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Steve Rooke's avatar

It's not all bad news, Russia has recognised the problem and is offering a fast track visa application for disinfranchised westerners👍🤝🇬🇧

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Ian Proud's avatar

Скоро увидимся в Москве. 😁

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Steve Rooke's avatar

I have looked into it🙂 there are various utube channels on the subject, people from the EU,UK,USA and Australia have already got there Russian citizenship.

think we're going to watch the UK/EU unravel👍

have an elderly mum and family here in the 🇬🇧 who need to be considered🤝

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Hawke's avatar

I've been curious about that program, as a yank who is finding it really rather hard living in this bloated dying empire. Would be quite hard to do on one's own. Are there sufficient people doing it that enclave communities are forming? Or is there any type of cooperation or communication between expats?

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Steve Rooke's avatar

Most of the people I have seen on social media seem to be involved in farming/self sufficiency etc and many in the farming community seem to be from the 🇺🇸.

I know there are folk on utube you can contact but it will involve some research🤝👍I don't have any contact info to hand but have heard it mentioned in videos🏁

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LudwigF's avatar

Thanks for another interesting article.

Slightly OT, but…..

I was wondering if possibly the 4.5 billion p.a. that Britain is transferring to Ukraine isn’t perhaps intended to build up a reserve of ‘black funds’, beyond Treasury oversight or Parliamentary scrutiny, in order to fund a continuation of the covert war against Russia post a Ukrainian defeat.

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Steve Rooke's avatar

From the research I have done there is a plan to create civil war in the USA and collapse the union and the same in Russia, the 🇬🇧 are heavily involved in both and Lazrov has stated this in regards to Russia👍🤝

With regards to the 🇺🇸 look up 50501 movement👍

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Sladkovian's avatar

Covid Boris is disenfranchised (sadly only after he killed a quarter of a million Brits first cos he couldn't be arsed to get out of bed to attend Cobra meetings)

so is Biden in drag (Kaja Kallas)

so is Annalena Blurredout

Wonder if Russia will accept nominations...

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Steve Rooke's avatar

Safe&Effective💉💉💉💉💉💉💉☠️👍

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Aoife NiIcéadha's avatar

Dig for victory eh? Only problem... not enough "shovels"

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Ian Proud's avatar

…but plenty of shit. 😁

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ScuzzaMan's avatar

"We have reviewed our strategic defense posture, combat effectiveness, and readiness levels. We have concluded that we should spend a lot more money on making everything a lot worse."

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Nakayama's avatar

On the eve of WW1, the UK had seven divisions (six army and one marine). The 75000 or so Army force is about a corps of 4 divisions of WW2 size plus the HQ and the usual attached elements for fire support, logistics, etc. for WW2, Chamberlain re-activated the Territorial Army after the Munich Agreement and obtained funding to pay for the skeleton force of officers and NCOs in those divisions (effectively reserve divisions). Indeed, the British Army has deteriorated beyond my imagination.

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kevin's avatar

Having a small army is ok by me but, after watching your interview with Judge Nap, I wonder why on earth the UK is picking an uwinnable fight with Russia whilst turning a blind eye to the Trojan Horse in our midst?

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Sladkovian's avatar

"What’s also clear is that there won’t be ten times more troops.

In fact, there will be less troops."

Yes, there will, because 'the enemy' (you know, the country we have chosen to be enemies with, despite us having the option to choose to be friends with them instead) will also have increased their lethality by ten times, or twenty, or thirty, and they'll actually have done it on the battlefield, not in a lecture theatre watching a powerpoint presentation written by the Women's Institute.

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"let us not pretend that the Labour Government is throwing large sums of new money at Britain’s tiny and ill-equipped armed forces"

No, LET'S PRETEND that they are, otherwise we actually will have to waste even more money gearing up to fight an enemy we'll never fight and one that doesn't have to be our enemy other than we've chosen them to be one in order to justify our 'defence' budget, a large portion of which is wasted on pointless crusading endeavours in far-flung corners of the globe, the token British suckerfish attached to the American shark, thus has nothing to do with defence at all.

Britons pay enough tax as it is, without paying tax to the USA on top, via the great NATO scam.

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I do hope Recce-Strike doesn't involve setting off bombs under railway bridges that leave a wife and two children without their train driver father, but I am sadly confident it does.

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Archie1954's avatar

NATO is no longer a defensive organization. It has become a belligerant, offensive force for starting wars not just in the NATO area of Europe but also in the Middle East and Africa. An increase in funding will simply aggravate an already untenable situation. More weapons to ukraine will cause more suffering and death and solve nothing. How foolish can the leadership of NATO be? It's mind boggling.

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Michael  Lynch's avatar

"How foolish can NATO’s leadership be?" That question implies there’s a bottom to this bottomless abyss of delusion. There isn’t. These aren’t just fools—they’re the high priests of geopolitical self-destruction, cloaked in arrogance and wreathed in applause. They chant the sterile liturgy of 'international norms,' 'the rule of law,' and 'security guarantees,' all while striking matches in a room full of gas—and calling it diplomacy.

They parade failure as foresight and recklessness as strategy. Every blunder gets a fresh, gleaming coat of Turd Polish, then gets sold as a “necessary step” or a “great victory.” And they believe it—because inside the hermetically sealed echo chamber of NATO summits, reality never intrudes. The West isn’t being led—it’s being herded off a cliff by technocratic lemmings in tailored suits and NATO lanyards, too self-important to question their own momentum.

We’re watching an elite class drag the world toward catastrophe in slow motion—pausing only to congratulate themselves at every step. If we haven’t already passed the point of no return, we’re standing on the very precipice, taking selfies to post on social media as grotesque virtue signaling. And still—still—no one dares to consult history, let alone speak the heresy: “This is madness. Stop.” Because saying that would require courage, clarity, and a conscience—three things NATO’s Ministry of Truth surgically removed long ago. These were replaced with groupthink, careerism, right speech, and bellyfeel—locking everyone into Washington’s Russophobic war-script.

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Jeroen's avatar

2%, 5%, this spells trouble. My problem is with GDP, an inflated number that doesn't represent the economy. Real wealth only comes from creating value as in manufacturing. If you create value and take 5% of that you still become richer. When you produce nothing and take 5% you just get poor. UK like most of the west is FIRE and service economy. Russia and China have real industrial power and create wealth. So 5% in reality might be 10% or 15% leeching of your economy. A reason why little Russia woops the floor with NATO. EU and UK is not a story of not enough money, it just incompetence, that's how the political system is build.

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Michael  Lynch's avatar

GDP is a farce! GDP is based largely on government spending of taxpayer funds that were in turn stolen from the productive segments. GDP is manipulated and inflated to the whims of the very Government that does the spending and the creation of fake "money". Any metric that is not based on actual production of goods and services is phony.

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Sunny B's avatar

Who actually benefits by beefing up the military complex🤔

It's definitely not already fast declining living standards of ordinary citizens. Russia is not the enemy.

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Jason S's avatar

So the future is UK encouraged proxy wars but without the weapons to create them, coupled with lots of trips abroad and bold statements by UK leaders. But surely a paper tiger is better for the people than a real one?

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jbnn's avatar

‘Russia’s war economy'

More bs. Russia doesn't have a war econmy:

Alexander Libman: The Russian Economy Three Years after the Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine

https://natyliesbaldwin.com/2025/06/alexander-libman-the-russian-economy-three-years-after-the-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine/

Since the start of the war, Russia massively increased its military spending. The Russian government notably did not use coercive tools— requisitions, reallocation of workforces, or mandatory industrial plans—to strengthen the military sector. Instead, it continued to rely on market mechanisms, which means that, even now, the Russian economy can be described as a “war economy” only with an asterisk.

Despite war, Moscow is booming

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/moscow-economy-war/?ct=t(RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN)&mc_cid=1eba055db1&mc_eid=afdebcd1e2

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Gilgamech's avatar

If Putin really was an evil mastermind bent on the conquest of Europe, he couldn’t have done more to deplete and discredit NATO than what NATO has willingly done to itself.

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Sue's avatar

Is it true that the British Supreme Court downed Ms. Starmer?

Thank you so much.

Your Patagonian-Spanish follower

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Jean Marie Wilson-Main's avatar

I actually have Russian relatives. However, at the moment, for reasons too complicated to explain, they live in Barcelona.

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John Brophy's avatar

Only one solution - let the Brits, the Germans and the French form a fearless fighting force together. Let the Italians cook lunch (for morale of the troops) and let Kaja Kallas lead them into battle, making sure the tanks have ample space for pregnant ladies in high heels.

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