Ukraine (Mod Note & Threadbanned Users in OP)

I wouldn’t surrender to the Russians especially if I was in the Azov battalion. A bullet in the head would be a far better outcome than to be taken alive by the Russians. Remember Putin is trying to rehabilitate the image of Stalin. Stalin being the man who propagated the inhumane gulag system which is just a step down ( arguably equivalent)from the Nazi concentration camps of WW2. God knows what sort of prisoner camps exist in Russia at this time being led by a man who so obviously admires the methods of Stalinism.

Better to go in a blaze of glory in the steel plant.

i tell ya one thing though, Putin is a real jerk

Russia didn't hold Crimea, they annexed it with no military resistance. They managed to "hold" about one third of Donbas, for 8 years in a frozen conflict with a "normal" economy. The situation now is very different, they are fighting a fully mobilised Ukraine, which has a flood of weapons arriving in, vast numbers of Ukrainians from abroad have returned to fight, they have around a million reservists with some military training as well as a high morale army of around 200,000 with no shortage of volunteers. Ukraine's situation is still difficult but they have just forced them out of Northern Ukraine in a month, Russia is under heavy global sanctions, so how does Moscow "win" if Ukraine doesn't accept any of their peace deals?

Do they just sit in Donbas with a low morale army losing countless numbers of men and equipment every month to Ukrainians with modern weapon systems in a country that hates them, is that "winning"?

As for your bizarre comparison to Northern Ireland, Mariupol was heavily pro-Russian, how did they welcome Russia? How has the rest of Ukraine welcomed Russia?

But that won't end the war and Ukraine may well refuse to negotiate anything with him. The Ukrainians are in such a strong position now militarily that they will almost certainly keep on fighting - Putin has totally lost control of the situation.

Strange, I haven't seen Ukrainian flags "everywhere", nor "we stand with Ukraine" at most bus stops. Considering you openly express very strange beliefs (including that the "NWO" puts satanic symbols on baby clothes) I'm going to put that down to a bit of exaggeration on your part.

As for our support of Ukraine? seems to be on a par with most other European countries. This is the largest and most significant war on European soil since 1939, so it's unsurprising.

I believe it would end the war, at least on the current scale, because Zelensky would insist any peace settlement is backed up by a guarantee of Ukraine's future security that would make it impossible, or at least ruinously costly, for Russia to mount such an invasion again. IMO Zelensky may well decide that such a guarantee is worth sacrificing some territory in the Donbas that is now, or is shortly set to become, a total wasteland anyway.

I wish I could be as confident as you about ultimate Ukrainian victory but the phase that the war is now entering very much plays to Russia's strengths such as they are. Pushing the Russians back to the boundaries at the start of this year, let alone pre-2014, could well take years of bitter attritional struggle to a point where the Ukrainians may decide the game is not worth the candle.

Like opening a can of worms..

Similar to many European countries, Irish people are concerned about Ukraine and are showing their support. However you seem to be hinting something nefarious is going on over here, what would that be?

Russia illegally annexed Crimea in 2014, so apparently it's Moscow's problem now. According to Ukraine they reduced the water supply due to unpaid debts.

"Ukraine have a million reservists and 200k army? Impressive....so why did Zelensky ban any man 18-60 from leaving?" Why wouldn't he? the country was being invaded, they needed all the hands they could get. Not just holding guns, but carrying out all the logistics of running a war/country. They also didn't know what would happen, if there would be mass panic or whatever.

"Why, is a force of 1.2 with western supplied weapons, not able to crush an army of 100k, which have lost 20k men now?" It's not 1.2 million men vs 100,000 men like some sort of Roman battle. The Russian invasion force was initially around 190,000 with vastly more vehicles and equipment than the Ukrainian military, a ratio of almost 10 to 1 in many cases. You could always read about the conflict some time instead of all this guess-work, plenty of material and news about it.

"If the desire to stay and fight for Ukraine is so strong, why was the ban put in?" As above. Thankfully there wasn't mass panic. In fact, quite the opposite, there's been 10's of thousands of expat Ukrainians returning to the country to fight and help.