Russia invades Ukraine Feb 2022

[Main Street]

I know the Ukrainian President is going down a storm on social media and the like but is he not s bit of a crook ?

What have you read on social media?
He isn't even a politician.

[Milltown Row2]

I know the Ukrainian President is going down a storm on social media and the like but is he not s bit of a crook ?

Crooks and politicians.... I thought they were all crooks

[Baile Brigín 2]

I know the Ukrainian President is going down a storm on social media and the like but is he not s bit of a crook ?

No. He is the anti crook. One of the reasons he has to go.

[Baile Brigín 2]

Russian prisoners saying they didn't think they were going into Ukraine. Where the f@ck did they think they were going. Why are so many of them willing to die for absolutely nothing

They climbed into the back of a lorry or aeroplane and were drove/flown somewhere and told to get out.

You'd be surprised at what you wouldn't know if you were operating under a communications blackout for weeks.

The officers should know where they are as they'd have objectives which obviously require targets.

But the poor privates and conscripts wouldn't have a feckin' clue.

Yea they aren't sitting on social media all day long like the rest of us.

If it was some rapid op then fine but they have literally been sat on the Ukraine border for months

How would they know that though?

[general_lee]

What's with the clowns with the old soviet flag getting their picture took at the Free Derry wall.

IRSP - a socialist party supporting the imperialist war led by a deranged Russian nationalist...

[HiMucker]

Complete simpletons

[Main Street]

Once upon a time there was a  small group of communists in the H Block protest movement, who (in their alternate reality) preached about the glories of People's Socialist Republic of Albania, they were affectionately referred to as 'The Albanians'.

[trileacman]

Zelenksy is an awful bollix. Great man for the social media but not much of a statesman. Reminds me a bit of Farage. A mefeiner.

[93-DY-SAM]

Zelenksy is an awful bollix. Great man for the social media but not much of a statesman. Reminds me a bit of Farage. A mefeiner.

Is it the 1st April already? Seriously. Are you for real? Did you just compare Zelenksy with Farage?

Zelenksy whatever faults he had in the past is playing a blinder here. Leading from the front instead of running. Farage would be the first man out over women and children if he was in a similar position. He'd prob trample them into the ground to save his ass. 

[Wildweasel74]

He's standing his Ground, I think in the same situation old Boris be in his nuclear bunker at this stage. If the Russians take Kiev it be the Siberian Gulag for him if he's that lucky.

[LeoMc]

What's with the clowns with the old soviet flag getting their picture took at the Free Derry wall.

IRSP - a socialist party supporting the imperialist war led by a deranged Russian nationalist...

I wonder do they appreciate they are on the same side as America First. Go far enough left or right and they meet.

[Eire90]

The irsp the so called  good community good guys ohhh there so good there such good community good guys.

[Eire90]

The irsp the socialists supporting oligarchs ohhh those socialists loving oligarchs  the billionaire loving sociallists with their private yachts

[Eire90]

The irsp now supporting the same guy that those qanon extremists are those qanon clowns think putin is a white christian saviour.

[seafoid]

https://www.ft.com/content/d01db87b-1e5a-49dd-bc75-4014d91dbd12

Four days into the invasion and Russian troops have failed to win the quick victory that Putin was counting on. Ukrainian resistance is much fiercer than the Russian leader anticipated, as Ukraine's army fights back and the population mobilises. Captured Russian soldiers have been filmed complaining that they were told they were going on a training mission. The international response has also been tougher, more co-ordinated and united than Putin bargained for. Russia is being cut out of the global financial system. Most European airspace has been closed to Russian airlines. There has been a historic reversal in German foreign and security policy — with Berlin finally sending weaponry to Ukraine and pledging to spend more than 2 per cent of gross domestic product on defence. The Nato alliance has been given a new sense of purpose. Russia is turning into a pariah, with even China failing to back it at the UN — it abstained instead.