Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Channel 4 News"
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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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