Russia - threadbanned users in OP

As with your sweeping "judgement" that it doesn't cause fear, your above statement is also totally wrong. I'm past pension age.  

More weapons means absolutely fcuk all when just a handful of them can destroy the planet. And a single one of the new Satan missiles that Putin has can destroy a whole country.

There wasn't anyone quite as mad as Putin in power then, and he's proven time and again that there is no negotiating with crazy.

Making assumptions is obviously not your forte. And your opinions in no way express the majority.

I'm personally not fearful of the risk of nuclear confrontation, but there are millions who are. Additionally, you're no mind reader so you have no clue as to what the crazy man Putin intends to do next. He may have bluffed in the past but he's never been this close to all out war with Nato and the West before. I have no doubt he will reach for the nuclear option if that happens.  

They said they weren't invading.

Basically anything they say they'll do they won't. And anything they say they won't do they will. It's the only way to rationalize their utterances.

Good on Australia; but do you really have to use every post about military aid to whine about Ireland's lack of weapons supplies to Ukraine?

"Punching above their weight": their yearly defence budget is some 50 times greater than Ireland's Defence Forces. And they actually have 155mm artillery which Ireland does not.

Yes buts theres also plenty of suggestions that many of the advances are due to Ukrainian tactical retreats. There are plenty of areas its not advantageous to engage in battle as the losses you incur aren't worth it but 20km further down the road might be ideal ambush territory, so you give them their victory and as they get further into the territory the supply chains become weaker and the geographical situation is more beneficial to you. No doubt they are gaining territory but its a week now with no real advance and the NATO weapons are only just starting to arrive. This could go in reverse for the Russians at a rate of knots in the near future.

To be fair, I'd have my doubts about the Satan missile if they're pronouncements about previous weapons are anything to go by. It would probably circle the planet before landing in Moscow. Exploding in a shower of purple bubble bath.

Newly erected in St. Petersburg, made from the first letters of company logos who have left Russia.

Translates to 'We will replace.'

Yep it's very hard to know for sure whether Ukraine are genuinely being forced from areas or if they're just engaging in delaying actions. Which doesn't change the fact that Russia are making some territorial gains.

Also the area south of Izyum is a problem for Ukraine because Russia is very close to taking key rail lines which are reportedly used to supply Ukrainian troops to the east and south of Izyum; so it's much less likely Ukraine are just letting Russia advance in that direction.

We also don't know what Ukraine's longer term strategy might be: for example whether they want to force Russia to have to assault every single large suburban/urban area or if they're going to intentionally shift the front lines on their own terms.

The current state of play looks like this war will drag on for a long time, leaving more and more people dead and displaced. There is a lot being asked whether the west will continue to be able to supply Ukraine over a long term conflict, and the what the cost would be in weapons and economic terms.

The west could end this war in a week if it really wanted to. Crush the russian army where it sits, and leave no doubt as to where Russia's place in the world really is.

Post war strategy; denuke and we'll buy your gas.

More occupation measures from the "liberators"

Vlad won’t want his thieves paradise turned into a nuclear wasteland. His motivations are more venal and avaricious than than the ideologically driven Soviet Union. Unless NATO are at the gates of Moscow he won’t press the red button. I’d be more fearful of oppressed Russian people somehow precipitating a nuclear conflict in desperation . They are the ones who really have nothing to lose.

Ukraine has captured quite a few tanks, but careful not to get carried away. Russia has vastly more artillery and just because it doesn't have air superiority doesn't mean it's not using it's powerful air-force. Ukraine in the East is still in a precarious position, they are having big supply issues of their own, also supply issues down the South, some of their men still don't have helmets or body armor. Good weather suits Russia right now and clear skies suits it's air-force.

FFS stop believing the English myth that Napoleon was some little guy with a chip on his shoulder over his height.

He was 5' 5" or 5' 6" where the typical height of a French man in 19th century was between 5'2" and 5' 6".

Oh and in the French measurement system 5' 6" was 5' 2". (think of how European shoe sizes different to UK/Ireland - same idea)

The reason he looks small in pictures was because his personal guard were always overly tall for the time.

You can't compare the technology of modern armoured vehicles or aircraft with that of those of WW2 era, especially those at the the start of the war.

Hell one of the most successful and fastest aircraft of WW2 (before the German jet), the Mosquito was part built by furniture makes, carpenters in little workshops throughout Britain.

Tanks were very simple back in WW2 in comparison to those of today, weapons control systems, optics, communications systems, engines were less complicated and could be built in half the time of those today.

I think the Ukrainian Embassy will assist you in signing up to volunteer your services over there if you want to.