I’ve retired.

A great opportunity was squandered with the end of the USSR to build bridges, try to bring Russia back into the European fold. For a while it looked as if it might happen, but perhaps Russia served some purpose by being the ‘enemy’.

But Putin has a point about NATO. It was created to counter a threat – the Warsaw Pact – that ceased to exist over thirty years ago, so why is it expanding eastwards? Why should Russia accept US weapons in Ukraine when we all remember how the US responded to Soviet missiles in Cuba?

And then there’s Poland. In all the news coverage I have yet to see Poland mentioned. A country that borders Russia (Kaliningrad), Ukraine and Belarus, and a member of NATO. If Poland gets involved in any Russian attack on Ukraine then NATO members – including UK – will have to pile in.

Jac Interesting note from Mason. Looks like the good people bothered by the proposed wind farm and the destruction of habitat are going to be waiting a long time before Adam and his entourage see fit to pay a visit. The guy is so hooked on gesture politics. He could have just issued a statement of solidarity from his front room and it would have the same impact on those seeking an excuse to engage in a war on that Eastern Ukrainian front. These people, on both sides, have some nasty characteristics and carry grudges dating from a 100 or so years ago. Some of them may share an ethnicity but the local tribalism is still very evident. And Putin sitting on top of it all just pulling strings is taking the piss but knows that if it comes to a battle he can pinch a bit of frontier further west than what he’s got now. “Right or wrong” won’t even come into the debate.

Seen this?

A couple of weeks ago you were ….”pleased to see that Adam Price supported the Cwrt y Cadno campaign by visiting them, we trust that he will accept our invitation to meet with us in Conwy….

Well our prospective candidate for Chair of Politburo has legged it to Ukraine to show some solidarity or something else along those lines. I think you should drop him a line reminding him that you too would like a spot of that solidarity as you confront the forces of globalist kleptocracy. Of course the Russians may take a shine to him and keep him for a few weeks to inspect their institutions that specialise in dealing with people who stick their noses where they are not wanted. So it may be a while before he responds.

Now the SNP will probably roll with the punches especially as they have weeded out the Labour cancer north of the border. Their hangups are likely to be about Alex’s Alba who will be in the mood for a bit of bruising if they decide to go for Westminster seats. Our Plaid will be a lot more anxious as they place a lot of value on those seats and indeed their reps there are of a higher calibre than most of the muppets they send down the Bay who have done themselves no favours at all by embracing all kinds of wokey claptrap ishoos and ignoring the real issues, or taking real issues and giving them an unecessary wokish slant. They are about to find out that the era of kinder gentler politics never got off the ground and that the Unionist parties in general are all nasty bits of work, not just the Tories.

Handouts to those green entrepreneurs who are milking the wind turbine scam for all its worth. And now the call “Timber” has gone out across the City of London those carpetbaggers will be teeming in to pick off the meat on the Bay budget right down to the bone. Bastards all of them.

For all this talk of cutting back on roads and saving the planet the ‘Welsh Government’ still refuses to back the re-opening of the Carmarthen to Aberystwyth railway line. So where’s the money saved going?