Russia - threadbanned users in OP

They are Russian and Russian things are currently banned. On quality alone RT should be banned. You can still get it online if Anonymous haven't knocked it out again.

At the moment, the Russian state should be considered an enemy of the west and should not have an easy mouthpiece to spread disinformation and sow discord. They have enough bots doing that online as it is, anyway.

But the Russian state is welcome to try and rehabilitate itself through talks and concessions. However, as long as their current administration stands, I wouldn't trust them any farther than what they can be made to do, and with RT being Russian state backed, I wouldn't trust them much either.

I also think people overestimate the thought which goes into nuclear war targets. from Russia's point of view, The West are all allies, we're part of that.

In a situation where nuclear powers start wiping each other out (and the rest of us with them) - they don't sit down with a list of hundreds of cities doing up the pros and cons of which to destroy. They launch their 6000 weapons at all major Western cities with a larger proportion of them going to bigger targets.

For all they know, Ireland has a secret pact with the UK to fly all of their government over here at the first sign of a launch for security. Sure what's 1 or 2 bombs directed at Dublin in 6000 to ensure they don't miss their target?

TLDR, we all die.

The nuber of groups of saboteurs the Ukrainians are uncovering is both astonishing and frightening.

Once they are not armed, you can move them around no bother....once they are armed, then it depends on what weight vehicle will set them off. Big waste of a Anti-Tank mine, if it can be triggered by a person, or a small car. Now the ones that are dropped and spread by parachute, from a mother bomb......they are seriously dangerous ( I know, I know , there's no such thing as a "Safe" mine) but they should have been banned from day one.. they are completely unpredictable in terms of what will set them off. They are supposed to explode on contact, but many do not ( designed that way. China, Russia production mainly) but after lying all day in the sunlight, the shadow of some one passing by is enough to trigger them.

“Partly shot, partly detained”

No expert here but nuclear weapons are typically targeted at military and important civilian infrastructure like power plants and stuff. It's said that the reality is cities themselves are not really targets. I think it's a bit of a myth that's developed that big cities in and of themselves are targets. Their only targets in the sense that there is some really important strategic military or civilian infrastructure to strike and the city inevitably partially gets in the way.

In the UK i'd be more worried if I were in Glasgow than London for example.

That would be my take on it.

Spain is sending military and humanitarian aid through airports in Poland. The transport of 2 A400M planes contains helmets, bulletproof vests, mine detectors and 20 ton of medications and protection gear for nuclear & chemical dangers.

Yeah but they might want to get back at Skibereen for their local paper saying it had its eye on Russia

Yeah probably be more like this at Russian nuclear HQ

The oul swedes do be liken spreading the love, shur haven't they been doin it down in Yemen this last while, what with them bein neutral an all..follow the money innit

This was a funny and slightly mental thread to come across in the middle of all this, some real aged like double cream moments in there!

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2057383413/the-vladimir-putin-appreciation-thread/p1

If you don't mind me asking jmreire, what the hell was your profession? I'm sure plenty of others on here would like to know.

It doesn't help that the only two nuclear weapons ever used in anger were dropped on cities. But those cities were chosen as they could be shown to have some military value.

General Valery Załużny, the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, announced that 100,000 people were mobilized within two days.