Paul sykes 'at large' produced by Roger Greenwood. He's my brother in laws old man and used to read the news up north. Think you might find it on YouTube.
He was a character alright and a guy that I got on well with, due, as he put it, to us both having surnames that could be traced back to the doomsday book and were founder names of Yorkshire!!!!
I know its not that important to anyone now but looks like the Ukraine conflict could be getting even more serious. A Russian missle has landed somewhere in Poland, killing two people. **** I hope there are some cool heads out there.
Seems it's not clear whose missile it was, it could just as easily be a Ukrainian air defence missile according to independent reports. Either way, it will have been an accident.
Almost certainly.....however that doesn’t negate the fact that this is dangerous territory and could easily lead to an escalation and widening of the conflict.
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It seems it was a Ukranian anti-missile missile. This probably won't escalate anything, thank goodness. It is still Russias fault though
Yes, Biden says that the trajectory suggests the missile wasn't fired from Russia, which makes the early reporting and the response from Zelensky - who seems desperate to drag NATO into the conflict - all the more dangerous. Still, as you suggest, if there were no Russian missile attacks, there would have been no need for air defence missiles from Ukraine.
I think people are beginning to see that Zelensky isn’t the all round good guy that that first thought he would be.
What was the first thing we said when this all kicked off....there are no good guys in war Can't blame Zelensky for trying to drag NATO into this - it's no different to us trying to get the US involved in WW1 and WW2, or when getting bullied at school going and asking your big btother to beat the bully up. Seems to me though that NATO are doing as much as possible to NOT get directly involved...
