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He is as nasty as they come, but he has called out the war in Ukraine as a farce. I can't see him getting very far in his attempt to 'take Moscow' but the point here is that the war has come to Russia, that Kremlin propaganda has been punctured and that Russia is now fighting on a front in it's own country. The Kremlin can't do their usual and raze cities to the ground, killing their own civillians in the process etc. Mind you, they still might. It's a really big headache for Putin and a major distraction. Also, Putin will be very fearfull if a significant proportion of people takes Wagners side. It's great.
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I think just about everyone who is not a Putin arse licker supported the fact that Ukraine got rid of it's Russian puppet president and allowed democracy to take place. Zelensky got in because the people elected him. Putin's puppet president got kicked out because he went against the will of the people who wanted to join the EU.
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The US would choose an ex childrens presenter and comedian to head up a 'puppet government'..... an obvious choice Merchant lost the plot, thats to say if he had one in the first place. He just buys into the Kremlin propaganda... best he goes live over there if he's so dissillusioned with the West, which he clearly is.
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Conservatives (and the electorate) have been poisoned by UkIP and Brexit. When moderate, the conservatives are not that bad. A mildy swing from left to right and back again is probably the best we can hope for and fairly pragmatic. The nutters who just want to get rid of 'the establishment' are simply looking to create a power vacuum so that their strong men dictator types have a chance to slip in.
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Funny considering that Russia has tried to plunder a whole country. The $300 billion will go some way to rebuilding Ukraine. As for the rest, Putin and his generals and oligarchs will have to sell his palaces and their plush mansions to pay. Looking forward to the Russian kleptocrats being nade poor.
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LOL - yes, I keep forgetting that remainers are to blame for the failures of Brexit In all seriousness tho, we are actually and practically stuffed. The die is cast. The latest news from the car parts industry just illustrates how useless Brexit has been. The boss of the unipart says that they are considering moving to the EU or the USA because they are providing subsidies and we are not. But that was one of the main points of Brexiting. Trade with the rest of the world? All amounts to the zero root of fck all. More optics with negligible benefits. Compared to all that has been lost in trade with the EU it's dire. Immigration? - don't even go there. Yes - Brexit has been a huge success....for our competitors. This thread is now pointless. Brexit has achieved what we all knew it would and that is to take GB back 40 years to poor man status (as confirmed by the Bank of England) - we are all poorer and we better accept it.
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Anyone can be part of this civilised world. All you have to do is be a good global citizen and assert your position through hard work and economic success. Russia perfers to do this through invasion, imperial expansion and killing it's neighbours. Not really the way to do this in the 21st century. My take is Russia is spent, soon to be brough to heel and a puppet of China. Hope you know your Mandarin
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The 'let trade links bind us and make us friends experiment' has failed. It was a strategy that the West employed with both profit and geopolitical stability in mind, especially after the collapse of the USSR. It just did not work. The old dictator mentality and adversities reared their ugly head and whatever money China and Russia made was recycled in part with their old mentality of imperialism in mind. I think that strategy is done now and what we will see moving forward is a gradual unravelling and decoupling. Only the sectors that don't pose a threat will be allowed to be outsourced to unfriendlies. China and Russia can expect no help in advancing them fron the West. They will have to rely on stealing IP which they did anyway, but that was in a more open environment. Now it will be much harder as 'they have been clocked'