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Stirlingsays Flag 21 Sep 22 1.32pm Send a Private Message to Stirlingsays Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add Stirlingsays as a friend

Originally posted by silvertop

Sudetenland also began long before German annexation. And it is not difficult to make parallels with Sudetenland or western Poland or Alsace Lorraine or, indeed, Schleswig Holstein where the Germans used the incorporation of already existing German speakers into the Fatherland as the excuse to annex.

However, while you can make some comparisons with Hitler, it won't help in understanding or resolving the current crisis.

Hitler wanted a war with Bolshevism, he saw it as existential to German survival. The only parallel that works here is the Putin sees a pro Russian or neutral Ukraine as existentially important to Russia.

This war is essentially a battle of loss....who is prepared to lose more to keep the Ukraine as they want it.

Edited by Stirlingsays (21 Sep 2022 1.33pm)

 


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eaglesdare Flag 21 Sep 22 1.35pm Send a Private Message to eaglesdare Add eaglesdare as a friend

NATO, EU and US need to cop onto themselves and stop antagonising Russia!

Zelenski needs to sit down and do a deal all he has to say is that ukraine will not join nato and all this goes away! its that simple.

And we continue to send billions to the most corrupt country in the world!

 

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Wisbech Eagle Flag Truro Cornwall 21 Sep 22 1.36pm Send a Private Message to Wisbech Eagle Add Wisbech Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by Stirlingsays

I'm just happy for people to have their pointless war at this point. I'm totally fed up with it all. Apparently I'm the 'appeaser' but if someone wants peace in Russia I'm sure they would be called something else. Fed up with it, 'appeaser' is what all peace makers are called and its mostly by morons......I've made my positions clear and instead we will see the consequences of the neo cons....economic stupidity.

If we survive, I say we are all going to end up in a worse situation with a big fat nothing burger to show for it. But I'm resigned to it now.

Oh and what would life be like if we hadn't put ourselves into two world wars? Leicester would still be English that's one outcome. We wouldn't have an expanding Mosque building programme and growing tensions between expanding populations of Hindus and Muslims (the Muslims will force them out into their own areas eventually)


Edited by Stirlingsays (21 Sep 2022 11.59am)

That is simply untrue. An appeaser gives way to a bully, which results in the bully being emboldened and makes the situation worse.

A peacemaker finds compromises between two opposing positions and is able to find reconciliation.

One runs away from conflict. The other runs towards it to make peace. Peacemakers are not pacifists, who shy away from conflict.

There is a "golden moment" when interests collide and the peacemaker can emerge. This may be it.

 


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Stirlingsays Flag 21 Sep 22 1.42pm Send a Private Message to Stirlingsays Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add Stirlingsays as a friend

Originally posted by eaglesdare

NATO, EU and US need to cop onto themselves and stop antagonising Russia!

Zelenski needs to sit down and do a deal all he has to say is that ukraine will not join nato and all this goes away! its that simple.

And we continue to send billions to the most corrupt country in the world!

It looked like something could be worked out in March.

But the State department and Johnson didn't want it.

Zelensky is their puppet now...well he always was a puppet but that's another story. The fact is whatever he does his life is at high risk....make peace and be assassinated or carry on and be assassinated or blown up.

Russia are essentially doubling their manpower here.....personally I think they need at least 500, not 300 thousand more to win quickly like they think....but we will find out.

I wonder how long it will take for them to deploy them.

Edited by Stirlingsays (21 Sep 2022 1.43pm)

 


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Stirlingsays Flag 21 Sep 22 1.44pm Send a Private Message to Stirlingsays Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add Stirlingsays as a friend

Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle

That is simply untrue. An appeaser gives way to a bully, which results in the bully being emboldened and makes the situation worse.

A peacemaker finds compromises between two opposing positions and is able to find reconciliation.

One runs away from conflict. The other runs towards it to make peace. Peacemakers are not pacifists, who shy away from conflict.

There is a "golden moment" when interests collide and the peacemaker can emerge. This may be it.

Waffle merchant.

I'm not interested in your traumatized playground analogies.


Edited by Stirlingsays (21 Sep 2022 1.47pm)

 


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Wisbech Eagle Flag Truro Cornwall 21 Sep 22 2.19pm Send a Private Message to Wisbech Eagle Add Wisbech Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by Stirlingsays

Waffle merchant.

I'm not interested in your traumatized playground analogies.


Edited by Stirlingsays (21 Sep 2022 1.47pm)

Yet another reply that cannot squarely face the truth, so resorts to insult. Instructive that American spelling is used again. A not uncommon event. Why is this? Does it suggest the source of the thinking isn't in the Fens?

It's far from just my analogy. Try this for confirmation:-

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My visitors are from the USA. They have much more sympathy for Trump than I do, although not blind adherence. I don't think they would vote for him again. However, they are right behind the way the USA is supporting Ukraine and remarkably well-informed about the war. No backsliding on view from them. Which both surprised and pleased me.

 


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Stirlingsays Flag 21 Sep 22 2.25pm Send a Private Message to Stirlingsays Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add Stirlingsays as a friend

Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle

Yet another reply that cannot squarely face the truth, so resorts to insult. Instructive that American spelling is used again. A not uncommon event. Why is this? Does it suggest the source of the thinking isn't in the Fens?

It's far from just my analogy. Try this for confirmation:-

[Link]

My visitors are from the USA. They have much more sympathy for Trump than I do, although not blind adherence. I don't think they would vote for him again. However, they are right behind the way the USA is supporting Ukraine and remarkably well-informed about the war. No backsliding on view from them. Which both surprised and pleased me.

Completely subjective, like everything else you say.

I'm not interested in what you think or your inventions. You are a physical coward who wants to cheer on other people fighting for your causes, even when some of them are forced to.

Post at someone else.....you are a comment stalker.

 


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Mapletree Flag Croydon 21 Sep 22 2.41pm Send a Private Message to Mapletree Add Mapletree as a friend

Originally posted by eaglesdare

NATO, EU and US need to cop onto themselves and stop antagonising Russia!

Zelenski needs to sit down and do a deal all he has to say is that ukraine will not join nato and all this goes away! its that simple.

And we continue to send billions to the most corrupt country in the world!

Unlike Russia, which encourages corruption to maintain control over powerful individuals, Ukraine is not amongst the most corrupt nations. It is 15 countries less corrupt than Russia but I shan’t be buying a timeshare there any time soon.

Most corrupt is South Sudan, least corrupt New Zealand, Finland and Denmark

Interestingly Estonia is at a similar ranking to Britain

Edited by Mapletree (21 Sep 2022 2.42pm)

 

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Mapletree Flag Croydon 21 Sep 22 3.13pm Send a Private Message to Mapletree Add Mapletree as a friend

Originally posted by Stirlingsays

Completely subjective, like everything else you say.

I'm not interested in what you think or your inventions. You are a physical coward who wants to cheer on other people fighting for your causes, even when some of them are forced to.

Post at someone else.....you are a comment stalker.

Meanwhile you post at him. Bizarre. Keep on pounding those rocks and squirming when you hit them Stirls my old fruit.

 

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eaglesdare Flag 21 Sep 22 3.14pm Send a Private Message to eaglesdare Add eaglesdare as a friend

Originally posted by Mapletree

Unlike Russia, which encourages corruption to maintain control over powerful individuals, Ukraine is not amongst the most corrupt nations. It is 15 countries less corrupt than Russia but I shan’t be buying a timeshare there any time soon.

Most corrupt is South Sudan, least corrupt New Zealand, Finland and Denmark

Interestingly Estonia is at a similar ranking to Britain

Edited by Mapletree (21 Sep 2022 2.42pm)


More western propaganda

 

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Stirlingsays Flag 21 Sep 22 3.24pm Send a Private Message to Stirlingsays Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add Stirlingsays as a friend

Originally posted by Mapletree

Meanwhile you post at him. Bizarre. Keep on pounding those rocks and squirming when you hit them Stirls my old fruit.

Really Maple? So you'd agree with me in criticising his stalking if I didn't post at him (which we both know happened for a long time)? Na, you don't really give a hoot.....you just love your 'granite shoreline' because you're from the same shoreline.

Personally I think that granite is full of something porous.

 


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Mapletree Flag Croydon 21 Sep 22 3.41pm Send a Private Message to Mapletree Add Mapletree as a friend

Originally posted by Stirlingsays

Really Maple? So you'd agree with me in criticising his stalking if I didn't post at him (which we both know happened for a long time)? Na, you don't really give a hoot.....you just love your 'granite shoreline' because you're from the same shoreline.

Personally I think that granite is full of something porous.

No, granite doesn’t contain anything porous. Granite is massive (lacking any internal structures), hard, and tough.

 

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