Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Avdeyevka is the Russian spelling.....

Yours is something not english or Russian

Imagine if he was the opening round of new diplomatic relations

you haven't heard of Mick Wallace and Claire Daly then, have you?

Russian's were after the same Tora Bora goat hearders at one point, or is that point conveniently forgotten about?

I'm still in knots at the "no American journalists even try to report what's happening in Russia"... he's obviously not a fan of Evan Gershkovich or Alsu Kurmasheva. Both of which Russia said they would trade for jailed FSB agents...

But yes, freedom of speech is well and truely dead :-D

The bit at the end, the "watch this,make your mind up yourself" the conspiracy theorists are gonna cream themselves to that, it's like a beckoning call...

What happens if you watch it and still think Putin is a c*nt? Does that make you a sheep? I'm sure that assertion is against free speech too, but hay ho, you are a sheep if you follow the wrong flock.

It can be argued the security situation in Europe has changed dramatically in the last two years and Russia is a threat to everyone. Many countries are doing something about their defense, others think they are special. When you still hear opinions like "Russia isn't going to invade anyone" or "NATO is history" it should be obvious that's just the vatniks talking.

The swedes with one of the most modern and advanced military nations anywhere in Europe,

Just look at the Danes similar gpd and population to our own and they have a well equipped and trained defence forces including multiple modern fighters

and the fact that they are an imperialist, nasty authoritarian dictatorship and pretty much the antithesis of everything Ireland is as a country and society given we live in a free open and for all its warts democratic society.

there is always going to be cat and mouse with this tech but using EW in such a situation would create a diplomatic incident , it would be the same as shooting at a plane, it wouldnt happen in the normal course of events.

Putin propaganda machine is in full swing to stop US aid.

It's not a case of "spending", as in throwing money at NATO. This can be furnished in many ways that don't involve spending money directly on defence. Which people don't seem to realise and throw the "we need money for houses and healthcare" argument out....

Taken from the NATO website:

"Expenditure for the military component of mixed civilian-military activities is included, but only when the military component can be specifically accounted for or estimated. For example, these include airfields, meteorological services, aids to navigation, joint procurement services, research and development.

Research and development (R&D) costs are included in defence expenditure. R&D costs also include expenditure for those projects that do not successfully lead to production of equipment."

NATO - Topic: Defence expenditures and NATO’s 2% guideline

R&D already happens in various multinationals in Ireland, but, aren't accounted for, stopovers/overflights which happen already account towards it... sending troops to Cyprus to train Ukrainian's on EOD measures, counts towards it... KFOR counts towards it, previous presence in nearly every NATO mission since the 90's counts towards it...

All things Ireland is already doing.

Under the new Hybrid warfare domain, Ireland already spends 100's of millions (if not billons) on security in the cyber warfare and critical infrastructure domains. Along with already securing supply technological chains which supply NATO systems manufacturers.

Worked correctly, and letting other companies into Ireland, which don't have to necessarily be weapons, it could be comms systems etc... Ireland could grow income to offset the 2% bill.

Taking this into account, I wouldn't be surprised if Ireland was already past the 1% mark.

He referred to it as '' war'' 26 times in that video, he is currently getting dragged to jail by his wavy locks kicking and screaming like a girl

The TB2 was never meant for high intensity combat its primarily a recon platform with a small payload, though the Turks have already started working on their Ukrainian facilities that should become operational early to mid 2025.

The US is already actively testing the loyal wingman program drones that will fly along side the F35 and the NGAAD 6th generation aircraft for Both target acquisition and bluffing air defences so they can be taken out by long range strikes reducing risk to aircraft, they are also testing swarms of mini drones that can be deployed from cannister on strike aircraft to overload air defence radars