Ukraine and the Russian invasion, Feb 2022 - tangentially related crap

[Bahnhof Strasse]

The guy who is pulling the woman by the hair is a Duma member for Chuvashia, Markel Egorov. The woman is his wife.

How many people intervened here? None, “Not my business.”

In 2017, Russia under Vladimir Putin decriminalized domestic violence. Beating your wife or kids is no longer a crime.

Russian parents beat up their kids, husbands beat up wives, the FSB beats up and tortures anyone they want. They even show how the FSB tortures detainees on TV.








Great bunch of lads, etc.

 

[phildwyer]

Incidentally there is some residual enmity towards the Welsh amongst the Northern Irish Catholic community, apparently the Welsh soldiers were some of the worst behaved during the troubles.

I think it's fair to say that the soldiers returned the feeling--I never heard a trace of respect for republicanism from a Welsh ex-Squaddie, only violent contempt. Again, this suggests that the PIRA were missing a trick or two when it came to the propaganda dept.

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

I think it's fair to say that the soldiers returned the feeling--I never heard a trace of respect for republicanism from a Welsh ex-Squaddie, only violent contempt. Again, this suggests that the PIRA were missing a trick or two when it came to the propaganda dept.

Almost as if the Provos weren't aiming their propaganda at Welsh squaddies.

 

[phildwyer]

Almost as if the Provos weren't aiming their propaganda at Welsh squaddies.

Which was an elementary mistake for a start.

 

[emanymton]

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The guy who is pulling the woman by the hair is a Duma member for Chuvashia, Markel Egorov. The woman is his wife.

How many people intervened here? None, “Not my business.”

In 2017, Russia under Vladimir Putin decriminalized domestic violence. Beating your wife or kids is no longer a crime.

Russian parents beat up their kids, husbands beat up wives, the FSB beats up and tortures anyone they want. They even show how the FSB tortures detainees on TV.








Great bunch of lads, etc.

Sorry for the Mail link but it was the best I could find.

A professor sleeps with the murders his student gets to live in a luxury cell, while Alexei Navalny who's crime was to be a political opponent lives I'm suqauler then gets killed.

Murdering professor from Putin's old university is given 'luxury' jail

Oleg Sokolov can relax by a fireplace (pictured) and enjoy billiards in a 'privileged' prison, say reports - and his lawyer says he has 'no complaints' about the conditions

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Rimbaud]

I think it's fair to say that the soldiers returned the feeling--I never heard a trace of respect for republicanism from a Welsh ex-Squaddie, only violent contempt. Again, this suggests that the PIRA were missing a trick or two when it came to the propaganda dept.

I don't think the British Army was the intended audience of their propaganda.

 

[phildwyer]

I don't think the British Army was the intended audience of their propaganda.

And as I said above, that was a basic error, revealing either inexperience or incompetence..

 

[Ax^]

I think it's fair to say that the soldiers returned the feeling--I never heard a trace of respect for republicanism from a Welsh ex-Squaddie, only violent contempt. Again, this suggests that the PIRA were missing a trick or two when it came to the propaganda dept.

oddly I have a story about the an ex gfs step father who himself being a Welsh guard in the 1970s told me a little story over a shared bottle rum one evening ,about him and his mates driving up to a IRA check point in Belfast with a glove on the end of their rifles and letting off a round before driving off

the British army was really not keep up with the hearts and mind goals

 

[phildwyer]

oddly I have a story about the an ex gfs step father who himself being a Welsh guard in the 1970s told me a little story over a shared bottle rum one evening ,about him and his mates driving up to a IRA check point in Belfast with a glove on the end of their rifles and letting off a round before driving off

the British army was really not keep up with the hearts and mind goals

Doesn't surprise me at all.

I've met plenty of American vets who express respect for the Arabs and the Pashtuns, but I've never met a British squaddie who respected the Provos.

 

[Ax^]

makes you wonder why the relationship soured so quickly in the 1970 in north Ireland between catholics and the army

 

[Artaxerxes]

makes you wonder why the relationship soured so quickly in the 1970 in north Ireland between catholics and the army

It’s almost like getting to the point where the army was called in was a systemic failure of (successive)government and the result of collusion with the Protestant organisations in power to maintain the perceived pro-British status quo at all costs

 

[gosub]

It’s almost like getting to the point where the army was called in was a systemic failure of (successive)government and the result of collusion with the Protestant organisations in power to maintain the perceived pro-British status quo at all costs

Wilson & Heath hated Paisley...even had his own special chair for when he visited Downing Street designed to make the big fella as awkward and uncomfortable as possible

 

[The39thStep]

Doesn't surprise me at all.

I've met plenty of American vets who express respect for the Arabs and the Pashtuns, but I've never met a British squaddie who respected the Provos.

Jan Taylor who was arrested and jailed for the Harrods bombing was an squaddie in the British Army

 

[Artaxerxes]

Wilson & Heath hated Paisley...even had his own special chair for when he visited Downing Street designed to make the big fella as awkward and uncomfortable as possible

All well and good but the rot was systemic and Irish Catholics treated like shit.

 

[Rimbaud]

And as I said above, that was a basic error, revealing either inexperience or incompetence..

That the former political wing of the IRA are currently in power in Northern Ireland and the largest party in the Republic of Ireland, and have always managed to get significant funding from Irish Americans, and have support from the majority of the UK population for their goal of a united Ireland suggests that their propaganda game isn't as weak as you think.

Especially compared with the loyalists who are either unknown or derided by the people in the country they are fiercely loyal to.

For for record, the armed campaign of the IRA was largely counter productive to their goals and destructive, but if you compare the Republican murals to Loyalist murals in Belfast you can't say they were bad at propaganda.

 

[krtek a houby]

Doesn't surprise me at all.

I've met plenty of American vets who express respect for the Arabs and the Pashtuns, but I've never met a British squaddie who respected the Provos.

How odd. The opposite for me.

 

[Rimbaud]

How odd. The opposite for me.

Almost like Phil hasn't spoken to every single veteran of the troubles or every single person in Wales isn't it?

 

[Pickman's model]

I see Russian military advisers have arrived in Niger Russian military trainers arrive in Niger as African country pulls away from US

 

[Pickman's model]

Doesn't surprise me at all.

I've met plenty of American vets who express respect for the Arabs and the Pashtuns, but I've never met a British squaddie who respected the Provos.

How many british squaddies have had the misfortune to meet you?

 

[gosub]

Last set of French troops exit Niger as Sahel sheds Parisian influence

The exit is the third time in 18 months that French troops have been sent packing from a country in the Sahel.

www.google.com

 

[Silas Loom]

Usual suspects liking Russian successes in the Sahel now, too?

 

[gosub]

Usual suspects liking Russian successes in the Sahel now, too?

Nah ...but it's driving Macron...Niger yellowcake is essential for French powerplant

 

[krtek a houby]

Suspected plotters arrested in Germany

Germany arrests two for alleged plot to attack military bases on behalf of Russia

Prosecutors accuse suspects of working with Russian secret service in attempt to undermine support for Ukraine

www.theguardian.com

 

[Artaxerxes]

Usual suspects liking Russian successes in the Sahel now, too?

I’m already not looking at one thread don’t drag it here as well

 

[Chz]

I’m already not looking at one thread don’t drag it here as well

Though, TBF, all that shit belongs in here and not the main thread. But c'est la vie.

 

[krtek a houby]

Suspected plotter arrested in Poland

Polish man arrested over alleged Russian plot to assassinate Zelenskiy

Poland’s national prosecutor says man was preparing to share security details of airport used by Ukrainian president

www.theguardian.com

 

[Artaxerxes]

Rings a few bells.

 

[tim]

Last set of French troops exit Niger as Sahel sheds Parisian influence

The exit is the third time in 18 months that French troops have been sent packing from a country in the Sahel.

www.google.com

This was from December, so hardly news. Do you have a stash of old articles that you are now going to randomly post without comment?

 

[krtek a houby]

Whatever you think of Republican Ken Buck's rhetoric about history and 'murica, he sure puts the boot into MTG and her popularity on Russian state telly.

Forward to around 6 minutes in to see said telly.

 

[tim]

Nah ...but it's driving Macron...Niger yellowcake is essential for French powerplant

The French have already robbed most of Niger's accessible resources if uranium and now buying on the open market. There doesn't seem to be an international shortage of the element.

How dependent is France on Niger's uranium?

The military coup in Niger has raised concerns about uranium mining in the country by the French group Orano, and the consequences for France's energy independence.

www.lemonde.fr