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Putin certainly won't be doing anything on Wednesday now, not with US intelligence openly calling it days in advance. Russian commencement of action on that day now would be implicit public recognition of an intelligence failure.

It's very odd that the UK state controlled broadcaster didn't report the humiliating incompetence of a UK minister.

It's an amusing incident if it were not so serious. But it's par for the course with our era of politicians worldwide it seems.

NATO army driving towards Moscow? Even in a hypothetical conversation, the idea of NATO marching on Moscow is ridiculous. . I can't comprehend where this bull comes from, I really can't.

You then go on and try compare Afghanistan, where foreign forces left so the country could govern itself, with areas where Russia invaded and left russian puppets in charge.

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I cant even.

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Dead Ukrainians do not lose politicians votes in the US. Proxy wars are no problem especially when someone else's voters are the cannon fodder.

The stated goal of the Russians since 2014 is the federalisation of Ukraine so it is no longer a threat to them. In the past Russian citizens/subjects paid the ultimate price when France (chased back to Paris) and Germany (chased back to Berlin) advanced along the European plain which has no natural barriers. That's why they put up the buffer around themselves post WW2. Having a sitiation where the Caucasus can be easily cut off in a matter of days is a risk for the Russian military planners, history has shown it is better that it does not come around.

Highly improbable Russia will invade, despite what the Western media telling you. Personally think it's all crap and propaganda. Russia is mass-murdering Ukrainians here a nation that shares a historical history with them. Russian public does want to hear about Russian soldiers killing civilians. Putin bluffing but the western leaders are not smart enough to see it. The reality here it's Nato that most likely cause a blunder in this region by acting recklessly with flyovers and ship movements.

Bullshit. Did the place a squirrel in the Kremlin to find out.? Every major country has war plans.

Flyover? Flying over what? Ship movements where?

That gives Russia precisely zero right to invade.

Ukraine is bordering Russia. Putin can move troops a 100 miles doesn't mean much. It is not like there moving across other countries' landmass. They could return to barracks in hours and be home for tea.

Many of them are 2000 miles from home barracks.

You might be from the Midlands but in Cork we consider that a fair stretch.

When nothing happens remember I told you so. Have a good night believing this crap.

Re Afghanistan Sand, I lived and worked there for several years, before sept 11th, under the Taliban and several years later after the US had arrived, and you know something Sand? After sept 11th,the differences were unimaginable. it was a completely different Country...women were going to school and working. University's were fully functioning, road net works were being rebuilt, even main roads linking cities that the desert had taken back, water systems repaired and in Hospitals , the changes were unbelievable. The infant and mother mortality rates dropped dramatically, so that the population increased from 20.78 million in 2000, to 37.3 million in 2021. The effects of the Famines' that regularly occur in Afghanistan, were vastly reduced. And now, the famine presently threatening Afghanistan, is presenting as the biggest global catastrophic event in 2022. Can you point out any other so called "Invader" in history who actually improved the invaded Country? ( there was of course the rebuilding of Germany and Japan after ww2, in which the US played a major role ) As for defeating the US in Afghanistan, what defeated the US was not a military defeat..it was a combination of the efforts of Pakistan and of course Iran, who did not want a successful and independent Afghanistan on their doorstep. So they hampered US efforts to modernize Afghanistan, and it was not helped by the endemic corruption that existed in Afghanistan itself. And now what have we...the Taliban back, everyone cheering the "defeat " of the US by sandal wearing Afghans. Poor Afghanistan, lovely people,,,,,Soon the best 20 years of your recent history will only be a memory.

As for Georgia, Chechnya and now Ukraine,,,none of these Countrys wanted to be part of Russia, why do you think there were wars? As you say, Russia achieved its goals all right, by slaughtering thousands, and dispossessing them from their lands.. what about the rights of these Countrys?? But according to you, No, only Russia has rights.