I have yet to see a video of Putin threatening a nuclear attack. I have seen one of his latest weaponry being tested. Is there any possibility that this “threat of Putin’s” is yet another bit of mickey mouse news? China must be pretty ■■■■■■ off with the West always banging on about what amounts to “don’t like your political system there”, which of course, - is none of the west’s business. The Chinese invented Banking, and the Russians invented the AK47… And Novichok. 
I don’t think there is really that large a threat of Nuclear War, since we all know we’re ALL dead if it happens. Perhaps the EU are attempting in their death throes - to “call Putin’s Bluff”, either on his willingness to go to war if attacked first by the West, or to test out his “Dead Man’s Switch” so often spoken of. Putin looked weak when moving closer rather than further from Turkey after one of Russia’s own planes was shot down by Erdogan’s Turkey. Now, we’re told he’s getting even closer still to Erdogan’s Turkey. How would the West feel, if he later turned on Erdogan, and backstabbed him off the planet for good? Would we care in the West? Plenty would be said of Putin’s “Bad Faith”, but he’s already way past that point, with the world told to believe any old tripe that they might want to make up about him - for what exactly? - Just disagee with the current Russian political system as we do in China, but without the world’s largest armed forces to do much outside their own country? China could conquer the Earth easily. But choose to stay at home. Russia could hit any part of the world with an excess of missiles… But choose to reach out, and form trading relations with their energy products, in particular Natural Gas. The west don’t mind pulling the rug on Putin’s overtures though, so I must assume that they think he’s in a continuing position of weakness, perhaps from the effects of past sanctions. Well, I for one - don’t believe that Putin’s Russia is anywhere near as hard-up as we’re led to believe right now. Plenty of money to build these fancy new supersonic nuclear missiles, that make “Rocket Man’s Toys” look like - just that. Toys. Trump has fallen to the deep state, hence why he’s no longer going to prove effective at getting much if any of his key policies done. Protectionism? - Interest rates will rise sharply in the US, as China starts to wean itself off lending cheap money to the States. That would actually suit the monied, as they want a better return on their cashpots after all. Businesses and private citizens wishing to borrow though? - Well that’s going to be a bit harder in future, but not like the 1930’s, more like the 1980’s model for the US economy,looking on.
I don’t think any part of Salisbury has been aimed at “Playing Trump” though. If Trump were a lot more friendly with May, I might have thought different, but my guess right now is that anything happening to May’s Britain in Trump’s eyes, should just hasten her departure, rather than Britain’s departure from the EU, or indeed Britain’s departure from the planet - if things really get ugly before long.
Hoey would have to rise, and Starmer would have to fall - before Brexit voters that currently don’t vote Labour - would start to re-consider. Boris, isn’t an expert at getting things done, just making noises about things that really, are not his remit. When they ARE his area of influence - he’s not much good at getting things done either… He hasn’t achieved much in Iran - for starters! They’ve asked for an honouring of an old debt, which would work out at costing Britain a 9-figure sum to get one single woman released… Boris, has walked away and accepted this “price too far” as “No” for an answer then. It’s Trump that wanted to sour relations with Iran, possibly leading to a War - not any of the NATO leaders. War with Iran ain’t gonna happen any more than WWIII is.
Getting out of the EU is all about re-setting our trade routes about the world. We managed to do that from time to time during the Empire years, when “Gunboat Diplomacy” had failed. Life goes on though, and the biggest set of “committments” seems to be that the UK MUST follow EU laws, even if those laws say “Shaft your own citizens forever, and let as many terrorists into your country as we tell you to”. A major part of voting Leave was “Breaking away from EU laws” rather than “Immigration” or “Jobs”. We MUST break EU laws to Leave, because it’s simply not allowed otherwise. Our civil servants, used to years of over-pay for sitting at desks letting the trade economy run itself - STILL won’t get off their Gold-Plated Pensioned arses and do what needs to be done - re-set each and every trade route that Britain has. If the EU won’t buy our stuff any more, there’s plenty of other countries that will. If the EU won’t lend us credit any more, would more reliance upon the Far East do as any more harm than it already has? The Chinese have kept interest rates as low as they are for as long as they’ve been down here. They totally own the global banking system at this time, like it or not.
The “Costs of Leaving” - PROPERLY will be minus whatever we pay to Brussels now. Stop those payments, and we’re better off straight away by that amount, just as you’re better off if your brother who’s just won the lottery - pays your mortgage for you from now on… Take away a minus - and you get a plus. We don’t need to find “New Markets”, - just mobilize the transport industry, in particular the merchant shipping routes - to take our stuff the EU will not buy out of spite - to faraway places where they’ve already expressed an interest, no drop in price needed, nor arguments about quality, tariffs, etc. As for what we buy - the moment Brexit is completed, the Pound climbs at least back to where it was when we fell into this “uncertainty transition period” that we’ve been stuck in for the past 22 months.
Brexit “not being done” favours Labour, because if it’s actually complete - then the Tories will kill Labour at the polls, the positive uplift from a completed Brexit, being rather quick to show on the balance sheet. How about the last budget before the next general election being “Income tax cut to 15% across the board, no higher rate at all” or “180 New full-sized casualty hospitals built, funded, and fully staffed with new money massively beyond what we could ever borrow in the past - courtesy of what we’re not paying to Brussels any more”.. The Prize, like a big plum cherry - is there for the picking. And all our main party leaders do right now, is pick their noses instead.
I was fooled by Boris, because I figured he wanted to be PM one day more than he was prepared to continue banging the drum for Europhiles any more. I voted Tory at the last election, because I feared Corbyn’s front bench then and now. Corbyn is just a figurehead, but with Momentum, McCluskey, McDonnell, Khaaan, Starmer, Abbot, and for all I care - Costello too - still about, I’ve already allowed myself to be “polarized” at the last election. That won’t happen at the next one. I believe this long period upto the next election will allow for brand new indepdendent candidates to start making their presences felt on the political stage. Constituency candidates looking to become MPs to serve their local public first and foremost, leaving Westminster out of the equation for a while.
NO politician has taken the “Gandhi-like” option of telling the public to engage on a campaign of “Civil Disobedience” though. That, for the time being - seems like an “ask too far”. Telling Gamblers that they should default their credit cards for example, rather than kill themselves over the shame of “being in debt, and not being able to pay it back”. Imagine the power one could harness - if you turned such downtrodden members of the public to your cause? - It would be like a new-age religion almost… “Default Macht Frei” if you will.
Efforts to get Billionaire Business Leaders to live up to their financial obligations to their own staff, like full pension payouts - have now been deflected into this “Anti Semitic” row of course.
If the only way to break free of the cycle of Centerist, flaccid, political rule pretending to be both Conservative and Socialist at the same time - is war, (as a cull, rather than political solution) - then guess what? History tells us that “War is a continuation of Diplomacy and Politics by other means”. In this war though, it’s the best skill sets multiplied by the most people that wins - not the wealthiest nations, nor highest standards of living in those nations.
That means the West, has actually lost WWIII before it even starts of course.
Not being negative, just a realist. WE cannot afford to have WIII - because we’d all be dead to the last. We’d go out like fabled Atlantis - “The world won’t even remember that we once existed”. The East? - There’s so many of them, spread so far about, that even a global nuclear holocaust could not hope to wipe them all out, even if Technology went back a thousand years in the aftermath…
