War (what is it good for?)

[Joe_Fox]

Absolutely bugger all. Alas, it seems likely. Sad times.

 

[Orifice]

True Joe, true.

If you want peace you've got to fight.

 

[Joe_Fox]

Peacekeepers, from Russia with love, I'm sure.

 

[SilverFox]

What a sad world. Putin is insane.

 

[camberwell fox]

What a sad world. Putin is insane.

Literally, I believe. A dinosaur.

 

[jb5000]

Sadly, as with his hero Stalin, he’ll seems to have surrounded himself only with people that fear him, so there’s unlikely to be anyone able to do anything about him

 

[Brown Nose]

These darn wars wouldn't happen if we had more women in charge.

 

[FOX Franks]

These darn wars wouldn't happen if we had more women in charge.

What an incredibly unusual response to what is going on.

 

[TornadoShaunUK]

Bloke's a compulsive liar, an authoritarian and general pondscum. NATO is the problem. Russia's response to a country on their border wanting to join NATO is the same as America's stance to The Soviets stationing their missiles on Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis in the 60s. It's a non negotiable and western powers have known that for many years. The difference is that the US pursued a diplomatic resolution in the 60s, whereas Russia is quite happy to achieve a resolution through military means... the irony is, if he takes Ukraine, he will have NATO on his borders anyway. Basically we've poked him with a stick, and now he's flipped...

 

[Robin127]

Estonia and Latvia are both in NATO.

 

[Blue Maniac]

Estonia and Latvia are both in NATO.

And Lithuania and Norway

 

[Robin127]

I was thinking that Lithuania doesn't share a border with Russia but there is that small isolated piece between them, the Baltic and Poland.

 

[Blue Maniac]

I was thinking that Lithuania doesn't share a border with Russia but there is that small isolated piece between them, the Baltic and Poland.

Kaliningrad

 

[Blaarev]

And Lithuania and Norway

Norway was never a part of the Soviet Union though and we have been NATO members since the start. The Baltic nations being members of NATO are more of a thorn in the side to Russia.

 

[tedfoxxx]

Norway was never a part of the Soviet Union though and we have been NATO members since the start. The Baltic nations being members of NATO are more of a thorn in the side to Russia.

Latvia seems a likely one given location and the large number of ethnic Russians and Russian speakers.

It’s so depressing. Just can’t get my head around the fact that this is happening and the tone of the rhetoric coming from Russia is genuinely stomach churning.

And then of course we’ve got Trump calling Putin a genius…

 

[Payne74]

Newcastles new owners will probably have Gazprom as the new shirt sponsors next season, though I'm joking football is so morally corupt that it wouldn't surprise me any more if it actually happened

 

[Blue Maniac]

Newcastles new owners will probably have Gazprom as the new shirt sponsors next season, though I'm joking football is so morally corupt that it wouldn't surprise me any more if it actually happened

Doubt they’ll go out of their way to celebrate an enemy’s war crimes when they’ve been committing their own in Yemen for the past seven years while teaming up with all their besties: America, Al-Qaeda, Islamic State etc.

 

[Payne74]

Doubt they’ll go out of their way to celebrate an enemy’s war crimes when they’ve been committing their own in Yemen for the past seven years while teaming up with all their besties: America, Al-Qaeda, Islamic State etc.

Yeah I guess but the world is so ****ed up it just wouldn't surprise me any more

 

[Lako42]

Seen a lot of military aircraft going over this afternoon.

4 very high altitude bombers and some euro fighters in formation

 

[fox58]

Everton-linked Usmanov has assets frozen

Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, who has commercial ties to Everton, has his assets frozen by the European Union.

www.bbc.co.uk