Russia - threadbanned users in OP

listermint

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118669261#Comment_118669261

Why cos Donald was so tough...

cheezums

Unhinged rambling history "lesson" from putin. It's scary though, clearly he is going to take all of Ukraine, and then who knows.

An Ri rua

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118669261#Comment_118669261

Strangely, this is incorrect. The right in America are anti-war as they wish to reconsolidate the American experiment and the Left, always known for being anti-war are more likely to warmonger.

Trump's opinion, yeah maybe. His reality, no. No stomach for war in GOP currently.

combat14

starting to sound like an orthodox crusade now

Gatling

It seems the french and Germans were already told in advance he was going to do it

billyhead

So what is the view on this thread. It it all just political postoring or will there be a war?

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118669066#Comment_118669066

This, you let Putin and Russia have an inch they’ll take a mile, won’t be stopping at the Ukraine that’s for sure… Russia are a threat to every country in the EU right now….they want to attack a country and it’s people to expand its landmass and influence in the world, getting closer to Europe….

are we on the precipice of WWIII ? Possibly…. Certainly closer then we’ve been anytime since the Cold War….

I wonder what the defence mechanisms for the EU / west would be ?

to be honest I believe the only suitable deterrent would be something Nuclear…

Russia are believed to have about 900,000 active military personnel.

US 1.5 million approximately.

Turkey : 425,000

France :205,000

UK : 194,000

Germany : 184,000

italy : 165,000

if the Russians attack Ukraine..the only way of dealing is really to attack the Russians, hit Moscow….

irishfeen

This speech is extraordinary, this is history before our eyes. Alarm bells must be going off in the old Soviet bloc tonight.

combat14

now ukraine is a burgeoning nuclear pariah state on russias door unreal..

opinionated3

Speech is clearly setting the plans in motion for full invasion of the whole of Ukraine. Going on about puppet regimes and saying it's not even a real state.

Rossi IRL

Mentioned war and now going on about Ukraine's nuclear capabilities and how everything is aimed towards Russia

Doesn't sound good for Ukraine so far

jmreire

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118668006#Comment_118668006

I wonder what else the US has under wraps...and I'm pretty damn sure that the war preparedness people are working overtime. Putins first "real" invasion moves will tell a lot about how NATO and the US will react. But for sure, they will have planned for every scenario in the book.

cheezums

Holy **** he just said Ukraine can get nukes.

An Ri rua

Interesting, as there's a number of documentaries about missing nukes when the final tally of handover happened.

Interesting, in the scary sense. The Ukrainians may still have some hidden capability that the Russians are aware of and others are not? And they want it, to have it and nullify its deterrent use against them, and hence a very rapid invasion may be about to occur.

Feel very very sad for the ordinary people on both sides, scared out of their minds.

tastyt

Curious to know what the general feeling of the normal Russian people to this ? I mean is there protests going on against this in the country or does everyone just live in fear of Putin ?

Surely the average Russian man or woman doesn’t support this or has he a Hitleresque propaganda machine running ?

thecretinhop

On a funny note this is epic. It's like RAFa benetiz fact rant

Gatling

He's lost the plot ,he's living in a different time

Raoul Duke III

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118669328#Comment_118669328

Haven't you been watching all the fake news they've been pumping out?

combat14

looks like major war unless ukraine immediately renouces aspirations to join nato .. even then it might be too late .... this in a sense is our cuba missile crisis moment

An Ri rua

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118669328#Comment_118669328

A scant Google would tell you how effective protests are in Russia?

sjb25

Ok hes off his meds has to be

😐😔

Rossi IRL

Going off on America

Now going off on Romanian missile launchers

Snooker Loopy

He's like Hitler on tranquilisers. It's Gemma O'Doherty level, QAnon stuff. But O'Doherty and the QAnon useful idiots don't have nukes. This has to end one way and one way only, with Putin being taken out. Killed. If it doesn't Europe will enter a new dark age.

The poor interpreter must be absolutely **** himself

Gatling

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118669315#Comment_118669315

There was a quote recently from an airforce general saying he couldn't believe how quickly they designed , tested and got the latest 6th generation fighter aircraft flying ,

But when asked later about it he switched over to oh I was hypothetically speaking

Akrasia

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118669328#Comment_118669328

Some people believe, others pretend to believe for their own political gain. Most Russians know that whatever their true beliefs about Putin, they would be risking everything to be seen as anything other than enthusiastic supporters of the regime

sjb25

https://twitter.com/bartolini_n/status/1495842089699008524?s=20&t=fHktM3m-igvvJ2g4mhkgwQ

billyhead

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118669328#Comment_118669328

If you speak out against Putin you will probably end up as a missing person.

Fiery mutant

The US and EU shouldn’t wait for troops to go over the border, sanctions should be announced tonight. Cripple the Russian economy.