- “Afghan asylum seeker arrested after car ‘terror attack’ in Munich” – A vehicle in Munich has rammed into pedestrians during a rally in the city, injuring at least 30 people, reports the Express.
- “Germany has lost count of migrant terrorist attacks – the AfD hasn’t” – This latest attack in Germany will ensure that mass migration and border security remain at the top of the electoral campaign agenda, says James Rothwell in the Telegraph.
- “The Munich attack is a parable for everything that’s wrong with European migration policy” – The Government needs to take a far more open approach to the facts on Islamist extremism, migration and crime by nationality, writes Robert Jenrick in the Telegraph.
- “Criminal avoids deportation to Portugal because of child with special needs” – A Portuguese criminal who has been jailed twice in the UK has been spared deportation as his child might have autism, reports GB News.
- “Ghanaian wins right to stay in Britain after staging marriage she did not attend” – A Ghanaian tourist has won her immigration appeal after claiming that her “proxy” marriage to a German citizen living in Britain had lasted long enough for her to qualify to remain in the UK, says the Telegraph.
- “How Prevent failed David Amess” – In the Spectator, David Shipley reveals how Prevent’s staggering incompetence allowed Ali Harbi Ali to slip through the cracks and murder David Amess.
- “Lord Hermer fought for compensation for al-Qaeda chief linked to July 7th bombings” – Lord Hermer sought compensation from the British Government for an al-Qaeda chief linked to the July 7th terror attacks, according to the Telegraph.
- “Starmer’s excuse for Chagos deal ‘blown out the water’ – by his own minister” – Keir Starmer’s national security case for the Chagos Islands deal has been “blown out of the water” by Science Minister Chris Bryant, who admits no international body could shut down British communications in the Indian Ocean, reports the Telegraph.
- “Starmer narrowly avoids recession – but alarms are going off everywhere” – Britain escaped recession by the skin of its teeth in the dying months of 2024, as the economy eked out growth of 0.1% in the face of record tax rises, says Tim Wallace in the Telegraph.
- “Does Rachel Reeves’s industrial strategy even exist?” – It is increasingly hard to avoid the conclusion that Reeves doesn’t want to publish an industrial strategy because she doesn’t have a clue what should be in it, writes Matthew Lynn in the Spectator.
- “Reeves faced expenses probe in previous job” – In the Spectator, Steerpike reports that Rachel Reeves faced an expenses probe at HBOS over lavish spending.
- “Phillipson told Birbalsingh to ‘lower her tone’ in fraught meeting” – According to official minutes, Bridget Phillipson asked Katharine Birbalsingh, England’s most successful headteacher, to “lower her tone” and stop interrupting during a fractious meeting last week, reports the Times.
- “Keir forced to ditch visit after farmers staged noisy tractor protest” – Keir Starmer has been forced to abandon a visit to promote his housing policies after a protest by farmers, says the Sun.
- “Labour could tighten shotgun rules in another red rag to farmers” – Farmers fear they could be stopped from keeping shotguns at home under Government recommendations to overhaul firearms law, reports the Times.
- “Labour minister ran vile WhatsApp group which branded pensioners ‘terrorists’” – A Labour minister formerly ran a WhatsApp group which branded pensioners “terrorists” and hurled abuse at colleagues, reveals the Sun.
- “Introducing Spaff: the Spectator Project Against Frivolous Funding” – The Spectator takes aim at Britain’s wasteful spending culture with Spaff, a bold new initiative exposing the absurdity of taxpayer-funded projects. Although, to be fair to the Daily Sceptic’s Charlotte Gill, she got there first.
- “Trump should offer asylum to Britons fleeing high-tax, authoritarian Britain” – If tens of thousands of young Britons started leaving the UK, the Government might begin to appreciate that it is not just billionaires that hate high taxes, says Douglas Carswell in the Telegraph.
- “When young people ask me if they should flee Britain, this is my answer” – We are talking ourselves into perpetual decline, warns David Frost in the Telegraph. But it’s not too late to recover our Western inheritance.
- “The Times view on the fight for free speech: vibe shift” – Kristie Higgs’s success in her fight against dismissal (with help from the Free Speech Union) heralds a wider backlash against woke oppression says the Times in a leading article.
- “Sticks and stones: the idea that words cause harm and the implications of this for higher education” – In a research paper for the Journal of Further and Higher Education, Jane Fenton and Mark Smith trace how the notion of harmful speech now shapes classroom debate and academic freedom, even though it’s flawed.
- “The crisis of censorship: why should Christians care?” – Trinity Forum London and ADF International invite you to an evening of discussion with Michael Shellenberger, Paul Coleman and others on the crisis of censorship in the West. Sign up while tickets are still available!
- “Work placements can be done from home, say colleges” – Colleges are allowing pupils on vocational courses to work from home during their industry placements to prepare them for “real-life hybrid working”, reports the Mail.
- “Giant gas field discovery could power Britain for a decade” – A giant gas field has been discovered under Lincolnshire that could fuel the UK’s entire energy needs for a decade and generate tens of thousands of jobs, says the Telegraph.
- “Net Zero is making Britain colder, poorer and less productive” – Far from leading the way, Britain is a cautionary tale on the dangers of Net Zero zealotry, warns James Price in City AM.
- “Natural England accused of favouring rewilding over saving farmland” – There are calls for Natural England to be scrapped for being ideologically wedded to the concept of conservation and removing food production from the countryside, reports the Telegraph.
- “China’s wind turbine armada is ringing alarm bells at the MoD” – Ed Miliband’s reliance on Beijing for green tech is raising national security fears, writes Jonathan Leake in the Telegraph.
- “Trump’s plastic straw restoration is genius” – Ending the tyranny of soggy paper straws will be welcomed by consumers – and might also help the planet, says Jill Kirby in the Telegraph.
- “Hamas backs down over hostage deal threat” – In a major U-turn, Hamas says that it will continue with the Israeli hostage deal as planned, according to LBC.
- “Ukraine fought hard, but there is now no chance of them taking back their country” – Europe must admit to itself that it was too weak to come to Ukraine’s aid alone, says Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
- “Trump’s Ukraine peace talks have echoes of Nazi appeasement” – Former Defence Secretary Ben Wallace warns that Trump’s talks with Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine have echoes of appeasement, according to the Standard.
- “Australian nurses suspended after threatening to kill Israeli patients” – An Australian hospital is examining patient records after two nurses claimed online that they would kill Israelis rather than treat them, reports the Mail.
- “American strong gods” – On Substack, NS Lyons ruminates on Trump and the end of the Long 20th Century.
- “Pride in Britain? It’s history” – Within 20 years we have managed to halve our sense of national self-worth, says Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
- “What Gen Z gets wrong about ‘racist’ Britain” – In the Spectator, Patrick West argues that Gen Z’s belief in a “racist” Britain isn’t based on reality but on a decade of woke indoctrination.
- “State of contempt” – At what point do people start getting as mad as hell? wonders Dr David McGrogan on his Substack.
- “Simon Schama wants you to shut up” – Story of Us, Simon Schama’s new three-part documentary, is a futile attempt to unite the nation under the banner of BBC-approved orthodoxies, says Bradley Strotten in Spiked.
- “Why isn’t it racist to call someone ‘stupid and white’?” – By Sam Kerr’s strange logic, the penniless white alcoholic in the gutter is more powerful than Beyoncé or Michelle Obama, writes Sam Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Genetically male trans woman raped young girl, court told” – An alleged sex offender who was born male but identifies as a woman has appeared in court accused of raping a young girl, reports the Mail.
- “The dark money behind the trans movement” – In the European Conservative, Jennifer Bilek exposes the billionaires bankrolling trans ideology, revealing it as a top-down social engineering project.
- “The word she’s struggling for is ‘Yes’” – On X, Andrew Doyle pours scorn on Kim Leadbetter’s failure to answer Danny Kruger’s question of whether the assisted suicide bill would allow a person to die to save money for their family.
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Ukraine fought hard, but there is now no chance of them taking back their country
‘Europe must admit to itself that it was too weak to come to Ukraine’s aid alone’
“When you ask those (NATO) guys, why can’t you spend more on national security, their argument is because it would require us to make cuts to welfare programs, to unemployment benefits, to being able to retire at 59 and all these other things,” Rubio told former right-wing Fox News host, Megyn Kelly on her radio show. “That’s a choice they made,” Rubio said. “But we are subsidizing that?”
Guns or butter?
As Sir Ben Wallace points out, Churchill put it better in 1938:
‘You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour, and you will have war.’
That is completely irrelevant to the Ukrainian conflict. Trump is trying to end a conflict, not stop one from starting.
Putin’s view is that ‘Ukraine is not a country or a society, but a project of the United States and its allies to weaken Russia. There is no room for Ukrainians themselves to have agency. This is about Great Power rivalry. And it’s specifically about the resentment of Putin and the people around him about how the Cold War ended.’
“For Putin sovereignty is the core value. Only Great Powers have full sovereignty, meaning full control of their destiny. Russia, the US and China are Great Powers. Lesser powers have limited or compromised sovereignty. The UK, France and Germany are essentially satellites of US power. Second, Russia is a lonely power. It does not do alliances; it does spheres of interest. Russia believes the US thinks the same way.’
‘To return to what Putin’s war is about. It’s an imperialist project; it’s about winding back the post-Cold War security order in Europe; and resetting the terms of Great Power rivalry with the US. At heart it is about Russia itself. That is why we should have realistic expectations about the prospects for a negotiated settlement of the conflict. There is no evidence that any of Putin’s fundamental objectives have changed and plenty of evidence that they haven’t’
There are two hopes of ending this war, no hope and Bob Hope…and Bob’s dead…..
A pregnant pause is all that can be hoped for……and that would be ill advised.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/12/trump-ukraine-rare-earth-critical-mineral-deal-bessent/
‘On Feb. 10, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump claimed that he aimed to secure “$500 billion worth of rare earth” minerals as part of negotiations over continued U.S. support for Ukraine amid its war with Russia.
When history repeats itself, it’s time to reflect.
At the beginning of 1918, amid World War I, Germany and Austria-Hungary were in dire need of natural resources. Simply put, they needed grain, lard, meat, and oil to sustain their war efforts and economies.
Ukraine, having recently declared independence from the Russian Empire and fighting to secure its sovereignty, possessed all of these resources. Seeing an opportunity, Germany intervened. As U.S. President Donald Trump might have said if he had lived 100 years ago, it was a great deal.
Under the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, German troops entered Ukraine, ostensibly to protect its independence from the Bolsheviks in exchange for food supplies. The Ukrainian People’s Republic (UPR) regained the power it had lost to the Bolshevik offensive but quickly found that German support came with strings attached.
German authorities decided that Ukraine was unviable without their presence, ousting the UPR leadership and installing Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi.
For a brief period, this uneasy arrangement held. But when Germany lost World War I, its need for Ukraine disappeared. The retreating German forces left Ukraine vulnerable, and resistance to the unpopular hetman grew, while Moscow regained strength.
In 1919, Symon Petliura and his forces overthrew Skoropadskyi, only to find themselves facing a resurgent Bolshevik threat. Seeking allies, Petliura ceded Ukraine’s western territories to Poland but ultimately lost the battle to Moscow. The Ukrainian state disappeared.
Then came the Holodomor, the Executed Renaissance, the destruction of Kyiv, and Russification.
And now, history repeats itself — only this time, it’s the United States instead of Germany. Lithium instead of grain. Graphite instead of lard. The intention to hold elections in Ukraine instead of a coup. But unlike a century ago, there is no promise to send an army — neither the U.S. nor NATO — to protect the resources Washington needs……
….understand that even if a ceasefire is reached, it will not end the war. Russia knows its goal and will eventually return for all of Ukraine.’
Have you any evidence of your final statement? Russia certainly knows its goal. I would suggest that you don’t.
Russia’s long term intentions regarding Ukraine have not changed since the mid 19th century.
The FSB Outline of Operational Aims and Means document of 21 November 2021 makes it clear that the 9th Directorate of the FSB’s Fifth Service Department for Operational Information, responsible for Ukraine, was preparing for the occupation of Ukraine from at least as early as July 2021.
There is a further strategy document available from within the Kremlin, drafted by the Presidential Directorate for Cross-Border Cooperation, a subdivision of Putin’s Presidential Administration.
This directorate’s actual task and strategic plan is to exert control over neighbouring countries that Russia sees as within its sphere of influence: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova.
‘The duration of denazification can in no way be less than one generation, which must be born, grow up and reach maturity under the conditions of denazification.’
‘The collective West itself is the designer, source and sponsor of Ukrainian Nazism’
‘Ukraine, as history has shown, is impossible as a nation state, and attempts to “build” one naturally lead to Nazism. Ukraine is an artificial anti-Russian construction that does not have its own civilizational content, a subordinate element of an alien and alien civilization……therefore the denazification of Ukraine is also its inevitable de-Europeanization.’
‘this operation itself is understood as a military victory over the Kiev regime’
‘not just the Bandera version of Nazi Ukraine will be eradicated, but including, and above all, Western totalitarianism, the imposed programs of civilizational degradation and disintegration, the mechanisms of subjugation to the superpower of the West and the United States.’
‘Russia will go its own way…..relying on another part of its heritage – leadership in the global process of decolonization.’
‘The denazification of Ukraine is at the same time its decolonization, which the population of Ukraine will have to understand as it begins to free itself from the intoxication, temptation and dependence of the so-called European choice.’
RIA Novosti 04 April 2022
Just to emphasize ‘Russia will go its own way…..relying on another part of its heritage – leadership in the global process of decolonization.’
‘Although China’s and Russia’s bilateral trade has increased over the past twenty years, their economic partnership is highly lopsided. Russia depends far more on China than vice versa; China is currently Russia’s number-one trade partner, but Russia was only China’s sixth-largest as of 2023.
As Western sanctions increasingly isolate Russia, it has become highly dependent on China for trade and economic support, particularly in energy exports sold at discounted prices.
China has capitalized on Russia’s isolation by expanding its investments and economic influence within Russia, with Chinese companies increasing their share of Russian market participation. This economic relationship shows an imbalance, with China benefiting from favorable trade terms.
Western sanctions and the war in Ukraine have deeply impacted Russia’s economy, as seen in the weakening ruble, increasing reliance on China, and signs of Russia potentially becoming a subordinate economic partner to China rather than an equal.’
How is China’s relationship with Russia any different from its relationship with the West then?
Look around your house, or around any shop. 75% of just about everything is made in China. The entire West is in a lopsided trade relationship with China, largely because we have industrially eviscerated ourselves through Marxist dogma and harebrained energy policy.
Spot on!
The boot is still on the other foot.
‘Since the US-China trade war in 2018 and the pandemic, China has introduced policies to encourage export-oriented companies to shift to the domestic market. This has led to continuously falling prices or deflation within China,”
Moreover, lower prices also mean reduced profits for companies.
“This, in turn, could lead to higher unemployment,” he added, which would potentially create a vicious cycle that makes boosting domestic consumption even more difficult.’
During his first term, Donald Trump imposed 7.5-25% tariffs on China. This time, the Chinese economy is in a much more vulnerable position.
In 2018, the property market was strong – driving about a quarter of China’s economic activity. Today, the real estate sector is in a severe downturn.
The finances of local governments are in bad shape – revenues have plunged and many are saddled with huge debts. Plus, an oversupply of empty homes means the property sector might never return to the driving seat of Chinese economic growth.
There are also low wages and pensions, while high youth unemployment has hit demand for goods and people just aren’t spending enough money. That’s driving prices down – hurting business and growth.
Tariffs will impact demand from overseas as costs are passed onto consumers – which will have a knock on effect inside China on the volume of goods being manufactured and the number of people needed to make them. And it will hamper the expansion of businesses and growth overall.’
Yesterday, outside the Turkish Embassy in London, a man burnt a Koran then a man attacked him with a knife. I don’t think burning any religion’s holy book is very bright and you’re obviously being antagonistic, but what I don’t understand is how ‘specific types’ of men are just wandering around with knives, as if they’re some sort of accessory they never leave the house without. Do they just walk around waiting for their moment to strike? I saw a close up of the attacker and he’s got grey hair, so not your obvious gangster type. How messed up psychologically do you have to be to do this and think it’s justified?
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1890094603514298436
This is why I think much of Europe is screwed. Not to be pessimistic but it’s not just about the amount of culturally inappropriate migrants that hate us that our leaders have let in, then all the offspring they’ve subsequently had who cannot be deported because they’re ‘native’, but it’s the amount of traitors in our midst. Unfortunately many being in positions of authority and influence. Imagine being German but wanting more terrorist attacks and murders of innocent civilians, which is what these lunatics are after;
”Far-left militant extremists are taking to the streets of Munich to intimidate a small group of friends & family members of the victims of today’s Islamist car-ramming attack
The small group gathered to protest open borders but was attacked by ppl shouting “fascists”
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1890156584225079314
A clearer vid of the psycho attacking the Koran-burner. I think he didn’t actually stab the guy, but threatened him with it and kicked him. No idea if he was arrested. But did he just so happen to be walking past with a large knife down his trousers?
https://x.com/Matthardy_BR/status/1890197878695686343
Has this ROPer even been arrested?
I did see a pic of him being arrested, but it was probably one of them where the police put you in a van, take you down the road and ‘de-arrest’ you and off you go. Apparently he’s an employee of the Turkish Embassy. They must have a decent stash of knives in there, I should think.
Here it is. He’s even denying having a knife;
https://x.com/AzatAlsalim/status/1890454209826353494
Not religious myself, but this here is another example of how the writing’s on the wall for the UK. Although it’s no skin off many people’s noses it’s what this would symbolize, more than anything else. Maybe some non-Christian politicians from another religion find it offensive and have made a complaint or something;
”Yesterday, the Daily Mirror reported that the newly elected Labour MP for Poole Neil Duncan-Jordan, with cross-party support from the usual suspects (2 further Labour MPs, 3 Lib Dems, 2 Greens and 1 SNP), have called for the abolition of prayers in Parliament.”
https://x.com/PhilHs10/status/1890174995395191279
“Sticks and stones: the idea that words cause harm and the implications of this for higher education”
Orwell saw this coming (and our ship of strutting parliamentary fools didn’t). As Syme once upon a time explained to Winston:
“In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”
I have finished my dissertation on data collection in human avian influenza.
https://open.substack.com/pub/myrauk/p/avian-influenza-in-humans?r=ylgqf&utm_medium=ios
It is long, but just reading the introduction and discussion will give you a flavour of the current state of affairs.
Thank you for that link, and congratulations on completing your thesis. As you say on your Substack:
“Would it be more effective to allocate resources toward improving public health through better nutrition and sanitation rather than extensive data collection?”
To follow up with a historical perspective, zoonotic transmission of viruses has likely been going on since time immemorial. Witness “Annals of Ulster”, compiled in the year 1893 as translation from the original Irish language version, and referring (on page 443) to events in the year 1327…
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“…A plague of general disease throughout all Ireland, which was called a Cold*: for the space of three days or four it continued on each person, so that he was nigh unto death.
*Cold – Namely the Influenza”
Quite plausibly a pandemic, given the primitive living conditions of 14th century Ireland. Cold and damp in winter (as today), sole source of indoor heating open peat fires (particulates!), limited diet and likely vitamin deficiencies. Life expectancy less than half what we’re blessed with now.
Which leads onto… Is a deadly respiratory virus “pandemic” plausible (or even possible) nowadays? 2025 is not 1327 (nor 1918). Improved living conditions – sanitation, piped water, mains electricity, domestic heating, double glazing, ample food supply, basic medicines – have made a “pandemic” virtually impossible?
Engineers, builders, plumbers, electricians, farmers and pharmacists are our saviours.
And in the developed world, all dependent on reliable, affordable and unbounded energy supply. Play fast and loose with that at our peril, climate fallacists, eco-zealots and net-zero fanatics.
Data collection should be a low cost by product of general administration. It seems the public sector cannot answer any question without a survey or desk estimates.
Financial, immigration, birth and death, illness, population are all mysteries to the government so ever less accurate estimates are made.
Data collection should be done with a clear focus and aim and the level of detail should be such that it is useful.
Else it is a waste of time and money
The reason for choosing this topic was the unscientific SARS-CoV2 shambles.
So I decided I wanted to be on the front foot and look at what was actually known about avian influenza in human cases…..
Understood. Suspecting we’re broadly on the same page as regards the shambles, but from different backgrounds (mine’s physical sciences applied to life sciences).
The events of five years ago a grotesque over-reaction – am increasingly inclining to Denis Rancourt’s iatrogenic hypothesis:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-denis-rancourt-there-was-no-pandemic-it-was-the-state-that-killed-granny/5876206:
“As a scientist, what I decided to do was to look at all-cause mortality data. Our nations collect very good data about the number of deaths. That is something you cannot be biased about.
My research group, we were the first to say, back in an article that was published in June 2020, that when we look at all-cause mortality data, there is no pandemic.
There was a peak of deaths at the beginning in certain hotspots that was directly due to how people were treated in hospitals and care homes.”
Did you review any details from Dr Peter McCullough from the Wellness Institute?
It seems the whole thing is another vaccine sell game and not a serious human risk issue.
i think your thesis would benefit from a summary of findings and recommendations.
I do see some of Peter McCullough’s and John Leake’s comments on human Avian Influenza. They are making some sweeping statements without nuance.
You are right, it is currently not a human disease and human to human transmission is not a problem. The virus would need to mutate and reassort a lot to become more transmissible and pathogenic in humans. And if the virus has these changes, it could very well be at the expense of reduced viral fitness.
Do you know the UKHSA has purchased 5 million doses of Avian Influenza vaccines? So for a disease that is non-existent in humans and actually for a strain (H5N8) which is currently not the strain that is circulating in birds (H5N1).
The dissertation is long, but if you just read the introduction and discussion it will give you a good insight in where we currently stand.
Forewarned is Forearmed!
“Trump’s Ukraine peace talks have echoes of Nazi appeasement”
The Establishment has been rejecting negotiation as “appeasement” since the start, and it’s led to the destruction of Ukraine as a nation, and the disarming and impoverishment of Europe.
It’s worn very thin as a mantra: Chamberlain’s “appeasement” policy was designed to prevent war starting. The goal now is to negotiate an end to a war that’s lasted too long.
The Ukraine whose borders were assured by Britain, the U.S. and Russia in 1994 was destroyed in 2014.
That was a parallel with the subjugation of Czechoslovakia in 1938.
This latest initiative is rather more reminiscent, in some ways, of 1939 and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.
Had Chamberlain stood firm at Munich in 1938, the Czech army would have given a decent account of itself, emboldening the Oster conspirators to make their move against the German dictator.
Had Europe reacted by recreating its conventional deterrent on continental Europe in 2014, as many of us urged at the time, it is unlikely that we would all be in this pickle.
Feeble minded vacillation is an expensive luxury in government, one that has been indulged in this country and in Europe for far too long.
We are now finding out just how expensive it really is…..and, if war breaks out, as it very well might……you know the rest……
There are some pretty massive flights of fantasy in your narrative about the start of WW2, notably about the performance of the Czech army and the overthrow of the German leadership.
‘In 1938, the 1,500,000-strong Czechoslovak Army was among the largest in Europe, and fairly well-equipped with modern weapons, including locally produced tanks and aircraft.’
‘Czech Army tanks were superior to the Panzer I and II, the first of which was only ever built as a training vehicle and the second as an interim solution: and those two tanks in 1 September 1939 comprised a whooping 78 percent of all German tanks in field units’
Oster and Beck’s chances of a successful coup are not relevant.
‘The coup plotters had sent emissaries to Paris and London and briefed the French and British about their plans before the Munich conference.
Chamberlain and Daladier may not have given them much chance of success, but that is entirely irrelevant.
If you have an enemy whose military is staging a coup in the very moment that enemy starts an invasion of one of your allies, this will be to your advantage whichever way it turns out.
If the coup succeeds, the invasion will be called off.
If the coup fails, there will be absolute chaos within the ranks of the invading military forces and a purge is going to happen, very significantly weakening your enemy.
So, the correct thing to have done was to take a very bullish stance at the Munich conference.’
The Establishment has been rejecting negotiation as “appeasement” since the start
Exactly so.
The mindset of those like Ben Wallace is what has been responsible for prolonging the Ukrainian conflict.
It could have been ended shortly after it began if it was not for the active participation of Western hawks.
Putin had clear aims, none of which involved any other part of Europe than those places which oppressed natural Russian speakers.
At the time Ukraine demonstrably treated the Russian speaking parts of Ukraine as second class and took brutal actions to suppress them.
The Baltic states were not at risk as Russian speakers were treated as equals. The last few years have changed that and the Russian language and those who use it have been progressively marginalised. Baltic leaders’ actions have now put those states at risk too. Trump, quite rightly in my opinion, has decided not to keep underwriting the European belligerance which is so clearly demonstrated by Wallace’s stance,
The mindset of those like Ben Wallace is what has been responsible for prolonging the Ukrainian conflict.
Very true.
It is not true. It is, in fact, complete nonsense.
‘It is important to understand the nature of the war unleashed by Vladimir Putin almost three years ago.
This is not a conventional war for land that can be resolved by offering limited territorial concessions.
Putin’s goals are far more ambitious. He is waging the current war in order to undermine the existing international security architecture and replace it with a new world order where a handful of great powers are able to dominate their neighbors.’
That is Putin’s mindset. He will not change it.
It is that mindset that is entirely responsible for the two invasions of Ukraine, the deaths of hundreds of thousands, the evidenced kidnapping of Ukrainian children for which he has been indicted, the torture and execution of Ukrainian prisoners, the displacement of millions, the assassination of political opponents, journalists, the murder of a British citizen on British soil by means of enough Novichok to kill thousands and so much else.
Anyone incapable of understanding the sheer mindless brain dead barbaric brutalism of this simpleton is either mad themselves or so grotesquely immoral as to be beneath contempt.
You clearly do not understand Putin and you are in absolutely in no position to tell us what is in his mind.
‘You might think he (Peter the Great) was fighting with Sweden, seizing their lands but he seized nothing; he reclaimed it…..It seems it has fallen to us, too, to reclaim and strengthen’
Putin 09 June 2022
Why must I repeatedly log in. This didn’t used to be required. Who changed what and can they please put it right.
Echoed.
Ian Rons (DS IT specialist) is aware of the problems and is working on them.
Yes he emailed me too. I’m writing my comment then find I can’t post it because the system’s logged me out. Happened loads now, but Ian said it should be good now, hopefully. Fingers crossed…
“The Munich attack is a parable for everything that’s wrong with European migration policy”
Motives were known long ago. For example:
“I am following the orders of Allah, killing non-Muslims is the highest form of prayer,” says Muslim vehicle jihadist who murdered 8 and injured many with his truck in NYC
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James Price of the Adam Smith Institute. Good grief, absolutely clueless.
“We also still need hydrocarbons from multiple sources to guard against geopolitical shocks. We were wise not to use Russian energy, a choice that means our economy isn’t as hopelessly floundering as, say, Germany’s. But we should be strategic and take energy from all over, spreading the benefits that brings. We could boost our allegiances in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, bolstering the fledgling democracy there. We could encourage Cyprus and the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus to work together to supply energy (potentially solving a chronic territory dispute along the way). And we should get more from our core allies in the US and Canada.”
Oh yes, that’s the idea. Let’s import energy.
We sit on 400 years of coal, we have gas for at least fifty, ditto oil and fracking reserves until god knows when but let’s import our energy and forget nuclear.
I despair. No wonder the country is in such a mess.
“Ghanaian wins right to stay in Britain after staging marriage she did not attend”
Well done to the Telegraph for keeping the public informed about all these outrageous decisions by Biased Political Activist Judges, which are a disgrace to their profession!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQfYDm-3STQ Latest report from Dr. Dhand re state action against mRNA products.