Monkeys Fist 42459 Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 20 minutes ago, ohhh_yeah said: Erdogan saying he will not vote for Sweden or Finland to join NATO under any circumstances. Aye, he should be next on the “list”. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44901 Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 Has anyone had a worse 2022 than Vladimir Putin. Biggest cunt on the planet. I just hope the rumours about him having blood cancer are true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 42459 Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 On top of his Parkinson’s? What a shame. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14011 Posted May 26, 2022 Share Posted May 26, 2022 another normal day in Russian news. No malice. Only facts. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 42459 Posted May 26, 2022 Share Posted May 26, 2022 The Mrs. must’ve been starving last night 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinRobin 11282 Posted May 27, 2022 Share Posted May 27, 2022 Only explanation! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isegrim 9780 Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blastronaut 1333 Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 On 26/05/2022 at 12:41, Tom said: another normal day in Russian news. No malice. Only facts. Probabaly hinges on a slight mistranslation of some study that claimed "British Vodka connoisseurs would rather kill and eat their own families than have to settle for Glens or anything bottled by Diageo". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohhh_yeah 2967 Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RobinRobin 11282 Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 Regards himself as the new Peter the Great. Nothing irrational or mad about that at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohhh_yeah 2967 Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Gemmill 44901 Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 27 minutes ago, ohhh_yeah said: That's mint. And Peacemaker is good stuff as well. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14011 Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinRobin 11282 Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 We can only hope 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 30620 Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 He’s right. Just not for the reasons he thinks. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 21627 Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 "Illiterate, worthless creature". Say what you like about the ruskies, but they're canny astute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Rayvin 5223 Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 Zizek has weighed in on this and I agree with almost every word. Huge as far as the left goes because he's someone the far left very much respect. His pragmatism and ability to see reality is incredible (IMO). https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/21/pacificsm-is-the-wrong-response-to-the-war-in-ukraine?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44901 Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 I'm not about to be preached to about war in Europe by an ex-footballer. Don't care how many World Cups he won. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoobos 298 Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 3 hours ago, Rayvin said: Zizek has weighed in on this and I agree with almost every word. Huge as far as the left goes because he's someone the far left very much respect. His pragmatism and ability to see reality is incredible (IMO). https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/21/pacificsm-is-the-wrong-response-to-the-war-in-ukraine?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other I struggle with anyone who says that NATO should attack. That would be suicide and a horrible strategical mistake. More war is never the answer to end war imo. It should be done once a point of no return has happened. For me, from a NATO or EU perspective that is when an EU or NATO member state gets attacked. If we mobile defenses now, as it appears we are, then good. But to go into Ukraine now will simply open the flood gates to a full scale war that can only escalate as both international powers go head to head, diplomacy is lost. I think that diplomatically, Ukraine has done a damn good job this week, by pointing to the none EU / none NATO member states to take action - Russia has made allies of countries that can put shipping through the black sea for food exports - he will end up starving the people he's only recently won over. This is horrible of course, but baying for us to get directly involved is self flagellation. And I know its been said before, but you don't see us doing this for any other country that is invaded by its neighbours, unless its a resource or ideological war. If food shortages really do happen at the scale that is predicted then, unfortunately, I do worry that the resource war will begin. Neither Boris Johnson, Biden (or trump before anyone thinks it) are the right leaders to start weighing in now - it will be like throwing all of the worlds petrol on a match and no one will win. Putin is doing a very good job of ruining his own military capability and whilst its totally tragic that civilian lives are being lost, they are everywhere, in the name of many things and that's no reason to turn 100,000's into millions , make no mistake if NATO light the touchpaper so far out of its territory it will cost millions of lives and fuck us environmentally. The world is going to hell in a handbasket - Global powers realising that power plays don't work anymore , might just help shift things a little. Not fact, obviously, but opinion - but I like to think it's slightly educated opinion having been a serving infantry solider (crap hat) and also graduate of History / Totalitarian Regimes , who is worried by the repetition of the mistakes of the Treaty of Versailles and thinking that "it's 1 madman" vs the world, as soon as it escalates, their allies come out of the shadows all over the damn place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 5223 Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 Did you read the article? Zizek is a world renowned political theorist so he does have something of value to say on this. He's not just a random guardian journalist. He covers environmental catastrophe if we don't act, the splitting and isolation of Europe between two competing global powers etc. It's not just "let's go to war". It's what happens if we don't. I strongly recommend considering the points raised if you didn't read it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isegrim 9780 Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 3 hours ago, Gemmill said: I'm not about to be preached to about war in Europe by an ex-footballer. Don't care how many World Cups he won. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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