So fucking right. And it wasn’t just any poison, it was radioactive material.
Looking back it’s shameful that we were so weak and subservient to Russia, and they undoubtedly became emboldened by that, which definitely aided and abetted the decision making around the invasion of Ukraine.
This is a regime that has committed acts of terrorism on its own people to win elections, has stolen its nation’s natural resources in order to to distribute it among a small elite, has consistently murdered or neutralised any voices of dissent or recalcitrance, has been constantly truculent to its satellite states, that cannot be trusted to abide by a single thing it says and is, quite simply, the personification of evil in governmental form.
Our governments in the west, especially in this country, are imperfect, dishonest and to varying extents corrupt, but comparing them with Russian rule is like equating an individual who feels up someone’s arse in a nightclub with someone who repeatedly rapes children.
We absolutely have to win this battle because the consequences for the next generation if we don’t are truly terrifying.