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I considered the point about the Queen JetSkiiing was a little OTT, but why not the hottub?.

Really Woosh?. Its one thing to take a coal fired station out of mothballs, but gas fired cannot be retrofitted with coal. At the simplest ,it means laying on railway tracks ...

Except it immediately gets spun as Terrorist Attack by Nazis on Peace loving Russians. There was a chilling interview on the BBC Hardtalk two nights ago. The target was a Russian Duma MP for the district of Kirov. Her English was excellent. In a previous life she had been a journalist . So...

Even if they were, they are still much better than nothing....

No disagreement from me on this topic . Ireland has been an enthusiastic member of the UN since its inception. ..And of the League of Nations before.

The Bullies in charge of the playground were the victorious side in the WW2. .. China was not included. And of course soon afterwards they were the guys with Nuclear weapons. That India is not now included is a travesty ..but you see where that leads ..

Extremely selective. ..Russian sympathiser parties in Ukraine were fully authorised and operational until AFTER Russian Army bombs and troops were hitting Ukraine. Dissent in Russia , even reporting the WAR was punishable with 15 years in prison. There was no equivalent law in Ukraine. Now I...

When your country is at WAR , and being INVADED the social niceties of habeus corpus, free travel , and personal freedoms do get suspended. The term is force Majeure . Now the only opposition parties which are restricted are those which are "Pro Russian " . There appears to be no...

Actually I think the Ukrainian civilian death figure would depressed for two reasons . First they have no worthwhile data from Mariupol, and second they would not want to affect civilian morale. The same would be true for a number of the heavily bombed towns . When the dust settles , I suspect...

Flecc.. you must realise that the casualty figures are nonsense.

Flecc.. I am afraid the rose tinted glasses are a bit red. Sweden joined the EU in 1995 , when Russia was reeling from the after effects of the Afghan War . The Finnish experience is as I described it , not as you are stating. Of course Finland welcomed any wealthy Russians who wanted to spend...

I am not going to respond further on this topic , other than to say that .. 1. Read the article by Ninisto. ...not just looking for a workable quote. 2. I only choose to respond about Finland because you choose the word" Happy *". when happy is not what the relationship is. Finland's post...

There are there is plenty of references on line. Finland engaged in an uneasy subservient relationship with the much larger USSR and later The Russian Federation . They were required to pay reparations after WW2 .. despite the fact that it was they that had been attacked by the USSR. They were...

My understanding is that that view is not shared by Finland. I had not been referring to NATO membership.

No flecc... . Yes there was always a concern in the USA about Reds under the Bed, and traditionally it was driven by the Republican GoP . ..and going back to the Wobblies and trade unionism. But the Trump era really flipped the GoP position. And its now the Democrats who were traditionally a...

I have previously posted about a conversation I had with a West German Major ... The expectation was a USSR massive tank attack would roll across from Luneburg though Saxony on these plains. The NATO response when the UKs tanks had failed , was to nuke Northern Germany, from the UK., And...

From my reading of other sites etc.my view is that Mariupol was a grudge vengeance attack. The success of the defenders there in 2014 twarted the failure to make the gains planned at that time fed into this denazification rant so everything which happened this time was all premeditated.

apparently one of the models is effectively a javelin .. in that it has the same payload. the US term is that they are loitering munitions ... they can hang about for about 30 minutes and then they must do something, or self destruct. .They communicate their camera back to the operator , who...

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I am going to disagree to an extent... . China would be somewhat sympathetic to Russia, both as a bulwark against The USA, but I get the feeling rhat China is angry that they were sold a pup.they believed the Putin story .., and now want to back off. India, I don't know either , again they...