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Actually seriously for Kenty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wowTRLLIWYc
(subtitled version in english: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exgf12tBzus)
Dedicated to Kenty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7EnYrW0oQM
(shes wearing the tux – similar size too !!)
And i know she will reply with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFacWGBJ_cs
(its the indian accent)
Just an update – my knee is ok now – the new injections have worked – back at the gym as well
a BIG thank you to all the well wishers – thanks Mother ..
@kent f OBE wrote:
Bumping into an old friend last night
We did “grind” as well – did the heaven move for you ?
@sceptical guy wrote:
you still alive, MM?
Yes – just about – clutching and grasping onto dear life
i use Kenty, Kenty, Kenty to remember the KKK
@sceptical guy wrote:
this is my conceit – a long thing I took the trouble to write after someone on my Facebook asked me my view of just what was going on in Ukraine.
I don’t expect many here to read it – it’s likely that nobody will read it, as people prefer small personal smart comments to this sort of thing. longish thing, sorry.
anyway this is how I see events over Ukraine, which are likely to get much worse now, from my reading of a number of newspapers and watching a number of tv news stations on this.
so if anyone is still reading at this point lol
The US cynical ploy to use the shooting down of the airliner over Ukraine (cynical – the US mistakenly shot down an Iranian passenger airliner in 1988, killing nearly 300 people, including 66 kids, and refused to apologise for 8 years) isn’t working. Ukrainian jets attacking the major city of Donetsk are being increasingly shot down by sophisticated rockets (all but certain to come from Russia), so the US attempt to use the horror of MH-17 to shame Russia into withdrawing such arms and allowing the Ukrainians to bomb their own cities without danger is not working – the lives of Iranian passengers and Ukrainian civilians don’t count in the Western agenda..
All the evidence suggests that Russia is massively increasing arms supplies, and heavy-duty arms supplies, to the rebels. The RUSI (Royal United Services Institute) are claiming that Putin is not providing arms for guerrilla warfare, or resistance – he’s creating an army for eastern Ukraine. The CIA is advising the Ukrainian govt (now falling apart – their PM just resigned), and US Special Advisors (as in the early days of Vietnam) have provided training and advise to ginger up the Ukrainian army, which was itself falling apart)
It figures – this is a proxy war between Russia and the US, it turning more deadly. Russia is very likely to win it – they have more at stake. It’s been made clear that nobody in the West will go to war over Ukraine, and the EU is certainly not going to bail out Ukraine economically, as it has troubles of its own. IN fact, it’s very unlikely that the EU will take any effective sanctions against Russia. A further deterioration could alter things – nobody expected to go to war over Serbia 100 years ago, and look at the mass slaughter that resulted.
The West wants Ukraine in its orbit – Russia doesn’t want Ukraine in the Western orbit. That about sums up the conflict.
Putin doesn’t want to invade Ukraine – too costly, and he can achieve his purposes n other ways. He did take Crimea, which is Russian basically, but that was opportunity provided by a heady Ukrainian nationalist movement (strongly influenced by an outright Nazi element (Israel refused to support the US over the issue). Putin is now making Ukraine ungovernable, a perpetual military threat, which economically makes Greece look good. He’s on a win-win phase, and he’s fronting out the embarrassment over MH-17, just as Israel and the US will front out the embarrassment over the massacre of kids in Gaza.
The US will lose. Obama is a weak President who lost the thread in foreign policy several years ago (he was shamed by Putin over Syria). He’s being driven to action to avoid neo-conservative claims that he’s a weakling – they’re making those claims anyway, and he is. Nobody in the West is prepared to go to war over Ukraine, yet Russia is at war there (just as the US was effectively at war in Central America under Reagan). The EU are making noises, but any effective action is blocked (at least for the moment) because of lucrative contracts and Western investment in oil etc in Russia (BP is very worried because of its massive investment in the Arctic and Siberian regions). Angela Merkel, an exceptionally canny politician) is keeping lines to Putin open and saying that that things are getting out of control (German business is in a state of deep concern to get things with Russia back to normal).. Ukraine will require a huge amount of money from an economically-struggling West to set it on its feet, and nobody’s going to be throwing money at a state torn by an ethnic war.
Answer – a ceasefire, and the two sides (effectively Russia and the US) need to come to a deal . Unlikely, as it’s getting worse. It’s starting tog et dangerous, and they’re going to have to work hard to avoid a real military and economic crisis for us all.
Result – misery for Ukrainians, danger for us all.
Now we have that out of the way – can we talk about ME and ONEs Knee Operation !
@rogue trader wrote:
whats all this “we” business?
dont you mean you will make it up.Its the ROYAL we !
Gosh !
@tinks wrote:
we’re writing our own ‘get well’ threads now?
Yes tink – We (the royal we) care for oneself
@kent f OBE wrote:
@malboroman wrote:
Good luck with the operation MM
Speedy recovery and we know how hard its going to be on you chap
(Ignores the thread)
Kenty you know you dont have to reply to each and every thread
Its not like food where you wolf it down – remember to put your fork down, chew, breathe and enjoy the food
