Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
Ha, ha. You clearly missed my last half sentence, written with him - and his Foreign Secretary - uppermost in mind.
But, during the worst of the pandemic, the strong did look after the weak didn’t they? We didn’t abandon the sick and the old and we did protect those endangered by loss of employment didn’t we?

I fear Tricky has a somewhat jaundiced view of the world and you regularly subscribe to your mantra of ‘survival of the fittest’.
Ultimately does that not mean that you’d now just allow Russia to use it’s greater fitness (military might) to overcome Ukraine and continue on until it reaches the Polish (NATO) border when all hell will, literally, be let loose.

Anyway...let’s not argue and destroy the unity that Putin has brought about even on here.
Sorry RA, where is it jaundiced?
When has there ever been a bully free period in history?

I'm firmly in the ever prepared/ strong camp. I don't trust many regimes around the world.
We've had our fair share of situations in which we put our trust in good human nature and got singed.
The naivity of some folks, is at times laughable. However much we want/expect people to be decent and honest. It always gets thrown back in your face.
From Chamberlain and the nazi's to a sheltered "refugee", turning himself into a bomb
It happens and to not expect it, is irrespnsible.

The last line, you are correct with.