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Someone should remind Liz and Kwasi that Putin also went for growth. Georgia, Crimea, Ukraine. Look how that went. .

Once again pretending to tell me what I already knew and had shown I knew. It's you doing the egging to try to put a different slant on events. The Azov Battalian were integrated into the regular army by Zelenskyy to defend Mariupol when the threat of Russian attack had become very likely...

Of course I do, which is why I mentioned all this myself. So why are you pretending I don't know when I've already shown I did? .

True, but Ukraine was so far from being an acceptable democratic country that was impossible. Imagine it, a NATO country with a private, far right, neo-nazi army tolerated in addition to its regular army. I'm speaking of the Azov Army, funded by a Ukrainian oligarch and which was recently...

We already have something of this situation now with Turkey. President Erdoğan's close personal relationahip with Putin has resulted in some embarrassing situations, such as Turkey, a NATO country, buying Russian anti-missile defences in preference to the US ones. Russian missiles for NATO to...

And inexpensive due to using Single Vehicle Approval. Even a few years ago Type Approval of an exact model to be approved in quantities costed at least £10,000 per model. Goodness knows what it would be now. That meant only model variants with high volume sales were viable for type approval. .

Yes that would be too expensive and inconvenient an option David. Now Gillingham come to you and hopefully with sales of 250LPM increasing, it should become less irksome as they get as used to it as you are. .

Technically yes, since the regulation is under the Single Vehicle Approval scheme, not Type Approval law which is only for manufactured motor vehicles. However I suspect that in practice once a manufacturer gets it rolling, their local testing station will have streamlined it for regularly...

It could have been. In the post cold war days when Putin was following the will of the Duma by successfully converting Russia into a similar capitalist consumer society to ours, he broached the subject of Russia joining the EU. He was entirely willing, but the USA predictably, plus certain EU...

This silly arguing has been going on for the whole 16 years of this web site, it hasn't changed anything and it isn't going to. I'm not getting on any sort of high horse. I'm not pretending I know best. I'm merely pointing out the facts and also that you are all wasting your efforts by your...

I have never made reference to Ukraine seeking NATO membership. All my references have been to the US efforts to get Georgia and Ukraine into NATO, commencing from 2004. US success was signalled when Saakashhvilli announced in November 2007 that they would seek NATO membership. That period...

Don't forget that Yeltsin also strongly favoured perestroika and was originally Gorbachovs ally. The falling out was only over when, Gorbachov favouring gradual orderly change, Yeltsin sudden and to hell with the chaotic consequences, playing directly into America's hands. Also don't forget...

Wrong. Clearly you were another one sleepwalking through the late 1980s and early 1990s. As for Russia not being a nation state, can't you see how silly that is? Is the USA from Alaska to Hawaii any more a nation state? Although it's claimed half the world's countries of over half a million...

The EU is not a red herring in this instance, since I was replying to your post quoting my reply to BonzoBanana on the entirely EU matter he raised and wrongly complained of. Facts: We have inherited the EU transport law. On leaving the EU the UK has written that EU law into UK law by the...

Totally self centred, only your needs matter. You only have to open your eyes to all the other posts in here to realise that others have very different needs and desires. The EU formulas provide for all of them, letting countries decide how with each to suit their local situation. However...

NO, NO , NO, nowhere have I said that, once again don't make things up. Of course Zelenskyy and Ukraine shouldn't just give in, but long ago Ukraine absolutely should have ruled out Ukraine ever joining NATO, thus preventing both the acquisition of Crimea and the current war ever happening...

Wrong in every detail. Within the EU we can and do have both EAPCs (pedelecs) and e-bikes, two different things and both legal. And the e-bikes can legally have throttles, Presumably your objection is to having to register, number plate and insure an e-bike? But that is not EU law. It's...

No i do not. My post to JA and OG's response to it were about Syria and its government, not Russia. This is the trouble in here, people not sticking to the subject and imagining what is posted. See below. Fully agreed in every detail and I've said similar. I could give you many...

No, an apposite reply to JA's post. The truth often offends those who still have the colonial superiority attitudes. .

But this migration is still not in any way a good thing, no matter how presented or what EU country is involved. In every country including here the migration is creating big problems. And the great majority are economic migrants, so many of the countries they are coming from are being...