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There are 2 ways to look at Ukraine. As a territory to conquer, there is nothing there. The only reason would be to appease the Russian people. When the USSR broke up Gorbachev was promised NATO would not come to the border of Russia. Obama while putting American paid troops there gave them only defensive weapons. Trump changed that. If America seeks to place rockets that can reach Moscow, Russia may move to defend her borders. As the US would do if Russia put rockets in Canada or Mexico. The wildcard is that Biden owns a whole huge area of eastern Ukraine round Poltava, so he isn't going to want a war on his patch.
China India and Russia are developing a joint military strategy. I don't see Russia and China as rivals. Basically China has manufacturing capacity, Russia has raw materials. Kazakhstan has moved away from Russia culturally in the last 15 years, if they join or work with BRICS I don't think there is any need to do anything. The big Asian area where the US can make political gains is Myanmar, that gives them a foothold between India and China, and the people actually want them.
Other than one of the largest in the World with the ability to produce food.
Russia is the world's largest wheat exporter
Ukraine has the highest proportion of land devoted to wheat production.
There are 2 ways to look at Ukraine. As a territory to conquer, there is nothing there. The only reason would be to appease the Russian people. When the USSR broke up Gorbachev was promised NATO would not come to the border of Russia. Obama while putting American paid troops there gave them only defensive weapons. Trump changed that. If America seeks to place rockets that can reach Moscow, Russia may move to defend her borders. As the US would do if Russia put rockets in Canada or Mexico. The wildcard is that Biden owns a whole huge area of eastern Ukraine round Poltava, so he isn't going to want a war on his patch.
China India and Russia are developing a joint military strategy. I don't see Russia and China as rivals. Basically China has manufacturing capacity, Russia has raw materials. Kazakhstan has moved away from Russia culturally in the last 15 years, if they join or work with BRICS I don't think there is any need to do anything. The big Asian area where the US can make political gains is Myanmar, that gives them a foothold between India and China, and the people actually want them.
Other than one of the largest in the World with the ability to produce food.
Russia is the world's largest wheat exporter
Boris a genius? I don't think so. Bumbling twisted liar is a more accurate description. Like the vast majority of politicians he couldn't lie straight in his bed.
Boris will survive-he’s a flawed genius and has got the big calls right.Starmer is just yet another lawyer-ok to drink ‘as not on same scale’
What a pathetic excuse
What a pathetic excuse
There are 2 ways to look at Ukraine. As a territory to conquer, there is nothing there. The only reason would be to appease the Russian people. When the USSR broke up Gorbachev was promised NATO would not come to the border of Russia. Obama while putting American paid troops there gave them only defensive weapons. Trump changed that. If America seeks to place rockets that can reach Moscow, Russia may move to defend her borders. As the US would do if Russia put rockets in Canada or Mexico. The wildcard is that Biden owns a whole huge area of eastern Ukraine round Poltava, so he isn't going to want a war on his patch.
China India and Russia are developing a joint military strategy. I don't see Russia and China as rivals. Basically China has manufacturing capacity, Russia has raw materials. Kazakhstan has moved away from Russia culturally in the last 15 years, if they join or work with BRICS I don't think there is any need to do anything. The big Asian area where the US can make political gains is Myanmar, that gives them a foothold between India and China, and the people actually want them.
Other than one of the largest in the World with the ability to produce food.
Sophie Raiworth interviewing Keir Starmer on bbc 1.
His drinking at work was OK as it wasn’t on the same scale as the Tories.
What a tool.
His drinking at work was OK as it wasn’t on the same scale as the Tories.
What a tool.
I voted Tory in the last GE and probably always will. I didn’t vote for John Stevenson (not a fan), I didn’t vote for Boris Johnson (untrustworthy), I voted for the Conservative Party and for their ideology of rewarding hard work and enterprise. That is the top and bottom of it, I wasn’t gullible, I wasn’t lied to, I’m not stupid, I voted for them because I wanted to vote for them, they’re the party which most closely mirrors my own outlook on life.
Having said that, I’m not one of those blinkered disciples who defends the party no matter what and sees no wrong. Boris has sailed close to the wind a few times during his term but this latest misdemeanour is a step too far, the vast majority of rational thinking people will agree. However, there still appears to be a few (including on here) who, astoundingly, are still trying to defend him. An act nearly as embarrassing as Boris’s own attempt at justifying his glaring hypocrisy.
That’s pretty much my thoughts too. There are many people, including on here, that seem to think working class have to vote Labour and toffs (sic) vote Tory. I have voted for 4 parties in all of the GE since l was 20, for whichever one has policies that l think would be better for the country.
I have a slight chuckle at the lefties that parrot that ‘oh well Blair wasn’t REAL Labour, more Tory light’ then go on to explain that what the country needs is socialism, despite their statement making it 43 years since a ‘real’ Labour Government.
Marko, I don't see the US getting involved in Myanmar. It's far too messy and China is not unhappy with the Burmese military government. The only US involvement I see in South East Asia is possible naval support for Vietnam's claim to the Spratley Islands purely to block China's expansion. Maybe Russia and China are not military rivals but China has clear intentions to bring the Stans into its orbit and reduce the historic Russian presence.
There are 2 ways to look at Ukraine. As a territory to conquer, there is nothing there. The only reason would be to appease the Russian people. When the USSR broke up Gorbachev was promised NATO would not come to the border of Russia. Obama while putting American paid troops there gave them only defensive weapons. Trump changed that. If America seeks to place rockets that can reach Moscow, Russia may move to defend her borders. As the US would do if Russia put rockets in Canada or Mexico. The wildcard is that Biden owns a whole huge area of eastern Ukraine round Poltava, so he isn't going to want a war on his patch.
China India and Russia are developing a joint military strategy. I don't see Russia and China as rivals. Basically China has manufacturing capacity, Russia has raw materials. Kazakhstan has moved away from Russia culturally in the last 15 years, if they join or work with BRICS I don't think there is any need to do anything. The big Asian area where the US can make political gains is Myanmar, that gives them a foothold between India and China, and the people actually want them.
China India and Russia are developing a joint military strategy. I don't see Russia and China as rivals. Basically China has manufacturing capacity, Russia has raw materials. Kazakhstan has moved away from Russia culturally in the last 15 years, if they join or work with BRICS I don't think there is any need to do anything. The big Asian area where the US can make political gains is Myanmar, that gives them a foothold between India and China, and the people actually want them.
One reason Putin may not invade Ukraine is the the escalation of tension in Kazakhstan. China's Belt and Road initiative has given it improved access to Almaty the capital. Kazakhstan has huge mineral resources which China needs access to. Arguably China is a more natural partner for Kazakhstan than Russia and would exploit any opportunity to further its interests if Russia is distracted by a pointless skirmish in Ukraine.
The most interesting thing about the Boris parties is that not one single person, anywhere, in all the multitudes of parties ever said, I'm not coming because I'm frightened I'll get sick. Not one had an old mum at home on an iron lung? So the people with the best information in the country knew it was bollocks, the risk of attending a party was zero.
Russia is not going to invade Ukraine, what for? The Americans need a war, $775bn a year on military expenditure, you can't maintain that unless you use some of it. The EU is accelerating the EU army, Ukraine will be a base for the Americans going forward
There’s no evidence to support that first paragraph.
At one of these parties, 30 turned up when 100 had been invited.
The most interesting thing about the Boris parties is that not one single person, anywhere, in all the multitudes of parties ever said, I'm not coming because I'm frightened I'll get sick. Not one had an old mum at home on an iron lung? So the people with the best information in the country knew it was bollocks, the risk of attending a party was zero.
Russia is not going to invade Ukraine, what for? The Americans need a war, $775bn a year on military expenditure, you can't maintain that unless you use some of it. The EU is accelerating the EU army, Ukraine will be a base for the Americans going forward
Russia is not going to invade Ukraine, what for? The Americans need a war, $775bn a year on military expenditure, you can't maintain that unless you use some of it. The EU is accelerating the EU army, Ukraine will be a base for the Americans going forward
Infowars…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59998988
Is this a genuine report? Or is the US actually establishing a cover for a genuine Ukrainian attack on Russian interests?
Answers on a postcard please.
Why did we let Yeltsin get so bloody pissed up?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59998988
Is this a genuine report? Or is the US actually establishing a cover for a genuine Ukrainian attack on Russian interests?
Answers on a postcard please.
Why did we let Yeltsin get so bloody pissed up?
More parties at Downing Street have been discovered. One just before the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral and we all remember the picture of the Queen at the funeral.
Boris thinks that whatever he does will be alright in the end.
Could this have happened?
Senior adviser to Boris: "Is it all right if we have a party next week in the garden?"
Boris, "No problem, as long we remember to apologize afterwards."
According to the lady on Question Time, a total of 12 parties were had, not all at Downing Street though.
Self destruction.
However, I wonder how many critics followed all the rules ???
He should have followed Knickerless's agenda and had a sudden problem with amnesia
More parties at Downing Street have been discovered. One just before the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral and we all remember the picture of the Queen at the funeral.
Boris thinks that whatever he does will be alright in the end.
Could this have happened?
Senior adviser to Boris: "Is it all right if we have a party next week in the garden?"
Boris, "No problem, as long we remember to apologize afterwards."
Boris thinks that whatever he does will be alright in the end.
Could this have happened?
Senior adviser to Boris: "Is it all right if we have a party next week in the garden?"
Boris, "No problem, as long we remember to apologize afterwards."
He's dead in the water.
The interesting thing now is, who will fill his boots, and when ?
What is the next big agenda, China ? Russia ?
China has already made it public knowledge this is the decade they will achieve World dominance, will we see an exodus of Western Companies who are manufacturing in China now ?
Will Putin get his own way, and stop the Ukraine joining NATO ?
The RN crashed into a Russian sub off the NW of Shetland recently, never saw that on the front pages..........
The interesting thing now is, who will fill his boots, and when ?
What is the next big agenda, China ? Russia ?
China has already made it public knowledge this is the decade they will achieve World dominance, will we see an exodus of Western Companies who are manufacturing in China now ?
Will Putin get his own way, and stop the Ukraine joining NATO ?
The RN crashed into a Russian sub off the NW of Shetland recently, never saw that on the front pages..........
That’s a wild jump mate-most people in this country worry about a job and cash, not wine and cheese parties.He’s apologised-I suggest we move on and let the Tories and electorate decide whether he survives
GDP figures this morning confirm economy is bigger than pre pandemic level.Who gets the credit?
Do Chinese GDP figures excuse their wrongs? Of course not. Why then should ours?
GDP figures this morning confirm economy is bigger than pre pandemic level.Who gets the credit?
People like me working from home and rejecting the presenteeism culture of the office to the chagrin of big landlords and their Tory chums
https://www.apollotechnical.com/working-from-home-productivity-statistics/
Feel free to send me a large amount of money
GDP figures this morning confirm economy is bigger than pre pandemic level.Who gets the credit?
As I’ve said before, Boris was never going to be in charge for the next GE IMO.
He was put in to push Brexit through, he’ll be replaced in plenty time ahead of the next GE by someone who’ll steer the ship…
He was put in to push Brexit through, he’ll be replaced in plenty time ahead of the next GE by someone who’ll steer the ship…
Big picture Frank
Who made the big calls?Vaccine, shutdown lifted at Xmas, Brexit.Why Boris of course.
He’s a flawed genius and we love them in Britain.He’s made an error-several actually, but Churchill was no saint.
If he goes, who else?Captain Hindsight, yet another lawyer or that opportunist who leads the Libdems?
Sunak is in a strong position to reshape the top table but keep Boris in place.Taking on the top job at this juncture is too challenging
The big picture is Laffy, if Boris stays whatever majority he held at the last GE will disappear. He’s lost the trust of the voter.
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