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Yes. Pretty stupid to get ourselves on Russia's 'hostile country' list when they haven't done a thing against us. We have enough trouble with the CCP; we don’t need to get offside with their main ally. Nor should we ge giving aid to Ukraine when we don’t have enough equipment to defend ourselves. Ukraine is 13 thousand or so miles away with no ties to us. While what is happening to civilians in Ukraine is awful, their government stinks: they had no qualms about setting a battalion on Ukrainians of Russian ethnicity, and recently lionised a Ukraine member of a German SS police unit he commanded which murdered 100,000 Poles during WW11, and wrote that all Gypsies and and Jews were to be treated the same way. While Putin might not be a nice man, his comment about attacking Ukraine to take on 'Nazis' might have had some substance.

It's a pity that ignorance of history often makes people back the wrong side.

While Cancel Culture bullies continue trying to close down free speech in this country, and deny surveys that report that they are doing it, in the UK a court has decided for a woman whose employer sacked her for saying that biological sex cannot be changed.

The woman in question said, "We have had enough of being sidelined in language, law and public places. This judgement is further evidence that the tide is turning".

The Attorney-General, Suella Braverman, said, "We need to get rid of all this Woke rubbish and get back to a country where describing a man and a woman in terms of biology does not mean that you are going to lose your job".

The Woke will be history before they wake up !

Indyvidual

The problem is that the Woke are in charge. Where does that leave those of us who have already woken up, or never went to sleep in the first place?

There is no real official opposition to the nonsense. Morrison finished off Turnbull’s job of turning the Liberal party sharply to the left. Morrison’s contribution didn’t stop with his left-wing zero emissions rubbish; he ran all sorts of Labor policies. Sadly, Dutton, now holidaying with the kiddies, looks to be shaping up to be as big a disappointment as is Perrottet, the 'conservative' supposed to tidy up after that silly woman.

I read an article yesterday ('Incoherence is destroying the Liberals') that presents a sorry future, of lack of future, for conservatism in Australia.

The author, a conservative himself, writes that the 'Australian Right' has been reduced to "baying at the moon", while the Left go about "reshaping the country in their own image".

Traditional conservatism of the kind found in the West is now found only in places like Hungary and Japan; it is effectively dead as a viable concern".

The Australian neo-liberal project (Turnbull, Morrison) was an exercise in "short-sightedness and stupidity"; it has been a "self-undermining political project".

The carte blanche neo-liberal approach to immigration has been a huge mistake. US studies show that a diverse immigration intake pushes a conservative country leftward.

The author ends with the warning that unless "significant social reforms" are made there is no real future for conservatism in Australia nor, possibly, for Australia as an outpost of Western Civilisation at all.

http://humanrights.gov.au/about/news/opinions/what-happening-ukraine-should-matter-every-australian

The USSR was a blood-stained regime
In which millions were murdered as a daily routine
Might is Right was their slogan of choice
Dissenting cries were not given a voice

History has written of the many disposed
The frozen infernos have now been exposed
Putin and Stalin are two of a kind
Yet some in the West to this are still blind

Putin like Stalin will take what he wants
He will kill and destroy those who fight in response
The world can't allow this rampage of terror
Not protecting Ukraine would be a huge error

First the Ukraine, then Romania
Followed by Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
Do we want the USSR re-instated
Ruling Eastern Europe unabated?

The world must unite and be fully aware
That this is a battle that we all need to share
Putin must be stopped in his tracks
Otherwise no sovereign nation can truly relax.

A UKRAINIAN LULLABY

My beautiful child go ahead and cry
Mama will calm you with a lullaby
But even a kiss on both your cheeks
Won't stop the bombs falling in our streets

Papa's out fighting for our liberty
Doing his best so we can stay free
To speak our own language on shore and sea
And force the invaders to let us be

Your parents want you to be proud
And grow up Ukrainian and not cowed
The invaders as brothers we won't tolerate
When their bombs, tanks, and missiles try us to negate

Their invasion of our precious land
Is something those people don't understand
That we'll fight them with our very last breath
Even if it means our nation's death

We'd rather all die in liberty
Then go down enslaved in history
Parasites like them cannot be allowed to win
Our Ukrainian people will never give in!