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Did the USA play a significantly negative role in events leading to Ukraine invasion?

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  • Registered Users Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Yes. Trying to justify and downplay Russian military actions in Ukraine are indefensible views.


    I'm sorry that pointing this out upsets you so much.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,245 ✭✭✭Cheerful S


    That’s a state department rework of Ukraine history. The BBC ( the only news agency your kind will believe ) found evidence here protestors opened fire on the police . Claim is —- Shoot to kill order issued by Yanukovych, please do back this with substantial evidence? The real evidence demonstrates here both sides opened fire and people got killed over it. ( need that video i show you~)

    Did Bernie Ahern and diverse politicians not have dodgy deals? Where did all their prosperity come from? None of this corruption stuff would give armed protesters the right to storm Irish buildings of government. Willingly support coups when individuals you support are doing it. Yanukovych found to be corrupt is not a discovery. It happens worldwide find out that many distinguished and well known politicians in the west have offshore accounts and dodgy accounts.

    You do make excuses for a Nazi organisation operating inside Ukraine, and again showing your level of integrity about such things is not being consistent. Totally paint over the cracks their philosophy and the state of aims because there engaging in a fight with Russians now.

    Forgetting Hitler armies stated aim was not so different kill Russian/ communists. Putin was always going to have a problem with Ukraine white nationalist/ military wing (azov) and others like them camped along the Donbas line.

    The Big difference: Azov and other groups like it are actually part of the standing army of Ukraine. With generals, captain , major, soldiers with these racial views making decisions alongside the normal army of Ukraine. They're armed and dangerous white nationalists who hate all non white races. Zelensky needs to be careful here any concessions given to Russia may backfire for him. South Mariupol Azov units are nearly decimated so in a lot of ways Russia getting rid of people who may turn against Zelensky eventually? Azov leadership survival may be a problem?

    Failed here show conclusive evidence NAZI are part of the Russian conventional army.

    You uploaded a random picture of the supposed leader of Wagner an image only appeared on the internet on March 2022. Why would this picture take so long to appear, if legit? Putin's private army nonsense. Russia has a standing army of near one million. Putin wanted this be over quickly would be. While it hard to get into the mind of Putin level of force directed at Ukraine before the war suggests a full invasion is not on cards. Russia intention not to do a Syria on it, if did, every city in Ukraine would be leveled like Mariupol. Evidence seems to point at Russia actual aim is to wipe out the Ukraine army to level that be forced to negotiate terms. 



  • Registered Users Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Again cheerful. You are a holocaust denier.

    No one, not even other conspiracy theorists take any of your rants seriously.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,245 ✭✭✭Cheerful S




  • Registered Users Posts: 17,928 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    As predicted, note how all your points support the Kremlin line of either "discredit it, attack the West" or "acknowledge it somewhat, but claim the West is as bad or worse".

    You don't like that Putin's man in Kyiv ordered protesters shot, so you attempt to deny/discredit it and try to blame Western media.

    You acknowledge Yanukovych's extreme corruption (you can't deny it) but you attempt to claim Western politicians are as corrupt as him by reaching into history and cherry-picking.

    You openly support Putin's lie about "DeNazifying" Russia.

    You concern troll about a far-right brigade in the Ukrainian military that makes up about 0.1% of their armed forces and territorials, whilst attempting to cast doubt about a Russian paramilitary unit, the Wagner group, which does exist.

    You claim Putin could "easily end this". Odd considering his forces are going backwards in some areas, they haven't taken Ukraine, and he is scouring for mercenaries from anywhere. Why would he scupper it? I'm sure you'll invent a narrative to rationalise it in your head.


    You claimed Mariupol had fallen last week, so why is Putin demanding it surrender yesterday?

    This is because you are (as usual) reading dodgy sources. And when I caught you using those dodgy sources, you dodged providing them. I'll ask again, what is your source for that map of Mariupol you provided...



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  • Registered Users Posts: 17,928 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    This thread is about a war between Russia and Ukraine.

    You are posting clips of the Iraq war, because you are fixated on blaming the West/US from everything from 9/11 to JFK to hiding UFOs to the Holocaust. This latest war is no different.

    If Putin picked up a gun and walked into Red Square and shot a kid directly on camera, I have no doubt you would be immediately "questioning" it, it must be a fake and anyway a Western politician once killed someone and yadda, yadda. It's like dealing with someone in a cult ;)



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,245 ✭✭✭Cheerful S


    Again fail to see it. Mariupol is the center stage of DeNazifying Ukraine. Azov units captured the city from Russian insurgents in 2004. Dont believe Western stats on numbers, there more members in group letting on.

    The city fallen, it not going to be another Stalingrad. There are no reinforcements to come down and help Azov. They know they're not getting out alive all Azov left in Mariupol will be wiped out.

    The Ukraine side knows it has fallen. It nor Russian disinformation.

    Evidence.

    4 days a well known Ukrainian journalist.

    https://theweek.com/russo-ukrainian-war/1011874/mariupol-is-in-the-hands-of-russia-mayor-says



  • Registered Users Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    That kid was probably a secret Nazi. Or was hiding some Ukrainian soldiers. Or the Ukrainians put him in the way of Putin's gun to make it seem like putin is a maniac who waves a loaded gun around.



  • Registered Users Posts: 17,928 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    Here's what you claimed last Friday about Mariupol

    "Limited Resistance, inside the blue areas. but overall the fight over. It may be delayed the fall announcement till the entire area is all cleared. It not take a week probably a few days at most."

    Mariupol is in a critical situation, but it hasn't fallen yet. Which is why as recently as yesterday Putin was asking for it's surrender.

    And you posted a map


    What's the source of that map? Which site did you get it from?

    I suspect you are getting information from Russia run sites.



  • Registered Users Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    How many members are there then. Provide your source for these numbers.

    Please remember that twitter and your own imagination are not sources.

    Also, please remember that you are a holocaust denier and have issues with reality, numbers and sharing beliefs with these neo-nazis you are so worried about.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,245 ✭✭✭Cheerful S


    Using the video to illustrate here Russia can do the same and even worse. West suggests it’s a stalled military operation?. But with the firepower Russia got why does Putin not start using the most advanced weaponry to ruin cities and push Ukraine military out of the way?. This decision still does not make sense to me Ukraine army about 400,000 men/woman with reservists probably even larger now. Putin uses less of that 200,000 Russian troops to fight,., I dont see where Putin had the assault force take the whole country that may change Putin mobiles for all out war.

    War aims are in east and south.

    degrade the Ukraine military, take some land and wipe out Azov and then do a peace talks.

    genocide Putin wanted, has the weaponry to cause it. up till now he hasnt gone there. You guys believe otherwise.



  • Registered Users Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Why would it make sense to you? You are a very easily lead person who does not understand a lot of topics and who is unable to think critically about the twitter grifters you follow.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,245 ✭✭✭Cheerful S


    My sources provided back up that claim. I think the Ukraine mayor of Mariupol and Ukraine journalist tell you in Russian hands but you still disbelieve it? There are pockets of resistance Russia has to clear out. Putin knows civilians are there so better to end the fight now, to let them leave. I never denied it Russian war map? What your point? Even the other sides supports the Russian side., city fallen.



  • Registered Users Posts: 17,928 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    Odd isn't it. Putin is on record claiming he could take Ukraine in a "fortnight" yet here he is stuck on the way to Kyiv and actually going backwards in parts the country, losing hundreds of main battle tanks. Losing jets, helicopters, vehicles and equipment at the rate of 3 to 1 to the Ukrainian armed forces.

    All part of the plan?



  • Registered Users Posts: 17,928 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    Ah so it was a Russian map from a Russian site, is that were you source your info from?

    What's the name of the site?



  • Registered Users Posts: 17,928 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe



    To preempt all the extra creative writing about to happen, here are just a few guesses ;)

    1. The Russians lost eye-watering amounts of equipment and vehicles because they threw in their worst units, they wanted to get rid of that equipment. They have much more "advanced weaponry" they haven't used yet. And they weren't expecting to be "stabbed in the back" by Europe with supplying all those weapons to Ukraine's Nazi's.
    2. They weren't really interested in the capital city of the country they are invading, that was just to divert attention away from their real goals, which was to take the (checks map to see what they hold) the Southern line and East of the country.
    3. They have to siege cities like Kharkiv, Mariupol, Chernihiv because there are Nazi's in the buildings. They have to obliterate civilian infrastructure because Ukrainian Nazi's are using it. They have to hit hospitals, creches, supermarkets, food storage centers because this brigade of Nazi's are absolutely everywhere. They had to bomb the TV towers because, of the, uuuh, because of the Nazi Ukrainian propaganda about the war (which is pretty much the same as the evil Western propaganda)
    4. They aren't retreating from villages and towns they held, it's all part of the plan
    5. When they wheeled out Yanukovych, it wasn't because they thought they would control the country, it's to show the Ukrainians that at any time, with their "advanced weapons" they could control the country, if Putin wanted and Yanukovych would be in power. If he wanted.

    Can make these up all day long. Remember: add a smattering of concessions to make it sound more "plausible".



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    I do love that Cheerful is slowly reworking his argument to the claim that Russia are intentionally doing poorly and didn't want to take all of Ukraine at all. Also just completely pretending that Putin hasn't been enabling the far right for years. At a global level too.



  • Registered Users Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    That's only cause putin was enabling the parts of the far right people like.


    It's also funny that he's claiming the goal is still denazification when that was reportedly the first thing the Russians were willing to drop at the talks.



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    NPR reports no evidence of Mariupol surrender as of 31 March 2022. Only that city continues to be besieged by the Russians, with continuous fighting and evacuations.

    Today The Guardian reports that Mariupol is “still in the Ukrainian government’s hands.”

    Al Jazeera reports that the city center is still controlled by Ukraine.

    Yesterday’s BBC headline “Ukraine War: Putin demands Mariupol to surrender to end shelling.”

    According to themoscowtimes.com 8 hours ago “Kyiv said Thursday it was sending dozens of busses to evacuate civilians from the besieged city of Mariupol after a Russian cease fire announcement.”

    Post edited by Fathom on


  • Registered Users Posts: 17,928 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe



    Here's how a conspiracy theorist deals with the above

    1. Discredit: NPR is pro-US news, of course that's what they report
    2. Rationalise: A lot of dead Ukrainian Nazi's in Mariupol, so pretty successful op by the Russians
    3. Attack: The Guardian, really? That Bill Gates funded rag?
    4. Whataboutery: The US had no problem levelling Fallujah, so what's all the "outrage" about
    5. Make-something-up: Mariupol not much more than a ruin, Russians are mopping up final resistance in the city, was over a long time ago

    When you debate with serial cranks and liars on a regular basis, you quickly learn all their BS techniques.



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    See above updates.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,245 ✭✭✭Cheerful S


    Putin never expressed in any part of his address wanted to take over the whole of Ukraine. This re thoric exclusively western and evidence on the ground shows not enough Russian troops were deployed for ground fighting all the way to take the city of Kyiv. This does not mean military planning cannot change during the course of a war, but the swift taking of Kyiv was not on the cards at all.

    Putin must link up all Russian forces coming from every direction to even think about entering a city the size of Kyiv.

    Russian battle footage is mostly suppressed by the western media. Also unable to determine how much of Ukraine's military material got destroyed. There are no fair and balanced reports of actual combat on the ground.

    Ukraine has not announced a true major blow for Russia yet since the war started. That says Ukraine's counterattacks are not achieving the aims or Russia digging in and just adjusting for the main goal of the control of the Donbass and removing all Ukraine military from there.

    Ukraine doesn’t control Mariupol after it lost 98 to 99 percent of it to Russian forces. Like Ukraine sided/ born Mayor said it's in Russian hands, this reality is hard for some to accept on this site of course another victory for Russia ( does not matter about sides you support) battlefield wins will shape the destiny of any peace deal. .

    Stubborn resistance agreed is playing a role there but only making the situation worse for trapped civilians, and delaying the evitable. Published the surrender citizens may have a corridor to escape to Europe.

    3-1 advantage Russia be crossing the border now in shame, believe this crap., i dont.. I do believe Russia has taken losses and not low but this is expected when facing a tough opposing army. Nato supplying Ukraine with light to heavy arms ( modern anti- tank weapons) effectively increased their combat power. The 3-1 advantage does not make sense Russia has not gone in hard yet to take most of the major cities of Ukraine where the combat operations are ongoing. At that rate Russia would lose 60 to 70 percent of their forces by summer., not believeable,



  • Registered Users Posts: 17,928 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    Yeah no. A lot of your usual inventions and story-changing here. It's widely accepted that Russia believed Ukraine would fall quite quickly. It was a gamble, it didn't pay off. Russian generals have literally written about this, I posted a link to a Russian general who wrote about it before the war, and basically predicted what would happen.

    Even you've written previously that if Ukraine didn't hand over Crimea/Donbas, that the country of Ukraine would become Russian territory. How's that working out?

    Turns out the Russian military is not that good. Getting stuck in the mud, soldiers getting frostbite, men having to steal food, abandoning hundreds of vehicles, allowing Ukraine to capture hundreds of main battle tanks and vehicles, many modern variants. A Russian newspaper let slip that around 10k Russian soldiers have been killed last week, that's more than the US lost in Iraq and Afghanistan over 20 years combined. In a month.



  • Registered Users Posts: 17,928 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    Indeed but you are on a forum where facts, substantiated evidence and multiple sources mean nothing. For conspiracy theorists, the "Western media" is all lies, unless of course it's something they imagine supports their views

    Mariupol still not fallen I see, despite Russia's best attempts to utterly annihilate the city whilst not allowing all the thousands trapped civilians to escape.



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,600 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    There is no logic in stating that Russia is trying to annihilate cities. If they actually tried that they're making a very bad job of it.

    The problem Russia has is that Ukraine units are entrenched in the cities. So if you want them out you need to go house by house and you don't know whats waiting for you in there. So you need to go house to house and not only do you have to be careful not getting shot at or booby trapped but also who you shoot at yourself. Its an attackers worst nightmare. If they wanted to 'annihilate' the place they'd simply just carpet bomb and torch the place to smithereens.

    Make no mistake Russia are no goody-two-shoes but this war-crime, butcher, annihilate stuff is simply nonsense rhetoric.



  • Registered Users Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    OK. That's nice.

    Please point to an example of a strike on Ukrainian citizens that was faked or justified.



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,600 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    Just pointing out the logical flaw in that rhetoric. If Russia wanted to 'annihilate' the place they could have been finished doing that weeks ago. Care to explain why this is taking so long?



  • Registered Users Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Because that's not what we are arguing and it's a strawman. I will remind you that this was something you were whinging about a few pages ago.

    So again point out an example of a strike on civilians that was faked or justified.

    If you ignore this question again I will take this to mean you can't pro ide any examples.



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,600 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    Its a nonsensical request to make of me. Like as if anyone knew for sure what's going on.

    But let me just point out one example. So every time a civilian gets killed we hear about it. Another strike here and there 4 civilians got killed. In great detail. 4 civilians, amongst them one woman. Something like that.

    We spoke about this before, don't even try to make out I am belittling this.

    But anyway, back to the example. So when that theatre in Mariupol was taken it was 300 people killed. Notice the difference? It wasn't 300 civilians killed but 'people'. So do you think the difference in language is accidental? What do you think probably happened there?



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  • Registered Users Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    OK. So you believe that the theater was actually faked? Full of Ukrainian troops?


    How do you know this?

    Please provide the evidence you use to reach your conclusion.


    What I think happened is that 300 civilians died. You are clamping on to this silly conspiracy argument that because some media sources use "people" instead of "civilians" that means there must be secret soldiers there and the attack was justified.

    This is a silly agrument. And one you most likely won't actually support with evidence. Most likely you saw this term being used once or twice, then assumed that all sources do the same, and never bothered to check or to see if that original source doesn't then also refer to those people as civilians.

    Most likely you are stealing that silly argument from some crank on Twitter.


    Also if I was feeling lazy and dishonest I could easily turn your previous argument against you. I could say thT your claim is impossible because I don't believe that Ukrainians are capable of something like that.



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