Chris Watkins

[Chris Watkins @WatkinsCB65]

@VZSMO Ukraine is older than the russian federation.

You may also want to check out the "Treaty on the Russian–Ukrainian border" which putin signed as president in 2003.

Another in the long list of treaties and agreements he either negotiated in bad faith or unilateraly broke.

[Chris Watkins @WatkinsCB65]

@richimedhurst Or identity erasure and ethnic cleansing as russia did and attempts to do today in occupied Ukrainian territories.

[Sam @SamCKx]

Rupert Lowe, a 68 year old, privately educated, former investment banker, backed by the world's richest man, is trying to convince you he's not the establishment.

[Chris Watkins @WatkinsCB65]

@sergeenko_i Sure one big happy family.

[Chris Watkins @WatkinsCB65]

@Yarloslavic I liked the pictures in St Petersburg, didn't you?

Mmm, bang, another oil terminal hit.

Do you have fuel vouchers?

If you live in occupied Crimea I hear even vouchers don't work any more.

Still, don't worry, not too long before the pathetic russian army collapses.

[Chris Watkins @WatkinsCB65]

@sergeenko_i There was no "russophobia" before the russian covert invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea in 2014, followed by an 8 year proxy war then a full invasion in 2022.

The rampant ultra nationalism and chavanistic world view in russia led to this.

[Chris Watkins @WatkinsCB65]

@Prokurator2 @NebojsaMalic The Nazis invaded Poland on 01.09.1939, the Soviets on 17.09.1939, two days after they signed a ceasefire with the Japanese securing their Eastern Flank.

Of course, many Russians will belive, then as today, they were simply entering Poland to "protect ethnic russians".

[Chris Watkins @WatkinsCB65]

@aleksej_tu36137 @NebojsaMalic all part of Putins sick WW2 fetish he uses to unify russian identity and create myths of the enemy at the gates that "dosn't respect us", "rusophobia" etc.

Very few russians are aware of the allied effort, only that "they won the war".

Its sick.

[Chris Watkins @WatkinsCB65]

@aleksej_tu36137 @NebojsaMalic One or two memorials dosn't erase the systematic rewriting history that happens at all levels of russian society.

The Soviets did a heroic and brutal job, but russians just don't recognise anyone else's contribution while, falsely, complaining that no recognises theirs.

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[Chris Watkins @WatkinsCB65]

@Prokurator2 @NebojsaMalic No. Not quite.

The USA traded with Nazi Germany, as did all countries.

After 1939 when Nazi and Soviet forces invaded Poland together, the USA severely cut back trade with the Nazis while the USSR collided with them to specifically provide war materials.

[Chris Watkins @WatkinsCB65]

@Prokurator2 @NebojsaMalic Stalin thought if Nazi Germany attacked Europe it would be like WW1 and Germany, France, the UK would be severely weakened and ripe for revolution or easy conquest.

Like putin, Stalin was a prize cunt who brought misery and war to the russian people and others.

[Chris Watkins @WatkinsCB65]

@Prokurator2 @NebojsaMalic Check out the secret protocols of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

Also, the USSR was supplying nazi Germany with war materials right until June 21st 1941 and prior to 1939 had assisted nazi Germany develop is panzer and other armies to avoid the Versailles treaty.

[Chris Watkins @WatkinsCB65]

@ikra12280 @NebojsaMalic England went to war to stop empire building, ethnic cleansing and suppression of nations in Europe.

Nazi Germany/USSR wanted to invade their neighbours, expand their empires, erase the local culture and install their own.

England was no angel, but it was in the context of WW2.

[Chris Watkins @WatkinsCB65]

@andrewjtye @johnredwood My apologies, you are correct, but the point still stands.

[Chris Watkins @WatkinsCB65]

@DavidGHFrost @YouGov @BritainUnbound It's the way you phrase the question.

"Giving up" (negative and incorrect) or "Pooling" (positive and correct).

Nice try but no cigar.

The vast majority recognise the colossal mistake Brexit was, the damage it has caused and want to reverse it.

The question is, can we?

[Chris Watkins @WatkinsCB65]

@Perimetr123 Good.

[Chris Watkins @WatkinsCB65]

@AlternatNews Russians are still butt hurt about losing Starlink 😅😂😂

Wait until they find out about Oneweb and IRIS.

The dumb russians are such USA wannabes that they ignore European capabilities.

Good, as Napoleon said, "never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake".

[Chris Watkins @WatkinsCB65]

@mitsucolt5566 @NebojsaMalic typical of the revisionist and chavanistic view of the "Great Patriotic War" that erases others significant contributions to almost zero and whitewashes the fact that the USSR for several years was an ally of Nazi Germany with which it planned the invasion and division of Europe.

[Chris Watkins @WatkinsCB65]

@mitsucolt5566 @NebojsaMalic Do you think D day was easy? It was a military miracle that took time to plan and prepare for.

In the meantime the allies were fighting the battle of the Atlantic, bombing German industry, executing the north African and Italian campaigns and much more.

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