Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Channel 4 News"
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This has a completely new flavour to previous Syrian conflicts. I cannot guess as to how Erdogan persuaded these disparate factions to unite (AND to show mercy and spread a message of tolerance!) but he’s trained and equipped a roughly 40,000 strong army, with a singular goal: Bring down Assad’s regime and eject his Russian and Iranian allies.
Is the pending new presidency in the USA a factor in this sudden sense of urgency? That would be on Erdogan, with whom, no doubt, Washington will be in touch. Is it simply the fact that Russia and Iran have been weakened on their own proxy war fronts? Are their respective hardened shells of imperialist might as thin as Assad’s?
My hope, personally, is with regard to Europe. I hope this weakens Russia and adds to their problems in Ukraine and Georgia. Maybe even Chechnya’s rebels will see a window of opportunity? Russia is now selling over a billion Chinese Yuen every two days, just to prop up their spiralling Ruble. They simply cannot sustain their spending and commitments to empire globally.
It’s impossible to judge, since Russia’s implosion may be imminent. Or they could hold out for years. But crises like these bring the end of Putin’s dictatorship into focus, at the very least. After all, I’m old enough to remember the fall of Soviet Communism. And anyone who tells you they saw that coming is either misremembering or just making stuff up.
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Me too. I’m a middlingly wealthy man, by any reasonable measure, and even I can see quite plainly that we’re NOT, “all in this together.” Doubling food prices is an annoyance to people like me, sometimes it’s quite frankly frustrating. But, I’ve just recently witnessed a friend burst into tears because I paid for a her shopping when we met in the supermarket, because she couldn’t face the, “shame,” of going to a food bank, but knew she would do it, for her kids. I’m getting that in the, “feels,” alright. This government is just too far gone. Degenerate and unfit. Why can’t we force an election? Something has to give?
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To anyone who is concerned about how slow this counter offensive is going: You can access a timeline map of the D Day landings of World War Two and see how slowly they developed at first, until they gathered momentum. The allies stayed on those beaches and villages of Normandy for over a month, de-mining, securing defences, processing casualties, processing prisoners, getting rid of traps and working on probing attacks, through well dug in and fortified German positions. That map does not change for a month and then begins to expand, slowly at first, until the breakthroughs build and begin to overwhelm the enemy. It will take roughly three months before such momentum will be seen in Ukraine, if that map sequence is any comparison.
Ukraine WILL WIN, so long as we KEEP SUPPORTING THEM. Slava Ukraine! 🇺🇦✌️🇬🇧
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Until we accept that this is not a matter of, “training,” or, “bad apples,” or, “exceptional attitudes,” but one of cultural criminality, the whole issue is hopeless. From that one video alone, we SAW and HEARD that every, “police officer,” not only took part in it, or facilitated it in some way, but they actually thought it was FUNNY! Not a grave responsibility, taken up at the most extreme need, under the most professional conduct and with the most sensitive care. It was an act of spite and revenge, in which the whole institution took part with glee.
The institution is broken. You cannot replace a culture any more than you can replace a popular idea. You must close down the institution and replace it. The irony is that doing so would be far easier than many realise.
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Lucky you. Sounds like it would have been fun to share your couch and a coffee, or maybe a beer, whilst watching the meltdown in glorious Technicolor? I said they would have to prize Johnson’s cold, dead fingers from the dispatch box, and I wasn’t wrong. No sense of dignity, that boy. The 1922 Committee will probably have to change its rules over the weekend and he may just jump before a new vote of no confidence? But even then I wouldn’t count on it.
Boris describing Govey as a snake made me lol. It was his reptilian qualities that got Boris into number 10 in the first place, and his betrayal of Ms May was orchestrated by Johnson, so he should have expected that! Govey is the devil himself, stuffed into a Mr Parlanchin puppet with a hair combing.
Did that last question about losing Johnson means the Conservatives lose their most appealing politician strike you, as it did me, as particularly dumb? He was, once! That woman should have said, “Have you been watching the news?” Johnson is as toxic to the voters as Vladimir Putin at a Ukrainian wedding! Especially anyone who lost loved ones during Covid whilst obeying the rules, or those wondering how they’re going to feed their kids when cornflakes cost £5 quid per flake!
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Chemicals, maybe? But everyone who KNOWS Putin says the same thing. Putin would only dare to use nukes if he thought he was personally safe. He’s looking for an off ramp, and they do have the doctrine of, “escalation to de-escalate,” so we should be ready. We must NOT fall into the trap of assisting Putin to, “save face,” at home, so he can pull out. He cannot win and he’s growing weaker by the day. We MUST make it cost him something like the whole of Crimea, so he cannot pretend any form of, “victory,” at home or abroad. If we want world peace, we must be willing to fight for it.
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@stephenorourke9896 : I know you won’t reply to what I’m about to explain to you, (how could you?) but just maybe it will give you pause, even for a moment?
Read a little history, son? Start with a little incident they called The Cuban Missile Crisis? There you will see all the differences between both America’s position and that of Moscow’s, right now and then.
America never invaded Cuba, which is still a communist dictatorship 30 miles off the coast of Florida, to this day. Ukraine has never expressed any hostility to Russia, not even a desire for association, just independence. It is still communist doctrine to destroy all of the pillars of capitalism globally, you know? But the usual greed and hypocrisy that emerge in every communist state are what keeps the proximate threat of Cuba’s doctrine at bay nowadays. Not gunfire.
And of course, back then, Russia was genuinely installing REAL nukes into Cuba, not the made up propagandist, juvenile ravings of an implausible gangster, as Putin imagines (or says he does) now in Ukraine.
And with what imagined slight has, “the west,” so offended Prickly Putin this time? Preventing him from overrunning every country on Earth and sucking it into his Evil Empire?
Maybe it was simply blocking his plans to prevent Ukraine from becoming a bigger energy exporter than Russia? Because Shell & Exxon are convinced they have more gas and oil than Russia. But, Putin knew that already, which is why he took the very places where those reserves are: Crimea, Donbas, and now Western Ukraine.
Forget too that silencing news, murdering the truth tellers and journalists he fears, and spending at least a $trillion on lying propaganda is tantamount to a confession of pure, undiluted evil.
You would have to be either historically illiterate, or plain stupid to believe your own words. Worse still, you would have to that perennial combination of the two; the sort of stupidity and evil that makes people willing to sell their souls for just a little cash, so you can troll for the idiots who paid you to . . . I would pity a fool like you, if it wasn’t for the fact that all that hate in your heart soaks up finer feeling like a black hole. The event horizon of your heart has already been passed. And you probably didn’t even feel it.
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If any act leans SO HEAVILY, with its full weight, into what are normally identified as egregious sexual stereotypes, it’s drag artists, isn’t it? Hyper feminised language, mannerisms, jokes, etc? Is it just me, or is there some sort of stark hypocrisy at play here? No, I don’t have any problem with a drag artist doing their thing as part of a children’s entertainment. And if you throw education into the mix, even better. But, don’t punish little Timmy for opening a door for his sister, when he just saw Widow Twanky waiting for Aladdin to do the same for her, chastising him for being slow about it?
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@django3422 : Even Lineker wasn’t talking about the policy directly. He was talking about the dangers of normalising the type of language Braverman uses; “hoards,” “swarms,” etc. That is how it began in 1930’s Germany. When it became acceptable for politicians to use unfair stereotypes, inflammatory epithets and pejoratives to describe specific groups of people. That is what makes the next steps to the gas chambers that much smaller. It’s monstrous to murder a person. But not monstrous to exterminate a rat. You follow me?
In actual fact, we may be able to guess at Lineker’s feelings on Home Office policy, but we cannot, “know,” anything from that Tweet. Only his disgust at barbaric language. He was careful to state a fact, not a speculation. And I agree with him wholeheartedly. Not because of any political opinion, but simply because facts are empirical things that cannot be argued with, nor are the susceptible to opinion. “You can choose your opinions, not your facts,” as they say. That too is a fact.
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I have great admiration for Lyndsay Hillstam (probably spelled that wrong, sorry) and her gallant, comprehensive and ultimately informative journalism. In fact, Channel 4 has genuinely surpassed the BBC in terms of fresh news out of Ukraine, in depth coverage, honest comprehensive coverage and that all important INFORMATION. Lyndsay stands out in a highly competitive crowd of great reporters working for Channel 4 in Ukraine, making the channel one of my main, “go to,” sources for this war. Her, “obsession with WWI poetry,” doesn’t surprise me. The coverage we’re getting is clearly coming from an informed, educated place, which makes such a huge difference to how the news is focussed, processed and passed on to us, in the comfort of our living rooms. Thank you, Channel 4. And, thank you especially, Lyndsay. You deserve some form of recognition for your excellent, brave work.
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@frixosfriedman7813 : Well, this is why it’s so complex and tricky, but they always pull the same levers. Raising interest rates will raise rents and house prices. Especially since the, “government,” has just confessed that it’s not even going to try to build the 30,000 new houses they planned; mostly because of NIMBYism. I own several properties, but live in Scotland where the, “Rent Freeze,” is still in effect and I’m glad of it! The bottom line is NEVER fall for the LIE that, “there is no money,” or the question, “So, where will the money come from?” Because the answer is obvious to anyone who isn’t a Westminster Lobbyist (which includes roughly half of the property owning Mp’s): We’ll take it from all those fat cat subsidies, the energy and transport companies (who offered to pay a windfall tax, btw!) and the banks that were lyingly purported to be, “too big to fail.” And that’s just for starters. The money is there. It’s just in the wrong hands.
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@TFx2TV : Keep in mind that many of these protesting parents are the same parents who pay good money once a year to see some actor drop knob gags into every other line during Panto Season, and laugh out loud at them in front of their kids, while their pre-teen daughter is asking, “But, what’s a Brass Monkey, daddy?”
The whole point of a drag artist used to be that it was a, “Grotesque.” A deliberate distortion of what women are, done for humour’s sake. There is nothing, “normal,” about a drag artist, which is evidenced by the fact that you can choose it as a career path in the entertainment industry, NOT see it at your elbow in your local pub. There is something deeply misguided about this class.
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@GlasPthalocyanine : Indeed. None of this particular, “culture war,” makes any sense to me. The joke about Widow Twanky is either that, “men just don’t get women, as this makes patently obvious,” or, “wouldn’t it be awful if women were like this?” I just don’t get what they’re going for, or who thought it was a good idea?
Don’t get me wrong. I have no doubt that this particular interviewee has his heart in the right place, has no dark agendas, and enjoys putting his craft to the service of entertaining education. And these same idiots outside, waving placards and demanding he be strung up for sexual deviancy are the same people who will pay good money every year to see Widow Twankie dropping knob gags and every imaginable innuendo into his dialogue, whilst laughing out loud and simply saying, “ask me later,” when his daughter asks him, “What’s a Brass Monkey, daddy?”
But are these parents going to chastise Little Timmy when he holds open a door for his sister and says, “Ladies first,” because he saw how cross Twanky got at Aladdin when he failed to hold the door open for her . . . him? . . . them?
It’s so unhealthy and sending the ultimate mixed messages.
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@PrintProfessor : Absolutely. What an embarrassing time to be a trump fan, right? We cannot afford to let up the pressure. I hope everyone is contacting their representatives and demanding we deport all oligarchs, seize their assets, pay off any losses to western businesses and use the rest to fund Zelensky’s army! It sickens me to hear them talk about using sanctions as a, “deterrent,” when they sat on their asses when Putin stole the Crimea! Putin is simply stealing and murdering his way to control over Ukraine’s MASSIVE oil and gas reserves!
And 10% is NOT a, “tiny,” amount of our gas, as the foreign office asserts. It’s well over a third of Germany’s and most of Europe’s! It’s suicidal! It’s like FDR ordering his aircraft carriers from Hirohito and his tanks from Hitler during WWII! And now we’re paying the price of our leaders’ GREED as they’ve allowed oligarchs to bribe and blackmail their way deep into the western world, to persuade us to rely on a dictatorship for our energy supplies!
I’m so sick of this corrupt government and I regret voting for them! Time we got rid at the next elections. Especially if they don’t start HURTING Putin! So far, all we’ve done is what he’s expected and built into his calculations. Sanctions are no good unless they’re WORSE than they expected or can handle!
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@davec3974 : Not sure what you’re getting at? You just explained the basic idea of, “borrowing.” Which, I imagine most people know. Yet, you must realise that there are a lot of other influences on the borrowing markets, both domestically and internationally, driven by trade, international relations, politics, beliefs, the markets, etc, etc, etc. It’s never simply the case that the banks just say, “X = Y, therefore we will do Z today,” right? You get that, I presume?
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@Klaus : A) Wrong topic. B) The Myth of Scarcity is peddled by the very rich, because they want all your stuff, but there’s more than enough to go around. C) “400,000,” is not an accurate figure but I wish it were. We NEED more economic migrants. There are more than a MILLION jobs going begging in Britain, because people like you and me don’t like picking fruit, cleaning streets, or working for fast food outlets, for more than a couple of weeks. D) The reason so many countries are facing serious possibilities of decline is because of population shortages. Only growing populations survive this economy. China and Russia have ageing, shrinking populations, for different reasons, but they’re desperate for more young adults of working age and tax generation capabilities. E) Read a book, son.
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And it’s so gladdening to my heart that this is what people want to talk about, FINALLY! Andrew Marr excused himself from even discussing that topic, with a hand wave, saying, “They’ve always done it like that.” But he gets his residual pay,ents for his books and documentaries from the BBC, so that’s not hard to understand. Especially when you consider that anyone who takes a more lucrative job at another outlet still relies on their, “network,” of contacts for those big interviews that draw the punters. The whole topic of corrupt appointments has been subject to Omertà within the BBC because they don’t want to rock their leaky boat.
But, a system that no one would bat an eye at in the early 1930’s, The State appointing State Radio Management, which was made even a necessity during the war, already looked outdated by the 1960’s and unfit for purpose by the end of the 80’s. Now it’s just an invasion by stealth, dismantling its values, public trust and its future viability by putting more and more Tories at the top, whilst using those positions to fish around for Tories among their presenters who might be stupid enough to allow themselves to be persuaded to shill for the government, like Fiona Bruce. And that’s not her first offence either, shilling for Johnson’s wife beating dad. I’ve literally watched her agog, on Question Time, stating the government’s arguments for them, because the Tory MP on the panel was refusing to.
If anyone should be like a royal, taking their political biases to their graves with them, it’s political and news presenters. But Andrew Neil was never even questioned for starting his own right wing news outlet! The hypocrisy is palpable and shocking. Damn, I could site example after example, but it would be too long for a YouTube comment and it would leave all decent people feeling sicker than they already do.
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I’m just so depressed by this appalling, degenerate, cruel, self-serving, incompetent, borderline racist, elitist, “government.” We should be allowed to FORCE an election at this point. I’m a middlingly wealthy man, by any reasonable measure, and even I can see quite plainly that we’re NOT, “all in this together.”
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I literally despair to hear that the spokesperson on this issue is from the Isle Of Wight! I lived there for more than 10 years, working for local government and discovered that this island is one of the country’s biggest strongholds for the Masons! They were overt in their abuse of power and frequently added their Masonic protection to their verbal threats of the general public! Clearly, they’re not intending anything good.
It’s good that police have learned how to pronounce the word, “sorry.” That’s a historic change. And, in their defence, Carrick’s capture may well have been the result of stepped up attempts to do more about such rotten apples, since the case of Sarah Everard. It’s a counter intuitive take, perhaps, but it may well be a sign of progress?
The, “Cultural issue,” is still the key problem. We’re talking about one of the most powerful national institutions in the country, with a monopoly on physical force and the weapons to back them, having a private members only mentality, selecting officers on the basis of their reliability to keep silent and protect t their own, rather than ability or commitment. The club needs to be broken up completely, which requires a massive national effort.
Start by breaking up all stations and moving the cops out of their comfort zones to new stations.
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@TFx2TV : I think that’s an obtuse answer. Perhaps deliberately so? So, if little 7 year old Timmy hold the door for his sister and says, without the slightest irony, “Lady’s first,” you think that’s fine? Is he allowed to site Window Twanky’s indignance at Aladdin for failing to hold the door for her? . . . him? . . . them? in his own defence?
Do you have any opinions at all about the fact that drag artistry is based upon leaning into the most unhealthy stereotypes about women? Have you noticed that this was not an issue for anyone before Covid, and now everyone is suddenly, “angry,” about what people are telling them to be angry about, rather than thinking for themselves about more important matters?
Are little boys and girls meant to infer that five hour hairdos, an unhealthy obsession with shoes, heavy makeup and jewellery and a flouncing, over dramatic body language are what women are? It’s confused and self contradictory.
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@TFx2TV : Why so defensive? I think anyone who bothers to read our discourse will note for themselves the defensive, antagonistic and, at one point, devious tone of your, “argument,” but, since you’re having such difficulty following it, I’ll make real simple for you.
There was nothing in my words from which you could infer ANYTHING about what I find, “sexual.” That much will be obvious to that person with too much free time on their hands who bothers to follow this discussion. They will simply see you wriggling on a hook of your own making, going for some low blow, to divert attention from the weakness of your position.
My point: There is no benefit from using cultural stereotypes as an educational tool, UNLESS that education is focussed on the issue of the sexual stereotypes being put to use. Which, in this case, it is clearly not. It is, however, an attempt to, “normalise,” it. His word, not mine. My question would be, “Normalise what?” To which he would probably answer, “Difference?” I could then poke so many holes in the use of this particular medium that I doubtless wouldn’t get much more than angry obfuscation in return, if he was anything like you.
Perhaps you’d prefer a question or two? Maybe consider what you’re babbling about, instead of locking on to the least relevant part of the argument, “little Timmy,” about whom you seem so passionate?
What is the benefit of having a drag artist as a teacher? Why use one at all? For the same reason they would hire a clown? These are not healthy depictions of femininity. What is the point of using a grotesque when the mere fact of his grotesqueness is not even under discussion during the class. Do you honestly believe it doesn’t raise any questions in the minds of these kids? Inform their opinions about women? You seem to be denying that drag artists do show an unhealthy obsession about makeup, shoes and jewellery? Even though that is part of the point of them. Otherwise it’s just a cross dresser, selling himself as a drag artist, under false pretences.
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@Stefan Parocki : Why is the prefix of the definite article an, “insult,” as you say? If so, I never heard that before. To us in the west right now, Ukraine is, “THE Ukraine,” as in, “We salute you.” You know Angela Merkel is history now, right? Olaf Scholz (of the SPD) is Germany’s current Chancellor.
I was re-reading up on the famine, recently. After seeing a pretty good Vox video on YouTube about it. Stalin nearly wiped Ukraine’s people off the map, and he almost got away with covering the entire thing up! For all it matters, he did get away with it successfully, with barely a word of response from a sceptical west, which (once the proof had been rubbed in the western leaders’ faces) induced a coma of none committal and pusillanimity.
It seems to me that the last 100 years of history in Ukraine has been about withstanding Soviet (and now Neo-Soviet) aggression. The more I learn about them, the more my admiration spirals out of all proportion! Of all countries in the western world, Ukraine deserves our gratitude as well as our frank, uncomplicated admiration and committed support. Since their rejection of Putin’s puppet dictatorship and their loss of Crimea, they have shown nothing but sheer unalloyed courage in the face of all but hopeless odds.
And the average people of west are still not fully aware of how much their sacrifices have served to buffer the rest of the free world from Neo-Soviet expansion. The way I see it now, we simply cannot and MUST NOT allow Putin to, “save face,” as he retreats. Crimea HAS TO go back to Ukrainian hands and be protected by the UN. And the coal, oil and gas of the whole Donbas region (Putin’s real objective in both areas) must be rendered off limits to him.
If Putin loses more than he began this murderous slaughter with, and cannot maintain a plausible lie of, “victory,” to his own people let alone the rest of the world, we will be doing more to secure world peace and make Dictatorships think twice before attacking defenceless neighbours, than has been achieved since the end of World War II.
Ukraine has sacrificed too much for us all, for anything less to be acceptable now. We have the advantage and MUST press it home at all costs. And the gains from doing so will be both moral and strategic. That’s my view, at any rate. Do you agree?
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@christopherhitchens163 : The paradox being that people are wringing their hands over the morality of using cluster munitions because of their potential to do indiscriminate harm after the war is over, despite the fact that they will be used in this case by an army that is not firing them on foreign soil, but their own, will be logging every missile and where it lands and whether it went off, so as to later clean up all UXB’s and they want to do this because they are already losing innocent civilians to indiscriminate bombing and terrorism, every single day. Or haven’t you seen the missile attacks on the news? Haven’t you seen the mass graves? It is at times like this when human rights organisations risk rendering themselves unfit for purpose in the public’s opinion. And it is public opinion that makes them matter at all in the first place.
An analogy for you: It’s rather as if a doctor sited the section of the Hypocratic Oath that states, “Do no harm,” as a reason to ban all amputations, regardless of the lives they would save, simply because cutting off a limb is, ostensibly, “harm.” Paradoxical.
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@Poul Gin : It’s in China’s interests to see the west weakened, so they will attempt to take advantage of this. But, they have abstained from outright support, because they’re reliant on western trade; more so now that the world is heading back into a recession. They are still a Communist dictatorship, after all. But they’re no more insane than any leader of a dictatorship, and they know exactly what’s really going on in Russia, probably better than most of us do, actually.
Their people might be in the dark, but their government is not. And, sad but true, in a dictatorship, the people don’t matter. They have no power and cannot change anything, so their ignorance is academic.
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Johnson claims that he was, “exonerated,” by the Sue Grey report. It was seeing that tape, of that woman at the podium, laughing about the drunken antics of these scum, that set off in me, for the first time in my long life, a genuine revolutionary rage. My dad died of Covid and had already had a series of mini-strokes that made him unable to process the experience or understand why he was alone, without his four children. He asked for his wife, who had died the year before, but he kept forgetting that. He died hard. He died alone. And these bastards LAUGHED at us and said, “Let them eat cake.”
Any, “politician,” who can now look us in the face and say Johnson, “did not knowingly,” break policy or mislead the commons, is an evil LIAR. “Look at the evidence!” squeals this goon. The evidence shows that the police found he had criminally broken the law and fined him accordingly. Johnson was quoted as saying, “This is the least socially distanced room in Britain,” at his birthday party. The press staffer came out and laughed, looking drunk at the time! And this gaslighting psychopath only shows us how the Tories have flung open their doors to the type of scum that even Margaret Thatcher would have refused to tolerate!
If you want THE most powerful reason for voting for the opposition to the Tories in your county at the next general election, that interview was it!
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@neonk4068 : Not in personnel no. But they do have superior equipment and training, which is the game changer (we hope?) that has granted advantages to modern armies, having learned valuable lessons from WW II. I do not argue that it is precisely the same. I am simply drawing attention to the fact that some overwhelming successes take much longer than lay people expect. Especially when they have seen examples last year, of lighting runs across vast swathes of Ukrainian territory and built their expectations accordingly. This time, every village and town that goes back into Ukrainian hands will remain liberated, forever. These are not short term gains, but permanent. So, this is not a one-to-one comparison, simply a reason for understanding better and managing expectations.
But since you raise the matter, I hope you are writing to your representatives and demanding we do more for Ukraine, and giving them those F16’s they need?
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@armstrongcatherine : Surely there are no scales in which to weigh the balance? In every single war we learn of some war crime or other, committed by our own side, as we do here. It is to be expected from those who are walking among their own dead relatives in the rubble of their own homes, as much as it was from those who’d survived Hitler’s Blitz on London when they got to Berlin.
The difference, then as now, is that the Russian army uses rape, looting, torture and murder as their METHOD of warfare. And the very fact of their instantaneous gaslighting denials, before they could possibly have enough information to evaluate the truth of allegations, tells you all you need to know. Like our own armed forces, the Ukrainians must expect an occasional war crime, and they do, as we saw, acknowledge it, and deal with it through Courts Martial. They treat it as the, “exception,” because that’s what it is.
The Russian army (and I say this without value judgement) is made up of largely under educated, poverty stricken young men, with a Third World mentality. Russia still has the highest stats on alcoholism in the world, to boot. They see acts of terror and cowardice as, “normal,” not exceptional, and they believe that conquering a city grants them the right to rape, loot and murder. And their military culture is built around, “the spoils of war,” like medieval bandits.
They are so unlike us in their thinking and superstitious belief systems as to be practically aliens. And it must be GALLING for Zelensky’s advisor to have to even tolerate such a badly put question with its false equivalencies, its utter discounting of the suffering of Ukrainian citizens and its almost brutal blindness as to how it offers assistance to the Russian enemy by drawing those false comparisons.
It’s not the question that was wrong. It needed to be highlighted, to draw out the differences between the two armies for the world to see. It was the blundering, aggressive and frankly obtuse manner of its asking that was so offensively wrong headed.
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@TFx2TV : The rest of your diatribe seems to be based upon this misapprehension you have about basic grammar and diction, kiddo. So, go ahead and call me a, “grammar Nazi,” if you like, but when you’re discussing the wrong topic, simply because you don’t understand basic terms, you will remain at a permanent disadvantage. That’s not my fault, but maybe you should get your nose out of the gutter and look up.
And don’t accuse me of failing to answer your questions, when you literally asked NONE. I asked several, none of which you answered, which is is why I am terminating this discussion. As you are simply, “quarrelling,” without argument, making personal attacks, without qualification, and incapable of command of the topic, because you don’t understand how words work.
Have nice day. But, charge me rent if you’re going to let me live in your head, son? Bye now . . .
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@westerlywind1035 : That seems to be the main tack Putin has told his trolls to take; “Talk about financial costs, and try to scare them. That works here in Russia.” But trolls have no real way of knowing that the Brits are far more politically literate than that, and they can see that Russia’s defeat will lead to global energy prices coming down, among other benefits; like being granted privileged access to business deals when Ukraine is being rebuild, post war. According to BP, Shell, Exxon and several others, there are massive untapped reserves of fossil fuels in the extreme east, west and off the south coast of Ukraine. Their development teams were threatened and eventually bombed out of the areas in question, but we all know they could rival Russia with what they have. Not to mention, argon supplies, grain and agriculture, etc. They will emerge as a leading power in Europe, and that frightens the trolls as much as it does Putin. 👍🇺🇦
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@darkmusky9851 : What always strikes me about Putin trolls is their utter ignorance of history and the political present. I guess that’s a result of never being allowed access to free information? . . . Putin is precisely like Stalin, modelling himself on Stalin quite deliberately. Stalin also committed genocide IN UKRAINE, which you would know if you’d read a book, so, “spare me,” the Putin propaganda, dressed up to look like something else. Literally, just a couple of days ago, Putin had a new bust revealed outside the Kremlin. I’ll give you one guess as to who it was? He’s been trying to rehabilitate the image of Stalin for the last 10 years. And he’s created such a docile, politically absent, population that they aren’t even terrified at the idea that their leader’s hero was responsible for more Soviet deaths than the Nazis! Think! Before you write, son? 🤦♂️
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What is it with the BBC? . . . Why are they ALWAYS covering for predators and general scumbags? Any doubts I had about the Wallace allegations evaporated when I heard him condemning himself out of his own mouth.
Once you start referring to the age and, “class,” of the complainants, as if that was a relevant issue, you are conforming to a type. Your, “defence,” becomes all about, “culture wars,” in an attempt to shift the battle ground from under the feet of the women concerned. No one has accused him of anything so heinous that he couldn’t have humbled himself and learned from the experience. But that seems to smack of a loss of, “privileges,” in his book, perhaps? What he’s really telling us is that, not only is he unabashed, but he wants to continue on in his unreconstructed behaviours, making women feel uncomfortable at best, downright threatened and unsafe in the workplace at worst!
And, seriously! Saying that you haven’t had any complaints from anyone else (as further complaints are still coming in, I might add!) when referring to a bunch of junior staff in his kitchens, who are trained to routinely put up with tantrums and outbursts from chefs from the moment they begin their careers, is the lamest thing I’ve heard in a long time.
If THAT’S your defence, Gregg, then you have no defence.
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Unless that, “journalist,” already knew the entire nature of the messages, had already seen them, and then agreed to polish the turd of Hancock’s career regardless, until she got a better offer, for which she had to dig around herself? This is a genuine case of rats in a barrel eating each other, attempting to create, “narratives,” around their coming election failure, so as to ensure new positions in the new Tory Party’s Shadow Cabinet, after Sunack gets roundly defeated. I usually hate the following phrase, as it’s generally a cop out, but in this case it fits . . . They’re all as bad as each other.
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Is that all? To be honest, I can’t imagine how the Tories could win any seats, anywhere? I voted Tory last time, but I genuinely believe this bunch of goons have set records in British history for corruption, infighting, cruelty, self dealing, all but direct theft, paying no attention to experts and now they’re attempting to divide the nation with appeals to the lowest common denominator, the racists. I would vote for my CAT over this lot, and that sod steals my food! The Tories would benefit from some wilderness years, to root out the thickies and the thieves.
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Well put. Totally agree. Please write to your representatives and demand that NATO gives the formal invitation to join NATO today! Keep in mind that the process can still take as long as NATO wants after the invitation is proffered, but it gives the unequivocal and unambiguous signal that NATO is committed to Ukraine WINNING this war! That’s the one message that the west has stopped short of, “because escalation,” blah, friggin’ blah. Putin has ALWAYS backed off when faced with a GENUINE red line. Every single time!
Just look at the Wagner Mutiny? Putin fled Moscow for St Petersburg! Even though the Wagnazis didn’t even reach the outskirts of the city! Prigozhin is ignoring his exile, swanning about Russia, free as a bird, while Wagner STILL refuses to carry out Putin’s direct orders and join the regular armed forces! He’s not even IN, “control,” of Russia!
We should NOT fear a deliberate nuclear attack, but we SHOULD fear the possibility of nuclear ACCIDENTS, which Russia has a legendary record for! As the chaos continues, the chances of that go up. Western intervention is necessary for peace, yet NATO has just told Putin that he might still find a way to get a, “draw,” out of this. NATO has just prolonged the war!
Please? If you care about world peace, the future of Europe, or the plight of Ukraine, just drop a line to your representative and DEMAND action! Let them know it is an election issue. Save Ukraine and we save the world . . . at least, we save it from one of the three biggest threats, (China and the Middle East remaining as troubling as ever, but not actively making war on Europeans!) and saving Ukraine could potentially neutralise Russia as a threat to the world, possibly forever?
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A cynical exercise in throwing red meat out at the lowest forms of scum in the extreme right wing of his party, rather than figuring out plans to stop this waste of money, resources and time, as all Tory migrant policies have done so far. I’m a floating voter, but the numbers don’t lie. We used to process applications faster, deport bogus asylum seekers more promptly and spend less on accommodating legitimate claimants while they were being processed, under ALL previous administrations.
By flirting with the extremists the Tories have relinquished control of their own policies to the worst people in their party, giving senior positions to people unfit for minor responsibilities, let alone great powers. All this hoopla will be struck down in the courts and more time and money lost. Well done, Rishi, you plonker.
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Boom! Talk about, “funny coz it’s true,” I think you just won the internet today!
And, no doubt, we’ll get much more of the unvarnished version of Wallace and a sudden education on what SOB he really is, to boot. He’s already claiming his, “culture wars,” credentials by calling this a thing about a, “certain class,” of women, at, “a certain age,” which was straight from the Donald Trump playbook.
But when I heard him say that stuff out loud, along with, “Well, no one else has complained,” referring to the teenagers and 20 somethings who are trained to take on cheffy tantrums on a routine basis, I became convinced that all of the complaints against him were true.
And, YET AGAIN, we’re all left wondering, WTF is WRONG with the BBC!? Why are they ALWAYS protecting the perps!?
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Boom! Talk about, “funny coz it’s true,” I think you just won the internet today!
And, no doubt, we’ll get much more of the unvarnished version of Wallace and a sudden education on what SOB he really is, to boot. He’s already claiming his, “culture wars,” credentials by calling this a thing about a, “certain class,” of women, at, “a certain age,” which was straight from the Donald Trump playbook.
But when I heard him say that stuff out loud, along with, “Well, no one else has complained,” referring to the teenagers and 20 somethings who are trained to take on cheffy tantrums on a routine basis, I became convinced that all of the complaints against him were true.
And, YET AGAIN, we’re all left wondering, WTF is WRONG with the BBC!? Why are they ALWAYS protecting the perps!?
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I have such admiration and gratitude to Channel 4’s journalists, who (let’s face it) have easily surpassed the BBC: a thing I genuinely did not expect to see in my lifetime. It’s not just that these journalists are clearly well educated, able to put this news into context for us, give an informed perspective and use that educated perspective to inform how they focus the aspects of this news that are important to pass on to us, the general public. It’s their gallantry in the face of danger. Being shot at by a sniper would be enough for most sensible people to leave the country for good. But such thinking does not even occur to a person like Lindsay. All it seems to have done is legitimise her coverage and focus her attention on the plight of those who, “don’t get to go back to their hotel and have a drink.” Her empathy and courage genuinely moves me. But, set ALL OF THAT aside and just ask yourself, which of the main British channels can you turn to for in depth, on site, up to date INFORMATION out of Ukraine and analysis of events? It used to be The BBC, no question. On this particular story, Ukraine’s war, that is not the case any longer. Channel 4 is just better, more comprehensive, more detailed, more up to date, etc, etc. I so hope that she and Channel 4 get some recognition amongst their piers for this coverage. They deserve accolades. It’s THE single most important issue in the world right now; from the reason we’re all paying more for fuel and heating, and facing a recession, to international politics and trade, to the fact that the world is dealing with the biggest threat to democracy in its history, certainly since WWII. The answers to all your big political questions are being determined on the battlefields of Ukraine. Anyone who thinks that’s misinformed has not been paying attention.
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In other words, no one should sign up to an IVA unless they’re financially secure enough not to need one? Agreed. Looks like a scam. The Citizen’s Advice Bureau should be people’s first stop. But even then, you need to check that your CAB is NOT one of those that the government has infiltrated and now work to benefit government policy more than their client. I learned that the hard way, in a previous life. Granted, it was a different type of matter, but it was shocking to discover that the CAB person who said they were, “representing,” me, when we had a group call discussion between me and the company I was fighting, was actually employed by the government and NOT a volunteer. I discovered that DURING THE CALL, when she suddenly started saying things that were clearly against my interests. So, just make sure you KNOW exactly WHO you’re getting your advice from, and WHO they work for. Who pays their wages? When you know that, you know what to do. ✌️
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A rat betrayed by another rat. No downside, really. But I just hope people will remember: If Isabella Oakshot, the leaker in chief, was, “acting in the public interest,” she would simply have put all of these WhatsApp messages into the public domain, allowing us to sift them and draw our own conclusions. Instead, she’s making a FORTUNE out of a series of curated, highly paid, narrative driven, leaks. They’re all just rats.
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To everyone who supports the view, “We’re sick of hearing about Covid. It’s time to move on.” If that’s what you believe, then HELP US ALL MOVE ON, by COOPERATING FULLY so we can do EXACTLY THAT!
Yes, many will never be able to move on due to personal loss. I am included in that number. But, I am just as, if not more, keen to get past this, rather than hearing about the selfish and entitled, lying and stalling to get out of accountability! Like this doctor pointed out, we WILL face another pandemic again. Only next time could be a worse disease with a swifter mortality rate and bigger R-0. And then we’ll ALL be damned grateful that we took the time to make sure we understood everything about the last one, and regulated for the maximum survival rates!
Anyone in their right mind KNOWS that sociopaths like Johnson belong in jail, for this and countless other offences. But when I hear them whining about not getting special treatment and being warned before people report their CRIMINALITY to the police, I choke!
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Johnson claims that he was, “exonerated,” by the Sue Grey report. It was seeing that tape, of that woman at the podium, laughing about the drunken antics of these scum, that set off in me, for the first time in my long life, a genuine revolutionary rage. My dad died of Covid and had already had a series of mini-strokes that made him unable to process the experience or understand why he was alone, without his four children. He asked for his wife, who had died the year before, but he kept forgetting that. He died hard. He died alone. And these bastards LAUGHED at us and said, “Let them eat cake.”
Any, “politician,” who can now look us in the face and say Johnson, “did not knowingly,” break policy or mislead the commons, is an evil LIAR. “Look at the evidence!” squeals this goon. The evidence shows that the police found he had criminally broken the law and fined him accordingly. Johnson was quoted as saying, “This is the least socially distanced room in Britain,” at his birthday party. The press staffer came out and laughed, looking drunk at the time! And this gaslighting psychopath only shows us how the Tories have flung open their doors to the type of scum that even Margaret Thatcher would have refused to tolerate!
If you want THE most powerful reason for voting for the opposition to the Tories in your county at the next general election, that interview was it!
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Please write to your representatives and demand that NATO gives the formal invitation to join NATO today! Keep in mind that the process can still take as long as NATO wants after the invitation is proffered, but it gives the unequivocal and unambiguous signal that NATO is committed to Ukraine WINNING this war! That’s the one message that the west has stopped short of, “because escalation,” blah, friggin’ blah. Putin has ALWAYS backed off when faced with a GENUINE red line. Every single time!
Just look at the Wagner Mutiny? Putin fled Moscow for St Petersburg! Even though the Wagnazis didn’t even reach the outskirts of the city! Prigozhin is ignoring his exile, swanning about Russia, free as a bird, while Wagner STILL refuses to carry out Putin’s direct orders and join the regular armed forces! He’s not even IN, “control,” of Russia!
We should NOT fear a deliberate nuclear attack, but we SHOULD fear the possibility of nuclear ACCIDENTS, which Russia has a legendary record for! As the chaos continues, the chances of that go up. Western intervention is necessary for peace, yet NATO has just told Putin that he might still find a way to get a, “draw,” out of this. NATO has just prolonged the war!
Please? If you care about world peace, the future of Europe, or the plight of Ukraine, just drop a line to your representative and DEMAND action! Let them know it is an election issue. Save Ukraine and we save the world . . . at least, we save it from one of the three biggest threats, (China and the Middle East remaining as troubling as ever, but not actively making war on Europeans!) and saving Ukraine could potentially neutralise Russia as a threat to the world, possibly forever?
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@BlinkonceforU : There are many differences between the two events, as was pointed out by Jake Broe on his YouTube channel, from which I took this comparison. Yet it is an apt comparison nonetheless; especially for the type of warfare we are seeing. As to the location of Russia’s, “first line of defence,” you know as little of that as I do, which is considerably less than a Ukrainian general. I trust that they know what they are doing and will succeed, as they have at all other points in this war.
I must take issue with your statement that, “this is not a world war,” as it clearly is. Just because it is only being fought in Ukraine, doesn’t make the stakes any less high. Every country in the free world has a dog in this fight. And this is the World War Three that the world gets when the protagonists on both sides are unwilling to use their nukes for obvious, not being suicidal, reasons.
Russia is not alone in its, “axis of evil,” as China has been backing them both overtly with words and covertly with resources, along with Iran (directly with weaponry) and other countries. While Ukraine is supported by the entire EU and the Five Eyes states, because we value freedom and democracy as much as we value life.
That is another respect in which we can draw our comparison with the battle against Nazism. The casualties were high on D Day and in the coming months afterwards, but they were expected to be high and that high casualty rate was built into the calculations of the allies, as it is in Ukraine. I do not say this is a, “good thing,” just a reality of war.
Yes, I would love to see Ukraine get a fleet of F16’s. I write to MP about that! Do you write to your representatives? Anyone who tells you that’s a waste of time is plain wrong. Demand the tools for victory and help speed the process! But, keep in mind that what the world’s leaders are saying and what is happening are not always the same thing. They don’t necessarily want Russia to know about much of the hardware that is already in Ukraine, or the shadow dropping of some jets, via Poland and other allies.
I promise you, Ukraine WILL WIN. The question is how long? And how many casualties must they take. We can influence the answer by demanding more from our representatives. That’s your role in this. On top of donating money and supporting correspondents who get the truth out there, you can persuade your own politicians.
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@hannibal808 : Maybe you’re closer the mark than you know? That little, “mutiny,” we recently saw was as much a fight over dwindling resources as it was anything else: particular the human resource of cannon fodder; expendable, untrained men who won’t be missed by the state. These are criminals and people from the outlying regions of the, “federation.” Meanwhile, places reliant on Russian troops to hold illegally occupied regions, such as Syria, Georgia, Chechnya and several others around the globe, are straining to contribute to the Ukrainian war effort whilst keeping domestic insurgents at bay. Some believe this will be a bleak winter for the Russian empire. I don’t know any more than the average well educated guesser, but . . . ?
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@andrew_alxf : “Copium,” is what’s holding up the Kerch Bridge, right now. “Copium,” is what Putin takes to convince himself he’s still, “in charge,” of Russia, even though, by his own admission, Prigozhin is defying his, “exile,” and the Wagnazis are still defying his direct orders to join the regular army. “Copium,” is what makes Putin believe he can starve 45 different nations into submission, by cancelling his grain deal, and the world will let him.
Son, we can’t GET any Copium, because Putin’s huffed it all! 😁
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@poolplayerpoolplayer7430 : You began that diatribe with an illogical, self contradictory statement. You then conflated a bunch of exaggerations and falsehoods to paint an utterly disprovable thesis, point by point, but that would take a while. And I think that’s why you do it? Knowing it takes a lot of time and patience to show why each of your many points are so wrong, you hide behind them like a barricade of grievances, aware that someone needs to work through all that bollox before they can get to their point, right?
You might as well have written, “Just because the man is right wing, doesn’t make him right wing.” Do you expect to win over or persuade ANYONE with that type of, “argument?”
Here’s a suggestion that should make you happy? Why not ban ANY politician, donor, or outspoken partisan from ANY management position in the BBC? That way the Beeb gets to stay independent and only answerable to you . . . and me, of course, and anyone else who pays a license fee. Happy with that?
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@poolplayerpoolplayer7430 : Are you a chat bot? Just repeating the same things, when they’ve already been shown to be false, is idiotic. You clearly do not understand the definitions of the terms you’re using. What seems to have you all worked up is some, “net zero,” rhetoric, examples of which you will not give, so they cannot be addressed? You may not like the conclusions of science, but it’s you who is politicising them, not the BBC. And, “net zero,” (whatever that means in your head) has nothing to do with the case in hand. Don’t be so emotional and try to think out your reasoning, then put THAT into words, rather than these pointless outbursts? Or leave me alone to talk with people who can disagree constructively?
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@welshdai4094 : Don’t take it so personally, son. Here’s a, “gullible,” Pepsi Challenge for you: Open up your Google maps, look at where the Russian army is, and plot a route from there toward the massive gas and oil reserves in the west of Ukraine, if you know where they are? Then look again in 24 hours? You’ll find you have almost magical powers of prediction, as the Russian army has moved down all of your routes toward the Carpathian Mountains! But only, “gullible,” people think this is just a smash and grab operation, committed by a frightened DICKtator who doesn’t want the west buying its gas and oil from Ukraine instead of him, right? Calm down, son. 😉
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@lochnessmunster1189 : The same place they got, “consent from,” for quantitative easing, son. Obviously. The myth is that there simply is no money, or worse still, the myth you’re falling for, that paying public sector workers robs Peter to pay Paul. That’s how the master manipulator sets the people at each other’s throats, instead of turning to all those people who have OUR money from our taxes and demanding they spend it more wisely and appropriately.
When 5 lobbyists can persuade just enough MP’s to vote against the public interest, just so they can build another fracking facility, dump raw sewerage into our rivers without the laws being upheld, pay fortunes to a private vendor for PPE that will never be used, approve a drug that is unsafe, bail out a failing business, bank or railway that no one would notice if they went to the wolves by going bankrupt, prevent a rent freeze for the rich landlords (many of whom ARE MP’s btw) which would stop the housing crisis in its tracks (I could go all day with examples) etc, etc, etc, WE KNOW they HAVE the money. They’ve earmarked it for less worthy people. So, maybe stop asking the wrong questions and start asking, “Which of the most wealthy 1%ers should pay a minimum of £10 per hour to the person in who’s hands I would be willing to place mine or my loved ones’ LIFE?”
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Would that review be carried out by another, “independent expert,” that also happens to be a massive Tory donor? Like the Chair of the BBC? Or an ex-Tory candidate, like the Director. Perhaps some of the news anchors for flagship news and debate shows, like Andrew Neil or Fiona Bruce, will shill for the BBC? Telling us that punishing free speech was, “only a one off,” or something? After the consistent campaign of threats the Tories have been making since the 1990’s with more menace over the years, this is looking like takeover by stealth and dismantling to follow?
As soon as you say that Lineker expressing his personal views (on his own private Twitter thread) reflects upon the BBC, then you have to ask why more incendiary acts, such as putting a doctored picture of the Labour leader with Hitler in it up on Twitter, was not, “crossing a line,” long before Lineker’s statement of FACT?
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In fairness, an all out war between the west and Russia would have no end in sight and could result in nuclear conflagration, either deliberately or by accident. So it has to be the very final resort. But consider what this war is actually about? Putin is desperate to seize control of the massive gas and oil reserves in Ukraine, because they have enough sitting under their country to rival, if not outstrip, Russia’s. So far, Putin has managed to scare off Shell and Exxon, who bought the rights to develop the biggest reserves in (you guessed it) Donbas and the Crimea. And now they’ve confirmed yet more massive reserves in the west of Ukraine, by the Carpathian Mountains. Putin can’t reach those and he has decided he must steal the entire country to maintain his stranglehold on Europe’s energy reserves.
Naturally, he knows the west would rather buy from Ukraine, a democracy with free speech and free trade, closer to Germany than Russia, which is way better than propping up a dictatorship, which has already threatened to cut off the gas lines in the past. So this is a desperate panic move, caused by the coming financial hit we’re all going to suffer worldwide. We think it will be painful in the west, but Russian people will wind up going back to mile long cues for a loaf of bread, and getting locked up for complaining about it.
All we really need to do is play the long game, let Putin sink what remains of his ailing economy into his Vietnam in Ukraine and squeeze his economy until his own people snap and bring him down. I know that sounds brutally cold, and doesn’t help the people of Ukraine, but it may well result in fewer deaths world wide? And we can maintain supplies and money to the Ukrainian armed forces in the mean time.
Historically, in over a hundred years (basically since it became an issue) the west has NEVER allowed themselves to lose control over energy supplies. In that respect, I don’t believe Putin is going to be a special case. We certainly need to do more.
I hope you are writing to your politicians and demanding they seize ALL Russian assets, deport ALL Russian oligarchs and use their resources to pay for the weapons and resources to fight their own Russian army? I am.
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Once the war is won, Ukraine will become an oil and mineral rich power house, with less innate corruption than any other European country, given all the scrutiny they have been under and the total freedom that representatives of NATO, the UN and the EU have been granted to look under the hood, so to speak. They have been outing and arresting corrupt officials at a rate never seen before in the free world, now they’re on a war footing. And we should keep in mind that in Ukraine, “corruption,” usually refers to Pro-Putin spies and bent business execs, supporting Putin’s, “cause,” for the backhanders.
I’ve never met a Ukrainian I didn’t like, with English as good as mine and manners that might have come from an 18th century novel. It’s actually a wonderful place already. And when the bombs stop dropping, it will be rich and powerful leader in the free world.
All this to say, yeah, that’s not such a bad idea. Slava Ukraine! 🇺🇦✌️🇬🇧
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