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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,340MI6 Agent
    You mean starting a war between NATO and Russia? I don't see how that could go wrong ...
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    It's like the 60's all over again...
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I don't think freezing assets and bank acounts would need to tumble into war.
    As in the old quote ...........
    First they came for, ...........
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    I agree that it's never best to sit by & let mean little men have their way with violent oppression...
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I hate bullies, infact in My school I had to show a couple of them the error
    of their ways , when they decided to make life hard for a few people. As I
    pointed out, you can help or stand back.
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    Yes.
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,340MI6 Agent
    I doubt boycots would work. China wouldn't join in and the EU relies on Russian gas and Russia isn't really dependant on the EU. It's not the 1990's anymore.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I was one of those who ( even in my teens ) said that gas pipeline
    would come back to bite us in the ass.
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent
    Any War between NATO and Russia would be pointless.
    1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    The West is decadent and divided, it has no stomach to risk our atomic reprisals.
    Gen Orlov, 1983 :)) Once again " Those silly Bond films " are ahead of the game.
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • David SchofieldDavid Schofield EnglandPosts: 1,528MI6 Agent
    Putin should put down his military machine and show how much he himself is prepared to fight, without the "tricks" of the KGB. Save countless pointless deaths.

    Yup, few rounds with Klitschko should be enough to decide the future of Ukraine/Crimea.

    Come on, Putin, have a go if you think you're hard enough.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,340MI6 Agent
    While I strongly oppose Putin's brinkmanship and military agression we need to keep some questions in mind:

    - How strong is the right wing (fascist?) influence on the Ukranian side?

    - Has there been any harassment of the Russian-speaking population?

    - Crimea was Russian until 1954, when Nikita Khrushchev gave the province to Ukraine on a whim.

    - It was downright funny when minister of State Kerry said: "One can't attack another country based on false accusations to further your own interests!" Many in Russia feels the US has done so in places like Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan, and they are not completely wrong.

    - When Russia claims western powers are behind the popular rising in Kiev, they may very well be on to something. We know US government-backed NGO's partly financed and trained the oposition in Ukraine during the Orange revolution as well as in several countries in the Middle East before the Arab Spring.

    -We must also remember that Russian political thinking has been Area of Influence and still is. Russia/The Soviet Union suffered horrendous losses during WWII. US and especially Norwegian losses were peanuts in comparison, and most of them was on their territory. Much of the cold war and certainly this conflict must be understood with this in mind. Russia is very scared of getting attacked again, and having friendly "buffer states" around them is enormously important to them.

    I think it's very important to see the other side's perspective in a conflict. Keep in mind that even if we live in democracies our media might under-report certain aspects of a conflict and see the problem from only one side.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    When I'm in times of trouble , I simply think to myself, ....... what would James T Kirk do ? :))
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,340MI6 Agent
    What would cptn Kirk do in Ukraine, Thunderpussy?
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I think he'd ask Spock. ;)
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,340MI6 Agent
    Logic? Yes, just explain the Russians and Ukrainians whatis logical ....
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    I think he'd ask Spock. ;)
    Ron Tracy would have a simple answer...
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    Ok here's my rant of the moment.

    I went to buy a stamp yesterday at my local Post Office.

    Me: A first class stamp please.
    PO: When does it need to arrive?
    Me: ummm as soon as possible please.
    PO: Well first class can take 1-3 days. But we can get it there for you tomorrow recorded delivery, for only £6.22.
    Me: £6.22! Umm no thanks.
    PO: What's in it?
    Me: Come again?
    PO: is there anything valuable, vouchers, cheques, anything like that?
    Me: I'm not sure, my wife asked me to post it...
    PO: Well we can insure it for you for only....
    Me: No! no thanks. just the stamp please?
    PO: Ok. Hey! When's your car insurance due for renewal? Would you like a credit card? Would you..... Where are you going, sir? Sir?

    Now I'm not against upselling, but is it just me who thinks Post Offices ain't what they used to be? 8-)
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,340MI6 Agent
    I have to ask the American members of the forum - have teh Tea Party movement said anything about what the solution is :o
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,870Chief of Staff
    Ok here's my rant of the moment.

    I went to buy a stamp yesterday at my local Post Office.

    Me: A first class stamp please.

    ....

    Now I'm not against upselling, but is it just me who thinks Post Offices ain't what they used to be? 8-)

    Oh thank you, C&D, I am so glad that I am not the only person who finds this unacceptable. It happens in banks, too.
    I sometimes try to sell them my stuff, if I happen to have the right gear with me. It usually confuses them no end! If they get annoyed, I just say "Well, you started it..." :)
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    :)) :)) :))

    Barbel, that's excellent!

    Do you inkw that Youtube clip where the phone sales guy calls to sell his stuff and the guy pretends to be a police officer at a homcide?
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • BlackleiterBlackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent
    Number24 wrote:
    I have to ask the American members of the forum - have teh Tea Party movement said anything about what the solution is :o

    Not that I'm aware of, but if they are true to form their solution would be to impeach Obama. That's pretty much the solution for everything for that bunch of........well, I'll just leave it at that.
    "Felix Leiter, a brother from Langley."
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Are they still on about him not being an American ? The last thing I saw about it old Donald Trump
    was turning blue screaming about the long birth cert. :)) ( do they even realize, how CRAZY they
    look and sound to the rest of the world ) 8-)
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,870Chief of Staff
    Bondtoys wrote:
    Do you inkw that Youtube clip where the phone sales guy calls to sell his stuff and the guy pretends to be a police officer at a homcide?

    No, but it sounds good- must take a look!
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    ( do they even realize, how CRAZY they
    look and sound to the rest of the world ) 8-)
    THANK YOU! -{
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • always shakenalways shaken LondonPosts: 6,287MI6 Agent
    Ok here's my rant of the moment.

    I went to buy a stamp yesterday at my local Post Office.

    Me: A first class stamp please.
    PO: When does it need to arrive?
    Me: ummm as soon as possible please.
    PO: Well first class can take 1-3 days. But we can get it there for you tomorrow recorded delivery, for only £6.22.
    Me: £6.22! Umm no thanks.
    PO: What's in it?
    Me: Come again?
    PO: is there anything valuable, vouchers, cheques, anything like that?
    Me: I'm not sure, my wife asked me to post it...
    PO: Well we can insure it for you for only....
    Me: No! no thanks. just the stamp please?
    PO: Ok. Hey! When's your car insurance due for renewal? Would you like a credit card? Would you..... Where are you going, sir? Sir?

    Now I'm not against upselling, but is it just me who thinks Post Offices ain't what they used to be? 8-)
    Went to the big post office in Dartford (last year ) found it full of smelly poor people in assorted crappy track suits all queing up
    to get their beer money oh I mean to get their money to buy kids food with ,any way usual bank /post office ,supermarket
    design mentality , relevant head office know it alls go to architect and commission them to design premises,
    plans come back ,they say ,oh we like that yes build it with 10/20 tills windows knowing full well only 3 will ever be open
    you dig so far, so theres me fuming at huge que in the PO pondering to myself about this wonderful invention called soap,
    when this dope ,masqueraiding as a PO manager walks down the line asking all and sundry ,can I help you ,can I help you
    so ,comes to me , me standing there in line with huge parcel under arm , and says can I help you,so me being the sarcastic
    ex copper, (you've all met one ) replies ,yes I will have a deep pan supreme pizza,with extra cheese and salami please
    to wich baffled manager replies , oh we don't sell those here , oh I must be here to post this bloody huge parcel then,
    just open up some more windows X-(
    By the way, did I tell you, I was "Mad"?
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    oh I must be here to post this bloody huge parcel then
    :)) :)) :))
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • always shakenalways shaken LondonPosts: 6,287MI6 Agent
    chrisisall wrote:
    oh I must be here to post this bloody huge parcel then
    :)) :)) :))

    glad you liked it :)
    By the way, did I tell you, I was "Mad"?
  • BlackleiterBlackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent
    Are they still on about him not being an American ? The last thing I saw about it old Donald Trump
    was turning blue screaming about the long birth cert. :)) ( do they even realize, how CRAZY they
    look and sound to the rest of the world ) 8-)

    Apparently they either don't know or they don't care, because they just keep going on and on despite the fact that they are becoming increasingly irrelevant.
    "Felix Leiter, a brother from Langley."
  • always shakenalways shaken LondonPosts: 6,287MI6 Agent
    went to bank this morning, and have come to conclusion,that there should be 3 types of window, pay money in , withdraw money
    and morons, why is it I always get stuck behind the North Korean sheep farmer, " oh I need to draw out some money, but I have left my card at my aunties neighbours house,and she has gone away for 2 weeks ,and I cant get in cos my keys are in my car wich is in the garage being serviced, and blah blah blah" oi you hurry up and go away and die X-(
    By the way, did I tell you, I was "Mad"?
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