Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

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Colonel_Klinck said:
Who is suggesting NATO forces get involved? All that is happening is we are supplying Ukraine with the means, through weaponry, training and likely intel, to take the fight to Russia.
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If Russia was training the IRA during "The Troubles" and giving them modern weaponry to the tune of billions of pounds, would England not consider their forces were not getting involved? NATO is involved up to their eye teeth, sans putting boots on the ground and Russia knows it of course, plus all the financial pressure layered upon them. "All that is happening" sounds minor, it's as major as the west can make it short of an all out war, don't kid yourself or anyone else, they're teetering on the edge of this blowing up beyond control.
 
Chris Wilson said:
If Russia was training the IRA during "The Troubles" and giving them modern weaponry to the tune of billions of pounds, would England not consider their forces were not getting involved?
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The major problem with this analogy is that NI is part of the UK, whereas Ukraine is being invaded by Russia. Throughout the cold war there were many occasions where forces from one side or another were fighting against forces equipped by the other.
 
StriderX said:
Whilst it is lamentably becoming difficult to maintain I still feel some measure of pity for the Russian forces (except Kadyrovites, Mercs & known savages, zero for them) meeting an untimely demise for the sake of a cowardly elite's chauvinistic BS.
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Indeed. Can't find it in me to despise the majority of them, nor do I find it remotely humorous or in any way intriguing to watch videos of them getting 'owned' in the field.
 
Russia's assault on Donbas has "sort of fizzled" and the battle for the region will be over in two to four weeks, says military expert Dr Mike Martin.
The war studies visiting fellow at King's College London says: "Basically the Russians are gonna run out of troops, and the Ukrainians are going to counterattack."

The Russians have squandered their one chance to take the region, he believes.

"They pulled all of these mauled units out of Kyiv, and then tried to reconstitute them for combat in the east," he explains.

But they were "bruised and damaged" by the battle for the Ukrainian capital and Russia failed to build them up and "do some bold manoeuvre".
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From BBC Live
 
Chris Wilson said:
If Russia was training the IRA during "The Troubles" and giving them modern weaponry to the tune of billions of pounds, would England not consider their forces were not getting involved?
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At the time, the UK knew full well that the Soviet Union was arming the IRA. Not directly of course, but via Libya/Gaddafi. Plus of course, Gaddafi was allowing training for the IRA in Libya.
Maybe do some research before making such a silly statement.
 
kitfit1 said:
At the time, the UK knew full well that the Soviet Union was arming the IRA. Not directly of course, but via Libya/Gaddafi. Plus of course, Gaddafi was allowing training for the IRA in Libya.
Maybe do some research before making such a silly statement.
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To the tune of billions of pounds worth of seemingly gifted weaponry and supplies? Or just some stuff buried in the woods? I don't recall the IRA rolling tanks across northern Ireland or convoys of weaponry coming in from abroad, do you?

Much as the western media likes to totally slate Russia and give no voice whatsoever to their opinions, (as they didn't with Saddam in the Gulf Wars, and his supposed "weapons of mass destruction"), there are two sides to this story, and I won't pretend I believe Russia have zero reasons for bringing Ukraine into line.
 
Hook said:
This is good. Kadyrov's men and the Buryats fighting.

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I saw a tweet a few days ago basically alledging that the Chechens weren't just Tiktok soldiers but were being employed WW2 Soviet-style as a sort of rearguard to ensure other Russian troops fight. The second tweet in that thread seems to indicate something along those lines happening too, scrapping over the loot is just hilarious though.
 
Chris Wilson said:
To the tune of billions of pounds worth of seemingly gifted weaponry and supplies? Or just some stuff buried in the woods? I don't recall the IRA rolling tanks across northern Ireland or convoys of weaponry coming in from abroad, do you?

Much as the western media likes to totally slate Russia and give no voice whatsoever to their opinions, (as they didn't with Saddam in the Gulf Wars, and his supposed "weapons of mass destruction"), there are two sides to this story, and I won't pretend I believe Russia have zero reasons for bringing Ukraine into line.
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Should we have given Hitler a platform on the BBC between 1939 and 1945?
 
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