Lionator

Fair enough and elements of the Russian leadership is definitely fascist, I wouldn’t argue against that and if it wasn’t for the oligarchs who act as a brake force, I dread to think where we’d be at from a security situation.

But by nihilism I mean the sense of nothingness about everything. People are obviously scared to speak out but they’ve never been given opportunity to believe anything. If we think Russia is fascist then surely the USSR was too?

I wouldn’t call it fascist but I’d definitely call it nihilist. It’s proper bleak over there and a lot of people believe in nothing.

Don’t think the club can be blamed here as long as we get a good fee. It’s an awful reflection on what the sport has become though.

Russia is a Christian country but Putin hardly follows the oath of Jesus does he? Trump wants Ukraine and Europe to come up with a credible pathway to peace, Zelenskyy just keeps shouting “give me weapons to get peace” and Europeans just keep shouting “coalition of the willing”. Neither are credible, and Trump will just keep negating until they actually come up with something workable.

The current status quo is hardly working now though?

Finance ultimately. The inequality gap is ever expanding and they blame the ‘establishment’. Now obviously you’d think that electing a hyper capitalist billionaires like Trump and Musk would be insane, and you’d be correct. But the system is not working and when you only have two options, it’s easy to see why Trump won. You also have to consider, the average American does not give a crap about what’s going on in Luhansk or the West Bank. It has no material impact on their lives.

New Zealand has a choice though, keep America onside or become a Chinese vassal state. It’s not that difficult and I’m certain the NZ PM doesn’t want to be getting the mandarin language book out quite yet.

That’s why they’re the best team in Europe!

Wow

Kneecap straight in the head. First shot Darwin’s got on target all season.

Mental that Arsenal had 12 shots last night and scored 7. These have had 20 and not a single goal. Been a quality performance too.

I preferred when Ally McCoist used to nerd out over Vikings, now he’s just screaming down the mic.

PSG look quality. Konate exceptionally lucky not to be sent off.

And it’s up to us to show them that it’s not worth trying. But us intervening in Ukraine would be crazy like them invading Poland.

Political will is such a weird term though. Wanting to avoid potential radioactive obliteration isn’t a lack of political will, it’s common sense. Russians also have this urge.

There’s a slow normalisation within society that it’s a potential possibility. Had an argument with my former army uncle at the weekend who was very excited at the thought of us fighting Russians 🤷🏻‍♀️

Just to reiterate that anyone who genuinely considers that Britain fighting Russia would be a good idea is insane. And before anyone says “well what about when Adolf Putin is rolling across the German border?”, Russian don’t have the capability to do that.

It’s simply impossible to say because a) if we were beating them in a conventional war, it would likely turn unconventional b) you don’t know what type of war it would be, naval, ground etc?

What a goal Rodrygo.

Villa have got to be in serious PSR trouble. The wages they must be spending on that squad is insane.

Queens Park Oval in Trinidad is basically the same as what it was 30 years ago. Antigua, Barbados and Guyana have all properly either changed or massively redeveloped their grounds. Sabina park is kinda the same but the atmosphere is dead by all accounts. So trini is the best.

That’ll be all Serbian MP’s banned from the king power stadium forever.

Has to be one of the most messed up things I’ve read. Sometimes people snap and lash out murdering people but it sounds completely premeditated, planned and just sickening.

By the time the next elections come around, the whole geopolitical climate will be reoriented. Simply waiting for 2028 in the hope that the Democrats will win (who themselves will probably be done with Europe and will want to focus on internal matters) is a strategy that will lead to further irrelevancy.