Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Communism may have a bigger death toll than fascism, but that was only down to duration and being obsessed with a banality of murder, communism doesn't need an *other" or a war or reason to kill. It's so dysfunctional that that is it's inevitable conclusion. Putin is just another evolution.

Not so much who would want to attack us but rather our own ability to defend key infrastructure etc until the cavalry arrived. This idea is described in better detail in the article.

None of us are in favour of the senseless slaughter. It's why we think Russia should fcuk off out of Ukraine.

"hopefully they'll stop killing each other soon"

Except it's not about Russians and Ukrainians killing each other. It's the Russians who've invaded Ukraine and who are fighting and killing Ukrainians including those defending the Ukrainian people and doing their absolute best to send the Russians back from whence they came.

The Ukrainian people and Military surrendering to the Russians is not going to stop the murdering Russian bastards doing what they've already started, because they've been told that Ukrainian people are less than they are. The likes of Putin are modern day Nazis. And as we found out in WW2 - Nazis don't do compromise.

FYI.

"Blue 01", A Ukranian Emergency Services An-26 crossed into Polish airspace at the border south of Lviv.

When it crossed, it switched on its transponder.

Looking at its point of origin, and tracking many flights over the last week from one particular airport that shall remain nameless, I'm expecting a Russian missile strike to hit this spot very soon. I'm actually surprised it hasn't been hit already, to prove a point.

One reason why it hasn't is probably because of its proximity to the Polish border and the chance of a "mistake" ( mentioned in my previous posts), dragging Poland into the War, which Poland wants, very badly. There is no doubt that there are Polish and NATO personnel at this staging post.

If anyone following OSINT or monitoring airtraffic can guess to which airport I refer, please PM me!

Even the Russians aren't pretending anymore that NATO is the reason they invaded.

They no more felt threatened than the UK does of Ireland.

Expansionist, racist, robbing, raping, thieving feics. Pretty clear at this stage.

Another interesting trend in certain flights is beginning to emerge. This is in relation to Hungary, its airspace and the increasing realisation that the country is very much on Russia's side in this conflict.

Here we see the recent flightpath of a huge AN-124 strategic airlift aircraft ( and regular visitor to Shannon) which left Burgas in Bulgaria to fly to Rzeszow, or J-town as the Americans now call it.

It completely circumvented Hungary. Is there a fear now that aircraft supplying weapons to Ukraine could be shot down over Hungary at Putins request?

It's one worth watching.

I agree. I come from an Army family. Major overall of culture needed. In the 1980's the army was firing on all cylinders. Lots of new gear, a purpose ( The Troubles, lots of peacekeeping missions etc), Other nation's armies sent personnel to the Curragh to train with us as we had the best snipers plus we became experts in handling bomb disposal and IED detection.

I also think that everyone of a certain age range should have to do their 2 years military training. It would be the makings of many, many young folk and would change the zeitgeist of a generation.

Ireland is one of the most important strategic islands in the world. People forget that. Look at our position geographically. Our deep water ports etc.

It's way more important than people realise. It's also crazy that we have no way of protecting one if the most crucial pieces of technical infrastructure in the world, over which we allowed Russia to hang around for a week or two - the undersea data cables.

The question should not have been " what was the Russian Navy doing at that position?". It should be " What did Russia leave behind.."

If you weren't in favor of senseless slaughter you'd want Russian imperialism dealt with swiftly and effectively.

So incredibly naive.

No, it's that they feel that asking for permission might be awkward if denied, same is done over Germany.

LNR and DNR are Ukraine. They were invaded by Russia 8 years ago via proxy. There are men who are enlisting from that region - the issue is that there are reports that Russia is forcing men from invaded regions of Ukraine to fight against Ukraine.

"It's unbelievable that two grown adults cannot sit down and agree a ceasefire to stop killing real people." Zelensky has continuously pursued direct talks with Putin since the start of the invasion, who has so far refused. The Russians and Ukrainian delegates have been in constant talks, but it's usually for technical issues and generally a sham from the Kremlin (they are repeatedly broken ceasefires). All the "reasons" Moscow has given for the war are, of course, completely fabricated. Putin is there to invade Ukraine, conquer it, subjugate the people, erase it's identity, it's culture and kill anyone who stands in the way of it.