Russia hits UkrIne AGAIN - Update

BBC News: Reports the following, " Overnight drone and ballistic missile attacks damaged Ukrainian energy infrastructure, President Volodymyr Zelenskyhas said, causing blackouts and disrupting water supplies. "

Let's Get Real:

There are talks next week between the US, Russia and the Ukraine, so why the attack now, the Kremlin is sending a clear message they are still want their maximalist demands and expect the Ukraine to make concessions.  Also there is the grand plan as suggested by President Trump, that should worry Kyiv and Western Europe, is this another Yalta! As the Allies gave what Stalin wanted out of the WW2.  Interesting week ahead on the World Stage.

The King, the PM and Slavery - Update

BBC News: Reports the following, " King Charles III is to speak with "unflinching honesty" and "sincere sorrow" on the lasting pain of the transatlantic slave trade, during the final leg of his Caribbean tour in Antigua, Buckingham Palace has said. "

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The boy wonder our new PM Burnham wants to be liked to much, his great coverage as Mayor of Manchester has gone his head, the Lefties in the Guardian and the BBC want a full apology and reparations, the British public are not on the same page, slavery was hundred of years ago! The UK covered the any debt that it owed by standing up to Nazi Germany in 1940, does any think that if Nazi Germany had won what Hitler would have done to the Commonwealth Countries! It is beyond imagination.  The PM should 📚 some history, so he is a Cambridge English Graduate, so one assumes he can read, reading and understanding are two different things, should the UK ask for repartions from the old enemy 🇫🇷 and 🇩🇪 for their WARS of aggression in the 19th and 20th Centuries.  The boy wonders need to be liked will be his downfall.

Trump supports Witkoff calling Putin a humanitarian - Update

Guardian: Reports in its 8.20pm post the following, " Trump defends special envoy Witkoff calling Putin a 'humanitarian' "

Let's Get Real:

If one is throwing those terms around, Stalin was a humanitarian because after Nazi Germany invaded he becomes a ally for Roosevelt and Churchill.  Lets be clear Stalin was a mass murder, only became ally after Germany invaded Russia in 1941 after breaking the Nazi - Soviet Pact, thus Stalin had nowhere to go but became Ally of the US and the UK.  Putin is a WAR CRIMINAL, his invasion of the Ukraine and those who have been killed on the orders of the Kremlin! Why Witkoff used the term one can only guess, it seemed even Trump was surprised by the comments!!  Diplomacy should be done by diplomats not a friend of Trump, Trump is major appeaser in the same league as Neville Chamberlain, but the UK had Churchill, when can we a Churchill for today! 

What is will it be Wes ? - Update

Guardian: Reports in its 10.54am post the following, " Kevin Schofield, political editor at HuffPost UK, says a Wes Streeting leadership challenge is now looking more unlikely. "

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It seems that the Health Secretary has bottled it, there is nothing worse than political cowardice.  The press and this blogger are fed up, do it man or tell us your not running! 

No US troops on the Ground - Update

Sky News: Reports in its 3.59pm post the following, " US president also says: "I'm not putting troops anywhere - and if I was, I wouldn't tell you. (Press )"

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POTUS is right, never tell the press what you are doing, they will only spin it in a negative way, they are Liberal Elite press after all.   The use of ground troops should be selective, as in taking Kharg Island or going after Iran's nuclear stockpile.  If the Elite press had been around in WW2, they all would have been thrown in the Brig by President Roosevelt and PM Churchill.

Starmer is no Churchill - Update

 BBC News: Reports in its 5.09pm post" This is not Winston Churchill that we're dealing with,' Trump says of Starmer,  " 

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This blog has never been so embarrassed by a UK PM, he is an appeaser in the mold of Neville Chamberlain.  The UK PM always sticks with the American President, no matter what, the Great Churchill had to see FDR trying to be friendly with Stalin at Yalta.  Eden learned that the hard way over Suez.  The balance this we should consider that the Great Reagan was slow over the Falklands War in 1982, he supported the Right wing Regime in Argentina, he came around in the end.  Reagan invaded Grenada in 1983, without telling Thatcher, the Queen was head of State, Grenada had become another Cuba threat.  Things will strain sometimes, but it will recover with a new UK PM. Let's remember how close Tony Blair was to Bush 43, he is seen by those on the left as a War Criminal, but that is a minority view, at least Blair was loyal, Bush 43 offered him an out over the Iraq Invasion, Blair at the prospect of losing No 10, kept in with Bush 43, that is loyalty even at being pushed out of office in 2007.

Europeans support Multi national force for Ukraine - Update

Sky News: Reports in its 6.57pm post that European leaders have agreed to supply a multi national force for Ukraine às a security guarantee.

Lets Get Real:

Moscow will reject this move and the US security guarantees, they will see this as threat, NATO Troops in East Ukraine, thus preventing Russia from doing another attack in future.  This will force Trump to blame Russia, of course he could go back the Russian approved peace plan and place more on Ukraine.  This would force Europe to take a firm stand against Trump and Putin.  Thus more talks to come, talks are better than War as Churchill would have said, in the meantime the poor people of Ukraine suffer.

No NATO Troops in Ukraine - Putin - Ukraine - Russia War

 BBC News: Reports " Putin rejects Western security in Ukraine, warning troops would be target "

Lets Get Real:

The Russians are still being stubborn  that there can be no NATO troops in the Ukraine should there be a ceasefire.  This is time for the US President to be firm with Putin and the Kremlin, they do not have a VETO on what troops the West might send in to the Ukraine, they are the security guarantees that Kyiv will need to agree to a CEASEFIRE or PEACE DEAL with Russia.  Let's get real, Putin will try this again in the future, he cannot be trusted, his word is no good, and Kyiv will never agree to a deal and should not agree to a deal without a NATO 5 clause that would bring the West to the defence of Ukraine.  The UK let down Poland in 1939 and after WW2 finished allowed Stalin to get his murderous hands on Poland and Easter Europe.  NEVER AGAIN! 

Iran not in nuclear compliance with UN - UN

 BBC News: Reports that a UN nuclear watchdog has found that Iran is not in compliance with previous agreement.

Lets Get Real:

This could be the trigger for Israel to take action, Jerusalem will not allow Iran to have nuclear weapons, whatever the Trump Oval might think, you never know with Trump, he might join with Israel on attack on Iran, it would make him popular in the US, no love lost between the US and Iran, on the other hand he is desperate for the Nobel Peace Price, we shall see!!  There are talks between Iran and US on the weekend, Diplomacy might win through, as Churchill said talks are better than war.

 

Land and nuclear plant ownership discussed in SA Talks , - Trump47

 Sky News: Reports in its 5.55pm post that the US has discussed land and ownership of a nuclear plant in the Ukraine with Russia.

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This feels like a carve up, Munich 1938, and the Target is the Ukraine, Trump47 is Neville Chamberlain and Putin is Adolf Hitler, what will the UK and France do this time, Appeasement or fight Russia, the same goes for the EU, the omens are not good, the Trump Oval is seems to think that the UK is posing, having a Churchill moment, we shall see, Developing.