From a purely personal point of view, while I'm slightly concerned about the impending fiery death that awaits me should Russia decide to nuke Faslane or Glasgow (or both), I think it's also hilarious that the Russians are blaming Liz Truss for it. Less hilarious is the breathless reporting of what is quite clearly Kremlin fuckery by the mainstream news sites, but that's the world we live in now.
It doesn't seem to be working out quite how Putin intended. By this point, he was supposed to have a puppet government in Kyiv, but instead all that's happened is that Aeroflot can't fly anywhere, assets are being seized and frozen, the Ruble's value has plummeted, and the actions of his kleptocrats, propogandists, infiltrators and influencers are finally coming under more scrutiny, at long last.
Meanwhile Ukraine remains resolute, and has united behind the man who was the voice of Paddington Bear to them. Not a sentence I ever thought I'd write.
Kenny |