comment by thebluebellsarablue (U9292)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by The goat did it (U10408)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by The goat did it (U10408)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by bmcl1987 (U14177)
posted 11 minutes ago
comment by The goat did it (U10408)
posted 1 minute ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts

Let's go here too?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Many of those in the strategic interest of NATO?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
By that logic, Russia has every reason to be concerned about NATO and Ukraine.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Mate don't tie yourself up ok knots

NATO has never and would never invade Russia, it's a threat to it's imperialistic aims not the country itself
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Quite a weak argument. Look at our history for meddling.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Look at NATO borders before and after 1997.

Going leftfield, why did Ukraine not join NATO and EU before...were they blocked or missed the boat?

And Putin asked Clinton if Russia could join NATO in 2002, but was told no, you are too big and independent, apparently.

Putin is a rocket, and in last few days appears unhinged, as normally he is sly and cautious.

But we should not femonize All of Russia and Russians or skip into WW3 easily.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Demonize too

comment by IvanGolacIsMagic (U5291)
posted 19 hours, 16 minutes ago
Can't believe "threeesome" is a banned word by the way
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Blame Google. They had us purge the site of certain terms and beef up.the swear filter.

All time low of 87 roubles to the dollar for the Russian currency prompts talk of Russian Central Bank intervention using, quite literally, its warchest of $635 billion of forex reserves… central bank was put on US sanctions list this week.

https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1496775410750795778?s=21

comment by Admin1 (U1)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by IvanGolacIsMagic (U5291)
posted 19 hours, 16 minutes ago
Can't believe "threeesome" is a banned word by the way
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Blame Google. They had us purge the site of certain terms and beef up.the swear filter.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Is that why 5pud is banned but not derogatory terms like bin dipper?

Comment deleted by Site Moderator

Metadata on Putin's video declaring war on Ukraine suggests it was recorded no later than 7 pm on Monday.
He's also wearing the same clothes he did when he recorded an address on Monday recognising the independence of separatist statelets.
https://twitter.com/Nat_Vasilyeva/status/1496752364933451776?t=5C5gNTIqILr58PPkJBjtcg&s=19

comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Admin1 (U1)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by IvanGolacIsMagic (U5291)
posted 19 hours, 16 minutes ago
Can't believe "threeesome" is a banned word by the way
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Blame Google. They had us purge the site of certain terms and beef up.the swear filter.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Is that why 5pud is banned but not derogatory terms like bin dipper?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
No.

comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 4 minutes ago
Right now, the London Stock Exchange is trading shares in Rosneft and Gazprom, which directly finances Putin’s wars. There are powers to suspend these. There are powers to impose emergency punitive regulation on our offshore financial sectors. If not now, then when? 2/2
https://twitter.com/SnellArthur/status/1496773329792897024?t=8o5UKarlDkiS3ocFdLoAHQ&s=19
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Republican Mitch McConnell wants tougher sanctions and No nordstream2 Ever.

Sanctions will impact oligarchs to a degree, but Putin owns Gaspro and is so rich he does not care, nor do oligarchs who will remain rich....and sanctions threat did not prevent Putin moving troops

Do you back UK and USA troops in Ukraine fighting Russia, as that is what ex general Parry and military men day is needed now, not just diplomacy and economic sanctions?

comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 2 minutes ago
Metadata on Putin's video declaring war on Ukraine suggests it was recorded no later than 7 pm on Monday.
He's also wearing the same clothes he did when he recorded an address on Monday recognising the independence of separatist statelets.
https://twitter.com/Nat_Vasilyeva/status/1496752364933451776?t=5C5gNTIqILr58PPkJBjtcg&s=19
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Just to lighten the mood slightly, it would be mildly amusing if he’s also recorded a bunch of outcome videos too that they air depending on what happens.

UK and US troops will not be in Ukraine, the EU army will step up.

comment by The goat did it (U10408)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by thebluebellsarablue (U9292)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by thebluebellsarablue (U9292)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by The goat did it (U10408)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by The goat did it (U10408)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by bmcl1987 (U14177)
posted 11 minutes ago
comment by The goat did it (U10408)
posted 1 minute ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts

Let's go here too?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Many of those in the strategic interest of NATO?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
By that logic, Russia has every reason to be concerned about NATO and Ukraine.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Mate don't tie yourself up ok knots

NATO has never and would never invade Russia, it's a threat to it's imperialistic aims not the country itself
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Quite a weak argument. Look at our history for meddling.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Look at NATO borders before and after 1997.

Going leftfield, why did Ukraine not join NATO and EU before...were they blocked or missed the boat?

And Putin asked Clinton if Russia could join NATO in 2002, but was told no, you are too big and independent, apparently.

Putin is a rocket, and in last few days appears unhinged, as normally he is sly and cautious.

But we should not femonize All of Russia and Russians or skip into WW3 easily.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Demonize too
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Gorbachev asked to join too.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
If most of Warsaw pact are allowed into NATO, with Turkey lol, and possibly Ukraine, are the west wanting a reason to keep NATO in place, by going against Russia, given that Putin is a nutjob, but do the west always want a Russian enemy, before and after mad Vlad?

Just a thought

Am so leftie at times, it scares me 😉

comment by Admin1 (U1)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Admin1 (U1)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by IvanGolacIsMagic (U5291)
posted 19 hours, 16 minutes ago
Can't believe "threeesome" is a banned word by the way
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Blame Google. They had us purge the site of certain terms and beef up.the swear filter.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Is that why 5pud is banned but not derogatory terms like bin dipper?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
No.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Any chance of getting the latter banned please?

comment by bmcl1987 (U14177)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 2 minutes ago
Metadata on Putin's video declaring war on Ukraine suggests it was recorded no later than 7 pm on Monday.
He's also wearing the same clothes he did when he recorded an address on Monday recognising the independence of separatist statelets.
https://twitter.com/Nat_Vasilyeva/status/1496752364933451776?t=5C5gNTIqILr58PPkJBjtcg&s=19
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Just to lighten the mood slightly, it would be mildly amusing if he’s also recorded a bunch of outcome videos too that they air depending on what happens.
----------------------------------------------------------------------


https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1496710918750851076?t=nm3NE3aqxV16ZajdquRKvQ&s=19

Been debunked fairly quick anyway, Putin's just wearing the same clothes

State gas giant Gazprom has halved in value on Moscow stock exchange, just today…

Excellent

comment by Hector (U3606)
posted less than a minute ago
UK and US troops will not be in Ukraine, the EU army will step up.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
No Chomp chomp🤣🤣....led by Germany forces😉

Unless NATO forces are in Ukraine then the west surrenders to Russia, really?

And if they go in, WW3 potentially.

Quite the catch 22

comment by thebluebellsarablue (U9292)
posted 12 minutes ago
comment by And... Rosso... Though its... Yeah and... That... (U17054)
posted 18 minutes ago
I would add that many ardent left wingers - and I would actually argue the vast majority nowadays - on what would be described as the far left on here, are not interested in an authoritarian, state-controlled, planned-economy communist model.

The world has moved on in the last fifty years, and most on the far left in Europe, certainly, are only talking about ultra-democratic and socially liberal forms of market-based (but capitalist-free) socialism.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Fair assessment of post-communist Soviet era thinking.outside China and Russia, but would you label both as right wing, whatever that means today.

Antisemites are described as right wing and yet Israel is also described as right wing, so too Blair and Starmer to some, with Brexit labelled right wing, backed by Galloway and some left wing unions, and now Russia and China are described as being right wing, alongside UK and America, so the meaning has lost....meaning.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The truth is much more complex, because the world isn’t nearly that simple, but if forced to choose, modern Russia I think most people would recognise as a right wing state. Certainly socially.

China is more complicated again. It’s clearly socially very right wing, and although the economy has opened up a lot, it’s still mixed market with a bias towards state ownership, carefully centrally managed and things like investments and movement of capital are heavily controlled. Effectively, still largely state capitalist.

The fiscal system isn’t redistributive though; the top rate of income tax is the same as the UK, healthcare isn’t socialised (it’s actually primarily private and very costly), unemployment benefits are time-limited, there’s no statutory income support scheme, etc. There it actually looks quite a lot like most Western European countries, and much, much stingier, in fact, for those in the bottom third than, say, the Nordic model.

It’s quite a unique case, and as with Russia, the primary concern of government is absolute control of the general public’s behaviour and subservience.

.@TomTugendhat withering on @BBCr4today about @BorisJohnson Brexit boasts:
"One of the reasons I was given for leaving the European Union was that we could do independent sanctions. That's what I was told by the then Foreign Secretary in 2018. Well let's see them."

Lol

oil prices will be sky high....good for fuel additive companies, like the one i work for

war is actually good for business

i'm expecting a salary increase on the back of this

comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted less than a minute ago
comment by bmcl1987 (U14177)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 2 minutes ago
Metadata on Putin's video declaring war on Ukraine suggests it was recorded no later than 7 pm on Monday.
He's also wearing the same clothes he did when he recorded an address on Monday recognising the independence of separatist statelets.
https://twitter.com/Nat_Vasilyeva/status/1496752364933451776?t=5C5gNTIqILr58PPkJBjtcg&s=19
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Just to lighten the mood slightly, it would be mildly amusing if he’s also recorded a bunch of outcome videos too that they air depending on what happens.
----------------------------------------------------------------------


https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1496710918750851076?t=nm3NE3aqxV16ZajdquRKvQ&s=19

Been debunked fairly quick anyway, Putin's just wearing the same clothes
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Vlad looks better taps aff on a stallion😳

comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted 34 minutes ago
comment by Robbb Kanchelskis (U22716)
posted 9 hours, 41 minutes ago
comment by NPE - Puns are for Prats (U22712)
posted 2 minutes ago
'No one wants war. But"

^ This is already a very blase attitude towards war.

Couldn't even keep 2,500 troops in Afghanistan and now the Left on here want us to fight an actual war against Russia.

You lot bored from the pandemic or something
----------------------------------------------------------------------

‘The left’ 😂

Please don’t be so basic as to make this a left/right thing. For all your many flaws I thought you’d at least try and aim higher.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
It’s low to make things a left/right thing? Ipso facto you are low too as only a day earlier you said that you don’t have anything against ‘the right per se’.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

I really have anything against the right. But there are plenty of times on here when there will be a legit ‘left vs right’ debate to be had.

Regarding the Ukraine situation and how we all go forward I’d hope the ‘left vs right’ thing is binned as it’s in no one’s interest to be divisive when the real enemy is Putin.

comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 52 seconds ago
comment by Admin1 (U1)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Admin1 (U1)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by IvanGolacIsMagic (U5291)
posted 19 hours, 16 minutes ago
Can't believe "threeesome" is a banned word by the way
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Blame Google. They had us purge the site of certain terms and beef up.the swear filter.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Is that why 5pud is banned but not derogatory terms like bin dipper?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
No.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Any chance of getting the latter banned please?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
No. I've stopped adding stuff like that. Dog,1eash, loser pool etc are already in . But I'm done with adding more. Just avert your eyes

comment by thebluebellsarablue (U9292)
posted less than a minute ago
comment by Hector (U3606)
posted less than a minute ago
UK and US troops will not be in Ukraine, the EU army will step up.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
No Chomp chomp🤣🤣....led by Germany forces😉

Unless NATO forces are in Ukraine then the west surrenders to Russia, really?

And if they go in, WW3 potentially.

Quite the catch 22
----------------------------------------------------------------------
There are 30 nations in NATO.
It's one thing being anti war, most normal people are, it's another to be weak in the face of aggression.

*I really don’t

comment by peks - 1974 (U6618)
posted less than a minute ago
oil prices will be sky high....good for fuel additive companies, like the one i work for

war is actually good for business

i'm expecting a salary increase on the back of this
----------------------------------------------------------------------
98 dollars a barrel...loadsamoney🤣

Fek, this wall won't paint itself.

Later comrades 💪✊