Is Putin a threat to UK ?

To be transparent is to know what the danger is we do not know what the danger is we just know it is there we have very little idea of what Putin will do so no that isn’t transparent

As I said before it isn’t all of one or the other I don’t support the war at all though o understand Isreal desire to destroy the Iranian regime but America and Isreal are not our enemies Russia and Iran are hostile toward UK/Europe

Sorry are you saying it’s tricky to see how Russia is a threat? I said they are transparent because you’d have to be thick as mince to not understand the threats they present! Of course I know we are under constant attack from them, because guess what? it’s pretty common knowledge! You aren’t super clever for working it out sorry. Putin doesn’t hide his feelings about us.

So that’s Russia. What I’m saying is the regimes in US and Israel pretend to be allies (although Trump has pretty much given up even pretending), but their actions dont appear to be those of friends at the moment to me. And Countries that threaten world peace threaten us all, that’s how the world works. Israel and the US seem hungry for conflict, they rushed into the Iran war without any discussion with their so called “friends”. Now we are all paying the price - quite literally. Oh thanks “friends”! Any war hungry power in the world is a threat.

Russia is transparent

what are you talking about have you totally swallowed the west is evil handbook

you do realise that we are under constant cyber attack from Russia, Russia was behind chemical attacks in the uk and that it’s only sheer luck many people didn’t die

Iran is behind a number of terrorist groups that keeps many people’s lives a misery aswell as controlling their own people

its not either in support of one or the other I don’t support the Iran conflict or the attacks on Gaza but you are seriously deluded if you believe Russia is more transparent or oblivious in how Russia operates

At least Russia are obvious and transparent about who they are and what they want, the threat there is easy to see. To understand the threat from the current US and Israeli regimes you might need to think in different terms. I mean for a start do either of them give a shit about the massive worldwide economic damage they causing right now with their pointless war? You cannot possibly have failed to notice that?!

Well they are certainly closer allies than about 90% of other countries

and certainly more so than Russia or Iran

I’ll tell you who must be really stupid - the people that think US and Israel are our allies.

Isn't it.

It is sad to still see the huge number of deaths to conscripts. I doubt they have much choice. It’s awful for Ukraine who don’t and didn’t deserve the attack, but also for young Russian men that are put into drone wars.

We are Russia's raditional enemy, We stopped their expansion Eastward when they threatened to invade India. Think of Kipling and the stories of the Great Game, read, Peter Hopkirk The Great Game on Service in High Asia etc. We have not been forgiven for our success in preventing that. In their news reports we are regularly the credited as being the root of successful military actions against them, even now in Ukraine. We live rent free in Moscows heads. They have and will attack. But the method will assymetric and deniable by employing the useful idits we have fostered and tolerated within our own shores. The Coal Miners and other trade unions tried it in the second word war until we became allied with Russia against Germany, they then turned on a dime. The next series of attacks will be more deniable, or by destroying the economy by severing under seas communications and pwer cables / gas lines.

Putin is of course a threat to the UK, but since Ukraine is not part of NATO we have a buffer zone between the east and west, this is one of the many reasons we have not granted them NATO status, despite several attempts; Had we allowed them in then the treaty would require the rest of the NATO states to offer assistance to another member state and therefore be drawn into a war with Russia.

Politically, as it stands, we can provide certain assitance to Ukraine via medical and food supplies (i'm not sure about how military hardware works but it seems we've provided drones already?) without being direct agressors to Putin, which would cause us a load of problems.

The west is technologically superior, however, Russia, and Putins real advantage is manpower. Russia has an approximate area of 6.6 million square miles and a population of approximately 146 million, less than half of the population of the US, granted, but far more willing to conscript people.

There was a cyber-attack on 3 UK airports today

Not saying it was Russia, could well have been Iran or someone else.

@olivepicanto well our drone supply would last a few hours apparently.

Yes, I doubt he will drop a nuke but cyber attacks are very likely.

😂 although I think it is highly unlikely we are going to find ourselves in boots on the ground sort of warfare against Russia in the immediate future. Cyber attacks and possibly drones. Even the latter might be a bit of a stretch in the immediate future. I don’t think he’s quite insane enough to invoke NATO yet.

I think WW3 will not be physical.

I also think he has been attacking us for years. We're already at war

Oh yes they can be

Some also suspect the terrible US/west influence being behind the Iranian people protesting against the regime that they have to live under

that is how thick they are

Retaliate is such a strange word to use.

I’m rolling around on the floor laughing Surely no one can be this stupid?

We also have to consider the cyber threat

this is constant its not from the west its from Russia and China

Government's ignored the very obvious danger that he was for years, and cheap oil and gas kept us on his side. He took a step too far and its suddenly noticed how dangerous he is 🙄

same old story again and again throughout history

What do those characters want from the Kremlin? Money, power, disruption.

Putin should be playing with the grandkids at his age. He should be in the garden growing pretty roses. Aristotle once said 'those that would be great the God's make mad'.

Poke the bear, OP?

why should we pussyfoot around that monster?

Arguably Russia has always been an enemy. Started after WW2 and Russia wanted to expand it's Communist ideology. That's never gone away but now it's about wider borders and making money.

He was chilling with Russian Neo Nazi group, Brotherhood of Academists.

TR is another fucking traitor.

Of course he is and always has been he is a very dangerous man who does as he wants

What other leader of a country has ordered people to be poisoned in the UK, the cases could have been far far worse