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  1. skybluetony176

    USSR invades Ukraine.

    Given that they currently occupy swathes of Moldova and Georgia the honest answer is at least one more. You won’t get that answer though. There’s also an argument that they occupy Chechnya, Belarus basically has a Russian Vichy government and occupies a sizeable Russian force there including the...
  2. skybluetony176

    USSR invades Ukraine.

    The US sent 31 Abram’s not 16.
  3. skybluetony176

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    I see Sunak is telling anyone who will listen that the results from last week prove that we’re heading for a hung parliament. Not sure if he’s a fool or he thinks everyone else is. I don’t think in his case the two are mutually exclusive. It’s a pretty ridiculous statement. Voting is always...
  4. skybluetony176

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    Probably lost on purpose. You know, playing the long game.
  5. skybluetony176

    USSR invades Ukraine.

    Okay. Firstly I didn’t compare our government and media to Ukraine. I just pointed out that we’re not exactly free of issues ourselves. Completely different, you’re adding your own context. You dismissed that and then rather poetically half an our later a story broke about press intimidation in...
  6. skybluetony176

    USSR invades Ukraine.

    But you’re using press freedom as a judgement on Ukraine and Ukraine alone as a reasoning as to why we shouldn’t be involved. The alternative is to let a country with one of the worst track records in the world on press freedom crack on. It was a shit argument from the outset. The kind you see...
  7. skybluetony176

    USSR invades Ukraine.

    They’d automatically dropped 80+ places on the only reliable measurement of press freedom. It wouldn’t just be press freedom though. It would also include freedom to internet access to outside sources. Free in Ukraine, suppressed in Russia. Unless you live near the border of a neighbouring...
  8. skybluetony176

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    Sunak’s green plan has just been found to be unlawful in the British courts. Green groups argued that it was just word salad and was signed off by the government with no evidence that the government had a plan to achieve it. He’s not having a good day.
  9. skybluetony176

    Coffee suggestions

    Have it with oat milk. Easiest way to improve any coffee regardless of the price tag. Especially true with a latte.
  10. skybluetony176

    USSR invades Ukraine.

    You do know that listening to Ukrainian Journalists and paying attention to facts from an independent organisation such as Reporters Without Borders don’t have to be mutually exclusive. It is possible to look at the bigger picture and form a balanced view considering all the facts not just a...
  11. skybluetony176

    USSR invades Ukraine.

    Sorry sickboy was it too much information for you so you had no choice but to find it funny. Here’s some more for you. In the reporter’s without borders poll when Kuchma left power Ukraine was 132nd in their freedom index, they’re now 90th IIRC. Ironically if you look into the details of that...
  12. skybluetony176

    USSR invades Ukraine.

    And now I’m talking about the Ukrainian government. Keep up.
  13. skybluetony176

    USSR invades Ukraine.

    But a lot of what happened to press in Ukraine pre war was either a hangover from previous Russian friendly presidents, especially true under Kuchma who closed down many opposition favouring outlets and really ramped up surveillance and intimidation on “unfriendly” journalists. In the period...
  14. skybluetony176

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    He’s a piece of shit isn’t he.
  15. skybluetony176

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    It’s being reported that Boris Johnson, the PM who insisted that we had to introduce voter ID to stop voter fraud (that doesn’t exist on numbers big enough that you can’t count them on one hand) and is definitely not a tool to hamper voter turnout amongst a demographic that would probably vote...
  16. skybluetony176

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    The EU hasn’t insisted on anything. That’s just how it’s done anywhere in the world on shipments from somewhere else in the world with the exception of inside the EU. If something is shipped from Australia into the UK under the free trade agreement we have with them you still have to use the...
  17. skybluetony176

    USSR invades Ukraine.

    Like I said. In the past for sure. I don’t hide from that. With the benefit of hindsight I would never have voted Tory in the 2015 GE and I openly admit that I didn’t fully understand at the time what I was voting for. I can’t turn the clock back but I can acknowledge that mistake and learn...
  18. skybluetony176

    USSR invades Ukraine.

    In the past for sure, I don’t hide away from that. How’s Brexit and the Tory government you enabled by voting for it going? You still towing the Murdoch, Barclays and Rothermere line that you shouldn’t be regretting your vote contrary to the evidence of your own eyes and reality?
  19. skybluetony176

    USSR invades Ukraine.

    As if by magic https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-68939035
  20. skybluetony176

    USSR invades Ukraine.

    Do you think headlines like “enemies of the state” aren’t fed by the government. The collusion between the press (the Sun especially) and the government over Hillsborough, the miners strike etc. The murder of Daniel Morgan and the this governments reluctance to release the report and then...
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