Welcome back Vortex - and yes: the wilful blindness and failure to understand this situation displayed here day after day is almost incomprehensible.Vortex2 wrote: ↑27 Jun 2024, 22:12 I haven't visited this site for quite a while.
I'm surprised that people are still discussing the Ukraine situation in an academic manner.
If I didn't live just 1.5 miles from one of the UK's primary nuclear targets, I would be stockpiling food, water etc.
Irrespective of the history etc, we now have the West pushing and pushing and pushing Russia.
They will NOT give in : they will use (initially) tactical nuclear weapons when they feel that they are about to lose.
The US is (initially) fine - they can afford to be belligerent as they are an ocean away.
We have now entered the 'vortex of war' and are probably totally stuffed.
Don't believe that politicians and generals can screw up, despite having access to total power, plenty of money etc?
Just take a look at the Conservatives.
Politicians on all sides saw political and economic advantage in supporting the Ukraine 'war' - which was in fact a poxy regional conflict.
Now of course it has gone tits up, but they believe they can fix it by throwing more US hardware - and soon US bodies into the fire.
Morons to the left of me, morons, to the right of me ...
I can only assume that it’s too difficult to see the world from an adult perspective until the tadpoles have grown some legs and made an effort to get out of the water.
Or that everybody just unquestionably believes what they read in their newspaper of choice.
We seem hell bent on going nuclear over a minor turf war in the country that has the historical capital of Russia.
Why do we have to go to nuclear MAD over this ffs
Powerswitch has degraded into a small group of old men being bemused by world events and quibbling about the weather.
I leave them to get on with it mostly.