“The government isn’t thinking this through.”
No more neutrality.
Both videos are ostensibly about what the Russians could do to the United Kingdom, their hated NATO enemy. Ireland is just collateral damage.
“Kleptocracy.”
“A pain in the arse.”
EU unity being tested?
How does even the most optimistic Russian think that a war against a much larger, and better-equipped NATO might proceed, at the same time as the Ukrainian front is stalled?
“‘What about our own?”
Energy crisis.
The most recent polls indicate that 2/3s of voters still support neutrality
Putin’s definition of “victory” in Mariupol is a strange one:
Government scrambling