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WW 3 ..is this the reality?

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Bea65 Thu 09-Feb-23 15:41:48

Looking at TV coverage ...I'm feeling anxious that the more we send/spend on helping Ukraine, we're cooperating am not saying we shouldn't but just thinking how others feel about how far we go..we're already in crisis with NHS and need of financial assistance for cost of living assistance and this is too much for people's mental health sad

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Grantanow Sat 25-Feb-23 11:17:12

Liz Truss in charge of the nuclear button? I can't stop laughing.

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Katie59 Sat 25-Feb-23 11:46:06

I watched the interview with Biden and Stoltenberg (NATO boss). Biden was supportive but Stoltenberg was much more hawkish, so dont expect a settlement anytime soon.

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Veridica Sat 25-Feb-23 17:34:13

Anyone even considering WW3 as an option needs to look up the clip from Peter Watkins' film "The War Game" on the internet. It was commissioned in about 1965 by the BBC who then refused to show it as it was too realistic. It's till very hard to get hold of the full film. It's the bit about eyeballs melting after the flash accompanying the detonation that horrifies people the most, me included. Biden has to stop his proxy war against Russia.

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MerylStreep Sat 25-Feb-23 17:49:29

China has its tentacles not just in Africa. They are very close to home now in the Western Balkans.

foreignaffairs.house.gov/china-regional-snapshot-western-balkans/

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Fleurpepper Sat 25-Feb-23 21:27:45

Wallace is not helping with feeling anxious is he. Predicting the UK will be at war within a few years.

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Callistemon21 Sat 25-Feb-23 21:34:33

MerylStreep

China has its tentacles not just in Africa. They are very close to home now in the Western Balkans.

foreignaffairs.house.gov/china-regional-snapshot-western-balkans/

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/11/where-in-britain-does-china-spend-its-money

Home already.
There will be no need for a war.

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MerylStreep Sat 25-Feb-23 22:00:18

No prizes for guessing who the Chinese have their sights set on.
The Ukraine.

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ronib Sat 25-Feb-23 22:50:10

Fleurpepper

Wallace is not helping with feeling anxious is he. Predicting the UK will be at war within a few years.

Ben Wallace as defence secretary wants a large budget so of course, he’s going to say war is likely.

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Katie59 Sun 26-Feb-23 00:09:38

I just despair that we throw our doors open to a potential enemy in this way, we really are becoming a banana republic.

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nanna8 Thu 23-Mar-23 11:05:59

Grantanow

No. We are much further from WW3 than we were in 1962 at the height of the Cuban missile crisis when most of the Left, CND, etc., swallowed Soviet assurances there were no missiles only to be embarrassed after a few weeks by the aerial photographs showing them in place. Well handled by JFK and Robert McNamara and a careful back down by Kruschev. I doubt any jets will be sent to Ukraine by the UK unless they are tokens. Long training and limited supplies!

I don’t agree, I think we are getting horribly close especially now China is putting its oar in. We have poor leadership almost everywhere which doesn’t help.

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