-2022 2:15pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118978632#Comment_118978632

Yes its time to draw the line,alltough i have i my doubts that Russian forces will reach Odessa once Ukraine gets their western weapons and start pushing back on the offensive.

26-04-2022 2:16pm

4 less Russian tanks to worry about

https://youtu.be/KyrFB4pvx0s

jmayo · 26-04-2022 2:19pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118975615#Comment_118975615

A drunken terrorist would be fook all use. 😉

Yes we might as a race have had, and continue to have, problems with drink.

Oh and you forgot the image of the Irish as brawlers.

But at least we never tried to wipe out entire races.

A hell of a lot of Germans were good little nazis and trying to rewrite history can't change that fact.

In the Reichstag election in July 1932, the Nazis became the largest party with 230 seats and 37.3% of the vote.

The next nearest party (the SPD) had only 21.6% of the vote.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118975464#Comment_118975464

Fair fooks to your grandfather, but stop getting antsy when you are called out on your totally factually incorrect statements.

Your initial statement was the following:

No nazis escaped the Israeli intelligence either after ww2,and they didnt have internet in those days.

Then you rolled back on it by proclaiming it was only the

I was talking about the higher ranking officers closest to Hitler,not guards in a concentration camps.

Not everyone escaped to Argentina or had the money to even get out of Germany

which is also factually incorrect unless of course you just want to count Goering, Himmler, Hess, Goebels and Speer.

Anyway we are going off topic.

Suffice it to say it is the Russians now that are behaving as Nazis, using every trick in the book to try and wipe out a state and a people all at the behest of their deluded overlord.