What I fear, Robert, is that our Cold War with Russia morphed into a non-violent war for influence in E Europe with nukes stationed, I expect, in former USSR satellite states and, I believe, NATO military exercises in them. This, and NATO membership, was seen by the nasty, not nice, pariah Putrid as extremely provocative. Certainly, very unwise by the American-led Western politicians and armed forces.
In Feb 2014, I can remember that I thought that nasty pariah Putrid's annexation of Crimea was an exact response to the disastrous Revolution of Dignity. No Crimea takeover, no Separatists war ramped up/started (which is it?), perhaps if our side had not undemocratically overthrown the Ukraine President. The American-led West, with UK's enthusiastic support, has done it once too often since 1945.
MORE WRONGDOING:
A quite superb but very troubling statement from Andrew Malkinson on Wednesday. Seventeen years in prison is extremely concerning in revealing yet more corruption and incompetence by the State.
What I've discovered over the last 70 years of Centro/TfWM idiocy and incompetence, re transport infrastructure wrecked in Brum and the Black Country, is nothing compared with this far more serious catalogue of very serious, incompetence and corruption that the magnificent charity Appeal uncovered. Well done to James Burley (have I got the name right?)
