Wandering Off Topic

[Miss Taken Identity]

I do think the partial failure of the Russian invasion was because initially  they were trying to avoid a lot of physical damage and civilian casualties as their intention was to integrate Ukraine back into the Motherland.

If they had followed the American form of warfare, they would have bombed the shit out of the country long before they sent soldiers across the border and to the devil with the consequences.

Clearly this strategy has failed.

I agree and would add...

Reading some of the comments from Russian soldiers, some didn't know they were going to actual war and would be killing civilians, others thought they were on an army exercise,  and PUTIN may well actually try and convince his public that he is liberating the Ukraine. my money is on him not expecting any kind of fight back from the Ukraine people he maybe thought  oh a walk in the park...

It is interesting that the Ukraine Government agreed to give up nuclear armory in order to join NATO, they found themselves very vulnerable to an attack- no weapons and no NATO support.
The Russian people would never forgive Putin if he nooked a Ukrainian city -the sign of a loooooozur!

This is a global version of  cancel culture...

 

[Wonderfulspam]

Oil was cheaper, Inflation lower & the world felt a slightly safer place when the President was waking up every morning & Tweeting 'f..k around & find out'

[Vertigo Swirl]

I agree and would add...

Reading some of the comments from Russian soldiers, some didn't know they were going to actual war and would be killing civilians, others thought they were on an army exercise,  and PUTIN may well actually try and convince his public that he is liberating the Ukraine. my money is on him not expecting any kind of fight back from the Ukraine people he maybe thought  oh a walk in the park...

It is interesting that the Ukraine Government agreed to give up nuclear armory in order to join NATO, they found themselves very vulnerable to an attack- no weapons and no NATO support.
The Russian people would never forgive Putin if he nooked a Ukrainian city -the sign of a loooooozur!

This is a global version of  cancel culture...

If Putin nukes anyone there won’t be many Russian people left to do any forgiving.

[faithlilly]

and Tony bliar

Blair was secure in his prime ministership and in the polls. His reasons for going to war were just as malignant but different.

[Vertigo Swirl]

Blair was secure in his prime ministership and in the polls. His reasons for going to war were just as malignant but different.

What reasons were they, out of interest?

[sadie]

To lighten the mood a trifle 


https://www.primetimer.com/watch/ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelenskyy-penis-piano 



What a guy.  Can you do that ?





Jeez, I have forgotten how to post a video

[Vertigo Swirl]

To lighten the mood a trifle 


https://www.primetimer.com/watch/ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelenskyy-penis-piano 



What a guy.  Can you do that ?





Jeez, I have forgotten how to post a video

funny though it is, it’s kind of heartbreaking too, to think this heroic  guy will probably be swinging from a lampost in the near future.

[sadie]

funny though it is, it’s kind of heartbreaking too, to think this heroic  guy will probably be swinging from a lampost in the near future.

So sad.   He is such a brave guy.  He must be loved by the people of Ukraine.

I hope that they can keep him hidden.   How the morale of the country will drop if he is assassinated.

[faithlilly]

You know what I find very odd is that  those who roundly lambasted Jeremy Corbyn for saying in no circumstances would he launch a nuclear attack are the same ones quivering in their boots that Putin might.

It’s a strange old world.

[Vertigo Swirl]

You know what I find very odd is that  those who roundly lambasted Jeremy Corbyn for saying in no circumstances would he launch a nuclear attack are the same ones quivering in their boots that Putin might.

It’s a strange old world.

Another sentence that makes absolutely no sense imo. Putin is far MORE likely to use nuclear weapons if Jeremy Corbyn had had his way and  all nukes from NATO countries had been removed imo.  If Russia nukes London I take it St Jeremy thinks we should just suck it up and try and make friends with Putin?

[faithlilly]

And while painting Corbyn as a Russian stooge it was actually our very own Mr Johnson dragging his heels when it came to sanctioning Russia and the oligarchs who funnel their dirty money through dear old Blighty.

https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1498629995572441098?s=21

[Vertigo Swirl]

Johnson was of course pushing for kicking Russia out of SWIFT while the EU were dragging their heels.  I don’t know what Jeremy Corbyn has got to do with the price of fish and I think it’s extremely distasteful to be using this horrific turn of world events in an attempt to win some pathetic argument that “Jeremy was right all along”.  He wasn’t and he isn’t.   He has no answers, no solutions, and nor do his supporters.

[Vertigo Swirl]

When you look at the list of individuals blaming NATO or who are historically anti-NATO it does make you wonder doesn’t it…
Trump, Putin, Farage, Corbyn, the Chinese…

[Brietta]

It is my understanding that Youtube has taken down RT and Sputnik.

[Vertigo Swirl]

Bless his cottons:

"Saudi Arabia’s powerful crown prince has said that his feelings were “hurt” and that his own human rights were violated when he was accused of ordering the murder of the prominent dissident Jamal Khashoggi.

While admitting that the journalist’s death in Turkey at the hands of a Saudi kill squad in 2018 was a “huge mistake”, Mohammed bin Salman, 36, insisted that it was “obvious” that he had played no part — and “if that is the way we did things ... Khashoggi would not even be among the top 1,000 people” on his hit list.

In the interview with the The Atlantic magazine Bin Salman, often known as MBS, said that he understood “the anger, especially among journalists. I respect their feelings. But we also have feelings here, pain here”.


“I feel that human rights law wasn’t applied to me,” he said. “Article XI of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that any person is innocent until proven guilty.”

I wonder if he will sue?  He's certainly got the resources....