It is somewhat curious that over the last few days, the number of visits to this blog has plunged dramatically. Could it be that with my 627th post concerning the two ghastly "holy warriors" who have been sent to gaol for a jolly long time, I have put people off? Well I state here and now that I have no intention of moderating my opinions in order to make recognisance of their "(in)human rights."
So, on to today's rant. This one concerns that megalomaniac, President Putin.
What a neck this bastard has! Does he imagine that we are so stupid as
to believe that the Russian-speaking citizens of Ukraine are in such
danger as to justify the invasion of a sovereign state by 6000
soldiers and their associated armoured vehicles?
I wrote recently on this subject in speculative mode, suggesting that Putin might be grinding his teeth in the face of the Ukrainians daring to throw out their president, whose personal corruption would appear to be sufficient even to discountenance an African politician.
Being well aware of President Obama's weakness and lack of resolve, decent bloke though he is (think about the Syrian "red line" poison-gas farce for example) and the remarkable ineptitude of the European Union, Putin probably feels that he can get away with this just as he did in Georgia in 2008; after all nobody did anything about that did they?
I was wondering today how it is that Russia with a GDP roughly the same as Italy's, and therefore about 20% smaller than that of the UK can afford her enormous armed forces. I suppose that this is achieved by the simple expedient of keeping most of the population poor.
Give that man a Nobel Peace Prize!
Until the next time.
