” of grain stores being zapped less than half a mile from the wrong side of the NATO border.”
But I thought nobody had a right to worry about what was happening on he border right across from them?
BTW. I would like to understand the pathological British hate for Russia. It has nothing to do with the USSR because they have been hostile to them since the 1850s. It isn’t over freedom because Brits have no more measurable freedom than a modern Russian. The hate has spanned across monarchy, communism, and modern freedom. It has spanned across the British Empire great game days, to today where Brits are nothing but a financialization center that has no empire or industry.
Brits have an odd hatred for Russia that seems unaffected by governments, or circumstances.
Post Modernism is at work here my friend. The only reality is what the group thinks. You must respect the group’s beliefs and your thoughts and beliefs aren’t valid unless they agree with the group.
Since white folks and Christians are evil and the US is thought of as White and Christian, we are always wrong. Post Modernism 101 or Socialism 101.
No pathological hatred for Russia that I know of. This is either American ignorance at play or Russian vranyo.
For twenty years Europe and the UK was bending over backwards AND forwards to keep Moscow happy - seat on the European Council despite failing on the qualifications, Eurovision, Euro soccer clubs, leagues and competitions; oligarch schmoozing (Peter Mandelson, Abramovitch, football clubs, Derepaska’s yacht, muted reaction to the Salisbury incident...)
Go on, tell me the USA wouldn’t have at least threatened a declaration of war if any other terrorist state had dosed an American town with a lethal nerve agent.
Fifteen years of using fuel blackmail, cyber warfare on our healthcare systems, and nuclear smack talk went totally unpunished unless you count President Trump joking about putting American subs on the doorstep of Russia.
With Russia invading Ukraine and now threatening European and American capitols with nukes every five minutes, Putin has crossed a line.
Difference between the UK and Russia is we don’t toss ourselves off constantly over 120 year old maps. Our empire has gone, and we’re nowhere near arguing that it needs to be reinstated.
I’ve got hundreds of Russian colleagues as well as Ukrainian ones, been dragged into some utterly stupid empire restoration culture war that Putin has been fighting in his own diseased head ever since the Berlin Wall fell and he got a hard on reading Dugin books on the lavatory.
I’m just as gutted about the brilliant engineers Putin’s retarded ambition has sent to get blown up in Ukraine as I’m gutted by my Ukrainian colleagues getting mobilised.
None of it was necessary.
I wish nothing but goodwill to the eleven time zone Russia. But Putin, Dugin, Zhirinovsky, Kadyrov, Medvedev and the oligarchs... they’re all totally rotten to the core, and they’re converts to a suicide cult that is far more likely to destroy the world than Isis ever was.
Mad, bad and dangerous.
The sooner Russia wakes up to that, and ITSELF puts those lunatics permanently out of commission, the better.