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Putin is now warning against European troops in Ukraine as PEACE keepers
He claims that this would be seen as an "Act of War" by Russia
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All of it is all scripted for our benefit The world is a stage
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Now? Please note the date of the interview.
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He is a member of the Tolstoy family and Leo Tolstoy's great-great-grandson.
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You can search the internet to see him dancing in heels.
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Totally untrue - Putin comes from a long line of Peasants !
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Putin’s family came from a working-class background, but calling them 'peasants' isn’t really accurate. His father was a World War II veteran, and his mother worked in a factory. His grandfather was a cook for Lenin and Stalin. They weren’t rich or part of the aristocracy, but they weren’t peasants either, especially since they lived in the city of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg).
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Yes - but further back they were peasants
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Many Russian families, including Putin's, very likely had peasant origins, as the majority of pre-Revolutionary Russia’s population worked the land under a system that favoured landowners and the aristocracy. However, by the time of Putin's birth, his immediate family had transitioned into the working class, distancing them from the rural peasantry.
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Apart from deporting foreign criminals which we can't see to.do because of lawyers. He is a idiot. Seems to be siding with putin. That meeting with zelensky, I watched the whole one , seemed spiteful. Zelensky may of come across a bit rude to some of what the media is saying, but English isn't his first language. When he showed trump the pictures of the atrocities in Ukraine, trump barely acknowledged them. Now the Ukrainian people who went there under Biden may be kicked out, not sure how true this is.
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It's unfortunately true @Andi66 Trump signed an executive order yesterday to remove their status. So they'll all be kicked out of the USA if it goes ahead. Though I'm sure there'll be plenty of people trying to block that happening through the courts..
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It's barbaric, those poor people that been bombed and had their family and friends killed. Now have this. He was sympathetic with putin about the messages during the meeting with zelensky
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I completely agree that the situation in Ukraine is barbaric, and I deeply sympathise with the Ukrainian people and their suffering. However, what’s concerning is how the UK government is pushing the sick and disabled into work, while also proposing cuts to their support in order to fund the deficit and continue supporting both the UK and Ukraine. The stress this is causing to the most vulnerable here is just as cruel.
While we’re right to be concerned about what’s happening abroad, we can’t ignore the devastating impact these policies are having on those already struggling in the UK. The sick and disabled should not have to bear the burden of these decisions. Rachel Reeve's plan to cut their support to address the budget gap is a huge injustice.
Perhaps I’m wrong, and millions of people would be happy to support Ukraine with cuts to their own benefits. But personally, I believe charity begins at home
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Very short sighted in my view. We don't live in a vacuum, but an interconnected world.
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@MW123 I agree with you about the UK government should not be pushing sick and disabled into work/cuts and not supporting the vulnerable in the UK. We (the sick and disabled) should not bear the burden of foreign policy/defence costs etc etc.
I absolutely do support Ukraine and Europe's/Starmer's position on it re defence, unequivocally.
Those two comments above are not mutually exclusive.
I've said somewhere before, politics is about choices. There are many choices Labour could make but are choosing not to.
I've never believed therefore in the sentiment 'charity begins at home'. There are wise, humane and considered options that Labour could choose but seem to not be choosing, we'll see on 26th March. I hope I'm wrong but I think public opinion is for massive benefit cuts and that the 'I'm alright Jack' phrase comes to mind; people think it will never happen to them and their everyday struggles reduce any sympathy they might have felt; the government's rhetoric spurs this on and creates division.
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I appreciate your perspective, but I firmly believe that it is the government’s approach that is dangerously short-sighted. While supporting global causes is undeniably important, we cannot afford to overlook the most vulnerable members of our society, particularly as fiscal deficits continue to grow.
By reducing support for the sick and disabled and forcing those already grappling with significant health challenges to seek employment the government is not only neglecting its moral responsibility but also disregarding the long-term consequences. This is not merely about immediate hardship, it is about worsening health outcomes, deepened poverty, and the erosion of social cohesion.
I have noticed many Scope members expressing genuine concern about their financial futures something I did not witness when I first joined a few years ago. While I abhor suffering and loss of life in any part of the world, the sick and disabled in our own country are being thrust into their own war with a government that seems to believe it is acceptable to burden the poorest in order to finance its own plans. People are genuinely anxious about what the future holds.
In an interconnected world, true leadership lies in striking a balance, fulfilling international obligations without sacrificing the well-being of our own sick and disabled citizens to pay for it.
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Sadly the views of disabled people carries little weight amongst those struggling to balance full time employment, mortgage payments, childcare costs etc.
HMG care more about the concerns of working families than a load of folk dependent on social security. I don't like it one bit, but know how working class people talk about "scroungers" etc. Those earning minimum wage or not much more, they can be the fiercest critics of those they see as undeserving or on the fiddle.
When I was a bus driver, alot of the talk in the tea room was ignorant bluster, debated very loudly about scroungers, unmarried mothers etc. All very tiresome and mostly a load of fact-free rubbish.
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Tolstoy is Putin's mouthpiece. And these are definitely different people.
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Where I work, I've never heard anyone speak negatively about the sick, disabled, or unemployed. However, I do hear plenty of complaints about the Labour government. Personally, I’m very disappointed with them.
I realised we were in for a rough ride when they made that absurd pledge not to increase tax or national insurance for the term of this parliament. And let’s not forget VAT. I remember wondering back then how they were going to manage, as those are three main sources of income for the treasury.
Now, we can see they’re slashing department budgets, with the welfare budget being a major casualty. They’ve also raised the employers NIC for employees from 13.8% to 15%, and the secondary threshold at which employers start paying NICs will drop from £9,100 to £5,000 per year. This means many employers will either freeze staff wages this year or, worse, lay people off.
I have a feeling they will reverse the decision on not increasing taxes and national insurance very soon. How can you run a country when you’re budgeting based on 2024 tax and insurance income for the entire term of this parliament? Personally, I wouldn’t mind paying more tax if it meant we had a country that was being run properly. How they thought they could manage on a shoestring budget for the next five years completely baffles me, it was a reckless decision, certainly not thought through.
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Obviously, Trump does not profit from the war in Ukraine, but only brings great expenses and the risk of a nuclear war. I would like to note that when Russian troops captured the territory around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 2022, they left very quickly.
Not long after he returned to England, Burgess set down his impressions of Russia in an essay, ‘The Human Russians’, published in the Listener on 28 December 1961. Although he had gone to Leningrad expecting to find a cold, totalitarian state where all emotion had been crushed out of the people, what he found was ‘tremendous warmth’. Ordinary Russians were welcoming, he said, and the food was ‘coarse and delicious’. The pervasive smells of bad drains and cheap tobacco recalled his early years in Manchester. He also saw violent, well-dressed teenage boys who reminded him of the Teddy Boys at home in Britain. In his essay, Burgess represents Leningrad as a place of lawless drunkenness, where no attempt was made to deal with low-level criminality. ‘It is my honest opinion,’ he wrote, ‘that there are no police in Leningrad.’
A brawler's path to the top: Putin grew up in a 'jungle' where it was all about being the strongest
Vladimir Putin is both one of the most powerful and most enigmatic men in the world. We can still only guess what his real ambitions are. But perhaps his rough childhood in Leningrad provides a clue. Here is the first of three chapters on Vladimir Putin, his path to power and his inner circle.Maybe Antony Burgess met the little hooligan Putin in Leningrad? 😁
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