My point being this is a recipe for wars crimes until their ultimate demise on the front lines.

The mountains are calling & I must go.

Brave? It's you that keeps saying we should appease Putin to avoid you and your family being nuked, not Wisbech.
Meanwhile, the Russians are still on the run, which is great.

Edited by georgenorman (17 Sep 2022 8.08am)

All those convicts will just be more meat for the grinder. They will be up against seasoned soldiers so it will be like shooting fish in a barrel I’m afraid!
You can bet desertion will be a cause of death for some once they realise hmp Stalingrad was a better option.

That you think disapproving of physical violence means being scared of it, indicates a very warped mindset. Bullies think the strongest should dominate. Others think ideas must.

The election of Biden has nothing to do with this. Indeed it is more puzzling as to why Putin didn’t do it whilst Trump was still in office as he would have been less likely to have agreed to the level of support needed, and been a difficulty to NATO. Biden has been resolute by comparison.

The whole basis of the nuclear deterrent, of assured mutual destruction, is, and has always been, terrifying. That’s its point though, and it works.

Putin uses that terror as a weapon, just as much as he uses energy. He wants us to believe he is unstable and could do the unthinkable. He uses the fear of people like you to weaken the resolve of those directing our support for Ukraine. They are pawns in the hands of Putin and are being manipulated by social media trolls based in Russia, who sow the web with propaganda.

This is not a “pointless war”. It’s the invasion of a sovereign state by a much bigger neighbour. We allow it to succeed at our peril. Appeasement doesn’t work. It makes eventual outcomes worse by delay. Finding ways to satisfy all the genuine concerns and desires of the people involved can only be done with careful and honest negotiation.

By the use of ideas. Not by bullies.

I see some straws in the wind that suggest there is a glimmer of hope that those ideas may be about to surface.

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.

According to Bloomberg Europe is preparing a blackout plan to prevent winter chaos and uncontrolled outages.

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Russians are saying that they had to endure 'rolling blackouts' after the collapse of the USSR in the nineties.

Just remember those who advocated for prolonging this war between slavs when you can't even afford to heat your home or pay your bills and you have to deal with not even having electricity along with the privilege.

Idiocy.

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

Advocating war! I'm advocating solidarity with Ukraine fighting back against a contemptible regime rather than meekly surrendering to them.