I’ve come to realise over the years that it’s the people fanning the flames of discord on both sides that are helping the external forces that want to sow division in the UK. There are many who benefit from a divided Europe, including Putin and his orange puppet. These days I focus on the voices that want to move us towards harmony rather than away from it. Unfortunately, there are fewer of those voices on social media than there should be and it’s a pity.
The UK had a chance to normalise relations with Russia after the fall of the soviet union. They chose to maintain an adversarial stance, strengthening and expanding NATO by bringing member states to Russian borders, assembling missile batteries on Russian borders, applying sanctions. They pushed the Russians into a corner and then acted surprised when Russia invaded Ukraine. Russia is far from reproach but the Anglosphere always needs an enemy and they have alternated between Arabs and Russians as a political tool and to plunder resources. The English are not the good guys, they have a horrible colonial history that still dogs us.
An interesting point (and I like your username 🙂) But not what I was talking about. Maybe you should post this point as a post of it’s own? It’s certainly a thought-provoking topic.
Depends on what you understand ‘harmony’ to be, but seeking harmony can be equally risky and damaging. Like seeking cooperation with Putin or Trump to the point of losing your own strengths. No matter what you give, they’ll move the goal post sooner or later anyway. This applies to all kinds of cooperation. In national politics it’s not taking a stance and exclusion against the far right, otherwise they will infest, gain, and ultimately dismantle.
By harmony I mean the people of the UK making peace with each other again in order to present a united front against external threats (I thought that was obvious but my bad if it wasn’t). Putin has tried to divide us in a bunch of different ways from amplifying our differences over Brexit to encouraging people in the UK to hate immigrants. I’m not making any of that up. For example just check where Nathan Gill, the former leader of Reform UK in Wales is right now and why…
I’ve come to realise over the years that it’s the people fanning the flames of discord on both sides that are helping the external forces that want to sow division in the UK. There are many who benefit from a divided Europe, including Putin and his orange puppet. These days I focus on the voices that want to move us towards harmony rather than away from it. Unfortunately, there are fewer of those voices on social media than there should be and it’s a pity.
The UK had a chance to normalise relations with Russia after the fall of the soviet union. They chose to maintain an adversarial stance, strengthening and expanding NATO by bringing member states to Russian borders, assembling missile batteries on Russian borders, applying sanctions. They pushed the Russians into a corner and then acted surprised when Russia invaded Ukraine. Russia is far from reproach but the Anglosphere always needs an enemy and they have alternated between Arabs and Russians as a political tool and to plunder resources. The English are not the good guys, they have a horrible colonial history that still dogs us.
An interesting point (and I like your username 🙂) But not what I was talking about. Maybe you should post this point as a post of it’s own? It’s certainly a thought-provoking topic.
Depends on what you understand ‘harmony’ to be, but seeking harmony can be equally risky and damaging. Like seeking cooperation with Putin or Trump to the point of losing your own strengths. No matter what you give, they’ll move the goal post sooner or later anyway. This applies to all kinds of cooperation. In national politics it’s not taking a stance and exclusion against the far right, otherwise they will infest, gain, and ultimately dismantle.
By harmony I mean the people of the UK making peace with each other again in order to present a united front against external threats (I thought that was obvious but my bad if it wasn’t). Putin has tried to divide us in a bunch of different ways from amplifying our differences over Brexit to encouraging people in the UK to hate immigrants. I’m not making any of that up. For example just check where Nathan Gill, the former leader of Reform UK in Wales is right now and why…