PETER HITCHENS: We're goading Russia into a 'dirty war' we CANNOT win

Submitted by LocutusOP on Fri, 03/16/2018 - 23:19
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John McCarthy , D Smith, Peter Rhind , Andy z, Jack      

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Friday, March 16, 2018 - 23:00
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PETER HITCHENS: We're goading Russia into a 'dirty war' we CANNOT win

The idea of a war between Russia and the UK is so ridiculous as to be comical. How long does anyone think it would take Russia to annihilate any air or sea (I wont make the joke worse by saying ground) forces sent against them by Britain? And what is all this rubbish about nerve gas being an absolutely abominable way to kill an enemy.In my long ago youth I saw, at first hand, the effect of napalm, shrapnel, a variety of high explosive weapons and assorted other bastardry. I assure you watching someone screaming in agony whilst trying to hold in their intestines, or looking down, dazed, at the results of an anti-personnel mine on their testicles is just as dreadful a death as any imaginable. As Mr. Hitchens rightly points out, Britain is very much a second level country with a matching military. Russia, for all its problems has a military capacity well beyond the UK. The British would do well to remember this.

Posted by: John McCarthy | 10 March 2018 at 11:11 PM

 

 

Sorry, Peter, but if you want to join a monastery, you're going to have to become a Catholic.

Posted by: D Smith | 10 March 2018 at 11:34 PM

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No one appears to have asked the question of why now? MI5 or MI6 would be aware of Russians with links to the KGB / Putin in this country and would be able to zero in pretty quick on suspects. Our security services are not beyond doing this themselves and making Russia out to be the culprit. Alternatively, if this was a Russian hit is it coincidental it’s now during the Mueller investigation? Actually, even if it’s not a Russian hit it’s coincidental in timing. Whatever the case the real reason is unlikely to be revealed as it’s very likely highly compromising to whoever sanctioned it and will never let it be known.

Posted by: Lost in translation | 11 March 2018 at 12:54 AM

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Losing imperial measures such as the mile is of minor importance compared to what many European countries are facing. Their very languages are under threat due to the creeping influence of English. When will people on this island realise just how lucky they are? Other counties would give away so much to have a language as dominant on the world stage as English (be it the Americanised version). People don't seem to acknowledge this.

Posted by: Peter Rhind | 11 March 2018 at 03:33 AM

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Fully concur with your sentiments.Britain is seen by Moscow as weak and insignificant in todays world.If we harbour traitors from elsewhere what can we expect!?live by the sword etc !!.This spy was probably still active. So wind your little necks in HM govnt and go back to what you do best cozying up to truly vile regimes of Saudi andChina! The hypocrisy is mind blowing

Posted by: Andy z | 11 March 2018 at 06:52 AM

Only a couple of years ago, a member of the European Council (a prime minister of this country) declared his wish to see the new European Empire "stretching from the Atlantic to the Urals" - half of which land area is within the borders of Russia. This happened just about the time when that European Empire declared it was going to establish its own armed forces (something at least one of its acolytes had denied the existence of plans for, in the most emphatic terms, only a couple of years earlier).
Are the UK's defence forces are still tied up with those of this new and aggressively expansionist European Empire? Disturbingly, in all the debate about the UK distancing itself from that empire, there has been little regarding the separation of our military from its armed forces.
Is UK policy towards Russia being dragged along by the EU?

Posted by: Jack | 11 March 2018 at 07:08 AM

 

 

 

 

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It is somewhat encouraging to see that in PC-central, the U.K., there are still people who can think critically.

In fact, it would seem as though most of the commenters on Peter Hitchen's piece do not at all believe the government line on the Skripal 'nerve agent' poisoning story, which should be any reasonable man's default position, I hasten to add.