2024-01-19
It's now the talk of the town - the only question seems to be how long before battle commences outside of the Ukraine.
Suddenly everybody seems to have "hypersonic" missiles and they are not afraid to use them.
So how will the UK, having run down its forces over many years, not to mention sending all available spare kit and munitions to Kiev (and quite possibly Israel), propose to catch up with a Russia that has been planning to repel any NATO "aggression" for many years, and has already been on a war footing for around two years?
We keep being told that Russia isn't going to stop at annexing Ukraine, and that the rest of Europe will be next. In point of fact Russia has shown remarkable restraint in staying behind the Dnieper river and not pushing on to take Kiev ... so far. It has also brushed off all that NATO has managed to throw at it in the Ukraine.
It isn't the Russian Federation that has advanced its military to western Europe's borders since the Warsaw Pact was (unlike NATO) disbanded.
Maybe we should just talk to them. We might find that they are a peace-loving nation and amenable to a non-aggression pact (Putin has previously indicated as much in negotiations with Zelenskyy) and we have experts from a past era when even the USSR Communist dictatorship concluded such treaties on the mutual basis of "trust and verify".
Why are we ruling this out? Surely not simply because such a move would leave all our current political class with egg all over their faces?
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2024-01-20
And if we really are going to war with Russia, wouldn't it be a good idea to be able to make our own steel for ships / tanks / missiles etc?
