We're not in WW2 and as we well know the threshold for being called a 'neo nazi' by Russian state mesia is any attempt to defend yourself against the invasion of their country.

I think all of those observations are probably right.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Oh dear, spell check fascist!

I once had a flatmate who use to smear themselves all over with butter. They weren't very social but great if you had run out of Anchor.

Edited by Stirlingsays (23 May 2022 12.53pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

'F--- the war!' Russians defiantly chant against war in St Petersburg concert

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Power in numbers. Comes after rock singer Yuri Shevchuk was charged with 'discrediting' the military for giving an anti-war speech at a gig last week.

In footage of that speech, Shevchuk can be heard telling the 8,000-strong crowd: 'The people of Ukraine are being murdered. For what?

'Our boys are dying over there. For what? What are the goals, my friends? For some Napoleonic plans of another Caesar of ours, yes?

'The motherland, my friends, is not the president’s a** that has to be slobbered and kissed all the time.'

Mikhail Khodaryonok was on Russian state TV last week offering an extrenely rare criticism to Putin's War:

"A desire to protect one's homeland, in the sense that it exists in Ukraine, it really does exist there, they intend to fight until the last man."

"Ultimately, victory on the battlefield is determined by a high level of morale among personnel, which sheds blood for the ideas which it's prepared to fight for."

On NATO, and in reference to Sweden and Finland's likely entry into the alliance, he stresses the importance of maintaining "a sense of military-political realism".

"If you go beyond it then sooner or later the reality of history will hit you so hard that you'll regret it," he says.

"Don't engage with sabre-rattling with missiles in Finland's direction. It actually looks quite amusing.

"After all, the main deficiency of our military-political position is that, in a way, we are in full geopolitical isolation and that, however much we would hate to admit this, virtually the entire world is against us."

He disputes the suggestion made by the host that it is only the West against Russia, saying the support of India and China for the country "is not so unconditional".

Predictably he has since reappeared on state TV doing a complete about turn. I expect he likes the idea of remaning alive.

Edited by BlueJay (23 May 2022 1.20pm)