Bronwyn's post makes me think how America & Nato would react for Russia to go back to Cuba or Russia having a base in Ireland or on Malta !

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<< Bronwyn's post makes me think how America & Nato would react for Russia to go back to Cuba or Russia having a base in Ireland or on Malta ! >>

Spot on!

The US has around 400 military bases surrounding China and routinely surveils China's territorial boundaries with huge and threatening warships and intrusive spy planes. It has around 800 bases worldwide, many of them projected at Russia. You are correct. If Russia (or China, Iran, North Korea or any other of America's designated enemies) did a fraction of any of this to the US, they’d be bombed to smithereens.

And right now, the self-appointed and completely out-of-control global chief is about to bomb Iran. God help us all!

Bronwyn,

Does it strike you as odd that a nation like Russia has no problem committing human rights abuses against its own citizens, yet is so concerned by human rights abuses in other nations that it seeks to end the abuses in those nations by sending in its army? Is it not more odd that the means of resolving the problem by the Russian army is to rain down millions of artillery shells, murder and displace millions from their homes, and commit war crimes and assorted human rights violations?

Think about where you would rather live. I wish that Mr Shipton had fled to Russia. He could be livin' the dream.