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I think in fairness Pete, the world and particularly Europe, is trying to act, it's just trying to balance the risks. For Tories, that seemingly includes the risks to their donors. By the time all this is over, one way or the other, I don't think the Russian military will be in any fit state...

Mate, have you not seen the price of petrol recently? 😄

Hmm, maybe. Do you think I'd have to pay corkage if I just took my own?

If you expressed your views a bit more like this, with at least some exposition, rather than just snappy one line variants of "you're completely wrong and stupid", maybe you wouldn't get hammered so often. Personally, I'd absolutely accept that the West got it wrong on Russia after the collapse...

I don't care what your politics are, but I'm here to say that there is absolutely nothing wrong with a Tesco's scotch egg (as long as you've got some salt). Or a Gregg's sausage roll, or a Pot Noodle for that matter. Do you lads actually come from Coventry? 😁

If indeed, it ever was...

Ah, you see I thought people voted for the 'oven ready deal' Brexit. Or the 'Norway ++' Brexit. Or the one that brought 350m to the NHS. Which one was it you voted for, can I ask? If it helps, even Boris didn't vote for this Brexit, because ever since he "got it done" he's been desperately...

Good Lord. At first I thought this was satire. The true mark of a right wing nutter is pretending that socialists, or social democrats, or indeed anyone broadly to the left, are somehow the same as communists. As soon as someone says that, you know you can ignore the rest.

Did you do comprehension at school? Try reading before posting, you'll look a bit less like a deranged fool. As I said, China isn't exactly a beacon of human rights, but what little we know of North Korea is terrifying, it literally starves its own people to fund its military ambition. If...

Except that's absolutely obvious unless you haven't got two brain cells to rub together. As usual, you're talking out of your arse. Are you seriously, even for one minute saying that Brexit didn't suit Russia? Utter tosh man, you're an idiot.

Google Translates as: Your government lies to you about Ukraine. Please find a way to get the truth from family, friends and news sources outside of Russia! Innocent people are being killed. Get up!

I'm pretty sure the most brutal and undemocratic country on the planet at the current moment is Russia, given what they're doing in Ukraine. After that I'd probably vote for North Korea ahead of China. Interestingly though, there's a school of thought that says China really doesn't want this...

Yes, it has also struck me that Ukraine elected a comedian who turned out to be a leader, whereas we elected a comedian who turned out to be a comedian.

Well we kind of are helping Ukraine, but I get the point. My poorly formed idea, we should take the 'Russian' approach of doing everything possible to fuck up Putin, including covert sabotage of infrastructure, cyber warfare, unattributable assasinations of his supporters or him directly if...

Regardless of opinions, if you want to do more than just argue about Ukraine, you can donate to the humanitarian efforts here. https://www.gofundme.com/f/helpukraine (with apologies for also having a thread linking to this elsewhere)

Just on the no-fly zone, an interesting opinion expressed on Radio 4 (aka Radio War) today. Didn't catch the name, but suspect it was the Defence Minister, saying that a no fly zone wouldn't be in Ukraine's best interests at the moment anyway. The theory is that in daytime at least, Ukraine...

That's funny, because a just a short while ago I linked to an article from someone who's made a career out of studying Putin, and she, like others, pointed out that Putin is very much driven by the idea of expanding Russia into its former territories. But of course, what does she know. I'd much...

Interesting article here about Putin's thinking, if you've time for a longish read... https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/28/world-war-iii-already-there-00012340

No disagreement here, a 'tactical' nuclear weapon sounds ludicrous, but it's how it would be spun. They really are built with different yields, mad as that sounds... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_yield

I absolutely understand where you're coming from, but again I think it's worth thinking it through. Let's say an air strike is launched from a NATO country, that destroys some or all of this convoy. Now, de facto, Russia is in a shooting war with the whole of NATO. It can't win that war with...