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And they like to wear skirts and eat Haggis!

They have been beaten. It's just that they have yet to run out of museum equipment, so's to underline the point. Meanwhile, back on the ranch: "we will take Kiev in three days", Sergei Shoigu. "It's no secret that this operation is going to be over in mere hours", the late Lieutenant General...

Boris was pretty good at beating his chest and posing with Zelensky :rolleyes:

The Poles are shaming the rest with their delivery

The gardai and the media would be well advised to proceed with extreme caution this time round considering the public witch burning that resulted from their efforts 40 years ago. Innocent lives were destroyed

Bloomberg) -- Leaving the European Union had an impact on the UK economy equivalent to the coronavirus pandemic and likely reduced output by 4%, the chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility told the BBC. “It’s a shock to the UK economy of the order of magnitude of the sorts of other...

Because they did the heavy lifting for the Soviets against the Germans, they were the most effective fighting units of the Soviet army and they paid the price for being good fighters and the Soviets used them again and again. Obviously Putin did not study his history but choose to believe his...

And they managed to lose a higher proportion of their people fighting the Germans than the Russians :rolleyes: they were always better fighters than the Russians

One can only admire the courage of the Ukrainians, the great survivors. The survived WWI, WW II (6 million deaths) Stalins great terror, Stalins great famine (4 million dead.) Chernobyl and now thousands of them are again dying as they bring the invading Russian army to a halt. They are forging...

He He wants to be arrested, playing to his base!

Remarkable hearing Duffy on RTE speaking to a woman from occupied Mariupol and then telling the listening Russian Embassy in Dublin not to bother trying to trace the call as it was recorded earlier and the woman had now changed locations!

If ever you needed a demonstration of how the war in Ukraine is echoing in Asia, the schedule of the Japanese and Chinese leaders offers a prime example. Both are on strategic foreign visits on opposing sides of the conflict. Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is in Kyiv where he is promising...

And Putin is feeding them to the meat grinder-another problem solved- and the Checkens-is Kadyrov still alive? :rolleyes:

Now if only the Russians released figures for their losses :rolleyes:

Ukraine should be wary of being drawn into an attritional war with Russia, However in this type of war defenders will inflict disproportionate casualties on the attackers especially if the attackers apply WWI attack tactics. The Ukrainian military must have decided that this advantage was so...

Wagner forces sent to die in Bakhmut: ISW The conflict between Russian Ministry of Defence and Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin has likely reached a climax as thousands of fighters have died fighting in Bakhmut. According to the Institute for Study of War (ISW) analysis, the Russian...

In the Syrian war the rebels had no chance against the Russians who could kill them at will and from a distance with bombs and artillery with little or no loss to themselves In the Ukraine the Russians are against a superior fighting force who are exposing them as a military sham and inflicting...

Sounds Familiar! Georgia’s ruling party has withdrawn a draft ”foreign agent” bill from parliament after two nights of protests against the proposal, whose critics say marked a slide into Russia-style repression. In a statement on Thursday Georgian Dream, the party controlled by Bidzina...

Lineker a footballer with some balls!

Russia's best units 'pinned down' in Bakhmut battle, says Ukraine Ukraine has decided to fight on in the ruined city of Bakhmut because the battle there is pinning down Russia's best units and degrading them ahead of a planned Ukrainian spring counter-offensive, an aide to President Volodymyr...