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Not the same at all, there is no pretext. The Southern Fleet is the very big difference and the fact that Russia didn't give the Crimea to an independent country or ever intend to. If Ukraine had ever won the Crimea by war or agreement with Russia, that would be a very different matter. But...

He's got a nerve and so have all the Polish on this matter. They came out of the USSR crippled and bankrupt and were later rescued by EU. But they still failed and had very high unemployment which they solved by flooding the rest of Europe with their workers, taking native jobs with their...

They wanted Crimea for three good reasons: 1) Historically it had always been Russian territory, occupied by the Russian Tartar people for hundreds of years. The USSR awarding it to the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic was a silly mistake, assuming the USSR would last for ever: "On April...

It is not immigration that causes our housing problem, it is our terrible housing market. West Germany in 1950 had a 51 million population. Then during partition they absorbed 3 million fleeing from East Germany. In the 1960s they opened access to over two thirds of a million Turkish...

What makes you think Manchuria is in question, that is another Western fantasy. The whole point of Putin's peace agreements with China from 2003 to the present was to end the long history of border conflict, open the border and repopulate eastern Russia, something that Russia itself had...

If the West does see it through to the end as Starmer said, that fairy story could be the conclusion with Russia in possession, since they will never lose and hand back all the territory won. But Ukraine and the West will give up and agree terms long before that, so Ukraine will not be annexed. .

It continues because they still haven't got the security assurance that Ukraine will not join NATO and that the USA and NATO will stop interfering in Russia's business. Once there is a ceasefire on agreed terms, Russia will instantly stop the attack and will help with the rebuild as they did...

Democracy? The USA? :D Only if one agrees with the the US view, as US and British actions showed in Iran in 1948, something you have posted about. Since WW2 it's the USA and Britain who have been the greatest threat to democracy with their wars and interference disrupting the stable lives...

Saw it originally, but as I said, I see all aspects of this very differently from your right wing pro American view. .

Don't bother I'm fully aware of it but see it very differently. Ken was one of the best and most effective politicians we ever produced, which is why we repeatedly elected him. Was Andrew Neil ever elected? No, he was a right wing newspaper journalist. .

You are forgetting, Putin and Russia do not want to possess Ukraine and still don't. That ambition is only the USA's propaganda fantasy. Russia, as it proved with Georgia, only wants the closest countries to be a neutral buffer, just good neighbours. If Russia retains the Azov and Black Sea...

Agreed, common sense. .

Nonsense, there is no Putin control, other than being a good neighbour by not joining NATO. In 2008 Russia had Georgia totally beaten and controlled, but Putin still only demanded they didn't join NATO. On President Saakashvili agreeing that, Putin ordered the withdrawal of Russian forces...

Now you are being very silly, that was after the war started so in what way was that peace under Russian control? If you think the Ukrainians are any better than the Russians in these respects, you are blind to what happened in the closing stages of WW2. The Ukrainians are Russians in all...

You'll remember me getting things absolutely right at th start of the war, even before it started, accurately showing with maps and photos exactly what ground Russia would take. I also insisted that Zelensky was a fool in being defiant and said it would all end in misery with Ukraine giving up...

Agreed, and of course I know all this. I was cynically commenting on the work to rule. Here in London it's the worst of all, not just for GPs but for all medical staff from student nurses to consultants. With our very high cost of living and the severity of housing problems none of them...

Apparently it means not seeing more than 25 patients a day. Since the recommended time per patient consultation is 5 minutes, that means working for just over 2 hours a day. It also means not working beyond their contracted hours, whatever they are. .

Anti-communist rhetoric against socialism, the bigoted Americans would be proud of you. Of course the Scandinavians are socialist, they personify what socialism is, and it is not communism. .

Indeed, and my postings at the time were almost alone in supporting Corbyn and critical of how blind his critics were. .

Strange that it works so well in the Scandinavian countries. .