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Battles past
Peter Hitchens
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12230429/PETER-HITCHENS-seen-putsch-Moscow-1991.html
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https://www.gov.uk/home-education
…as with “Boris” Johnson…
At first, when the news broke about “Boris” Johnson, the then Prime Minister, being in intensive care from “Covid”, I was probably 60% “it’s real news” and 40% “it’s fake news”. Now? About 70% in favour of it having been “fake news”, and it having been part of the whole “scamdemic” propaganda effort.
If Wagner Group are “terrorists”, then how much more are the American forces, after all the millions they have killed worldwide since 1941?
Perhaps. In days of yore, Stalin would have shot the heads of the Russian Army and GRU soon after the pathetic failed takeover of the Ukraine in 2022.
Just an Indian money-juggler.
Interesting to see the generally downward trend over 30+ years. Will Sunak go as low as Liz Truss? We shall see.
Don’t tell me that Woollyhead Trussbanger is trying a comeback?!
The same or similar is true of the UK.
I do not know, but maybe, with much of the Zelensky-regime army now either dead or occupied in the southeast of Ukraine, there is a plan to attack from Belarus, but Kiev must now be well-defended in depth. Any approach to the suburbs of Kiev would meet with stiff resistance, then would require a reduction of the urban and suburban battlefield space by artillery, aircraft, and missiles before a mass infantry incursion, and would be horrendously bloody, bearing in mind the number of civilians in Kiev.
A battle for Kiev would be on the level of [the WW2 battle for] Stalingrad, or the recent Bakhmut carnage, in ferocity, and on a much larger scale even than Stalingrad.
Kiev is the 7th-most populous city in Europe, or 6th if Istanbul is excluded: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_cities_by_population_within_city_limits. Istanbul, Moscow, London, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Madrid, Kiev. Of those 7 cities, 3 are of course in the former Soviet Union.
Having said the above, the Wagner Group forces seem to have been sidelined, with many sworn into the ordinary Russian Army. If PMC Wagner is “decapitated”, leaderless, and not in Belarus, how could it attack from there?
It looks more like a bloodless dispersal of Wagner Group assets.
The truth may be out there, but I think that we do not know it yet.
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In any case, why would it have been “justified” in the early 1930s? The KPD (German Communist Party) of the time was under Stalin’s control (via the Comintern) and, in the Soviet Union, mass slaughter was already happening in various ways. The NSDAP was a necessary Abwehr (“parrying”) to that Stalinist expansionism. Once in power, the NSDAP lifted Germany and its people out of degradation, and made Germany the most prosperous nation in Europe.
People, some people, should learn some real history…
As for any attempted historical analysis by the likes of Gary Lineker, the hugely-overpaid football talking-head, life is too short to waste time on it (or him).
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Good grief. I knew that it was expensive but thought maybe £100-£200.
I suppose that age demographics come into it. I do not know what is the age typical of a Glastonbury audience, but not that young, I am guessing. Like owning a top-range motorbike, or a Morgan car, it is (?) the prerogative of the middle-aged and even elderly, these days.
Not that I have been there. At least, I have been to the town of Glastonbury a number of times (and have even stayed overnight a couple of times), but of course not to the music festival.
I remember when the Reading Festival was first held there, which I think was either 1970 or 1971. 1971, I think. If so, I was not quite 15. I remember driving with my mother, the day before it started, down the lane through the riverside meadows where it takes place, mainly to see the “hippies” who were already arriving. A human safari park, if you like. Our family lived on the other side of the river, in the suburb of Caversham Heights.
In those days, “pop festivals” were for the young (16-25, maybe 16-30). Of course, the general population has aged, and I see now that tickets for the Reading Festival cost hundreds of pounds.
An outright fraud. Anyone who supports her or sends her money is just a total mug.
“Tab” as “Tik-Tok Advance to Battle”?
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Ian Robert Millard 
Prigozhin has proven to be, using a Chinese expression, “a paper tiger”. A lot of talk but no action. He has now departed to enjoy a cozy “exile” en Belarus and his fortune, after abandoning/betraying his men. He reminds me of the cowardly Argentinian generals who, from time to time, between 1960 and 1980, “raised” against the government only to be told off and surrender in 48hs without firing a shot.
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Claudius:
You may be right. I feel that I have insufficient evidence to judge it all at the moment. Wagner Group certainly fought like tigers at Bakhmut.
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If we analyse the situation, Prigozhin attitude is inexcusable. Until a few days ago he played the role of a fearless leader who will go on fighting till the bitter end and whose main concern was the welfare of his men. Then, suddenly, he abandons his men and goes to enjoy a nice retirement in Belarus. That, in my vocabulary is TREASON. Can you imagine Hitler doing that? I don’t.
Let’s suppose that, after the failed coup of 1923, the Bavarian authorities offered Hitler a lot of money and a nice, comfortable villa where he could retire, on the condition he would abandon his political activism and his followers. I do not believe he would have accepted their “generous” offer, right?
Not only Hitler, all true leaders (Julius Caesar, el Cid, Cromwell, Henri IV, Napoleon,) would have died before betraying his cause and their men.
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Claudius:
I agree with you as far as that goes, but Prigozhin is not a political leader, nor a standalone military one. He is more like a wayward general relieved of his command, as MacArthur was during the Korean War.
There is also the fact that I myself do not know whether this whole “otstavka” (retirement) thing is maybe a ploy worked out between Prigozhin and Putin, with the idea of setting up a new “PMC Wagner” in Belarus (with the aim of attacking the Kiev regime from there).
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I never believed in the “near death ” experience of Boris “the Clown”; it was fairly similar to the charade played by Trump who went into a private hospital/clinic “with Covid” to come out 4 or 5 days later fresh and healthy as a sportsman. It was all part of the circus.
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Claudius:
Yes, I incline to the same view.
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Is obvious that Boris lied about being seriously ill; so, what? Nothing happened to him and nothing will happen to him for the other far more serious lies he told during his awful premiership. That stupid video is pure hype. He and all the other politicians should be in jail for ever and many among them should be executed for treason.
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BEING WHITE DESPITE “LEFT” AND “RIGHT” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It5BYuwq-58
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Thank you, Velvet!
Jim Goad is great!
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Hello Ian: What you said is possible but I believe it is highly unlikely. There was no need for all that charade. Prigozhin could have left quietly and went “incognito” to Belarus to organise an attack from there. I have a bad feeling about this…
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Claudius:
The main thing, anyway, is to defeat the present Kiev-regime counteroffensive. Like you, I do not like cruelty or brutality to either animals or humans, but it may be that the only way Russia can end this conflict will be either to take Kiev —whatever that takes— or to reduce it to a shell of what it now is, or both.
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You are right (as usual) I hate to think what would happen next; the war is going to get worse. Hundreds of poor innocent civilians and animals will die. Those stupid and incompetent Russians should have that bastard Zelensky killed within 48 hs of starting their attack in March 2022.
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Claudius:
As you say. The Russian Army of 2022/23 is not the Army that conquered most of Afghanistan in 1979, or that which invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968.
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I have a question for you, a tweeter named “Lilyevagrellen” is talking about “people in ED recovery”. What does it mean?
I am right in believing that “Jack Monroe” has claimed to have cancer? How mentally ill you can be?
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Claudius:
You have taught me something there; I did not know what “ED recovery” was, so Googled.
https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/stages-recovery
“Eating disorders”.
As for “Jack Monroe”, for a while she claimed that she had, or was diagnosed with, cancer. Just another of her lies designed to get mugs to send money…
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