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    #5402
    combat14
    Registered Users Posts: 2,204 ✭✭✭combat14


    latvias 500000 russians must be throwing a party in riga planning rejoining mother russia as we speak .. a whole can of worms opened with putins speech tonight



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    #5403
    Danzy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,776 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118669432#Comment_118669432

    Probably a more frightening spectre than a war in Europe.



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    #5404
    Ahherelads2022
    Registered Users Posts: 182 ✭✭Ahherelads2022


    I thought it was well timed for maximum exposure. Primetime slot, the line in the sand is draw. Zelinski will have to ask the US what to do next. I like how Putin said if Ukraine attacks these areas it will face the consequences.

    Now Russia gets the East. If they trigger sanctions then it can take the rest. Power move.



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    #5405
    joseywhales
    Registered Users Posts: 4,036 ✭✭✭joseywhales


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118669475#Comment_118669475

    I think it's less about joining NATO and more about freedom of association. They have the right as a sovereign nation to plot their own course, that is worth dying for.



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    #5406
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users Posts: 12,397 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    He's such a cnut.

    This is the pretext to steal more Ukrainian land.

    Putin tonight just ripped up the Minsk agreement.

    All Eyes On Rafah



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    #5407
    listermint
    Registered Users Posts: 33,894 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    When Putins forces downed flight MH17 and the world did nothing. He started formulating these plans. He saw that there was no cohesion. A weak response and that he could control the narrative via the UN.


    I've no doubt he laughed and thought what can I get away with.



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    #5408
    briany
    Registered Users Posts: 13,688 ✭✭✭✭briany


    There are currently 300,000 ethnic Russians living in the eastern part of Estonia who Putin may decide are yearning for freedom one of these days. Formerly, I wouldn't have imagined that Russia would ever do anything about this, being that Estonia is a full member of NATO, but nowadays I'm not so sure, such is the apparent aversion by western allies to directly confront Russia. Not that aversion would be hard to understand, since Russia is loaded with nukes, but at the same time, how far could Russia push it before someone says 'enough is enough'? Make military incursions into every former SSR and use subterfuge to topple every remaining government east of Germany, re-establishing the eastern bloc?



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    #5409
    Polar101
    Registered Users Posts: 3,838 ✭✭✭Polar101


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118669431#Comment_118669431

    I heard 110% of the population voted "YES". Question to be decided later.



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    #5410
    Gatling
    Registered Users Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118669474#Comment_118669474

    Oh I have ,I said it should it have happened 8 years ago ,now it's time to punish Russia,and punish them hard

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    #5411
    jmreire
    Registered Users Posts: 8,434 ✭✭✭jmreire


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118669388#Comment_118669388

    And that's one of the better outcomes......you might be given the grand tour of the Lubyanka.



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    #5412
    cheezums
    Registered Users Posts: 692 ✭✭✭cheezums


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118669512#Comment_118669512

    any kind of bullshit with an actual NATO or EU member is legitimately WW3 though, no ifs or buts.



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    #5413
    Cody montana
    Registered Users Posts: 5,265 ✭✭✭Cody montana


    Wonder does he have some mental problem?



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    #5414
    greenfield21
    Registered Users Posts: 983 ✭✭✭greenfield21


    Didn't Draghi say only yesterday that energy commodities wouldn't be in any sanctions...or something to that effect.



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    #5415
    combat14
    Registered Users Posts: 2,204 ✭✭✭combat14


    as putin threatens to show ukraine what real de-communisation means...

    eu countries are split as to when to trigger sanctions... now or wait a few more weeks till russian peace keepers enter ukraine "independent" areas



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    #5416
    brickster69
    Registered Users Posts: 5,517 ✭✭✭brickster69


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118669516#Comment_118669516

    How do you buy energy without SWIFT ? Maybe Putin cancels SWIFT

    “The earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal.”

    - Camille Paglia



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    #5417
    opinionated3
    Registered Users Posts: 2,150 ✭✭✭opinionated3


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118669545#Comment_118669545

    Johnson has just said they are ready to go as soon as the first Russian boot steps forward...... Which will be pretty soon I imagine



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    #5418
    Gatling
    Registered Users Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


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    Not that It actually means much

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    #5419
    Pussyhands
    Registered Users Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭Pussyhands


    It's something else reading reddit with all the yanks commenting on this Russian thing. "propaganda!!" is every second comment....as if they're not faced with propaganda themselves...they supported an invasion of Iraq on it.

    And then there's the whole parroting of US officials. If I read another headline where it says something like "Russia says it has killed 5 Ukrainians who crossed the border into Russia" that's followed by some yank saying "Ah Russia creating a pretext!" just because they heard the US guy say Russia would create pretext for an invasion.



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    #5420
    Shao Kahn
    Registered Users Posts: 468 ✭✭Shao Kahn


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118669391#Comment_118669391

    NATO expansion east. And US interference in Eastern Europe.

    I haven't changed my position.

    I still don't think a full scale invasion of Ukraine is very likely either tbh. But you never know.

    "Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives, and it puts itself into our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." (John Wayne)



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    #5421
    fly_agaric
    Registered Users Posts: 4,878 ✭✭✭fly_agaric


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118669474#Comment_118669474

    I thought the whole point would be that they/us (the West, EU etc) won't be handing Russia any more foreign currency (Euros/Dollars) by buying Putin's hydrocarbons for the forseeable if this war goes ahead?

    Isn't that mainly why a cut off of Russia edit: is going to be painful (large rises in costs of energy + fuel and possible shortages/rationing) + why you've seen German reluctance about it etc.?

    So Western Europe not being able to transact for Russian oil/gas doesn't seem to explain why also cutting Russia out of international banking is a bad idea.



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    #5422
    listermint
    Registered Users Posts: 33,894 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118669561#Comment_118669561

    We see you.



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    #5423
    namloc1980
    Registered Users Posts: 18,196 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118669556#Comment_118669556

    Go back to 2014 and there's probably very similar tweets from EU officials about Crimea. The EU is weak and just full of words.



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    #5424
    billyhead
    Registered Users Posts: 9,785 ✭✭✭billyhead


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118669530#Comment_118669530

    You wonder😅



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    #5425
    combat14
    Registered Users Posts: 2,204 ✭✭✭combat14


    all this uncertainty is only driving up oil prices which only benefits putin .. in oct 2021 the same man predicted 100 dollars a barrell .. time to stop buying gas/oil from him asap .. but again eu are too weak and germans have turned off their nuclear power plants (thanks green party) just when we need alternative energy supplies urgently



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    #5426
    namloc1980
    Registered Users Posts: 18,196 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118669562#Comment_118669562

    Ah so NATO and the US forced Putin into annexing Crimea and now into recognising two puppet entities inside another sovereign country? Do you actually believe this garbage?



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    #5427
    Fiery mutant
    Registered Users Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭Fiery mutant


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118669552#Comment_118669552

    The removal of Russian access to SWIFT has been discussed at length throughout Europe as an option if Russia invades Ukraine. Are you saying it can't be done? Do you know something all these other governments don't know?

    We should defend our way of life to an extent that any attempt on it is crushed, so that any adversary will never make such an attempt in the future.



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    #5428
    combat14
    Registered Users Posts: 2,204 ✭✭✭combat14


    dont forget parts of georgia too, troops stationed in belarus, Kazakhstan, moldova east too



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    #5429
    enfant terrible
    Registered Users Posts: 4,572 ✭✭✭enfant terrible


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118669587#Comment_118669587

    Could the EU source enough gas to run its economy without any gas from Russia?



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    #5430
    Snooker Loopy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,422 ✭✭✭Snooker Loopy


    This is NOT about NATO. It was NEVER about NATO.

    AT ALL.

    Vladolf is about to launch Operation Barbrossiya and Europe needs to WAKE UP and cripple Russia with sanctions tonight as a baseline absolute minimum.

    If it does not do this as a baseline minimum, every bit of rhetoric about values and rules and freedom since World War II becomes meaningless.



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    #5431
    All_in_Flynn
    Registered Users Posts: 2,214 ✭✭✭All_in_Flynn


    Egg on the faces of all the Putin supporters in here. 'They were only having military drills'; ' They are entitled to put army anywhere on their land' etc etc etc.

    The US have called him out in advance and have been right on everything. Putin is in a no win situation. He is desperate and that ramble he just had in front of the world proves it. Absolute state of him.



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