Backward
on Disqus censorship! says:
October 30, 2020 at 2:32 pm

I agree. I thought I had been banned from Russian Insider but in fact I am unable to log on Disqus anywhere so it’s Disqus that banned me. A badge of honour!
PermReader
on Disqus censorship! says:
September 19, 2020 at 3:20 pm

Disqus is dependent,influenced by the mighty former bbg broad casting (usagm) that is the voice of anti-Trump democrats. They fear my conservative comments even being not registered,because of their truth.Now they block even one of my letter!
Jack
on Boris Johnson is a LIAR… says:
September 17, 2020 at 3:59 pm

“About a million dying to protect our honour, Dulce Et Decorum Est, Pro patria Mori, do you really believe that?”

That’s a complex question, because the choice is rarely clear cut. There have always been martyrs to causes, and I suspect there always will be. I remember being very shocked and at the same time had admiration for the IRA hunger strikers who took it the whole way.

Of course another factor is whether or not it’s the individual’s free and informed choice, or whether they are hoodwinked by their leaders.

In 1914 casualties were expected, but no one had any real understanding of just how bad they were going to be with the new “modern” industrial scale killing machines, particularly artillery. The problem with the old lie is that once the killing starts, the cause changes because a feeling arises that you have to go on for the sake of “those who have died”, or their sacrifice will “be in vain” It’s a self feeding ideal of horror.
steve
on Boris Johnson is a LIAR… says:
September 17, 2020 at 3:59 pm

I think we were interested, but I think our core interest lay further East around the Oil fields of Iran and Iraq and our position in India, and distracting Russia from them. Hugely complex and something I am trying to understand.

About a million dying to protect our honour, Dulce Et Decorum Est, Pro patria Mori, do you really believe that?
Jack
on Boris Johnson is a LIAR… says:
September 17, 2020 at 3:57 pm

Why do you think Britain becoming embroiled in a war on mainland Europe would have furthered any imperialist ambitions? Britain’s imperial interest lay overseas. Britain had no imperial ambitions in Europe, and our army was tiny in comparison to the huge continental armies. We were not that interested in the squabbling between the other European powers, and in 1914 being allied to France were confident that the huge French Army was capable of withstanding a German onslaught. For similar reasons we had not become involved in the earlier Franco/Prussian War

At the outset of the 1914 war there was no apparent need for us to become involved other than our obligation to Belgium. As things unfolded the situation changed but by then we were already at war.

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