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What I understand is that any convoy in Poland hit would be an act of war. Once over the border , its potentially fair game.

Flecc.. Georgia is /was unimportant . It was a dress rehearsal for Crimea. With a population of 3.5million, Georgia is no larger than Greater Manchester. No way it could have stood against Russia. No more than the Channel Islands could have stood against the Germans. Now Georgia has almost...

At present there are probably 30,000 freezing starving Ukrainians in the two major cities under seige. The remaining 40,000,000 Ukrainians are hopping mad and angry with Russia. There possibly 150,000 freezing Russian lads camped for 2 weeks in the forests around the road. Not knowing where...

"While this Ukraine war is a radically different matter, the Russian patience and determination should never be discounted." Granted and by the exact same token the Ukrainians are Russian,with the same determination. Now Russia is about 3 times the population of Ukraine, but will be becoming...

We are of one mind on this....

I choose not to respond to what you had added .. so as not to add fuel to the fire .. please refer back to that posting where you used the word " currently", in about 10 days into the invasion. You will see a certain consistency in my postings.. It is noteworthy that Putin is responding...

Flecc,.. you are being disingenuous again . Zelensky has been asking for MEANINGFUL talks continuously .

What a mess up. The transfer should just have been done secretly . Now the problem is not really the USA..its Poland. They have the kit they could just as easy sell it or lease it or whatever to the Ukrainians, but they feared a Russian response. So their idea was to give it to the USA ,on the...

No... Not after 26th. February. That was D day. Once Russian kit crossed into independent territory to impose their will by force of arms, they forfeited that opportunity. That is the point on which everyone else on this site disagrees with you. Self defense is a human right. Now I have no...

Woosh.. what you are describing as a protective layer is an aluminium coated mylar balloon. Those novelty toy shops will have a bonanza.

Yes that is what should and might have been said in 2013.

That is true.. but one if our more astute commentators here .. David McWilliams , has constantly been making the point that what disturbs Putin is EU membership or associations, and NATO is a red herring. If a country can actually pull together in cooperation with other countries rather than...

..its called dating, or going steady, or doing a line, the next phase after is the engagement ring .

For a young Irish lad in 1972, walking in the Grunewald,which was relatively close to my Sisters flat, was a revelation. My Brother in law worked as an art historian in the Charlottenburg Palace .. Especially an odd place on the Lakeshore called Nacktbadenplatz!.

I visited East Berlin from West Berlin before the Wall came down. The year escapes me now but probably about 1972. You had to buy a visa and convert a specific number of west German Marks into East German Marks ... The official rate of exchange was I think 1:1 , but the real rate of exchange...

Flecc.. you really have lost it .. Ukraine did not have any idyllic sojourn over the last 100 years. Obviously the war period under Nazis was terrible as was also the 1930 s an the Moscow induced famines. They did fair somewhat better under Krushov.. obvious reason. Even if the NATO block...

"Of course I do, I appear to be the only one in here who wanted to stop any chance of the war happening. Most of you seem determinedly wanting to risk WW3 and its potentially horrifying consequences" .. Maybe the time to have stopped this was in 2014. The progression beyond that was Putins...

What would strengthen Russian resolve would be attacks by the West on Russian soil. I would expect the Russians to be as patriotic on their homeland as the Ukraine

I am not the sharpest diagnostician in the box, but I did notice the puffy face, and remarked on it at the time

Unless you had listened to Putins speech on the night of the invasion ... no coinciliation there . Ukraine with no right to exist .Nazis? drug Pushers? it was probably the first honest visceral speech in his life. all the lies before it was dissimulation ..this was authentic. Of course he...