On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 21:07:16 +0100, slider <slider@anashram.com>
wrote:

>On Tue, 28 Mar 2023 05:45:38 +0100, o'Mahoney <libertidad@south.south.com>
>wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 08:46:59 -0700 (PDT), chris rodgers
>> <allreadydun@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sunday, March 26, 2023 at 8:54:33 AM UTC-7, slider wrote:
>>>> Nato has condemned Russia's "dangerous" and "irresponsible" rhetoric
>>>> after
>>>> Vladimir Putin's decision to station tactical nuclear weapons in
>>>> Belarus.
>>>>
>>>> The organisation is "closely monitoring" the situation and said the
>>>> move
>>>> would not lead it to change its own nuclear strategy.
>>>>
>>>> Belarus shares a long border with Ukraine, as well as with Nato members
>>>> Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.
>>>>
>>>> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65081575
>>>>
>>>> Ukraine has called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council
>>>> to
>>>> address the potential threat of President Putin's announcement on
>>>> Saturday.
>>>>
>>>> President Putin said Moscow would not be transferring control of its
>>>> arms
>>>> to Minsk and that Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko - a firm ally
>>>> of
>>>> the Kremlin and supporter of its invasion of Ukraine - had long raised
>>>> the
>>>> issue with him.
>>>>
>>>> Ukraine says the move violates nuclear non-proliferation agreements -
>>>> an
>>>> accusation President Putin has denied, instead comparing it to the US
>>>> stationing its weapons in Europe.
>>>>
>>>> But Yuriy Sak, an adviser to Ukraine's ministry of defence, told the
>>>> BBC
>>>> that Ukraine was used to nuclear threats from Russia, adding that the
>>>> deployment in Belarus would not change the outcome of the war.
>>>>
>>>> Mr Sak said there was nothing new in Russia's behaviour, as it had been
>>>> stationing military equipment in Belarus since the start of the war in
>>>> 2022.
>>>>
>>>> Mykhailo Podolyak, another senior adviser to President Zelensky,
>>>> characterised the move as "scare tactics" and said the Russian leader
>>>> was
>>>> "too predictable".
>>>>
>>>> Analysts at the US think tank Institute for War said the risk of
>>>> escalation to nuclear war following the announcement remained
>>>> "extremely
>>>> low".
>>>>
>>>> A small number of Iskander tactical missile systems, which can be used
>>>> to
>>>> launch nuclear weapons, have already been transferred to Belarus,
>>>> President Putin said in his address on Saturday.
>>>>
>>>> This will be the first time since the mid-1990s that Moscow will have
>>>> based nuclear arms outside the country.
>>>>
>>>> Russia will start training crews to operate the weapons from next week.
>>>> The construction of a storage facility for tactical nuclear weapons in
>>>> Belarus will be completed by 1 July, President Putin said.
>>>>
>>>> The announcement comes only days after Chinese President Xi Jinping's
>>>> visit to Moscow, during which Russia and China issued a joint statement
>>>> saying "all nuclear powers must not deploy their nuclear weapons beyond
>>>> their national territories, and they must withdraw all nuclear weapons
>>>> deployed abroad".
>>>>
>>>> ### - scare tactics indeed! (lol am pooping m'self here boss!)
>>>>
>>>> what's scares most being the rather nonchalant way everybody else just
>>>> 'accepts' it and carries-on regardless instead of leaping outta their
>>>> freakin' skins at the prospect...
>>>>
>>>> especially with assholes like thang yelling to: "BRING IT ON!"
>>>>
>>>> instead of them all DOING SUMMAT to stop it??
>>>>
>>>> as in:
>>>>
>>>> ...oh, have you heard, the ruskies been moving up their tactical nukes
>>>> now?
>>>>
>>>> oh really? - but it's surely just a scare tactic, they wont possibly
>>>> use
>>>> 'em...
>>>>
>>>> besides, we've already gots all 'our' nukes deployed in the field and
>>>> ready to go
>>>>
>>>> so there's nada to worry about folks!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> talk about denial, denial, denial??? jee-suss!
>>>>
>>>> i.e., we were scared to send 'em ANY offensive weapons at first huh,
>>>> then
>>>> we sent 'em stingers, and then rocket launchers, and now tanks and soon
>>>> jets + fuck-knows what else as WE become more daring & used to the
>>>> idea!
>>>>
>>>> every surrounding nato nation armed to the teeth with US nukes as well,
>>>> and ALL that SHIT on BOTH sides pointing directly at each other!!!
>>>>
>>>> s'ok, it wont happen folks, can't happen; but we've moved everything
>>>> into
>>>> place just in case...
>>>>
>>>> okaaaaaay??
>>>>
>>>> NO! NOT OK!!!!
>>>>
>>>> the MORE shit in the field is the MORE chance of it hitting the fan ya
>>>> moron!
>>>>
>>>> dammit THIS is becoming THE biggest assembly of SHIT ever!?
>>>>
>>>> and i mean: EVER!
>>>>
>>>> plus omg have ya's SEEN the size of the goddamn... FAN??? (gallows
>>>> humour
>>>> heh)
>>>>
>>>> ahem (slider taps the microphone 2 times) methinks we needs to wake the
>>>> fuck up now...
>>>>
>>>> coz it's gettin' a bit late in the day? (only 90 cosmic-seconds left on
>>>> the clock)
>>>>
>>>> (tap tap + whistling feedback...) is no one listening??
>>>>
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRKsown-yEE
>>>>
>>>> (timeless protest song for vietnam/ukraine/wherever)
>>>>
>>>> coz like ya know; it's not sane to continue...
>>>>
>>>> (dammit, is this mic still working?)
>>>>
>>>> ;)
>>> there's no such thing as fighting the "good fight"
>>
>> So, you walk in on someone trying to rape and/or murder your wife or
>> kid.
>>
>> You fight (presumably, of course)!
>>
>> And you say that's not fighting the good fight?
>>
>> Really?
>>
>> Jews in WW2, the very few who actually rebelled against genocide by
>> nazis. fascists & their assorted cronies.
>>
>> https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/about/combat-resistance/jewish-armed-resistance.html
>>
>> You say that's not fighting the good fight?
>>
>> Try engaging your brain before opening that mouth of yours, yeah?
>>
>> And of course - fighitng doesn't really need to be with fists, or
>> guns, or even words...ever hear of a guy called Ghandi?
>>
>> https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/mahatma-gandhi-changed-political-protest
>>
>> fuck this place, full of fucking idiots.
>>
>> "there's no such thing as fighting the "good fight"
>>
>> Now I understand why you throw a few words from time to time at that
>> pommy fuckwit Brian Aherne with his peak stupidity on public display,
>> well on display here for you & that Serb who lives in Germany only so
>> he can slander the place. Oh yeah, and that schizo in New Bedford.
>>
>> Me, I try to stay away but it's like averting your fucking eyes from a
>> train wreck in progress...
>
>### - that's not at ALL what he was saying you fucking idiot LOL ! :))))
>
>(i.e., note where he placed his quotation marks you fool)
>
>iow: even necessary fights are ugly you gonzo...
>
>a 'good' fight is thus a contradiction of terms: an oxymoron!
>
>but YOU gots it COMPLETELY WRONG! LOL !!!
>
>you're just another asshole going around policing the internet haha :)))

I've just about had my fill of you, freak of nature.
Time for you to put a sock in it.
You get my drift here?

Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Those who live at 7 Hailsham shouldn't throw insults.
Take that as you want. You don't have too many in your corner Brian,
time for you to pull your head in & fucking shut up.