Russia invades Ukraine Feb 2022

[Eire90]

The Russians seem to have thought. They could just stroll on in but now they facing hard resistance number of factors overestimating their fighting ability  and underestimating the ukranians  its early days yet Russia still might break through and get the upper hand tho if does not happen soon putin may lash out and bring in heavy weapon including thermobaric weapons Putin has also put his nuclear deterrent on high alert.

[Sportacus]

Those MPs appear ready to martyr themselves in a shootout in Kiev.  Russia will be left looking after 50 million angry Ukrainians.  This is a historic mistake by Putin. 

[Main Street]

The english FA announce a boycott of all games v Russia. Did they have any such games on their calendar?

[PadraicHenryPearse]

Lucky Ukraine is not a 3rd world country... if it wasn't it could be ignored like Syria, Afghanistan, Palestine, Yemen etc.

https://twitter.com/arwaib/status/1497999536324845573?t=l-e7KRbxhUUpQInAp9Q6AA&s=19

https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1497878168216252416?t=MIyvcN1bSiuTioZCljeKMw&s=19

https://twitter.com/jakobplaschke/status/1497376842541584384?t=JPybF4ZdVW5HJ130ven18A&s=19


https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1497718700547346433?t=xBzwe_B-k2su1qevmz8Prg&s=19

https://twitter.com/samijiries/status/1497605828941164546?t=3T2KN_fOwN-5EsgUnlnFXg&s=19

[Eire90]

The english FA announce a boycott of all games v Russia. Did they have any such games on their calendar?

not but potentially the world cup

[Eire90]

Lucky Ukraine is not a 3rd world country... if it wasn't it could be ignored like Syria, Afghanistan, Palestine, Yemen etc.

https://twitter.com/arwaib/status/1497999536324845573?t=l-e7KRbxhUUpQInAp9Q6AA&s=19

https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1497878168216252416?t=MIyvcN1bSiuTioZCljeKMw&s=19

https://twitter.com/jakobplaschke/status/1497376842541584384?t=JPybF4ZdVW5HJ130ven18A&s=19


https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1497718700547346433?t=xBzwe_B-k2su1qevmz8Prg&s=19

https://twitter.com/samijiries/status/1497605828941164546?t=3T2KN_fOwN-5EsgUnlnFXg&s=19

brexiteer types dont like any refugees

[armaghniac]

Lucky Ukraine is not a 3rd world country... if it wasn't it could be ignored like Syria, Afghanistan, Palestine, Yemen etc.

It is not on;y a question of economics, Syria was not a third world country and wasn't hugely less prosperous the Ukraine. Palestine likewise.
It is simply the case that you worry more about places on your own continent.

[Wildweasel74]

The Ukraine had Nuclear weapons themselves left over from the cold War, what happened them?

[HiMucker]

The Ukraine had Nuclear weapons themselves left over from the cold War, what happened them?

They gave them up in turn for security agreements from the US and Russia. The only country in history to do so. Hindsight I hear you say....

[ONeill]

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.

Not sure about this. We know Russia could obliterate Ukraine within an hour if they wanted to.

There is brinkmanship going on here. The UN went as far as declaring war today, although they can't.

Guessing Putin at the minute is tough.

[burdizzo]

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...

Do you seriously think Putin is a Russian nationalist?!

[Fear Bun Na Sceilpe]

Aye seen saoradh and irsp with USSR flags next to free Derry corner. It's a mixed up world

[armaghniac]

The EU, USA, Canada, Australia etc should just offer a visa to any Russian soldier that surrenders complete with his equipment.

[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...

Do you seriously think Putin is a Russian nationalist?!

Well technically he is.

[burdizzo]

Technically? I suppose he uses nationalism as a justification, to an extent, but I would have thought Alexy Navalny - the lad they tried to poison and then threw in jail - was far more of a Russian nationalist? But we never hear about him since Amnesty decided he wasn't kosher.