Rather different this time though, no threat of Germany attacking Russia, or even the other way round.
that would be a good thing.
Whilst Russia simply wants to invade Ukraine.
there is no good reason for Russia to start a war that they cannot ultimately win. All they can do is a small limited war limited to the Russian speaking border area. What is the point of invading territory that you can't keep? It's not as if they could with 100,000 troops run their tanks all the way to Kiev. The Russian people don't want a war, the Ukrainians don't want a war, only the Americans want to talk up a possible war. The only winners are China which would buy as much Russian gaz as they can lay their hand on and those who would replace Russia to supply oil and gas to Western Europe.
Don't think anyone actually wants a war but Putin does want more influence over surrounding area... And Germany doesn't want to lose the new gas pipe line...Personally think Germany should be taking harder stance, sending helmets is hardly a help as Ukrainian boxer Klitchko is telling us.
Integrity really. But I gather the conservative party doesn't have anyone with integrity (to stand against boris). Quelle surprise. so he'll survive and we're facing the fraught post pandemic World with a guy at the helm of the torytannic with a very fragile hold on the truth and reality.
And with a broken Labour party. What could go wrong..
consider the evolution of geopolitics since the Yalta conference.
No, but they definitely want a cold war, seriously missing the last one.
Indeed, Ukraine is on the Russian Steppes and was always part of Russia until splitting away as a one country in 1917. So at just over a hundred years old Ukraine has no unique history or culture, it's almost entirely Russian going back a thousand years.
Perhaps Ukraine should annexe Russia then..???
it's not our decision, nor the USA's. We object to a possible invasion and regime change on point of principles in Ukraine and yet, we participated in exactly similar invasion and regime change in Iraq and Afghanistan ourselves.
2 wrongs Woosh.
Not so at all, the USA still sees Russia as a potential communist threat. The Russian Communist party has adopted the Chinese model of democratic communism and Putin regrets the death of the old order.
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You are arguing against yourself by quoting Vince Cable who believes China is both.Is China a capitalist or communist country?
This article describes the ways in which China is both capitalist and communist as well as the economic challenges it faces.
Arguing semantics again flecc. Being Capitalist is rather like pregnancy.. You can't be a bit of either. Capitalism has lifted millions out of poverty in China.
Tell Abromovich at Chelsea he is a communist. I, m afraid communism and excesses of capitalism are mutually exclusive in reality. Yes, we can argue Communism is still part of both regimes, but only in its controlling the masses. The principles of one stop the other in its tracks. Both ways.
Yes, I am just. I wasn't talking about USA, simple fact is the elements of communism that frightened many have gone.(Yes, JFK was worried about ICBMs on Cuba but that wasn't the source of the witch hunt)
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You quoted my reply but didn't appear to have read it.Yes, I am just. I wasn't talking about USA, simple fact is the elements of communism that frightened many have gone.(Yes, JFK was worried about ICBMs on Cuba but that wasn't the source of the witch hunt)
Putin and XI are as Capitalist as Boris and Biden.
Communists by name only exist now. Except perhaps in Cuba.
On my early visit to Bulgaria the taxi driver at bottom of particularly steep hill would remove occupants, tell them to walk up the hill, and pick them back up at top in his Moskvitch running on LPG. This was a common practice. Go now and taxi will be a Skoda Superb and driver charging "his" rates. How on earth is any of that now communism. No fixed prices, no communes, no fixed wages, free market. Its quite silly to call that communism. It isn't. No matter what Vince Cable or Putin or XI tell you. It's capitalism. The 2 do not mix. They can't
Perhaps you could explain the elements of communism either regimes have maintained?
All the fundamental practical ones producing a communist society have gone.
Perhaps you are mixing dictatorship and communism. Agreed they are both still bordering on dictatorships. But Capitalist ones.
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Russia is as far removed from communist/Marxist ideals as we now are. Probably further.
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Obviously its not my money she was spending, and I don't know ,nor care about the mission she was on to OZ , but taking fast secure transport for official State business , even if it is expensive, is one of the actions I do approve of. Of course its one set of rules for the Proles and another for their Rulers .. and it should be so. That is why one selects Leaders ..so they can make fast executive decisions if and when needed, and not be looking over their shoulder at penny pinching hurlers on the ditch. But like I said , it matters what the visit was about.
