Comments by "Tim Murphy" (@timmurphy5541) on "Europe ‘ramps up’ weapon production to send to Ukraine | Former Colonel Philip Ingram" video.

It's more about whether we enable the world to become a worse place for ourselves to live in. If we ensure that we get surrounded by authoritarian regimes because we enable them then that could be bad for us in the long term.
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I think we have put in place the measures for quite a large increment in production. Nothing is fast enough because its' all needed yesterday.
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A perfect Putin-supporter "meme" for the UK. i.e. you want to concentrate on internal conflicts and stay away from Ukraine - just perfect from the Russian point of view.
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The Russian's haven't been able to attack like that for a long time - they've had to wait and build up - so the average requirement is much less.
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@georgejohnson1498 Not facing up to problems until after a catastrophe is rather typical of democracies. The situation in Crimea should have been the trigger and it wasn't. I am almost surprised that we have been as supportive as we have. Putin has been festering as a problem for a long time and if we had let it go on we'd be in a much worse state from Russian influence in our politics and economy to the inadequacy of our defence and friction with countries that are allies. This is has been a huge wake-up for us. That might prove to be important.
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That NATO calculation was by politicians who didn't want to pay for anything. The retired officers are finally getting their voices heard and they can say the things that their serving counterparts want to say but cannot.
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@mesolithicman164 because the Ukranians started with the older men - seems right to me. They need their youth to keep the country going. People like me have had our chances at life.
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@mesolithicman164 that was the professional army. The conscripts have been from older age groups and that age has recently been lowered.
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