Quote Originally Posted by AfricanBluebird View Post
indeed.

My thoughts, for what they are worth (not much I know).

  • Russia, under Putin, have always been bad actors on the global stage.
  • Our government literally did NOTHING of note while the Russian state killed people on our own soil.
  • Russian money have long since been funnelled into our politics and especially (over the last 20 years) to the Tory party.
  • We have allowed Russian money, from oligarchs, to swish around London - politics, businesses, housing, retail etc
  • The UK government buried the Russian report, redacted some of it and paid lip service to the version which was available
  • Biden is a weak leader and Blinken is no John Kerry!


Of course Putin wants to expand the Russian empire... it's a major goal of his... BREXIT, Trump and the Tories have all been pawns in their long term plan to destabilise NATO and the EU to create conditions for Russian incursions. Interestingly Putin waited until Angela Merkel retired before this, because she was probably the strongest and most diplomatically astute leader in Europe/World.

So it is hardly surprising that our response to Russian has been wishy washy.

The western media and response have been really poor in reporting. Putin was never going to launch an attack directly on Kiev... but through separatist territories.
So all in all we should have just had you in charge for the last 20 years then none of these things would have happened.
now you tell us............... too late of course.
If you knew so much why didn't you do something before now?