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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