Great Speech From Boris......

[ToraToraTora]

Forget all the hysterical politicking over trivia. This is when a great world leader earns his keep. It's the big occasions that the best leaders show what they are made of. TGL and TGM would be proud of our PM for his performance during the Ukraine crisis.

[DonkeyHoaty]

Avatar Image ichkeria
That's a bit silly: that was an EU meeting, but the genius of Putin is that he's managed to unite NATO.

Not so sure about that.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/09/blinken-ukraine-poland-fighter-jets-00015747?_amp=true

[Peter Pedant]

// Thank God they weren’t around in 1939. I dread to think where this country would be now.//

thank god no ABer knows any history

Appeasement was popular and the events of Sep 1938 ( peace in our time) were popular and a desired outcome. I admit that Daladier (*) in the plane saw the crowds and asked 'have the come to lynch us'

It was only Aug 39 - Nazi soviet pact that ( thunderclap) everyone thought christ there was gonna be a war

(*) The laddy who? all Abers ask

but you know what they say: if you dont like History you are reading: rewrite it!

[ichkeria]

“Not so sure about that.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/09/blinken-ukraine-poland-fighter-jets-00015747?_amp=true “

That link doesn’t work but if it’s about the Polish migs it was the US who nixed that not NATO
Things have changed now.
I’ve said it before tho: NATO was never designed as a weapons dispensary for other nations: it’s a defensive organisation. But nations can and do act on an individual basis

[DonkeyHoaty]

ickeria
That link doesn’t work but if it’s about the Polish migs it was the US who nixed that not NATO.

The US is a founding member of NATO so as I pointed out they are not as unified as you claimed earlier.

[ichkeria]

Poland wanted to send those planes.
The US disagreed.
It was nothing to do with NATO.
The fact both countries are NATO members is irrelevant

[Old_Geezer]

It is important for the world that Putin doesn't get anything from these excursions on his watch, as there are many potential 'Putins' in autocracies only too willing to see if trying to, or threatening to, escalate a denied war into a nuclear world war, pays any dividends.

[gulliver1]

D/H @ 20.17 loved your video , Poor old Boris , he looks like he is waiting for a bus. Hope it's not the red one with the £350 million a week lie painted on the side .

[ToraToraTora]

^^^^ looks like RBID is still rife!

[gulliver1]

Just another speech all about Boris and himself.

[anneasquith]

Perfect Timing. 2 days before the election on Thursday .

[DonkeyHoaty]

Avatar Image ichkeria
Poland wanted to send those planes.
The US disagreed.
It was nothing to do with NATO.
The fact both countries are NATO members is irrelevant.

I think it is very relevant, especially as it was you who claimed that Putin has united NATO.
I’m sure he thought anything but when he heard the US had put the mockers on the idea.

[gulliver1]

Churchill would turn in his grave if he could hear this weedy little round man with his shirt hanging out trying to imitate him .

[naomi24]

Got to laugh. Try as his enemies here may, their spite is futile. How frustrating. :o)

[ichkeria]

Putin has been the biggest shot in the arm for NATO in a generation.
Or I’d prefer to call it “wake-up call”
The only criticism I’d have is that they’ve been slow to provide the heavy weapons needed to blast russia out again.
But that’s never stopped individual countries notably the Czech Republic doing so anyway