I rather take exception at being labeled as a drunk for asking a perfectly reasonable question.
I notice that the Australian gentleman in question responded fairly reasonably on the 30th at 1700 ish. But by 1800 his responses included comments that I consider to be unnecessarily insulting.
I apologise if you felt personally insulted, that was not my intent. The shift from the first to subsequent posts is the shift from addressing you and your question personally and directly, to commenting upon the broader pattern of ignorance, myopia, and wilful, motivated blindness that characterises the approach of the Anglosphere to Russia and recent events in Ukraine.
To reiterate: the UK is actively engaged in a variety of endeavours (economic, political, etc.) that are deliberately hostile to the Russian government and Russian interests. Russia is therefore pushing back against the UK (and other similar nations), both in the form of retaliatory sanctions and by other means, including more intensive airborne operations, less respectful of established norms, near British airspace.
Whether the UK’s recent policies towards Russia are justified morally or pragmatically is irrelevant to the point that they should be expected to provoke just this kind of response (and as I mentioned before, it is a fairly trivial response, which in turn reflects the UK’s isolation from and relatively invulnerability to Russia, which in turn feeds into why the UK is willing to pursue the policies towards Russia that it does in the first place) because that is the basic nature of international (and indeed human) relations.
I agree……comming pretty steep at you. But when you live in Australia; No worries mate ! When a russian spyplanes are not hurling above your roof and supersonic interceptors braking your windows….it is no worries mate !
Australia has long involved itself in the western (and particularly Anglo) climate of hostility towards Russia*. We may not share a land border with Russia, but our major cities are almost certainly on Russia’s ICBM/SLBM target list. Personally I consider the willingness of Australia’s leaders to recklessly endanger the Australian populace in this manner to be appalling, but that is a minority opinion.
* To be fair, Australia (as a British Dominion) did oppose the attempted western “intervention” in Russia in 1918-19.
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