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Guess china have all the cards again …
https://oec.world/en/profile/country/rus
In 2019, Russia exported a total of $407B, making it the number 13 exporter in the world. During the last five reported years the exports of Russia have changed by -$66.8B from $474B in 2014 to $407B in 2019.
The most recent exports are led by Crude Petroleum ($123B), Refined Petroleum ($66.2B), Petroleum Gas ($26.3B), Coal Briquettes ($17.6B), and Wheat ($8.14B). The most common destination for the exports of Russia are China ($58.1B), Netherlands ($41.7B), Belarus ($20.5B), Germany ($18.9B), and Italy ($16.7B).
Russia – CHina export 16.3%
Imports 19% from China.
China can stop the Ukraine WAR!
https://oec.world/en/profile/country/rus
I’ve heard that Putin has amassed a personal fortune of £2 (or is it £20) billion.
He had nothing when he was a young lad.
We all know all politicians are corrupt and expect it of them but this is another level. He’s got himself much much more than Blair.
How can communism, where all are supposed to be equal, have such a massive divide between the people and the handful of mega rich.
Is there not a way where the Russian population could be made fully aware of this.
Russia seems to be full of peasants in poverty with a handful of fabulously rich multi billionaires swanning around and buying up mansions in London.
Dropping leaflets with bank statements over Moscow or flooding internet sites or whatever, get the people involved who are fighting for Putin and those who are in poverty to rise up.
Don’t we have a dirty tricks department who could get this info out to the Russian population.
WE ARE ALL EQUAL COMRADE….
Vladimir Putin’s jaw-dropping $200bn fortune revealed as Russia on brink of war with Ukraine
^^ FAKE NEWS – concept art
Is the Dacha his or like Buckingham Palace, camp David, the White house etc etc does it belong to the state.
Putin knows he isn’t going to live forever, he has a daughter but who else is there to leave the money to?
MOther RUssia has bottomless demands.
The Berghof?
With war raging in Ukraine, is Biden having his afternoon nap? very little “positive” reported bBC news re Biden
Maybe they are trying to dig up news to blame President Trump for the Russian invasion
On a lighter note. Has there been any comment from Montecito – the ginger whinger and his missus ? Surely Putin has been told to “be kind and compassionate” to his neighbours. They were quick to decry Trump, but the silence has been deafening from their camp on Putin. lol !
Of course there has. and they’ve got a right royal shellacing over it!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10549453/Prince-Harry-Meghan-Markle-say-stand-people-Ukraine.html
Very funny comments and memes.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex wrote on the website of their Archewell charity: ‘Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex and all of us at Archewell stand with the people of Ukraine against this breach of international and humanitarian law and encourage the global community and its leaders to do the same.’
But the couple, who live in an £11million mansion in Montecito, California, some 6,000 miles away from Kyiv, were criticised for a ‘breathtakingly arrogant’ statement and accused of ‘once again making this about them’.
Thanks, I thought it was too good to be true that they kept their traps shut.
Meg and Harry perfectly sum up everything that has gone wrong with the current crop of young people. Get at any cost and scream if they don’t get!
No manners, no grace but plenty of personal greed.
Heappey also said further UK troops were being sent to Nato ally Estonia earlier than planned – and a total of 1,000 troops are on standby to help Ukraine’s neighbouring countries handle refugees fleeing the country.
UK – there to help refugees – not stop the war.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-60517447
We’ve lost ….
How can Britons help the people of Ukraine?
Options include giving to charities on the ground, supporting local journalists and writing to your MP
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/24/how-can-britons-help-the-people-of-ukraine
13:01
BREAKING (reports the bBC)
EU to freeze European assets held by Putin and Lavrov
We’ve just got some news in: an official for the EU says the bloc has decided to freeze European assets held by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
It’s unclear however if either man holds significant assets in the EU.
We will bring you more details as we get them.
Unclear? so nothing to report then, I guess, maybe
£2 stopped to fund the war – Germany still sending millions of NordStream1.
British troops will not be sent to fight against Russia, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has confirmed.
Direct action would trigger a European war, he said. While Ukraine is not in Nato, an attack on UK troops would be seen as an attack on the alliance.
Mr Wallace said Russia had failed on its main objective on the first day of its offensive against Ukraine and that 450 Russian troops had been killed.
Russian forces have now advanced on the capital Kyiv.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60522745
We know that Trudeau’s comments about defending the freedom of Eastern Europe from Putin whilst simultaneously denying freedom to Canadians who disagree with him , is only the most egregious example of Woke hypocrisy by the International Blob.
A question which interests me is how will the Blob attempt to use the Ukraine invasion to further its agenda? Well it’s plans for the West are meeting growing resistance from ordinary folks , Trump, Brexit, Yellow Vests, Truckers are a few examples .
It has demonstrated that it will use force, freeze ordinary folks bank accounts , manipulate justice , to suit its needs .
But what can it use this crisis for? I don’t know but I’m sure that whatever it does it won’t be protect us from the likes of Putin but to force us to bend to the will of the Blob.
Trump being his usual ‘undiplomatic’ self.
Basically telling the assembled European gentility: “you expect the US to pay billions of dollars for the defence of Europe while you make pipeline deals with Russia that earns them billions of dollars for them to spend on weapons”.
That must have spoilt their little soirée – probably put them off their foie gras, caviar and other amuse bouches.
We need more bad-mannered leaders that speak common sense.
Brilliant, well said Donald Trump, he is correct 100%, but will be ignored.
Angela Merkel, the former chancellor of Germany, has condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine and expressed her solidarity with the country.
“This war of aggression by Russia marks a profound turning point in the history of Europe after the end of the Cold War,” Merkel said in response to dpa’s request for comment.
“There is no justification whatsoever for this blatant breach of international law, and I condemn it in the strongest possible terms,” she said in Berlin.
“My thoughts and my solidarity are with the Ukrainian people and the government led by President [Volodymyr] Zelensky in these frightful hours and days,” she stressed, voicing her “complete support” for efforts by the EU, NATO, the UN and the G7 in their efforts towards putting a swift stop to the war.
Merkel was in office as German chancellor in 2014 when Russia annexed the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea. At that time, she had emphasised the importance of keeping communications open with Moscow.
However, she noted that this time was different because the latest attack targeted the whole of Ukraine.
https://7news.com.au/news/conflict/merkel-ukraine-invasion-a-turning-point-c-5841815
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BERLIN — As Moscow waged war in Georgia in the fall of 2008, German political and business elites gathered in Russia’s palatial embassy in the country’s capital for a lavish ball featuring of caviar, Champagne and song.
“Russia has no fear in Berlin,” one visitor recounted at the time. “Russia is among friends.”
For Germany, the party never stopped.
https://www.politico.eu/article/how-germany-helped-blaze-vladimir-putin-path-into-ukraine/
I think RT is the best place to go to to find out about Ukraine – all you have to do is reverse everything they say to get to the truth .
I got quite sentimental listening to Russian politicians using the deceitful language of the Cold War. Black is white . Day is night …
Once Ukraine has ‘gone ‘ into the evil empire I wonder it the likes of the EU will resume business as usual buying oil and sell cars … France / Germany find dropping principles very easy ….
By the way it looks like macron has played the part of ‘chamberlain ‘ this time – getting suckered into thinking he was getting somewhere with mr putin whilst being lied to without restraint . Mug .
Fed,
Maybe Macron misunderstood what Putin had to say. After all, listening over the distance of the table, he may have misconstrued certain points.
SpecSavers now doing hearing checks.
G reminds me a bit of then hitler was entertaining the leader of Czechoslovakia at the same time as invading it …
Putin must have laughed his bits off at macron trying the World Stateman / leader of Europe act …. Lucky nut nut didn’t do the gig …
Whilst a hard faced cow of a spokesperson for putin lays into the west( on RT) – ‘ Young Labour calls on UK to withdraw from
NATO because of ‘ aggression ‘
Excellent – more lost seats …
Is this the most ridiculous scaremongering headline ever ?.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-60517447
‘Another 1986-scale Chernobyl disaster ‘extremely unlikely’, experts say’
‘A radiation spike has been recorded around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Data from monitoring stations suggests the levels of radiation increased about 20-fold on Thursday.’
‘The most likely explanation, she says, is increased movement of people and vehicles in the 4,000 square km Chernobyl exclusion zone has kicked up radioactive dust that is usually undisturbed on the ground.’
This is just one of several similarly ridiculous stories on the BBC front page. News for idiots by idiots.
I see they are giving the heroic, amateur civilians AK47’s to fight the fully equipped trained Russian soldiers, tanks and helicopters. Presumably to ensure the complete destruction of the capital as they are wiped out for no net benefit whatsoever. I expect the BBC can’t wait for some pictures of their dead bodies.
Meanwhile I have no idea what is happening in the actual war.
https://ukrstream.tv/en/liveuamap
Thanks – interesting.
I still think Putin will split the country vertically along the river and keep it as a buffer zone from future NATO bases.
I wonder if the BBC will ever report the role of the EU in causing this war.
Enhanced EU engagement with the Western Balkans
https://ec.europa.eu/neighbourhood-enlargement/enlargement-policy/enhanced-eu-engagement-western-balkans_en
Latest news
2021 Enlargement package // 19 October 2021
EU-Western Balkans Summit in Brdo reaffirms European perspective and strategic engagement in the region // 6 October 2021
Statements of President von der Leyen during her visit to the Western Balkans: Albania – Bosnia and Herzegovina – Kosovo – Montenegro – North Macedonia – Serbia // 28-30 September 2021
Whilst the west crumbles … Two Whitehall departments have confirmed they held a series of panicked meetings debating how to quit Stonewall’s controversial (and lucrative) Diversity Champions programme.
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I don’t know anything about her, but she will be classed as a token.
”President Joe Biden will nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, US media reports.
By doing so, the president will honour his commitment to make a black woman his first nomination to the country’s top court.
If confirmed, she will be the first black woman to serve in the court’s 233-year history.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-60528132
Breaking Down Supreme Court Pick Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Biggest Cases
Jackson’s docket over the years featured fights over Trump-era policies and investigations and high-profile criminal prosecutions.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court-biggest-cases
Abortion
The scope of a person’s right to an abortion has been a flashpoint for recent Supreme Court nominations, but Jackson has never ruled in a case that dealt squarely with the issue.
Congressional investigations
One of Jackson’s most famous decisions came in late 2019, when she concluded that then-president Donald Trump’s first White House counsel Don McGahn could not claim absolute immunity against a congressional subpoena to testify in the Russia investigation. McGahn had played a star role in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report. Once Mueller’s office finished its work without bringing charges against Trump, Democrats in Congress wanted to pick up the thread with McGahn.
Conspiracies
Years before thousands of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol — a mob that included followers of the QAnon collective delusion — there was Pizzagate. Spurred by baseless conspiracy theories that Democratic officials and political operatives were involved in a child sex trafficking network with a connection to DC restaurant Comet Ping Pong, Edgar Maddison Welch traveled to DC from his home in North Carolina and entered the pizzeria with two loaded firearms. Welch searched the restaurant as patrons fled; he claimed he was looking for kidnapped children. No one was injured, but he fired an assault rifle to try to break the lock of a door and pointed the gun at an employee. He was immediately taken into custody.
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RT is great fun –
The invasion is called a ‘special operation ‘
but the propaganda is so eager that they call the Ukraine government – nazis – drug addicts – war criminals –
The presenter is someone called ‘Rory suchet ‘- I admire such people selling their souls to putin – but hope they get very well paid for it …
… other accusations – a school got bombed and trenchers killed
– Ukraine border guards have surrendered to fight for Russia
The way it’s going it must be time for a civilian aircraft to be shot down – with the subsequent full on blame game ….
Finland has pulled the plug on RT- but it appears both Alex salmond and George Galloway are still taking putin money ,,,
Firm behind Alex Salmond’s TV show brings in £330,000
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/firm-behind-alex-salmonds-tv-show-brings-in-330-000-hqtr0gx7f
No surprise that a mouth like salmond – whose UK political career is dead – takes such money – although I suspect he gets a lot more ‘off the books ‘ than that – after all – if Barry wotsit – a serving MP and labour mouth piece – can be bought by the Chinese for £500k …
Bush and Obama back Biden response to Russia invasion of Ukraine after Trump branded Putin ‘genius’
Bush and Obama both express solidarity with the Ukrainian people after Trump praised their invader
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/george-bush-putin-russia-ukraine-b2022669.html
Mr Trump has largely stuck to the effusive praise of Mr Putin that became a staple of his foreign policy while president, and praised the Russian leader’s previous order of so-called “peacekeeping” troops into Crimea as a supposedly “genius” move to which the US allegedly had no response.
Mr Trump has remained silent in the hours since the invasion began.
What is it about the human psyche not to do anything until the very last minute ?
For the past fortnight reports and messages have gone out that Putin will be invading, and all foreign nationals should leave the country. Did this somehow by-pass all Ukrainian nationals ? they’ve had 2 weeks and beyond to flee, but now what do we see ? like some Hollywood disaster movie, blocked roads and endless queues of traffic now trying to get out of Keeeeve and the country.
I would have had my car packed in readiness for a quick get away since Christmas.
Why not first Chinese? Or first Russian?
“Supreme Court: Biden to nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson to top court”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-60528132
By Biden’s own admission, she was nominated on the basis of gender and race as opposed to ability.
That’s the very definition of sexism and racism, ergo Biden is sexist and racist.
A little aside. A black actress has been cast as Eliza Doolittle in a new production of My Fair Lady at the Coliseum in May. I wonder if her dustbin man Dad will have an extra coating of muck to make it more believable – unless he’s black too. This is Victorian/Edwardian England remember.
Nelson Mandela starring Brad Pitt.
Jimmy Krankie would make a fine Michael Jackson , has the voice off to a tee
Trudeau as Desmond Tutu.
Trudeau as Michelle Obama (we mustn’t be gender-binary).
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the UK “cannot and will not just look away” at Russia’s “hideous and barbaric” attack on Ukraine.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60506298
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Ukraine invasion: UK troops will not fight against Russia says Wallace
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60522745
“We will not just look away”. I’m sure there are lots of other things we won’t do either.
Surely – all European planes banned? Just UK?
“British airlines have been banned from landing at Russia’s airports and from crossing its airspace, the Russian civil aviation regulator has said.
Russia said the move was a response to “the unfriendly decisions by the UK aviation authorities”.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60505417
No Hong Kong immigrants then or Chinese
Since the day the Imbecile announced his candidacy for President, the msm have been fawning over Biden simply for not being Trump, even though he was obviously a crook (see: the laptop from hell) and totally inadequate for the job.
Now, at last, some are beginning to ask questions, even the august Telegraph.
From today’s DT editorial: “Following the debacle of America’s exit from Afghanistan, President Biden has been pitifully weak. It is unknowable whether Putin would have attempted this enterprise while Donald Trump was in the White House, yet the absence of American leadership in recent months has been striking… A man supposedly elected to restore America’s standing in the world has instead stood by as a dictator has sought to crush a democracy.”
Note: “President Biden has been pitifully weak.”
(We’ve been saying it here for years, but better late than never, I suppose.)
Yet still the biased BBC refuses to even entertain the notion that their man is useless, as he fails in every area, both at home and abroad.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2022/02/24/imperialist-putin-has-wrongfooted-west/
dont worry the us fleet will be on the way , just as soon as they’ve stocked up on transgender hormones for the admiral
You mean this guy? Erm, gal. Erm, they? We?
I reckon the precise moment Putin decided to invade Ukraine was when he saw him/her/them being sworn in, and thought to himself: “You know what? I reckon I’ll get away with it”.
In case readers are confused about gender pronouns, the University of Wisconsin has produced this handy, easy-to-use chart.
HE/SHE HIM/HER HIS/HER HIS/HERS HIMSELF/HERSELF
zie zim zir zis zieself
sie sie hir hirs hirself
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ve ver vis vers verself
tey ter tem ters terself
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What is an attack helicopter pronouns?
Two helmets
Waste of training .
MILAN, Feb 24 (Reuters Breakingviews) – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine read more by land, air and sea risks reverberating across the global chip industry and exacerbating current supply-chain constraints. Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas critical for lasers used in chipmaking and supplies more than 90% of U.S. semiconductor-grade neon, according to estimates from research firm Techcet.
https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/ukraine-war-flashes-neon-warning-lights-chips-2022-02-24/
Sabina Nessa: Man admits murdering south-east London teacher
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-60514855
Includes a picture with the caption:
Hundreds attended a vigil for 28-year-old teacher Sabina Nessa in the days after her murder.
Needs slight correction BBC:
‘Hundreds attended a vigil for 28-year-old teacher Sabina Nessa in the days after her murder until the killer was identified as Koci Selamaj, an Albanian immigrant. This was not the white male they were hoping for so it was all dropped and not reported any more.’
There. Fixed it for you.
At an earlier hearing, prosecutor Alison Morgan QC described how the Albanian national drove to London from his home in Eastbourne to carry out what she described as “a premeditated and predatory attack on a stranger”.
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Kings of cocaine: how the Albanian mafia seized control of the UK drugs trade
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/13/kings-of-cocaine-albanian-mafia-uk-drugs-crime
….
In Albania, heroin mainly enters from North Macedonia or Kosovo. In the last 2 years there has been an increase in heroin traffic by boats from Turkey to Albania. Heroin is trafficked by sea from Albania to Italy or by car through to Montenegro.14 May 2021
Compare and contrast with the reporting, and later witch hunt in the MET police re: Wayne Couzens and the similarly horrible rape and murder of Sarah Everard.
US blames Russia for leak of undiplomatic language from top official
This article is more than 8 years old
State department’s diplomat for Europe, Victoria Nuland, apparently said ‘Fuck the EU’ in conversation over Ukraine crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/06/us-russia-eu-victoria-nuland
“That would be great I think to help glue this thing and have the UN glue it and you know, fuck the EU,” she says, in an apparent reference to differences over their policies.
“We’ve got to do something to make it stick together, because you can be pretty sure that if it does start to gain altitude the Russians will be working behind the scenes to try to torpedo it,” Pyatt replies.
Seems the cheese eating surrender monkeys of Europe have caved even sooner than I thought they would!
Germany has vetoed the use of the SWIFT banking option to prevent Russia from trading in dollars & Euros in international trade, and Italy has decided not to sanction luxury goods because it wants companies like Gucci to benefit from Russian oligarchs spending.
The remoaners are moaning about a united front and Britain not being a part of it, but as we can see there is yet again zero unity amongst EU member states with each of them vetoing sanctions in their own selfish national interest, and nothing much being decided at all.
https://facts4eu.org/news/2022_feb_eu_culpability
Here we go again. Having failed to pay towards the collective defence of all Europe and expect the US and UK to finance their protection, Germany and the EU want to let the Russian leader off the hook. Just who were the good Europeans in the past on the issue of defence and who are the good Europeans now? In both instances it has been British Governments, irrespective of party, acting not just in Britain’s interests but in Europe’s too.
Following their invasion of the Ukraine, Russia have been excluded from The Eurovision Song Contest.
My God, this is getting brutal…
Jeff, you beat me to it!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60530513
Eurovision: Russia banned from competing at 2022 Song Contest
That’ll learn ’em!
Russia invades with tanks driven by men (with testicles), the EU hit back with a ban on Russian men in leotards and eye liner “Rock band Maneskin won last year’s Eurovision and have gone on to score top 10 hits in the US, the UK and the rest of Europe” and hairy chinned man-wenches “Manizha represented Russia at last year’s Eurovision Song Contest with an ode to female empowerment, Russian Woman” competing in Eurovision… I have to admit, I’m starting to wonder if we’re on the right side?
Italy’s luxury sector and Belgium’s diamond leaders question effectiveness Russian sanctions
https://fashionunited.uk/news/business/italy-s-luxury-sector-and-belgium-s-diamond-leaders-say-no-to-russian-sanctions/2022022561638
Belgium’s diamond businesses and Italy’s luxury sector were two countries who voted against Russian sanctions, citing the possibility their own nations would suffer the damage.
I knew we were sunk when watching Biden on tv. Reading an autocue he just about managed it, but then it all went pear shaped when he had to answer questions from the press corps. He couldn’t even point straight – his eyes looked one way and he was pointing another. He looked and acted what he is, a dithering old man who could barely decided what to have for dinner in his Care Home, let alone be the leader of the free world.
Peeworld.
The UK has publicly been pushing for the move but says it can’t act in isolation. Some countries, such as Germany, have been reluctant – fearing that should Russia be cut off from a crucial payments system, Russia might start cutting European gas supplies.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-60517447
Heavily armed police at the station say they allow everyone to board – including people with no tickets – until a coach is full. A police officer tells the crowds: “Women and children first. Follow my orders or we’ll shoot.” He is deadly serious.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-60517447
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Costa Concordia cruise ship crash: Men pushed past women and children to reach lifeboats
A British survivor of the Italian cruise ship tragedy last night told how he feared frantic passengers would be crushed to death in the desperate fight to flee the vessel.
Costa Concordia cruise ship (pic: Reuters)
Costa Concordia cruise ship (pic: Reuters)
ByMirror.co.uk
00:03, 16 Jan 2012UPDATED16:00, 27 Feb 2012
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/costa-concordia-cruise-ship-crash-158694
Speaking too soon.
Incisive grassroots account of the new global revolutions by acclaimed BBC journalist and author of Meltdown
The world is facing a wave of uprisings, protests and revolutions: Arab dictators swept away, public spaces occupied, slum-dwellers in revolt, cyberspace buzzing with utopian dreams. Events we were told were consigned to history—democratic revolt and social revolution—are being lived by millions of people.
In this compelling new book, Paul Mason explores the causes and consequences of this great unrest. From Cairo to Athens, Wall Street and Westminster to Manila, Mason goes in search of the changes in society, technology and human behaviour that have propelled a generation onto the streets in search of social justice. In a narrative that blends historical insight with first-person reportage, Mason shines a light on these new forms of activism, from the vast, agile networks of cyberprotest to the culture wars and tent camps of the #occupy movement. The events, says Mason, reflect the expanding power of the individual and call for new political alternatives to elite rule and global poverty.
https://www.versobooks.com/books/1075-why-its-kicking-off-everywhere
Why the question mark?
“Why the question mark?”
Because the BBC employs ‘journalists’ according to the number of boxes they tick, rather than literacy?
As a one star armchair general – how can we think through the longer tern consequences of putin –
Working on the assumption that he will swallow up Ukraine and impose a news blackout on the aftermath ?
Well the most serious thing is about the consequences of not having nuclear weapons – which Ukraine was stupid enough to give up ( unless they kept a couple )
Second is the longer term plan of putin – if he can do Ukraine easily – then why not go for another target ?
NATO has no resolve to fight under a demented US
If there is a fair US vote in a few months the democrats will be toast and there will be a demand for a strong US again .
Domestically taxes and every thing will be going up for the foreseeable future – whatever the government welfare does
Fed,
“….then why not go for another target ?”
Putin: ‘Poland’s handy, just on the doorstep from Ukraine and we’ve got all the troops we need in the locality………………..’
Then he fancies,………Belgium
As if being banned from Eurovision isn’t painful enough, Manchester United have stopped sponsoring Aeroflot. Putin must be having second thoughts.
Sorely missed.
That should do it.
Putin on the blower to his Generals: “call the troops back immediately, we were odds-on to win this year”.
Jonathon Riley discusses the diminished state of our conventional forces and the need to build them up again.
Do not tell me, or anyone else, that we cannot afford it, because governments can always find money when they have to, or want to.
Shock. And tears.
Then, defiance!
Then, priorities.
Ghastly wee hag! Russians must be quaking in their boots.
I see Mad Vlad is appealing to Ukrainian troops not to side with the “Neo-fascists”.
It seems “fascist” is the all-purpose word for anyone you don’t like.
Antifa… Trudeau… Putin… in short, all the fascists are using the term.
“The Apprentice, You’re Fired” always has one BAME on its guest panel. But this week they went one better, with two. One was a Kurdish comedian I’ve never heard of, the other was the ubiquitous actress Chizzy, available for weddings. bar mitzvahs and Holby.
So good of “our BBC” to rub our noses in their diversity, I feel enriched.
St David’s day getting special attention and adulation right now all over TV. Don’t hold your breath for the same treatment for St George’s day in a month or so
English patriots are persona non grata. But if you are Scottish, Welsh or Irish it’s cool!
Supporting England is to be a Nazi for the media.
I cannot begin to tell you how I hate these TV twisted freaks.
Breaking news of a proposed ceasefire by Putin with talks and venue TBC
Delaying tactics to get the job done .
I wonder if footballers will now be ‘taking the knee’ for Ukraine ?
And will Chelski be suspended from the premiere ship ?(no)
And – isn’t it strange that when president trump demanded that nato countries carry their weight in defence expenditure the likes of the BBC condemned him – now look ….
Russian invasion: Biden in 2019 said ‘imagine what can happen in Ukraine’ under Trump
Back in 2019, then-candidate Biden took a dig at Trump while speaking at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) Women’s Leadership Forum Conference, warning the audience against voting to re-elect Trump by suggesting a hypothetical fall of Ukraine.
“It’s going to take a hell of a lot of work to make up for all the damage he’s done internationally and nationally,” Biden said. “His network of thugs and co-conspirators are going to continue to try to undermine our democracy in the meantime.”
“Imagine what he can do in another year,” Biden continued. “Imagine what can happen to Ukraine.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/russian-invasion-biden-2019-imagine-ukraine-trump
Throughout 1992 and 1993, Russia and the Clinton White House worked furiously to convince Ukraine to give up all of its nuclear weapons. After substantial political pressure, Ukraine caved in 1994, but only after the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom agreed to protect Ukraine in the event of a future attack on the nation’s sovereignty, as well as financial support and a number of other assurances.
The most critical part of Ukraine’s 1994 agreement to disarm was the pledge by the United States, Russia, and United Kingdom to protect Ukraine against unwarranted aggression. The initial agreement, the so-called Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances, was later reaffirmed in 2009 by President Barack Obama.
However, in 2014, Obama watched as Russian-backed rebels, with support from Russian troops, seized control of Crimea, a region belonging to Ukraine. The rebel-backed government then seceded from Ukraine and annexed it to Vladimir Putin’s government in Russia.
President Obama and his then-vice president, Joe Biden, were fierce opponents of the fossil-fuel industry for both of Obama’s terms. They opposed the Keystone XL pipeline, forced states to adopt “renewable” energy like wind and solar, issued countless regulations that killed hundreds of coal-fired power plants, and restricted drilling and exploration of natural gas on public lands—policies the United States has once again adopted under President Biden.
In addition to having a negative impact on U.S. economic growth, these policies caused numerous nations to turn to Russia for low-cost energy.
I’ve put up a new thread – if only for admin purposes – no worries if comments are not directly about the BBC – we are witnessing a Biden inspired Horror ….
Covid – war – next?