the maoster:
The-Snowman:
Is anyone else praying for a nuclear war just to end this thread?I only klicked on it as I saw your name as the last poster so knew it’d more likely be a ■■■■ take and so worth reading!
I thought that was what this whole salisbury thing was really aimed at?
"The EU wants an excuse to invade East Ukraine, and needs Britain’s army to take part. But the EU cannot control Britain’s armed forces via NATO until Britain drops Brexit.
So… A concocted story to both weaken Britain’s desire to leave the cosy protection of NATO, move Britain closer to the “Remain” side of the arugment (“Remain, because a known gentle shafting is better than an unknown prosperity that could all go wrong, and put some rich people out of their gravy train jobs - boohoo!”)
Russia isn’t expected to retaliate to an EU invasion of Syria, Ukraine, and other places supposedly with Russian presence there already.
If Putin made peace with Erdogan’s Turkey as Russia’s response to Turkey shooting down of one of their aircraft - then Putin looks weak weak weak in the eyes of the EU and NATO.
A policy of “Grab what you can, whilst you can” is being pursued. “Aggressive EU expansion” by any other name.
If anything, we could do with the re-instatement of the cold war - simply to check the EU’s aggressive pursuance of WWIII.
I’m sure that once some special forces get duly wasted in coutries they shouldn’t even be in - the desire to escalate this potential armageddon further - will be halted by common sense and self-preservation instincts on all sides.
If you think about it, If the West can invade a sovererign state based on lies, kill Russians allied to that state there, and then moan when those same Russians apparently try to kill their own citizens in your Western state - then who’s really at fault, even if one takes every bit of “Intel” as good?
We’re being briefed this week to “Expect a Russian hacking attack”…
Really? Like WHAT exactly?
Hack the utilities? The NHS?
Nope. That’s just price conditioning, to cover any future balls-ups by our meccano computer systems, that should have been fully replaced decades ago. The TSB are having a spot of bother with their elastic bands and valves they have in their old COBOL-coded machines, after all…
For a “Russian Hack” to be effective - it would have to be a truly huge one. I’m talking the 9/11 of computer hacks here.
Banks are on alert, we’ve been told - in case money is stolen.
Well sorry bud - but I’ve got news for everyone. You don’t have to steal anyone’s money to deprive them of it!
You could just erase people’s bank accounts… People with no money (i.e. overdrawn balances) would be gaining, thus the Un-champaign socialists would be “Not bothered” with that (hearts and minds argument there…) whilst only truly rich people WOULD be spitting blood. But deprived of their big bucks - they can’t bribe people to follow them any more…
Perhaps it is the Celebrity/Sports/Banker classes that are about to get their collective arses kicked then - and the rest of us “Have nots”…? Do we really care? Are we going to really go to war with Russia over some millionaires being sent to the poor house■■?
(Got my Leftie hat on today - haven’t I?) 