Election Year or Fear!

[Trickytreesreds]

That's twice recently you've make me chuckle, are you on new meds? We other old fellahs need to know!

Don't struggle, let me help.
This is the measure of what you read,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_Sarkar

[Andy_Faber]

Don't struggle, let me help.
This is the measure of what you read,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_Sarkar

You miss the point TTR I was just having a joke with rA, it is allowed

[Geoff Parkstone]

So Tricky - Alex Scott, Ash Sarkar, Dianne Abbott: snog, marry, avoid?

[MadAmster]

So Biden, in a last act of controversy, has released restrictions on the Ukraine using US long range weapons inside Russia. Pressure is now on Starmer.

Is this the democrats reacting to Russia, or stoking the fire on Trumps regime as it vacates the whitehouse.
Troubled waters ahead.

To combat the the thousands of North Korean combatants sent by Kim Jong-Un to help fight the Ukranians. Russia is involving foreign combatants. Ukraine, thus far, hasn't except for a handful of mercenary volunteers. In order to operate the long range rockets, they need US operatives to control them. Russia expands the boundary of combatants, US responds. It seems you may have missed the appearance of several thousand North Korean troops on Ukraine's border.

It isn't beyond the bounds of possibility Biden is bluffing Putin, maybe even having agreed to such a move with Trump, into sending the Koreans back home. Putin isn't particularly popular and the possibility of having Ukraine attack and destroy military airfields and possibly many Russian military personnel would make him even less popular.

One thing I do agree with you on is that there will now be more pressure on Starmer to allow Ukraine to use UK supplied Storm Shadow missiles deep inside Russia.

Putin shouldn't, but will, complain about Ukraine being allowed full use of the US ATACM missiles or, if permitted, UK Storm Shadow missiles. He started the proliferation by bringing in Korean troops and their weapons. Aint karma a bitch.

The million dollar question here is, at what point, if at all, does Putin think the UK/US/EU has crossed a red line and declare war?

[ramAnag]

That's twice recently you've make me chuckle, are you on new meds? We other old fellahs need to know!

Lol. Twice! I am doing well. ‘New meds’? Maybe after Thursday…(Statins perhaps)…feel as if I need them after recent correspondence!

[ramAnag]

So Tricky - Alex Scott, Ash Sarkar, Dianne Abbott: snog, marry, avoid?

They all answered…avoid!

[SithHappens]

I'll take any news spreading through x with a pinch of salt. Its only a few weeks since farages mates were spreading news that an announcement was imminent that would see the downfall of starmer. Still waiting on that one.

Also would take very little notice if what Cummings has to say.

[MadAmster]

With regard to Southport. The first news published said he was Welsh. It seems he was born in Cardiff. Would I be correct in saying that's in Wales? Those same reports said he was brought up as Christian, which he was.

Those original reports could only be lies if he a) wasn't born in Cardiff, which he was and b) not brought up as a Christian, which he was.

If someone actually KNOWS at what point the BBC became aware of his "turning" and that turns out to have been before the original broadcasts, then both a) and b) are still true. If none of us KNOWS when the BBC became aware of the lad's radicalisation and at which point they corrected their original story then we CAN"T say they lied. As I wrote in a post at the time. It's very likely the radicalisation, if known at the time, was kept quiet with the express intention of avoiding the rioting we saw. A sensible idea. Unfortunately the usual suspects in public life and trouble causers on X started promoting rumours and asking questions that could have been left a day or two. It was those rumours that caused the rioting. Those who made the "announcements" quite likely got the response they wanted. Riots.

[Trickytreesreds]

So Tricky - Alex Scott, Ash Sarkar, Dianne Abbott: snog, marry, avoid?

Avoid all 3 for me.

[Trickytreesreds]

To combat the the thousands of North Korean combatants sent by Kim Jong-Un to help fight the Ukranians. Russia is involving foreign combatants. Ukraine, thus far, hasn't except for a handful of mercenary volunteers. In order to operate the long range rockets, they need US operatives to control them. Russia expands the boundary of combatants, US responds. It seems you may have missed the appearance of several thousand North Korean troops on Ukraine's border.

It isn't beyond the bounds of possibility Biden is bluffing Putin, maybe even having agreed to such a move with Trump, into sending the Koreans back home. Putin isn't particularly popular and the possibility of having Ukraine attack and destroy military airfields and possibly many Russian military personnel would make him even less popular.

One thing I do agree with you on is that there will now be more pressure on Starmer to allow Ukraine to use UK supplied Storm Shadow missiles deep inside Russia.

Putin shouldn't, but will, complain about Ukraine being allowed full use of the US ATACM missiles or, if permitted, UK Storm Shadow missiles. He started the proliferation by bringing in Korean troops and their weapons. Aint karma a bitch.

The million dollar question here is, at what point, if at all, does Putin think the UK/US/EU has crossed a red line and declare war?

Unanswered, only by Putin himself. That question comes on the table, the closer Putin comes to losing. If he loses, he will be ousted and done away with. What does he have to lose?