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Sky_Blue_Dreamer

Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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Grendel said:
No one offers opinions so this is a pointless thread of ignorant Islington labour types who want a jolly little war as long as they can sit at home on the sofa while was working class types go and die

Russia was a colossal mistake from the west - I’ve been many times and it’s very much in the big cities a western style culture and was there to be seen as an ally in the west

We have since the days of wolfitz and through to Rimney gone with the notion it’s always an enemy abd when it was down smash it rather then embrace it

Now we are seeing the realisation of our folly. The west needed to pick on someone so it picked on Russia - a proud resolute and loyal nation as it knew it dared not confront China

In the end the kicked battered animal fights back

We’ve created this monstrosity and we’ve relied on it

This thread is full of utter nonsense — most on here are ironically like Putin they snarl and kick back when other views are expressed and to put it mildly most are ignorant and clueless

Good luck with it keep posturing and keep chatting but perhaps Google Romney (I know most will have heard of him) and the other chap and understand the philosophy tbe west have deployed against Russia why Putin became and why we are where we are

I’m a humble child I know but hey take a look

Got your wish leave you all to it for a while
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I find some of this incredibly bizarre.

With Russia the old ideas of Soviet Communism are hard to shift (how long was the opinion of the German's affected post WWII), especially in the U.S. but our politicians haven't been averse to playing to that stereotype. And given Putin clearly has a fond remembrance of the Soviet era and a bit of a boner for bringing it back with him taking the role of Stalin is it any wonder that that's the way people have started to think about it again over the past decade or so?

Who kept on going on about if Corbyn got elected then we'd be under Russian/Putin control because he's a Commie? All the while taking Russian money and furthering Russian interests in our legal framework? So if you think it's an error it's predominantly from your friends in the Tory party.

How have they not been welcomed given the number of oligarchs that have large investments and properties here? Who's financial markets launder a lot of the dirty Russian money? Russia has hosted numerous tournaments like the World Cup, the Olympics, has an F1 race...

It's Putin and his Soviet-era thinking of suspicion of the West and seeing them as the enemy that has brought this about. Ex-Eastern bloc countries wanted to join NATO due to a fear of future Russian aggression. Were they supposed to be denied the right of a sovereign state to make that decision because some nutcase in Russia still thinks the USSR is a thing?

As for Islington Labour types wanting a jolly war while working class people die, you're the one who suggested Putin should be 'left to get on with it' and thus leave millions of ordinary working-class Ukrainians to suffer and die at the hands of his army. So don't even think about playing that particular card.
 
skybluetony176

skybluetony176

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Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
I find some of this incredibly bizarre.

With Russia the old ideas of Soviet Communism are hard to shift (how long was the opinion of the German's affected post WWII), especially in the U.S. but our politicians haven't been averse to playing to that stereotype. And given Putin clearly has a fond remembrance of the Soviet era and a bit of a boner for bringing it back with him taking the role of Stalin is it any wonder that that's the way people have started to think about it again over the past decade or so?

Who kept on going on about if Corbyn got elected then we'd be under Russian/Putin control because he's a Commie? All the while taking Russian money and furthering Russian interests in our legal framework? So if you think it's an error it's predominantly from your friends in the Tory party.

How have they not been welcomed given the number of oligarchs that have large investments and properties here? Who's financial markets launder a lot of the dirty Russian money? Russia has hosted numerous tournaments like the World Cup, the Olympics, has an F1 race...

It's Putin and his Soviet-era thinking of suspicion of the West and seeing them as the enemy that has brought this about. Ex-Eastern bloc countries wanted to join NATO due to a fear of future Russian aggression. Were they supposed to be denied the right of a sovereign state to make that decision because some nutcase in Russia still thinks the USSR is a thing?

As for Islington Labour types wanting a jolly war while working class people die, you're the one who suggested Putin should be 'left to get on with it' and thus leave millions of ordinary working-class Ukrainians to suffer and die at the hands of his army. So don't even think about playing that particular card.
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Sky Blue Pete

Sky Blue Pete

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Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
I find some of this incredibly bizarre.

With Russia the old ideas of Soviet Communism are hard to shift (how long was the opinion of the German's affected post WWII), especially in the U.S. but our politicians haven't been averse to playing to that stereotype. And given Putin clearly has a fond remembrance of the Soviet era and a bit of a boner for bringing it back with him taking the role of Stalin is it any wonder that that's the way people have started to think about it again over the past decade or so?

Who kept on going on about if Corbyn got elected then we'd be under Russian/Putin control because he's a Commie? All the while taking Russian money and furthering Russian interests in our legal framework? So if you think it's an error it's predominantly from your friends in the Tory party.

How have they not been welcomed given the number of oligarchs that have large investments and properties here? Who's financial markets launder a lot of the dirty Russian money? Russia has hosted numerous tournaments like the World Cup, the Olympics, has an F1 race...

It's Putin and his Soviet-era thinking of suspicion of the West and seeing them as the enemy that has brought this about. Ex-Eastern bloc countries wanted to join NATO due to a fear of future Russian aggression. Were they supposed to be denied the right of a sovereign state to make that decision because some nutcase in Russia still thinks the USSR is a thing?

As for Islington Labour types wanting a jolly war while working class people die, you're the one who suggested Putin should be 'left to get on with it' and thus leave millions of ordinary working-class Ukrainians to suffer and die at the hands of his army. So don't even think about playing that particular card.
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Ukrainians mate we don’t give a shit about them
 
Flying Fokker

Flying Fokker

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Brighton Sky Blue said:
Not allow a humanitarian crisis to unfold with no military intervention is what I want. The more land that is taken the messier it gets. There was the chance early on to stamp out this invasion from the skies.

Are we really willing to potentially go to Armageddon over Estonia simply because it signed the relevant paperwork?
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Good luck sorting that out. As long as Ukraine fights on we don't have to implement plan B whatever that is.

In my view, since1989, we ignored Russia. They were a thorn in the side o course but they/ we clearly failed to talk it through. Russia cites critical events such as 2014 government change in Ukraine to justify their action. No incident of gen
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Alternatively Russia can continue invading wherever it likes on the basis that we won't retaliate. We are trying to appease a man who claims a country with a Jewish president is a neo-Nazi state. He cannot be reasoned with.
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Hmm, Russia stood back and saw 14k people wiped out in W Ukraine…circa 2014-2020). According to them they needed humanitarian intervention there but the West wouldn’t move themselves to accept this. That is their view.


The Russians are solving Ukraines far right problem (old scores genocide of Russian speaking Ukraine 2014), and yes, you are correct about their clear anti-semetism which no doubt exists in Ukraine as well….Azos Russia part-solving that problem as mentioned earlier.

inserted. Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky: The comedian president who is rising to the moment
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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Flying Fokker said:
Good luck sorting that out. As long as Ukraine fights on we don't have to implement plan B whatever that is.

In my view, since1989, we ignored Russia. They were a thorn in the side o course but they/ we clearly failed to talk it through. Russia cites critical events such as 2014 government change in Ukraine to justify their action. No incident of gen

Hmm, Russia stood back and saw 14k people wiped out in W Ukraine…circa 2014-2020). According to them they needed humanitarian intervention there but the West wouldn’t move themselves to accept this. That is their view.
The Russians are solving Ukraines far right problem (old scores genocide of Russian speaking Ukraine 2014), and yes, you are correct about their clear anti-semetism which no doubt exists in Ukraine as well….Azos Russia part-solving that problem as mentioned earlier.
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JAM See

JAM See

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Brighton Sky Blue said:
The politicians did send their boys out to die for the cause in WW1, in a foreign land because of an assassination in a distant land. And the reason why it happened is the same as why we would risk nuclear war if Putin went into Estonia, which I doubt most Brits could find on a map
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Tallinn was my planned Easter break (including a ferry over to Helsinki for the day) this year

I must admit, I knew where Estonia was , but it hadn't registered that it bordered Ukraine.

Been to Vilnius and Riga in the past, and wanted to complete the Baltic trilogy ( Baltic Way - Wikipedia )

Doubt that will happen this year.
 
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JAM See said:
Tallinn was my planned Easter break (including a ferry over to Helsinki for the day) this year

I must admit, I knew where Estonia was , but it hadn't registered that it bordered Ukraine.

Been to Vilnius and Riga in the past, and wanted to complete the Baltic trilogy ( Baltic Way - Wikipedia )

Doubt that will happen this year.
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Estonia doesn't border Ukraine.

I have been to Talinn btw, and also Riga and Helsinki, all of which were good.
 
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Grendel said:
No one offers opinions so this is a pointless thread of ignorant Islington labour types who want a jolly little war as long as they can sit at home on the sofa while was working class types go and die

Russia was a colossal mistake from the west - I’ve been many times and it’s very much in the big cities a western style culture and was there to be seen as an ally in the west

We have since the days of wolfitz and through to Rimney gone with the notion it’s always an enemy abd when it was down smash it rather then embrace it

Now we are seeing the realisation of our folly. The west needed to pick on someone so it picked on Russia - a proud resolute and loyal nation as it knew it dared not confront China

In the end the kicked battered animal fights back

We’ve created this monstrosity and we’ve relied on it

This thread is full of utter nonsense — most on here are ironically like Putin they snarl and kick back when other views are expressed and to put it mildly most are ignorant and clueless

Good luck with it keep posturing and keep chatting but perhaps Google Romney (I know most will have heard of him) and the other chap and understand the philosophy tbe west have deployed against Russia why Putin became and why we are where we are

I’m a humble child I know but hey take a look

Got your wish leave you all to it for a while
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Genuinely don't understand whether you are annoyed that people don't have opinions or that they do and they don't accord with yours?
 
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Again, some salt may be required but there are plenty of reports of fighting and shelling in the area. This is possibly the biggest Nuclear power plant in Europe.



Here's a live stream. There are tanks in the car park although they are starting to move off screen and there were flashes which looked like shots being fired. Absolutely insane, it's a bloody Nuclear power plant!
 
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xcraigx

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Liquid Gold said:
Are those fuckers seriously going to let us just see towards the end of a pandemic before blowing up a fucking nuclear power plant
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The good news seems to be that it's an administration block that's been lit up, one of the reactors may have been hit by gun fire but there doesn't seem to be any threat of a nuclear catastrophe right now. Also, the firefighters are no longer being shot at by the Russians so they may be able to go in and put the fire out before it does become a problem. That's nice of them.

Ukraine gets a lot of it's power from Nuclear, so I would guess this is a staggeringly stupid way of starving them of power generation.

Fucking clown world.
 
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skybluesam66

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my worry how does this all end, except in either
a) Putins gang being overthrown or
b) complete disaster for the world

I cant see a) happening, so really scares me shitless
 
duffer

duffer

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When Putin starts shelling nuclear facilities the stakes increase massively.

It's interesting to read that Canada has been quoted along the lines of 'nothing should be off the table', particularly in terms of no fly zones.

I'm still not sure that we should intervene militarily, but I think the point may have come where we stop saying that we definitely won't. One of the big mistakes by NATO may have been the absolute insistence that we wouldn't get involved if Ukraine was invaded, that was like leaving an open door.

I can't see how it could hurt now to put a bit of ambiguity in our approach.

What if we played Putin's game, started to build large forces in and around Ukraine, whilst publicly saying that there was no intention to attack. I doubt he'd take us at our word, so he'd need to stretch his forces further. That might bring some respite for Ukraine.

A risky strategy, I know, but so is firing at nuclear power plants in the centre of Europe.
 
Sick Boy

Sick Boy

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At the moment I wouldn't be surprised if Putin eventually invades a NATO country as well under the belief that he could somehow get away with it. Even with other non-NATO countries in the region, what is there to stop him from doing what he's doing in Ukraine and making the same threats around nuclear war.
 
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I don't think he would invade a NATO country.

The man is so scared of dying that he sits at the end of a 20m table because he's so paranoid about catching COVID. I don't think he'd be willing to take the risk of getting nuked.

That said, he is clearly a madman and not thinking rationally.
 
Otis

Otis

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Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
I've stopped trying. There are far more bad outcomes than good. You could make yourself very scared and ill thinking about it too much,
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I am still hopeful those around him will think he's losing the plot and is on course for nuclear destruction, so will somehow topple him.
 
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