Putin is a ****, must be the fault of a man who’s no longer the American president.
The Millie Obnoxious™
I see the fine art of nuance is alive and well.
Nullzero
Nuance? Jesus H Christ Putin has been in power for two decades and there were a couple of two term American presidents who did nothing about him either. But let’s blame the last fella. Trump is an insufferable pillock but he’s not to blame for everything.
The Millie Obnoxious™
I completely agree, actually. My apologies, I thought you were making a ham-handed point, but obviously misread it.
However, I think to discount Trump’s influence on these events is probably a bit simplistic too. In the same way, I think Germany under Merkel (and by extension the EU) became too cosy dealing with Putin and too reliant on their resources, the results of which we are of course now seeing.
But then hindsight etc…
Nullzero
Trump was president for four years. Obama and W Bush never did anything to stand up to Putin and they were each in power for twice as long as Trump.
Name a western leader over the last two deco and they’ve failed to grasp the nettle that is Vladimir Putin. The constant drive to make the invasion of Ukraine out to be the fault of Donald Trump by some people is just an example of how the people who spent the entire Trump presidency saying Trump was the new Hitler have about as much imagination as they have insight.
Blaming Trump for the Ukraine invasion has nothing to do with stopping the invasion and everything to do with western political point scoring. I’m sure the people in Ukraine running for their lives from Russian shelling attacks are hoping that if nothing else happens that Donald Trumps supposed involvement in their plight is highlighted through the medium of political hit pieces and an endless barrage of hilarious memes.
Trustin Judeau
trump derangement syndrome strikes again
Yes of course, more and more weapons to the Ukrainians would have stopped this… er wait, no it wouldnt
scottser
Here comes soq to justify the bombing of a maternity hospital..
Hughie Luas
Sisters of Charity next up.
SOQ
Who is your employer? Because you clearly have one.
paul
Speak for yourself.
Mad
Delaney’s gone back on the whine
The Millie Obnoxious™
Most people have an employer, Queenie.
SOQ
Not one where the job is to comment on websites they don’t.
The Millie Obnoxious™
Not everyone who disagrees with you is paid to do so, you know.
Tom J
@SOQ
So you are self-employed then.
scottser
well it ain’t putin, some old qanon.
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
he’d shout for something better than Bing
scottser
he’s got yandex, don’t you know.
Me So Harney
Ukrainian Azov battalion shelling the maternity hospital.
The Millie Obnoxious™
Do you have a source for that?
Vlad X. Novichok
Toady Choads hot for Putin boner snot love peace so much they don’t care how many dead babies in bombed maternity hospitals Putin has tocover with rubble to get it. But, you know, they’ll do the patriotic thing and say they did it to themselves. ‘Stop bobbing yourself dead baby, stop bombing yourself.’
Duncan Wheeler
Meanwhile back at Putins’ willie.
Vlad X. Novichok
Toady Choads hot for Putin boner snot do love a bit of dead child in the morning. Or bits.
Shayna
Darragh McIntyre ‘s report on The BBC broke my heart, he spoke with an old dear, Valla., She’s 82. She’d escaped Ukraine on her own – she said it was with the kindness of strangers that she arrived in Poland. She has no family and was at the mercy of further kindness. There’s been calls for an International Brigade to defend Ukraine, non-combat trained, need not apply. If only we had Irish types, not from The Army, whom we could send?
benblack
Tyrone GAA types, perhaps?
And, let’s not discriminate, Camogie players, too.
Women have a vital role in protecting our democratic way of life.
Trade your hurleys for an AK-47, Mná na hÉireann – protect democracy!
Fearganainm
Tyrone isn’t such an unlikely spot. Among Charlie Donnelly’s final words his remark that “even the olives are bleeding,” have echoed down the years.
Mind you, we’ve a smattering of dictator fanboys here who would probably have sailed with O’Duffy’s crew:
To be fair, camog -sure! That wasn’t the army I was talking about! Who knows better than are locked up from Colombia? I think there’s @ 4 still alive, if they were unleashed – Good-night Moscow.
Fearganainm
There were three.
And the one with the required skill set is 77 this year – give him a break.
Steph Pinker
BB, considering you wrote ‘hurleys’ I reckon you’re a KK man… or at a push, maybe… Cork.
Mad
Camán, man!
stephen moran
This is what Putin’s army did in Grozny. It’s what they did in Aleppo. It’s what they do. Their go-to calling card is committing atrocities against innocent civilians when there is any resistance. We’re seeing the true blood red colours of Putin’s totalitarianism and his fascist army in action. Maybe we could dispatch Ireland’s own Florence Nightingale Claire Daly on a “fact finding” field trip to inspect her paymasters war crimes first hand.
benblack
Her paymaster is the European parliament – which she is, democratically, elected to represent the people of Ireland.
Well done, Clare Daly, and more power to you.
SOQ
+1
f_lawless
“Russia plotting a chemical attack” according to The Telegraph. Haven’t we been here before? In 2018 when Assad was making serious grounds and on the verge of regaining control of the Syrian city of Dhouma, he supposedly commits the one act (a chemical weapons attack) that would give US-led forces a pretext for a full-scale intervention in Syria. Whistleblowers from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons later confirmed it to have been a false allegation. A crude “false flag” operation by US/UK backed proxy forces.
What strategic advantage would Russian forces have a plotting a chemical attack at this point? Anti-Russian hysteria has been whipped up to unprecedented levels in the West by Western media. No chance of convincing Western audiences it was the Ukrainians. Try to pull one over on the Russian public at the expense of a hot war with NATO? Not remotely worth it. No strategic advantage, but Putin is going to do it just because he’s a “crazy evil doer”?
With NATO currently showing hesitancy to get overtly involved in a hot war with Russia, in my view it’s not hard to see that if Western corporate media is fingering Russia for an imminent chemical attack, then the immediate suspicion is that the danger lies with either elements within the Ukrainian forces or else CIA-trained agent provocateurs seeking to draw NATO further into the conflict.
Considering some of the atrocities that have been carried out by Ukrainian forces in the bombing of their own civilians in the Donbas region over the last 8 years or so, it’s doesn’t stretch credulity that the more extremist elements within their forces could be prepared to go to similar lengths if it promised serious gains in a propaganda war.
Steph Pinker
f_lawless, don’t be surprised if you read about many non-Ukranian [international] civilians lacking military training signing up to go similar lengths with fewer, if any gains.
Pure propaganda; potential death for many.
It’s not a war yet, there’s still time to negotiate.
Nigel
Laying the groundwork to cover for future Russian chemical attacks.
bisted
…since when has US/NATO needed flimsy excuses to justify intervention…careful what you wish for Nigel…this bear bites back…
Nigel
The only thing I wished for is for people not to cover for Putin’s chemical attacks.
Yes we know this bear bites. It just mauled a maternity hospital. Maybe a newborn baby poked him?
bisted
…I don’t think you believe any of this spin…no matter how much you feign otherwise…
Nigel
I don’t think you disbelieve it, no matter how much you feign otherwise.
Duncan Wheeler
Those darned white helmets enabling false flag events in a war coming to you soon. It is staggering the blindness of folk who it seems wilfully ignore the evidence. Assad has the support of his peopkle which is why he hasn’t been ‘changed’ Ghadaffi the same but was betrayed by his own greedy politicians. Not forgetting bombing Serbia under demonstrably false pretext. Nato/US are the most evil warmongers of the past 60 years. I can think of no instutions that have created so much chaos out of functioning soverign states on the same scale. Most of S. America. Middleeast, Europe, Africa, all negatively effected. No sanctions, No fines and when Julian Assange does provide direct evidence of war crimes commited by the US he gets hounded into jail in the UK. Could the disliked in his country & neo-nazi Zelensky have bombed his own childrens hospital? Yes. Is it likely that Putin, given his stated aims, bombed a childrens hospital? I doubt it. Prove me wrong.
Of course you know that the ‘prove me wrong’ was getting at your modus operandi to see how you’d take it. You obviously can’t handle it. Tsk tsk.
You can’t have it both ways. Then again, sure it’s Nigel, so Nigel does what makes Nigel feel good at any particular moment in time – ‘ busted flush’ must be a real good feeling then, as it’s a regular occurrence.
Nigel
I said it once, so it’s my modus operandi? How many times have you said it?
GiggidyGoo
Yep, you said it, and I repeat it back to you – in cases like above – to show the busted flush that you are. Simples.
Nigel
That’s your excuse anyway.
GiggidyGoo
Aaaannnndddd, Nigel runs out of road once again.
Nigel
At least I have a road. You’re just yelling at me from the ditch as I go past.
GiggidyGoo
You’ve run out of road = you haven’t got road anymore. Try again. I know getting the last word in is important to you.
Nigel
But you’re well dug-in to that ditch.
I particularly enjoy it when you think you have to explain and repeat the entirely commonplace expressions you use as if they’re obscure or difficult concepts because you’re worried they didn’t hit home.
GiggidyGoo
I know they hit home, I’m just playing with you now, and you’re so thick you can’t see it.
Nigel
Sure they did. Trying to hit people on the road from your ditch, you take what you can get.
GiggidyGoo
The George Hook of BS.
Busted flush. Tsk tsk.
Off you toddle and lick your wounds then.
Nigel
I’ll toddle along my road, you go find anouther ditch.
GiggidyGoo
Don’t forget to lick the wounds now
Nigel
Don’t forget to avoid the nettles.
GiggidyGoo
Tear along the dotted line.
Nigel
I know you can’t see very clearly from your ditch, but those are called ‘road markings.’
SOQ
And so is the funder of Azov? There are plenty of neo-Nazi Jews, the two are not mutually exclusive.
Nigel
If you’re going to accuse a Jewish person of being a neo-Nazi you should probably have proof other than the presence of some neo-Nazis in his country of 43 million.
SOQ
No- just search for yourself.
I charge for such education- Bitcoin.
We all know where that originated now don’t we?
Nigel
Straight from the Russian Embassy was it?
SOQ
Why are you so reluctant to disclose your nationality Nigel account?
What is your nationality Nigel?
Nigel
Well that’s a non sequiter.
f_lawless
For the sake of some balance, here’s a quote from the statement made by Russia’s representative at the UN Security Council Meeting on the 7th of March a few days before the hospital incident :
‘By our records, 200 thousand civilians are trapped in Mariupol alone and held at gunpoint by the Azov battalion. The humanitarian situation in cities deteriorates rapidly. As for humanitarians who are ready to help, they cannot get in there and prevent the unfolding disaster. People in other regions of Ukraine that have been blocked by nationalist battalions find themselves in the same desperate situation.
Ukrainian radicals show their true face more distinctly by the day. Locals reports that Ukraine’s Armed Forces kicked out personnel of natal hospital #1 of the city of Mariupol and set up a firing site within the facility. Besides, they fully destroyed one of the city’s kindergartens.
..let me quote the mayor of Sumy, Mr. Oleksandr Lysenko, who made the following statement today jointly with a commander of a nationalist battalion: “There will be no green corridors, no civilian will exit to Russia, and those who attempt doing so will be shot”. ‘
Again, I don’t find this implausible because I’m familiar with the grotesque propaganda tactics – such as the use of hospitals to stage military operations – that have been used in the “Dirty War” waged against Syrians.
Fearganainm
March 2nd – a few days before Russia’s representative gave his version of reality at the UN Security Council Meeting:
Nobody got ‘kicked out’ – maternity services were moved to a basement.
Maybe the ‘local reports’ the Russians claim to have had – if they existed at all – didn’t really have a clue about what was going on in the maternity unit.
Steph Pinker
BS, regarding one of your older posts titled ‘The World That Philip Cairns Felt So Threatened By Is Becoming Much Clearer’; I didn’t know Gardaí were appealing for witnesses [2021] and that someone had written a book about his disappearance – not to mention the theoretical aspects and *insights* of such a tragedy.
Paper never refuses ink.
Steph Pinker
* Apparently, the book is written by Irish Sunday Mirror journalist Emma McMenamy titled The Boy Who Never Came Home.
bisted
…have to agree with Newton Emerson on the front page of the IT…a major demographic shift seems to be taking place in the North and one of the major benefactors will be Alliance…they seem to be mopping up the middle class vote from the UUP, DUP and SDLP…DUP look like they might not even come third…I’m going to call it SF first and Alliance second…
Mad
Are they not just Labour toasted on one side?
bisted
…hah…nice analogy…I’ve written it down and shall pass it on as my own!
TenPin Terry
Ukraine residents, even in the middle of an invasion, are being targeted by opinion pollsters.
And it’s clear who they see as their real friends and supporters in the conflict.
Quite rightly they put a higher price on thousands of UK anti-tank weapons and the latest anti-aircraft technology being given them rather than a slight snafu over refugees.
Well done Boris.Rising to the challenge at a time of international crisis.A true Churchill for our times.
And second only to Zelensky in popularity.
We’ve got your back Ukraine.
Marvellous™
I’m sure history will remember, even if the English do not. And for my own part, I think comparisons of Boris with Churchill are quite accurate.
But I’m not a fan of Churchill, for all he was a great orator.
SOQ
Zelenskyy was apparently very unpopular before this broke out but if you listen to the western media, he is the opposite. It would be very interesting to know what the Ukrainian public’s opinion of him is now, but you can be certain that if it is bad, then it will be buried.
As for supplying the Ukrainian KKK with weapons go- that is an act of war- except Russia is not calling it out because the implications are huge. The US has been trying to push Poland into the front line to supply aeroplanes but Poland knows the implications and are refusing.
It is mad to think that all of this is because Zelenskyy will not commit to a position of neutrality- but then again, if Biden can have the top Ukrainian prosecutor sacked, it is pretty obvious that this is a government in name only.
Nigel
No, this is all because Putin invaded Ukraine. Wonder how popular Putin is in Russia? Oh, I forgot, it’s irrelevant.
SOQ
This is probably way to complicated for you but anyways- Russia has no interest in subsuming Ukraine- they want a neutral buffer between them and NATO. Something Ukraine is claiming to be but obviously is not- especially with those Nazis running about.
That’s not complicated, that’s stupid. I can’t see how you can force a country to be neutral by invading it. Forcing a country to be your buffer is essentially restoring it to its status when it was part of the USSR. Which Putin has said is what he wants.
paddy apathy
Why should an independent sovereign country have their constitution written for them by a foreign invader?
SOQ
There is no evidence that Russia wants to replicate the USSR- absolutely none- just more spin and BS.
As for the independence argument, funny that it is so important for Ukraine but not for all the other countries the US has levelled? If you are on the doorstep of a super power- ANY super power- then you do not threaten them or they will retaliate- it really is that simple.
All they have to do is commit to independence but they won’t, because it is a corrupt Nazi kip of a place, bankrolled by the US.
paddy apathy
Russia might not want to recreate the USSR but Putin certainly does, it’s one of his most often stated objectives.
Nigel
Turning Ukraine into a buffer state against the West isn’t replicating the USSR?
The US isn’t levelling Ukraine, Russia is.
bisted
…should you not be off practising your ‘duck and cover’ Nigel?
The Millie Obnoxious™
Hi Bodger, my comments seem to be going straight to moderation. Just wondering if there’s a reason? Thanks :)
Bodger
Millie, I’ll check that. Nothing personal.
The Millie Obnoxious™
Merci beaucoup, mon ami
stephen moran
de Pfeffel is an odious grifter as are his cabal of Kleptocrats (Jacob Reek Smirk et al) – He’s a perfect product of Eton which we all know is Hogwarts for w*nkers where you learn Latin and money laundering dressed in a morning suit. The man hasn’t a compassionate bone in his body indeed the one only he’s worried about is getting back to waving his trouser snake round with impunity – Churchill wouldn’t give him the steam of his pi$$ – here are are your heroes action yesterday
Blighty has provided more than 3,000 anti-tank weapons which are helping to stop Putin’s army in its tank tracks.
Ireland plans to change the name of the road the Russian Embassy is on in Dublin.
Morto.
in other words, blighty makes a profit on the war and lets russian kleptocrats away with a nice little drink and a pat on the arse while ireland and the eu deal with the human carnage. that’s actually what you meant isn’t it?
SOQ
Thing is, if you are a weapons manufacturer, you need a mini war every now and again to show case new tech. After the Falklands for example, there was a huge increase in British sales and if a few thousand people get killed or displaced- sure what odds.
It is all wrapped in jingoistic bollocks about helping this side or that side, but it’s actually about product placement- its a disgusting industry.
scottser
i couldn’t agree more.
TenPin Terry
Well I suppose it does give the Ukrainians more of a chance of fighting the Russian army than with handbags, your preferred weapon of choice on here …
TenPin Terry
The people of Ukraine are incredibly grateful for Boris coming to their rescue at a time when Germany and France and their underlings in the EU like Ireland were trying to appease Putin.
Talk is cheap – NLAWs are not.
Britain led the world on vaccines and it’s leading the world in the fightback against a tyrant.
No wonder so many people from all over the world are sooo desperate to move there.
We’ll try our best to look after you all lads but we’re a tad busy at the mo.
TenPin Terry
What’s that you say ? How are the EU responding to the refugee crisis ?
Sanctions.
But against Poland and Hungary.
Where most Ukrainian refugees are now heading.
Nice one Brussels.
Great timing as ever.
and as soon as poland and hungary get on board with with the eu’s pro lgbt stance, the sooner those sanctions will be lifted. that’s the problem with you tans, you just never understood what the eu was actually for.
TenPin Terry
Indeed, that’s why we left.
You however are happy to hand over your sovereignty, decision-making, laws and independence to the likes of Druncker and his ilk in the corrupt and unaccountable EU.
Get off your knees you snivelling cur.
Michael Collins would be spinning in his grave if he saw simpering fools like you rimming the fat cats of Brussels.
This video of a Russian military column coming under attack and retreating was geolocated to 50.587111, 30.837889…Filmed in Brovary, northeast of Kyiv:
i am shocked,shocked to find….one FG’s biggest supporters involved in this!
“The Attorney General is acting in a private capacity for former directors of Independent News & Media in their dealings with High Court inspectors who are investigating the company’s affairs.” IT
the Ag’s weekend nixer comes back to haunt him,oh stop its Ireland.
sniffing around in the staffs emails.
“Mr Webb and Ms Scott, along with Mr O’Reilly and Karl Brophy, who was INM’s director of corporate affairs, were the four people whose email accounts and private data was most closely targeted in the illegal secret data operation ordered by former INM chairman Leslie Buckley and paid for by a company connected to Denis O’Brien, who in 2014 was INM’s major shareholder.”
“Mediahuis’s law firm, Matheson, outlines in legal documents lodged in recent weeks as part of the case that Blaydon paid an invoice of €46,260 that was submitted in December 2015 to INM by Welsh IT firm TDS. It also refers to a separate invoice of €14,944.50 that was submitted in December 2016 to Mr O’Brien’s Island Capital group by DMZ Limited, a company connected to IT consultant Derek Mizak, who helped Mr Buckley with the data operation.”
Meta Platforms will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in the context of the Ukraine invasion, according to internal emails seen by Reuters on Thursday, in a temporary change to its hate speech policy.
The social media company is also temporarily allowing some posts that call for death to Russian President Vladimir Putin or Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in countries including Russia, Ukraine and Poland, according to a series of internal emails to its content moderators. These calls for death will be allowed unless they contain other targets or have two indicators of credibility, such as the location or method, one email said, in a recent change to the company’s rules on violence and incitement.
Meta did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Last week, Russia said it was banning Facebook in the country in response to what it said were restrictions of access to Russian media on the platform. Moscow has cracked down on tech companies during its invasion of Ukraine, which it calls a “special operation.” Many major social media platforms have announced new content restrictions around the conflict, including blocking Russian state media RT and Sputnik in Europe, and have demonstrated carve-outs in some of their policies during the war.
Emails also showed that Meta would allow praise of the right-wing Azov battalion, which is normally prohibited, in a change first reported by The Intercept. Meta spokesman Joe Osborne previously said the company was “for the time being, making a narrow exception for praise of the Azov Regiment strictly in the context of defending Ukraine, or in their role as part of the Ukraine National Guard.”
When Ukraine needed U.S. backing, all they got was Donald Trump’s corruption:
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/when-ukraine-needed-u-s-backing-all-they-got-was-donald-trump-s-corruption-134928965510
Putin is a ****, must be the fault of a man who’s no longer the American president.
I see the fine art of nuance is alive and well.
Nuance? Jesus H Christ Putin has been in power for two decades and there were a couple of two term American presidents who did nothing about him either. But let’s blame the last fella. Trump is an insufferable pillock but he’s not to blame for everything.
I completely agree, actually. My apologies, I thought you were making a ham-handed point, but obviously misread it.
However, I think to discount Trump’s influence on these events is probably a bit simplistic too. In the same way, I think Germany under Merkel (and by extension the EU) became too cosy dealing with Putin and too reliant on their resources, the results of which we are of course now seeing.
But then hindsight etc…
Trump was president for four years. Obama and W Bush never did anything to stand up to Putin and they were each in power for twice as long as Trump.
Name a western leader over the last two deco and they’ve failed to grasp the nettle that is Vladimir Putin. The constant drive to make the invasion of Ukraine out to be the fault of Donald Trump by some people is just an example of how the people who spent the entire Trump presidency saying Trump was the new Hitler have about as much imagination as they have insight.
Blaming Trump for the Ukraine invasion has nothing to do with stopping the invasion and everything to do with western political point scoring. I’m sure the people in Ukraine running for their lives from Russian shelling attacks are hoping that if nothing else happens that Donald Trumps supposed involvement in their plight is highlighted through the medium of political hit pieces and an endless barrage of hilarious memes.
trump derangement syndrome strikes again
Yes of course, more and more weapons to the Ukrainians would have stopped this… er wait, no it wouldnt
Here comes soq to justify the bombing of a maternity hospital..
Sisters of Charity next up.
Who is your employer? Because you clearly have one.
Speak for yourself.
Delaney’s gone back on the whine
Most people have an employer, Queenie.
Not one where the job is to comment on websites they don’t.
Not everyone who disagrees with you is paid to do so, you know.
@SOQ
So you are self-employed then.
well it ain’t putin, some old qanon.
he’d shout for something better than Bing
he’s got yandex, don’t you know.
Ukrainian Azov battalion shelling the maternity hospital.
Do you have a source for that?
Toady Choads hot for Putin boner snot love peace so much they don’t care how many dead babies in bombed maternity hospitals Putin has tocover with rubble to get it. But, you know, they’ll do the patriotic thing and say they did it to themselves. ‘Stop bobbing yourself dead baby, stop bombing yourself.’
Meanwhile back at Putins’ willie.
Toady Choads hot for Putin boner snot do love a bit of dead child in the morning. Or bits.
Darragh McIntyre ‘s report on The BBC broke my heart, he spoke with an old dear, Valla., She’s 82. She’d escaped Ukraine on her own – she said it was with the kindness of strangers that she arrived in Poland. She has no family and was at the mercy of further kindness. There’s been calls for an International Brigade to defend Ukraine, non-combat trained, need not apply. If only we had Irish types, not from The Army, whom we could send?
Tyrone GAA types, perhaps?
And, let’s not discriminate, Camogie players, too.
Women have a vital role in protecting our democratic way of life.
Trade your hurleys for an AK-47, Mná na hÉireann – protect democracy!
Tyrone isn’t such an unlikely spot. Among Charlie Donnelly’s final words his remark that “even the olives are bleeding,” have echoed down the years.
Mind you, we’ve a smattering of dictator fanboys here who would probably have sailed with O’Duffy’s crew:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAsJPnHzyBQ
To be fair, camog -sure! That wasn’t the army I was talking about! Who knows better than are locked up from Colombia? I think there’s @ 4 still alive, if they were unleashed – Good-night Moscow.
There were three.
And the one with the required skill set is 77 this year – give him a break.
BB, considering you wrote ‘hurleys’ I reckon you’re a KK man… or at a push, maybe… Cork.
Camán, man!
This is what Putin’s army did in Grozny. It’s what they did in Aleppo. It’s what they do. Their go-to calling card is committing atrocities against innocent civilians when there is any resistance. We’re seeing the true blood red colours of Putin’s totalitarianism and his fascist army in action. Maybe we could dispatch Ireland’s own Florence Nightingale Claire Daly on a “fact finding” field trip to inspect her paymasters war crimes first hand.
Her paymaster is the European parliament – which she is, democratically, elected to represent the people of Ireland.
Well done, Clare Daly, and more power to you.
+1
“Russia plotting a chemical attack” according to The Telegraph. Haven’t we been here before? In 2018 when Assad was making serious grounds and on the verge of regaining control of the Syrian city of Dhouma, he supposedly commits the one act (a chemical weapons attack) that would give US-led forces a pretext for a full-scale intervention in Syria. Whistleblowers from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons later confirmed it to have been a false allegation. A crude “false flag” operation by US/UK backed proxy forces.
What strategic advantage would Russian forces have a plotting a chemical attack at this point? Anti-Russian hysteria has been whipped up to unprecedented levels in the West by Western media. No chance of convincing Western audiences it was the Ukrainians. Try to pull one over on the Russian public at the expense of a hot war with NATO? Not remotely worth it. No strategic advantage, but Putin is going to do it just because he’s a “crazy evil doer”?
With NATO currently showing hesitancy to get overtly involved in a hot war with Russia, in my view it’s not hard to see that if Western corporate media is fingering Russia for an imminent chemical attack, then the immediate suspicion is that the danger lies with either elements within the Ukrainian forces or else CIA-trained agent provocateurs seeking to draw NATO further into the conflict.
Considering some of the atrocities that have been carried out by Ukrainian forces in the bombing of their own civilians in the Donbas region over the last 8 years or so, it’s doesn’t stretch credulity that the more extremist elements within their forces could be prepared to go to similar lengths if it promised serious gains in a propaganda war.
f_lawless, don’t be surprised if you read about many non-Ukranian [international] civilians lacking military training signing up to go similar lengths with fewer, if any gains.
Pure propaganda; potential death for many.
It’s not a war yet, there’s still time to negotiate.
Laying the groundwork to cover for future Russian chemical attacks.
…since when has US/NATO needed flimsy excuses to justify intervention…careful what you wish for Nigel…this bear bites back…
The only thing I wished for is for people not to cover for Putin’s chemical attacks.
Yes we know this bear bites. It just mauled a maternity hospital. Maybe a newborn baby poked him?
…I don’t think you believe any of this spin…no matter how much you feign otherwise…
I don’t think you disbelieve it, no matter how much you feign otherwise.
Those darned white helmets enabling false flag events in a war coming to you soon. It is staggering the blindness of folk who it seems wilfully ignore the evidence. Assad has the support of his peopkle which is why he hasn’t been ‘changed’ Ghadaffi the same but was betrayed by his own greedy politicians. Not forgetting bombing Serbia under demonstrably false pretext. Nato/US are the most evil warmongers of the past 60 years. I can think of no instutions that have created so much chaos out of functioning soverign states on the same scale. Most of S. America. Middleeast, Europe, Africa, all negatively effected. No sanctions, No fines and when Julian Assange does provide direct evidence of war crimes commited by the US he gets hounded into jail in the UK. Could the disliked in his country & neo-nazi Zelensky have bombed his own childrens hospital? Yes. Is it likely that Putin, given his stated aims, bombed a childrens hospital? I doubt it. Prove me wrong.
‘neo-nazi Zelensky’
He’s Jewish.
‘Prove me wrong.’
You haven’t produced any evidence to disprove.
So, it’s make your mind up time Nigel.
https://www.broadsheet.ie/2021/09/08/class-divide/#comment-2346477
You can’t have it both ways.
https://www.broadsheet.ie/2022/03/01/many-trucks-given/#comment-2402526
You too.
Of course you know that the ‘prove me wrong’ was getting at your modus operandi to see how you’d take it. You obviously can’t handle it. Tsk tsk.
You can’t have it both ways. Then again, sure it’s Nigel, so Nigel does what makes Nigel feel good at any particular moment in time – ‘ busted flush’ must be a real good feeling then, as it’s a regular occurrence.
I said it once, so it’s my modus operandi? How many times have you said it?
Yep, you said it, and I repeat it back to you – in cases like above – to show the busted flush that you are. Simples.
That’s your excuse anyway.
Aaaannnndddd, Nigel runs out of road once again.
At least I have a road. You’re just yelling at me from the ditch as I go past.
You’ve run out of road = you haven’t got road anymore. Try again. I know getting the last word in is important to you.
But you’re well dug-in to that ditch.
I particularly enjoy it when you think you have to explain and repeat the entirely commonplace expressions you use as if they’re obscure or difficult concepts because you’re worried they didn’t hit home.
I know they hit home, I’m just playing with you now, and you’re so thick you can’t see it.
Sure they did. Trying to hit people on the road from your ditch, you take what you can get.
The George Hook of BS.
Busted flush. Tsk tsk.
Off you toddle and lick your wounds then.
I’ll toddle along my road, you go find anouther ditch.
Don’t forget to lick the wounds now
Don’t forget to avoid the nettles.
Tear along the dotted line.
I know you can’t see very clearly from your ditch, but those are called ‘road markings.’
And so is the funder of Azov? There are plenty of neo-Nazi Jews, the two are not mutually exclusive.
If you’re going to accuse a Jewish person of being a neo-Nazi you should probably have proof other than the presence of some neo-Nazis in his country of 43 million.
No- just search for yourself.
I charge for such education- Bitcoin.
We all know where that originated now don’t we?
Straight from the Russian Embassy was it?
Why are you so reluctant to disclose your nationality Nigel account?
What is your nationality Nigel?
Well that’s a non sequiter.
For the sake of some balance, here’s a quote from the statement made by Russia’s representative at the UN Security Council Meeting on the 7th of March a few days before the hospital incident :
‘By our records, 200 thousand civilians are trapped in Mariupol alone and held at gunpoint by the Azov battalion. The humanitarian situation in cities deteriorates rapidly. As for humanitarians who are ready to help, they cannot get in there and prevent the unfolding disaster. People in other regions of Ukraine that have been blocked by nationalist battalions find themselves in the same desperate situation.
Ukrainian radicals show their true face more distinctly by the day. Locals reports that Ukraine’s Armed Forces kicked out personnel of natal hospital #1 of the city of Mariupol and set up a firing site within the facility. Besides, they fully destroyed one of the city’s kindergartens.
..let me quote the mayor of Sumy, Mr. Oleksandr Lysenko, who made the following statement today jointly with a commander of a nationalist battalion: “There will be no green corridors, no civilian will exit to Russia, and those who attempt doing so will be shot”. ‘
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Statement+and+right+of+reply+by+Permanent+Representative+Vassily+Nebenzia+at+UNSC+briefing+on+the+humanitarian+situation+in+Ukraine&t=h_&ia=web
Again, I don’t find this implausible because I’m familiar with the grotesque propaganda tactics – such as the use of hospitals to stage military operations – that have been used in the “Dirty War” waged against Syrians.
March 2nd – a few days before Russia’s representative gave his version of reality at the UN Security Council Meeting:
Nobody got ‘kicked out’ – maternity services were moved to a basement.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-maternity-ward-moved-56b501dc4ffed870ab78c5d4cbc41e2b
Maybe the ‘local reports’ the Russians claim to have had – if they existed at all – didn’t really have a clue about what was going on in the maternity unit.
BS, regarding one of your older posts titled ‘The World That Philip Cairns Felt So Threatened By Is Becoming Much Clearer’; I didn’t know Gardaí were appealing for witnesses [2021] and that someone had written a book about his disappearance – not to mention the theoretical aspects and *insights* of such a tragedy.
Paper never refuses ink.
* Apparently, the book is written by Irish Sunday Mirror journalist Emma McMenamy titled The Boy Who Never Came Home.
…have to agree with Newton Emerson on the front page of the IT…a major demographic shift seems to be taking place in the North and one of the major benefactors will be Alliance…they seem to be mopping up the middle class vote from the UUP, DUP and SDLP…DUP look like they might not even come third…I’m going to call it SF first and Alliance second…
Are they not just Labour toasted on one side?
…hah…nice analogy…I’ve written it down and shall pass it on as my own!
Ukraine residents, even in the middle of an invasion, are being targeted by opinion pollsters.
And it’s clear who they see as their real friends and supporters in the conflict.
Quite rightly they put a higher price on thousands of UK anti-tank weapons and the latest anti-aircraft technology being given them rather than a slight snafu over refugees.
Well done Boris.Rising to the challenge at a time of international crisis.A true Churchill for our times.
And second only to Zelensky in popularity.
We’ve got your back Ukraine.
Marvellous™
https://mobile.twitter.com/HugoGye/status/1501571883573075972?cxt=HHwWiICz0YTr09YpAAAA
I’m sure history will remember, even if the English do not. And for my own part, I think comparisons of Boris with Churchill are quite accurate.
But I’m not a fan of Churchill, for all he was a great orator.
Zelenskyy was apparently very unpopular before this broke out but if you listen to the western media, he is the opposite. It would be very interesting to know what the Ukrainian public’s opinion of him is now, but you can be certain that if it is bad, then it will be buried.
As for supplying the Ukrainian KKK with weapons go- that is an act of war- except Russia is not calling it out because the implications are huge. The US has been trying to push Poland into the front line to supply aeroplanes but Poland knows the implications and are refusing.
It is mad to think that all of this is because Zelenskyy will not commit to a position of neutrality- but then again, if Biden can have the top Ukrainian prosecutor sacked, it is pretty obvious that this is a government in name only.
No, this is all because Putin invaded Ukraine. Wonder how popular Putin is in Russia? Oh, I forgot, it’s irrelevant.
This is probably way to complicated for you but anyways- Russia has no interest in subsuming Ukraine- they want a neutral buffer between them and NATO. Something Ukraine is claiming to be but obviously is not- especially with those Nazis running about.
https://www.reuters.com/world/kremlin-says-russian-military-action-will-stop-moment-if-ukraine-meets-2022-03-07/
That’s not complicated, that’s stupid. I can’t see how you can force a country to be neutral by invading it. Forcing a country to be your buffer is essentially restoring it to its status when it was part of the USSR. Which Putin has said is what he wants.
Why should an independent sovereign country have their constitution written for them by a foreign invader?
There is no evidence that Russia wants to replicate the USSR- absolutely none- just more spin and BS.
As for the independence argument, funny that it is so important for Ukraine but not for all the other countries the US has levelled? If you are on the doorstep of a super power- ANY super power- then you do not threaten them or they will retaliate- it really is that simple.
All they have to do is commit to independence but they won’t, because it is a corrupt Nazi kip of a place, bankrolled by the US.
Russia might not want to recreate the USSR but Putin certainly does, it’s one of his most often stated objectives.
Turning Ukraine into a buffer state against the West isn’t replicating the USSR?
The US isn’t levelling Ukraine, Russia is.
…should you not be off practising your ‘duck and cover’ Nigel?
Hi Bodger, my comments seem to be going straight to moderation. Just wondering if there’s a reason? Thanks :)
Millie, I’ll check that. Nothing personal.
Merci beaucoup, mon ami
de Pfeffel is an odious grifter as are his cabal of Kleptocrats (Jacob Reek Smirk et al) – He’s a perfect product of Eton which we all know is Hogwarts for w*nkers where you learn Latin and money laundering dressed in a morning suit. The man hasn’t a compassionate bone in his body indeed the one only he’s worried about is getting back to waving his trouser snake round with impunity – Churchill wouldn’t give him the steam of his pi$$ – here are are your heroes action yesterday
https://twitter.com/bmay/status/1501640206818107399
Blighty has provided more than 3,000 anti-tank weapons which are helping to stop Putin’s army in its tank tracks.
Ireland plans to change the name of the road the Russian Embassy is on in Dublin.
Morto.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/russian-embassy-in-dublin-could-be-located-on-independent-ukraine-road-1.4822877
in other words, blighty makes a profit on the war and lets russian kleptocrats away with a nice little drink and a pat on the arse while ireland and the eu deal with the human carnage. that’s actually what you meant isn’t it?
Thing is, if you are a weapons manufacturer, you need a mini war every now and again to show case new tech. After the Falklands for example, there was a huge increase in British sales and if a few thousand people get killed or displaced- sure what odds.
It is all wrapped in jingoistic bollocks about helping this side or that side, but it’s actually about product placement- its a disgusting industry.
i couldn’t agree more.
Well I suppose it does give the Ukrainians more of a chance of fighting the Russian army than with handbags, your preferred weapon of choice on here …
The people of Ukraine are incredibly grateful for Boris coming to their rescue at a time when Germany and France and their underlings in the EU like Ireland were trying to appease Putin.
Talk is cheap – NLAWs are not.
Britain led the world on vaccines and it’s leading the world in the fightback against a tyrant.
No wonder so many people from all over the world are sooo desperate to move there.
We’ll try our best to look after you all lads but we’re a tad busy at the mo.
What’s that you say ? How are the EU responding to the refugee crisis ?
Sanctions.
But against Poland and Hungary.
Where most Ukrainian refugees are now heading.
Nice one Brussels.
Great timing as ever.
https://order-order.com/2022/03/10/breaking-eu-parliament-votes-to-sanction-refugee-havens-poland-and-hungary/
and as soon as poland and hungary get on board with with the eu’s pro lgbt stance, the sooner those sanctions will be lifted. that’s the problem with you tans, you just never understood what the eu was actually for.
Indeed, that’s why we left.
You however are happy to hand over your sovereignty, decision-making, laws and independence to the likes of Druncker and his ilk in the corrupt and unaccountable EU.
Get off your knees you snivelling cur.
Michael Collins would be spinning in his grave if he saw simpering fools like you rimming the fat cats of Brussels.
well, you tories know all about corrupt and unaccountable regimes:
fill your boots, three-tit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_scandals_in_the_United_Kingdom
The utter irony of someone in Ireland highlighting graft and corruption in another country.
You really are gormless.
Whoooosh …
The utter irony of a tan highlighting graft and corruption in another country.
You really are gormless.
Whoooosh …
jaysus charger, i can literally cut and paste my way through your bolloxology. it’s like you don’t even try any more.
He’s not the same since Liz Truss came in
Today is brought to you by the word “Weltschmerz.”
Same as yesterday.
Guess what tomorrow’s word will be?
Scenes From The Great Climate Chage Fraud
https://twitter.com/QReconstruction/status/1501294218559512580
This video of a Russian military column coming under attack and retreating was geolocated to 50.587111, 30.837889…Filmed in Brovary, northeast of Kyiv:
https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1501852864850898947
Translation of audio, which appears to be a Russian commander reporting the attack to his superiors and the death of a regiment leader:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNei_tLXMAElmuI?format=jpg&name=medium
Call to restart Irish peat harvesting amid energy crisis and Russia’s war on Ukraine:
https://www.independent.ie/news/call-to-restart-irish-peat-harvesting-amid-energy-crisis-and-russias-war-on-ukraine-41431887.html
Lot of environmentally destructive opporutnism gearing up in lieu of alternatives and lower energy consumption.
This is what we need to build:
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/08/26/gravity-based-renewable-energy-storage-tower-for-grid-scale-operations/
WHO says it has verified 18 attacks on health facilities or workers in Ukraine:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/who-says-it-has-verified-18-attacks-on-health-facilities-or-workers-in-ukraine-as-zelensky-calls-strike-on-maternity-hospital-an-atrocity-11646854673
i am shocked,shocked to find….one FG’s biggest supporters involved in this!
“The Attorney General is acting in a private capacity for former directors of Independent News & Media in their dealings with High Court inspectors who are investigating the company’s affairs.” IT
the Ag’s weekend nixer comes back to haunt him,oh stop its Ireland.
sniffing around in the staffs emails.
“Mr Webb and Ms Scott, along with Mr O’Reilly and Karl Brophy, who was INM’s director of corporate affairs, were the four people whose email accounts and private data was most closely targeted in the illegal secret data operation ordered by former INM chairman Leslie Buckley and paid for by a company connected to Denis O’Brien, who in 2014 was INM’s major shareholder.”
“Mediahuis’s law firm, Matheson, outlines in legal documents lodged in recent weeks as part of the case that Blaydon paid an invoice of €46,260 that was submitted in December 2015 to INM by Welsh IT firm TDS. It also refers to a separate invoice of €14,944.50 that was submitted in December 2016 to Mr O’Brien’s Island Capital group by DMZ Limited, a company connected to IT consultant Derek Mizak, who helped Mr Buckley with the data operation.”
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/ag-aiding-former-inm-directors-in-private-capacity-with-high-court-1.4687026
DuckDuckGo breaks propaganda hunters’ hearts:
https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1501717193855283201
Goldman Sachs to exit Russia in Wall Street’s first pullout
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-10/goldman-sachs-to-exit-russia-in-wall-street-s-first-pullout
Introducing the Two Minutes Hate:
Meta Platforms will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in the context of the Ukraine invasion, according to internal emails seen by Reuters on Thursday, in a temporary change to its hate speech policy.
The social media company is also temporarily allowing some posts that call for death to Russian President Vladimir Putin or Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in countries including Russia, Ukraine and Poland, according to a series of internal emails to its content moderators. These calls for death will be allowed unless they contain other targets or have two indicators of credibility, such as the location or method, one email said, in a recent change to the company’s rules on violence and incitement.
Meta did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Last week, Russia said it was banning Facebook in the country in response to what it said were restrictions of access to Russian media on the platform. Moscow has cracked down on tech companies during its invasion of Ukraine, which it calls a “special operation.” Many major social media platforms have announced new content restrictions around the conflict, including blocking Russian state media RT and Sputnik in Europe, and have demonstrated carve-outs in some of their policies during the war.
Emails also showed that Meta would allow praise of the right-wing Azov battalion, which is normally prohibited, in a change first reported by The Intercept. Meta spokesman Joe Osborne previously said the company was “for the time being, making a narrow exception for praise of the Azov Regiment strictly in the context of defending Ukraine, or in their role as part of the Ukraine National Guard.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/mar/10/ukraine-news-russia-war-kyiv-vladimir-putin-volodymyr-zelenskiy-russian-invasion-hospital-bombing-latest-live-updates?page=with:block-622a749b8f087f6d099f501e#block-622a749b8f087f6d099f501e