So Boris is bouncing around Europe trying to act like a statesman in the very place that 5 years ago he told us we should leave and strike out on our own. A more hypocritical posture you cannot imagine, EU leaders must be laughing up their collective sleeves, watching this blond idiot strut and posture about peace and Russian incursion of Ukraine. Putin must be shaking in his boots!
I reiterate, in my opinion, I don’t think Putin will invade. He is playing games and pushing the West whose rhetoric has only made the situation worse. He cannot afford a protracted occupation of the Ukraine. It is, after Russia, the second biggest country in the region, this is not a small territory and would be extremely difficult to police, engendering a conflict that would last for years. I don’t understand the aggressive warnings that the Biden and others are spouting, if the situation is as dangerous as they claim than surely more temperate language is needed? Putin is having his moment in world events and milking it for all he can. He wants the West to take him seriously but also understand his fear of NATO getting closer to his borders, although there was no impending likelihood of the Ukraine becoming a member. Ironically his tactics have actually woken up NATO and brought the members closer than they have been for some time, after Trump’s undermining of there purpose and funding. Putin has tried to split them but it has backfired? Do not misunderstand me, Russian aggression is dangerous and provocative and should be met with a a firm response. In the UK we could start with unraveling all the Russian ties in business and with the Conservatives in particular. Money talks and as there were many Oligarchs who had billions of it, we gleefully accepted their cash.
The public will never know or get the truth. No matter how good the reporting might be, we will never understand what goes on behind closed doors but you can bet that it will not be good news for us. Deals are being made, as they always have been, in secret and we have little say in our future. Like I have said money talks and it always shouts loudest!
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