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Maybe Trump's imposition of trade tariffs and talk of reducing US commitment to NATO, as demonstrated by his reduction in troop numbers stationed here, led European countries to think of looking for security elsewhere, including closer economic ties with Russia.

It is comparatively easy for the UK to remove Russian energy supplies from it's services. It is also easy for us, on our anti-Eu Brexit island, to criticise European countries that are far more heavily dependent on those same Russian fuels. Where is the evidence that the UK is providing assistance to countries such as Germany to help them wean themselves off the Russian gas and oil, or should we simply continue to sit back and criticise ?

The problem is that almost all EU members are also members of NATO and any more overt military assistance would be claimed as evidence of NATO aggression by Putin.

Maiden

From the videos posted on Reddit I reckon one of the most useful things we could send to Ukraine is more John Deere tractors to help with recovering abandoned Russian kit.

There should be a process whereby the full Council of the UN can convene and over rule a Security Council veto with a given majority, say 80% of member countries.

The UN can, and do, act. Just not when one of the 5 permanent members of the Security Council is involved.

The Czechs are sending T-72s and BMP-1s to Ukraine, Sweden is intending to send a number of their BMP-1 clones, and Germany is to approve the export, via a private dealer, of former East German BMPs.

TBF, they would still be stuck in Poland waiting for visas.

Shows how easy it is to control public opinion when you have total control of the media it all it's forms.

With Russia it isn't just running down of inventory, it's the servicability and reliability of what they have.

A film where Elena Eleniak comes out of a cake topless. ( And Steven Segal plays a US Navy cook ).

Have you never seen Under Siege ?

The only thing Alexei is sure about is that nobody ought to stand up to Putin.

Putin can do what the fuck he wants as long as you don't have to pay 5p/litre more at the pumps.

Hazelnut 🙂 🙂 🙂

Yes, unless you don't want to be occupied or dominated by Russia.

Hell no !!! Give the Little Red Hitler everything he wants, and allow him to go wherever he wants to overrun and sequester all of Greater Russia without any form of opposition. Appeasement is the easy, cheaper, and least painful option every time.

Would it not have made better economic sense for Western Europe to lean on Zelensky during Russia's "exercises" and persuade him to give Putin everything he wanted without resistance ?

So why have we bothered with weapons shipments to protract the war, and sanctions against Russia ? Why did we interfere at all ?

So we stop it now and leave Putin with everything he wanted and no punishment ? That will stop him trying it elsewhere.

They have probably been living together for 6 years.

We are very much a streaky team ; 8 or 9 games unbeaten, 5 or 6 defeats on the trot. Either way, it's consistency of a sort.

When will somebody start a Straight Rights campaign ? If a bloke wants to find somebody to settle down with and have children ( by the natural biological process ), is he exhibiting bigotry or normal evolutionary selective behaviour ? Has a similar survey been carried out to find out what proportion of straight women would prefer not to date trans "men" ? Surely there ought to be a dating site where trans "women" can meet and date trans "men".