Great book. Poor McGowan developed a rare and rapidly fatal form of cancer soon after it was published.
TenPin Terry
As you can imagine I’m reluctant to bring up Brexit at a difficult time like this but go on, just this once, I will.
One of the many false accustions around Brexit was that it would turn Blighty into an inward-looking country – a point constantly made by the EU’s useful idiots on here.
So I thought I’d just point out Britian has trained 22,000 Ukraine Army troops since the referendum.
And the only reason Ireland can ban Russian planes from its air space AND enforce it is because of the Royal Air Force providing cover.
Britain recognised the danger from Moscow long before the KGB were poisoning people on the streets of Britain.
While the EU has become completely and utterly insignificant since this crisis began.
Ireland merely slips further down the index of relevance while waving its white flag of neutrality enabled by other countries doing the heavy lifting.
Ah that’s terrible stuff Ten Pull Terry/Admiral Nelson/Charger Salmons etc etc
You’re a bit selective, any word on approval figures for your hero Bozo?
You were great at posting those when they were positive.
Marvelous
Chris
“while waving its white flag of neutrality” I wish they would but they’re doing anything but.
K.Cavan
Hahaha, Terry, back in the Soviet era, the Russians called the UK “Little Brother”, cos they had the British intelligence system riddled with spies, probably still do.
Heavy lifting, aye.
Gabby
Banner headline heroics mislead emotions and brutal military realities. It is reminiscent of Gallant Little Belgium in World War l propaganda posters.
ce
yeah, except that belgium ran half of africa at the time… so not sure what your point is…
K.Cavan
That’s funny, ce, you point out something completely irrelevant, as well as wildly inaccurate, while entirely missing an obvious comparison by Gabby.
ce
Also in WW1 most people (and in many places, a significant majority) in the various belligerent countries wanted a war…. not sure this is the case here…
K.Cavan
What utter gibberish, the majority never had any say in whether a country went to war or not. No referendums on wars, otherwise there never would’ve been any.
Obviously, the people can be fooled by the Servants of War in the media, like right now.
jungleman
So what you’re trying to say is that Putin is your kinda guy… No surprises there.
Ah that’s marvelous stuff Ten Pull Terry/Charger Salmonella/Admiral Nelson et al
You’re some man for six men
Iontach
Mad
Excellent article
You see you can do it when you want to
Kali
He should give BJ a ring, find out how the UK have managed to occupy northern Ireland for so long without ever facing sanctions
TenPin Terry
The will of the people.
It’s called democracy.
And marvellous it is too.
Mad
Tendentious Tanya
Joe F
Ah that’s tedious stuff Ten Pull Terry/Admiral Nelson/Charger Salmonella et al
Were you very sad when you were kicked off that cork site?
Marvelous
ce
House of Lordovitches is a great example of democracy…
In fairness I hope the IFSC here gets to work in the morning and starts flushing the system…
rachel
yep, hypocrisis staggering our neutrality ditched without referendum, so lochedmartian make cash, while q eliz 2 Uck has the golden share same company that eats most of US budget. Meanwhile in us,a ordinary people cannot find food on shelves….
K.Cavan
Total nonsense, Terry, Russia doesn’t do what the US does, flatten a country, then roll in & call it victory in a “War”.
Nigel
Isn’t that how they took over most of Eastern Europe?
rachel durand
I agree what has Russia ever done to Ireland ?
K.Cavan
Are you having a laugh, Terry? The result is forgone, Russia will de-militarize Ukraine & replace the US puppet regime with one of its own. It’s a done deal.
Nigel
Back in the USSR.
ce
Hope the brit tabloids start doing some oligarch monstering…
stephen moran
Senior U.S. official says Russian government is scrambling to shore up their assets and the demand for cash in Russia has increased 58-FOLD since sanctions announced
SENIOR U.S. OFFICIAL SAYS WE ARE COMMITTED TO USING SANCTIONS WITH MAXIMAL EFFECT ON RUSSIAN OLIGARCHS AND FAMILIES, WILL GO AFTER THEIR YACHTS, LUXURY APARTMENTS
SENIOR U.S. OFFICIAL SAYS THERE ARE OTHER MEASURES THAT WE CAN TAKE AGAINST RUSSIAN CENTRAL BANK AND YOU’LL BE HEARING MORE ABOUT THAT LATER
Looks like the US are getting all hot for the bunker boys chums – I love the smell of financial decapitation in the morning
K.Cavan
Enjoy your foolish little fantasy, stephen. Attacking wealthy individuals is not legitimate warfare, just pathetic behaviour which won’t effect Russia at all. Think Putin’s going to be bothered by someone seizing Abramovich’s yacht? Absolutely hilarious!
The US is about to remake the Global Financial system, by splitting it in two, India & China have already pledged to set up alternative payment systems with Russia. They’ll also bring down the curtain on the Petrodollar, destroying their domination of finance, in the process. This is the beginning of the end for the US but what would you expect from that pair of retards, Biden & Harris. The current US regime is a cancer in the West, anyway, the sooner it looses it’s hold over us, the better.
In reality, there are enough intelligent people in the US government, none of this nonsense will happen, it’s just empty sabre-rattling.
Nigel
‘Attacking wealthy individuals is not legitimate warfare’
You’ve been claiming a wealthy global elite has been conspiring to enslave/murder us but now we can’t even attack them? IS POISONING US WITH VACCINES LEGITIMATE WARFARE?
‘but what would you expect from that pair of r*tards,’
Even hmmm has enough dim flickers of social awareness to substitute ‘potato.’
‘This is the beginning of the end for the US’
I’ll mark you down as ‘pro-war’ then, shall I?
Mad
That’s the racist English bitch hmm he’s referring to, btw
K.Cavan
I could not care less what you mark, Nigel, you’ve just failed abysmally to draw some connection between this invasion & a fake pandemic. God love you, you just can’t let go of Muh Covid, can you?
Nigel
‘you’ve just failed abysmally to draw some connection between this invasion & a fake pandemic. ‘
I should hope so.
Pro war, pro rich people, pro totalitarian dictators. Everyone complains when I point out the right-wing origins of so many of the culture war talking points that surface here, but I’m beginning to have a sneaking suspicion you might actually be right-wing, K.
TenPin Terry
May I suggest the free online version of the Daily Mail which has outstanding and comprehensive coverage of the Ukraine crisis.
It’s why it is the most-read English language news site in the world.
Go on admit it – the Mail is a secret vice for all of us.
Its Irish print edition has also stood head and shoulders above the fish-wrap Irish journalism when it comes to criticism of the handling of COVID by the Irish government and NPHET.
Essential reading at times like this. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10555731/EU-Commission-president-Ursula-von-der-Leyen-commits-cutting-Russian-banks-Swift.html
Joe F
Have you seen the January sales figure for the “Irish” Daily Mail old sport?
18,000 and it was over 50,000 about 3 years ago.
Mind your language – corkrepublic
Marvelous
Duncan Wheeler
I always thought the daily male was a gay mail contact paper, had no idea there was news in there.
K.Cavan
Everything you read in the MSM about this invasion is nonsense, lies & bad takes. They’re a joke, no wonder they’re on the way out. Anyone who reads their gibberish, without laughing like a drain, is an idiot.
jungleman
You are a joke.. ridiculous stream-of-thought nonsense comments.
Mad
Hey don’t talk about the Know- All of Kilnaleck like that!
K.Cavan
Yes, that’ll turn the tide, alright, ce. I mean I’d say the Irish Army would just throw the towel right in, if Denis O’Brien got roasted in the Irish Star. Definitely.
ce
Hey, anti-mask/vaxx/sense/why-protect-the-vulnerable freedom fighters… how do you rate yourself against real freedom fighters…
TheWhiteWolf
Don’t worry, Horny for Putin’ll be along any minute to tell us that a real hero leads from his bunker….
ce
+1
…. remember the HSE attack – I wonder how many people here died because of that… but why let that get in the way of some rootin’ for putin…
Chris
The HSE hack had nothing to do with the Russians. Bless
TheWhiteWolf
Russian Fat Joffrey’s Wizard Spider crew begs to differ.
ce
They are enable by the russian state … what’s your point…
ce
And it’s worth saying again – Hey, anti-mask/vaxx/sense/why-protect-the-vulnerable freedom fighters… how do you rate yourself against real freedom fighters…
Chris
The hack was by the cabal, so they can evaluate and distribute future ‘shots’. As for your question – you don’t understand freedom, because you are under the illusion that you are free. Hence your assertion of ‘real’ is coloured by your misunderstanding of the reality that you occupy.
TheWhiteWolf
Trouble separating truth from fiction?
Red Reddington disposed of the Cabal three or four seasons back in The Blacklist.
Nigel
THE HACK
WAS BY
THE CABAL
THE CABAL
DID THE HACK
FOR REASONS
Duncan Wheeler
This is the same conclusion that I arrived at, reinforced by zero evidence provided by anybody. I hear the Russians have banned ice cream in China too. Like the way you think Chris.
SOQ
If the Americans hacked into Russian infrastructure under their own name, that would be considered to be a hostile act. The involvement of Anonymous has confirmed to many that they are at best, infiltrated by the CIA.
Nigel
Yeah, there’s no way a gang of anarchist hackers would go after someone as freedom-loving as Putin without the CIA egging them on.
Actually, this isn’t completely implausible, but more likely they would have transmogrified into weird whte supremacists like most online chan-type edgelords who didn’t actually grow up and now work with the FBI to bring down antifa. But who knows? That’s a genuinely strange and treacherous world.
^ What the fupp do you think they’re doing? Pfizer lodged a patent for ‘vaccine’ distribution last August based on peoples status. Medical/personal/digital profile/location were the criteria. You get assigned to a batch based on these criteria. Ahem, eugenics.
Nigel
There is absolutely nothing in either story to justify your conclusion. The first story in particular, physically raiding one doctor’s office for information to use, entirely according to you, to assign batches based on data NOT during vaccine development, NOT before rollout, NOT before the second rollout, but in NOVEMBER 2021, seems, er, belated and highly localised.
K.Cavan
ce, you’re a spanner.
K.Cavan
Has anybody here got any idea what ce is gibbering about? I haven’t, he clearly hasn’t, anybody?
stephen moran
There are reports the Russian Chechen reinforcements aka the “Kadyrovites,” (who are noted for their hospitality) got a bit of a seeing to today and one General Magomed Tushayev is late of the parish Ukraine. Hurrah for the Yellow and Blueshirts (to paraphrase the Daily Fail).
Topsy
Excellent.
K.Cavan
Are there now? Reports, you say? A seeing-to, you say? Wow!
Russian state TV channels have been hacked by Anonymous to broadcast the truth about what happens in Ukraine
ce
And… also – State TV channels have also been “hacked to play Ukrainian songs”, it says…. and they can’t even respond with a Eurovision null pont…
K.Cavan
I’d say that definitely happened, goldenbrown, they hacked the TV stations & nobody could find the off switch or the plug. That’ll make a huge difference to people who were planning to watch Eastenders.
Very interesting chart – shows the geographic distribution of the Bank of Russia’s (Central Banks) reserves. I post some speculation about this earlier but these are the cold facts – to say they are a bit vulnerable would be understatement of the year – and you can be sure a lot of that gold is held by the BoE. Total reserves are $640bn approx (last fig I saw), bu the war is costing $10-$15bn a day depending on which Janes Defense weekly chap you believe. With the SWIFT news and Sberbank (Russia’s largest : market share circa 50%) totally cut of the $ system (i.e. its illegal to deal with them from last Friday) it could be form a disorderly queue behind your local FSB official at the cashier / teller to get the last of the rubles & a mad scramble to convert them into something that might be worth more than a head of cabbage in a few hours in Moscow….but its the silent armchair unseen QWERTY run that will be the thing
TheWhiteWolf
This has to be an oligarch’s worst nightmare – being only rich in Russia and nowhere else.
Mad
It’s shameful how wet you are for the suffering of the ordinary people of Russia- feel free to grow a pair of balls
TenPin Terry
It must be like being the only person in Roscommon with a 221-reg car…
Fortunately here on our sun-drenched holiday isle there are hardly any Russkies to speak of.
And those that are here stand out.
Bleached hair, tatts, grossly overweight and that’s just the women.
The men are walking examples of why tight Speedos propping up vast beer bellies is a look that long since went out of fashion.
And rudeness ?
They’re the new Germans when it comes to bad manners abroad.
Never gets old …
It must be like being the only person in Roscommon with a 221-reg car…
Fortunately here on our sun-drenched holiday isle there are hardly any Russkies to speak of.
And those that are here stand out.
Bleached hair, tatts, grossly overweight and that’s just the women.
The men are walking examples of why tight Speedos propping up vast beer bellies is a look that long since went out of fashion.
And rudeness ?
They’re the new Germans when it comes to bad manners abroad.
Never gets old …
This is like on the crkrepublic site you were banned from old boy, replying to yourself.
Why are you doing this old boy?
Maith an buachaill
Marvelous
TenPin Terry
It must be like being the only person in Roscommon with a 221-reg car…
Fortunately here on our sun-drenched holiday isle there are hardly any Russkies to speak of.
And those that are here stand out.
Bleached hair, tatts, grossly overweight and that’s just the women.
The men are walking examples of why tight Speedos propping up vast beer bellies is a look that long since went out of fashion.
And rudeness ?
They’re the new Germans when it comes to bad manners abroad.
Never gets old …
Faisal Islam is the economics editor for Newsnight on the BBC. That totally unbiased, even handed and scrupulously honest organ. Not. He’s one of those who refuses to link runaway inflation with the massive over ‘printing’ of money. Not an honest actor.
K.Cavan
Stephen, cutting Russia out of the Swift messaging system (it’s not actually used to transfer money, it’s an information system) will just mean Russia, India & China will set up an alternative, ending the global nature of the Financial System, that’s the US shooting itself in the crotch. The first huge oil deals to ever be done in Roubles & Rupees will occur & the Petrodollar will face oblivion. That’s the US placing the same gun it used to shoot itself in the crotch, into its mouth, without washing it.
Nigel
It’s not used to transfer money the same way the vaccines aren’t vaccines, right?
K.Cavan
Nigel, you are spectacularly ignorant for a know-it-all. I’m sad for you.
Nigel
Fighting a brave rearguard action, K. Putin appreciates your sacrifice.
ce
But, all kidding aside a cornered Putin can’t be good – hoping for a quick a decisive coup in the next week or so… a destabilised russia not great either, China will be licking it’s lips…
SOQ
The first rule of propaganda is to personalise the opponent which is why you hear the name Putin being branded about- just like Hitler. Except Russia has a very strong and sophisticated army AND more nuclear weapons than any other country, apart from the US.
Despite all the propaganda and saber-rattling. the US will not take action because Ukraine is not in NATO. There is a lot of rumours about the Ukraine being a money laundering operation for particular interests in the US, which if true, means said individuals are set to lose a lot of money- billions.
Nigel
‘The first rule of propaganda is to personalise the opponent which is why you hear the name Putin being branded about’
Let’s pretend we haven’t had decades of creepy praise and admiration for Putin’s awesome powers of self-mythologising.
‘Except Russia has a very strong and sophisticated army ‘
Russia has a BIG army. But Russia is corrupt and hollowed out – how much of the massive funds actually went into equipment and training and how much went into the pockets of oligarchs?
‘because Ukraine is not in NATO’
No, because nobody wants to actually start the third world war, despite protestations of Biden’s warmongering.
‘There is a lot of rumours ‘
Oh, I’ll bet there are.
K.Cavan
Nigel, wild speculation in an attempt to cope. The Russians have had decades of record growth, without their moribund empire to support. Do you reckon some of that money might’ve gone into their armed forces? Do you think nothing has changed under Putin & anyone (other than him) is allowed carry on as if it was still Yeltsin in charge? You’re living in the past, son.
Nigel
You think it’s wild speculation to point out that corruption is endemic in every part of Russian society under Putin, so it’s probably safe to say it’s in the military too? The only record growth in Russia has been in oligarch’s offshore bank accounts – including Putin, of course, is he one of the richest men in the world, or THE richest? Didn’t get that way on the wages of a humble public servant, that’s for sure.
K.Cavan
ce, you have no understanding of global politics, China & Russia know who their enemy is & they smelled the poo in Biden’s pants some time ago. There’s no chance whatsoever of that happening, complete cope. An embarrasingly silly take.
Aunt Feb
The ‘Send broadsheet to Ukraine for mission of truth’ go fund me acc I have set up is gathering pace, currently a total of just under 12,000 euros of the 15,000 target has been raised. I have reached out to the staunch professional Nick Kelly and Bodger boss for first refusal, which I think you will all agree is fair but if for whatever reason they cannot commit by the end of holy hour Sunday the 27th of Feb, the spot will be open to any of the regulars on here who have the free time and are willing and able. Kind regards, Feb.
For anyone wishing to still donate the address is http://www.gonfundme.com/meanwhileinukraine
PeaceLoveNotWar
Would that we’d all be so brave should we find ourselves facing a similar plight, I suspect I wouldn’t.
Mad
Me So Hurley
Duncan Wheeler
I am a plucky peasant ….
Chris
How long until the photos of mannequins on the battlefield? Reality is beginning to take on all the aspects of a bad acid trip.
Nigel
*Russian tank fires a shell into a clothes shop window display, plastic arms and legs and heads and torsos fly everywhere*
Chris: FAKE WAR!
K.Cavan
No, like any rational human beings, they surrendered. But all the other stories you hear in the media will be True. For sure. Absolutely.
f_lawless
Bulgarian investigative journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva:
https://mobile.twitter.com/dgaytandzhieva/status/1497556518278991873
“The US Embassy in #Ukraine has just deleted from its website all documents about 11 Pentagon-funded biolaboratories in Ukraine. I have published all these documents (now deleted by the Embassy) here *website* and in the thread below..”
Fearganainm
And your point is, caller?
I.R.A. GHQ was having discussions about using bioweapons in 1920 – have you ever complained about that?
And seriously, have you ever blown anything up? Or read anything about the recommended measures to take to dispose of bioweapons? I think you’ll find that lobbing missiles or bombs at them isn’t the way to do it. And, if by any remote chance you have ever blown anything up – or tried to – you should know fine well that sometimes ordnance fails to explode. Do you think it is a good idea to fire duds into a building that possibly contains all kinds of dangerous pathogens? What negative consequences do you imagine could ensue from causing structural damage to a building and rupturing vessels/containers within it that contain deadly pathogens?
Take time to think before you continue your dreary effort to justify Putin’s illegal, immoral and cowardly attack on Ukraine.
Kali
Carlsberg don’t do whataboutery, but if they did they could include your line about a possible IRA discussion from the 1920s regarding bioweapons
Fearganainm
Not ‘possible’ – actual. I was specific with the date too, not the 1920s but the year 1920. And having said that, it’s more than likely that I can name names.
Far more substantial information than all the ‘suspected’ ‘speculated’ ‘might’ ‘could’ and ‘possibly’ guff attached to all the Ukraine rumour merchants’ material. Unproven speculation is having to do all the heavy lifting for those characters.
f_lawless
As for the bombing of bio labs in Ukraine, I’ve seen no reports that has actually happened. Why do assume that I think that is what the Kremlin intends to do? Is it that again you’re just looking for ways to “get one up” rather than engage in honest discourse?.
Hypothetically speaking, I can imagine a perceived threat of it actually being carried out more likely being used as some kind of leverage over the Ukrainian government rather than the act itself. Brinkmanship.
Also, with the chemical false flag attacks by NATO proxy forces in Syria a not too distant memory, the potential for something similar to happen in Ukraine can’t be ruled out either.
But back to my initial post – genuine question: why do you think it is that the US embassy in Ukraine has just deleted information from its website about Pentagon funded biolabs in Ukraine? There’s some (western) public perception management going on there, I would say. We don’t know why. It may or may not become more apparent as things develop.
Nigel
‘Why do assume that I think that is what the Kremlin intends to do?’
It’s possible they’d want to get their hands on the research, but Russia is surely miles ahead in terms of bioweapon research and deployment.
‘Also, with the chemical false flag attacks by NATO proxy forces in Syria a not too distant memory, the potential for something similar to happen in Ukraine can’t be ruled out either.’
Laying the groundwork there to cover for possible chemical attacks in Ukraine, I see. Good little soldier.
‘We don’t know why.’
It’s not that difficult to see why: they just became the focus of a line of pro-war propaganda.
Nigel
‘It’s possible they’d want to get their hands on the research’
Hah! See what I did there? Inadvertantly bought into the idea that they are, in fact, bioweapons labs. There’s no proof that they are bioweapons labs. Still, they might actually want the research from the labs, but why invade when they’re when they’re so great at cyberwarfare and could just hack?
He just wants to kill lots of Ukrainians, f_lawless, at the end of the day it’s just about killing Ukrainians.
f_lawless
Accusing me of being “a good little soldier” ? Nigel you’re a mindless authoritarian fool who clearly hasn’t the faintest clue of what he’s talking about.
Every time it’s the same reaction – just fall into line; no real interest in taking a balanced view of the history and causes of wars and other political conflicts or maintaining a sceptical outlook – just attack anybody who asks rational questions or suggests an even slightly different narrative to the one in the latest Guardian article.
You’re highly susceptible to media propaganda.
And it all gets processed through the polarising lens of online virtue signalling – a chance to demonstrate that you’re on ‘team righteous’. It doesn’t really matter what the situation is, be it a pandemic, war, etc, on it goes until it’s replaced by the next excuse to whip up some phony outrage and exhibit your moral superiority.
f_lawless
“He just wants to kill lots of Ukrainians, f_lawless, at the end of the day it’s just about killing Ukrainians.”
I think that’s case in point. You’ve no interest in understanding the political complexities of what’s going on but instead content yourself with the ‘West’s racist ‘madmen’ theory of history” (as journalist Jonathan Cook puts it).
Would I be right in surmising that you’re heavily influenced by the Guardian’s George Mionbot? You seem to take the exact same stance as him time and time again.
1. Monbiot’s a sucker for the west’s racist ‘madmen’ theory of history. You’re an Assad apologist if you ask for evidence he used gas in Gouta, conveniently paving the way to western missile attacks on Syria. (Forget the Iraq WMD thing, and the OPCW whistleblowers)
2. Monbiot ignores the fact US imperialism is not just one of many competing imperialisms. As the sole global superpower, the US creates the framework for international relations. Russia and China operate within that framework. That forces them to *react* more often than act.
Which is why analysing and understanding the imperial framework imposed by the west is the key to understanding power relations on the international stage – and why Monbiot is such a useless foreign policy analyst”
Fearganainm
@Nigel
“…It’s possible they’d want to get their hands on the research, but Russia is surely miles ahead in terms of bioweapon research and deployment….”
“…In 1992, Russian President Boris Yeltsin revealed the Soviet Union’s massive biological weapons program. Some of the program’s reported experiments involved making viruses and bacteria more lethal and resistant to treatment. The Soviets also weaponized and mass-produced a number of dangerous naturally occurring viruses, including the anthrax and smallpox viruses, as well as the plague-causing Yersinia pestis bacterium. Yeltsin in 1992 ordered the program’s end and the destruction of all its materials. But doubts remain whether this was fully carried out…”
But f_lawless, you are a Putin apologist pushing pro-war pro-Putin propaganda. It’s quite disgusting. Railing at a straw-man version of me might obscure that, but it won’t change it.
Fearganainm
@ f_lawless
“As for the bombing of bio labs in Ukraine, I’ve seen no reports that has actually happened. Why do assume that I think that is what the Kremlin intends to do?”
You’re just a water carrier, a lowly Putin fanboy. Elsewhere in your little coterie of Putinbots claims are being made that seven out of eleven of the (alleged) labs have been ‘destroyed in special operations’ by the Russian army.
You’d have to ask yourself where they have found the time and the the specialised equipment to do that, but asking is a waste of time. Even poor Putin hasn’t had time to get up to speed on the viral 4chan fantasy – which is even now mutating online among its bewildered proponents.
The point IS they had WEBSITES for their SECRET CHEMICAL BIOLABS and now they’re DOWN but they’re ARCHIVED. Stupid cabal.
SOQ
They are not archiving them- that is an independent website and I expect there is nothing they can do about it. The question is- why was it so important to remove such now?
It may be nothing but after Wuhan, US funded bio labs are very much a topic of interest- and some of these are sited very close to the Russian border.
Nigel
‘The question is- why was it so important to remove such now?’
Because they became the focus of a line of pro-war propaganda.
K.Cavan
In 1990, US Secretary of State, James Baker told Russia there would be no eastwards advance by NATO. In 2014, the CIA Color Revolution in Ukraine overthrew the elected government. NATO then offered membership to Georgia & Ukraine & immediately began huge arms shipments into both countries.
In the same way that the US was NEVER going to accept Soviet nukes in Cuba, Russia was NEVER going to accept US nukes in Ukraine, five minutes flying time from Moscow. The US knew this but refused to back down, knowing that Russia would invade, knowing that they would not counter that, militarily & that Ukraine would suffer. They hung Ukraine & even their own puppet, Zelensky, out to dry, like the ruthless, amoral scum they are & now they will pay the price. Their era of bullying everyone on the planet is winding down, their cancerous influence over Europe must be excised, probably by ditching the utterly incompetent EU, lest they pull us down with them.
“And the world did gaze in deep amaze/At those fearless men though few/Who bore the fight that freedom’s light/Might shine through the foggy dew”
Mad
Why are you so wet for the ordinary people of Russia suffering?
And who’s paying you to transcribe propaganda here?
stephen moran
Because chopping the head off any snake requires the local populace to make a fully informed rational choice about who their leader is. Actions have consequences. The trolls assured us he’d the overwhelming support of Russian’s. You have to expose Putin’s false narrative domestically .So they lose a their life savings – meh. There are 100’s of innocent civilians in Ukraine who will never get a chance to worry about that option this morning.
Mad
I’m still not sure how that justifies your obvious glee at the suffering of the ordinary Russian. The country is not a parliamentary democracy or anything like it.
You might tell us who’s paying you as well please
stephen moran
I’m afraid modern war isn’t fought via Call of Duty on a Sony PlayStation, Because of Putin’s actions those rubles will be worth a whole lot less in a few days time so best to withdraw them while they can & convert them into something useful like $ or euros before they close the FX booths. As with any weapons in war such as “a surgical strike” or “targeted killings” which are complete misnomers and oxymorons – there is always going to be “collateral damage” – people get hurt – this way its financial – its the lesser of two evils. Europe wasn’t going to get rid of Putin by writing angry letters to the Irish Times from the comfort it’s armchair.
Rosette of Sirius
Rublem now worth less than robux the currency for kiddie game Roblox.
Up next! Worth less than Doge?
EDIT – Actually it is!!!! Worth less than a $h!tcoin
Mad
Your sneering, condescending tone fails to provide further insight as to why you are so gleeful at the suffering of ordinary folks.
Or: who’s paying you
goldenbrown
Mad, in all fairness I think he explained it fairly well, just read back over his posts
Mad
No he didn’t gb. He farted out some waffle about people making a rational choice in a dictatorship
Nigel
This seems unfair. I support the sanctions, and the harder and sharper they are the sooner this will be over, but make no mistake they will inflict suffering on already suffering people. Putting people between the rock of sanctions and the hard place of their ruthless dictator is not putting them into the position of making rational choices, it’s removing what few choices they have left in terms of just surviving from day to day.
Here’s a thought, though – austerity was governments inflicting wartime sanctions on their own populations during peacetime.
Kali
+1
Poster appears from nowhere with an obvious grudge against Russian people and peppers the comments section with vitriol.
It’s not even anti Russian government, seems to be the entire country he hates. I’m not sure about being paid though. It’s pure vile and deranged drivel he spews. That type of stuff is usually just from unstable individuals. If it’s not Russians hes after it would be the gays, the blacks or the muslims.
Mad
Agreed. Disgusting barrage of tripe.
stephen moran
So how do you propose to make an omelette without breaking a few eggs ? War is a cost / benefit analysis. Better a pin prick now rather than MM or R later. IF you are going to go all idealistic and pretend that no one gets hurt than might I suggest you’re on the wrong planet and you’re going to be disappointed with this one as was the fire bombing of Dresden justified ? Were Hiroshima and Nagasaki strategically crucial in a trade off for ending the war ? All I’m saying is that bad things happen to good people and that gets multiplied and amplified in times of war. Its sad but evitable. But in terms of rankings losing a few rubles ranks relatively lowly in the list of war crimes commited over the last 100 years in terms of despot disposal.
K.Cavan
Yes, he’s just a deranged individual. Anyone being paid would have more facts, more knowledge, not just this stream of ranting nonsense. He’s worse than Nigel, for goodness sake, although they’re birds of a feather, undoubtedly.
K.Cavan
Wow, stephen, they’re gonna end up like Canada, if they’re not careful. A more democratic, freerer version, obviously.
goldenbrown
leadership like a boss courtesy of a comedian and a boxer….
no jokey socks or politico doublespeak required
see how that works?
TheWhiteWolf
The fear is course is what will Russian Fat Joffrey fire next from his hero palace-bunker?
K.Cavan
Well, WW, you carry on worrying about whatever you’re trying to indicate there & let me know if anything happens.
SailorGerry
The security operation in the Ukraine is a handy distraction, as the WHO and UN strengthen their capacities for future pandemics.
Not a huge stretch of the imagination to see armed UN soldiers on Irelands streets, during the next plandemic to keep curfews, for our safety of course. Maybe vaccinations at gun point will help with numbers.
Grim times, but at least the rugby is on this afternoon…
“Not a huge stretch of the imagination to see armed UN soldiers on Irelands streets”… yes, totally not a huge stretch at all…
K.Cavan
ce, given the fantastical & imaginitive nature of your posts here, I don’t think it’s beyond you. You seem to be very excited by all this.
Is that your brain in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
Duncan Wheeler
Yes, this.
stephen moran
Epitaph on a Tyrant
W. H. Auden
Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after,
And the poetry he invented was easy to understand;
He knew human folly like the back of his hand,
And was greatly interested in armies and fleets;
When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,
And when he cried the little children died in the streets.
The Foggy Dew
While the world did gaze with deep amaze
At those fearless men but few
Who bore the fight that freedom’s light
Might shine through the foggy dew
K.Cavan
I’m sure Justin will appreciate your quotation, stephen.
Preposterous, absolutely preposterous.
SOQ & SailorGerry: get help.
K.Cavan
Tell us, paddy, tell us what the MSM has told you to think, so we don’t have to waste our time enduring their deluge of drivel. That might be just the “help” that Gerry & SOQ need. If not, at least they’ll get a laugh out of it.
ce
Covid was bad for the auld people talking lunacy… things have managed to rachet up considerably… it would make you wonder/despair…
K.Cavan
Wonder & /despair to your heart’s content, young ce. Nice that you’ve managed to pinpoint a previously unknown symptom of “Covid”. Give Luke O’Neill a bell & let him know, like a good man.
SailorGerry
Any body with 45 minutes to spare and an open mind could enjoy the video below as i just did.
Paints the war in Ukraine as a convenient distraction from the massive amounts of vaccine injuries and deaths that are leaking out.
Well you have to wonder why now surely? Right on the tale end of the worst pandemic of our lifetimes. War is a great way of hiding a lot of things.
As for the vaccines- we don’t know the whole story there yet, not even most of it. That the Chilean government has passed an employment law to to protect against discrimination of mutants and genetically modified individuals, suggests there is much more to come.
johnny
…if you have not,next time in Chile i highly recommend Valpariso,preferably with a fashionista who works costume/wardrobe at the opera,its a fabolus,decadant art filled city.
Are you not excited by the election of Gabriel Boric,has your toxic yank feed put Chile on your radar,ah gwan fill us in SOQ…….
Nigel
Maybe it’s to distract from the anthropocene? War is a great way of generating CO2.
‘Brisbane residents are rescuing their neighbours using surfboards and kayaks.’
Thass royshe, ce. That’s what sailors do, right? They go to swimming pools.
Dearie, dearie me.
Nigel
Or to put it another way – the only reason the self-evident truth of our conspiracy theory about thousands and thousands of vax related deaths which we have been pushing since vaccinations began has not become self-evidently and undeniably manifest is an unrelated world event suddenly happening.
K.Cavan
Ah now, Nigel, back here in the Real World the old quaxx injuries are piling up, rather, just as the number of “Covid victims” seems to be evaporating. It’s going to be a difficult time for you, son, reality coming down on your poor wee head but I’m sure your ability to fantasise & rationalise will bloom. Yes, even more!
I can see you now, in the nursing home, the last of the holocaust deniers, loyal to the narrative, to the bitter end.
Nigel
Thousand people a day dying of covid in the US. No sign of anyone dying of the vaccine.
K.Cavan
Ah would ya stoppit, Nigel, we all know that, you’ve been right all along & your job here is done. Off you go now and worry some sheep, you’ve put all our ducks in a row & shown us the error of our ways. No need for you to be here, anymore.
Isn’t that right, everyone?
I said ISN’T THAT RIGHT, EVERYONE?
K.Cavan
Actually, Nigel, on a more serious note, you managed to shoehorn the old Covid in there sbout half a dozen times, inti a thread about the War in Ukraine. That really doesn’t look too great, mental health-wise.
Maybe talk with friends & family, maybe a clergyman or therapist might help? The main thing is that you get better. We’d all really like to see you STFU about it, when, y’know, we’re discussing something that’s nothing to do with it.
I’m not messing dude, you’re messed up, & it’s painful to witness.
Mad
Quaxx ergo minus
(Rocket Scientist of Ramor, 2022)
Nigel
Ignoring poor old SailorGerry’s plucky gambit, there, K.
johnny
the absolute worst weed i’ve smoked in a long,long time was in Dublin recently.
“If I could just go to a doctor and get a pharmaceutical-grade prescription and be monitored on it and find a strain that works best, that’s not psychoactive. I can just take a pill in the morning and go about my day, that’s the dream,” said Banta.
(Dr. Russell Banta, a researcher in chemistry at University College Cork, also traveled to Dublin for the demonstration.)
i would like point out the legacy news blackout on this massive demonstration,skateboard’s and stolen bikes instead gas guzzling old pieces junk,trucks.
…in a universe far,far away the old smelly hippies, on the kibbutz’s are growing some out this world weed.
Shalom.
(trimmers sit at a table all day totally baked,hand cutting the buds,but he’s living his dream,they get paid with all the weed they can smoke:)
“Binovitch, who moved to Nir Oz after years as a cannabis trimmer in California’s Sonoma Valley, is part of a new generation of Israelis who see working in weed on a kibbutz as preferable to employment in the county’s main technology hub, centered in Israel’s expensive and traffic-clogged central region.”
The ultimate indignity
BREAKING: International Judo Federation suspends Putin as honorary president.
K.Cavan
They can put Biden in the job. That old git can trip himself up, effortlessly. Harris can be vice president, let the Judo lads endure some of the embarrassment she’s been bringing on the poor old USA. That woman (of color) can lash together a sentence that even she can’t escape from.
stephen moran
Hard to overstate just how much Vladimir Putin is authoring the rebirth of European Security architecture. Germany is mutating from a clunky Lada to a Formula 1 vehicle before our eyes. Olaf Scholz has
just dismantled almost every SPD policy towards Russia over the past 3 decades in one speech. Sweden & Finland will be joining NATO . I’m also a big seller of Serbian accession to the EU in my lifetime given events of the past week – I think they’ve done a Leeds and dropped below Turkey in the table. The tectonics are shifting and not in a good way if your little Napoleon in a Moscow bunker cowering. I’d say Bruno Ganz is practicing for the part as we speak. For European union this like Brexit on steroids.
Mad
Try not to soil yourself
The day nurse charges extra for that
stephen moran
Au contraire. I spent an hour listening Russian radio Серебряный дождь this morning, where presenters are speaking through tears and choking up as they describe their country’s actions https://silver.ru. See my comment above
Mad
Father, why are all the men there weeping?
Oh they are merely crying, son.
K.Cavan
Stephen, have you been at johnny’s weed? Go have a bowl of cornflakes or a bar of chocolate, it’ll stabilise your glucose levels & you’ll stop yammering. Then a nap, good lad.
goldenbrown
nice short piece here about a proper leader…
“He was not a candidate of Ukrainian-speaking western Ukraine nor of the Russian-speaking east. Instead, he rejected the linguistic, historical and ethnic split that has long been exploited both by Ukrainian politicians and by the Kremlin. Partly as a result, he has brought the country closer together than it has been for years. Mr Zelensky was driven neither by nationalism nor ideology. Nor was he a revolutionary. He was Everyman.”
Zelensky is a goon, goldenbrown, I suspect you know this & are just havin’ a laff, amiright? Nobody in Ukraine is even listening to him, anymore. He’s a stooge of the dying Empire, put in place by an American colour revolution, then hung out to dry like Norwegian herring.
Yum, yum.
Otis Blue
Saturday’s Financial Times has an excellent piece on the background which sowed the seeds for the invasion.
From tomorrow- masks are no longer mandatory in schools, shops and on public transport in Ireland. Not that many were paying heed to it anyways from what I could see.
What will the virtue signalling Karens do now eh?
johnny
…more importantly,what will YOU do now,eh?
all that ‘research’ asking questions,but in fairness your probably by now a ‘expert’ on mask,mask wearing, mask making,mask disposal,proper handling of masks,reusing masks,masks indoors,masks outdoors,masks,masks..
then just like tha..poof,gone,over,finished,no more,and WORSE…no one no one cares,what if you were right all along:)
SOQ
We were right all along. Not just about masks, but lockdowns too.
And now that the FDA have banned vaccinated people from donating plasma because they have wiped out natural antibodies- the vaccine fallout is unfortunately, only begining.
But all credit to Broadsheet for being one of the very few outlets in this country whom allowed such views- and as the truth emerges, hopefully they will reap the rewards of their principled stance.
johnny
..and don’t forget yourself,without you posting (post) truth like from the Torygraph,where would we all be,all masked and in chains most likely.
it’s only the beging,the begining huh:)
prizes and rewards await,the question is how long can you afford support with your online research and ‘fact’ finding from obscure,fringe yank right wing sites,these causes that you espouse on here.
it may come as a total surprise but some people have been highlighting,irish quacks and just bad medical advice for years,but on the left.
“Dr Ray Walley, a GP and member of Cannabis Risk Alliance, said the Health Products Regulatory Authority conducted a study on medical cannabis in 2017.
“They did a very extensive review of the literature internationally and they stated that there was no evidence of scientific data demonstrating the effectiveness of cannabis products”, he said.
(your boy Matt,from the red neck resort area Fla, the sexual predator, is a big exponent)
Kali
Spot on SOQ. Covid is still around and we’re doing away with every restriction plus getting advised to up the vitamin d. Not long ago doctors were being fired for suggesting this. Crazy how many still can’t see they were sold a pup. That would be admitting to themselves that they were wrong, and some people aren’t capable of that.
Nigel
Between a thousand and two thousand people are dying of it daily in the US. You and your far right fellow travellers have lots of blood on your hands.
SOQ
Did you not hear Kali? They found a cure for CoVid- its called the mid term elections.
Nigel
That joke was much fresher when the answer was ‘the 2020 presidential election.’
Nigel
‘And now that the FDA have banned vaccinated people from donating plasma’
Do you have a link for that? Preferably directly to the FDA, where I can’t find any mention of it.
Meanwhile at the Red Cross:
‘The Red Cross is following FDA blood donation eligibility guidance for those who receive the COVID-19 vaccination. Deferral times for donations may vary depending on which brand of vaccine you received. If you’ve received a COVID-19 vaccine, you’ll need to provide the manufacturer name when you come to donate. In most cases, there is no deferral time for individuals who received a COVID-19 vaccine as long as they are symptom-free and feeling well at the time of donation.
The following eligibility guidelines apply to each COVID-19 vaccine received, including boosters:
There is no deferral time for eligible blood donors who are vaccinated with a non-replicating inactivated or RNA-based COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by AstraZeneca, Janssen/J&J, Moderna, Novavax, or Pfizer.
Eligible blood donors who received a live attenuated COVID-19 vaccine or do not know what type of COVID-19 vaccine they received must wait two weeks before giving blood.’
Huh. My post about how you seem to be lying about the FDA thing vanished. Maybe it’ll come back. Anyhoo, you seem to be lying abut the FDA thing.
George
The FDA haven’t banned plasma donation from vaccinated people, as you’re aware.
“individuals who received a nonreplicating, inactivated, or mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine can donate blood without a waiting period
individuals who received a live-attenuated viral COVID-19 vaccine, refrain from donating blood for a short waiting period (e.g., 14 days) after receipt of the vaccine,
individuals who are uncertain about which COVID-19 vaccine was administered, refrain from donating for a short waiting period (e.g., 14 days) if it is possible that the individual received a live-attenuated viral vaccine. ”
We’ll say they served their purpose and understand the caution and concerns of people in vulnerable categories that you view as disposable and irrelevant, given that it’s still around.
Kali
And as it’s not going anywhere what’s the solution, lockdown forever. It’s over, time to let go. The experts have said the restrictions are not needed anymore. You’d have to be a far right conspiraloon to disagree with NPHET
Nigel
The solution was lockdown while it was approaching and reaching its height, then phasing out after vaccinations and/or less deadly strains began to dominate. It worked reasonably well for us, whereas in the US where the right has basically turned into a death cult and opposed, undermined and criminalised pandemic measures, it’s a rolling catastrophe.
However, it is still around even though you are ideologically committed to dismissing their concerns, people in vulnerable categories still feel they are at risk, and I think they deserve to be treated with respect and consideration, not as cannon fodder in your bio-culture war.
K.Cavan
You know, SOQ, you know what they’ll do. They’ll continue to wear masks. This might seem a bit off-putting at first but while soundwaves, like virus particles, will pass right through their facerags, we’ll be spared the sight of their spectacularly ugly faces, if not their horrible voices.
Those Karens know that the facemasks have revitalised their moribund sex lives & they won’t be giving up their Sunday afternoon bonks, anytime soon.
“Will I…wear the mask, then?”
“Yes, Karen, knickers off, mask on…”
Think of that, when you see them in the supermarket.
Interesting repositioning of the local Anti Vax Q’pon Plandemicans behind Vladimir Putin
A germaphobe who locked himself down from a big scary
(((;ꏿ_ꏿ;))) flu
Man flu even
Or maybe there’s something to be learned from the Putin regime
Like how he wins elections (◔‿◔)
That ye can bring to 2024
Or is it his supreme whiteness
Interesting all the same
Annie 14 Tennis
You might have something interesting to say, but try writing it in a manner that is understandable. What exactly are you trying to say here please?
Kali
Did that make sense in your head before you posted it?
What kind of an answer is that? The more I read your posts, the more they look like the ramblings of someone in their dotage. Have you any idea at all how you look here?
As well, by the way, are any Credit Union directors Trustees of the pension schemes?
Don’t know
There are over 3000 CU Directors all around the country
I don’t know them all
Why don’t you ask the Trustees if they are directors of Credit Unions
And if those Credits Unions are participating in the Scheme
And FWIW
I’ve been around here a lot longer than you
And seen a lot of comings and goings
Lads with different changes, multiple logins and what have you
And seen through a fair few skirmishes
I’m not in the slightest bit worried about how I look
I’m not a bit afraid of who I am
Or indeed of the truth about me
I stand over every word I have posted here
Above and below the line
Every one of them
The question is really
Which one of the crybabies with a bloody nose are you touting for
Annie 14 Tennis
I don’t know – i suppose it’s easy to stand over every word you write, if they are nonsensical. And what’s with the I’ve been around here a longer time than you line? Do you think you’re some type of guru that people should look up to or something? Well you’re not.
You take the hump of someone asks you a question about what you were trying to get across in your first comment, and follow it up with another, dare I say it, babyish comment that is as nonsensical as the first.
You’re avoiding the question about your knowledge about the trustees and whether there are CU directors who are also trustees. Are, or were, you a trustee of any CU pension scheme? Do you know any directors of CUs who are trustees o any CU pension scheme? Spit it out. Let’s see how much you’re into the truth.
Ask the Trustees if they hold Directorships yourself
I’m not a cabinet minister, or government official
So you’ll have to find someone else to leak information confined to the confidence of a board meeting.
Annie 14 Tennis
You’re still avoiding the question about your knowledge about the trustees and whether there are CU directors are also trustees.
Are, or were, you a trustee of any CU pension scheme? Were you at any stage?
Do you know any directors of CUs who are trustees of any CU pension scheme? (Hardly confidential is it?, so nothing to leak)
List the names of the people who are trustees – or is that confidential too?
Mad
When I asked V this question she dodged it as well, I think the answer eventually was that she raised it during the failed election campaign, she prevaricated for Ireland first of course ..
Already told ye
I am not a trustee of any pension scheme
And I never have been
Some Credit Unions, as employers operate the League pension scheme for their employees
Who actually are the members of the pension scheme
The Trustees report to all those members
I don’t log or record what directorships or other interests or activities these Trustees hold or get up to
As I am not a member
And They were all appointed to act as trustees long before my time
Long long before my time
If they are also Directors, then Credit Unions nominated them.
Not me
So they knew who they were getting
Nothing new
Or being denied about any of that
Nor my criticism, doubts, and scepticism about the National Movement
Plenty flyers etc out there to demonstrate that
Credit Unions do the nominating and the voting of the League Board and on from that election, then, the Officers.
Credit Unions are entirely responsible for who makes the decisions. They chose the status quo.
So you need to go back to the Credit Unions.
Or get the Pension Members to get their Trustees to publish all their interests, directorships and whatever info you think you are entitled to.
I’m very much an outlier on that board
And not included as such,
Likewise in the wider movement
Where I am considered “too left and too radical” by the dominant CEOs
Merely for mentioning equality of outcome
And the 8th Cooperative Principal, Diversity & Inclusion
Believe me lads
Ye’re hounding the wrong person
Mad
It’s hardly hounding
We both asked you some straight questions which you went around the house to not answer.
The stuffed shirts must have saw how you are mates with Fluffy lol
I am not a trustee
Or a member of the pension scheme
I don’t know the backgrounds of the Trustees or their appointments
Insisting I went all around the houses
Again and again
Across several threads over more than one weekend
Is f’n hounding
Ask the f’n Trustees yerselves
Who appointed them
And if they’re on CU boards, or any Board(s) in fairness; then what ones and Who f’n nominated them, confirmed etc
Share it here
Cause I’d love to know meself
Mad
Ask me baldy fella
You’ve frequently given free promotion to the ILCU movement in this space. Readers have a right to know of your prevarication and now also, your claimed irrelevance.
K.Cavan
It’s a war, Frilly, not a football match.
No need to pick a side.
“”The Bank of Russia (the Central Bank) will provide domestic banks with cash and non-cash liquidity in rubles in order to maintain financial stability and protect the economy from the impact of the latest Ukraine-related Western sanctions, the regulator said in a statement on Sunday.
“The Bank of Russia will continuously provide banks with cash and non-cash liquidity in rubles. The REPO (repurchase agreement) auction on Monday will be held on an unlimited basis, with full satisfaction of all applications received from banks,” the statement released by the press service of the Central Bank reads.””
… Rubles and no dollars… going to be some very disappointed folks tomorrow at Russian banks
stephen moran
AS I’ve posted earlier, even though they nominally have an impressive war chest of $640 billion in reserves a large portion is held in gold (which is useless in these circumstances as they can’t engage in a fire sale – anyway most of this is held abroad most likely by the BoE as i was purchased in the last 2/3 years and no one takes physical delivery- you get a receipt from the chaps in Threadneedle St). Furthermore a good chunk of their FX reserves are held in CNY (which iis worse than useless as no one has a CNY a/c outside on China & you wouldn’t be selling that cross to prop up the ruble as you’d annoy your “friends” (fair weather IMO) in Beijing. So BIS data shows they’ve about 13% dollars & 32% euros but as this table shows the vast bulk of these paper assets are held abroad https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1497711553038233604
Its fairly unchartered waters but in the case of Iran these were frozen and UDL has said something similar is in the offing. It would be unprecedented given the sums were talking about here but the gloves appear to be off. Shebank which has 50% of the domestic market has already be cutoff from $ funding as of Friday i.e. it’s illegal to deal with them (this is far more punitive than any SWIFT ban) as no bank can do any FX bizz, trade finance or offer liquidity without access to the $ market. SO in sum yes Russia $640 billion in reserves (which they have been wisely building up over the last few years having defaulted in 1999 due to lack of same) but quite large amount appears to be quasi out of their reach at the moment if the EU follow through with their threats. No sure on the legal necessities of all this but I assume they have run above board
K.Cavan
Ah, ce, not the disappointment that you’ll have to endure when you realise that every sanction will hurt the US far more than it hurts Russia. In fact, it will hurt you & I more than Putin. Globalism will, finally, go down in flames but there’s a lot of pain coming for us all, I’d stock up on the canned goods, if I were you.
Only a handful of countries are self-sufficient in food, Canada & Russia are the most prominent among them & neither India nor China can survive without Russian oil & grain. The putative sanctions won’t be around for long, half the planet will not survive them for very long. The US is painting itself into a corner, which you’d have to admit is an apposite way for Biden to finally make his mark after a lifetime of underachievement in political life.
As Obama used to say “never underestimate Joe’s ability to f#ck things up”.
SOQ
Facebook allows praise of Neo-Nazi Ukrainian Battalion if it fights Russian Invasion.
The Azov Battalion, which functions as an armed wing of the broader Ukrainian white nationalist Azov movement, began as a volunteer anti-Russia militia before formally joining the Ukrainian National Guard in 2014; the regiment is known for its hardcore right-wing ultranationalism and the neo-Nazi ideology pervasive among its members.
You see, they’re the good Nazi’s – not like that plant in Canada. If you fail to understand this – then you’re going to need some more education in doublethink.
From Poutine to Putin in less than a week… Helluva swerve, there from BS.
Chris
I denounce all tyrants and Nazis. You’ve show yourself up for your selective support for both. Morto for ya
Doxxy Chainsaw
Except Putin. You’ve crawled so far up his hole you’re tickling his intestines.
Chris
Putins a tyrant, now find a comment where I said any different
Kali
Ah ye beat me to it. Apparently supporting actual nazis is fine if they agree with you. Israeli news outlets are, for obvious reasons, the only non Russian media that have big problems with western support for these lads.
SOQ
The left is supporting the right and the right is supporting the left.
Bizarre.
Nigel
I don’t suport the right, and nobody on the right supports me. Speak for yourself.
Nigel
‘Apparently supporting actual nazis is fine if they agree with you’
Maybe Putin should have invaded the trucker protest. But no doubt his oligarchs funneled enough money that way he felt he already owned it.
SOQ
This is from March 2014 and is what you are supporting.
I’m supporting the people of Ukraine collectively. I’m opposing a military invasion. The Nazi thing, though true, when used as a pretext for the invasion, is pro-war propaganda. You sound like someone who claims that in supporting civil rights for all I’m supporting criminals. You’ve gone full reactionary.
SOQ
Everyone should be support of not just human rights but civil rights but- THAT is what is in government there and THAT is what the UK and US are supporting.
They are not democrats and there is nothing reactionary about taking a moderate line- quite the opposite.
If the past two years have shown anything it is that MSM always has an agenda and at best will only show half the truth. At worst they will outright lie, as they did during the pandemic.
Nigel
Good. Then everyone should oppose Putin, and his invasion, and pour scorn on his pretexts.
You also lie. You literally lied here today.
Nigel
Well that just shows that anyone who says Facebook is biased against the right is talking rubbish.
Chris
No, what it shows is that they’re selective in their bias, & will capitulate on anything if it suits the agenda du jour. Which reminds me – where’s the existential hand wringing over these Nazis Nigel? I mean, you went of in a huff over a plant with a Nazi flag in the freedom convoy. Here’s a whole battalion of armed Nazis, hypocrite much?
Nigel
Well, if the Ukrainian Nazis hold a parade protesting the invasion, or indeed anything at all, they will not be getting any priase or support from me, but if they throw in some opposition to pandemic measures I’m sure you and SOQ will be all over them.
Bet you the freedom convoy nazis love this invasion, though. Unless they’re mad about it getting all the attention.
SOQ
You don’t get it do you? You are the one who is supporting neo Nazi’s? Not a fake Jake as in Canada but the real deal- the closest thing on the planet to the third Reich. Why? because you have been told to- it really is that simple.
So who is the ‘alt right’ now eh?
Nigel
So you think a protest of hundreds with the presence neo-Nazis is worthy of full-throated support, while the presence of a few neo-Nazis in an entire independent country of millions justifies a brutal military invasion? You think opposing the military invasion of a country means you support the very worst people who live in that country? Flashbacks to when opposing the war in Iraq meant you were ‘objectively pro-Saddam Hussein.’ You”re not alt right, you’re just regular right at this stage, but then, so is the alt right.
You do know there are neo-Nazis in Russia, right? And that they, the Ukrainian Nazis, Putin, his Russian supporters and the US right you love so much are all neoliberal corporate ultra-nationalists?
Chris
@ SOQ Bezemov called Nigel and his ilk ‘political prostitutes’. No real point arguing with them as they’ve no solid core to their beliefs. No harm showing them up for what they are though.
Nigel
Ironic comment, given he was taking about the methods Russia used to undermine other countries. With that in mind, your beliefs are not only without a solid core, their outer layers might as well be made of unicorn farts.
Chris
No, he was talking about Marxist Leninsm, nothing to with Russian anything, it was called the USSR by the way. Bless
Nigel
Good thing Putn isn’t old school KGB, then.
K.Cavan
They also don’t follow orders from within the normal military hierarchy, SOQ, operating as an army within the army. This, together with Putin’s desire to seek revenge for their massacres of ethnic Russians means their ranks are not a good place to be, as they’re being slowly surrounded by the Russians.
Putin is aiming to capture the Ukraine army with the minimum of bloodshed but an exception might just be made for the Azovs.
goldenbrown
latest reports now that Ukrainians have maybe successfully managed to defend Kharkiv…they’re a bunch of kids here’s footage of captured Russian “soldier”..loads of it now…like he’s barely a man wtf
could there be some sleight of hand going on here? is Putin embellishing his true girth? is his real army actually a lot smaller than it appears….thought they’d trick Ukraine and EU into a quick capitulation by boosting their numbers looking scary? like its all fine and well driving down nice tarmac roads in a tank but if you dunno how to really operate it…don’t want to get too hopeful here but
Chris
It appears he’s sending in older tanks and less experienced soldiers (reserves) first to test Ukraine defenses.
Which would make sense, as you don’t want your elite forces taken out by javelins.
Nigel
Yeah, standard doctrine in military strategy, always send in your worst troops and your reserves to spearhead your invasion, becasue that’s the best time to feck around and play games.
Fearganainm
Some conspiracy theories are just a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enema
bisted
…was that not you christians Nigel…keep the best wine to the end?
Nigel
Not a Christian, not a great way to run a party, not a great way to run an invasion.
K.Cavan
Again, goldenbrown, you’ve got used to seeing the US send 300,000 soldiers & a billion dollars worth of cruise missiles to take 3 weeks to conquer Iraq. This is a completely different type of war, the US just levelled Iraq, they didn’t give a damn how many civilians died or how much infrastructure was demolished. Russia do not want a humanitarian disaster on their doorstep. They haven’t taken out a single power station, sewage plant or any non-military infrastructure, Ukraine still has internet & mobile phone masts, even though the Russians achieved complete air superiority in three hours.
This, as the song goes, Is Not America.
goldenbrown
well it’s definitely not going too well for the p***k
talking nukes now all of a sudden
look at the body language of them
(gah just go for glory one of ye…shoot him ffs…you’ll have streets named after you)
TheWhiteWolf
Russian Fat Joffrey is lashing out now about nukes from his billion euro palace-bunker. I’m sure American Fat Joffrey will announce this a stroke of genius.
Mad
Keen insight
TheWhiteWolf
Try not to soil yourself.
The day nurse charges more for that.
stephen moran
BREAKING – Turkish foreign minister says the situation in Ukraine constitutes a war, Ankara will therefore implement the articles of the Montreux Convention — meaning passage of Russian warships that are not part of the Black Sea fleet to be denied through Turkish straits.
Montreux, last time I heard that mentioned was in “Smoke on the Water” by Deep Purple which is ironic
We all came out to Montreux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
To make records with a mobile
We didn’t have much time
Frank Zappa and the Mothers
Were at the best place around
But some stupid with a flare gun
Burned the place to the ground
Smoke on the water
A fire in the sky
Smoke on the water
Tarfton Clax
“Aha! Mr. Arthur Brown himself”as Zappa can be heard saying on the bootleg of the actual show. Hopefully we don’t end up seeing a large fire in the sky.
SOQ
Media Lies About Ukraine/Russia – The Jimmy Dore Show.
Nobody’s under any illusions that there aren’t Putin fan boys on the left.
bisted
…err…speaking as a left winger…who hates yanks…your enemy is my friend…even Belarus…
Nigel
No. He isn’t.B ut if that’s your approach, maybe you should quit lecturing about all the deaths Clinton is responsible for, because your ‘friends’ have racked up an impressive body count of their own.
bisted
…ah here…the only ones interested in body bags was you yankee apologists…if the Russians were only interested in killing Ukranians they would have let off a few cruise missiles on big cities…from the safety of their ‘bunkers’…
Nigel
Of course he’s not ONLY interested in killing Ukrainians, he also wants to own Ukraine.
You know, I always respected your anti-war attitude to Clinton because I thought you were anti-war because war kills people and causes destruction, and I always kept it in mind when I supported Clinton that yes, she had been responsible for a disastrous military adventure. Then it turned out you were JUST anti-Clinton-war and pro-Assad/Putin/Belarus/Ghadaffi/any dictator that’s hostile to the US. I don’t really respect your attitude any more.
bisted
…I’m desolate that I’ve lost your respect Nigel…judging from your previous replies I’d never have guessed…but you are right, I am very anti-US…crooked Hillary was just one of a long list of US adventurists…over 80% of all wars since 1945 have been instigated by US…you are also right that I admire the part that Russia played in preventing regime change in Syria…the peace in the North owes more to Ghadaffis semtex than Clintons’ intervention…
Nigel
Weren’t there rumours about KGB support for the IRA as well? No wonder you admire Putin’s terror tactics.
Must gall you that Clinton gets so much credit for the peace. Fair play Bill.
Kali
Talks going to start between Russia/Ukraine in Belarus. Hopefully a peaceful outcome is agreed.
Hughie Luas
It would be very useful if Broadsheet published a link or information on how you sign up to fight with the Ukrainians against the invaders.
I’d go, and I know a few others who said the same.
Kali
I would assume broadsheet wants to appear impartial. Recruiting on behalf of one country would undo that.
Hughie Luas
Fair enough. Broadsheet has always been impartial on recent issues.
bisted
…can I welcome my new comrades* to the pursuit of truth and the welcoming of all resistance to yankee and NATO expansionism…
*whatdoya mean you think you’ve jumped on the wrong bandwagon
E'Matty
Oh, please do. Take Ce, Stephen, Nigel, etc with you too. I’ll even donate to that GoFundMe to send you guys over to get stuck in.
Nigel
Will you be here fighting your underground guerilla war against the Evil Cabal?
stephen moran
Iskander missiles were launched from Belarus to Ukraine around 5 p.m. an adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister said.
Belarus is an active belligerent in this conflict. Every form of sanctions announced against Russia should also apply to fellow despot Lukashenko’s regime.
Hard to see the Ukrainians agreeing to anything less than an complete withdrawal of Russian forces which Putin will never agree to @ these “peace talks” which look like a rouse for domestic consumption.
SOQ
Those peace talks, meaning the Minsk protocol, is what Ukraine previously signed up to.
paddy apathy
Russia also signatories, but continued to supply armaments and planted special forces among the separatists. That Minsk Agreement?
SOQ
Of course- just like the US continued to fund and supply arms to the neo Nazis.
You don’t have to pick a side here- it is not a football match.
Nigel
One is a an agressively hostile neighbour undermining the state, the other is an ally providing support. You don’t have to pick a side but you don’t have to be stupid, either.
Fearganainm
“Putin is John Bull, arming and supporting Loyalist secessionists in their bid to thwart the democratically expressed will of the Irish people.”
How does that work for you?
stephen moran
https://twitter.com/vonderleyen/status/1497972564634882048
Ursula von der Leyen
@vonderleyen
We are stepping up our support for Ukraine.
For the first time, the EU will finance the purchase and delivery of weapons and equipment to a country under attack. We are also strengthening our sanctions against the Kremlin.
stephen moran
⚡️Missile from Belarusian territory fired at Zhytomyr airport, Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security reported.
The strike occurred a few hours after Ukraine confirmed peace talks with Russia on the Ukrainian-Belarusian border. There is no such thing as a double negative – to which an Irish mans reply is of course – “yeh…, right”
ce
Looking forward to the Lukashenko apologist comments… Ryanair is pretty awful but not sure they deserved the hijacking…
stephen moran
⚡️Missile from Belarusian territory fired at Zhytomyr airport, Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security reported.
The strike occurred a few hours after Ukraine confirmed peace talks with Russia on the Ukrainian-Belarusian border. There is no such thing as a double positive – to which an Irish mans reply is of course – “yeh…, right”
benblack
Would you like an Irish coffee?
stephen moran
EU closes airspace to Russian-owned, Russian-registered or Russian-controlled aircraft. They will not be permitted to land, take off or fly over the territory of the European Union. This applies to the private jets of the oligarchs. The sleeping giant is awakening from its slumber & its not a BFG
bisted
…keep poking there Stephen boy…
ce
Russia criminalises as ‘treason’ acts supportive of Ukraine- Interfax
In case you missed it…
From the independent –
“Russia has criminalised any act it deems to be supportive of Ukraine as “treason”, the Interfax news agency has reported.
The crime will reportedly carry a punishment of 20 years in prison.
Interfax cited the Russian prosecutor-general’s office, saying: “A legal assessment will be given for each fact of providing financial and other assistance to a foreign state in activities directed against the security of the Russian Federation.””
I wonder if that will include taking out money from a bank on monday morning…
stephen moran
When you are threatening your own citizens during a war, that’s generally an indication things might not be going well. Clearly not much appetite for the blitz spirit in the Moscow metro. The peasants and the serfs are revolting
E'Matty
“When you are threatening your own citizens during a war, that’s generally an indication things might not be going well” kind of like all Western countries attacking their own citizens who dared question the Covid hysteria?
Nigel
Maybe they were just denazifying them?
stephen moran
EU bans Russia Today, Sputnik. Russia’s two main propaganda networks are now to shut down all across the union.
Canada bans Russia from airspace.
Neutral Sweden has just announced that it will provide 5,000 anti-armor missile launchers, 5,000 armor sets, 5,000 helmets and 135,000 field rations to the armed forces of Ukraine.
BP Chief Executive Bernard Looney on the decision to exit %19.75 stake from Russian oil giant Rosneft
It’s all going a bit Pete Tong for Vlad
Nigel
That’s big.
Now everyone needs to divest of BP.
stephen moran
Norway’s PM says the country’ sovereign wealth fund (the largest in the world) will divest its Russia holdings & Norway plans to send non-lethal military equipment to Ukraine. If you have deeply out of the money put options on the MOEX well tomorrow is payday.
stephen moran
Get the last of the Rubles
I’m not going to say I predicted this – though I thought it wouldn’t really kick off until tomorrow.
This is from ZH which usually to the right of Uncle Adolf on the issues of the day – they were (are) the home the big steal, its only the flu, CRT & wokism is for devil worshipping paedo commies, & of course they will never invade editorial lines (the comments section is not for the faint hearted)
Are we keeping track of the copious BS posts flooding Western media and social media? Those 13 “heroes” on Snake Island who told the Russian warship to “go f yourself” before being killed? Oh, they’re all still alive it seems. That granny with a bloody bandaged head that filled every western papers front page? Oh, that’s from a 2018 article about a gas explosion in an apt block. That “Russian” armoured vehicle cruely driving over a Ukrainian civilians car? Oh, that’s actually a Ukrainian armoured vehicle driving over a Ukrainian car in 2014. The NATO propaganda is in overdrive and the imbecile class are lapping it up like they always do. I would encourage Stephen and Co to answer the call and get on the next flight eastward bound to join the much proclaimed new “International Brigades”. Get stuck in lads. Freedom and democracy needs its cannon fodder.
stephen moran
I’ll have a word with Ursula VDL especially for you and tell her that she just imagined all the stuff she just said this afternoon and I’ll tell the Swedes, the Norwegians, BP, Canada, the pesky ungrateful Czechs ( after all the USSR did for them )et al to get back in their box and not to be upsetting despots on their day off after a long hard week invading another sovereign nation contrary to international law & the UN charter. I’m sure they will put out a disclaimer. I’ll tell them to cc you.
E'Matty
Oh Stephen, you’re hilariously gullible. Buy that ticket, get on the plane, to the front with ya! You act like Sweden are some independent non aligned country. Such low intellect low information gullibility. You’ll be seeing mystery Russian subs off the coast soon. Put your snorkel on and intercept with righteous anger. Anyway, while you fools swallow the psych theatre, I’m prepared for the fallout you seem oblivious to. Tell us Stephen, what will you do if you wake up in the morning and the bank machines aren’t working? Poo your pants once you realise what that means I suspect. You haven’t a clue what’s going on.
Nigel
Either that or you’re gulping down a lot of pro-Putin propaganda.
E'Matty
Poor Nigel, the media have switched from telling you to be frightened of Covid (now a total non issue apparently) to new scary bogeyman Putin. As I’ve said before, I don’t think you’re a bad person, just an innocent naive gullible fool open to easy emotional manipulation. I wish you all the best for the coming years. You’re going to need it.
Nigel
Covid has killed millions and Putin just invaded Ukraine but you’re too smart to… um… acknowledge their reality? I guess?
benblack
Won’t someone think of the smart bombs!
SOQ
Never heard of this Verify outfit before but their fact checking is interesting.
This series of moronic comments is what happens when people start to think that flattening a country, with no distinction drawn between military & civilian targets, then rolling into the ruins, declaring victory, is actually what War is. That’s what the US did to Iraq, a travesty, a crime against humanity, an evil act by a stupid, ruthless, nasty regime.
Russia is engaged in a war to capture Ukraine, not destroy it & they will succeed. Three hours into this, the Ukrainian air force was sidelined, after that, the Russians could’ve bombed the Ukrainian army or civilian infrastructure out of existence but they’re trying to capture Ukraine, without reducing the place to rubble. The bulk of the Ukrainian army is slowly being encircled, as are the cities but electricity, water & even the internet is still working in Kiyv.
The Russian generals trained with the generals commanding the Ukrainian forces, they don’t intend to kill their former drinking buddies, just accept their surrender, probably by the end of next week. Meanwhile, Zelensky is running around like a headlesss chicken, giving orders that everyone ignores, handing out 10,000 AK47s to civilians, in the hope that when they’re mown down by professional soldiers, the number of civilian deaths will prompt the West to get involved. Criminal gangs in Kiyv promptly took to the streets to put the AKs to use on their rivals. The Army are not paying any attention to the US puppet Zelensky, many of it’s brigades never did & the trickle of Ukrainian soldiers surrendering from the very start will soon become a flood, 60,000 soldiers are already in “The Cauldron” in the north & although Putin will not order their annihilation, their Generals will know when the game is up.
In the face of the surgical efficiency of Russia’s campaign, the Western media has been spewing out desperate, pathetic fairytales & utterly ridiculous stories, so the childishly bad normie takes on display here are hardly surprising, but still, my God, our educational system has clearly disintegrated, the childish nature of the thought processes on display is genuinely astonishing. You lads & lassies are really, really, really naive.
Fearganainm, your humour is toilet
But please don’t ever bespoil it
Give the spikee the anvil
Up his hole shove a candle
And please don’t stop to pre-oil it!
stephen moran
If Russia stops shooting the war (which they started by invading a independent sovereign nation) is over. If Ukraine stops shooting they cease to exist. Putin is gone the full Jack Torrence and Russia is Billy no mates. Maybe you’ve been advising this guy. ? https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1497975596294361089
ce
Sasha Baron Cohen put on some weight and ripped off Inspector Clouseau???… thanks for that, although the laughing hurt… Looking forward to The Pink Putin, coming soon…
TheWhiteWolf
Those poor kleptocrats. To lose one Italian villa is unfortunate but to lose two is plain irresponsible…
I suppose if they can’t have nice things, Russian Fat Joffrey will make sure nobody can.
stephen moran
Ruble down 20% as Auckland picks up the baton & says FTF have you naughty Europeans being doing spanking poor hapless Putin all w/e. Kosovo has applied to join NATO , the plucky Finns (who have a bit of form with Putin’s grandad) have just garnered enough signatories to make NATO membership a live referendum issue. Putin is the gift that just keeps giving (it all away). We proudly crown you “despot of the week”.
ce
“Boris Johnson [real name Boris Toryeskivich DeFluffer Thanks-for-the-Cash Johnson] has accused Russian news channel RT of “peddling” material that is “doing a lot of damage to the truth”.”….. and he should definitely know…
Going to be interesting to see if the Oligarchs spill some Tory beans… over the coming days/weeks
That white rabbit must be on every news site. Is it a national toy in the Ukraine?
Read ‘Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon’ – by David McGowan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnJM_jC7j_4
Great book. Poor McGowan developed a rare and rapidly fatal form of cancer soon after it was published.
As you can imagine I’m reluctant to bring up Brexit at a difficult time like this but go on, just this once, I will.
One of the many false accustions around Brexit was that it would turn Blighty into an inward-looking country – a point constantly made by the EU’s useful idiots on here.
So I thought I’d just point out Britian has trained 22,000 Ukraine Army troops since the referendum.
And the only reason Ireland can ban Russian planes from its air space AND enforce it is because of the Royal Air Force providing cover.
Britain recognised the danger from Moscow long before the KGB were poisoning people on the streets of Britain.
While the EU has become completely and utterly insignificant since this crisis began.
Ireland merely slips further down the index of relevance while waving its white flag of neutrality enabled by other countries doing the heavy lifting.
https://twitter.com/JamesCleverly/status/1497665582661087236?cxt=HHwWiMC97bK648gpAAAA
Ah that’s terrible stuff Ten Pull Terry/Admiral Nelson/Charger Salmons etc etc
You’re a bit selective, any word on approval figures for your hero Bozo?
You were great at posting those when they were positive.
Marvelous
“while waving its white flag of neutrality” I wish they would but they’re doing anything but.
Hahaha, Terry, back in the Soviet era, the Russians called the UK “Little Brother”, cos they had the British intelligence system riddled with spies, probably still do.
Heavy lifting, aye.
Banner headline heroics mislead emotions and brutal military realities. It is reminiscent of Gallant Little Belgium in World War l propaganda posters.
yeah, except that belgium ran half of africa at the time… so not sure what your point is…
That’s funny, ce, you point out something completely irrelevant, as well as wildly inaccurate, while entirely missing an obvious comparison by Gabby.
Also in WW1 most people (and in many places, a significant majority) in the various belligerent countries wanted a war…. not sure this is the case here…
What utter gibberish, the majority never had any say in whether a country went to war or not. No referendums on wars, otherwise there never would’ve been any.
Obviously, the people can be fooled by the Servants of War in the media, like right now.
So what you’re trying to say is that Putin is your kinda guy… No surprises there.
A little light reading which may indicate Putin has a struggle on his hands – and that’s just to take Ukraine.
Holding it will be immeasurably more difficult.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/why-the-russians-are-struggling/
Ah that’s marvelous stuff Ten Pull Terry/Charger Salmonella/Admiral Nelson et al
You’re some man for six men
Iontach
Excellent article
You see you can do it when you want to
He should give BJ a ring, find out how the UK have managed to occupy northern Ireland for so long without ever facing sanctions
The will of the people.
It’s called democracy.
And marvellous it is too.
Tendentious Tanya
Ah that’s tedious stuff Ten Pull Terry/Admiral Nelson/Charger Salmonella et al
Were you very sad when you were kicked off that cork site?
Marvelous
House of Lordovitches is a great example of democracy…
In fairness I hope the IFSC here gets to work in the morning and starts flushing the system…
yep, hypocrisis staggering our neutrality ditched without referendum, so lochedmartian make cash, while q eliz 2 Uck has the golden share same company that eats most of US budget. Meanwhile in us,a ordinary people cannot find food on shelves….
Total nonsense, Terry, Russia doesn’t do what the US does, flatten a country, then roll in & call it victory in a “War”.
Isn’t that how they took over most of Eastern Europe?
I agree what has Russia ever done to Ireland ?
Are you having a laugh, Terry? The result is forgone, Russia will de-militarize Ukraine & replace the US puppet regime with one of its own. It’s a done deal.
Back in the USSR.
Hope the brit tabloids start doing some oligarch monstering…
Senior U.S. official says Russian government is scrambling to shore up their assets and the demand for cash in Russia has increased 58-FOLD since sanctions announced
SENIOR U.S. OFFICIAL SAYS WE ARE COMMITTED TO USING SANCTIONS WITH MAXIMAL EFFECT ON RUSSIAN OLIGARCHS AND FAMILIES, WILL GO AFTER THEIR YACHTS, LUXURY APARTMENTS
SENIOR U.S. OFFICIAL SAYS THERE ARE OTHER MEASURES THAT WE CAN TAKE AGAINST RUSSIAN CENTRAL BANK AND YOU’LL BE HEARING MORE ABOUT THAT LATER
Looks like the US are getting all hot for the bunker boys chums – I love the smell of financial decapitation in the morning
Enjoy your foolish little fantasy, stephen. Attacking wealthy individuals is not legitimate warfare, just pathetic behaviour which won’t effect Russia at all. Think Putin’s going to be bothered by someone seizing Abramovich’s yacht? Absolutely hilarious!
The US is about to remake the Global Financial system, by splitting it in two, India & China have already pledged to set up alternative payment systems with Russia. They’ll also bring down the curtain on the Petrodollar, destroying their domination of finance, in the process. This is the beginning of the end for the US but what would you expect from that pair of retards, Biden & Harris. The current US regime is a cancer in the West, anyway, the sooner it looses it’s hold over us, the better.
In reality, there are enough intelligent people in the US government, none of this nonsense will happen, it’s just empty sabre-rattling.
‘Attacking wealthy individuals is not legitimate warfare’
You’ve been claiming a wealthy global elite has been conspiring to enslave/murder us but now we can’t even attack them? IS POISONING US WITH VACCINES LEGITIMATE WARFARE?
‘but what would you expect from that pair of r*tards,’
Even hmmm has enough dim flickers of social awareness to substitute ‘potato.’
‘This is the beginning of the end for the US’
I’ll mark you down as ‘pro-war’ then, shall I?
That’s the racist English bitch hmm he’s referring to, btw
I could not care less what you mark, Nigel, you’ve just failed abysmally to draw some connection between this invasion & a fake pandemic. God love you, you just can’t let go of Muh Covid, can you?
‘you’ve just failed abysmally to draw some connection between this invasion & a fake pandemic. ‘
I should hope so.
Pro war, pro rich people, pro totalitarian dictators. Everyone complains when I point out the right-wing origins of so many of the culture war talking points that surface here, but I’m beginning to have a sneaking suspicion you might actually be right-wing, K.
May I suggest the free online version of the Daily Mail which has outstanding and comprehensive coverage of the Ukraine crisis.
It’s why it is the most-read English language news site in the world.
Go on admit it – the Mail is a secret vice for all of us.
Its Irish print edition has also stood head and shoulders above the fish-wrap Irish journalism when it comes to criticism of the handling of COVID by the Irish government and NPHET.
Essential reading at times like this.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10555731/EU-Commission-president-Ursula-von-der-Leyen-commits-cutting-Russian-banks-Swift.html
Have you seen the January sales figure for the “Irish” Daily Mail old sport?
18,000 and it was over 50,000 about 3 years ago.
Mind your language – corkrepublic
Marvelous
I always thought the daily male was a gay mail contact paper, had no idea there was news in there.
Everything you read in the MSM about this invasion is nonsense, lies & bad takes. They’re a joke, no wonder they’re on the way out. Anyone who reads their gibberish, without laughing like a drain, is an idiot.
You are a joke.. ridiculous stream-of-thought nonsense comments.
Hey don’t talk about the Know- All of Kilnaleck like that!
Yes, that’ll turn the tide, alright, ce. I mean I’d say the Irish Army would just throw the towel right in, if Denis O’Brien got roasted in the Irish Star. Definitely.
Hey, anti-mask/vaxx/sense/why-protect-the-vulnerable freedom fighters… how do you rate yourself against real freedom fighters…
Don’t worry, Horny for Putin’ll be along any minute to tell us that a real hero leads from his bunker….
+1
…. remember the HSE attack – I wonder how many people here died because of that… but why let that get in the way of some rootin’ for putin…
The HSE hack had nothing to do with the Russians. Bless
Russian Fat Joffrey’s Wizard Spider crew begs to differ.
They are enable by the russian state … what’s your point…
And it’s worth saying again – Hey, anti-mask/vaxx/sense/why-protect-the-vulnerable freedom fighters… how do you rate yourself against real freedom fighters…
The hack was by the cabal, so they can evaluate and distribute future ‘shots’. As for your question – you don’t understand freedom, because you are under the illusion that you are free. Hence your assertion of ‘real’ is coloured by your misunderstanding of the reality that you occupy.
Trouble separating truth from fiction?
Red Reddington disposed of the Cabal three or four seasons back in The Blacklist.
THE HACK
WAS BY
THE CABAL
THE CABAL
DID THE HACK
FOR REASONS
This is the same conclusion that I arrived at, reinforced by zero evidence provided by anybody. I hear the Russians have banned ice cream in China too. Like the way you think Chris.
If the Americans hacked into Russian infrastructure under their own name, that would be considered to be a hostile act. The involvement of Anonymous has confirmed to many that they are at best, infiltrated by the CIA.
Yeah, there’s no way a gang of anarchist hackers would go after someone as freedom-loving as Putin without the CIA egging them on.
Actually, this isn’t completely implausible, but more likely they would have transmogrified into weird whte supremacists like most online chan-type edgelords who didn’t actually grow up and now work with the FBI to bring down antifa. But who knows? That’s a genuinely strange and treacherous world.
https://www.rebelnews.com/officers_raid_doctor_surgery_in_melbourne
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/30/the-guardian-view-on-medical-records-nhs-data-grab-needs-explaining
^ What the fupp do you think they’re doing? Pfizer lodged a patent for ‘vaccine’ distribution last August based on peoples status. Medical/personal/digital profile/location were the criteria. You get assigned to a batch based on these criteria. Ahem, eugenics.
There is absolutely nothing in either story to justify your conclusion. The first story in particular, physically raiding one doctor’s office for information to use, entirely according to you, to assign batches based on data NOT during vaccine development, NOT before rollout, NOT before the second rollout, but in NOVEMBER 2021, seems, er, belated and highly localised.
ce, you’re a spanner.
Has anybody here got any idea what ce is gibbering about? I haven’t, he clearly hasn’t, anybody?
There are reports the Russian Chechen reinforcements aka the “Kadyrovites,” (who are noted for their hospitality) got a bit of a seeing to today and one General Magomed Tushayev is late of the parish Ukraine. Hurrah for the Yellow and Blueshirts (to paraphrase the Daily Fail).
Excellent.
Are there now? Reports, you say? A seeing-to, you say? Wow!
ha! plot line fit for a 90’s Bond..
https://mobile.twitter.com/YourAnonTV/status/1497678663046905863
Russian state TV channels have been hacked by Anonymous to broadcast the truth about what happens in Ukraine
And… also – State TV channels have also been “hacked to play Ukrainian songs”, it says…. and they can’t even respond with a Eurovision null pont…
I’d say that definitely happened, goldenbrown, they hacked the TV stations & nobody could find the off switch or the plug. That’ll make a huge difference to people who were planning to watch Eastenders.
https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1497711553038233604
Very interesting chart – shows the geographic distribution of the Bank of Russia’s (Central Banks) reserves. I post some speculation about this earlier but these are the cold facts – to say they are a bit vulnerable would be understatement of the year – and you can be sure a lot of that gold is held by the BoE. Total reserves are $640bn approx (last fig I saw), bu the war is costing $10-$15bn a day depending on which Janes Defense weekly chap you believe. With the SWIFT news and Sberbank (Russia’s largest : market share circa 50%) totally cut of the $ system (i.e. its illegal to deal with them from last Friday) it could be form a disorderly queue behind your local FSB official at the cashier / teller to get the last of the rubles & a mad scramble to convert them into something that might be worth more than a head of cabbage in a few hours in Moscow….but its the silent armchair unseen QWERTY run that will be the thing
This has to be an oligarch’s worst nightmare – being only rich in Russia and nowhere else.
It’s shameful how wet you are for the suffering of the ordinary people of Russia- feel free to grow a pair of balls
It must be like being the only person in Roscommon with a 221-reg car…
Fortunately here on our sun-drenched holiday isle there are hardly any Russkies to speak of.
And those that are here stand out.
Bleached hair, tatts, grossly overweight and that’s just the women.
The men are walking examples of why tight Speedos propping up vast beer bellies is a look that long since went out of fashion.
And rudeness ?
They’re the new Germans when it comes to bad manners abroad.
Never gets old …
https://youtu.be/LuIJqF8av6I
It must be like being the only person in Roscommon with a 221-reg car…
Fortunately here on our sun-drenched holiday isle there are hardly any Russkies to speak of.
And those that are here stand out.
Bleached hair, tatts, grossly overweight and that’s just the women.
The men are walking examples of why tight Speedos propping up vast beer bellies is a look that long since went out of fashion.
And rudeness ?
They’re the new Germans when it comes to bad manners abroad.
Never gets old …
https://youtu.be/LuIJqF8av6I
Marvellous™
This is like on the crkrepublic site you were banned from old boy, replying to yourself.
Why are you doing this old boy?
Maith an buachaill
Marvelous
It must be like being the only person in Roscommon with a 221-reg car…
Fortunately here on our sun-drenched holiday isle there are hardly any Russkies to speak of.
And those that are here stand out.
Bleached hair, tatts, grossly overweight and that’s just the women.
The men are walking examples of why tight Speedos propping up vast beer bellies is a look that long since went out of fashion.
And rudeness ?
They’re the new Germans when it comes to bad manners abroad.
Never gets old …
https://youtu.be/LuIJqF8av6I
Marvellous™
Toe-curling Tanita
Ah that’s quite average stuff Admiral Nelson/Ten Pull Terry/Charger Salmonella et al
Up your game
Marvelous
Walter Mitty strikes again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUx8uMy7EyM
Faisal Islam is the economics editor for Newsnight on the BBC. That totally unbiased, even handed and scrupulously honest organ. Not. He’s one of those who refuses to link runaway inflation with the massive over ‘printing’ of money. Not an honest actor.
Stephen, cutting Russia out of the Swift messaging system (it’s not actually used to transfer money, it’s an information system) will just mean Russia, India & China will set up an alternative, ending the global nature of the Financial System, that’s the US shooting itself in the crotch. The first huge oil deals to ever be done in Roubles & Rupees will occur & the Petrodollar will face oblivion. That’s the US placing the same gun it used to shoot itself in the crotch, into its mouth, without washing it.
It’s not used to transfer money the same way the vaccines aren’t vaccines, right?
Nigel, you are spectacularly ignorant for a know-it-all. I’m sad for you.
Fighting a brave rearguard action, K. Putin appreciates your sacrifice.
But, all kidding aside a cornered Putin can’t be good – hoping for a quick a decisive coup in the next week or so… a destabilised russia not great either, China will be licking it’s lips…
The first rule of propaganda is to personalise the opponent which is why you hear the name Putin being branded about- just like Hitler. Except Russia has a very strong and sophisticated army AND more nuclear weapons than any other country, apart from the US.
Despite all the propaganda and saber-rattling. the US will not take action because Ukraine is not in NATO. There is a lot of rumours about the Ukraine being a money laundering operation for particular interests in the US, which if true, means said individuals are set to lose a lot of money- billions.
‘The first rule of propaganda is to personalise the opponent which is why you hear the name Putin being branded about’
Let’s pretend we haven’t had decades of creepy praise and admiration for Putin’s awesome powers of self-mythologising.
‘Except Russia has a very strong and sophisticated army ‘
Russia has a BIG army. But Russia is corrupt and hollowed out – how much of the massive funds actually went into equipment and training and how much went into the pockets of oligarchs?
‘because Ukraine is not in NATO’
No, because nobody wants to actually start the third world war, despite protestations of Biden’s warmongering.
‘There is a lot of rumours ‘
Oh, I’ll bet there are.
Nigel, wild speculation in an attempt to cope. The Russians have had decades of record growth, without their moribund empire to support. Do you reckon some of that money might’ve gone into their armed forces? Do you think nothing has changed under Putin & anyone (other than him) is allowed carry on as if it was still Yeltsin in charge? You’re living in the past, son.
You think it’s wild speculation to point out that corruption is endemic in every part of Russian society under Putin, so it’s probably safe to say it’s in the military too? The only record growth in Russia has been in oligarch’s offshore bank accounts – including Putin, of course, is he one of the richest men in the world, or THE richest? Didn’t get that way on the wages of a humble public servant, that’s for sure.
ce, you have no understanding of global politics, China & Russia know who their enemy is & they smelled the poo in Biden’s pants some time ago. There’s no chance whatsoever of that happening, complete cope. An embarrasingly silly take.
The ‘Send broadsheet to Ukraine for mission of truth’ go fund me acc I have set up is gathering pace, currently a total of just under 12,000 euros of the 15,000 target has been raised. I have reached out to the staunch professional Nick Kelly and Bodger boss for first refusal, which I think you will all agree is fair but if for whatever reason they cannot commit by the end of holy hour Sunday the 27th of Feb, the spot will be open to any of the regulars on here who have the free time and are willing and able. Kind regards, Feb.
For anyone wishing to still donate the address is http://www.gonfundme.com/meanwhileinukraine
PeaceLoveNotWar
Gwan Fund me?
Attention seeker feeling left out …
https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-40817547.html
The 13 plucky Ukrainians alleged to have told a Russian military vessel to eff off may not have gone down in a gallant last stand after all:
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3413919-state-border-guard-service-there-is-hope-all-ukrainian-defenders-of-snake-island-may-be-alive.html
If true I don’t suppose that they’ll mind handing back their posthumous awards
Plucky? This is plucky: https://twitter.com/Gunner_Vitale/status/1497669654155833344
Taking on the Russian army with a cardboard machine gun is about as plucky as you can get
https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/image-editorial/two-men-rifle-cutouts-take-cover-behind-12818312m
Would that we’d all be so brave should we find ourselves facing a similar plight, I suspect I wouldn’t.
Me So Hurley
I am a plucky peasant ….
How long until the photos of mannequins on the battlefield? Reality is beginning to take on all the aspects of a bad acid trip.
*Russian tank fires a shell into a clothes shop window display, plastic arms and legs and heads and torsos fly everywhere*
Chris: FAKE WAR!
No, like any rational human beings, they surrendered. But all the other stories you hear in the media will be True. For sure. Absolutely.
Bulgarian investigative journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva:
https://mobile.twitter.com/dgaytandzhieva/status/1497556518278991873
“The US Embassy in #Ukraine has just deleted from its website all documents about 11 Pentagon-funded biolaboratories in Ukraine. I have published all these documents (now deleted by the Embassy) here *website* and in the thread below..”
And your point is, caller?
I.R.A. GHQ was having discussions about using bioweapons in 1920 – have you ever complained about that?
And seriously, have you ever blown anything up? Or read anything about the recommended measures to take to dispose of bioweapons? I think you’ll find that lobbing missiles or bombs at them isn’t the way to do it. And, if by any remote chance you have ever blown anything up – or tried to – you should know fine well that sometimes ordnance fails to explode. Do you think it is a good idea to fire duds into a building that possibly contains all kinds of dangerous pathogens? What negative consequences do you imagine could ensue from causing structural damage to a building and rupturing vessels/containers within it that contain deadly pathogens?
Take time to think before you continue your dreary effort to justify Putin’s illegal, immoral and cowardly attack on Ukraine.
Carlsberg don’t do whataboutery, but if they did they could include your line about a possible IRA discussion from the 1920s regarding bioweapons
Not ‘possible’ – actual. I was specific with the date too, not the 1920s but the year 1920. And having said that, it’s more than likely that I can name names.
Far more substantial information than all the ‘suspected’ ‘speculated’ ‘might’ ‘could’ and ‘possibly’ guff attached to all the Ukraine rumour merchants’ material. Unproven speculation is having to do all the heavy lifting for those characters.
As for the bombing of bio labs in Ukraine, I’ve seen no reports that has actually happened. Why do assume that I think that is what the Kremlin intends to do? Is it that again you’re just looking for ways to “get one up” rather than engage in honest discourse?.
Hypothetically speaking, I can imagine a perceived threat of it actually being carried out more likely being used as some kind of leverage over the Ukrainian government rather than the act itself. Brinkmanship.
Also, with the chemical false flag attacks by NATO proxy forces in Syria a not too distant memory, the potential for something similar to happen in Ukraine can’t be ruled out either.
But back to my initial post – genuine question: why do you think it is that the US embassy in Ukraine has just deleted information from its website about Pentagon funded biolabs in Ukraine? There’s some (western) public perception management going on there, I would say. We don’t know why. It may or may not become more apparent as things develop.
‘Why do assume that I think that is what the Kremlin intends to do?’
It’s possible they’d want to get their hands on the research, but Russia is surely miles ahead in terms of bioweapon research and deployment.
‘Also, with the chemical false flag attacks by NATO proxy forces in Syria a not too distant memory, the potential for something similar to happen in Ukraine can’t be ruled out either.’
Laying the groundwork there to cover for possible chemical attacks in Ukraine, I see. Good little soldier.
‘We don’t know why.’
It’s not that difficult to see why: they just became the focus of a line of pro-war propaganda.
‘It’s possible they’d want to get their hands on the research’
Hah! See what I did there? Inadvertantly bought into the idea that they are, in fact, bioweapons labs. There’s no proof that they are bioweapons labs. Still, they might actually want the research from the labs, but why invade when they’re when they’re so great at cyberwarfare and could just hack?
He just wants to kill lots of Ukrainians, f_lawless, at the end of the day it’s just about killing Ukrainians.
Accusing me of being “a good little soldier” ? Nigel you’re a mindless authoritarian fool who clearly hasn’t the faintest clue of what he’s talking about.
Every time it’s the same reaction – just fall into line; no real interest in taking a balanced view of the history and causes of wars and other political conflicts or maintaining a sceptical outlook – just attack anybody who asks rational questions or suggests an even slightly different narrative to the one in the latest Guardian article.
You’re highly susceptible to media propaganda.
And it all gets processed through the polarising lens of online virtue signalling – a chance to demonstrate that you’re on ‘team righteous’. It doesn’t really matter what the situation is, be it a pandemic, war, etc, on it goes until it’s replaced by the next excuse to whip up some phony outrage and exhibit your moral superiority.
“He just wants to kill lots of Ukrainians, f_lawless, at the end of the day it’s just about killing Ukrainians.”
I think that’s case in point. You’ve no interest in understanding the political complexities of what’s going on but instead content yourself with the ‘West’s racist ‘madmen’ theory of history” (as journalist Jonathan Cook puts it).
Would I be right in surmising that you’re heavily influenced by the Guardian’s George Mionbot? You seem to take the exact same stance as him time and time again.
This is worth a read from Cook:
https://twitter.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1497621621565181959
“There are two reasons why George Monbiot’s foreign policy worldview sits so comfortably in the western imperial and colonial tradition
1. Monbiot’s a sucker for the west’s racist ‘madmen’ theory of history. You’re an Assad apologist if you ask for evidence he used gas in Gouta, conveniently paving the way to western missile attacks on Syria. (Forget the Iraq WMD thing, and the OPCW whistleblowers)
2. Monbiot ignores the fact US imperialism is not just one of many competing imperialisms. As the sole global superpower, the US creates the framework for international relations. Russia and China operate within that framework. That forces them to *react* more often than act.
Which is why analysing and understanding the imperial framework imposed by the west is the key to understanding power relations on the international stage – and why Monbiot is such a useless foreign policy analyst”
@Nigel
“…It’s possible they’d want to get their hands on the research, but Russia is surely miles ahead in terms of bioweapon research and deployment….”
“…In 1992, Russian President Boris Yeltsin revealed the Soviet Union’s massive biological weapons program. Some of the program’s reported experiments involved making viruses and bacteria more lethal and resistant to treatment. The Soviets also weaponized and mass-produced a number of dangerous naturally occurring viruses, including the anthrax and smallpox viruses, as well as the plague-causing Yersinia pestis bacterium. Yeltsin in 1992 ordered the program’s end and the destruction of all its materials. But doubts remain whether this was fully carried out…”
https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2021/july/bioweapons-samore.html
But f_lawless, you are a Putin apologist pushing pro-war pro-Putin propaganda. It’s quite disgusting. Railing at a straw-man version of me might obscure that, but it won’t change it.
@ f_lawless
“As for the bombing of bio labs in Ukraine, I’ve seen no reports that has actually happened. Why do assume that I think that is what the Kremlin intends to do?”
You’re just a water carrier, a lowly Putin fanboy. Elsewhere in your little coterie of Putinbots claims are being made that seven out of eleven of the (alleged) labs have been ‘destroyed in special operations’ by the Russian army.
You’d have to ask yourself where they have found the time and the the specialised equipment to do that, but asking is a waste of time. Even poor Putin hasn’t had time to get up to speed on the viral 4chan fantasy – which is even now mutating online among its bewildered proponents.
https://twitter.com/JovinMikey/status/1497617594081329161
Carlsberg also don’t do dreams but if they did …
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_ls5bzISPGs
Wahaay™
Marvellous™
Hehx3™
i ndáiríre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPH4Mv06Lig
+1
The point is that the US has it’s dirty hands all over this mess.
Especially individuals connected to the current US administration it appears.
https://www.tiktok.com/@neilstew73/video/7068456367077526789
The point IS they had WEBSITES for their SECRET CHEMICAL BIOLABS and now they’re DOWN but they’re ARCHIVED. Stupid cabal.
They are not archiving them- that is an independent website and I expect there is nothing they can do about it. The question is- why was it so important to remove such now?
It may be nothing but after Wuhan, US funded bio labs are very much a topic of interest- and some of these are sited very close to the Russian border.
‘The question is- why was it so important to remove such now?’
Because they became the focus of a line of pro-war propaganda.
In 1990, US Secretary of State, James Baker told Russia there would be no eastwards advance by NATO. In 2014, the CIA Color Revolution in Ukraine overthrew the elected government. NATO then offered membership to Georgia & Ukraine & immediately began huge arms shipments into both countries.
In the same way that the US was NEVER going to accept Soviet nukes in Cuba, Russia was NEVER going to accept US nukes in Ukraine, five minutes flying time from Moscow. The US knew this but refused to back down, knowing that Russia would invade, knowing that they would not counter that, militarily & that Ukraine would suffer. They hung Ukraine & even their own puppet, Zelensky, out to dry, like the ruthless, amoral scum they are & now they will pay the price. Their era of bullying everyone on the planet is winding down, their cancerous influence over Europe must be excised, probably by ditching the utterly incompetent EU, lest they pull us down with them.
Wow that proves…absolutely nothing.
Welcome back Nigel, seriously
You’re clearly well-named, Mad.
Fortunately, all of those links were archived.
https://seemorerocks.is/us-embassy-has-deleted-from-its-website-all-documents-about-11-pentagon-funded-biolabs-in-ukraine/
You appear to vastly underestimate the cost of production of bio-weapons.
I don’t know if you’re bald, George but your statement surely is. Some bio-weapons are expensive, most are dirt cheap.
Seven of them went boom boom on day one, anyway, f
Ireland to ban Russian aircraft from entering Irish airspace
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/war-in-ukraine-ireland-to-ban-russian-aircraft-from-entering-irish-airspace-41389969.html
I wonder what we’ve got to detect them, let alone shoot them down with…
It’s called the Royal Air Force you ignorant cretin.
Ah that’s quite awful Ten Pull Terry/Charger Salmon/Admiral Nelson etc etc
Mind your language corkrepublic – banned)
Marvelous
But they’re not ours, are they?
Some of us remember where asking for foreign help got us back in the time of Diarmait Mac Murchadha.
If passenger aircraft, where would those be travelling to/from?
Lines tat ATMs in Moscow at 5am this morning. And the heavier sanctions announced over the w/e haven’t even started to hit yet.
https://twitter.com/taxfreelt/status/1497811412265099265
“And the world did gaze in deep amaze/At those fearless men though few/Who bore the fight that freedom’s light/Might shine through the foggy dew”
Why are you so wet for the ordinary people of Russia suffering?
And who’s paying you to transcribe propaganda here?
Because chopping the head off any snake requires the local populace to make a fully informed rational choice about who their leader is. Actions have consequences. The trolls assured us he’d the overwhelming support of Russian’s. You have to expose Putin’s false narrative domestically .So they lose a their life savings – meh. There are 100’s of innocent civilians in Ukraine who will never get a chance to worry about that option this morning.
I’m still not sure how that justifies your obvious glee at the suffering of the ordinary Russian. The country is not a parliamentary democracy or anything like it.
You might tell us who’s paying you as well please
I’m afraid modern war isn’t fought via Call of Duty on a Sony PlayStation, Because of Putin’s actions those rubles will be worth a whole lot less in a few days time so best to withdraw them while they can & convert them into something useful like $ or euros before they close the FX booths. As with any weapons in war such as “a surgical strike” or “targeted killings” which are complete misnomers and oxymorons – there is always going to be “collateral damage” – people get hurt – this way its financial – its the lesser of two evils. Europe wasn’t going to get rid of Putin by writing angry letters to the Irish Times from the comfort it’s armchair.
Rublem now worth less than robux the currency for kiddie game Roblox.
Up next! Worth less than Doge?
EDIT – Actually it is!!!! Worth less than a $h!tcoin
Your sneering, condescending tone fails to provide further insight as to why you are so gleeful at the suffering of ordinary folks.
Or: who’s paying you
Mad, in all fairness I think he explained it fairly well, just read back over his posts
No he didn’t gb. He farted out some waffle about people making a rational choice in a dictatorship
This seems unfair. I support the sanctions, and the harder and sharper they are the sooner this will be over, but make no mistake they will inflict suffering on already suffering people. Putting people between the rock of sanctions and the hard place of their ruthless dictator is not putting them into the position of making rational choices, it’s removing what few choices they have left in terms of just surviving from day to day.
Here’s a thought, though – austerity was governments inflicting wartime sanctions on their own populations during peacetime.
+1
Poster appears from nowhere with an obvious grudge against Russian people and peppers the comments section with vitriol.
It’s not even anti Russian government, seems to be the entire country he hates. I’m not sure about being paid though. It’s pure vile and deranged drivel he spews. That type of stuff is usually just from unstable individuals. If it’s not Russians hes after it would be the gays, the blacks or the muslims.
Agreed. Disgusting barrage of tripe.
So how do you propose to make an omelette without breaking a few eggs ? War is a cost / benefit analysis. Better a pin prick now rather than MM or R later. IF you are going to go all idealistic and pretend that no one gets hurt than might I suggest you’re on the wrong planet and you’re going to be disappointed with this one as was the fire bombing of Dresden justified ? Were Hiroshima and Nagasaki strategically crucial in a trade off for ending the war ? All I’m saying is that bad things happen to good people and that gets multiplied and amplified in times of war. Its sad but evitable. But in terms of rankings losing a few rubles ranks relatively lowly in the list of war crimes commited over the last 100 years in terms of despot disposal.
Yes, he’s just a deranged individual. Anyone being paid would have more facts, more knowledge, not just this stream of ranting nonsense. He’s worse than Nigel, for goodness sake, although they’re birds of a feather, undoubtedly.
Wow, stephen, they’re gonna end up like Canada, if they’re not careful. A more democratic, freerer version, obviously.
leadership like a boss courtesy of a comedian and a boxer….
no jokey socks or politico doublespeak required
see how that works?
The fear is course is what will Russian Fat Joffrey fire next from his hero palace-bunker?
Well, WW, you carry on worrying about whatever you’re trying to indicate there & let me know if anything happens.
The security operation in the Ukraine is a handy distraction, as the WHO and UN strengthen their capacities for future pandemics.
Not a huge stretch of the imagination to see armed UN soldiers on Irelands streets, during the next plandemic to keep curfews, for our safety of course. Maybe vaccinations at gun point will help with numbers.
Grim times, but at least the rugby is on this afternoon…
https://off-guardian.org/2022/02/26/who-planning-new-pandemic-treaty-for-2024/
“Not a huge stretch of the imagination to see armed UN soldiers on Irelands streets”… yes, totally not a huge stretch at all…
ce, given the fantastical & imaginitive nature of your posts here, I don’t think it’s beyond you. You seem to be very excited by all this.
Is that your brain in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
Yes, this.
Epitaph on a Tyrant
W. H. Auden
Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after,
And the poetry he invented was easy to understand;
He knew human folly like the back of his hand,
And was greatly interested in armies and fleets;
When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,
And when he cried the little children died in the streets.
The Foggy Dew
While the world did gaze with deep amaze
At those fearless men but few
Who bore the fight that freedom’s light
Might shine through the foggy dew
I’m sure Justin will appreciate your quotation, stephen.
You mean the shoes and socks thief?
https://kilkennyjournal.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/barrett-shop.png?w=386
Barrett’s first platform — when he stole a pair of platform shoes
Trudeau, you fool.
Apparently Alex Jones made a prediction of war in February on 21st October 2021- which means the whole bloody thing is pre planned.
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/video/2022/02/alex-jones-predicts-war-in-october-of-2021/
Definitely…
Preposterous, absolutely preposterous.
SOQ & SailorGerry: get help.
Tell us, paddy, tell us what the MSM has told you to think, so we don’t have to waste our time enduring their deluge of drivel. That might be just the “help” that Gerry & SOQ need. If not, at least they’ll get a laugh out of it.
Covid was bad for the auld people talking lunacy… things have managed to rachet up considerably… it would make you wonder/despair…
Wonder & /despair to your heart’s content, young ce. Nice that you’ve managed to pinpoint a previously unknown symptom of “Covid”. Give Luke O’Neill a bell & let him know, like a good man.
Any body with 45 minutes to spare and an open mind could enjoy the video below as i just did.
Paints the war in Ukraine as a convenient distraction from the massive amounts of vaccine injuries and deaths that are leaking out.
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/financial-insider-exposes-covid-fraud/
Sailor Gerry… good name… off the deep end….
Well you have to wonder why now surely? Right on the tale end of the worst pandemic of our lifetimes. War is a great way of hiding a lot of things.
As for the vaccines- we don’t know the whole story there yet, not even most of it. That the Chilean government has passed an employment law to to protect against discrimination of mutants and genetically modified individuals, suggests there is much more to come.
…if you have not,next time in Chile i highly recommend Valpariso,preferably with a fashionista who works costume/wardrobe at the opera,its a fabolus,decadant art filled city.
Are you not excited by the election of Gabriel Boric,has your toxic yank feed put Chile on your radar,ah gwan fill us in SOQ…….
Maybe it’s to distract from the anthropocene? War is a great way of generating CO2.
‘Brisbane residents are rescuing their neighbours using surfboards and kayaks.’
https://twitter.com/felicity_ripper/status/1497816968790904832
Thass royshe, ce. That’s what sailors do, right? They go to swimming pools.
Dearie, dearie me.
Or to put it another way – the only reason the self-evident truth of our conspiracy theory about thousands and thousands of vax related deaths which we have been pushing since vaccinations began has not become self-evidently and undeniably manifest is an unrelated world event suddenly happening.
Ah now, Nigel, back here in the Real World the old quaxx injuries are piling up, rather, just as the number of “Covid victims” seems to be evaporating. It’s going to be a difficult time for you, son, reality coming down on your poor wee head but I’m sure your ability to fantasise & rationalise will bloom. Yes, even more!
I can see you now, in the nursing home, the last of the holocaust deniers, loyal to the narrative, to the bitter end.
Thousand people a day dying of covid in the US. No sign of anyone dying of the vaccine.
Ah would ya stoppit, Nigel, we all know that, you’ve been right all along & your job here is done. Off you go now and worry some sheep, you’ve put all our ducks in a row & shown us the error of our ways. No need for you to be here, anymore.
Isn’t that right, everyone?
I said ISN’T THAT RIGHT, EVERYONE?
Actually, Nigel, on a more serious note, you managed to shoehorn the old Covid in there sbout half a dozen times, inti a thread about the War in Ukraine. That really doesn’t look too great, mental health-wise.
Maybe talk with friends & family, maybe a clergyman or therapist might help? The main thing is that you get better. We’d all really like to see you STFU about it, when, y’know, we’re discussing something that’s nothing to do with it.
I’m not messing dude, you’re messed up, & it’s painful to witness.
Quaxx ergo minus
(Rocket Scientist of Ramor, 2022)
Ignoring poor old SailorGerry’s plucky gambit, there, K.
the absolute worst weed i’ve smoked in a long,long time was in Dublin recently.
“If I could just go to a doctor and get a pharmaceutical-grade prescription and be monitored on it and find a strain that works best, that’s not psychoactive. I can just take a pill in the morning and go about my day, that’s the dream,” said Banta.
(Dr. Russell Banta, a researcher in chemistry at University College Cork, also traveled to Dublin for the demonstration.)
i would like point out the legacy news blackout on this massive demonstration,skateboard’s and stolen bikes instead gas guzzling old pieces junk,trucks.
https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cannabis/22/02/25817160/ireland-people-with-chronic-pain-want-access-to-medical-cannabis
…in a universe far,far away the old smelly hippies, on the kibbutz’s are growing some out this world weed.
Shalom.
(trimmers sit at a table all day totally baked,hand cutting the buds,but he’s living his dream,they get paid with all the weed they can smoke:)
“Binovitch, who moved to Nir Oz after years as a cannabis trimmer in California’s Sonoma Valley, is part of a new generation of Israelis who see working in weed on a kibbutz as preferable to employment in the county’s main technology hub, centered in Israel’s expensive and traffic-clogged central region.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/09/israel-cannabis-marijuana-kibbutz/
Anybody?
lol Tories being Tory…
“Tory MP criticised for ‘suggesting Ukrainians fleeing war can apply to pick fruit and veg in the UK’ in deleted tweet”
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/tory-mp-says-ukrainians-fleeing-23230503
The ultimate indignity
BREAKING: International Judo Federation suspends Putin as honorary president.
They can put Biden in the job. That old git can trip himself up, effortlessly. Harris can be vice president, let the Judo lads endure some of the embarrassment she’s been bringing on the poor old USA. That woman (of color) can lash together a sentence that even she can’t escape from.
Hard to overstate just how much Vladimir Putin is authoring the rebirth of European Security architecture. Germany is mutating from a clunky Lada to a Formula 1 vehicle before our eyes. Olaf Scholz has
just dismantled almost every SPD policy towards Russia over the past 3 decades in one speech. Sweden & Finland will be joining NATO . I’m also a big seller of Serbian accession to the EU in my lifetime given events of the past week – I think they’ve done a Leeds and dropped below Turkey in the table. The tectonics are shifting and not in a good way if your little Napoleon in a Moscow bunker cowering. I’d say Bruno Ganz is practicing for the part as we speak. For European union this like Brexit on steroids.
Try not to soil yourself
The day nurse charges extra for that
Au contraire. I spent an hour listening Russian radio Серебряный дождь this morning, where presenters are speaking through tears and choking up as they describe their country’s actions https://silver.ru. See my comment above
Father, why are all the men there weeping?
Oh they are merely crying, son.
Stephen, have you been at johnny’s weed? Go have a bowl of cornflakes or a bar of chocolate, it’ll stabilise your glucose levels & you’ll stop yammering. Then a nap, good lad.
nice short piece here about a proper leader…
“He was not a candidate of Ukrainian-speaking western Ukraine nor of the Russian-speaking east. Instead, he rejected the linguistic, historical and ethnic split that has long been exploited both by Ukrainian politicians and by the Kremlin. Partly as a result, he has brought the country closer together than it has been for years. Mr Zelensky was driven neither by nationalism nor ideology. Nor was he a revolutionary. He was Everyman.”
https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/02/26/how-volodymyr-zelensky-found-his-roar
Zelensky is a goon, goldenbrown, I suspect you know this & are just havin’ a laff, amiright? Nobody in Ukraine is even listening to him, anymore. He’s a stooge of the dying Empire, put in place by an American colour revolution, then hung out to dry like Norwegian herring.
Yum, yum.
Saturday’s Financial Times has an excellent piece on the background which sowed the seeds for the invasion.
https://www.ft.com/content/742f15fc-675a-4622-b022-cbec444651cf
From tomorrow- masks are no longer mandatory in schools, shops and on public transport in Ireland. Not that many were paying heed to it anyways from what I could see.
What will the virtue signalling Karens do now eh?
…more importantly,what will YOU do now,eh?
all that ‘research’ asking questions,but in fairness your probably by now a ‘expert’ on mask,mask wearing, mask making,mask disposal,proper handling of masks,reusing masks,masks indoors,masks outdoors,masks,masks..
then just like tha..poof,gone,over,finished,no more,and WORSE…no one no one cares,what if you were right all along:)
We were right all along. Not just about masks, but lockdowns too.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/02/25/lockdowns-not-necessary-defensible-says-head-inquiry-swedens/
And now that the FDA have banned vaccinated people from donating plasma because they have wiped out natural antibodies- the vaccine fallout is unfortunately, only begining.
But all credit to Broadsheet for being one of the very few outlets in this country whom allowed such views- and as the truth emerges, hopefully they will reap the rewards of their principled stance.
..and don’t forget yourself,without you posting (post) truth like from the Torygraph,where would we all be,all masked and in chains most likely.
it’s only the beging,the begining huh:)
prizes and rewards await,the question is how long can you afford support with your online research and ‘fact’ finding from obscure,fringe yank right wing sites,these causes that you espouse on here.
it may come as a total surprise but some people have been highlighting,irish quacks and just bad medical advice for years,but on the left.
“Dr Ray Walley, a GP and member of Cannabis Risk Alliance, said the Health Products Regulatory Authority conducted a study on medical cannabis in 2017.
“They did a very extensive review of the literature internationally and they stated that there was no evidence of scientific data demonstrating the effectiveness of cannabis products”, he said.
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2022/0223/1282540-medical-use-cannabis/
(your boy Matt,from the red neck resort area Fla, the sexual predator, is a big exponent)
Spot on SOQ. Covid is still around and we’re doing away with every restriction plus getting advised to up the vitamin d. Not long ago doctors were being fired for suggesting this. Crazy how many still can’t see they were sold a pup. That would be admitting to themselves that they were wrong, and some people aren’t capable of that.
Between a thousand and two thousand people are dying of it daily in the US. You and your far right fellow travellers have lots of blood on your hands.
Did you not hear Kali? They found a cure for CoVid- its called the mid term elections.
That joke was much fresher when the answer was ‘the 2020 presidential election.’
‘And now that the FDA have banned vaccinated people from donating plasma’
Do you have a link for that? Preferably directly to the FDA, where I can’t find any mention of it.
Meanwhile at the Red Cross:
‘The Red Cross is following FDA blood donation eligibility guidance for those who receive the COVID-19 vaccination. Deferral times for donations may vary depending on which brand of vaccine you received. If you’ve received a COVID-19 vaccine, you’ll need to provide the manufacturer name when you come to donate. In most cases, there is no deferral time for individuals who received a COVID-19 vaccine as long as they are symptom-free and feeling well at the time of donation.
The following eligibility guidelines apply to each COVID-19 vaccine received, including boosters:
There is no deferral time for eligible blood donors who are vaccinated with a non-replicating inactivated or RNA-based COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by AstraZeneca, Janssen/J&J, Moderna, Novavax, or Pfizer.
Eligible blood donors who received a live attenuated COVID-19 vaccine or do not know what type of COVID-19 vaccine they received must wait two weeks before giving blood.’
https://www.redcrossblood.org/local-homepage/news/article/covid-19-vaccination-guide-blood-donation.html
Think you might be a goddamn liar, SOQ.
Huh. My post about how you seem to be lying about the FDA thing vanished. Maybe it’ll come back. Anyhoo, you seem to be lying abut the FDA thing.
The FDA haven’t banned plasma donation from vaccinated people, as you’re aware.
“individuals who received a nonreplicating, inactivated, or mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine can donate blood without a waiting period
individuals who received a live-attenuated viral COVID-19 vaccine, refrain from donating blood for a short waiting period (e.g., 14 days) after receipt of the vaccine,
individuals who are uncertain about which COVID-19 vaccine was administered, refrain from donating for a short waiting period (e.g., 14 days) if it is possible that the individual received a live-attenuated viral vaccine. ”
Source: https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/safety-availability-biologics/updated-information-blood-establishments-regarding-covid-19-pandemic-and-blood-donation
We’ll say they served their purpose and understand the caution and concerns of people in vulnerable categories that you view as disposable and irrelevant, given that it’s still around.
And as it’s not going anywhere what’s the solution, lockdown forever. It’s over, time to let go. The experts have said the restrictions are not needed anymore. You’d have to be a far right conspiraloon to disagree with NPHET
The solution was lockdown while it was approaching and reaching its height, then phasing out after vaccinations and/or less deadly strains began to dominate. It worked reasonably well for us, whereas in the US where the right has basically turned into a death cult and opposed, undermined and criminalised pandemic measures, it’s a rolling catastrophe.
However, it is still around even though you are ideologically committed to dismissing their concerns, people in vulnerable categories still feel they are at risk, and I think they deserve to be treated with respect and consideration, not as cannon fodder in your bio-culture war.
You know, SOQ, you know what they’ll do. They’ll continue to wear masks. This might seem a bit off-putting at first but while soundwaves, like virus particles, will pass right through their facerags, we’ll be spared the sight of their spectacularly ugly faces, if not their horrible voices.
Those Karens know that the facemasks have revitalised their moribund sex lives & they won’t be giving up their Sunday afternoon bonks, anytime soon.
“Will I…wear the mask, then?”
“Yes, Karen, knickers off, mask on…”
Think of that, when you see them in the supermarket.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FMobl-XWUAM9rq0?format=jpg&name=900×900
Think of that when you post here
Interesting repositioning of the local Anti Vax Q’pon Plandemicans behind Vladimir Putin
A germaphobe who locked himself down from a big scary
(((;ꏿ_ꏿ;))) flu
Man flu even
Or maybe there’s something to be learned from the Putin regime
Like how he wins elections (◔‿◔)
That ye can bring to 2024
Or is it his supreme whiteness
Interesting all the same
You might have something interesting to say, but try writing it in a manner that is understandable. What exactly are you trying to say here please?
Did that make sense in your head before you posted it?
A very simple, straightforward
If you know
You’ll know
What’s motivating the Jesus Brownshirts?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/25/vladimir-putin-ukraine-attack-antisemitism-denazify
What kind of an answer is that? The more I read your posts, the more they look like the ramblings of someone in their dotage. Have you any idea at all how you look here?
As well, by the way, are any Credit Union directors Trustees of the pension schemes?
Don’t know
There are over 3000 CU Directors all around the country
I don’t know them all
Why don’t you ask the Trustees if they are directors of Credit Unions
And if those Credits Unions are participating in the Scheme
And FWIW
I’ve been around here a lot longer than you
And seen a lot of comings and goings
Lads with different changes, multiple logins and what have you
And seen through a fair few skirmishes
I’m not in the slightest bit worried about how I look
I’m not a bit afraid of who I am
Or indeed of the truth about me
I stand over every word I have posted here
Above and below the line
Every one of them
The question is really
Which one of the crybabies with a bloody nose are you touting for
I don’t know – i suppose it’s easy to stand over every word you write, if they are nonsensical. And what’s with the I’ve been around here a longer time than you line? Do you think you’re some type of guru that people should look up to or something? Well you’re not.
You take the hump of someone asks you a question about what you were trying to get across in your first comment, and follow it up with another, dare I say it, babyish comment that is as nonsensical as the first.
You’re avoiding the question about your knowledge about the trustees and whether there are CU directors who are also trustees. Are, or were, you a trustee of any CU pension scheme? Do you know any directors of CUs who are trustees o any CU pension scheme? Spit it out. Let’s see how much you’re into the truth.
Good luck with that – complete frogspawn
No. I am not a Trustee
And you already know that
Ask the Trustees if they hold Directorships yourself
I’m not a cabinet minister, or government official
So you’ll have to find someone else to leak information confined to the confidence of a board meeting.
You’re still avoiding the question about your knowledge about the trustees and whether there are CU directors are also trustees.
Are, or were, you a trustee of any CU pension scheme? Were you at any stage?
Do you know any directors of CUs who are trustees of any CU pension scheme? (Hardly confidential is it?, so nothing to leak)
List the names of the people who are trustees – or is that confidential too?
When I asked V this question she dodged it as well, I think the answer eventually was that she raised it during the failed election campaign, she prevaricated for Ireland first of course ..
Already told ye
I am not a trustee of any pension scheme
And I never have been
Some Credit Unions, as employers operate the League pension scheme for their employees
Who actually are the members of the pension scheme
The Trustees report to all those members
I don’t log or record what directorships or other interests or activities these Trustees hold or get up to
As I am not a member
And They were all appointed to act as trustees long before my time
Long long before my time
If they are also Directors, then Credit Unions nominated them.
Not me
So they knew who they were getting
Nothing new
Or being denied about any of that
Nor my criticism, doubts, and scepticism about the National Movement
Plenty flyers etc out there to demonstrate that
Credit Unions do the nominating and the voting of the League Board and on from that election, then, the Officers.
Credit Unions are entirely responsible for who makes the decisions. They chose the status quo.
So you need to go back to the Credit Unions.
Or get the Pension Members to get their Trustees to publish all their interests, directorships and whatever info you think you are entitled to.
I’m very much an outlier on that board
And not included as such,
Likewise in the wider movement
Where I am considered “too left and too radical” by the dominant CEOs
Merely for mentioning equality of outcome
And the 8th Cooperative Principal, Diversity & Inclusion
Believe me lads
Ye’re hounding the wrong person
It’s hardly hounding
We both asked you some straight questions which you went around the house to not answer.
The stuffed shirts must have saw how you are mates with Fluffy lol
Would ya give over
Told ye time and time again
I am not a trustee
Or a member of the pension scheme
I don’t know the backgrounds of the Trustees or their appointments
Insisting I went all around the houses
Again and again
Across several threads over more than one weekend
Is f’n hounding
Ask the f’n Trustees yerselves
Who appointed them
And if they’re on CU boards, or any Board(s) in fairness; then what ones and Who f’n nominated them, confirmed etc
Share it here
Cause I’d love to know meself
Ask me baldy fella
You’ve frequently given free promotion to the ILCU movement in this space. Readers have a right to know of your prevarication and now also, your claimed irrelevance.
It’s a war, Frilly, not a football match.
No need to pick a side.
https://www.rt.com/business/550749-russia-central-bank-snctions-response/
“”The Bank of Russia (the Central Bank) will provide domestic banks with cash and non-cash liquidity in rubles in order to maintain financial stability and protect the economy from the impact of the latest Ukraine-related Western sanctions, the regulator said in a statement on Sunday.
“The Bank of Russia will continuously provide banks with cash and non-cash liquidity in rubles. The REPO (repurchase agreement) auction on Monday will be held on an unlimited basis, with full satisfaction of all applications received from banks,” the statement released by the press service of the Central Bank reads.””
… Rubles and no dollars… going to be some very disappointed folks tomorrow at Russian banks
AS I’ve posted earlier, even though they nominally have an impressive war chest of $640 billion in reserves a large portion is held in gold (which is useless in these circumstances as they can’t engage in a fire sale – anyway most of this is held abroad most likely by the BoE as i was purchased in the last 2/3 years and no one takes physical delivery- you get a receipt from the chaps in Threadneedle St). Furthermore a good chunk of their FX reserves are held in CNY (which iis worse than useless as no one has a CNY a/c outside on China & you wouldn’t be selling that cross to prop up the ruble as you’d annoy your “friends” (fair weather IMO) in Beijing. So BIS data shows they’ve about 13% dollars & 32% euros but as this table shows the vast bulk of these paper assets are held abroad
https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1497711553038233604
Its fairly unchartered waters but in the case of Iran these were frozen and UDL has said something similar is in the offing. It would be unprecedented given the sums were talking about here but the gloves appear to be off. Shebank which has 50% of the domestic market has already be cutoff from $ funding as of Friday i.e. it’s illegal to deal with them (this is far more punitive than any SWIFT ban) as no bank can do any FX bizz, trade finance or offer liquidity without access to the $ market. SO in sum yes Russia $640 billion in reserves (which they have been wisely building up over the last few years having defaulted in 1999 due to lack of same) but quite large amount appears to be quasi out of their reach at the moment if the EU follow through with their threats. No sure on the legal necessities of all this but I assume they have run above board
Ah, ce, not the disappointment that you’ll have to endure when you realise that every sanction will hurt the US far more than it hurts Russia. In fact, it will hurt you & I more than Putin. Globalism will, finally, go down in flames but there’s a lot of pain coming for us all, I’d stock up on the canned goods, if I were you.
Only a handful of countries are self-sufficient in food, Canada & Russia are the most prominent among them & neither India nor China can survive without Russian oil & grain. The putative sanctions won’t be around for long, half the planet will not survive them for very long. The US is painting itself into a corner, which you’d have to admit is an apposite way for Biden to finally make his mark after a lifetime of underachievement in political life.
As Obama used to say “never underestimate Joe’s ability to f#ck things up”.
Facebook allows praise of Neo-Nazi Ukrainian Battalion if it fights Russian Invasion.
The Azov Battalion, which functions as an armed wing of the broader Ukrainian white nationalist Azov movement, began as a volunteer anti-Russia militia before formally joining the Ukrainian National Guard in 2014; the regiment is known for its hardcore right-wing ultranationalism and the neo-Nazi ideology pervasive among its members.
https://theintercept.com/2022/02/24/ukraine-facebook-azov-battalion-russia/
You see, they’re the good Nazi’s – not like that plant in Canada. If you fail to understand this – then you’re going to need some more education in doublethink.
Ah boys
Are ye going yere separate ways?
(っ˘̩╭╮˘̩)っ
Nah, it was an attempt at sarcasm.
Wasn’t there a Wonderbra ad with that tag line?
From Poutine to Putin in less than a week… Helluva swerve, there from BS.
I denounce all tyrants and Nazis. You’ve show yourself up for your selective support for both. Morto for ya
Except Putin. You’ve crawled so far up his hole you’re tickling his intestines.
Putins a tyrant, now find a comment where I said any different
Ah ye beat me to it. Apparently supporting actual nazis is fine if they agree with you. Israeli news outlets are, for obvious reasons, the only non Russian media that have big problems with western support for these lads.
The left is supporting the right and the right is supporting the left.
Bizarre.
I don’t suport the right, and nobody on the right supports me. Speak for yourself.
‘Apparently supporting actual nazis is fine if they agree with you’
Maybe Putin should have invaded the trucker protest. But no doubt his oligarchs funneled enough money that way he felt he already owned it.
This is from March 2014 and is what you are supporting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y74v7h3SizU
I’m supporting the people of Ukraine collectively. I’m opposing a military invasion. The Nazi thing, though true, when used as a pretext for the invasion, is pro-war propaganda. You sound like someone who claims that in supporting civil rights for all I’m supporting criminals. You’ve gone full reactionary.
Everyone should be support of not just human rights but civil rights but- THAT is what is in government there and THAT is what the UK and US are supporting.
They are not democrats and there is nothing reactionary about taking a moderate line- quite the opposite.
If the past two years have shown anything it is that MSM always has an agenda and at best will only show half the truth. At worst they will outright lie, as they did during the pandemic.
Good. Then everyone should oppose Putin, and his invasion, and pour scorn on his pretexts.
You also lie. You literally lied here today.
Well that just shows that anyone who says Facebook is biased against the right is talking rubbish.
No, what it shows is that they’re selective in their bias, & will capitulate on anything if it suits the agenda du jour. Which reminds me – where’s the existential hand wringing over these Nazis Nigel? I mean, you went of in a huff over a plant with a Nazi flag in the freedom convoy. Here’s a whole battalion of armed Nazis, hypocrite much?
Well, if the Ukrainian Nazis hold a parade protesting the invasion, or indeed anything at all, they will not be getting any priase or support from me, but if they throw in some opposition to pandemic measures I’m sure you and SOQ will be all over them.
Bet you the freedom convoy nazis love this invasion, though. Unless they’re mad about it getting all the attention.
You don’t get it do you? You are the one who is supporting neo Nazi’s? Not a fake Jake as in Canada but the real deal- the closest thing on the planet to the third Reich. Why? because you have been told to- it really is that simple.
So who is the ‘alt right’ now eh?
So you think a protest of hundreds with the presence neo-Nazis is worthy of full-throated support, while the presence of a few neo-Nazis in an entire independent country of millions justifies a brutal military invasion? You think opposing the military invasion of a country means you support the very worst people who live in that country? Flashbacks to when opposing the war in Iraq meant you were ‘objectively pro-Saddam Hussein.’ You”re not alt right, you’re just regular right at this stage, but then, so is the alt right.
You do know there are neo-Nazis in Russia, right? And that they, the Ukrainian Nazis, Putin, his Russian supporters and the US right you love so much are all neoliberal corporate ultra-nationalists?
@ SOQ Bezemov called Nigel and his ilk ‘political prostitutes’. No real point arguing with them as they’ve no solid core to their beliefs. No harm showing them up for what they are though.
Ironic comment, given he was taking about the methods Russia used to undermine other countries. With that in mind, your beliefs are not only without a solid core, their outer layers might as well be made of unicorn farts.
No, he was talking about Marxist Leninsm, nothing to with Russian anything, it was called the USSR by the way. Bless
Good thing Putn isn’t old school KGB, then.
They also don’t follow orders from within the normal military hierarchy, SOQ, operating as an army within the army. This, together with Putin’s desire to seek revenge for their massacres of ethnic Russians means their ranks are not a good place to be, as they’re being slowly surrounded by the Russians.
Putin is aiming to capture the Ukraine army with the minimum of bloodshed but an exception might just be made for the Azovs.
latest reports now that Ukrainians have maybe successfully managed to defend Kharkiv…they’re a bunch of kids here’s footage of captured Russian “soldier”..loads of it now…like he’s barely a man wtf
https://twitter.com/Mohit_Raiyani/status/1497870627780587520
could there be some sleight of hand going on here? is Putin embellishing his true girth? is his real army actually a lot smaller than it appears….thought they’d trick Ukraine and EU into a quick capitulation by boosting their numbers looking scary? like its all fine and well driving down nice tarmac roads in a tank but if you dunno how to really operate it…don’t want to get too hopeful here but
It appears he’s sending in older tanks and less experienced soldiers (reserves) first to test Ukraine defenses.
Which would make sense, as you don’t want your elite forces taken out by javelins.
Yeah, standard doctrine in military strategy, always send in your worst troops and your reserves to spearhead your invasion, becasue that’s the best time to feck around and play games.
Some conspiracy theories are just a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enema
…was that not you christians Nigel…keep the best wine to the end?
Not a Christian, not a great way to run a party, not a great way to run an invasion.
Again, goldenbrown, you’ve got used to seeing the US send 300,000 soldiers & a billion dollars worth of cruise missiles to take 3 weeks to conquer Iraq. This is a completely different type of war, the US just levelled Iraq, they didn’t give a damn how many civilians died or how much infrastructure was demolished. Russia do not want a humanitarian disaster on their doorstep. They haven’t taken out a single power station, sewage plant or any non-military infrastructure, Ukraine still has internet & mobile phone masts, even though the Russians achieved complete air superiority in three hours.
This, as the song goes, Is Not America.
well it’s definitely not going too well for the p***k
talking nukes now all of a sudden
look at the body language of them
https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1497923042101575685
(gah just go for glory one of ye…shoot him ffs…you’ll have streets named after you)
Russian Fat Joffrey is lashing out now about nukes from his billion euro palace-bunker. I’m sure American Fat Joffrey will announce this a stroke of genius.
Keen insight
Try not to soil yourself.
The day nurse charges more for that.
BREAKING – Turkish foreign minister says the situation in Ukraine constitutes a war, Ankara will therefore implement the articles of the Montreux Convention — meaning passage of Russian warships that are not part of the Black Sea fleet to be denied through Turkish straits.
Montreux, last time I heard that mentioned was in “Smoke on the Water” by Deep Purple which is ironic
We all came out to Montreux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
To make records with a mobile
We didn’t have much time
Frank Zappa and the Mothers
Were at the best place around
But some stupid with a flare gun
Burned the place to the ground
Smoke on the water
A fire in the sky
Smoke on the water
“Aha! Mr. Arthur Brown himself”as Zappa can be heard saying on the bootleg of the actual show. Hopefully we don’t end up seeing a large fire in the sky.
Media Lies About Ukraine/Russia – The Jimmy Dore Show.
Quoting far right sources like err- Noam Chomsky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt3Zv-e4n1M
Nobody’s under any illusions that there aren’t Putin fan boys on the left.
…err…speaking as a left winger…who hates yanks…your enemy is my friend…even Belarus…
No. He isn’t.B ut if that’s your approach, maybe you should quit lecturing about all the deaths Clinton is responsible for, because your ‘friends’ have racked up an impressive body count of their own.
…ah here…the only ones interested in body bags was you yankee apologists…if the Russians were only interested in killing Ukranians they would have let off a few cruise missiles on big cities…from the safety of their ‘bunkers’…
Of course he’s not ONLY interested in killing Ukrainians, he also wants to own Ukraine.
You know, I always respected your anti-war attitude to Clinton because I thought you were anti-war because war kills people and causes destruction, and I always kept it in mind when I supported Clinton that yes, she had been responsible for a disastrous military adventure. Then it turned out you were JUST anti-Clinton-war and pro-Assad/Putin/Belarus/Ghadaffi/any dictator that’s hostile to the US. I don’t really respect your attitude any more.
…I’m desolate that I’ve lost your respect Nigel…judging from your previous replies I’d never have guessed…but you are right, I am very anti-US…crooked Hillary was just one of a long list of US adventurists…over 80% of all wars since 1945 have been instigated by US…you are also right that I admire the part that Russia played in preventing regime change in Syria…the peace in the North owes more to Ghadaffis semtex than Clintons’ intervention…
Weren’t there rumours about KGB support for the IRA as well? No wonder you admire Putin’s terror tactics.
Must gall you that Clinton gets so much credit for the peace. Fair play Bill.
Talks going to start between Russia/Ukraine in Belarus. Hopefully a peaceful outcome is agreed.
It would be very useful if Broadsheet published a link or information on how you sign up to fight with the Ukrainians against the invaders.
I’d go, and I know a few others who said the same.
I would assume broadsheet wants to appear impartial. Recruiting on behalf of one country would undo that.
Fair enough. Broadsheet has always been impartial on recent issues.
…can I welcome my new comrades* to the pursuit of truth and the welcoming of all resistance to yankee and NATO expansionism…
*whatdoya mean you think you’ve jumped on the wrong bandwagon
Oh, please do. Take Ce, Stephen, Nigel, etc with you too. I’ll even donate to that GoFundMe to send you guys over to get stuck in.
Will you be here fighting your underground guerilla war against the Evil Cabal?
Iskander missiles were launched from Belarus to Ukraine around 5 p.m. an adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister said.
Belarus is an active belligerent in this conflict. Every form of sanctions announced against Russia should also apply to fellow despot Lukashenko’s regime.
Hard to see the Ukrainians agreeing to anything less than an complete withdrawal of Russian forces which Putin will never agree to @ these “peace talks” which look like a rouse for domestic consumption.
Those peace talks, meaning the Minsk protocol, is what Ukraine previously signed up to.
Russia also signatories, but continued to supply armaments and planted special forces among the separatists. That Minsk Agreement?
Of course- just like the US continued to fund and supply arms to the neo Nazis.
You don’t have to pick a side here- it is not a football match.
One is a an agressively hostile neighbour undermining the state, the other is an ally providing support. You don’t have to pick a side but you don’t have to be stupid, either.
“Putin is John Bull, arming and supporting Loyalist secessionists in their bid to thwart the democratically expressed will of the Irish people.”
How does that work for you?
https://twitter.com/vonderleyen/status/1497972564634882048
Ursula von der Leyen
@vonderleyen
We are stepping up our support for Ukraine.
For the first time, the EU will finance the purchase and delivery of weapons and equipment to a country under attack. We are also strengthening our sanctions against the Kremlin.
⚡️Missile from Belarusian territory fired at Zhytomyr airport, Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security reported.
The strike occurred a few hours after Ukraine confirmed peace talks with Russia on the Ukrainian-Belarusian border. There is no such thing as a double negative – to which an Irish mans reply is of course – “yeh…, right”
Looking forward to the Lukashenko apologist comments… Ryanair is pretty awful but not sure they deserved the hijacking…
⚡️Missile from Belarusian territory fired at Zhytomyr airport, Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security reported.
The strike occurred a few hours after Ukraine confirmed peace talks with Russia on the Ukrainian-Belarusian border. There is no such thing as a double positive – to which an Irish mans reply is of course – “yeh…, right”
Would you like an Irish coffee?
EU closes airspace to Russian-owned, Russian-registered or Russian-controlled aircraft. They will not be permitted to land, take off or fly over the territory of the European Union. This applies to the private jets of the oligarchs. The sleeping giant is awakening from its slumber & its not a BFG
…keep poking there Stephen boy…
Russia criminalises as ‘treason’ acts supportive of Ukraine- Interfax
In case you missed it…
From the independent –
“Russia has criminalised any act it deems to be supportive of Ukraine as “treason”, the Interfax news agency has reported.
The crime will reportedly carry a punishment of 20 years in prison.
Interfax cited the Russian prosecutor-general’s office, saying: “A legal assessment will be given for each fact of providing financial and other assistance to a foreign state in activities directed against the security of the Russian Federation.””
I wonder if that will include taking out money from a bank on monday morning…
When you are threatening your own citizens during a war, that’s generally an indication things might not be going well. Clearly not much appetite for the blitz spirit in the Moscow metro. The peasants and the serfs are revolting
“When you are threatening your own citizens during a war, that’s generally an indication things might not be going well” kind of like all Western countries attacking their own citizens who dared question the Covid hysteria?
Maybe they were just denazifying them?
EU bans Russia Today, Sputnik. Russia’s two main propaganda networks are now to shut down all across the union.
Canada bans Russia from airspace.
Neutral Sweden has just announced that it will provide 5,000 anti-armor missile launchers, 5,000 armor sets, 5,000 helmets and 135,000 field rations to the armed forces of Ukraine.
BP Chief Executive Bernard Looney on the decision to exit %19.75 stake from Russian oil giant Rosneft
It’s all going a bit Pete Tong for Vlad
That’s big.
Now everyone needs to divest of BP.
Norway’s PM says the country’ sovereign wealth fund (the largest in the world) will divest its Russia holdings & Norway plans to send non-lethal military equipment to Ukraine. If you have deeply out of the money put options on the MOEX well tomorrow is payday.
Get the last of the Rubles
I’m not going to say I predicted this – though I thought it wouldn’t really kick off until tomorrow.
“I’m In Shock”: Russians Scramble To Pull Money From ATMs As Bank Runs Begin
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/im-shock-russians-scramble-pull-money-atms-bank-runs-begin
This is from ZH which usually to the right of Uncle Adolf on the issues of the day – they were (are) the home the big steal, its only the flu, CRT & wokism is for devil worshipping paedo commies, & of course they will never invade editorial lines (the comments section is not for the faint hearted)
For a few rubles less
Galway’s Underground Railroad:
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/the-night-our-family-rescued-15-women-from-a-magdalene-laundry-41389564.html
Are we keeping track of the copious BS posts flooding Western media and social media? Those 13 “heroes” on Snake Island who told the Russian warship to “go f yourself” before being killed? Oh, they’re all still alive it seems. That granny with a bloody bandaged head that filled every western papers front page? Oh, that’s from a 2018 article about a gas explosion in an apt block. That “Russian” armoured vehicle cruely driving over a Ukrainian civilians car? Oh, that’s actually a Ukrainian armoured vehicle driving over a Ukrainian car in 2014. The NATO propaganda is in overdrive and the imbecile class are lapping it up like they always do. I would encourage Stephen and Co to answer the call and get on the next flight eastward bound to join the much proclaimed new “International Brigades”. Get stuck in lads. Freedom and democracy needs its cannon fodder.
I’ll have a word with Ursula VDL especially for you and tell her that she just imagined all the stuff she just said this afternoon and I’ll tell the Swedes, the Norwegians, BP, Canada, the pesky ungrateful Czechs ( after all the USSR did for them )et al to get back in their box and not to be upsetting despots on their day off after a long hard week invading another sovereign nation contrary to international law & the UN charter. I’m sure they will put out a disclaimer. I’ll tell them to cc you.
Oh Stephen, you’re hilariously gullible. Buy that ticket, get on the plane, to the front with ya! You act like Sweden are some independent non aligned country. Such low intellect low information gullibility. You’ll be seeing mystery Russian subs off the coast soon. Put your snorkel on and intercept with righteous anger. Anyway, while you fools swallow the psych theatre, I’m prepared for the fallout you seem oblivious to. Tell us Stephen, what will you do if you wake up in the morning and the bank machines aren’t working? Poo your pants once you realise what that means I suspect. You haven’t a clue what’s going on.
Either that or you’re gulping down a lot of pro-Putin propaganda.
Poor Nigel, the media have switched from telling you to be frightened of Covid (now a total non issue apparently) to new scary bogeyman Putin. As I’ve said before, I don’t think you’re a bad person, just an innocent naive gullible fool open to easy emotional manipulation. I wish you all the best for the coming years. You’re going to need it.
Covid has killed millions and Putin just invaded Ukraine but you’re too smart to… um… acknowledge their reality? I guess?
Won’t someone think of the smart bombs!
Never heard of this Verify outfit before but their fact checking is interesting.
https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/world-verify/fact-checking-viral-images-videos-ukraine-russia-invasion-attack/536-795de4b3-69fa-4904-a00e-4197aac12a1d
Then there is the one doing the rounds about the woman who has been killed by the Russians…err three times? Some woman she must be.
…wow…even smart Mattie on the same side…why do I still feel not worthy…
Bad for business – https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/27/two-top-russian-billionaires-speak-out-against-invasion-of-ukraine
Russia Government doesn’t want their dead –
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/02/27/ukraine-launches-website-for-russians-to-find-killed-soldiers-a76628
Now Belarusian Fat Joffrey getting in on the act and lobbing bombs. Just in time for ‘peace talks’.
There’s talk that Kepa Arrizabalaga’s penalty effort brought down a Russian Sukhoi Su-35. Can anyone confirm?
Dynamo Caoimh*. It just had to be.
H/t Guardian BTL
No wonder he knows when bears are full of BS (that’s BS & not BS of course)
Volodymyr Zelensky was the Ukrainian voice of Paddington Bear – see upper left hand corner
https://twitter.com/seraphim_rt/status/1498018912981585924
Pizza time – Hillary & George’s basement place just sent one over, mind you the Pizza boy did seem underage…
Peace talks at Pripyat, not the most fertile of environments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1_IpbBjGpQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LSzV-uniCw
This series of moronic comments is what happens when people start to think that flattening a country, with no distinction drawn between military & civilian targets, then rolling into the ruins, declaring victory, is actually what War is. That’s what the US did to Iraq, a travesty, a crime against humanity, an evil act by a stupid, ruthless, nasty regime.
Russia is engaged in a war to capture Ukraine, not destroy it & they will succeed. Three hours into this, the Ukrainian air force was sidelined, after that, the Russians could’ve bombed the Ukrainian army or civilian infrastructure out of existence but they’re trying to capture Ukraine, without reducing the place to rubble. The bulk of the Ukrainian army is slowly being encircled, as are the cities but electricity, water & even the internet is still working in Kiyv.
The Russian generals trained with the generals commanding the Ukrainian forces, they don’t intend to kill their former drinking buddies, just accept their surrender, probably by the end of next week. Meanwhile, Zelensky is running around like a headlesss chicken, giving orders that everyone ignores, handing out 10,000 AK47s to civilians, in the hope that when they’re mown down by professional soldiers, the number of civilian deaths will prompt the West to get involved. Criminal gangs in Kiyv promptly took to the streets to put the AKs to use on their rivals. The Army are not paying any attention to the US puppet Zelensky, many of it’s brigades never did & the trickle of Ukrainian soldiers surrendering from the very start will soon become a flood, 60,000 soldiers are already in “The Cauldron” in the north & although Putin will not order their annihilation, their Generals will know when the game is up.
In the face of the surgical efficiency of Russia’s campaign, the Western media has been spewing out desperate, pathetic fairytales & utterly ridiculous stories, so the childishly bad normie takes on display here are hardly surprising, but still, my God, our educational system has clearly disintegrated, the childish nature of the thought processes on display is genuinely astonishing. You lads & lassies are really, really, really naive.
This is Art.
…endless art.
take out the t and add an se…
One of your best yet
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZp0lPPXYAAcKqv?format=jpg&name=900×900
The vaccine that you were stuck with has really damaged you, hasn’t it?
Thank fupp the Coruscation of Crosserlough is here to toilet train us all
Here, ‘use’ this before you go to sleep
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FMobl-XWUAM9rq0?format=jpg&name=900×900
You know you really want to
Fearganainm, your humour is toilet
But please don’t ever bespoil it
Give the spikee the anvil
Up his hole shove a candle
And please don’t stop to pre-oil it!
If Russia stops shooting the war (which they started by invading a independent sovereign nation) is over. If Ukraine stops shooting they cease to exist. Putin is gone the full Jack Torrence and Russia is Billy no mates. Maybe you’ve been advising this guy. ?
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1497975596294361089
Sasha Baron Cohen put on some weight and ripped off Inspector Clouseau???… thanks for that, although the laughing hurt… Looking forward to The Pink Putin, coming soon…
Those poor kleptocrats. To lose one Italian villa is unfortunate but to lose two is plain irresponsible…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10557153/Prominent-Putin-propagandist-rages-live-TV-losing-Italian-villas-sanctions.html
I suppose if they can’t have nice things, Russian Fat Joffrey will make sure nobody can.
Ruble down 20% as Auckland picks up the baton & says FTF have you naughty Europeans being doing spanking poor hapless Putin all w/e. Kosovo has applied to join NATO , the plucky Finns (who have a bit of form with Putin’s grandad) have just garnered enough signatories to make NATO membership a live referendum issue. Putin is the gift that just keeps giving (it all away). We proudly crown you “despot of the week”.
“Boris Johnson [real name Boris Toryeskivich DeFluffer Thanks-for-the-Cash Johnson] has accused Russian news channel RT of “peddling” material that is “doing a lot of damage to the truth”.”….. and he should definitely know…
Going to be interesting to see if the Oligarchs spill some Tory beans… over the coming days/weeks
You’re probably familiar with the excellent investigative work done by the bylinetimes regarding the inner workings of trouser snake BJ’s Tories- but just in case here a couple of their dispatched hot off the presses – one a the very few resources I subscribe to – but their stuff isn’t firewalled
https://bylinetimes.com/2022/02/25/the-real-trojan-horse-beware-russians-bearing-gifts/
https://bylinetimes.com/2022/02/24/boris-johnson-allowed-russian-interference-into-the-uk-as-putin-prepared-for-war/