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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...

I think one of the things we could obviously do to help more, is drop the completely unnecessary and patently inhumane barriers to refugees from the Ukrainian war. Like most of our allies have done, in fact. It's hardly political point scoring to point that out, and I can't see why it...

I know - but if that happens it becomes Russia v NATO. Putin would see every country in NATO as a legitimate target and you really are on the way to WW3. Even though the West would almost certainly win the conventional war (albeit with massive loss of life), in the nuclear war that the loser...

I wonder if part of it is just that Putin doesn't really care about the cost to his own ground forces, as long as he takes his objective - I could certainly believe that. Even so though, you'd have to think that his commanders on the ground wouldn't care for being sitting ducks. Perhaps...

If, like me, you've been watching all of this horror and wondering what you can actually do to help the people of Ukraine, I've got an answer. Please consider donating here to support an urgent and increasing humanitarian need: Fundraiser for Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain (AUGB)...

Just for perspective, an alternative view on NATO expansion. I'm not even for a moment going to suggest that this justifies Putin's actions here or elsewhere, but it is an interesting read... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/28/nato-expansion-war-russia-ukraine

About a tenth the size of Russia's, and pretty much the first thing that Putin went for. I don't think there's any realistic chance of them getting air strikes going against the convoy...