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To not really fancy a "winter of hardship to beat Putin"

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CurdinHenry · 13/09/2026 19:31

I would rather he had various bits of Ukraine than I have a winter of hardship I don't really care about Ukraine (and I think at least some people in said various bits would like to join Russia anyway, who am I to stop them)

Why do we have to keep getting involved in far away stuff

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crr4en2ylz8o

OP posts:
nearlylovemyusername · 13/09/2026 20:49

OP, are you Russian?

I can't believe that anyone but Russian or paid by them could post sh.t like this.

It has a very clear pattern of trying to stir public opinion.

No, I'd sacrifice a lot to get putin removed.

BlankSheetOrKnownQuantity · 13/09/2026 20:49

Simonjt · 13/09/2026 19:34

How about we give him bits of the UK instead?

Shhh ! Dont say that Burnham might hear and give him London 😂😂😂

smallglassbottle · 13/09/2026 20:47

InterestedDad37 · 13/09/2026 20:45

Imagine your neighbour breaks through the wall and takes over your bedroom. Your other neighbours could help kick them out, but they say "Nah, fck it, I'm watching Corrie". 🤷

Corrie's shite. I'd help just to relieve the boredom and to warm me up after sitting in a cold house because of Milliband and the Russians.

InterestedDad37 · 13/09/2026 20:45

Imagine your neighbour breaks through the wall and takes over your bedroom. Your other neighbours could help kick them out, but they say "Nah, fck it, I'm watching Corrie". 🤷

smallglassbottle · 13/09/2026 20:42

This lot aren't very good. They must have sent all the intelligent ones to the Front 🙄

PensionPTake · 13/09/2026 20:39

CurdinHenry · 13/09/2026 19:35

I don't think he'll invade the UK so... I don't really care tbh

Good job the american's didn't have that attitude last time we were at risk of being invaded.

smallglassbottle · 13/09/2026 20:38

Anyahyacinth · 13/09/2026 20:32

You are aware his regime have used nerve agents and radioactive material to murder people, indiscrimately, in the UK...and you don't care? How strange

No amount of cheap heating will cure a cold heart

You've spelled indiscriminately wrong. They were actually targeted attacks. One member of the public was poisoned.

Anyahyacinth · 13/09/2026 20:32

You are aware his regime have used nerve agents and radioactive material to murder people, indiscrimately, in the UK...and you don't care? How strange

No amount of cheap heating will cure a cold heart

MyLimeGuide · 13/09/2026 20:31

Don't worry with labour in im sure your benefits are safe.

NoWordForFluffy · 13/09/2026 20:29

AgileMentor · 13/09/2026 19:55

She sounds absolutely bat shit

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user1471429429 · 13/09/2026 20:25

Can anyone really be this stupid? Answer apparently is yes…

CheeseMakesMeFart · 13/09/2026 20:24

The world is more interconnected than it's ever been.

The Iran war affected us all due to Hormuz.
The Yemen war affects us all due to the threat to Red Sea shipping.
The ongoing civil war in Sudan affects us too, given the huge numbers of people involved and the potential for refugee flows. The conflicts across Mali and the Sahel, likewise. ISIS and their ilk are not going to stop if they defeat the governments of those countries. They still hate the West just as much as they ever did.

Russia despises us. They hate European unity, democracy, the whole thing. They will not stop at Ukraine.

In case you weren't paying attention, in the 1930s the western powers tried to appease Hitler. They let him take Chekoslovakia. Did that stop him, or encourage him to keep going?

Did Chechnya satisfy the Russians who want to bring back the USSR? No, today it's Ukraine.

They will keep going until they are stopped.

dannyufcfan · 13/09/2026 20:24

I hope this is a bot and not a real person.

whatcanthematterbe81 · 13/09/2026 20:23

You bored and looking for a reaction? 😂

Happyjoe · 13/09/2026 20:22

CurdinHenry · 13/09/2026 19:34

Where else do you care about? Why is Ukraine a big heartbreak for you Vs all the other places on the planet?

Because he won't stop at Ukraine.

smallglassbottle · 13/09/2026 20:21

Backedoffhackedoff · 13/09/2026 20:20

I don’t think there is any chance human Russian bots are wasting their time on a mid sized national forum like mumsnet.

i do think OP is winding us up though.

Hey, this is an influential place you know 😂

Backedoffhackedoff · 13/09/2026 20:20

LaurieFairyCake · 13/09/2026 20:14

If I was a Russian bot I’d definitely post the OP’s post

zero compassion or humanity = bot

I don’t think there is any chance human Russian bots are wasting their time on a mid sized national forum like mumsnet.

i do think OP is winding us up though.

witheringrowan · 13/09/2026 20:20

CurdinHenry · 13/09/2026 19:38

People are dying all over the world

I still want a nice life

I bet you still fill your boots on shein

The odds of you having a "nice life" get significantly lower if we don't have stable geopolitics. Putin needs to be deafeted in Ukraine, and in his shadow backing of the Iranian regime, and in his support for the Houthi rebels - all contributing to global instability and inflation. His goal is not a few parts of Ukraine, it is to estabilise and weaken the West. We will not have domestic economic growth if Russia is left free to act as a rogue state.

smallglassbottle · 13/09/2026 20:20

This is where the failed bots end up 😥

It's worse than Middlesbrough.

To not really fancy a "winter of hardship to beat Putin"
lordbaddingham · 13/09/2026 20:18

What on earth

smallglassbottle · 13/09/2026 20:16

LaurieFairyCake · 13/09/2026 20:14

If I was a Russian bot I’d definitely post the OP’s post

zero compassion or humanity = bot

Perhaps they've been sacked. Sent to the gulag or Norilsk. Such a shame.

LaurieFairyCake · 13/09/2026 20:14

If I was a Russian bot I’d definitely post the OP’s post

zero compassion or humanity = bot

Dorisbonson · 13/09/2026 20:11

No need for a winter of hardship if Miliband let us take oil and gas from the North Sea and actually make things in the UK. The environmental policies have pushed down UK GDP made us poorer so we can't afford to heat ourselves.

His energy policies not only cost billions of lost GDP each year on oil and gas, but the collapse of our chemical industries and multiple other key industries. The reason why the pound keeps losing value is combination of lack of confidence in our politicians but also the death of our manufacturing industries - we are ceasing to have a "hard" currency - increasingly losing value.

We have lost 50% of our manufacturing sectors since the year 2000. In the next 5 years we will likely see the total loss of JLR and its supply chain from the UK - thats 20 billion every year we are likely to lose - how can 100k UK cars with reliability issues compete with 40k cars?

Our mad energy policies(6x the price of China, 3x the price of France), crazy tax policies, expensive infrastructure (700m cooling scheme to save 1 salmon every 12 years for example) and immigration policies (UK asylum seeker costs per asylum seeker 2.5x every other european nation costs per asylum seeker) make us poor. Sack left wing lawyers and ditch insane environmental policies and we might be able to afford higher gas bills for Ukraine.

smallglassbottle · 13/09/2026 20:11

Madamecholetsbonnet · 13/09/2026 20:09

Are you drunk?

Poor buggers keep trying to scare us 😂

moonraker0 · 13/09/2026 20:10

croisette · 13/09/2026 20:08

Well absolutely, it’s “a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing” right? We’ve been here before!

How many active wars are there currently? Why don’t we care about the people involved in them all?