Russian invasion of Ukraine

[Keeper!]

It is very quiet in the Shire at present

When those dudes are quite sh1t goes down ;)

 

[west didsblue]

The UK has sized 10x the Russian financial assets as the whole of the rest of the EU combined. We actually supplied then with weapons that they could defend themselves with prior to hostilities and have trained the Ukrainian army for the last 7 years.
Let's be realistic about who has actually done something to help Ukraine.
Well done to the rest of the Europe for finally joining the party.

You probably need to ask yourself why we have the scope to seize so many assets. Also why we have given the owners of many of those assets time to get them out.

 

[KS55]

What good would a herd of cattle do FFS

Russian troops would COWer before them.
We could also send Belted Galloways, that twat deserves it.

 

[Keeper!]

Peter hitchens is one the most nauseating, snobby, snivelling cunts who shouts down and over speaks people who don't agree with him. We lost the wrong hitchens, imo.

His brother was one of the great orators of our times, a magnificent man and badly missed.

 

[KS55]

Sadly ‘appeasement’ by Russian money isn’t limited to the conservatives - it has been mainly them for the past decade or so, but prior to that mandelson (and others) had very dubious associations with some oligarchs.

‘Soft’ corruption and influence runs deep in politics.
Politicians should, controversially, be paid more, but with the complete banning of lobbying, freebies, expenses and highly dubious ‘fact-finding’ jaunts.

Yup. See Deripaska (sp?)

 

[Keeper!]

Hitchens was right about Iraq before the invasion but he’s been proven very wrong with this. His line for the last few years was that Putin wasn’t the enemy and Russia wasn’t to be feared.Now he’s having to backtrack enormously and cover his own arse for a complete misjudge of character.

You can find my posts 8 weeks ago saying the amassing of troops on the border was posturing to the West and I said there wouldn’t be a full scale war, which I also got wrong but I never said Putin wasn’t the enemy. I just didn’t think he was mad enough to do this.

Hitchens actually did a university talk a few years ago about how he liked Putin. He’s got it wrong and would be best just admitting it.

To be fair 99.9 % of the world thought Putin was posturing including me, how very wrong we all were.

And probably the only time Boris Johnson has ever been truthful in his entire life.

 

[Scottyboi]

Seize all the Russian money we can, give half to Ukraine use the other half to help our cost of living crisis. If Russia kick off just tell them we have nukes, seems to work.

 

[Big Joe Corrigan]

I would love to see Hereford's finest let loose!

We need hooves on the ground, they can moove quickly.

 

[KS55]

Seize all the Russian money we can, give half to Ukraine use the other half to help our cost of living crisis. If Russia kick off just tell them we have nukes, seems to work.

Could only make a tiny dent in our economy. Give it all to Ukraine.

 

[jaseirai]

No I never asked if you trust Rees Mogg figures where's that from dear God you were prattling on about the UK having more Russian money to Seize is it true I doubt it very much but prepared to hear if you know better. I'd Check how much Cyprus, Malta and Switzerland have first though.
but I feel rather than slagging off the UK it would be better to concentrate on the atrocities being committed in Ukraine by our former Russian friends.

Don’t forget Denmark.

Danske Bank money laundering scandal - Wikipedia

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