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Well I clicked your link with the search on the BBC, and the last result is 4th Feb. I would think maybe it has some additional relevance since then. Like I said, I've been watching the coverage on the BBC. It's not been discussed.

I mean right now, in the contect of what is happening.

If I'm not mistaken Russia has been saying what it wants for a while. No NATO membership and protections for the ethnic Russians in the east. Why would Ukraine be a proxy of Russia? If Russia had got what it asked for it would still have had what is a pro Western government. Do you not think a...

I don't think it's much different to the protests we had over the Wars in the middle east. Just like here back then, many Russians will hate this War. Maybe even more so because of the close ties to Ukraine. But anti-war sentiment didn't stop the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We shouldn't assume...

Like I said, I'm primarily watching BBC News, and it's not been a subject up for discussion really.

I wasn't make a point about NATO expansion either way. I was making the point that the subject is relevant, but being almost completely ignored.

I think this is naive. They think the West is anti Russia. The West in punishing them. They aren't going to think that the person giving them a clip around the ear is their friend, and the person who has been warning them about the person giving them a clip around the ear is their enemey. I...

There is a piece in the Guardian about the role NATO expasion has played in this. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/28/nato-expansion-war-russia-ukraine I know there are aguments for and against that point of view, but what shocks me is the fact that on TV (I'm watching BBC...

Sanctions which hurt Russia's ability to wage this war are one thing, and they will hurt ordinary people, but those are not what I am talking about. I am talking about things like Apple Pay and Google Pay no longer working on Moscow's metro system, or Russians not longer being able to use their...

No I think the opposite, they will impact ordinary Russians, who I very much doubt will take it as an invitation to work together with us and see things from the Wests point of view.

I'm not convinced that punishing ordinary Russians for this is going to have the desired effect. People seem to think that doing that will cause Russians to revolt against their government, but surely it's just as likely that it will have the opposite effect, by legitimizing the message that the...

You are assuming that NATO protection would have been acceptable to Russia in that deal. According to those who know better than me, it never would and never will, ever, under any circumstances. Ever. Kind of Like Scotland or Mexico joining the Russian Federation would never be allowed to...

All the predictions made over this situation and the dangers in Ukraine were not about the likelyhood of Russia expanding west. They were about the likelyhood that if we try to pull Ukraine in our direction, Russia will pull hard in the other, and the result will be bad for everyone, and...

Reading through this twitter thread, it does seem like maybe the risks of this happening have been known and warned about for some time, perhaps as far back as the mid 1990s. Including warnings from some pretty high ranking government officials in the West. I said it in a previous post, but if...

This is right. You send guns and bombs to Ukraine with the knowledge and the intention that they will be used to kill Russian soldiers, and you've joined the war. I don't think this is a good thing personally, and I don't hear much language, from what are supposed to be non-parties, encouraging...

You are right in what you said, I didn't and I don't dispute it. But you also said I should take note of what you said. I was always responding to and talking about the 4,300 figure which was part of his post. No need to jump on me, we are clearly talking at cross purposes.

There is absolutely no chance that Ukraine have killed 4,300 Russian soldiers and shot down 27 Russian planes in two days. That would mean that Ukraine have killed as many Russian soldiers in two days as the total number of U.S. soldiers killed over the course of the entire 7 year war in Iraq...

Russia and the West are playing by different rulebooks. Russia view this as a national security issue and they view Ukraine as being of strategic security importance. The West do not view Ukraine as being of strategic security importance. It would be nice to have Ukraine in NATO, but the West...

I think Ukraine is probably making a mistake by putting out stories and figures which are not believable, and or come to be proven untrue. If Ukraine are to be believed, they need very little help, they are doing fine and Russia are bleeding out and nobody needs to be concerned. Ukraine with...

The Welbeck ball yes, it was great. Sometimes you can pick out a man. But you can't do that every time and Solly had the ball out wide countless times today, and he just will not put the ball in early. One good cross doesn't make up for wasting so much possession in what should be a dangerous...