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The amazing thing is NATO was diminishing as Trump stated and the EU was moving towards the European army model with a weaker and weaker association with NATO. Brexit was a major blow to the European idea because the likes of Germany were bound to be pacaists. The NATO sleeping dragon was on a death bed.
Well done Putin!
Peter hitchens spent half is life as a commy and half is life as a conservative. He also spent a lot of time in Russia.
Some things he speaks sense and others hes lost the plot on.
He has no idea how to resolve the problem with Putin or the nut cases in the Kremlin or how to stop them invading other countries. He often cites NATO but how does that explain Moldova, Chechnya or Georgia?
" Mail on Sunday is an unofficial mouthpiece for the Conservative Government,"
Oh no it isn't! It frequently has some difficult stories for the tories like the DM. Those who engage in naked propaganda assume that is what everybody else does. For mainstream print media in the UK, the publication targets a profile, a demographic, and the editorial aims to
keep that demographic on board and purchasing papers and subs. The political party take note of all the papers as free focus grouping. Publications like the Guardian however do attempt to push a narrative for people to adopt and be tutored by. The Independent turned out to be like that too. If the PM picked the phone up and told the MoS editor what to say, the MoS editor would put the attempted bullying on the front page with a very negative editorial (see lots of editorials in lots on papers during Blair's attempt at an autocratic reign).
Just because the demographic profile the paper markets to has coincidental vows as the elected government doesn't mean the politicians lead the papers. It is often the other way round!
It may be a lone commentators views (I don't mean he is alone in them), but given that the Mail on Sunday is an unofficial mouthpiece for the Conservative Government, I wonder at least if it is a tester to see if sentiment can be swayed, the UK and US have gone in all glory without thinking very much about what comes next (it seems), and at some point soon a settlement will need to be reached if politicians are to keep hold of their jobs, yea and there's million of starving people, but they have their priorities!
Yeah OK, civilians are evacuated and soldiers surrender but the rest of the article is pretty much mindless drivel.
Just a little criticism can’t be bothered with the rest of his spin, sneering and snobbery
‘’Look, I respect those who take Ukraine’s side in this war (no you don’t). They have a valid point of view (no really) which I happen not to share. But what I object to is the wholly one-sided nature of public opinion here(because....). It is so bad that it is a positive disadvantage to know anything about the subject.'' ( you’re all ignorant that’s why you support them so shut up).’
‘’I have mentioned here before that the first act of violence in this war was actually the Western-backed mob putsch which overthrew Ukraine’s lawful government in 2014. ‘’
Well that ‘mob ‘ as the subsequent landslide election of Zelensky showed ( in which the Ukrainian far right got less than 2% of the vote and zero seats) represented the vast majority of the Ukrainian people (who like the rest of us) are quite entitled to rise up to depose their government whether lawfully elected or otherwise whenever they so please.
‘’This was the true beginning of all the horror. And while it does not excuse the idiotic and brutal Putin invasion, it very much helps to explain it.’’( you Ukrainians asked for it)
Again, not really since Russia has had a centuries long obsession with strategic depth and Putin identified with and endorsed this stratagem so Ukraine was always on his agenda as something that needed to be, ‘’ bent to his awe or broken all to pieces.’’
His brother definitely got all the brains.
AJ, proof of that quote?
https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2022/05/22/germany-allows-105mm-leopard-1a5-tanks-apfsds-ammo-go-to-ukraine/
Even Germany is now to ship yet more armaments. Older models but a useful addition to the ever growing Ukrainian fighting force.
Seeing what is being deployed against them, at what point will the Russian generals realise absolute defeat is inevitable and they call of the invasion??????
wasn't somebody claiming there was no Ukrainian air force the other day?
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/05/21/7347727/
just for you mugs who think that if you are not 100% behind Ukraine, you have to be a Russian propagandist.
I can hardly believe I read this in that rag;
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10840777/PETER-HITCHENS-explain-called-evacuation-not-surrender.html