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I agree with this take.

This should help you understand the bigger picture. Newsnight 28/2/2014 good article here Timeline: Euromaidan, the original “Ukraine Crisis” – OffGuardian OFF-GUARDIAN.ORG Kit Knightly As Russia actually do launch an invasion or “special operation” in Ukraine, we thought now was a good time to recap...

War in Donbas - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG Units involved Ukraine Armed Forces Ground Forces Aidar Battalion Territorial defence battalions Special Operations Forces Security Service Alpha Group Internal Affairs Ministry National Guard Azov Battalion Azov Battalion - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

Commentary: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem | Reuters WWW.REUTERS.COM As Ukraine's struggle against Russia and its proxies continues, Kiev must also contend with a growing problem behind the front... Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine | The Nation WWW.THENATION.COM Five years after the Maidan uprising, anti-Semitism and fascist-inflected ultranationalism are rampant. Ukraine: Inside The Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion WWW.UNILAD.CO.UK A far-right 'neo-Nazi' battalion has joined Ukrainian troops in their fight against invading Russian forces. Russian military operation puts the spotlight on Ukraine’s neo-Nazis: What you need to know about them WWW.FIRSTPOST.COM Neo-Nazis, whose roots in Ukraine extend to their collaboration with Hitler during World War II, have a free run in the country...

Putin invaded Ukraine so he can have more room for his table.

Lads, stop fighting serious news just in, NATO satellite imagery shows the table is now half a mile long. Intelligence sources within the US, UK and EU fear that at its current rate of growth it will encircle the Earth by the middle of April.

The point was clear Rich - 42% of Americans polled were supportive of potentially triggering a nuclear war with Russia via direct US Military action over Ukrainian sovereignty. Direct intervention means war with Russia potentially triggering the nuclear option.

Apparently 42% of Americans support potentially triggering a nuclear war over Ukrainian sovereignty. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/28/politics/cnn-poll-russia-ukraine-us-aid/index.html

Still waiting to hear your analysis, go for it. We’re all waiting.

Give us your analysis of the current situation then. Given that he’s a retired US Colonel and former advisor to a US Secretary of State who has contacts at the highest level of US and NATO as well as US intelligence sources go on then, let’s hear your take. Otherwise STFU.

Probably the most honest analysis of the situation you'll see on a mainstream network. IMG_6024.MP4

very true Matty, "The First Casualty Of War, Is The Truth" Turns out these guys were indeed Ukrainian soldiers but they had deserted and were subsequently arrested by Ukrainian police.

Don’t watch TV or RT. I’m making observations based on how Putin has acted before in Ukraine, Georgia etc and how the west has responded. It’s ok to view a situation from a neutral, objective standpoint and not be brainwashed by media who want you to follow a very specific narrative.

The Russians are not in Ukraine to kill Ukrainian civilians they are there to remove Zelensky from power. They would've already carpet bombed all the major cities on day one if they wanted slaughter of civilians on a mass scale and to destroy Ukraine. Do you know anything about the history of Ukraine, Russia and the USSR? it's clear you dont. .

Putin will have sent in 2nd tier younger recruits with a few older experienced soldiers so that if NATO intervenes he will then send in the best Russian soldiers to fight at that point. Russia has something like 900,000 soldiers, there's only around 100,000 or thereabouts involved in Ukraine. Also he expects to occupy Ukraine so he will use experienced soldiers for that purpose and send the 2nd tier troops back to Russia. People talk as if Putin will not have war gamed this thing out in a multitude of different ways going over the variables a 1000 times in a 1000 different ways. Read a history book, he's done this before.

Yes they are. Precisely why Zelensky would exploit them in order to obtain atrocity propaganda footage in order to bring NATO troops into Ukraine. Are you ok with Zelensky using these civilians as cannon fodder in order to attain NATO intervention? How many civilians would you send to their slaughter if you were Zelensky? It's obvious Putin is all or nothing for regime change.

They are being sacrificed by the Ukrainian regime to make the war as bloody as possible and get lots of footage of the Russian army mowing down untrained civilians for atrocity propaganda. They are being set up to be martyrs for misguided propaganda purposes. Giving untrained civilians AK47s and expecting them to use these weapons effectively against trained soldiers is akin to giving a monkey a razor blade and expect it not to cut itself. It is a despicable act of desperation and would suggest Zelensky knows his days are numbered.

If Assad or Gaddafi had given weapons to civilians (including women) to send them into combat with a trained army it would have been decried in the West as a historic war crime.

Ok you’re an anarchist of leftist persuasion. I’m not going to have time to post in this thread, just remember everyone that the best way to avoid being killed by a Russian nuclear attack is to get your covid vaccine. Ok. later folks.

Any good Englishman, Scotsman, Welshman or Ulsterman understands the subtleties of our language and history and why God being sung in relation to the crowning of a constitutional Monarch is not something to be ashamed of. We understand the depth of our shared history. We know what it means historically and traditionally without deconstructing it to the point of meaningless, as you are now attempting in your usual, rather unfortunate sneering leftist manner.

I wasn’t going to dignify that with much of a response Mark as I know you have a reasonable grasp of the history of Britain. However, as a reminder these islands of ours have near 1700 years of a dominant Christian identity, culture and tradition (of which near 1300 was a universal Catholic Christianity). This guiding Christian ethos is still with us today. Well, most of us anyway. Ukraine has over a 1000 years of Christianity as the dominant religion. In short. We have shared Christian values.

Britain should offer to take in as many Ukrainian refugees as possible as they are mainly Christian and from a similar European culture so would assimilate well. I bet very few people in power in the UK mentions this if at all. I wonder why that would be the case? Ukrainian family -

Kind of contradicted yourself there Matty but I can see why. The problem with criticising Putin as a British person is that Britain’s ‘elites’ through Empire dont exactly have a great record when it comes to invading sovereign nations and utterly destroying the pre-existing culture (ancient cultures in some cases) China is still seething about what Britain did during the Opium Wars. They no doubt have their sights set on retribution in that regard. As for Russia, the British elites always viewed Russia as a major threat due to their dominance of the Eurasian landmass as opposed to British and US Atlanticism/sea power. Remember the Bolshevik Revolution was funded by Wall St and the London banks as a way to destroy the Tsar and growing Russian Imperialism. Finally, it’s worth baring in mind the anti-Russian semi nomadic Muslim tribes in the North Caucasus who would eventually become the modern day Chechens were funded by Britain as a way of hindering westward expansion of Imperial Russia. Putin despises the U.K.

This was in the Sequoias in California's central/southern Sierra. The original stumps remain from the 1880s. That crosscut saw was two separate saws welded together. Some of them are in museums.