Like Australia in the China Sea provoking the Chinese.

First time that I've encountered him.
I loved his forthright observation. I suggest that it is NATO pushed by American propoganda & aggression that is the problem not Russia.

@FrayedBear Exactly, Putin has never done anything but protect Russia, it's interests, and Russians. And that is somehow "Russian aggression?" The Cold War was stupid propaganda from the beginning, and is infinitely stupider after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

@Druvius Are you serious ???. Annexing Crimea and invading Ukraine just for a start

@Moravian The people of Crimea voted OVERWHELMINGLY and understandably to join Russia after the western fomented Nazi coup in Ukraine made it their first order of business to pass laws making ethnic Russians living in Ukraine second class citizens. That would be pretty much everyone living in Crimea, which was only part of Ukraine because of an accident in history. Democracy and self determination corrected an historical wrong. But the west only gives a crap about that when it is in their interests to do so.

@Druvius To think that the referendum in Crimea was fair is about as ridiculous as thinking that Trump won the 2020 US election.
It was naive of Europe to make overtures to Ukraine as it was obvious what the Russian response would be and the Ukrainian people have suffered as a result.
I have no love for Putin or US/UK imperialism but this little episode was nothing more than a bit of minor sabre rattling

Isn't this the Craig Murray that is appealing his conviction for contempt of court with his reporting of the Alex Salmond case? Wouldn't pay much attention to his views on any issue as no decent man would have done what he did. I hope he eventually serves every day of his 8 month prison sentence.

@Monik One and the same but he was probably stitched up by the establishment.

@Moravian English is not my first language but my understanding was that he watched some of the trial from the public gallery then wrote about it on his website which could identify the women making the accussations. It was this that led to his conviction and not that he was stitched up

@Monik He still has an appeal pending so he may yet get off. Salmond was found not guilty on all charges so were the women encouraged to accuse him ?. the whole thing is a bit fishy.