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:thumbup: exactly.

@Rinkals - I'm not really trying to defend everything Scholz has done. It's just that particular tweet you posted - and I know it was in response to some wider arguments you're making - is a tabloid non-story. Some criticism of Scholz is justified but it would be better ...

I don't think any poster has a problem with legitimate criticism of Macron or Scholtz, it's your use of fake news to do so that is the problem.

:thumbup: exactly.

@Rinkals - I'm not really trying to defend everything Scholz has done. It's just that particular tweet you posted - and I know it ...

Well, we'll have to agree to disagree.

In the mean time:
https://twitter.com/JimmySecUK/status/1536283635967574016

He understands that Western democracies move slowly in some regards. But from his perspective when the West prevaricates in sending systems they're eventually going to seen anyway ...

The only other news sources interpreting these events they way you (and your twitter clown) have done are the euro-bashing UK press.

Not true.

There is plenty of comment from Poland, Estonia and other Baltic states calling out Scholtz' prevarication.

The article I posted and the Spiegel ...

@Derriz

At no point did I refer to British tabloids, so bringing them in is irrelevant.

I confess that I didn't read the entire Spiegel piece, but the screenshot of the relevant page, confirms my position (and that of the Tweet's author).

Your own link says that German opposition leaders asked ...

This was the charge by the cops, a judge might decide otherwise.

I get the feeling that judges in the US are appointed more in line with their political position than their ability to dispense justice fairly; you frequently see the sobriquet "Trump-appointed" or "Obama-appointed" appended.

If ...

Just to make the point that my original post on this matter, which started this spat, was intended to show that this discussion was not about anti-french or anti-german sentiment, but was about the feeling that certain European countries were inhibiting Ukraine's defence of herself.

As The Frog ...

Japan hasn't "taken" the Kuril Islands but have reaffirmed their claim to sovereignty over the southern islands after they were forced to cede them to the Soviet Union post WW2 stating that Russia are illegally occupying this territory of Japan

My point is that the Russians have contested ...

We owe an enormous debt of gratitude towards the Ukrainians and we should be sending them everything they need to fight this fight.

I always felt that Putin's territorial ambitions were not confined to Ukraine. That, had Ukraine tamely capitulated as was widely expected, Moldova would have been ...

We owe an enormous debt of gratitude towards the Ukrainians and we should be sending them everything they need to fight this fight.

I always felt that Putin's territorial ambitions were not confined to Ukraine. That, had Ukraine tamely capitulated as was widely expected, Moldova would have been ...

A load of Daily Express jingoistic shite accusing Germany of blocking a Spanish attempt to supply tanks to Ukraine.

You should read a bit more instead of regurgitating bollox like this. For example https://www.overtdefense.com/2022/06/08/scholz-no-request-from-spain-to-deliver-leopard-2-tanks ...

Zero percent mortgages don't have to create a sub prime lending crisis. If the largest hurdle to a house is a deposit and a renter has been using a service such as Credit Ladder to track their rental payments and for 15 years per say has flawless records on paying rent every month at a similar ...

Oh Christ.

2 runs to get in 2 overs and everyone is trying to hit sixes and getting themselve out.

Miller gets the runs with 10 balls to spare.

OomStruisbaai wrote: Sun Jun 12, 2022 4:42 pm Klaasen taking India apart.

Klaasen falls on 81 trying to finish the game with a six.

Ha ha. Thought I'd provide you a little moral support! For the record I think that Macron and Scholz have been craven and a bit duplicitous on the Ukraine issue.

I was a bit surprised to get attacked, to be honest.

I don't doubt that Putin won't ultimately prevail, but I feel frustrated that ...

I suppose, if you score 118 and get it chased down with 5 balls to spare, there is pressure on to get a big score.

I think the toss was crucial.

Czech Foreign Minister weighs in on Macron's Russia comments.

Czech Foreign Minister: 'Putin doesn’t care how Russia is perceived in the West.'

Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky tackled French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent stance on avoiding humiliating Russia. ‘Macron probably doesn’t ...

India 50 for 2 after 7.

Wicket in the first over for Rabada, and then Nortje bounces Ishan out.

Maharaj gets Pant.

71 for 3 after ten.

Parnell bowls Hardik.

92 for 4 after 13.

Shreyas edges Pretorius behind.

109 for 5 after 16.

What is clear to me is that we cannot reset and go back to how it was before February this year, whatever Macron and Scholz might think.

Russia might be able to survive for a while, were the Ukrainians to concede and allow a Russian occupation, but Russia (and Putin) is irretrievably damaged ...

What is clear to me is that we cannot reset and go back to how it was before February this year, whatever Macron and Scholz might think.

Russia might be able to survive for a while, were the Ukrainians to concede and allow a Russian occupation, but Russia (and Putin) is irretrievably damaged, and I ...

Rinkals, you seem to be barking up a couple of the wrong trees...

the simple point that has apparently escaped you is that Macron clearly said humiliating Russia would be a mistake. Russia itself.... not Putin. That is a crucial point of difference. You're getting all hung up about Putin in that ...

What is this?

You aren't even reading what I'm posting, and you're editing my posts to remove context.

What lies have I spread?

I'm editing your post to remove your waffle. Macron did not say Putin should not be humiliated. Do yourself a favour and actually read Frog’s thoughtful post ...

FFS, just a few post above yours we have a poster explaining what Macron actually said:

So fucking what?

I agree that France is supplying weapons, but my point was that Macron's suggestion that Putin should not be humiliated, is just the sort of encouragement for Putin to believe that ...

Slick wrote: Fri Jun 10, 2022 6:58 pm Quite unusual to see an SA team with an all white pack

Rancid!

It's the constant little Jibes,why should it be allowed to go undefended?

Polish and Ukrainians have had moans about the french and germans, yet somehow it's all down to elements in the British media.

I think there is anger at Macron's suggestion that Putin should not be humiliated and ...

On the Frog and La Soule reaction I suspect they are both active on the old Board With a Bunch of little englanders being little englanders.
This makes you defensive.

This place is a lot more civilised.

It's the constant little Jibes,why should it be allowed to go undefended?

Polish and ...

anyone taken note of Caleb Abrahams playing at 9 for Grey College?

very very talented youngster
He is a reincarnation of Joost. Runs just like him. He looks a big solid kid too for a scrummie.

Crisp pass and generally dominating with ball in hand

With lots of time which is always a ...

Noticing that 2 Brits and a Moroccan captured by the Russians have been sentenced to be executed in a show trial.

If Putin wants the Brits to back off and stop supplying weapons to the Ukrainians, I'm not sure that this is the best way of going about it.

The lies about Brexit are now so tenuous, every tory is terrified that as soon as Boris goes the next PM will completely ditch it, or least let the public know some of the truth. That is why he will cling on for as long as possible. He is basically Brexit.

Is ditching Brexit even possible any ...

That's not the problem; they have Ex-Generals on every day, & other experts who know exactly what was said, & why that phrasing was used, but they still deliberately misrepresent what was said. It can't be just written off as editorial stupidity.

Vested interest in making a democrat look ...

Slick wrote: Tue May 31, 2022 9:37 am
Rinkals wrote: Tue May 31, 2022 5:36 am Oh, okay, no I didn't see that.

Not that I agree with it, though; I suspect that overweening patriarchy is probably the underlying cause of this mess.
Down with Zapps patriarchy

Not quite what I meant.

Oh, okay, no I didn't see that.

Not that I agree with it, though; I suspect that overweening patriarchy is probably the underlying cause of this mess.

Proportion has fuck all to do with anything and it's a hilariously stupid false equivalency, terrorism & voter fraud dispels that quite easily. like when 1 *failed* shoe bomber changed the way we fly forever.
214 mass shooting in the USA in *check notes* 148 days (aka this year so far) - 27 ...

Maybe they don't do that because the proportion of young men who buy guns who go on to kill someone is extremely small, whereas the proportion of women who want an abortion who go on to kill their unborn baby is very high. Chalk and cheese.

Proportion has fuck all to do with anything and it's ...

Please stop misquoting me.

Alright, "full of shit", then.

Minor semantics, which don't actually alter the point.

What is so important about the race of the shooter (or the victims, for that matter)?

Rinkals, there's not much point. You either don't read what I write or you just make ...

Can someone talk me slowly through posting a gif, plz?

2 ways.

The easiest is to use the site's own image repository. Underneath the 'Save draft" "Preview" and "Submit" buttons of your post, there are two tabs. One says "Options" and the other says "Attachments". Select "Attachments".

There ...

The context is that when he was running for president he stated hell yeah we're gonna take (some of) your weapons, and when he was running for office in a pro-gun state he said nah we don't want to take anything. What's changed his mind do you think? My belief, and the obvious one I think, is ...

convoluted wrote: Fri May 27, 2022 6:15 am...I intend this as my only post on the matter...

https://twitter.com/unlit_uplands/status/1529764129644363776

I must've been unconsciously working on that Stewart anecdote about Johnson and the Kenyan elections when he was foreign secretary, because something suddenly came to me.

Cambridge Analytica worked closely with Kenyatta in polling ...

The context is that when he was running for president he stated hell yeah we're gonna take (some of) your weapons, and when he was running for office in a pro-gun state he said nah we don't want to take anything. What's changed his mind do you think? My belief, and the obvious one I think, is that ...

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