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Over on Times Radio, Susie Boniface and Rod Liddle give their views on the course of the war.

“I didn't know Susie was such a military expert,” patronises Rod curtly

“Well I've been a defence correspondent for twenty years, Rod.”

Rod gets ratty and descends into a full Corbyn sulk: “If you’ll just listen.”

The bombs are falling close to my ancestral home now, I have heard.

None of the equivalences below it really work either.

Shock news alert: I'll support the morally corrupt, decadent, hyopcritical shitshow of a system that at least allows some freedom and chance to flourish over one that, uh, equates flourishing with 'well at least now you're not eating cold beans in an unheated flat, ya ungrateful bum'.

The argument used to be "in America you can be incredibly rich or destitute, while in the Soviet Union you're basically stuck at an acceptable level of lifestyle". When the Iron Curtain fell and we saw the Romanian orphanages, that kinda blew that argument away.

And is Putin developing biological weapons that if unleashed on the continent of Europe would make Covid 19 look like a feckin tea party?

What me - worry?

Abernathy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 12, 2022 8:56 pm And is Putin developing biological weapons that if unleashed on the continent of Europe would make Covid 19 look like a feckin tea party?

What me - worry?

Gases that sink into basements would be 'perfect', wouldn't they? This was discussed at length on, I think, "The World Tonight" on R4 last night.

I don't 'get' how that the bollocks of Ukraine developing chemical weapons has to be met with, errr, chemical weapons?

Boiler wrote: ↑Sat Mar 12, 2022 9:06 pm

Abernathy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 12, 2022 8:56 pm And is Putin developing biological weapons that if unleashed on the continent of Europe would make Covid 19 look like a feckin tea party?

What me - worry?

Gases that sink into basements would be 'perfect', wouldn't they? This was discussed at length on, I think, "The World Tonight" on R4 last night.

I don't 'get' how that the bollocks of Ukraine developing chemical weapons has to be met with, errr, chemical weapons?

There's nothing to "get".
It's just disinformation to feed the trolls while their army carries on regardless.

What's the betting that this will be labelled as "virtue signalling" by some?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-60719578

Meanwhile, on 'chemical' weapons:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60708350

Boiler wrote: ↑Sat Mar 12, 2022 9:06 pm

Abernathy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 12, 2022 8:56 pm And is Putin developing biological weapons that if unleashed on the continent of Europe would make Covid 19 look like a feckin tea party?

What me - worry?

Gases that sink into basements would be 'perfect', wouldn't they? This was discussed at length on, I think, "The World Tonight" on R4 last night.

I don't 'get' how that the bollocks of Ukraine developing chemical weapons has to be met with, errr, chemical weapons?

So they can stand and tell the world it was a Ukrainian own goal when they use them. It'll get just enough traction with just enough fucking idiots to obfuscate things. cf. Syria

I had the horrible feeling that'd be the reason: "these aren't our nerve agents oh no, they're Ukraine's and got released when we bombed their factories, honest"

The fact the Express is today celebrating 'caring Brits' taking in refugees is quite something. I wonder why the little white boy on the front is acceptable, hmmm...

RedSparrows wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 9:37 am The fact the Express is today celebrating 'caring Brits' taking in refugees is quite something. I wonder why the little white boy on the front is acceptable, hmmm...

Strange. I thought Brexit - something the Express has always been incredibly vocal over - was all about sending the Poles home. You know, those white, hardworking and sometimes church-going individuals.

Ha ha. Church, for Express readers, is for weddings, funerals, and claiming moral superiority because at least you're not a fucking Muslim.

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 10:56 am Ha ha. Church, for Express readers, is for weddings, funerals, and claiming moral superiority because at least you're not a fucking Muslim.

Oh yes. Sunday worship for them these days is the garden centre or B&Q.

An interesting interview with an Estonian military intelligence officer.

https://newlinesmag.com/argument/putins ... -problems/

One country in Europe has been bolder in making projections that this war will not end in Putin’s favor: Estonia, for which Russia has historically been the overriding national security and military preoccupation at all levels of government. On Feb. 28, Mikk Marran, the head of Välisluureamet, Estonia’s foreign intelligence service, told New Lines that he didn’t believe Putin could “keep up an intensive war for more than two months” and that ultimately “Russia will not win this war.”

A senior Estonian analyst with years of experience tracking Russia’s military affairs concurs with that assessment but doesn’t even think it’ll take another two months to bear fruit — it already is doing so.

As this source asked to remain anonymous, we will refer to him as “Karl.”

“If Russia does not achieve a remarkable advance by the end of this week, it is difficult to see how [the advance] should come at all,” Karl said late this week.

The Russians, he added, have not made any serious encroachments for the past few days. However, the situation remains delicate. According to national security reporter Jack Detsch, a senior U.S. defense official said March 11 that Russian forces have made “additional advances” toward Kyiv in the past 24 hours and that Russian troops are less than 10 miles northwest of the capital’s city center and 20 miles east in Brovary.

I'm sure the Jeremy Isn't Anti-Semetic brigade are queuing up to condemn Chris Williamson.