Russian invasion of Ukraine

[Blue Mist]

Funnily enough that's the exact same rhetoric Putin uses to demonise his opponents.

The right to dissent is one of the key things the Ukrainians are fighting for.

I am not stopping him slagging this country off. I simply made a statement.

 

[dave_blue12]

Some good news perhaps

 

[Blue Mist]

An Air Commodore (retired)

So yet again we are to blame. M.C.F C causing world wars since 20??

 

[Gray]

It is a pity the Ukranians don't have any missiles they could fire at Russia.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

I am not stopping him slagging this country off. I simply made a statement.

You're equating dissent from government policy with hatred of the country.

These things are totally different, and attempting to equate them is exactly how totalitarian regimes, like Putin's, operate.

 

[Blue Mist]

You're equating dissent from government policy with hatred of the country.

These things are totally different, and attempting to equate them is exactly how totalitarian regimes, like Putin's, operate.

I think the one that can answer that is the man himself.

 

[west didsblue]

So yet again we are to blame. M.C.F C causing world wars since 20??

You probably need to read it again. There's only one person to blame and he would have done it with or without the unwitting complicity of some senior members of the government. The fact that we allowed and encouraged London to be used for Russian money laundering and fell for the Russian funded Brexit bullshit certainly emboldened him. These were some of many factors that emboldened him including his perceived success with his social media campaign to encourage Americans to vote in Trump (who did his best to weaken NATO) and the almost total reliance on Russian energy by much of Europe. The weak sanctions following invasions of Crimea, the Donbass and parts of Georgia, and the fact that he got away with deploying biological weapons in the UK without much more than a slap on the wrist didn't help either. In the meantime he got away with bribing the international community with giving Russia the Sochi Olympics and the World Cup. All of this made him think the world would do next to fuck all about his invasion of Ukraine. He's now learnt that he was wrong.

 

[blueparrot]

I think the one that can answer that is the man himself.

You have already made that assumption though.

 

[Blue Mist]

You probably need to read it again. There's only one person to blame and he would have done it with or without the unwitting complicity of some senior members of the government. The fact that we allowed and encouraged London to be used for Russian money laundering and fell for the Russian funded Brexit bullshit certainly emboldened him. These were some of many factors that emboldened him including his perceived success with his social media campaign to encourage Americans to vote in Trump (who did his best to weaken NATO) and the almost total reliance on Russian energy by much of Europe. The weak sanctions following invasions of Crimea, the Donbass and parts of Georgia, and the fact that he got away with deploying biological weapons in the UK without much more than a slap on the wrist didn't help either. In the meantime he got away with bribing the international community with giving Russia the Sochi Olympics and the World Cup. All of this made him think the world would do next to fuck all about his invasion of Ukraine. He's now learnt that he was wrong.

It WAS a JOKE.
The headline read (the) City to blame for......... I knew it meant the square mile I was just trying to bring a little levity into the thread.

 

[west didsblue]

It WAS a JOKE.
The headline read (the) City to blame for......... I knew it meant the square mile I was just trying to bring a little levity into the thread.

I'm not fucking stupid. I know the MCFC comment was a joke but everything else you post isn't.