Alan Dugdales Moustache
Well-Known Member
What a surprise
Yes. Exactly.USSR? Have we time travelled back to 1988?
Stone Island?The Russians have been in Eastern Ukraine since 2014 - the so called rebels are mostly Russian soldiers without insignia …
Love to see the Risk assessment for that school trip!I was in Prague, Czechoslovakia, when USSR tanks rolled through in August 1968. (It was a school exchange trip). I witnessed students and Prague residents hurling abuse (and bricks!) at the tank crews. As I was only 15 at the time, I wasn't too worried. It wasn't until we got back to Heathrow and tv camera crews were interviewing other passengers, that I fully realised the extent of the invasion. Scary time. Never forgotten it. Had to have out trip shortened as well!
Will East Germany get involved?USSR? Have we time travelled back to 1988?
Will East Germany get involved?
Putin thinks the USSR should still be a thing. Ukraine disagrees.What's their beef about?
NATO getting missiles on the Ukraine Russia Border I believe. Might be totally wrongWhat's their beef about?
What's their beef about?
Risk assessment? Pah! We woz tuff back then!Love to see the Risk assessment for that school trip!
He doesn't want Ukraine joining NATO.What's their beef about?
What deodorant are they using then?The Russians have been in Eastern Ukraine since 2014 - the so called rebels are mostly Russian soldiers without insignia …
Host of issues under the guise of Ukrainian NATO membership.What's their beef about?
What's their beef about?
Brut forceWhat deodorant are they using then?
Donetsk kebabWhat's their beef about?
Ramps it up a bit in your mind. Saw some massive convoys of troops, armoured vehicles on lorries, ambulances etc. go past me today on the way to the border.
For all his games with the EU and cosying up to Putin to wind up the EU Orbán is well aware of the sensitivity of Hungarians to Russian expansionism. 1956 is ingrained in the Hungarian consciousness as well as other memories of Soviet occupation. Bullet holes are deliberately left in a lot of old buildings in Budapest as a constant living reminder.Orban should remember the time when his own countrymen fled across borders from Soviet tanks and perhaps reconsider his stance.
Things escalating. Putin sounds deranged.
For all his games with the EU and cosying up to Putin to wind up the EU Orbán is well aware of the sensitivity of Hungarians to Russian expansionism. 1956 is ingrained in the Hungarian consciousness as well as other memories of Soviet occupation. Bullet holes are deliberately left in a lot of old buildings in Budapest as a constant living reminder.
Also in other East European states fears are based on comparatively recent history. Make no mistake all will be asking for increased NATO presence in their countries ( if Putin does try and take all of Ukraine) - particularly the Baltic States.
It's one thing for Eastern European countries to have various ties to Russia but that is only when Russia is not physically on the doorstep. Also a sizeable ethnic Hungarian population in Ukraine which he has always courted.
Also a general election here in April so whether he personally likes it or not he's not going to soft stepping around this one for now.
Let’s be clear the Russian people will not be seeing or hearing the truthIve just been reading what’s been happening and was going to post the same. He’s lost it. Not sure any sanctions will change anything short term but I hope we deliver as much economic pain as
possible to try to get him to rethink. I also hope the people of Russia are seeing/hearing the truth about this because Putins just spouting absolute nonsense with excuses and justifications changing by the day.
I watched Winter on fire - Ukraines fight for freedom (Netflix) last night. The Ukrainian people are made of strong stuff. Let’s hope and pray they can protect themselves.
So true.Let’s be clear the Russian people will not be seeing or hearing the truth
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