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Looking back recently I think where it maybe went wrong is the unfortunate combination of the TA(MB) being quite Rangers fan heavy (and Celtic fan light) back in the day but also (naturally) Scottish nationalist heavy. This potentially combustive combination was not a problem for many a decade but then we had two things that caused it to blow up on both sides. The first hammer blow was RFC going titz up. After so many decades of triumphalism that was a humiliation many were not hanging about for. And for the non-rangers fans it was years of intense hilarity laughing at Rangers on here. The second happened more gradually but it really gathered pace at the end (and in the years just prior to RFC going belly-up) and that was support for the SNP and YES. And then for Nationalist side the crushing disappointment of the NO. And all the gloating potential that came with it. That saw another exodus over time. The board just died across the board (bad pun?). While other club and football sites did not or not as bad. If it was too much politics then AOB would have suffered but TA and Football not... but it was every section. The genuine wide cross section you got on here was what made it so interesting and funny. But events stretched it to breaking point and it broke. Something happened behind the scenes as well. The mods just disappeared and the board even posted it own suicide note. Fuck knows what was going on there but it all came together and malkied the TAMB.

Thirded. The real giveaway is stuff like this thread. The RH guy is obsessed with playing himself (and Rangers fans of course) as the perennial victim. the question about parklife of course (obsessed by him also for some slightly gay(?) reason). It is so boring though, like a droning noise constantly going in the background. And psychologically I dare say someone could write a book about it. This victim, poor me, poor me shite. And just making stuff up as if it is reality. It is really beyond trolling and more closer to delusions. I think you get these mad characters on both sides of the extreme. They become so all-in in their victimhood claims that they start to believe their own bullshit. And that is the road to madness. And that is exactly what they look and sound like.

I can’t really help you answer your question Malcolm as it is clear your head is full of propaganda mince. You think the president of Russia is mad and that explains what is going on. 😃 wow. This is really stupid and obvious propaganda. He might be a lot of things but he is a highly intelligent and rational operator. How can I even have a conversation with someone who swallows all this BBC jizz. It is pointless. On the upside you won’t have to worry about your heating bills when you are incinerated.

Undoubtedly the end of civilization as we know it in the west. The Russians don't follow the MAD doctrine, mutually assured destruction, they plan to survive and win any nuclear war and are relatively far better prepared than us for one should it happen. They also have near unlimited natural resources and a vast territory over which to disperse. Dont get me wrong they know it would be horrific and will use it as a last resort but they will use it if their backs are against the wall (but actually they won't wait for it to get that bad would be my bet). It could be we are far closer than we realize to another large step-up. They have clearly stated this is an existential conflict for them.

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ This is just a rough guide but type in glasgow as the destination, 25000 as the bomb size, and airburst. That is just one 25MT bomb.

It is just a pity he can't de-moronify you chripper. Unfortunately you are a thick for life. You do realize demilitarizing and denazifying Ukraine are the two explicitly stated goals of the Russian invasion? You are so fucking dense you seem to think that is something i made up.

Read what I said. If just one of those things got through... the UK as you know it would be gone forever. The sarmat he was referring to is the RS-28 ICBM or 'Satan II' as NATO calls it. 15 light or 10 heavy multiple re-entry vehicles each carrying a nuclear weapon of unknown (|at least by us) potential capacity. The latest version of the R-36 (i.e. Satan I) intercontinental ballistic missile could hit anywhere in the U.S. with at least 10 18-25 megaton nuclear warheads. List the ten biggest UK cities and then imagine them all nuked by one 25 MT warhead. What would be left. People thinking Scotland might be left alone... wow. Faslane is something like 25 miles as the crow flies from Glasgow City Centre. Now you can see the utter disregard they had building a nuclear submarine base right next to Scotland's biggest by far population centre. But of course far more than one sarmat would get through if things went mad. First they would hit everything of a military significance and it would be a matter of time before it is escalated to population centres. They probably could nuclear carpet bomb the UK if they really wanted to but what is the point of that, total overkill. And satan II was just one of the six new weapons they introduced in 2018. They have many ways to hit us many using hypersonic missiles that the west cant get near stopping. Given the uk's role in all of this I would guess the uk is a main target. For revenge if nothing else. The massive 220-ton weapon will replace the Cold War-era RS-36M Voyevoda missiles. The RS-28 Sarmat will reportedly carry a nuclear payload large enough to wipe out an area the size of Texas or France. https://www.newsweek.com/russia-satan-2-nuclear-missile-rs-28-sarmat-ready-fire-2020-1447994 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-28_Sarmat

Yet another abnormal spike in Scottish baby deaths... https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-63097142 What were the results of the last investigation.

Surviving? I saw some clip a few months ago now of a Russian politics tv show with different guests debating, where one of the people on it (and he was a bit of a cunt this dude) remarked that it would only take 'one sarmat to destroy the UK only one...' That is the capability of these weapons nowadays. If just one of those things got through... the UK as you know it would be gone forever. Amusingly I've thought about this quite a bit given recent events and my best hope should it kick off with the nukes is for an instant death. I hope one goes off outside my house. Not a word of a lie. 😀 IMHO this makes the cuban missile crisis look like almost nothing in comparison as the people running Biden are absolute psychotic mentalists it seems. And Russia is definitely not backing down, that I am pretty sure of. So yeah...

Very interesting points from Greenwald. Especially about how people are afraid to speak out against what is being done for fear of being smeared as unpatriotic (or an agent of Putin even). Been very illuminating seeing who fell into what roles during all of this.

Notice how the biggest prowar neocon zealots on here are also the exact same Sturgeon / Clinton zealots. Not a coincidence.

It would not matter how many seats the post 2014 SNP won. As we have seen over and over again...Even if they won them all they are gutless.

Truss' confidence will be shattered already. Rabbit frozen in the headlights from here on in (at best). I was exposed to quite a bit of the mainstream uk media when they all really went after Johnson. Seems like the desired outcome was to decapitate any real political leadership in the UK. What a state the UK is in right now and the BBC played the leading role in it. This is an interesting op-ed piece on the whole Truss unfolding fiasco... and she cant be challenged for at least a year. https://www.rt.com/news/563968-liz-truss-crises-uk/ Truss exposes the current instability of Western democracies The turmoil in British politics can lead to disastrous consequences. It also mirrors the current state of the wider West Graham Hryce is an Australian journalist and former media lawyer, whose work has been published in The Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, the Sunday Mail, the Spectator and Quadrant. Even fervent believers in the stability of Western democracies must surely have had their faith shaken last week by the extraordinary economic and political crises created by the newly-minted UK prime minister, Liz Truss. In the week after the prime minister’s hand-picked chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, handed down a ‘mini-budget’ on September 23, the English pound crashed; the government bond market took a dive; interest and mortgage rates rose; some mortgage markets shut down; the Bank of England staged a highly unusual fiscal intervention to prevent the collapse of major pension funds; and the IMF criticized Truss in a manner usually reserved for the leaders of debt-ridden banana republics. The global importance of these events and the ongoing economic and political disruption that they will inevitably cause should not be underestimated. Political commentator Alastair Campbell, formerly Tony Blair’s chief of staff, accurately described last week as “the week that everything changed.” What led to the UK economic crisis? Quite simply, the fact that the Truss mini-budget provided for billions of pounds worth of unfunded and uncosted tax cuts – including, most provocatively, a cut in the 45% top level income tax rate – caused the financial markets to register a serious vote of no confidence in the Truss government, with all the attendant consequences that followed. Incidentally, the events of last week show where real power ultimately lies in the West – and it is definitely not with politicians. Truss’s mini-budget is, of course, a product of the crude neo-liberal economic ideology that she so fanatically believes in, and which proved decisive in attracting the 80,000 or so Thatcher-worshipping members of the Tory party that anointed Truss prime minister only a few weeks ago. Faced with an economic disaster entirely of her own making – one of her first acts as prime minister was to sack the head of the Treasury – Truss simply doubled down, and retreated petulantly to her Downing Street bunker. She did emerge briefly late last week to do a round of disastrous radio interviews with regional BBC stations – in which Truss continued to robotically tout the benefits of ‘trickle-down economics’, and (unsuccessfully) tried to blame the economic crisis entirely on Russian President Vladimir Putin and the conflict in Ukraine. Not surprisingly, the vast majority of commentators in the UK – irrespective of their political affiliations – have been strongly critical of the Truss mini-budget and the prime minister herself. Even Daily Telegraph columnist Ambrose Evans-Pritchard accused Truss of having “embarked on a course of sheer madness.” Truss’ intransigence, however, means that the current economic crisis can only intensify – with predictions of a housing market crash as the next most likely catastrophe to engulf the UK. The ongoing UK rail strike ramped up last week, and further economic convulsions will no doubt occur in late November when Truss and Kwarteng have condescended to outline the vast array of spending cuts that will fund the mini-budget tax cuts. Truss’ attempt to remedy the deep-seated problems that bedevil the UK economy (including decades of wage stagnation, ongoing working class and middle-class impoverishment, the ever-widening gap between rich and poor, dramatically rising energy and food prices, and the crisis in housing affordability) by applying neo-liberal economic policies has failed spectacularly. This is an ominous sign for Western democracies generally, because significant segments of the global elites that rule them remain firm adherents of the greed-based, crude neo-liberal economic theories that Truss and Kwarteng so rigidly embrace. These elites do not believe in noblesse oblige and are committed to overturning the social democratic consensus that prevailed in the UK from Atlee until the election of Thatcher. Irrespective of that, what should be of most concern to intelligent observers is the demonstrable fragility of an economic system that descends into severe crisis within a few days of a mini-budget – no matter how misguided and foolish – being handed down. Unfortunately, the political crisis created by Truss is perhaps even more serious than the economic crisis that she has unthinkingly engendered. The immediate political dilemma is the one now confronting the Tory party. Such has been the intensity of the adverse reaction to the events of the past week that it is already clear that the Conservatives cannot possibly win the next election, and that Truss cannot realistically remain prime minister for long. A poll taken at the end of last week shows that the Labour Party now leads the Tories by an astounding 33 percentage points – up from 17 points just prior to the handing down of the mini-budget. In one week, Truss has done what no Labour leader has been able to do in decades – namely, give Labour a seemingly unassailable lead in the polls. Truss also appears to have brought about a significant rapprochement between Keir Starmer and the trade union leadership, and invigorated the party generally. As for Truss herself, as Alastair Campbell said last week “She’s dead… she’s toast.” Under existing Tory party rules, however, Truss cannot be challenged for 12 months – and, even if she could be, a new leader would have to be elected by the same lengthy and deeply flawed process that so recently threw up Truss as party leader. The only way out of this dire situation would be for Truss to resign, and be replaced without the need for a leadership contest. But Truss shows absolutely no signs of relinquishing her position, and even if she did, the ensuing divisions within the Tory party would surely make a leadership contest inevitable. Of course, yet another change of Tory leader would render the party even more unelectable than it is now. Under the circumstances, there is, I think, a very real possibility that the Tory party will split, with the Truss neo-liberal wing hiving off, leaving a Cameronesque rump behind. A new right-wing populist party may emerge from such a split. If so, this would mirror what has occurred within conservative parties in some other Western democracies in recent years. But whatever happens, there can be no doubt that the hapless Truss will have the privilege of having presided over the demise, in whatever precise form that it takes, of the contemporary Tory party. The Tory party conference that began in Birmingham on Sunday – it has understandably been boycotted by a large number of angry and disgruntled backbenchers – promises to be a very interesting event indeed. It started off badly for Truss with prominent Tory MP Michael Gove condemning her mini-budget as being “not Conservative” and hinting that he and other Tory MPs might vote against the Truss tax cuts in Parliament. This caused Truss to panic and reverse the upper income tax rate cut, which only further damaged her credibility. The political crisis that is currently intensifying in the UK has highlighted a number of inherent defects within the political system that currently operates in most Western democracies. They include the following: First, it is clear that any political system that allows a genuine prime minister like Boris Johnson to be deposed for a few minor misdemeanors, and replaced by someone as demonstrably incompetent as Liz Truss, is irretrievably broken. Second, any political system that encourages and permits a rapid and regular turnover of leaders – sadly a defining characteristic of politics in the West these days – can only perpetuate ongoing general political instability. Third, party leaders should be elected by members of Parliament, not the party membership. Election by members debases the quality of candidates and policies alike, and leads to ongoing instability and destabilization in circumstances, as is often the case, where the elected leader does not command the support of a majority of parliamentarians. This was the case under Jeremy Corbyn’s recent leadership of the Labour Party, and it is now certainly the case with Truss. Fourth, politics needs to attract a far better quality of politician than it currently does. Fifth, if the Conservative Party does split, this may lead to a particularly dangerous consequence, namely the formation of a new right-wing populist party of the kind that has recently emerged in Germany, Sweden, Italy, and elsewhere in the West. Such a development can only destabilize politics further, as it has done in each of those countries. Whether it is possible to achieve any of the abovementioned reforms or prevent the emergence of a populist party in the UK are, I think, very much open questions. It has always been obvious that Truss is a fourth-rate politician. She is completely lacking in real intelligence, empathy with voters, and political judgment. But Truss is no worse than the average politician who these days regularly attains high office in Western democracies. I doubt that Truss will survive as prime minister for much longer, and she would seem to have no future beyond that in politics. Perhaps her most significant political achievement is to have dramatically highlighted, in the short space of a week, the inherent and fundamental instability that underpins the economic and political systems that currently hold sway in the West.

Watched Putin's speech. Very interesting. If you want to understand the Russian position just watch it. Especially when he talks about the West. It was a small trivial part of it but he revealed that 'the whole world knows that the US bugs the leaders of Germany, Japan and South Korea... including at their private residences!' They are essentially occupied countries and to call them allies is a (sick) joke. One for Scotty, he actually says that the west is pursing 'anti-religion i.e. Satanism 'and this was in relation to all the gender identity shite being rammed down our throats in the West. Strange it features so prominently in his speech when no-one here is supposed to care... The very strange thing for me is that I came to that same conclusion myself in recent years so to hear the President of Russia say it out loud is very surreal for me. This actually exists! Be interested to hear the board's indyref2 YES supporters on the various referenda to rejoin Russia and if they recognize their legitimacy. I expect some will end up tying themselves in knots if they do which is probably why they will just be ignored. I think at one point he discusses the various prominent European leaders and says it is one thing to be a complete lapdog to the US but they have now moved far beyond that into being traitors to their own citizens... hard to disagree on that one. Russia has also partially mobilized. This is the road to full on proper war here. Most folk seem totally oblivious to it. It is a real eye opener. The power of the press is undeniable, you control that and you can shape public opinion to just about anything you want.

I have only read snippets so far so can't judge how fair this is but here is what seems a reasonable summary of Putin's latest speech. Read it. We are in a very heavy and perilous situation here folks...

Again always useful to read the other sides media...although it is merely reporting on a US interview. It is so obvious who is behind this and why. Even children could work it out. Ex-Trump Pentagon Aide Names Likely Culprits Behind Nord Stream Sabotage The massive pipelines, designed to deliver up to 110 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Russia to Germany across the Baltic Sea every year were sabotaged on Monday. Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the “Anglo-Saxons” of targeting the Russian pipelines to deliberately destroy Europe’s energy infrastructure. The United States and Britain are the primary suspects in the sabotage attacks against Nord Stream 1 and 2 based on a cost-benefit analysis, former Trump Pentagon advisor Douglas Macgregor believes. “Let’s use the process of elimination. Would the Russians destroy their own pipeline? 40 percent of Russian gross national product or gross domestic product consists of foreign currency that comes into the country to purchase natural gas, oil, coal and so forth. So the Russians did not do this. The notion that they did I think is absurd,” Macgregor said, speaking to syndicated columnist Judge Napolitano on the Judging Freedom podcast. Germany, the pipeline’s primary European beneficiary, is also “extremely unlikely” to have sabotaged the infrastructure, Macgregor said, pointing to Berlin’s economic interest in the pipelines, and dependence on Nord Stream for the country’s energy security. “Who else might be involved? Well the Poles apparently seem to be very enthusiastic about it. As you know the [former] Polish foreign minister said ‘Thank You United States of America’ for doing this,” Macgregor added, referring to Radoslaw Sikorski’s now-deleted tweet about the incident. EU parliamentarian Radek Sikorski deletes his tweet two days later attributing the bombing of Nord Stream to the U.S. His follow up tweets remain. “Then you have to look at who are the state actors that have the capability to do this. And that means the Royal Navy, the United States Navy Special Operations. I think that’s pretty clear. We know that thousands of pounds of TNT were used because these pipelines are enormously robust. You have several inches of concrete around various metal alloys to move the natural gas. So it’s not something that you could simply drop a grenade down at the end of a fish line and disrupt. That means it takes a certain amount of sophistication,” the former official, who is also a retired US Army colonel, explained. On Wednesday, sources told the Wall Street Journal that Danish officials at a NATO meeting had calculated that the force of more than 500 kg of TNT had been detected in each of the explosions disrupting the Nord Stream pipelines, which led to the release of massive methane bubbles on the surface of the Baltic Sea. Macgregor suggested that the sabotage attack on the Russian gas pipelines may have ultimately been perpetrated after Berlin, the economic and military “gorilla in the room when it comes to the EU and NATO,” began “to give the impression that they were no longer going to go along with this proxy war in Ukraine.” “I’m hesitant to say ‘we know it must have been Washington’. I can’t say that because we just don’t know. But it’s very clear that we have foreclosed Berlin’s options. Berlin was drifting away from this alliance. [Chancellor] Olaf Scholz said ‘I’m not sending any more equipment, I won’t send any tanks’. Now he’s in a bind because the United States has simply robbed him of the option of bailing out. Who’s going to supply him gas and oil and coal and everything else if he bails out? Where does he turn now? And remember, the Germans, who are facing terrible consequences at home refuse to restart nuclear power plants,” the former official said. Macgregor believes that the German government may eventually collapse due to the energy crisis, and suggested that the Ukrainian security crisis has also placed NATO itself on a “slippery path” to potential disintegration in the long run. 'Unprecedented Act of State Terrorism' The Kremlin characterized the sabotage of the Nord Stream network as an “unprecedented act of state terrorism.” In an address to the nation on Friday dedicated to the entry of four new regions into the Russian Federation, President Vladimir Putin accused the “Anglo-Saxons” of sabotaging the pipelines to destroy Europe’s energy infrastructure. “It is clear to everyone who stands to gain. Those who benefit are responsible, of course,” Putin said. Also on Friday, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service chief Sergei Naryshkin told reporters that Moscow has materials that “point to the Western footprint in organizing and carrying out” the sabotage. Officials in Denmark, Sweden and Germany have not ruled out deliberate disruption, and NATO has paid lip service to supporting investigations “underway to determine the origin of the damage.” A Pentagon spokesman refused to answer a question by Sputnik about the suspected presence of US military helicopters in areas off Denmark’s Bornholm Island where the gas leaks occurred prior to the incidents. Meanwhile, Western officials and media have claimed that Russia sabotaged its own pipelines. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed speculation to that effect last week, saying the West's claims were "quite predictable," and that it was "predictably stupid and absurd to express such hypotheses." https://sputniknews.com/20221002/ex-trump-pentagon-aide-names-likely-culprits-behind-nord-stream-sabotage-1101436595.html Whether you agree with bombing this pipeline or not it is completely risible to suggest the Russians did this. Anyone doing so is clearly a bare faced liar peddling propaganda IMHO and they just expect you to believe any old shit that comes out their mouth at this point no matter how absurd.

I see slavering hills is back.... great.

Wow modern medicine... Just as well you didn't have to wear the orthopedic socks as well, you'd probably have been lynched.

Might have gone with Jinky and Dinky but not complaining. 😀

Who is that posing tit Ramy?

Nord Stream pipeline leaks are ‘catastrophic for the climate’ Methane leakage is likely to be the biggest burst of the powerful greenhouse gas on record in one of the most polluted bodies of water. Methane leaking from yet-to-be explained damage on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines is likely to be the biggest burst of the potent greenhouse gas on record, raising new fears of the effect on the climate emergency. The Nord Stream pipeline from Russia to Germany on Thursday was pumping huge volumes of methane into the Baltic Sea as well as the atmosphere – as much as five times more than escaped in the Aliso Canyon disaster – the largest known terrestrial release of methane in US history. The leakage could be equivalent to one-third of Denmark’s total annual greenhouse gas emissions, head of the Danish Energy Agency Kristoffer Böttzauw said. Danish emissions in 2020 were about 45 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2). Russia and the US and European allies have accused each other of deliberately sabotaging the gas pipeline as Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine intensifies. “Whoever ordered this should be prosecuted for war crimes and go to jail,” said Rob Jackson, a Stanford University climate scientist. The worst-case scenario is estimated to be 778 million cubic metres of gas leaked, according to the Danish government. Jackson and David Hastings, a retired chemical oceanographer in Gainesville, Florida, each calculated that would be an equivalent of roughly half a million tonnes of methane. The Aliso Canyon disaster released 90-100,000 tonnes. Methane is a major contributor to climate change, responsible for a significant share of the climate disruption people are already experiencing. That is because it is 82.5 times more potent than carbon dioxide at absorbing the Sun’s heat and warming the Earth. ‘Catastrophic’ Andrew Baxter, a chemical engineer working at the environmental group EDP, had a more conservative estimate than the Danish government, but it was still double the Aliso Canyon disaster. Just one of the pipelines could release emissions equalling the annual emissions of two million cars, he noted. “That’s one thing that is consistent with these estimates,” said Baxter. “It’s catastrophic for the climate.” https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/29/nord-stream-pipeline-leaks-are-catastrophic-for-the-climate Not to mention catastrophic for the pensioners and poor of Europe along with all their economies.

Hmmm gonna stick with the pipeline sabotage story for a bit longer. Always good to read the other sides media... From TASS. Russian diplomat urges EU to wake up, recalls Nuland's words about stopping Nord Stream 2 On Tuesday, Nord Stream AG reported "unprecedented destruction" on Monday "on three strings of the Nord Stream and Nord Stream-2 offshore pipelines" MOSCOW, September 28. /TASS/. It’s time fro the EU to wake up, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, posting a video on her Telegram channel with a statement of US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland about stopping the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. "Are you still looking for an answer to the question of who is behind the whole Ukrainian bloody scenario, the destruction of pan-European cooperation and the global world crisis?" the diplomat wrote, attaching a video of Nuland's January 27 briefing where she says, "If Russia invades Ukraine, one way or another Nord Stream 2 will not move forward". "And before that, she had set out the goal very clearly, saying 'fuck the EU’. When will Brussels wake up?" Zakharova concluded. On Tuesday, Nord Stream AG (Nord Stream Aktsiengesellschaft) reported "unprecedented destruction" on Monday "on three strings of the Nord Stream and Nord Stream-2 offshore pipelines." Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Moscow was "extremely concerned by this news" and did not rule out that the disruption of the pipelines could have been the result of sabotage. Later, Swedish seismologists said two explosions had been recorded along the routes of both pipelines on Monday. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen slammed the incidents as sabotage, pointing out that any "deliberate disruption of the European energy infrastructure is unacceptable and will lead to the strongest possible response". Indeed when will we wake up. US seeks to destroy energy cooperation in Europe, diplomat says For many years, both during the Democrat administration and during the Republican administration before that, the US did everything to thwart supplies of Russian energy resources to other European states MOSCOW, September 28. /TASSS/. Washington has been trying to destroy the energy cooperation in Europe for years, and did everything possible and impossible to achieve that, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Russian TV Wednesday. "For many years, both during the Democrat administration and during the Republican administration before that, the US did everything to thwart supplies of Russian energy resources to other European states. That’s first. And second - they did everything possible and even impossible […] to eradicate the single energy interaction and cooperation on the European continent. It was done, of course, in order to create competitive advantage for themselves, and to start shipping what they promised to Europe long ago - their own resources," the diplomat explained. "But I believe that the goal that is even more for Washington - is to tear Europe apart in general, to draw no one, but many lines, to pit everyone on the European continent against each other, and to return back to the times when the states of the European continent were unable to agree with each other and solved their issues, their problems not at the negotiations table," Zakharova underscored. IF you accept that the war in Ukraine started in 2014 with the US backed coup, followed by 8 years of steadily escalating provocations, until 2022 when Russia finally invades, then all the above would be obviously true. Unfortunately the Biden administration is packed with full on extremist neocon nutters and they are determined to attack Russia no matter what. Throwing Europe to the dogs in the process is nothing to them. In fact they want it. They don't like us almost as much as they don't like the Russians. I am wondering at what point it is going to click in Europe (with the general public). When it does there are going to be a lot of very angry, betrayed people. I could see this really damaging NATO and the EU assuming we avoid a nuclear WWIII. The Biden administration seems absolutely hell bent on it, it has already started, but they want the real McCoy it seems). Really hard to see how it is avoidable given these circumstances. (Imagine spending years moaning about imaginary white supremacists to then support the psychotic regime running Biden. Strange world we live in. 😀)

Six days… brutal. You’d need child bearing hips to birth that at the best of times. Well done. I was going to say as long as you can wipe your own arse it could be a lot worse. it is actually amazing how mobile you are considering they replaced a hip. I wish you a speedy recovery, gay socks and all.