Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Akabusi · 29-07-2022 4:45pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119403336#Comment_119403336

Evil, evil, cretins, I hope they die horrible deaths. What a sh!thole of a country.

EOQRTL · 29-07-2022 4:58pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119401283#Comment_119401283

That won't happen and if it does Kiev would be turned into a pile of radioactive rubble quickly followed by Moscow and the rest of us.

TheValeyard · 29-07-2022 5:04pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119404484#Comment_119404484

If Russia did that, any bit of international support or prestige they have left would be gone. Including China and Iran.

storker · 29-07-2022 5:05pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119403080#Comment_119403080

A lot of swivel-eyed Christo-Fascists hopefully. I hope it's a roaring success for them. The more that decamp from the civilised world to the kind of theocratic shithole they're trying to turn their own countries into, the better.

Say my name · 29-07-2022 5:10pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119403336#Comment_119403336

Seemingly another soldier removed the gag. And shot the POW in the head and his body was dragged off with a rope. All on camera.

It's the end of Russia. Eastern Europe has been saying it all along and knew what needs doing. Pity the bit further west you got the more naive they became.

dennis72 · 29-07-2022 5:28pm

The west is playing a slow continuous degrading of Russian army hoping they get a reality check

But the isis like barbarism is to scare us from putting boots on the ground

While the nuke threat is ever present.

I want a nato force on Russian borders and in the back sea not doing this has emboldened putin to do at will in a sovereign country

Shame on our president's wife how dare she appease an evil gangsterous regime without offical state approval

zv2 · 29-07-2022 6:13pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119404421#Comment_119404421

The Russian army and leadership are disgraced for 1000 years. They should stop now before they do themselves any more harm.

29-07-2022 6:24pm

Moscow Calling, a medium-sized Russian Telegram channel with 31,000 subscribers, posted an appraisal of the entirety of Russian operations in Ukraine since February 24.

Moscow Calling defined three distinct phases of the war—the first spanning from initial invasion to the withdrawal of Russian troops from Kyiv, Sumy, and Chernihiv Oblasts and the second spanning between that point and the introduction of Western-provided HIMARS.

Moscow Calling notably defined the arrival of HIMARS as a distinct turning point in the war and stated that previously provided Western weapons systems (such as NLAWs, Javelins, Stingers, and Bayraktars) did very little against Russian artillery bombardment (they are not designed or intended to counter artillery attack), but that HIMARS changed everything for Russian capabilities in Ukraine.

Moscow Calling strongly insinuated that recent Ukrainian strikes on Russian warehouses, communication hubs, and rear bases are having a devastating and potentially irreversible impact on the development of future Russian offensives.

This post is consistent with previous reports from Western defense officials that Russian troops are being forced to engage in various HIMARS mitigation tactics on the battlefield, including camouflage measures and constantly changing the location of equipment groupings.These mitigation tactics are impeding Russian forces from conducting the massive artillery barrages that they have widely employed over the course of the war, as evidenced by NASA Fire Information for Resource Management (FIRMS) data that shows consistently fewer observed heat anomalies over the frontline in Donbas since the introduction of HIMARS to Ukraine.

29-07-2022 6:27pm

Some brave men from Ukraine

https://youtu.be/YTM5At2kYRw

robinph · 29-07-2022 7:05pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119404484#Comment_119404484

Not sure that NATO/ US/ West would need to respond with nukes, other than to prove that they are willing to. They could likely take out just as much of Russia just as quickly but without turning it into a radioactive wasteland by using conventional weapons.

Russia throws a nuke, the west does more damage back without needing to resort to nukes yet, Russia then has a moment to pull back from the brink as they finally realise that the west has the bigger stick in reserve still.

The alternative being the west throws a bunch of nukes in response to Russia and Russia then has no option but to launch everything back and we all lose.

20silkcut · 29-07-2022 7:15pm

The greatest geopolitical disaster of the 20th century was that the allies did not take advantage of that window between 1945 and 1949 where they had the bomb and the Soviets didn’t. If Moscow and the Kremlin had been nuked at that stage the world would be a better place today.

it took until 1948 until they woke up and saw that the Soviets were no longer their allies so really there was only about a year of a window of opportunity.

pummice · 29-07-2022 7:18pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119404797#Comment_119404797

The guy with the beard - anyone thinking of Donald Sutherland in Kellys Heroes?

29-07-2022 7:19pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119404950#Comment_119404950

I don't think russia will use nuclear weapons. They may, but I don't believe they will.

The possible nuclear danger comes from some type of false flag at a Ukrainian nuclear power plant.

It's risky in many ways for russia. Fallout politically as well as actual fallout landing on their territory.

nigeldaniel · 29-07-2022 7:25pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119404993#Comment_119404993

I was thinking the very person. Those negitive waves man, those negative waves

29-07-2022 7:36pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119404993#Comment_119404993

Lol well i hope hes not as crazy

zv2 · 29-07-2022 7:58pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119404950#Comment_119404950

Not all Russians are stupid. They know they have nothing to gain from this war, apart from a pile of rubble. Launching a nuke serves no purpose except to bury them deeper in the mire. Surely they understand this?

Slava_Ukraine · 29-07-2022 8:31pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119405166#Comment_119405166

Respectfully, and knowing a few of them still in the motherland (UA born and bred), not all clearly understand, far from it. What I will say is however, is that those who "know no different" is no excuse. They, like us all have had their chance to understand how the real and democratic world operates and have chosen another path. God only know why.

Was on a nice holiday a few weeks ago and ended up chatting to a lovely Belgian lady. We both, after a great conversation and without even hearing them speak, picked out the thankfully very few Russians in our complex. As she explained to me, and I completely concurred, they stand out by their what we (Western Europeans) would regard as uncivilized behavior, and how they treat what they regard as beneath them (Hotel and resort staff).

Short post not sot so TLDR

No Russian would be welcome in my house for a candlelight supper

29-07-2022 8:37pm

More Russian ammo depot fire works

https://youtu.be/LGE-cnv2-j4

greenpilot · 29-07-2022 8:44pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119404950#Comment_119404950

I agree. I was at RIAT a week or so ago and it was a real tour-de-force of NATO air power.

NATO has had the time to tactically and strategically put their air assets into a state of readiness not seen since Kosovo and, should Russia conduct a tactical nuclear strike, it would be game over for every piece of Russian hardware from Crimea to the front in the North West. Conventionally, NATO would obliterate every Russian asset in a matter of hours.

We all take the mick out of the US but, having first hand experience of watching their military operations, one thing they are very, very good at is military operations. They are stunningly professional in absolutely every facet of mitary operations, from logistical to battlefield operations. Russia knows this. When the US, followed by NATO, kick into gear, Lord help anyone in the wrong place.

zv2 · 29-07-2022 8:56pm

Grotesque forensics

https://twitter.com/INFORM_agent/status/1553098177842216964?s=20&t=OolAwBhbDURJn_serPHcUw

jackboy · 29-07-2022 9:12pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119405166#Comment_119405166

Nukes are a revenge weapon. Russia would consider using them if the war is lost and Ukraine start to encroach into Ukraine. That scenario is unlikely but the war will have to end somehow. I can’t see Russia and Ukraine sustaining a war that goes on for years.

EOQRTL · 29-07-2022 9:16pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119404511#Comment_119404511

You think Russia give a hoot about how the world views them?

Danzy · 29-07-2022 9:17pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119404605#Comment_119404605

Socialist solidarity with Russia has been engrained for over a century now.

Danzy · 29-07-2022 9:22pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119404981#Comment_119404981

The greatest disaster of the 20th Century was that the Western powers didn't invade Russia and end the Bolshevik Revolution before it won the civil war.

It would have saved somewhere between 100 and 200 million people globally in the last century.

It's a mistake that is still playing out.

TheValeyard · 29-07-2022 9:34pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119405483#Comment_119405483

They did invade the Soviet union. Czech Legion, UK, Canada, Australia, France Japan, Greece, Estonia, Serbia, China, USA, Italy, etc, etc

All to support the White Army/NationalistsRoyalists to overthrow the reds. But the genius yet brutal tactican that was Trotsky was able to fend them off, along with other factors.

Now they just wanted to prevent Germany from making use of a defeated Russia. You know, Germany got knocked out cold in WW1 and woke up with brain damage.

And once the ww1 was over, they just seemed to loose interest. But I'd say some of the Russian suspicion towards the west does stem from earlier conflicts and the 20th century civil war.

Danzy · 29-07-2022 9:41pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119405527#Comment_119405527

True. I'd forgotten that.

It certainly did but the line about other countries having an Empire but Russia is an Empire is very true.

You look up any Russian on Wikipedia and quite a few will be from some little Republic that you will never have heard of.

Communism only ever really lasts or grows strong in Societies with deep and ancient imperial systems and it deep in the culture and mindset of the people.