*…The Ukraine conflict will cast a long shadow well into the future…*

Thank you Democrats and Jo the Clown for that one!

Dan

China. That’s our problem.

So, further down the track Australia will have nuclear weapons. Will this actually deter China. On 16 September 2021, the Australian government announced that it would acquire a nuclear-powered submarine capability with support from the UK and the US as the first measure of business under the AUKUS technology-sharing partnership.

Every boy and his dog who want nuclear weapons can get them! And given our potential enemies have them! It means we need some as a deterrent against their use against us! And we need to transition away from fossil fuels to carbon-free MSR thorium nuclear energy so we can make more here at home as the Ukraine have done!

Their homegrown build includes a pretty awesome tank and a range of ship and tank destroying laser guided missiles. And a snipers rifle that has a range of around 4.5 miles and has armour piecing ammunition.

[We could use some of that here along with their human technical expertise!]

And that is just a fraction of what they make and it has given them an edge where it counts in the conflict with Russia. Russia is trying with what she has to destroy Ukraine's industries. As she clearly respects the Cossack warrior nation.

We for our part must help as much as we can to ensure Russia fails!
Alan B.

The military industrial complex called NATO is bad for peace, democracy and human rights and should have been buried when the Warsaw collapsed. It robs each of its member states at least 2% of GDP each year which could be used for more important things like health, education, cost of living. In the USA, more than 57cents of the dollar is spent on military related disasters.

Both Ukraine and Russia have been duped into fighting unnecessary and unwinnable wars. Remember Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Croatia, Syria and Yemen. The only one who benefits are arms manufacturers and dogs of war.

Once you're a part of NATO the US will station nukes on that countries soil anyway;
So with NATO expansion so does nuclear weapon expansion.

Russia will put nukes in Kaliningrad now, because of Sweden and Finland joining NATO.