Russia - threadbanned users in OP

As you were Russians.

Surely, the people of Mariupol must have had an inkling of what Russian forces would do to them before the city was surrounded. There was time to leave between the invasion and the encirclement. "Get out while you can!" is not difficult to comprehend.

Not sure if I can find the video link, but saw a clip three weeks ago from Sievierodonetsk of Ukrainian troops walking around trying to evaluate the best place to set up their defensive lines when they pass the door of an apartment block and realize there's several families still living there, the mother is standing at the doorway while her children run in and out.

Ukrainian Soldier: You do know there's a war on? The Russian army is less that 20km away and advancing towards our position?

Nonchalent Resident: Nah, won't be leaving, we believe it's safer to say put. A family we knew left two weeks ago and haven't been heard of since. We won't be making that mistake!

I'm sure there was probably the same obstinacy amongst some residents in Mariupol, unfortunately the Ukrainian Army can only advise residents to evacuate - they won't force them to leave (that's the Russian playbook)

Six hours since the last post. The topic of the Ukrainian invasion is becoming less and less important. People are increasingly worried about the deteriorating economic situation and most people imo would like to see a ceasefire between Russia and the west/Ukraine.

Six hours since the last post? You mean between midnight at the time people get up. It's an Irish website.

Strange how you never tried to validate your 'theory' and show us the equivalent post count overnight on threads discussing economic situation?

There was 1 post on the Inflation thread since I last checked, 0 on the Recession thread and 10 on the Russia thread.

So I guess what that means the topic of Ukraine is 10 times more important eh?

This was the metric you set so let's here you apply your own logic and accept that Ukraine is 10 times more important???

Because at the moment your posts have no credibility and you just seem to be here to drop in Russian propaganda cues.

UK MoD, just because things seem quiet doesn't mean nothing is happening.

I'm guessing a tug wouldn't have much in the way of anti-missile defences versus a proper naval warship \ fleet protected by same. It does show the difficulty of trying to resupply Snake Island, either be willing to lose some of the supply ships or send a fleet which can actively defend itself to run the gauntlet.

Hey now, hey now! The Borg were at least trying to spread their form of "perfection" across the galaxy. They were evil...but meant well :P

As for the Russian Bots...damned if I know what they want, if they somehow are not actually working for Russia. "Owning the Libs"? Perhaps, or some such nonsense.

But that's the serious miscalculation and delusion of putin he hasn't realised that this is the 21st century not the 19th, while many colonial powers could do that then they can't now.

He started a 19th century war of conquest as if this was the 18th or 19th centuries and is using wars that russia fought way back then like against Sweden under peter the great as a quasi justification as if this was a continuation of that.

Russia does not have the technical capacity to sustain this 21st century war ,it does not produce the high tech components needed to manufacture the modern weapons systems.

It has loads of resources anyway but not enough people and is losing its best and brightest. It is just simply not powerful enough to sustain this because it is not just at war with ukraine but with the whole western world that is also heavily nuclear armed so nuclear blackmail won't sustain putin for long anyway

Although it would be exciting to have a bona fide Russian 'bot' in our midst, the truth is unfortunately more mundane. Most of them don't actually want anything or believe in anything, they're simple old fashioned contrarians. They don't want to be seen as part of any herd and will always pick the opposing viewpoint, simply because it is the opposing viewpoint. They see themselves as being more intelligent because they're not going along with 'the herd'. Society has always had them, years ago they would be known as the contrary ould bast**d stuck in the corner of the pub.

So you decided to post that garbage at 6am on a Tuesday morning? Are you deliberately pretending to be a Kremlin BOT based in Eastern Siberia?

It's almost like most of the people in Ireland are asleep between midnight and 6am

A genuine contrarian would be one thing, but here we have 'herd' contrarians who echo the same (Russian propagated) talking points as if they are being original.