Sky_Blue_Dreamer
Well-Known Member
I find some of this incredibly bizarre.
With Russia the old ideas of Soviet Communism are hard to shift (how long was the opinion of the German's affected post WWII), especially in the U.S. but our politicians haven't been averse to playing to that stereotype. And given Putin clearly has a fond remembrance of the Soviet era and a bit of a boner for bringing it back with him taking the role of Stalin is it any wonder that that's the way people have started to think about it again over the past decade or so?
Who kept on going on about if Corbyn got elected then we'd be under Russian/Putin control because he's a Commie? All the while taking Russian money and furthering Russian interests in our legal framework? So if you think it's an error it's predominantly from your friends in the Tory party.
How have they not been welcomed given the number of oligarchs that have large investments and properties here? Who's financial markets launder a lot of the dirty Russian money? Russia has hosted numerous tournaments like the World Cup, the Olympics, has an F1 race...
It's Putin and his Soviet-era thinking of suspicion of the West and seeing them as the enemy that has brought this about. Ex-Eastern bloc countries wanted to join NATO due to a fear of future Russian aggression. Were they supposed to be denied the right of a sovereign state to make that decision because some nutcase in Russia still thinks the USSR is a thing?
As for Islington Labour types wanting a jolly war while working class people die, you're the one who suggested Putin should be 'left to get on with it' and thus leave millions of ordinary working-class Ukrainians to suffer and die at the hands of his army. So don't even think about playing that particular card.