What is this madness?

Any truth to this?
UK now ???

WTF!

On 4/27/2026 at 8:18 AM, Effective altruism said:

Russia is likely to see another oppressive leader after Putin. The country has a long history, moving from Czars to the oppressive USSR to Putin's regime. The people have never truly had a voice in their government.

Not that I'm Russian, but I'd vote for Pussy Riot if I could.

On 4/27/2026 at 8:33 AM, Patong2021 said:

The point is that bullying is a characteristic of Europeans and it is not exclusive to the Russians.

The solution is to look at countries that have managed to avoid invading and starting wars with others. Australia, Canada, Finland, Iceland, Singapore, Mauritius, Botswana, Namibia, Costa Rica and New Zealand are examples.

I find your list laughable.

Australia and New Zealand, who the hell are they going to declare war on? There are only little islands that already depend on them for trade.

Canada, we live on a continent where they only 2 countries we could declare war on: the U.S. and Russia. We may not be the brightest bulb in the box, but we are bright enough to stay close to our friends south of us, but still not try to upset the Russian bear.

Singapore, Iceland again are islands who the hell are they going to declare war on and with what military. It would me more likely that China might declare war on Singapore.

As long as there has been animal species on the arth there has been war and it will continue long after we leave.

Someone or something always has something that another covets or does something that upsets their neighbors.

Consider that Iran until the Iraq war was never a huge issue. BUT the Bush family did not like Saddam so they came up with this weapns of mass destruction crap. Daddy could not end it so son found a better reason and tied it to 9/11 ruined the country of Iraqw and took away the only deterent that Iran had inthe world.

On 4/26/2026 at 7:54 PM, 3NUMBAS said:

Russia has been bullying Ukraine since 1933

The West has been bullying Russia since 1854.

However, it was not always thus:

"In the Baltic town of Vilnius, through which Napoleon's troops marched to their doom in the summer of 1812, there stands today a simple monument bearing two plaques. Together they tell the whole story. On the side with its back to Moscow is written: "Napoleon Bonaparte passed this way in 1812 with 400,000 men." On the other side are: "Napoleon Bonaparte passed this way in 1812 with 9,000 men."

"In the end only a shattered remnant of Napoleon's once great army, which had been earmarked for the conquest of the East, including India, succeeded in escaping from Russia. But Alexander, convinced now that he had been ordained by the Almighty to rid the world of Napoleon, was not content simply to drive them back beyond his own frontiers. He pursued the French half-way across Europe to Paris, entering it in triumph on March 30, 1814.

"In Britain, as elsewhere, news of Napoleon's downfall was greeted with euphoria. … The newspapers vied with one another in heaping praise upon the Russians and extolling their many virtues, imaginary or otherwise. The heroism and sacrifice of the ordinary Russian soldier, especially of the splendid Cossacks, caught the imagination of the British public. Touching stories reached London from Europe of how ferocious Cossacks preferred to sleep on straw palliasses beside their horses rather than on comfortable beds in the best hotels, and how others turned their hand to help housewives on whom they were billeted with the domestic chores. One Cossack private who arrived in London that spring received a rapturous welcome - as did the Cossack chieftain who, fourteen years earlier, had led his men on that short-lived expedition against India on the orders of Tsar Paul. If anyone remembered, they said nothing. Instead he was festooned with honours - including an honourary degree from Oxford - and was sent home laden with gifts.

"This love affair with Russia was, however, not destined to last. … "

[The Great Game - On Secret Service in High Asia by Peter Hopkirk]

Edited April 28Apr 28 by ericbj

40 minutes ago, kingstonkid said:

I find your list laughable.

Australia and New Zealand, who the hell are they going to declare war on? There are only little islands that already depend on them for trade.

Canada, we live on a continent where they only 2 countries we could declare war on: the U.S. and Russia. We may not be the brightest bulb in the box, but we are bright enough to stay close to our friends south of us, but still not try to upset the Russian bear.

Singapore, Iceland again are islands who the hell are they going to declare war on and with what military. It would me more likely that China might declare war on Singapore.

As long as there has been animal species on the arth there has been war and it will continue long after we leave.

Someone or something always has something that another covets or does something that upsets their neighbors.

Consider that Iran until the Iraq war was never a huge issue. BUT the Bush family did not like Saddam so they came up with this weapns of mass destruction crap. Daddy could not end it so son found a better reason and tied it to 9/11 ruined the country of Iraqw and took away the only deterent that Iran had inthe world.

You obviously do not get it, nor understand the statement that was being answered. One does not need to live in proximity to a target to have a war. Australia and Canada demonstrated that in WWII and korea. Australia, is what kept Japan from taking full control of the Pacific. And Canada is what kept the UK from being invaded by the Germans and their European collaborators. Perhaps you should make an effort to learn the history of your host country Canada. A visit to the War Museum in Ottawa would be a good place for you to start.

On 4/26/2026 at 9:49 PM, Alan Zweibel said:

Why did you leave out the Russians about getting the war that they want? Maybe because they didn't. Instead they launched the war they now have. Can you believe that there are some people who refuse to call it a war? But rather continue to call it a special military operation. In Russia, calling it a war is a crime. But why would somebody not subject to criminal penalties also refrain from using the "W" word? What criteria are lacking that disqualifies this conflict from being called a war?

On 4/26/2026 at 9:49 PM, Alan Zweibel said:

Why did you leave out the Russians about getting the war that they want? Maybe because they didn't. Instead they launched the war they now have. Can you believe that there are some people who refuse to call it a war? But rather continue to call it a special military operation. In Russia, calling it a war is a crime. But why would somebody not subject to criminal penalties also refrain from using the "W" word? What criteria are lacking that disqualifies this conflict from being called a war?

On 4/26/2026 at 9:49 PM, Alan Zweibel said:

Why did you leave out the Russians about getting the war that they want? Maybe because they didn't. Instead they launched the war they now have. Can you believe that there are some people who refuse to call it a war? But rather continue to call it a special military operation. In Russia, calling it a war is a crime. But why would somebody not subject to criminal penalties also refrain from using the "W" word? What criteria are lacking that disqualifies this conflict from being called a war?

Are you talking about Trump and the US or Putin and Russia? sounds exactly the same story! both getting what they wanted, just not the result that they wanted IMHO anyway.

14 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

You obviously do not get it, nor understand the statement that was being answered. One does not need to live in proximity to a target to have a war. Australia and Canada demonstrated that in WWII and korea. Australia, is what kept Japan from taking full control of the Pacific. And Canada is what kept the UK from being invaded by the Germans and their European collaborators. Perhaps you should make an effort to learn the history of your host country, Canada. A visit to the War Museum in Ottawa would be a good place for you to start.

Your point was that these countries were not targeting anyone. I think you also need to brushup on your history.

Canada is part of the Commonwealth, which means that if you include Canada, Australia, India or the UK as the largest member, then the others will come to your aid.

As to Australia and Japan. You seem to forget that there were a large number of Brits and Americans, as well as the USN, that had a large say in things.

Korea's participation by Canadians was as part of the UN force and again in support of the U.S. and South Korea.

Canada has never and will at least in my lifetime never declare war on a country. However, we will come to the aid of the King and the Commonwealth.

Canada, as well, I believe, is one of the 2 countries the world turns to to act as a policeman in major conflicts.

I served 27 years to am fully aware of my CDN military history.

I will also add that there were at least 3 cdns that died fighting Japan in Southeast Asia.

2 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

Remember the Libyan invasion of 2011 ? Libya is a country in Africa with high quality oil that sold almost all of its oil to Europe, with Italy, the largest customer. The Italians, French and Spain initiated a western military intervention in Libya. Europeans for some "odd" reason have a collective amnesia for this event.

It's remarkable how you can gloss over some critical junctures in history. it wasn't too long ago that Europe hosted a full blown ethnic genocide and did little to stop it. The USA had to reluctantly become involved to stop it. According to your revisionist history, the mass murder of 8,000 Bosniak boys and men in 1995 aka the Srebrenica Genocide and the systemic rape and abuse of young children and adults by Bosnian Serbs did not occur. The mass starvation and killings during the almost 4 year long siege of Sarajevo did not occur either, I suppose. do you forget the mass murder of an estimated 25,000 ethnic Albanians in Kosovo during the Kosovo war of 1999?

And yes, the USA has a high rate of violent crime compared to some European countries. It was attributable in large part to the large number of socio cultural groups predisposed to such violence. The USA was a welcoming and a tolerant nation where tens of millions of immigrants poured in. Cuba drained its psychiatric hospitals and prisons and dumped its violent offenders in the USA via the Mariel boatlift in 1980. Violent gang members poured in from Central America. Afro Americans turned on each other with black on black crime higher than for any other ethnic group. For many decades, these people did not go to Europe. On the contrary, they fled Europe. Now Europe's turn has come and they too are inundating Europe with negative consequences. Germany's immigrant population reached a record high, with one in four people living there now having a migration history. At the same time, new police data shows that foreign nationals appear more often in violent crime reports. https://etias.com/articles/1-in-4-germans-is-an-immigrant-%E2%80%94-and-crime-data-is-surging

Parts of Sweden are now "no go" areas for native Swedes. Crime goes unchallenged in parts of France like some banlieues of Paris and Marseilles. If you do not investigate crime or record it, there won't be any crime. 🫣

The takeaway, is that the veneer of European superiority is disintegrating.

I do remember Libya? Do you remember that it was authorized by the UN? So, it was done in accordance with international law. The Eurpoeans didn't appoint themselves to be the world's police force.

As I specifically pointed out, all the countries of Eastern Europe, lived in a kind of plitical suspended animation. All were ruled by dictatorships and all were under Soviet rule except Yugoslavia.

You can cherrypick criime statistics all you like in Europe, but the fact is that the vast majority of crimes in the USA are committed by native Americans.

2 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

I did not make any claim of inherited guilt. I did state that the damage from the legacy of exploitation cannot be quickly erased. The colonial attitudes still persisted. Sadly this was demonstrated by the Rwanda-Burundi genocide. Belgium and France were implicated and multiple inquiries and studies discuss the their role in having created the conditions and enabled both the genocide and failing to have prevented and not intervening to stop the events. And it is so nice for you to acknowledge the reign of tyranny that the Russians exerted over eastern Europe. It wasn't that long ago that the US President Reagan and UK Prime Minister Thatcher liberated Eastern Europe. It wasn't the Belgians, or Italians or the French.

Belgiium and France, like other colonial powers in have a disgraceful record in Africa. But lack of action is not the same as intervention.

As for crediting Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher with the fall of the Soviet Union, do you really believe that the accelerating disaster that was the Soviet economic system was actually viable?

2 hours ago, tmd5855 said:

Post WWII, Ukrainians still celebrate their freedom fighters who fought against the Russians/Soviet Union.

Marches and statues erected in memory,

14th Waffen SS Galicia Division.

Quite a few acts of bullying done by that mob successors look at the Azov Division insignia one time proscribed by the USA as a terrorist paramilitary unit following its behaviour in certain regions.

No one has clean hands, no one has the moral high ground, no one can throw the first stone.

Let me duck first.

The fact is that Russia began the invasion of the Ukraine well before 2022. Remember the "little green men" in Donbas?

The Azov brigade rose to prominence because of the early invasion. You may not recall how desperate the situation was for the Ukrainians. Can you think of a country that the United States allied itself with in WW2. A country whose leader was responsible for the death of 20 million of his citizens?

At least the was with Ukraine has improved the Russian diet. With all the reports about cannibalism on the front lines, eating each other must be an improvement over beetroot soup. lol

Macron is not an idiot.

On 4/26/2026 at 5:13 PM, Patong2021 said:

Russia has been bullying the region for centuries.

Ukraine has been bullying Poles, Lithuanians, Moldovans, Huungarians and Romanians for centuries too.

This is the history of Europe. The Europeans are a violent and greedy culture. They have been warring and thieving for centuries. It is why millions of Europeans fled Europe for other regions.

You might have noticed the development of an entity called the European Union which has pretty much put a stop to all that as it was intended to. The exceptions were non-members like the crumbling Yugoslavia. The war inside Ukraine is a Russian war, not one we EU Europeans 'want'. It's caused us major disruptions and drains our economies and resources as well.

In fact we tried really hard for decades to bring Russia into the win-win fold of transcontinental peace and trade, but they mostly elected gangsters and dictators who decided they wanted a return to early 19th century imperialism. I think it's an accepted historic fact that Russia has very little truck with democracy or its principles. What that country has done to its other neighbors like Chechnya beggars belief. Like the UK, they couldn't cope with a 21st century union of European democracies. Like the UK they still haven't adapted to a changing world and still want to be the 'leaders', No1 at the table. Singularly incapable of sitting at a round table as one among equals.

The US of course can do to countries on the other side of the planet what Russia has a hard time doing to its immediate neighbors. That also causes us major disruptions in the EU but the US couldn't give a damn about that any more. It's busy now showing the UK what its real global status is with its 'kings' and 'queens' farce. Joke. 19th century countries playing 19th century games. Red carpet and grovel to Putin whilst (quite. correctly) snubbing Brian.

The EU doesn't do any of these things. We've learned lessons that the remedially challenged fail to even recognize are there for the learning. We recognize each other as equals and support each other as well as many other countries and regions. It's been remarkably successful. And we have no kings, queens, presidents or dictators. Just a clever club of democratically elected governments who share our stuff now instead of coveting and stealing it. Jaw jaw not war war. Thanks Winston.

We WILL resist. We WILL prepare. So in that sense you are right: we are preparing for a war we hope we WILL NOT be forced to fight. But you would have to pry the peace and prosperity we have on mainland Europe from our collective dead hands - all 400 million of them.

It would be amazing folly even now for Russia to put one toecap across an EU border. They won't. They couldn't even handle Ukraine after years of preparation. Quite a pathetic country actually. GDP less than that of Italy now. A huge petrol and gas tank. Dangerous only because of its hoard of nukes - and a murderous president and nomenklatura.

Though not alone in that either.

Edited April 28Apr 28 by BusyB

24 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

Macron is not an idiot.

I think the main difference is that while the US and Russia would love to and are trying hard to destroy the EU, China, whilst being a tough rival, is a reliable partner and doesn't want to. It understands the interdependencies even if it plays hardball. China is altogether a far more intelligent country than the latest iteration of 19th century mass murdering imperialist hegemons.

The shift isn't 100% global either. There are plenty of countries from Australia to S. America and Canada, via Asia, that are our genuine friends and reliable partners. And they are growing wise to the US and distancing themselves as well. Even the BRICS are a splintered shadow of what they could have been.

5 hours ago, ericbj said:

The West has been bullying Russia since 1854.

However, it was not always thus:

"In the Baltic town of Vilnius, through which Napoleon's troops marched to their doom in the summer of 1812, there stands today a simple monument bearing two plaques. Together they tell the whole story. On the side with its back to Moscow is written: "Napoleon Bonaparte passed this way in 1812 with 400,000 men." On the other side are: "Napoleon Bonaparte passed this way in 1812 with 9,000 men."

"In the end only a shattered remnant of Napoleon's once great army, which had been earmarked for the conquest of the East, including India, succeeded in escaping from Russia. But Alexander, convinced now that he had been ordained by the Almighty to rid the world of Napoleon, was not content simply to drive them back beyond his own frontiers. He pursued the French half-way across Europe to Paris, entering it in triumph on March 30, 1814.

"In Britain, as elsewhere, news of Napoleon's downfall was greeted with euphoria. … The newspapers vied with one another in heaping praise upon the Russians and extolling their many virtues, imaginary or otherwise. The heroism and sacrifice of the ordinary Russian soldier, especially of the splendid Cossacks, caught the imagination of the British public. Touching stories reached London from Europe of how ferocious Cossacks preferred to sleep on straw palliasses beside their horses rather than on comfortable beds in the best hotels, and how others turned their hand to help housewives on whom they were billeted with the domestic chores. One Cossack private who arrived in London that spring received a rapturous welcome - as did the Cossack chieftain who, fourteen years earlier, had led his men on that short-lived expedition against India on the orders of Tsar Paul. If anyone remembered, they said nothing. Instead he was festooned with honours - including an honourary degree from Oxford - and was sent home laden with gifts.

"This love affair with Russia was, however, not destined to last. … "

[The Great Game - On Secret Service in High Asia by Peter Hopkirk]

The EU has never bullied Russia.

As far as Ukraine/Russia history goes I recommend Timothy Snyder's brilliant 'Bloodlands'.

In fact Russia has been bullying, starving, stealing and murdering millions in Ukraine since the Bolsheviks took over.

The latest invasion is just history rhyming again.

23 minutes ago, BusyB said:

China, whilst being a tough rival, is a reliable partner and doesn't want to.

good points.

i was confused why macron tossed china into the mix.

5 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

good points.

i was confused why macron tossed china into the mix.

But you are right: Macron is not an idiot and I saw several excerpts from his talks there.

In times like these though I wish we had Junker back as head of the Commission ;D

Hey guys, I want to ruffle a few feathers.

This video claims Hitler HAD to start WW2. This video is probably AI generated, but it doesn't mean it's not factual or partially factual or any more or less biased than real news.

Since as we all should know by now, all news is biased.

The Hitler theory is this:

On June 28th, 1919 the Germans had to sign The Treaty of Versailles. Article 231 of the Treaty forced Germany to take blame for WW1 and pay 600 Billion Marks.

Blah Blah .... I didn't watch the entire video.

Point is this argument portrays a very different version of Hitler being a raving madman. Seems like Germany was cornered and desperate.

So is Putin a raving madman?

Edited April 28Apr 28 by save the frogs

3 hours ago, save the frogs said:

Hey guys, I want to ruffle a few feathers.

This video claims Hitler HAD to start WW2. This video is probably AI generated, but it doesn't mean it's not factual or partially factual or any more or less biased than real news.

Since as we all should know by now, all news is biased.

The Hitler theory is this:

On June 28th, 1919 the Germans had to sign The Treaty of Versailles. Article 231 of the Treaty forced Germany to take blame for WW1 and pay 600 Billion Marks.

Blah Blah .... I didn't watch the entire video.

Point is this argument portrays a very different version of Hitler being a raving madman. Seems like Germany was cornered and desperate.

So is Putin a raving madman?

Hitler had to start World War II because the most fundamental part of his plan since at least as far back as 1924, long before he came to power, was the integration of Eastern Europe into the Third Reich with the elimination of a substantial proportion of its untermenschen. The Soviet Union was not going to simply retreat to beyond the Urals without a fight.

A point that the video seems to be making is the fact that to realise his goal of conquest he was spending money on armaments that he did not possess. Every country that he occupied yielded him additional material for his war-machine. Together with their gold reserves.

Czechoslovakia - almost forced on him by imbecile British politicians who wanted a strong German-controlled Central Europe as a bulwark against the communist bogey-man - gave him the seventh wealthiest country in the world. Which possessed an advanced armaments industry, a mechanised army of a million men, sophisticated fortifications designed by French military engineers, and tanks superior to those of the Wehrmacht (which would serve against the Anglo-French forces in May 1940).

A further factor pushing Hitler towards an early war, was that Britain and France, after a very late start encouraged by the economic depression of the 1930s, were finally beginning to make substantial progress with re-arming. In 1938 the RAF's Fighter Command was still equipped with Hawker Fury biplanes. Good for aerobatic displays.

This ignores the Treaty of Versailles, which was a total disgrace, and which was a factor in everything that followed. But it was not the inevitable factor in the outbreak of war, especially as many of those in high places, and in the Press, in both Britain and France (and the U.S.) in the 1930s were very favourably disposed towards Hitler. They were wrongly terrified of Stalin. Who was certainly a major threat to his own people. But he was not Trotsky !

Edited April 28Apr 28 by ericbj

10 hours ago, Alan Zweibel said:

The fact is that Russia began the invasion of the Ukraine well before 2022. Remember the "little green men" in Donbas?

The Azov brigade rose to prominence because of the early invasion. You may not recall how desperate the situation was for the Ukrainians. Can you think of a country that the United States allied itself with in WW2. A country whose leader was responsible for the death of 20 million of his citizens?

The social progressives of their day celebrated alliance between Russia and the allies. They held fundraisers. it did not bother them that Russia had previously been aligned with Germany and Italy and had invaded Poland with the Germans.

It was the great Churchill who warned of the the Russian agenda and who came up with the Iron Curtain expression. He was proven correct.

1 minute ago, Patong2021 said:

The social progressives of their day celebrated alliance between Russia and the allies. They held fundraisers. it did not bother them that Russia had previously been aligned with Germany and Italy and had invaded Poland with the Germans.

It was the great Churchill who warned of the the Russian agenda and who came up with the Iron Curtain expression. He was proven correct.

Did Churchill oppose the alliance with Soviet Russia?

Quite the contrary;

:The Anglo-Soviet Agreement was a declaration signed by the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union on 12 July 1941, shortly after the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union. In the agreement, the UK and the Soviet Union pledged to cooperate in the war against Nazi Germany and not to make a separate peace with Germany.[1]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Soviet_Agreement

5 hours ago, save the frogs said:

Hey guys, I want to ruffle a few feathers.

This video claims Hitler HAD to start WW2. This video is probably AI generated, but it doesn't mean it's not factual or partially factual or any more or less biased than real news.

Since as we all should know by now, all news is biased.

The Hitler theory is this:

On June 28th, 1919 the Germans had to sign The Treaty of Versailles. Article 231 of the Treaty forced Germany to take blame for WW1 and pay 600 Billion Marks.

Blah Blah .... I didn't watch the entire video.

Point is this argument portrays a very different version of Hitler being a raving madman. Seems like Germany was cornered and desperate.

So is Putin a raving madman?

This is one of those attempts to justify the horrors of Nazi Germany. The British did not force anything on anyone other than to keep appeasing Germany and to try and avoid a war. Remember the Peace in Our Times claim? The Munchen Agreement? The Russians were intent on a brutal expansion since 1917 when they started a war with Ukraine and annexed territory. This was followed by the invasion of Georgia in 1921. Then they started with Finland in 1939. Then they joined with Germany in the invasion of Poland. They only suspended their imperialistic ambitions because of their dispute with the Germans in 1941. had it not been for that conflict the Russians would have tried again with the Nordic countries and much of eastern Europe.

11 hours ago, kingstonkid said:

I will also add that there were at least 3 cdns that died fighting Japan in Southeast Asia.

Grabbed a few quotes of interest from this site: https://www.warmuseum.ca/war-against-japan/

Canadians faced Japanese forces in Hong Kong, as well as in other locations in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

In October 1941, Canada sent nearly 2,000 troops to reinforce the British colony of Hong Kong. Soldiers of the Royal Rifles of Canada and the Winnipeg Grenadiers arrive in Hong Kong, 16 November 1941. On 8 December 1941, Japan attacked. Following brutal fighting, the Allied garrison surrendered on 25 December. Two hundred and ninety Canadians were killed in the battle. The survivors were taken prisoner. Brutalized by Japanese captors and ravaged by disease and malnutrition, the survivors of Japanese prison camps emerged from captivity in terrible mental and physical condition. Of the 1,689 Canadians captured at Hong Kong by the Japanese in 1941, just over 1,400 survived their ordeal.

First World War veteran Rifleman Percy Wilmot also served in the Second World War and was among the Canadians sent to Hong Kong in 1941. Wounded in the fighting, he then became a prisoner of war. Like other Allied prisoners, Wilmot suffered from malnutrition, disease and abuse, with lasting health consequences. After his liberation, Wilmot wrote to his son, Stan, from an American hospital: "… the Americans are very good to us … and I shall never forget their kindness."

Lieutenant William King Lowd Lore:

"I am a Canadian Naval Officer and I am here to liberate you guys. Aren’t you glad to see me?" With these words, William King Lowd Lore greeted Canadian prisoners of war in Hong Kong who had been waiting nearly four years for liberation.

The first Chinese Canadian to join the Royal Canadian Navy, Lore served as an intelligence officer in Canada, England and Southeast Asia. He retired from the navy after the war as a lieutenant commander.

Some 8,000 Canadians served in Southeast Asia, India and Ceylon. Many were members of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), often posted to British units. The RCAF’s 435 and 436 Squadrons transported equipment and personnel in India and Burma, while 413 Squadron patrolled the Indian Ocean, searching for Japanese ships and submarines.

Major Charles Ferguson Hoey, V.C.:

Canadian-born Charles Ferguson Hoey joined the British Army in 1933. In 1937, he was posted to India, and in 1942, to Burma. Both were part of the British Empire. In February 1944, Hoey led an attack on a Japanese strongpoint. He killed all the defenders but was mortally wounded. For his actions, Hoey was awarded the Victoria Cross, the Commonwealth’s highest award for valour.

The Canadian cruiser HMCS Uganda joined the British Pacific Fleet in February 1945, fighting against Japanese forces.

Starting in April 1945, all Canadian military personnel who were going to the Pacific had to volunteer for that service. This applied to the crew of Uganda, even though they were already in combat. In a vote, the majority of them refused, for reasons including poor service conditions. Uganda returned to Canada after the vote.

Despite widespread racism and discrimination, including barriers to enlistment, between 600 and 800 Chinese Canadians served in the Second World War. Around 150 of them were in Force 136, a branch of the British Special Operations Executive. They were trained for covert missions behind enemy lines in Japanese-occupied territories. [Europeans could not pass themselves off as locals] After the war, Chinese Canadian veterans worked to change many of Canada’s discriminatory limits on immigration and citizenship.

[Maj.Johnie Shaw of 1/RUR, best man at my parents' wedding, was with SOE in Albania then with Force 136 behind Jap/Thai lines in South Kentung State Burma in '45; kia on the Imjin April '51]

Opposition leader in Russia threatening a coup / revolution by autumn ...

9 hours ago, Alan Zweibel said:

Did Churchill oppose the alliance with Soviet Russia?

Quite the contrary;

:The Anglo-Soviet Agreement was a declaration signed by the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union on 12 July 1941, shortly after the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union. In the agreement, the UK and the Soviet Union pledged to cooperate in the war against Nazi Germany and not to make a separate peace with Germany.[1]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Soviet_Agreement

Another cut and paste from you. Are you really incapable of thinking on your own, or is this what the Russian paymasters provide? Had you bothered to read Churchill's rational, you would understand that it was all about defeating Hitler and nothing else. Better yet, listen to one of his most famous speeches, that inspired and rallied the free world. A true leader.

https://www.nationalchurchillmuseum.org/winston-churchills-broadcast-on-the-soviet-german-war.html

Excerpt.

We have but one aim and one single irrevocable purpose. We are resolved to destroy Hitler and every vestige of the Nazi regime. From this nothing will turn us. Nothing. We will never parley; we will never negotiate with Hitler or any of his gang. We shall fight him by land; we shall fight him by sea; we shall fight him in the air, until, with God's help, we have rid the earth of his shadow and liberated its people from his yoke.

Any man or State who fights against Nazism will have our aid. Any man or State who marches with Hitler is our foe. This applies not only to organized States but to all representatives of that vile race of Quislings who make themselves the tools and agents of the Nazi regime against their fellow-countrymen and against the lands of their births. These Quislings, like the Nazi leaders themselves, if not disposed of by their fellow-countrymen, which would save trouble, will be delivered by us on the morrow of victory to the justice of the Allied tribunals. That is our policy and that is our declaration.

It follows, therefore, that we shall give whatever help we can to Russia and to the Russian people. We shall appeal to all our friends and Allies in every part of the world to take the same course and pursue it as we shall, faithfully and steadfastly to the end.

We have offered to the Government of Soviet Russia any technical or economic assistance which is in our power and which is likely to be of service to them. We shall bomb Germany by day as well as by night in ever-increasing measure, casting upon them month by month a heavier discharge of bombs and making the German people taste and gulp each month a sharper dose of the miseries they have showered upon mankind.

Winston Churchill London, 22 June 1941

4 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

Another cut and paste from you. Are you really incapable of thinking on your own, or is this what the Russian paymasters provide? Had you bothered to read Churchill's rational, you would understand that it was all about defeating Hitler and nothing else. Better yet, listen to one of his most famous speeches, that inspired and rallied the free world. A true leader.

https://www.nationalchurchillmuseum.org/winston-churchills-broadcast-on-the-soviet-german-war.html

Excerpt.

We have but one aim and one single irrevocable purpose. We are resolved to destroy Hitler and every vestige of the Nazi regime. From this nothing will turn us. Nothing. We will never parley; we will never negotiate with Hitler or any of his gang. We shall fight him by land; we shall fight him by sea; we shall fight him in the air, until, with God's help, we have rid the earth of his shadow and liberated its people from his yoke.

Any man or State who fights against Nazism will have our aid. Any man or State who marches with Hitler is our foe. This applies not only to organized States but to all representatives of that vile race of Quislings who make themselves the tools and agents of the Nazi regime against their fellow-countrymen and against the lands of their births. These Quislings, like the Nazi leaders themselves, if not disposed of by their fellow-countrymen, which would save trouble, will be delivered by us on the morrow of victory to the justice of the Allied tribunals. That is our policy and that is our declaration.

It follows, therefore, that we shall give whatever help we can to Russia and to the Russian people. We shall appeal to all our friends and Allies in every part of the world to take the same course and pursue it as we shall, faithfully and steadfastly to the end.

We have offered to the Government of Soviet Russia any technical or economic assistance which is in our power and which is likely to be of service to them. We shall bomb Germany by day as well as by night in ever-increasing measure, casting upon them month by month a heavier discharge of bombs and making the German people taste and gulp each month a sharper dose of the miseries they have showered upon mankind.

Winston Churchill London, 22 June 1941

Thanks for the comment that was so confused and ridiculous.

You accuse me of being in the pay of Russia even though my point was defending Ukraine from the Russian line that the Ukrainian govt was fascistic or even adherents to Nazism.

And on the one hand you accuse me of using cut and paste, as though providing evidence was a bad thing, but on the other you do the same yourself. It is to laugh.

And you don't seem to understand that the evidence you provided proves my point. That sometimes you have to make a deal with one devil, in order to defeat a worse one. Anyway, thanks for the assist.

Even The Sun is reporting they will try to topple Putin within a year.

So Putin will resort to desperate measures to stay alive.

1:58 King Charles: If it were not for the US, EU countries would be speaking German. If it were not for UK, Americans would be speaking French.