Quote Originally Posted by phild View Post
Why are we imposing such high costs on ourselves to rally to the defence of a country that we hadn’t troubled ourselves formally to ally with? Our Government is again doing severe harm to our economy which is still recovering after two years of extreme responses to covid. The cost of petrol/diesel will keep on going higher and electric/gas and that’s before Putin has followed through on his threat to cut off the gas. Is it a price worth paying?
I think it is worth it Phil ....as the saying hoes “our children will be next”.... I have huge sympathy with the innocent people of Ukraine .... being shellacked every day by Putin ....and the West imposes only sanctions (which makes Putin laugh in our faces) as we are too afraid to do .... anything else. ... appease a dictator and things will only get worse .... history tells us that ...