Russia - threadbanned users in OP

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708523#Comment_118708523

You are casually dismissing the prospect of nuclear war, when it's staring everyone in the face; and yes, that doesn't mean "we'll all live". Far from it.

In fact, I'd go as far as saying it may well happen within the next few days (weeks at most).

thomil

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708465#Comment_118708465

While Kharkiv is definitely seeing indiscriminate and, I believe, punitive shelling and bombardment, this could also be an indication that Russia may be running low on guided weapons. If the leaks coming out of Russia are to be believed, stocks of these were quite low to begin with.

Loafing Oaf

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708494#Comment_118708494

I'm not disputing that Putin himself might have this mindset but it defies common sense that many/most of his military leadership would too. Obliterating Western Europe and the USA is only a 'greater good' to a madman if Russia gets obliterated in the process.

Up to now the generals have been 'just following orders'. The question remains as to what they would do if given insane orders that would likely lead to their deaths and those of their loved ones.

Yurt2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708531#Comment_118708531

Nothing is off the table it looks like. I still in all honestly don't think it'll come to it, but I'm not dismissing it out of hand.

Dohnjoe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708506#Comment_118708506

Translated it to English, jesus christ, the "glory to the motherland" stuff in there is off the scale.

DontHitTheDitch

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118707862#Comment_118707862

How much of Russia’s capital is gold reserve?

Let’s say you had a shed full of widgets and until now your widgets were worth €100 each. Now, most of your customers say they are no longer buying widgets. Are your widgets still ‘worth’ €100 each? So you go for a loan and you tell the bank manager, look I’m good, I have thousands of widgets worth €100 each, I just have no customers.

Heraclius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708523#Comment_118708523

I'm just praying that Ukraine will either survive or will re-emerge as a country if it falls. I'm so upset watching this happen and I can't look away.

Mecanudo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708456#Comment_118708456

India at least is still flying it's airplanes over Russian air space.

They've haven't condemned Putins invasion of Ukraine

A lot of Indian twitter chat also seems to be very pro Russian with various accusations of racism concerning Indian students etc allegedly being refused access to neighbouring countries. Oddly enough Ukraine itself seems to be getting the blame regardless of the fact that neighbouring countries providing asylum to Ukrainian nationals are reported to be checking papers. And with that foreign nationals won't be automatically accepted without the necessary paperwork. But sure racism 🙄

AckwelFoley

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708523#Comment_118708523

I'll happily pay more for diesel and what not, if putin fcuks off

Dohnjoe

Wow, Switzerland adopting full EU sanctions against Russia. You really know you are bad guy when Sweden is sending anti-tank missiles against you and the Swiss are punishing you.

Addmagnet

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708546#Comment_118708546

"Did someone in the old European capitals, in Paris and Berlin, seriously believe that Moscow would give up Kyiv? That the Russians will forever be a divided people? And at the same time when Europe is uniting, when the German and French elites are trying to seize control of European integration from the Anglo-Saxons and assemble a united Europe? Forgetting that the unification of Europe became possible only thanks to the unification of Germany, which took place according to the good Russian (albeit not very smart) will. To swipe after that also on Russian lands is not even the height of ingratitude, but of geopolitical stupidity. The West as a whole, and even more so Europe in particular, did not have the strength to keep Ukraine in its sphere of influence, and even more so to take Ukraine for itself. In order not to understand this, one had to be just geopolitical fools."

😕

cnocbui

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708380#Comment_118708380

I haven't had a mortgage for some time and won't be applying for any.

cdeb

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708410#Comment_118708410

What religiousness do we have in Ireland any more? There's some schools controlled by religious bodies, but there's practically no religious teachers any more. It's on the curriculum and Communion/Confirmation/the Angelus is still a thing. But that doesn't really say anything about individual people's religiousness.

There's no way you can say Russia is the least religious country in the world. There's plenty who aren't religious, sure. But that's not the same thing.

J_1980

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708484#Comment_118708484

anything west of the Dniepr river (not shown in this map) will be relatively safe I’d assume. Too long supply lines for Russia.

AckwelFoley

Huge admiration for the people with the balls to protest in Russia massive difference between this, a real protest and the serial protesters that are on the streets of dublin evey other week with their Republican flags jumping on the next topical subject at the time

Marty Bird

Guys what’s with the Russian adverts displaying on Boards.ie ?

gmisk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708547#Comment_118708547

Interesting article on central bank of russia.

23.3 percent gold if report from Jan 2021 are accurate

El_Duderino 09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118707810#Comment_118707810

The hacker group Anonymous has said it's going to do what it can to mess with the Russian government. We'll never hear if they do anything within the government but this might be a public facing part of what they are up to.

Nermal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708447#Comment_118708447

We're not celebrating that it didn't turn out to be true, just laughing at you for uncritically lapping up fairy stories.

Yurt2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708618#Comment_118708618

I'm getting an ad for Krasnoyarsk State Tractor Factory No.3. Can put a deposit down for a brand new tractor for only 15 kopeks, delivery expected sometime in 2027.

Northernlily

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708546#Comment_118708546

I can't see the average informed Russian professional with mates all over the world falling for that nonsense. Alarm bells will be ringing.

completedit

I don't know if I'd be celebrating these mass hacking events tbh. They are good in the moment but it really is poking the bear. It must be quite provoking even for regular Russians. "Death to the enemy" and other such things, you really have to be clear who you are referring to or people will feel as if they are under attack. I feel that's when this gets even more messy.

Addmagnet

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708647#Comment_118708647

Bargain! You need to put your name down and wait to get to the top of the list so you can join the queue for one comrade! 🤞

El_Duderino 09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118707872#Comment_118707872

Yeah I think it's ridiculous to write him off as mad. It turns out thst invading Ukraine has galvanised The West and he was probably banking on the west being very divided. In fairness I'm surprised the West is as united as it has proven to be. I would have thought now was an excellent time to strike - the US couldn't agree on the colour of shyte and the UK and the EU could agree their arses are in two halves. But somehow we've all agreed thst this is wrong and we should help. And further to thst, I think we all agree that if a Nato country is attacked then we need to act.

So Putin was wrong about how the west would behave, but that doesn't make him mad. He's a pretty sharp enemy and I wouldn't want to be caught underestimating him.

Mike Murdock

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708647#Comment_118708647

That going to be in the morning or afternoon in 2027?

Yurt2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708669#Comment_118708669

Jokes on you, I'm already half way up the waiting list in my Oblast thanks to my hero of socialist labour medal I got when I lost a finger digging ditches in Murmansk.

Miadhc

A new world is being born before our eyes. Russia's military operation in Ukraine has ushered in a new era - and in three dimensions at once. And of course, in the fourth, internal Russian. Here begins a new period both in ideology and in the very model of our socio-economic system - but this is worth talking about separately a little later. Russia is restoring its unity - the tragedy of 1991, this terrible catastrophe in our history, its unnatural dislocation, has been overcome. Yes, at a great cost, yes, through the tragic events of a virtual civil war, because now brothers, separated by belonging to the Russian and Ukrainian armies, are still shooting at each other, but there will be no more Ukraine as anti-Russia. Russia is restoring its historical fullness, gathering the Russian world, the Russian people together - in its entirety of Great Russians, Belarusians and Little Russians. If we had abandoned this, if we had allowed the temporary division to take hold for centuries, then we would not only betray the memory of our ancestors, but would also be cursed by our descendants for allowing the disintegration of the Russian land. Russian President Vladimir Putin holds an operational meeting with permanent members of the Security Council of the Russian Federation - RIA Novosti, 1920, 25.02.2022 Yesterday, 18:03 Nationalists in Ukraine are fighting on the recommendation of foreigners, Putin said Vladimir Putin has assumed, without a drop of exaggeration, a historic responsibility by deciding not to leave the solution of the Ukrainian question to future generations. After all, the need to solve it would always remain the main problem for Russia - for two key reasons. And the issue of national security, that is, the creation of anti-Russia from Ukraine and an outpost for the West to put pressure on us, is only the second most important among them. The first would always be the complex of a divided people, the complex of national humiliation - when the Russian house first lost part of its foundation (Kiev), and then was forced to come to terms with the existence of two states, not one, but two peoples. That is, either to abandon their history, agreeing with the insane versions that "only Ukraine is the real Russia," or to gnash one's teeth helplessly, remembering the times when "we lost Ukraine." Returning Ukraine, that is, turning it back to Russia, would be more and more difficult with every decade - recoding, de-Russification of Russians and inciting Ukrainian Little Russians against Russians would gain momentum. And in the event of the consolidation of the full geopolitical and military control of the West over Ukraine, its return to Russia would become completely impossible - it would have to fight for it with the Atlantic bloc. Russian President Vladimir Putin during an appeal - RIA Novosti, 1920, 02/25/2022 Yesterday, 18:01 Putin: the main clashes in Ukraine occur with national formations Now this problem is gone - Ukraine has returned to Russia. This does not mean that its statehood will be liquidated, but it will be reorganized, re-established and returned to its natural state of part of the Russian world. Within what boundaries, in what form will the alliance with Russia be consolidated (through the CSTO and the Eurasian Union or the Union State of Russia and Belarus)? This will be decided after the end is put in the history of Ukraine as anti-Russia. In any case, the period of the split of the Russian people is coming to an end. And here begins the second dimension of the coming new era - it concerns Russia's relations with the West. Not even Russia, but the Russian world, that is, three states, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, acting in geopolitical terms as a single whole. These relations have entered a new stage - the West sees the return of Russia to its historical borders in Europe. And he is loudly indignant at this, although in the depths of his soul he must admit to himself that it could not be otherwise. Russian-Ukrainian negotiations - RIA Novosti, 1920, 25.02.2022 Yesterday, 18:25 Russia formed a delegation for negotiations with Ukraine Did someone in the old European capitals, in Paris and Berlin, seriously believe that Moscow would give up Kyiv? That the Russians will forever be a divided people? And at the same time when Europe is uniting, when the German and French elites are trying to seize control of European integration from the Anglo-Saxons and assemble a united Europe? Forgetting that the unification of Europe became possible only thanks to the unification of Germany, which took place according to the good Russian (albeit not very smart) will. To swipe after that also on Russian lands is not even the height of ingratitude, but of geopolitical stupidity. The West as a whole, and even more so Europe in particular, did not have the strength to keep Ukraine in its sphere of influence, and even more so to take Ukraine for itself. In order not to understand this, one had to be just geopolitical fools. More precisely, there was only one option: to bet on the further collapse of Russia, that is, the Russian Federation. But the fact that it did not work should have been clear twenty years ago. And already fifteen years ago, after Putin's Munich speech, even the deaf could hear - Russia is returning. Deputy head of administration

thomil

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708573#Comment_118708573

India has been a close partner of Russia for decades. A lot of their military equipment comes from Russia, one of their two or three nuclear submarines is an Akula SSN on "lease" from the Russian Navy, they got one of their aircraft carriers, INS Vikramadityia, from Russia, the carrier air wing for both of their carriers depends on the MiG-29, following the ongoing problems with their own indigenous Tejas fighter, I could go on and on. I'm no fan of India or its government, but they are in a bit of a bind here.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708674#Comment_118708674

I agree, Putin is probably not insane.

It's very easy to portray an enemy as "mad" when you don't know what their plans are.

But that still makes him a very dangerous individual.

At almost 70 with nothing to lose, he can manufacture the circumstances to launch nuclear war against Nato and the EU.

Longing

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708610#Comment_118708610

Would you ever give it a rest with your fascinating for nuclear weapons. You sure you not Putin when you look in the mirror this morning.