Lionator

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.

300 surely gonna be too much on this wicket?

But less about the UK, what about America?

I’m massively against hollowing of the state and transfer of wealth into the richest people’s hands. Hence why I hate both Trump and Putin too. But I’m genuinely just very interested in Geopolitics.

The leaks from the Biden admin show that Vance is just saying the quiet part out loud. Yes it’s offensive and rude, but it is also true that Europe doesn’t have a credible plan, therefore the only logical thing to do is to stop the fighting and loot Ukranian resources between USA and Russia because there is no credible alternative.

Nailed it. This is where we’re heading!

Yes. Apart from the absolute redneck neo con types, the whole ‘new republicanism’ in the states is based around shifting the focus to the Pacific. They think Europe should be able to look after itself (it should) while they absolutely would support nato countries if attacked by Russians. Hence why they’re trying to manufacture a strategy which covers all of this. Read Elbridge Colby’s articles (who is now in the DoD). Mike Waltz is basically pursuing this. Ukraine is simply collateral damage. Biden had no strategy other than to keep telling Zelenskyy that he’d support him for ‘as long as it takes’ and incremental escalation that would’ve had to have stopped eventually. The bet Putin had, was always that Ukraine was more important to Russia than America and he was right.

Again, Trump is just accelerating the inevitable process in a horrible and brutal way. Even on Sunday with Starmer supposedly giving his Churchillian speech, he still went on about US security guarantees. The cold hard reality is the USA aren’t prepared to risk it all for Ukraine (and this is the same Biden) because Ukraine has little material benefit for them in the wider geopolitical scheme (unlike Taiwan but that’s a different story). Good article from yesterday https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/03/europe-trump-ukraine Do I agree with it? No. Is it fair? No. But it is what it is, that’s why when things are ended on terms favourable to Russia, we need to ensure that all other European states defence spending is adequate so even if Putin has a 1% urge to do something, he would absolutely regret it.

Yup, if the American economy continues to grow the way it has been for the past year, it’s going to be President Vance or Ivanka.

And if Putin tells his air force to fly over eastern Ukraine to see what happens and test the waters we have a choice a) engage Russia directly and all of the risks that come with that, but fulfilling our duties b) observe it and do nothing thus proving the whole purpose of being there is futile.

I’m firmly of the opinion that Russia only respects America. Delusions of grandeur but that’s probably where we’re at. They felt stabbed in the back with the change in direction on the Minsk agreements, despite being guilty of breaking them themselves. A lot of people tend to blame Putin but this is a sickness through Russian political society, Putin is just a manipulator of common viewpoints. I think there’s an opportunity for the US and Russia to agree something with Ukraine at the table of course. The frothing of wanting to fight Russians is once again insane.

Probably at a negotiating table (but I realise this will be an unpopular view).

Put it this way, for those with kids on here. How would you feel about them getting conscripted and sent to ‘defend Ukraine’?

Fulham, Villa, Bournemouth, Brighton I reckon. Fulham to win it.

I’m afraid Nottingham Forest are winning the FA cup.