Will Putin invade ?

Danllan said:

Chatting with my own family over there, and looking at social media and voxpops, I don't believe that at all reflects the feelings of the general public in the ROI.

But take heart, the German public reaction has made their government take unprecedented steps; if enough Irishmen make their feelings felt, your gov't can be made to act appropriately too.

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Bury the Trash said:

dont know about a 'cup of tea' better idea would be sit him on a missile and blow hes ass off

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Danllan said:

Chatting with my own family over there, and looking at social media and voxpops, I don't believe that at all reflects the feelings of the general public in the ROI.

But take heart, the German public reaction has made their government take unprecedented steps; if enough Irishmen make their feelings felt, your gov't can be made to act appropriately too.

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Kevtherev said:

Wonder what these two were thinking??

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Kevtherev said:

Wonder what these two were thinking??

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Kevtherev said:

Wonder what these two were thinking??

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Hindsight said:

Good point. Change of plan. I am going to take up residence in the Dorchester. Of course it will have to be a broom cupboard as I am not an Oligarch and cannot afford the room rates. So in that respect have solidarity with the average Russian. Think on that latter point. And ponder!

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Briar said:

Irrespective of the outcome in Ukraine, it has taken a former comedic actor and the people he represents, to show the West how to lead, how to stand up for democracy against Tyranny and not just spout lip service for western democracy. Shows up our esteemed leaders for what they are. Boris may not be your cup of tea but he appears to be steps ahead of the EU in trying to do right by the Ukraine and our Eastern European cousins and not pander to Putin's oligarchs.

Ukraine etc have "enjoyed" rule from Moscow and tasted home rule in a greater community, would you want to live under "occupation"? Something the majority of us cannot even conceive. Putin by his actions has highlighted how a former actor Volodymyr Zelenskyy has proven himself a proper leader and politician that others should aspire too and elevated him to hero. This might be the Ukrainians Thermopylae but they are all heroes.

As someone else said its best to put out a smoldering fire than a blaze. Putin needs to be stopped now not appeased, does no one read history?

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Yale said:

Makes you think,maybe we should have a TFF bash at an Oligarchs house cos if they’re not there they ain’t coming home for a bit.

I‘ll bring a slab of beer……

……..and put the thermostat up on the pool.

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Yale said:

Makes you think,maybe we should have a TFF bash at an Oligarchs house cos if they’re not there they ain’t coming home for a bit.

I‘ll bring a slab of beer……

……..and put the thermostat up on the pool.

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Still Farming said:

Greata Thumberg quiet too???

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Activist Thunberg protests against Ukraine invasion outside Russian embassy in Stockholm

Swedish climate and environment activist Greta Thunberg said on Twitter she was taking part in a protest on Friday outside the Russian embassy in Stockholm against its invasion of Ukraine.

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MX7 said:

How many UK computer keyboard “war warriors”will get of their backsides and prove they are men? Not many if any .

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Farfrae said:

The situation in Ukraine is of course not as clear cut as the western media would have you believe. However, I'm not going to comment as most people don't want to hear it.

Perhaps it would be better to remember the words of the great Carl Sagan

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbour life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

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Bald Rick said:

Apparently HMG have already received letters from various high end London lawyers threaten HMG that any move against the 100 or so Russian billionaires with property &/or financial interests in the U.K. will be illegal and will be fought through the courts

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Kevtherev said:

Wonder what these two were thinking??

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Kevtherev said:

No bother you can have a lift with myself and @Cab-over Pete

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