All of this. And yet we are told that sanctions will work, all the while still buying the Russian gas and giving the Ukrainians weapons that merely delay the outcome. With a huge crisis not far off now caused by a worldwide wheat shortage, directly linked to this current f*** up.

This mayhem is deliberate. No other narrative makes sense.

How can the Russian currency be stronger against the dollar than it was when the war started? How on earth does that work out in light of these so called terrible sanctions being imposed. All that has happened is a couple of yachts have been seized from people who no doubt stole the money in the first place from the Russian people. We are actually punishing Russian criminals for them.

This is all utterly insane. And brought to us by the same people who invaded Iraq and cause mass destabilisation, who then attacked Libya and caused mass destabilisation, who then attempted similar in Syria and are now, via this war, about to create utter mayhem in dozens of countries that depend on the wheat not being exported from both Ukraine and Russia.

Nobody in Russia is going to go hungry. Nobody in Russia is going to go cold. And Russia is getting richer.

And yet people want to tell me this all makes perfect sense and thank goodness Joe Biden is the leader of the West as opposed to Donald Trump?

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

Clown world indeed. 54 billion. That is a staggering amount of money. And for what? Not on infrastructure, merely looking to extend a war that is going to ensure revolutions and mayhem in dozens, possibly more, countries who are already in the brown stuff as matters stand.

And also why the lack of actual combat footage? We see shelled towns, we see the occasional drone footage of successful strikes but very little actual fighting.

We have the Left in the West cheering on a monocultural nation-state where its most celebrated fighters are literal Neo-Nazis whilst the Right cheer on a multicultural Russian federation where its most celebrated fighters are Muslims.

Nothing makes sense about any of it.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

And now they are looking to drag the Polish into it.

Everyone but Russia is to blame it seems

Of course, it's not to prolong the war! That's more recycled Russian propaganda. No-one wants to prolong a war, but when continuing to fight remains the least bad option, you fight.

It's to help a free country defend itself against an aggressor, and at the same time to stop that aggressor marching ever closer towards us and triggering the unlimited response that the membership of Nato guarantees.

If there was no mood in Ukraine to continue to resist, you could make such an argument. Whilst there is, providing them the means to do is both a moral, and tactical, imperative.

Ukraine is ready to negotiate, but on its terms. They are not ready to surrender, or trust the word of Putin. They need cast iron guarantees, and they will have to be forced out of Putin.

That both sides of American politics accept this ought to tell you something. No party is "for" war. They know Ukraine didn't want, or start, this one. The only ones "for" war are Putin and his cronies.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

82% of Ukrainians do not support any territorial concessions to Russia.

And who can blame them after what they have been through.

But it means endless conflict, you can't stop Russian speaking people wanting to be Russian.

It just looks insoluble.