Russia might be the Tories enemy, but they are not mine.

I am convinced that Westminster politicians live in a different universe from the rest of us mere mortals. I was intrigued to read how our imbecilic Foreign Secretary, Michael Fallon, thinks that we are getting close to a military confrontation with Russia. Of course when he says 'we' he means NATO, which is of course a shorthand for the United States. At the present moment Russia has an armed forces of around one million personnel, with double that number in reserve. When the Soviet forces invaded Germany in 1944, they did so with over 5 million personnel, despite having lost at least that same number in the previous three years. Such is the Russian capacity if forced to mobilise.

I have written before that the present crisis in the Ukraine was engineered by the USA. Russia's response was entirely predictable, and, as far as I'm concerned wholly justified. It should not be forgotten that in 1990, the NATO countries, including the USA gave Russia a firm promise that NATO would not expand 'another inch' eastwards. This was delivered to President Gorbachev to allow him to agree to the unification of Germany and calm Russian fears that East Germany would be incorporated into the NATO alliance. Like all Western politicians, the NATO ministers who made this promise were lying through their teeth and now NATO's forces, particularly the Americans, have advanced, not only up to Russia's borders, but in the case of Ukraine, into territory that the Russians consider belongs to them. If Ukraine is accepted as a member of the EU and NATO this would be the equivalent of Russia sending troops and nuclear missile batteries into Canada and Mexico.

I have mentioned before that if you watch "The Nazis; a Warning from History" on TV you will learn how the Ukrainians were amongst Hitler's biggest supporters and how most concentration camp guards were either Ukrainians or Lithuanians. The Ukrainians opposing Russia are perfectly free to do so, however, we must never lose sight of the fact that the majority of them are anti-semitic fascists who fought the Russians during WW11 with many of them losing their lives at Stalingrad and therefore being party to the inhumanity and appalling suffering inflicted on that city and its inhabitants. The Russians have long and perfectly understandable memories of their Ukrainian neighbours. Remember, the Soviets lost 25 million people in WW2. The Russians will never forget that. Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, Russia has!

The two greatest military forces in modern European history, Napoleon's Grand Army, and the German Wehrmacht, both came to grief in Russia. Perhaps Mr Hammond feels that the modern British army is a superior force to either of those. My estimation of our Westminster elite is that he is probably mad enough to think that. However, the reality is that the Tories are hiding behind Obama's skirts. Question - Should there be a war with Russia and it became nuclear, would Western Europe escape the effects of such a conflagration. Discuss!

You have been warned

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Doktor Kommirat.