comment by mancWoohoo- maximus mardius cob-onius (U10676)
posted 31 minutes ago
comment by 7 (U23088)
posted 3 minutes ago
I guess it's just a bit like being adopted.
Ukraine is adopted. That's OK.
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Reminds me of the line Vesper Lynd delivered:

"... and since your first thought about me ran to orphan, that's what I'd say you are. Oh you are....?"

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Fittest Bond girl until Monica Belluci came along

comment by 7 (U23088)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Darren The King Fletcher (U10026)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Michael Scofield (U11781)
posted 17 minutes ago
🇷🇺: Illegally annexes

🇮🇱: Announces settlement

https://x.com/assalrad/status/1956070425878049244?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw

There was me thinking the AP weren’t a corrupt media outlet
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Tbf Ukraine is an internationally recognised sovereign state, whereas Palestine isn’t.
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Part of the problem is nobody did recognise it, after WW1.

It wasn't included in the Treaty of Versailles, because the seperatists went into alliance with the Germans, so the allies didn't want anything to do with them. They might also have thought that they'd struggle to defend it I suppose.

Russia had given up its claims to the region in its own 1918 treaty with Germany, in which the Red Army basically surrended so that it could keep fighting the Russian Civil War in the East.

But that Treaty was annulled at Versailles, so in the absence of anybody recognising the Ukrainian state, it was left as returning to being de facto Russian territory.
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It’s 2025, mate.

comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 3 minutes ago
Do you have any opinions on anything else
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He needs to check with his superiors before he answers

comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 10 minutes ago
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 3 minutes ago
Do you have any opinions on anything else
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He needs to check with his superiors before he answers
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comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 15 minutes ago
Do you have any opinions on anything else
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Yes but I do things in phases.
And none of my opinions are particularly appealing anyway tbh.
Except for on films. I'm good on films.

done probably 19 hours today.
learned a lot.

Big day today in Alaska, hope for the best fear for the worst.
Bizarre for there to be "peace" talks with the aggressor and a 3rd country but no place for the brave defenders or the EU.
The imperialist Putin needs his legacy and in Trump he has someone he can manipulate and Trump is desperate for the Nobel peace prize.

Trump says there's a 25% chance of failure.

Didn't he claim he would end the war 'in a few days' before the US elections?

comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 21 minutes ago
Trump says there's a 25% chance of failure.

Didn't he claim he would end the war 'in a few days' before the US elections?
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https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/politics/fact-check-trump-ukraine-war

53 times he said it.

The issues in this war are:

1. Ukraine's right to self determination was recognised and respected, but eastern Ukraine's right to self determination was not.
2. The territorial expansion of NATO. Although I need to think about this further, in order to identify the exact nature of the problem.
3. The disregard for and disrespect of human life.
4. Media manipulation.
5. The power of the weapons lobby.
6. A lack of objectivity and taking into account of alternative positions, and relying instead on force or the ability to deliver force.

The main issue in the war is the forced annexation of Ukraine by Russia. That is in no way comparable to sovereign states entering into political agreements with other sovereign states.

comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 42 minutes ago
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 21 minutes ago
Trump says there's a 25% chance of failure.

Didn't he claim he would end the war 'in a few days' before the US elections?
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https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/politics/fact-check-trump-ukraine-war

53 times he said it.
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And lotsa geniuses actual believed that bull.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/13/new-zealand-woman-six-year-old-son-ice-detention-us-ntwnfb#Echobox=1755065151

Good luck getting in the US anytime soon

The issue with this war is:

1. Putin
2. Putin
3. Putin
4. Putin
5. Putin bum sniffers.

Putin gets the legacy he wants, Taiwan is next.
Rewarding imperialism isn't a deterrent.

I have 'Putin bum sniffers' at number 7 on my list

Trump says "Putin won't mess about with me"

Vlad's been playing him like a trumpet for the last 8 months.

comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 7 minutes ago
Trump says "Putin won't mess about with me"

Vlad's been playing him like a trumpet for the last 8 months.
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Last 40 years

What is the middle ground between nationalism and anarchy?

comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 1 hour, 14 minutes ago
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 7 minutes ago
Trump says "Putin won't mess about with me"

Vlad's been playing him like a trumpet for the last 8 months.
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Last 40 years
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I'd struggle to see how you could be more wrong with this view.

unless you mean their individual personal relationship.
then i have no idea.

comment by 7 (U23088)
posted 10 minutes ago
What is the middle ground between nationalism and anarchy?
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Are they even comparable?

comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by 7 (U23088)
posted 10 minutes ago
What is the middle ground between nationalism and anarchy?
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Are they even comparable?
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I was trying to think what the alternative to nationalism was, and I came up with anarchy.

Because if you don't have countries, then you have 1 country.

Then the 1 country needs a government.

Yeah, not sure how I came to anarchy tbh.

On with my research...

I just thought that nationalism is an ideology and anarchism is a system of governance. Happy to hold my hands up if I'm wrong.

comment by 7 (U23088)
posted 57 minutes ago
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 1 hour, 14 minutes ago
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 7 minutes ago
Trump says "Putin won't mess about with me"

Vlad's been playing him like a trumpet for the last 8 months.
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Last 40 years
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I'd struggle to see how you could be more wrong with this view.
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https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842/

Has this not popped up in your research?