So trainee marine navigators occasionally allow ships to contact rocks. So a Royal Navy submarine hit a rock on one occasion in 2002 and little harm was done, as it happens. So what does that have to do with anything?
I was reading recently how UK construction companies lost contracts in Russia. Some were saying it was due to the devalued rouble and the work was postponed, others said that the work was given to Russia contractors. Sanctions hit everyone, no winners.
When you say "Putin antics, anyone concerned?" I presume you were always referring to a very dodgy taste in trikes. I'd be even more concerned if he had a Russian flag bandana on as well. I just bet he's got one.
Putin is a Hitler clone without the dodgy 'tache A blind man couldn't miss the parallels between WWII and whats going down in eastern Europe The Russians marched into the Crimea with barely a word of condemnation from the West-now the Crimea is hardly mentioned,"oh well,he's done it now" Now it's the Ukraine,and if they get that without a proportionate response it will be the Baltic states next,and then fook knows how far they will go... He's picked exactly the right time to do it:waited until the West have poked their noses in all around the world and stretched their military resources/respective populations have grown weary of seeing the body bags come home. Our own politicians have even started to justify Putins actions,"he has a point about NATO being on his borders" ffs,just like the appeasement strategy adopted before Hitler finally let his cat out of the bag. Putin's a very clever bloke,make no mistake,but he's no mastermind. "Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it". Those who can remember are either dead or have no voice : so we are continuously drip-fed the hand-wringing historical re-writes of how a younger generation imagined things escalated into the previous world war. Lets face it,we live in a country where: If you eat so much you can't waddle to a place of work,the authorities will call you disabled and pay you to sit on your fat lazy arse at home Where if you say so much as boo to a goose,the goose will take you to court and you can be sued for offending the birds sensibilities...no harm was done,but you said boo,and the bird didn't like it Where the state will pay out millions to train a woman to be a fighter pilot,(as is her right),but she can become pregnant and f*ck off at any time,(as is her right)....those Ruskie aviators must be quaking in their boots ...NOT...and I can't imagine Putin worrying about offending Great Britain in the way that Hitler reportedly did.... He'll do whatever he fancies doing,and sooner or later the rest of the World will reap the consequences The collective Western powers can't even sort out ISIS between them ffs...
Thing is if Europe continually poke him with that stick one day he will retaliate with whatever stick he decides to use.
