Ukraine invasion



US threatens to shut down Starlink in Ukraine – Reuters


Foreign troops deploying to Ukraine not realistic – Zelensky’s top aide

US could withdraw troops from Central, Eastern Europe – Bild

Germany issues warning to US


No peace without a price: The real story behind Trump’s Ukraine demands

‘Terrorism’ behind Algerian’s stabbing spree in France – Macron

US supermarket giant sued over DEI

Musk renews attack on Zelensky over ‘murder’ of US journalist

‘A lot of problems’ for Kiev without minerals deal – Trump

 
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So just taking a moment to think about what has gone on here...

  • The West encourages and helps Ukraine to apply for NATO (aggressive ever expanding alliance) membership
  • Russia warns and outlines red-lines against Ukraine NATO membership. Russia's security concerns are totally ignored by the West
  • After 2014 with ongoing fighting skirmishes, Nazi batalion abuses and victimisation of Russian people in the Donbas region, in 2019 Ukraine changes consititution to join NATO
  • Russia to protect her borders, security and to enforce past agreements (re: NATO not expanding) intervenes (Feb 2022) in a military operation to object to Ukraine joining. (Look up Cuban misile crises for past reference)
  • This leads to an all out war as the West joins in the frenzy to supply Ukraine with weapons
  • Few months later UK (Boris) and the US (Biden) persuade Zelensky to walk out of February peace talks in Istanbul, where Ukraine is offered a (very favourable peace deal imho) neutral status much like Switzerland and to apply for membership of the EU
  • The West continue to supply Ukraine with all their outdated and old technology weapons, way passed their sell by date, such as tanks and discontinued fighter planes and guns. Bearing in mind the training required to use all this old technology and delivering/deploying these weapons to the front line was the bigger challenge...
  • Billions of $, £s and €s donated have seemed to have found their way into purchasing luxery villas and vinyards accross Europe, UK and the US.
  • Zelensky has become the richest comedian in the world (some claim to be now worth near or over $1bn).
  • Now the US and UK says Ukraine owes money to the West and that we are happy to accept payment in-kind by taking over 50% of the proceeds from Ukrainian rare mineral mines.
  • US has seen the light and unilaterally declared Ukraine will never be allowed into NATO and Zelensky shouldn't waste his time anylonger and simply go away.

  • Similarly European countries should also remember, they can't do anything without the US who is their "true" friend and they too should simply be a good little poodle and do as they say

I think that's it. Other than ofcourse the deaths of 00s of 000s of Ukrainian and Russian people fighting for the great American National Interest. Very sad but ultimately the truth and nothing but the damn truth. There is the destruction of their country infrastructure too but that can all be replaced. Lives can not. So so very sad.
 
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Elon Musk says ‘Reuters is lying’

Danish politicians applaud member of Ukraine’s neo-Nazi unit


Germany must become ‘independent’ from US – Bundestag election winner

Anti-immigration AFD in 2nd place in German elections – exit poll

Britain’s working class will never fight Starmer’s war for Ukraine





 
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Furious Zelensky 'screamed at Trump's envoy for trying to make him sign $500billion mineral deal - and was so loud he could be heard through the door and left US treasury secretary shaking'​

Scott Bessent fires back at media reports he was 'trembling' during Zelensky meeting: '100% fake news'Trump issues dire WWIII warning if Russia-Ukraine deal not worked out as he meets Macron​

Donald Trump puts French President Emmanuel Macron in two embarrassing positions on his visit to Washington DC​

Trump's uncomfortable 'death grip' handshake with Macron goes viral: Live updates​

Europe meets to discuss the unimaginable on third anniversary of Ukraine war - fighting Russia without US support: Zelensky hosts emergency meeting after offering to QUIT as president​

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France could deploy nukes in Germany – Telegraph

Biden accuser Tara Reade seeks $100mn over US govt ‘weaponization’

‘Rational’ Trump, ‘toxic’ Zelensky, and ‘shackled’ EU: Key points from latest Putin interview

Welcome to Ukraine’s secret offensive: They scam, bankrupt, and drive Russian civilians to suicide

WSJ predicts when Kiev’s military will stall without US aid

 

‘Militarist’ EU has no place at Ukraine peace negotiating table – Moscow

Here are the two big NATO losers from improved Russia-US relations

US to impose blanket 25% tariffs on EU — Trump

Rubio cancels EU’s Kallas at last minute – Euronews

Musk slams EU state’s arrest of presidential candidate

 
@Atilla Your "Putin Apologist" posts and most of your content demonstrate a hatred for democracy or those being attacked for trying to implement it. As you clearly cannot stand anything and everything about the UK, why not move to Russia or North Korea where you can continue to attack democratic nations at your leisure. Your posts show that you would much prefer a more quasi autocratic state than anything democratic. Whilst the current UK government is the worst I have witnessed in modern times, I accept that it was democratically elected and as such can be removed in due course. Something that will not be an option for those in autocratic states or anything similar.
 
@Atilla Your "Putin Apologist" posts and most of your content demonstrate a hatred for democracy or those being attacked for trying to implement it. As you clearly cannot stand anything and everything about the UK, why not move to Russia or North Korea where you can continue to attack democratic nations at your leisure. Your posts show that you would much prefer a more quasi autocratic state than anything democratic. Whilst the current UK government is the worst I have witnessed in modern times, I accept that it was democratically elected and as such can be removed in due course. Something that will not be an option for those in autocratic states or anything similar.
For someone who claims to support democracy and freedom of speech you have a pretty thin skin.

Labour is doing a super job putting the country back on its feet. You are clearly an idiot imho to think it's the worst in modern times.

Why don't you sod off and put me on ignore as obviously you don't look at or discuss the subject but attack opinions that do not rhyme with yours.

 
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Kiev facing pressure to intensify conscription – Economist

Macron’s White House visit was a failure – Politico

Andrew Tate and his brother leave Romania for US

Transgender clinic in India shuts down after USAID funding freeze – media

UN showed ‘common sense’ on Ukraine conflict resolution – Moscow

Prosecuted Romanian presidential candidate asks Trump for help

Putin warns of attempts to sabotage talks with US

USAID blew millions on literal ‘pet projects’ in Ukraine – media


 
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Labour is doing a super job putting the country back on its feet.
I don't know what to say At' - I'm literally lost for words! 😎
To Inquisitor's point about not being able to stand anything and everything about the UK, in my case, he's partially correct. (Note emphasis!) Partially, because I love my country, but I freely admit that I utterly loathe and detest our liberal elite ruling class, be they labour, conservative, Lib Dems or anyone else. They are all beyond awful and, if it were at all feasible, I'd certainly leave this country in favour of somewhere that isn't quite so authoritarian and dictatorial as Two Tier Keir and his Stasi cabinet. PJW and satirist Andrew Lawrence do a good job of summing up the state of this country under labour. Enjoy . . .


 
I don't know what to say At' - I'm literally lost for words! 😎
To Inquisitor's point about not being able to stand anything and everything about the UK, in my case, he's partially correct. (Note emphasis!) Partially, because I love my country, but I freely admit that I utterly loathe and detest our liberal elite ruling class, be they labour, conservative, Lib Dems or anyone else. They are all beyond awful and, if it were at all feasible, I'd certainly leave this country in favour of somewhere that isn't quite so authoritarian and dictatorial as Two Tier Keir and his Stasi cabinet. PJW and satirist Andrew Lawrence do a good job of summing up the state of this country under labour. Enjoy . . .



Labour's economic policies are far superior to Conservatives imho.

We simply have to wait and see.

There is a big problem with the skewed distribution of wealth - especially in the US and UK. Economic growth is not possible if the distribution of incomes are skewed.

Here are some stats for you...



The distribution of income in the UK is unequal, with the top 5% of households receiving the majority of the country's income. However, the gap between the richest and poorest households has narrowed slightly in recent years.

Top and bottom incomes
  • In 2021/22, the top 5% of households received 37% of the UK's disposable income, while the bottom 5% received 8%

  • In 2023, the richest fifth of households had a higher income than the poorest fifth

  • The average salary for the top 1% of earners in the UK is around £186,120 per year
Income inequality
    • The UK has a higher level of income inequality than other developed countries
    • The gap between the richest and poorest has widened over the past 30 years
    • In 2022, the disposable income inequality rate was 35.5%, but decreased to 33.1% in 2023
Factors affecting income distribution

    • The national living wage (NLW) has increased in value since 2016, which has helped to increase wages for lower earners
    • The resilience of certain sectors during the pandemic, such as IT, finance, and professional, has contributed to income inequality
 
Basically, economic growth is not possible if the majority of people do not have money to spend.

You have to remember one person's expenditure is another person's income. So when they say we need to increase level of economic activity, it means increasing the frequency of exchange of monies between people. If majority of people do not have money and are unable to afford regular day to day and household items then no matter what one does, it's not possible to raise economic activity. Some more stats below.


FTSE 100 CEOs’ earnings for 2025 overtook the median UK worker’s full time annual salary on Monday 6 January, according to calculations by the High Pay Centre.

As with last year, the charity’s research suggested that the top CEOs had to work less than three days to surpass the annual pay of the median worker. Median FTSE 100 CEO pay (excluding pension) currently stands at £4.22 million, 113 times the median full time worker’s pay of £37,430.

Examining the pay of other high earners, it found that:

  • FTSE 250 CEOs on median pay of £1.68 million only needed to work until, 9 January, for their pay to overtake the annual pay of the median UK worker;
  • a partner at a “magic circle” law firm, on average pay of £2.03 million, only needed to work until 8 January;
  • a partner at a “big four” accountancy firm, on average pay of £816,000, would need to work until 16 January;
  • a top banker (a so-called “material risk taker”) at one of the five FTSE 100 listed banks, on average pay of £964,000, would only need to work until 15 January; and
  • everyone in the top 1% of full time UK earners, making at least £162,000, will have overtaken the annual pay of the median full-time worker by 27 March.

Conservatives perpetuate this cycle. Do you remember Liz Truss's economic growth plan to borrow from taxation to cut taxes for the rich so we have "TRICKLE DOWN" growth for waiters in the hope they may receive a bigger tip.


1. Labour have made housing one of the core targets and due to inilastic supply in housing building more homes will take time but never the less will increase sooner or later in the next couple of years.

2. They have also increased minimum wage and given the salary rises many public sector workers need to live by.

3. Yes NI will have to rise to keep up with our aging population, and declining birth rates and shrinking tax base.



The Tories since Thatcher have butchered and messed up UK industry and economy for almost 30+ years. The state of public services are clear enough. Local Authorities starved of monies unable to cope.

Productivity due to lack of investment is clear enough and has been with us since the turn of the 20th century.

All tories and reform can talk about are 30,000 illegal migrants on boats, because the MSM waves it about much like a red rag to a bull. Brainless huffing and puffing and much ado about nothing IMHO.


Migration is the solution ofcourse but this will not be told to the UK public. Even Liz Truss had 300,000 migrants pencilled in and required to raise GDP growth by 1%. They are all freaking liars. That's why Tories talk tough whilst continue raising migrant worker numbers because it is where the growth comes from.
 
There is a big problem with the skewed distribution of wealth - especially in the US and UK. Economic growth is not possible if the distribution of incomes are skewed.
Agreed At',
Sadly, labour will do nothing to fix the problem because they are no longer the champions of the less well off in society - let alone those living in abject poverty. Indeed, they loathe the working class - white men in particular (see the PJW video in my last post!) - which is why everything is now turned on its head. All the tradespeople I know vote Tory, while the middle class and wealthy vote labour or Lib Dem. All the political parties are the same to me - left or right makes no difference - all of em' are consistently wrong on the big issues of the day and none of them care two hoots about the people they're supposed to represent and serve. And why's that? Because they're all puppets of the elite billionaire globalist neocons who are the real power brokers in the world. They get richer at the expense of the poor who get poorer.

If you're interested in the skewed distribution of wealth, how it's come about, the impact it has on ordinary people and what can be done about it, I highly recommend Gary Stevenson - a.k.a. 'Gary's Economics' on YouTube. His life mission is to address this imbalance although, sadly, I think he has a snowball's chance in hell of succeeding. That said, at least he's calling it out for what it is. Enjoy . . .

 

US to withdraw support for Kiev if Zelensky fails to seek peace — Trump

Zelensky leaves White House early after spat with Trump: Live Updates

Zelensky should apologize for ‘fiasco’ with Trump – Rubio

Did Zelensky call Vance a ‘b*tch’?


Starmer insists on deploying British troops to Ukraine

Soros trying to derail Trump’s plans – Musk

EU state apologizes for Ukraine UN vote


 

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Zelensky’s Washington trip a ‘complete failure’ – Moscow

Zelensky is done – former CIA analyst


A dose of reality for the West’s spoiled brat: What now for the humiliated Zelensky?

German factories counting on return of Russian gas – Bloomberg


 
Amazing what we are seeing. Usually these shenanigans are played out behind closed doors in diplomatic circles and horse trading under negotiation tables. Now it's in front of the WWWeb and cameras.

The US has clearly played a very cleverl hand to Ukraine and Europe, effectively screwing them over. Zelensky I never liked and always thought of as a short arse, stooge puppet put there for a reason. He is neither a politicians, smart or a visionary. Has no leadership skills. Always thought his clothing attire was much like a yob wearing a shell suit to meet the King.

Amazing how everyone has stopped talking about Putin and started talking about Trump and Zelensky.

In actual reality this is all about NATO expansion. Fruitless useless war other than to the dogs of war.

I'm expecting a better response from Friedrich Merz the new German leader but thus far his regurgitating the old clap-trap, Olaf Scholz's dribble.

UK is going to be walking a middle ground tight rope trying to appease Trump but should now be waking up to their unreliable partners behaviour.

Personally, as long as the war and killing stops and Europe gets back onto friendly terms and focusing on trade, I'd be well and trully happy.


Lessons to be drawn from all this;

1. Ukrainian interests are better served being neutral like Switzerland and becoming member of EU, whilst drawing nearer to their old bretheren, the Russians. One should always aim for good relations with ones neighbours.

2. Taiwan should realise uncle Sam is a dodgy unreliable partner and her interests best served with closer alliance with China.

3. Europe should focus on maintaining peace and trade and avoid partnering with any waring factions. Russia is not a thread to Europe.
 
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