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It’s hardly a robust agreement and you are right about Trump. No other US President has been so much in the pocket of the Commies or have bailed on NATO. Some achievement for the man who is supposed to be the protector of The Free World.

When this started the position was that Putin cannot be allowed to win. Not just for Ukraine’s sake, but for the rest of Europe. If Trump does bail on Ukraine, the rest of us need to step up. Putin is banking on NATO being to scared to front him up. It needs to show that it isn’t.

But with proper and sustained support they could make it so difficult for Putin that he would need to back off. Trump is putting zero pressure on Putin to retreat or give up invaded land. You seem to forget that Russia are losing thousands in the meat grinder too. If Trump stood squarely behind Ukraine things would be very different. Once Trump had humiliated Zelensky in the WH it was pretty obvious which side Trump is on.

From what Zelensky is saying if they don’t agree to the deal Trump will walk away. He can stick the Nobel prize up his fundament if he hangs Ukraine out to dry.

When presenters on TV say, “It’s goodbye from xxxx and it’s goodbye from me. Goodbye.” You have already said goodbye so why say it again? 😖

Further embarrassment for Farage and Reform. https://www.ft.com/content/99598829-e739-4661-9381-c8d82fa31e8e

A laughing emoji is not answering a question nic. For someone who kicks off about people not answering your questions you have a poor record yourself. I’ll say it for the last time, if you want me to answer a question that you say I haven’t answered just tell me what it is. That shouldn’t be too hard for you should it? Safer or less safe? I feel like I have woken up on the film set of Marathon Man being grilled by Dr. Christian Szell.

I’ll say this one more time. I do not read all of your posts and I have answered the questions of the posts I have read, as far as I can recall. I have no idea what you are talking about when you say safer or less safe. It isn’t difficult. Ask me the proper, full question again and I shall answer it. Stop playing silly games.

This idea that SR influence who plays is a bit odd. Still dropped Stephens and Baz but Eckert brought them back. It seems to me that the coaches are making these decisions which is not unreasonable given their job depends on getting these things right.

He has a problem because he thinks that Mamdani is a “communist” yet he has been sucking up to Xi who is….. you guessed it, Communist. Great guy, great guy.

You wouldn’t like it Whelk. The conversation would be far too woke for your taste. 😉

Not surprising in the least, but pretty damning. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/20/too-little-too-late-damning-report-condemns-uk-covid-response

We are where we are. I don’t think anybody imagined that the USA would become Russia’s bitch but until Trump either gets what’s coming to him or croaks we have to rely on the rest of NATO, just like everyone else. And I know that you don’t agree, but we should be more worried about the effects on the country caused by global warming in the next few years than being invaded by Russia.

I think his is somewhere in the middle to cover all bases.

What is al of this free stuff you are talking about? You sound more like a Farage shill everyday. It has nothing to do with “illegal immigrants” and net zero. You may not have noticed but things have changed a lot since the good old days of the Empire.

I don’t disagree. But blaming welfare and Net Zero is a stretch. Would you pay higher taxes for the military? People don’t even want to pay higher taxes for the NHS and public services apparently.

For someone desperate for me to answer his questions, you don’t seem in a rush to tell me which questions I haven’t answered.

Impressive leap to blame it all on welfare and Net Zero. Where were you for the last 14 years of Tory austerity where they were cutting everything, including the armed forces, back to the bone? Do you think too that Brexit has made us any better off either financially or security wise?

To be fair to WS, he did take the responsibility for the results. But as said earlier, it wasn’t him misses the many chances up top or cocking things up at the back. Although there are some weak areas, this squad is plenty good enough to be pushing for the play offs at the moment. If Eckert gets results in the next 3 matches it will not be unreasonable to ask why Still was unable to do the same with the same squad.

On the plus side he is multi-lingual (well, he has perfect Dutch anyway).

They were probably expecting Trump to man up at some point, given that the US are the only nation that could force the issue. They still hold the cards, as Trump would put it, and if the US pulls the plug on support for Ukraine, what can NATO do without the possibility of starting WW3? Putin only understands brute force and he knows that we (Europeans) are shit scared of escalation. That is why we can’t let this happen. He will only come back for more and he knows that he has Trump on his pocket.

That’s probably the kindest thing you have said to me Whelk. 😘

Spot on. The only “ambitious” name that has been mentioned, as far as I can see, has been Rodgers, and why would a manager of his calibre look outside of the Prem?

Why do you think Poland are worried, as are various other members of the former USSR? Estonia? Latvia? Lithuania? Moldova? Putin didn’t stop at the Crimea. What means you will think he will stop after this?

Really? It leaves Ukraine totally exposed to future Russian aggression and rewards them for their initial invasions into sovereign territory. It also gives Putin the green light for future action elsewhere. Do you think that European leaders would be happy with this deal?