Comments by "Dale Crocker" (@dalecrocker3213) on "Professor Tim Wilson" channel.

  1. It is an age of nations, not of empires. Which is why the EU is so dangerous and why Trump wants the US to draw in its horns and concentrate on trade, not conquest.
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  2. @ But what when the law is manipulated for political purposes, as in this case? And why are TR's sentences so severe in relation to the crime? Make no mistake. This is lawfare, not justice.
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  3. That's more of a metaphor for people who continue to suffer from TDS. Be comforted. Relief will soon be available, though the medicine might be hard to swallow.
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  4.  @perkinscrane  These constant comparisons between the situation in Ukraine today and that in Europe in the 1930's are becoming increasingly ridiculous. Putin is not Hitler and has no plans for world domination. He saw how those ambitions helped destroy the Soviet Union.
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  5. In fact many of these people ARE Russian, they don't just speak it.
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  6. I'm sure Farage has left the domestic affairs of the constituency in safe hands.
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  7. Hardly an end to his career. You can't put a good man down.
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  8.  @paulwilson7234  It rather depends on how you would prefer to see the future of your country, doesn't it?
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  9. You are becoming increasingly paranoid, Professor. Which is a shame, because you are clearly a decent person. I am not a Russian troll, though often being accused of being one simply because I can fully understand Russia's position in this conflict. Whether others who roughly share my opinions are "Russian trolls" or not, I cannot say. But I tend to doubt it. In this particular instance, to be confused about Ukraine's sudden invasion of Russian territory and being unable to see any immediate strategic advantage in it is entirely understandable. It looks very much like a last-ditch effort to obtain some fragile advantage before - at last - getting to the conference table. The only alternative is that Ukraine has vastly superior resources available than has been thought, and than Russia actually is on its last legs. Otherwise we are just looking at further needless bloodshed.
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  10.  @CameronLoadman  I don't think I'm surer than anyone else. But I do know that Trump isn't a warmonger and that the path to peace in Ukraine is, and always has been, quite easy to see. The Middle East position is much more difficult. Long term peace can only arrive when Islamic fundamentalism is crushed and that can only happen with considerable loss of life - unless the ordinary people of Palestine can be persuaded somehow to rid themselves of the fanatics who hide behind them.
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  11. For International Law read US Law.
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  12. What NK prisoners? They're Russians from the Mongolian border.
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  13. It amazes and depresses me that people like you can be so damned conceited.
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  14. All is fair in love and war.
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  15. Do you honestly think that foreign agencies have to read about Starmer's movements in the news??!! Some of them probably know where he's going before he does.
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  16. This is untrue. Read the Reform constitution. Members - and they are members - have full voting rights on policy issues and in any leadership contests, and can also call for a vote of no confidence in the leader if more than 50% agree. Reform is registered political party which also happens to be a limited company, but one limited by membership, not shareholder.
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  17. I worry about those who are conned by it.
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  18. Russia is not the aggressor, America and its allies are. The war is based upon a series of moral falsehoods. It has nothing to do with a brave little country fighting off an evil foe, it is about disputes over borders and resources, as most wars usually are. To Russia, this is a war of liberation. Eastern Ukraine was tragically and mistakenly appended on to the new country of Ukraine in 1991, simply because it was part of the former Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine, and then only because it suited Russia in terms of logistics and administration to have it so. The Kiev government has not only attempted to suppress the very large Russian populations in the area, but has responded to American pressure and inducements to sign away the vast mineral wealth of the area - mineral wealth which has been exploited with Russian labour and Russian investment for centuries. Peaceful solutions have been rejected by Ukraine, one suspects entirely at NATO's behest, and thus Putin has been forced to go to war.
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  19. Jones is only saying out loud what a great many left-wing loonies feel in their hearts. This is just one stage further along the road to totalitarianism as the constant calls for Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson and everyone else they disagree with to be sent to prison.
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  20. By what measure is information provided by Russia likely to be less accurate than that provided by America?
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  21.  @redflag4781  Most people in your echo chamber, perhaps. To most of the rest of us the Union Flag flies high above flags of Palestine, Ukraine and the Alphabet People.
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  22.  @paul8161  Russians actually own a considerable portion of Ukraine's resources, having mined them, invested in them and used Russian labour to work them for decades, if not centuries. It is the prospect of having these resources taken away from them and sold off to Western companies which is the main reason for this war.
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  23. As most MPs will admit ( if not openly) constituency surgeries are a complete waste of time.
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  24.  @jethrobradley7850  A few square miles of forest, swamps and potato fields. Potentially useful as bargaining chip in peace negotiations, but not much else.
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  25. Aaaah! It's just like something out of a fairytale!
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  26. Our dear old Prof continues to confuse politics with theatre. Badenoch is a cautious operator who knows how to play both ends against the middle. She reminds me more and more of Thatcher in her early days.
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  27.  @ISuperTed  Another man of the people!
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  28. As a "Russian bot", I heartily agree. People simply cannot seem to understand that Russia has a very good case. Given the amount of propaganda they are fed this is hardly surprising.
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  29. The age of collusion between crooks like Joe Biden and suckers like our dear Professor is now over. As the great Maggie Thatcher said in another context; "Rejoice!"
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  30. @ It's a question of intent, isn't it?
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  31. Well he couldn't be much worse than the last two or three, could he?
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  32. Whatever the figures are, the tragedy is that it now looks very much as though Russia will achieve through war more or less what Putin initially proposed to achieve through negotiation. All the deaths will have been to no purpose.
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  33.  @keithhardy8513  I'm British based in Britain and this is anti-propaganda. A reaction to the propaganda we are being constantly fed.
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  34.  @brendanpells912  Nonsense These people are from Liverpool and with Irish backgrounds in many cases. Not Pakistanis from Leeds.
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  35.  @TheMasterMind144  Well, it's kinda fun for a start. My chief motivation though is that I hate to see so many people being led by their nose into supporting dangerous policies which will bring them to harm. The fact that these egregious tactics are twisted into some perverse form of philanthropy just adds to my discontent.
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  36. Unlike the messages of love and unity preached by the religion of peace, and put into practice on our streets.
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  37.  @JonSmith-wg8mr  Eastern Ukraine has been either Russian or Ottoman for hundreds of years. Calling it part of Ukraine is sheer pretence.
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  38. The more Badenoch puts up two fingers the more I like her.
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  39. Why?
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  40. This seems to serve no strategic purpose. A real puzzle.
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  41. I do hope this spat is actually a sign of affection. Badenoch and Farage would make a great team.
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  42. The Budapest Memorandum was not a binding treaty. It was little more than a signed minute of a series of meetings. It is of no more weight than the minutes of the meeting between Baker and Gorbachev, which has just been released, and in which Baker does indeed say that NATO will move no further eastwards. Conversations which took place more than thirty years ago have little relevance to the situation as it stands today.
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  43.  @Joeblogs999  Exactly. I wish more people would realise this.
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  44.  @reallymakesyouthink  He didn't film in court. He filmed people on the steps of the court and in ignorance that this TECHNICALLY was in breach of the law. I can find no other cases of the law in this regard ever being cited,, so comparisons are impossible. He is currently serving an 18 month sentence in solitary in a high category prison for a civil offence which many people believe ought to have merited - at the very most - a much shorter sentence in an open prison. But Tommy is Tommy. He gets treated differently.
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  45.  @colincampbell4261  Both sides were guilty of minor infringements - but Ukraine completely ignored the main thrust, which was to find a way to grant regional autonomy to the two breakaway Donbass republics.
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  46. There is no such thing as Islamaphobia. Islam is truly terrifying when taking to its logical extreme - as nations and peoples across the world have been finding out to their cost for 1400 years.
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  47. The Israelis gave it to them in the first place. They spat on it.
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  48. @ If you look carefully at history you will realise that treaties cause more trouble than they prevent, as a general rule. They become outdated and do not truly reflect new circumstances. In this instance the arrangements made in the past - and signed by Putin's predecessors in the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation - are at the root of the present tragedy. It is necessary to define what actually Ukraine consists of for another thing. The disputed territories in the East were never part of a country called Ukraine, apart possibly during the brief existence of the Republic which was introduced after the collapse of Tsarist rule. The Russians took them from the Turks and the "Ukrainians" who moved there did so largely as a result of agricultural improvements introduced by Russia. The true wealth of the area, however, lies in its mineral resources which are largely owned and operated by Russians, and have been for decades if not centuries.
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  49.  @ray-wm7yd  I quite agree. There is no logical reason why we should support Ukraine.
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  50. As they ought to judge many of his actions, once the dust has settled.
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