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No, you stop being ridiculous. Ukraine was a free nation, founded as a country by Russia in 1917. They became free of the old USSR when that collapsed and were free of the Russian Federation later as you acknowledged, trading with the outside world and Ukrainians could and did travel freely...

No they are not. They have knowingly followed a course which they knew from prior examples would lead to this. It was their choice, so they chose the course to war, probably thinking the West would support them militarily. What a mistake that has turned out to be, but even that didn't mean...

I answered that in the post just above yours. LINK Your views on fighting for freedom and heroism are the stuff of the 19th century and before. They've had increasingly little relevance since the start of the 20th century. How does one meaningfully fight a Drone? It doesn't care whether it...

Not so, your knowledge of their history seems sadly lacking. All the Ukraine had to do originally is continue to be a good friend of Russia. Or when approaching this situation, agree that under no circumstances they would join NATO. Or if neither of those, resulting in a Russian attack being...

Fighting doesn't necessarily make a good future for anyone, it mostly fails. Just look at what the US assisted fights for an illusory freedom did for Somalia, Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and now Ukraine. They are all far worse off than they were before, in many cases disastrously worse off. .

Agreed, but once again, in this world we don't get to choose the circumstances we are born into. We mostly have to make the best of what we find we are in. In my case, by the time I was old enough to appreciate what was going on, World War 2 started and we all made the best of that and what...

I haven't said they were wrong, I've said they are foolish. We all know the saying about the grass on the other side of the hedge being greener. It never is, surely Brexit has taught that. The EU that those young Ukraininans want isn't short of unhappy members now, Greece, Poland, Hungary...

We can't choose on the spot. No-one chooses to be well fed slaves, but sometimes we end up in that situation. Then we can choose to make the best of it or make things infinitely worse for ourselves. The latter choice is utter stupidity, especially when true freedom only exists in the mind so...

No, history and the present shows very different. The Uyghurs in China who respect China's ways have no problem, it's the resistant ones who cling to Islam who end up in re-education camps. Many Jews worked voluntarily for the Nazis both before and during the war. Some were vital to the...

Given the huge amount of effort to recharge the average e-bike battery, one might as well just get fitter and cycle with an unpowered bike. .

No way would I be sighting an AK47 at any age in this sort of situation, I am totally opposed to war. In this world we can find ourselves under many rules, from a liberal benevolent socialism such as Sweden's to a harshly despotic, religion based Ottoman empire. The art of living is to make...

Read the first line of my post again!! That's why. Show me a hero and I'll show you an idiot. .

Rather half heartedly. Their key response to the latest set of sanctions was to announce China will buy the Russian wheat, so still very supportive of Russia's needs. I think China's approach is best described as walking a dividing line. .

That is what the Georgians did and Putin withdrew. The Ukrainians are being incredibly stupid by fighting, volunteering to be killed when that is so pointless. Worse still, the West is ruthlessly and knowingly sacrificing them by feeding them more arms and encouraging them to fight just to...

Since we all use electricity to charge our e-bikes, I thought I'd post this here as well: Something very close to home, FUEL PRICES. For those of you what dont yet know the new prices from April 1st, I've received mine: I'm electricity only and my current month bill for this 20th January to...

Yes, no problem. This is fundamentally because batteries are chemical devices, they don't store electricity, they just convert it into a chemical state. But we can't measure that chemical state so we try to measure content using the output voltage which is a very inaccurate way. .

Yes, as soon as you open the throttle or apply full power in any way, the indicator changes from showing battery content to showing the rate of current drain. Stop using power and it shows the battery content again. .

Change of Subject to something very close to home, FUEL PRICES. For those of you what dont yet know the new prices from April 1st, I've received mine: I'm electricity only and my current month bill for this 20th January to 20th February is £196.19 including VAT. Exactly the same bill after...

And what do you think we were doing in Afghanistan, Iraq, The Balkans, Kenya, Malaysia etc., but serving death sentences on countless thousands and hundreds of our own. All in the name of Empire or lost Empire ambitions. And supporting th USA and its CIA who actually cause much of this...

There's already informal charger sharing by many e-car owners supported by Zap Map information, but the costs are up to them. Some happily just give the odd charge away but in many, probably most cases, those charging insist on paying something. I think it will be many years before there's...