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Well, in an ideal world…. But this wouldn’t resolve the issue (on the assumption that sanctions would be eased on Russia). Russia and the West are on ...

If one views the world from a far left position, rather like the far right. All you see is failure, or things getting worse. While what you would want...

Describe an alternative then.

Ahh, we’ll excuse me for sticking with US/EU hegemony then. The veiled point I’m making is that this is probably as good as it gets. If the US is neut...

Streetlight is a far left, it can be a burden if taken to far.

A bill has recently been passed in U.K. enabling any protest to be disbanded and deemed illegal if someone complains that it is to noisy. This provide...

You are being obtuse, you remember what I was asking don’t you. What is the alternative? ( to US/EU hegemony). That is the question I was asking. Well...

I’m not wholly averse to something along those lines. But what would it look like?

As I said, I would have neutered Putin 20yrs ago. I don’t like this situation, but is there a better alternative?

And your alternative to this? I won’t hold my breath.

Yes it’s amazing. Although I wouldn’t have started here. I would have neutered Putin 20yrs ago. You ought to be aware that some people do consider all...

The problem is that this was always going to come to a head. If Putin had successfully assimilated Ukraine without military involvement. He would feel...

I would think it is the explicit attack on the Kiev, with the rhetoric that Ukraine should not exist, which is different. Following the annexation of ...

I wouldn’t trust a populist like Johnson as far as I can throw him. Also he has been actively hostile to the EU and many of his backers including in h...

I’m not getting into the likelihood, or not of such scenarios, there is so much we don’t know and so much unpredictability. My point was that if Putin...

It needed a jolt to wake them up. Re’ Germany’s dependency on Russian gas.

Trump spoke of leaving NATO, Johnson has become disingenuous about the EU and Putin sees the EU as a threat. The EU can’t rely on the US/U.K. axis any...

As I was saying the biggest story emerging out of this crisis is Germany and therefore the EU waking up to the necessity to provide their own security...

Excellent article on how Johnson’s move in the last chance saloon could mark the end of his premiership and the failure of the Brexit project. https:/...

The Putin apologists are proving unhinged.

There is no prospect of World War III, Russia’s army is in chaos, ill equipped and poorly trained. Largely a spent force. There is no sign of powerful...

Just what I was thinking.

I don’t know exactly what you were arguing as I haven’t followed that line of reasoning. My comment was about the use of imperfections in western coun...

That Johnson isn’t micro managing events in the U.K. as party of his propaganda initiative. And that Putin isn’t short of propaganda ammunition.

It’s irrelevant because it’s the result of an internal social and political failure within a failing U.K. Any international affairs don’t shape it. It...

This is irrelevant to the political discussion. It is well documented how sick the U.K. economy and work practices are. The government’s position is t...

I’m referring to capitalism as a monetary system (capitalism in principle) rather than “capitalism” the political system of the West. I’m talking abou...

So you are describing an oligarch feudalism? This, or anything like it would soon collapse any large scale political organisation, erode that wealth a...

like the way that some European countries have provided revenue for Russia by buying gas and oil. The West has provided revenue for China by buying th...

I’m surprised to hear this here. It’s back to front, upside down from the reality. In reality “Putin’s duty to fight for the honour of his country”, i...

Yes, but with the effects of our modern civilisation it’s the rate of change which is different and destabilising. We may see some extreme weather eve...

It would be chaos. The climate we’re used to had stabilised over millennia. Now it’s becoming less stable again fast. A nuclear winter would make no d...

I’m not receiving any which are not beneficial to my cause, on this issue. Although, I am largely causeless, ambivalent, in relation to the Ukraine cr...

I was already writing this before I saw your last post, I will include a link at the bottom. I’m not saying this is actually happening. But there are ...

There are already reports of Russian troops digging up recently buried Ukrainians and incinerating them with mobile incinerators in Mariupol. If they ...

Use your researching prowess.

You asserted that a narrative accepting of the inevitability of an iron curtain emerging from this crisis was likely to cause an escalation in the con...

Enlighten me. I really can’t see a way back from my conclusion (short of total regime change in Russia). By your lack of a description of a settlement...

I trust my own assessment, that’s it. Do you have an unbiased source that you trust? I’m not going to quote you, or get into misunderstandings. My poi...

Yes, so one makes an assessment. It’s unlikely to be false if it’s also being reported on multiple global news outlets, for example. So your descripti...

That’s a simplification, there is real information in such a bulletin. Even the biased narrative is in itself and contains information. The very fact ...

Perhaps the removal of Putin would improve the situation. But I think the whole regime would need to be changed, or another Putin clone might emerge w...

It’s not necessary to trust a media resource in order to derive information from it. Better to take a broad take of many sources to arrive at a sense ...

We’re in the 21st century. There are multiple media resources. So, without that iron curtain. After the conflict has been resolved. Will every Russian...

We’re all laymen here, or hadn’t you noticed. I’m making a substantive point, which you haven’t countered. That a new iron curtain is descending acros...

“seems” is based on what is coming through on the various media sources. The poor state of the Russian army is self evident. I was listening to a Russ...

Russia is not an economic superpower. And now it seems their so-called superpower army is a shambles. And your opinion as to the most likely outcome?

I wouldn’t be so disheartened. Those treaties were written when the West was the world (as the rest of the world was under developed, or aligned with ...

Yes, NATO could do more, I’m not of the opinion that Putin would escalate the nuclear risk. It looks as though NATO has chosen not to do more and hide...

Yes, they will have chlorine barrels I expect. A good way of flushing out whose left after they’ve levelled the city. Just blame Ukrainians,