1938 Revisited

The announcement by President Putin of Russia that he recognised the breakaway Russian backed Ukrainian provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk as separate states, was in one sense, only a confirmation of the facts on the ground ....

Russia Has Recognised The Rebel Regions As States

..... Russia had backed the Russian rebels in those two Ukrainian provinces since 2014, and was never going to allow the Ukrainian forces to recapture the land currently held by the rebels.

Small Sparks Can Start Big Fires

President Vladimir Putin of Russia (and that countries latest Tzar) ...

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact -
Set Terms For Invasion Of Poland?

.... has decided that it was also Poland, and not just the old USSR and Nazi Germany (via the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact), who started the Second World War.

Lord Of The Unhinged

I have left the Turks alone recently on this blog, tired of the antics of President (for life) Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the decline of his state into a Iranian type of semi-democracy, in which only a supreme leader can rule the country.

Turkey Plays Russian Roulette With Putin.

 

I was fairly confident that even if the British Government wasn't scared about what 70 million Muslim Turks would do to Europe if allowed free transit, France at least would stop this ever happening. But the recent 'refugee' crisis has left me not so sure that the ultimate betrayal of Europe's population won't now occur ... all for the usual short term interests that govern so much of European politics, we could finally open the Gates of Vienna, and let the Turks flood through. 

Opium Of The Masses

"Religion is the opium of the people" said Communism's philosopher Karl Marx (German original, "Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkes"), and the Communists spent 70 years trying to throttle the Orthodox religion to death across much of Eastern Europe, to prove that the Bolshevik revolution was a historical imperative.

Many Ex-Communists Now Attend Church

Which makes what has happened in the old Soviet Blocks since the fall of the communist regimes somewhat ironic ..... religion has boomed. In Russia millions, including the ex communist leaders of the state such as President Putin, regularly attend masses on national religious days such as Easter Sunday.