Russia - threadbanned users in OP

All in all, he's just another prick, knows fúck all.

a lot of that stuff has been sent already - in the first year most of stuff supplied was Soviet equipment from ex-Warsaw pact states.

The problem is that many of those tanks/bmps donated were done so with the understanding that they would be replaced by NATO gear (Leopards/Marders etc) - great news for Rheinmettal, but the downside of the order book growing and growing is that the time until EU members have their stocks replenished keeps getting further and further away.

I'm pretty confident in predicting that this will be reversed. Remember this did happen before.

Epstein and his band of rich peado clients != russian army/mercenaries raping, relocating kids to Russia and into porn/peudo hands, civilian infrastructure destruction. Though they are both unequal, both are wrong and both sets involved should be strung up by their balls (or female equivalant)

Did anyone have FIAT currency as the reason for this war?

Rheinmetall from Germany discussing the possibility of sending it's newest tank (Panther) and IFV (Lynx) to Ukraine down the line

With arms production increasing across Europe, I wonder if we will see an Irish arms industry created.

Do you really believe that Timmy? After all the destruction that Putin has caused, that things will ever be the same again in the world, let alone the EU/ UK etc? After the ww2, the west was lulled into a false sense of security, a bubble that Putin burst. That will not be allowed to happen again, indeed it must not happen again, and in order to protect itself and ensure the peace, the EU / UK etc must re-arm ASAP.

I'm only surprised vaccine denialism isn't in there somewhere

Nothing to do with rumours of horrendous casualties reaching the prisons.

I'm thinking that's probably more likely. I can't imagine thier convicts getting much of a choice. Would be just as simple for the Kremlin to "pardon/suspend the sentence of" the prisoner and then push them onto a Mobnik bus at the prison gates.

The poster with the ironic name knows full well it’s trivially easy and perfectly legal to watch RT, both live and (for want of a better word) highlights, if one was into bad fiction.

It’s all deflection.

I suspect older but normal intellectual development was probably hijacked by ideology at about 19 years of age.

I am unpleasantly amazed by the left-wing people who support Russia now. Russia is the most unequal society in the world despite having huge amounts of natural resources and a well-educated population. They allow loan shark debt collectors to harass people in their homes. There is very little worker protection, despite having multiple related laws, as the corruption trumps everything. The state & friends of Putin control most of the economy, with semi-state organisations used for political purposes to force compliance in the population. In many aspects, Russia is a corporate fascist state, as per its definition:

Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation and race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

How, in the name of Lenin, would a current Russian state be in any way compatible with communist/socialist left-wing ideas is beyond me. The only way I can explain Roger Waters behaviour is that he does not like "Western values" and thus supports Russia who is ostensibly anti-western. But even then it would show a shocking ignorance on his part, as Russian elites are only anti-western when it is needed for them to justify the aggression against Ukraine or to rob their own population, while having their children being born in the best clinics in the USA and having villas in Italy.

Damn murdering hypocrites.