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Another bleak prediction: China will possibly invade Taiwan. USA will do nothing, and maybe criticise Taiwan. Europe will do little as it eyes opportunities with China.

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April fools day is next month Bill.

The evil Poles, Churchill and Attlee wanted death, death, death, while poor Hitler and Mussolini wanted peace, peace, peace, but were dragged into war because warmonger UK decided to declare war instead of convincing Poland to a deal which would have favoured Germany to the detriment of Poland.

The free world is now USA and Russia, with its poisoning of dissidents and many window falls for critics. Funny how those who support ‘freedom’ love a tyranny.

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What a great week for speaking home truths.
Free speech being defended, Trump aiming for peace ,peace,peace,Zelenskyy aiming for death,death,death and being shot down in flames. Trump may not be perfect (who is?),but his aims are more inclined to peace and Christian values than the Marxist regime before him.

Trump’s peace is to allow Russia to regroup and attack again. You will no doubt be attacking Ukraine then for being ‘warmongers’ then while claiming to stand for peace.

It’s funny how you bemoan Marxism, yet there are many Marxists who make the same silly arguments about ‘peace’ as you do. They also think Zelensky is a warmonger who stands for the evil principles of the west and poor old Putin is being triggered to launch an invasion, where his soldiers abduct Ukrainian children, maim Ukrainian men, mount their heads on pikes, because Ukraine acting in its own sovereign interest should be subject to Russian needs.

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Are we really surprised, they got Zelensky in the press conference and just tried to bully him, no dignity or diplomacy from Trump whatsoever, he’s just proved live on air what the majority have known about him for years. He’s not fit to shovel shit never mind fit to be President of the USA, Zelensky should tell Trump in private to shove his mineral contract up his backside, it does nothing concrete to protect Ukraine it just favours the USA and strokes Trump’s overblown ego.

And we’ve just invited the moron for a state visit after brown nosing him in the White House.

I can understand why Starmer wanted to go over to meet Trump and try and woo him, but that state invitation should never have happened. Not right now while USA wants to backstab Ukraine and Europe. Now it’s a millstone and the government look behind, while 20 European nations, Australia and Canada have all shown support for Ukraine and we haven’t publicly.

The MAGA attempt to excuse this farce is that Zelensky was getting irate first, but what triggered this was Trump and Vance tried to make equivocations about Russians dying too and meetings with Putin. Quite understandably Zelensky pointed out that Putin doesn’t respect ceasefires unless it’s to benefit Russia, and with nothing for Ukraine, that the equivalence in loss of life is not the same as Russia is the aggressor and all this set off the Trump and Vance rage. They are too blinkered and without self-relfection that they can’t consider the viewpoint of someone fighting to defend their own country and think that is a problem because they have swallowed Russian nonsense. They think Zelensky is wanting war because he won’t surrender his country to Russia with no security guarantees. They are too ignorant to think that giving Putin whatever he wants is only encouragement for an attempt to take more, and maybe threaten other countries, so this ‘peace’ they desire is a pitiful one. One that would be, at best, short term. Anyone who listens to Russian arguments made domestically will hear their talk of how the former Soviet bloc needs to be subjugated into Russian control and there’s none of the “we’re threatened by NATO” crap. That’s aimed towards the west for useful idiots to swallow and prevent support for those they try and attack. I realise I am probably preaching to a choir here for the most part.

Could Zelensky have handled it differently? Maybe, but he is under immense stress and had to listen to such offensive rubbish about the war, while he has the weight of his nation on his shoulders. Frustration is understandable when you have pig headed ignoramuses spouting idiocy. He also has to stand up for his countrymen, and from what I have seen, many in Ukraine seem thankful and supportive. I have seen many saying they weren’t big Zelensky fans before, but this shows he has their best interests at heart. For people who love to crow on about how much they ‘care’ for Ukrainian lives because war has a death toll, they don’t seem to listen to what Ukrainians say. The majority of Ukrainians don’t want to be subjugated to Russian rule and understand any ‘peace’ is only temporary unless Russia can be constrained. Trump isn’t promising that, but he and his allies will still speak as if they have Ukrainians at heart when they speak of their ‘peace’.

The mad thing is that Trump and Vance seem to think that Russia is some great power they need to placate. The country has a lower GDP than Italy. Its army has been reduced to a husk of its former self. The Black Sea Fleet has been seen off by Ukraine, the army are often using donkeys and clapped out Ladas to bring troops in because Ukraine has destroyed so much. The winter war of 1939 was seen as an embarrassment for the Red Army because it didn’t subjugate Finland. Yet the Red Army was able to gain more land then than Russia has in the ‘3 day military operation’. The only reason Russia has made any gains recently is because they use their men as cannon fodder to overwhelm Ukrainian supplies, forcing them to retreat. Though, that’s slowed now. Even the most optimistic (for the Russian) estimates is that the Russians can hold out for 2 more years before the war is completely unsustainable for them. The most pessimistic is another 6 months, as it stands. Yet the US wants to hitch itself to this, maybe in the vain hope it cleaves Russia from China. It won’t and it shows that what is happening is that Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are being cleaved from the USA. Russia will likely stay by China’s side. Russia has wanted to see the west damaged and weakened since Putin got it, thinking that will make it more of a power and for revenge. China wants to be the superpower. They have more interests together than with Trump’s USA.

A main thought I have is that this is the end of the US century and the beginning of the Chinese one. I wouldn’t be surprised to see more Chinese involvement in trade and maybe other deals with Europe at least, with USA losing its influence and being left to decline with no sign of USA being great again. None of which is a good thing, it’s sad. The USA has been a good ally and an important force during 80 years of a more peaceful world (the amount of wars had declined since WWII in a more peaceful era than what has generally been known), but it’s surrendering it. I have my issues with many past presidents, but most represented what the USA could be, but this feels like the end. My sadness here is with the Americans who will be affected by the upcoming domestic struggles and having to be dealing with this.

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This coming from a British conservative too (former staffer to Michael Fabricant):

https://x.com/btharris93/status/1895539569036312674

I can’t say I disagree, and I am another who hasn’t been so instinctively anti-American. No fan of Reagan or the Bush family, but they were proud American leaders who acted in the best interests of the state, at least according to their beliefs. This jumped up reality mogul and his motley crew have no sense of statesmanship. The USA was pushing for Canada to be expelled from the Five Eyes intelligence sharing network. Not going to happen, the UK, Australia and New Zealand wouldn’t stand for it, but if anything it’s the rest of us who should be treating intelligence sharing with the USA carefully while they have people like Gabbard in such positions.

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Or maybe it’s all a ploy for today’s shit show. Trump and Vance an embarrassment to what the USA once stood for. They can go back to voting alongside their new pals Russia, North Korea and Eritrea at the UN. I wonder if Vance is going to lecture Putin on causing war, rather than the defending party, and about their poisoning and window falling of dissidents.

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Part of it is that Trump has a desire to be loved. He will sway to whatever route makes him feel adulated. Putin, Musk, Thiel and co can do that, so he goes along with a lot of their beliefs.

He is now making positive comments about Ukraine and Zelensky probably because Macron and Starmer have successfully placated his ego. It’s either that or he can’t remember what nonsense he spouts given his possibly deteriorating cognitive powers. He still has no respect for checks and balances or principles, but the ideological framework seems to match that of a radicalised Musk and the Heritage Foundation. All because they can tickle his tummy enough.

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I bet Beestin and the team are kicking themselves that, despite his chances, the team only managed an xG of 1.3.

https://x.com/BenPearson1997/status/1895208679911333943

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The guy is off his head. Alongside that madness there’s this:

https://x.com/davidfrum/status/1895150416738033992

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Chester seem to be struggling with Oxford City so far too. Comments from their fans is that they have created little so far and it’s scrappy.

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We finished 2nd that season. Hope that isn’t an omen then.

We also lost 0-1 the two seasons before that, when we then lost to Lincoln in the playoffs.

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Sounds like a fun holiday. Not the best time of year for weather, but is any time?

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The one thing AWG was right about is the value of Whitehall.

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I think it’s pretty obvious that Gurney is aiming some of what he is saying at the Christian members who have posted here. While we might not know each other’s names, there is a person behind the screen and some get frustrated by such jibes.

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Though, on a tangent, this looks an interesting documentary on the war on evangelical Christianity in Ukraine through trying to forcefully supplant it with Russian Orthodoxy:

https://x.com/SimonOstrovsky/status/1893028475524780171

This is what Russia is, it’s not the great defence of Christianity as made out by apologists, but a fascist country trying to force other countries to its whim, eradicating their cultures and replace it with Russian.

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And/or they don’t want to debate when the OP is signalling an intent to spoil for a squabble. I suspect I would be on the same page as Gurney for a lot of the stuff on this, and could into a lengthy diatribe about my thoughts on the situation (I will spare you all that), but people get stressed when the posts seem to be more of a personal attack than a debate.

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Ever the provocateur!

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Not so much for Beck, but Carlton has previously played on the wing. Fadera was more of a worry for his confidence and, so far, I think Fadera has impressed more.

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A lot has been made in the past over whether Trump is a Russian asset. I don’t think the pertinence of this question matters any more, to be honest, because a Russian asset would do what Trump has been doing. Either through will or stupidity (or both).

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He sure likes Putin’s authoritarian style and seemingly wants to emulate it. The biggest hoot is demanding Ukraine have elections, while under martial law (because they’re at war) and the poor logistics for it. The same reason Churchill postponed elections in the early 40s, and he wasn’t derided as dictator (rightfully so). Though, it’s a hoot given Russia poisons political opponents of Putin and hasn’t had a free and fair election in eons.

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Maybe, but Swann’s due diligence wasn’t much given he soon found out that Hilton had swindled him and came to post on here about him being hoodwinked. Some of it could have been hidden, but given it all swapped over to Hilton so quickly, I don’t think there was that much scrutiny.

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From the title, I thought this was going to be about the Lavrov-Rubiotrop pact to bully and plunder Ukraine. Though, the article does touch upon that.

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I can’t see it. Mods maybe deleted it.

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Keep banging away. You’re the pretty much the only one, bar Herbert, who is still deluded enough to think the man who brought the club to facing oblivion did a good job. The lack of wages being paid should have been a big hint as to his finances. If you believe that his hurt feelings explain or justifies not paying staff, then I have a bridge to sell.

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64 wrote:

He’s the only director to have taken money out of the club/board in the last year or so ,despite what his minions are now claiming about our current board and loans.He did that despite taking the club to the brink ,leaving the debt he took over for others to deal with and and leaving a toxic fan base .They still worship him while claiming the current board are lining their own pockets

The DRE were singing Michelle’s name on Saturday, so the minions are not really heard outside their bubble.

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I agree. We would have won 2-0 if not for a wonder strike. Not much to do about that beyond not committing the foul that caused the free kick.

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Yes, because unlike with your idol, the club hasn’t been run to the ground and we don’t face going out of business. That automatically makes it better.

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Given the characters that passed the FA’s fit and proper person’s test, it isn’t exactly a ringing endorsement.

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The only grass that was greener with Hilton was the pitch.

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