Who really gives a rat's arse about the Ukraine?

Yes, I'm back on duty albeit feeling a tad 'feak 'n' weeble'.  Funny how these minor ailments which only a few years back would have been cured by a few pints down the pub now knock you sideways as you get older - dammit!

Anyway, just to cheer me up - not! - there is a truly depressing article in The Telegraph today from some strategic think-tank warning that NATO/EU forces are attempting to throw their puny weight around by holding aggressive exercises in both the Ukraine and the Baltic coming nose to nose with Russian troops doing exactly the same.  It is only a matter of time before someone drops the infamous fag-end inside the ammo dump!

Nothing is more depressing than the sight and sound of our 'Top Tit', Michael Fallon MP, a man who has obviously been captured without a fight by the other 'Tits' who run our armed services, striding round Europe, or at least, the European newspapers demanding a hard line against Russian aggression.  This, remember, is the Minister of Defence from a government which has cut the number of British soldiers to the lowest level since the days of Waterloo!

I would also remind you, mostly because he would probably like you to forget, that as well as being an expenses cheat he was also a fanatical supporter of Britain entering the EU.

Matters in Eastern Europe are well into a red danger zone.  Apart from the ridiculous posturings of the EU leadership which, like governments everywhere, can see the advantage of a foreign threat to help bind their peoples together, there is also the increasingly fragile nature of the Russian 'gangster-regime'.  With the price of oil and gas dropping like a stone the Russian people are already facing severe hardships.  Putin and his mobsters need something, anything, to take their mind of matters.  What better than the age old cry to 'defend dear old Mother Russia'.

As to the Ukraine, well, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!"  It's corrupt, it's broke and it very definitely not worth the 'bones of a single British Grenadier', to paraphrase the late, great Bismarck who, were he alive today, would crack a few heads together and teach them some basic statecraft!

I should add, of course, that as far as the American Department of Defence is concerned, NATO is simply its European branch office.  If they can kick something off 'over there', well, hey, guys, that's our budgets safeguarded - or even increased - even if that Socialist 'doofus', Bernie Saunders, wins the next election!

ADDITIONAL:   I couldn't resist his photo from Drudge.  At least one member of the Russian army is as bored with Ukrainian problems as me:

Mind you, he's going to be on a charge sheet that will stretch from Moscow to Vladivostok!

 

Comments

[Whitewall]

He is yawning, another looks asleep, some are bored. An army of drunks? The only place where men can get 3 meals and clothing via the state.

[jimmy glesga]

Whitewall. Luckily the guy yawning will only get 50 years in the Gulag. If it were N. KOREA then maybe death would be quicker.