**Western Chickenhawks: Demanding Ukrainian Blood for Their Anti-Putin Crusade** Many Westerners insist Vladimir Putin is Hitler reborn and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a replay of Nazi expansionism. They demand total victory, endless weapons shipments, and uncompromising resistance. Yet few show any willingness to fight themselves. Instead, they cheer from afar while Ukrainians bear the full cost in blood. This stance is strategically delusional, not to mention morally reprehensible. Ukraine’s population is a fraction of Russia’s. Years of war, emigration, and mobilization have hollowed out its fighting-age men. Russia, despite casualties, can sustain a far larger force. A pure war of attrition was always a losing proposition for Kyiv without direct NATO intervention—which its loudest Western supporters refuse to contemplate. The hypocrisy is glaring. If Putin truly represented an existential evil on the scale of 1939, one would expect volunteers flooding recruitment offices and serious domestic sacrifice. Instead, the policy is proxy war: arm Ukraine to the last Ukrainian while avoiding any personal or national risk. This is classic chickenhawk behavior—aggressive rhetoric paired with zero skin in the game. History offers a revealing contrast. In World War II, after direct attacks on Allied nations, millions volunteered or accepted conscription. Today’s rhetoric of “Munich 1938” meets the reality of “no boots on the ground, please.” The result is a lost cause sold as moral clarity. A more sober view sees the conflict not as unprovoked conquest but as the predictable outcome of NATO’s eastward march, broken post-Cold War assurances, and the rejection of Ukrainian neutrality. Russia sought security guarantees and a neutral buffer state—similar to Finland or Austria during the Cold War. Ignoring those concerns helped escalate tensions into full war. Ukrainians have fought bravely, but courage cannot overcome demographics and geography forever. Continuing the fight indefinitely serves neither Ukrainian lives nor Western interests. A negotiated settlement centered on neutrality, territorial compromises, and mutual security guarantees remains the only realistic path to end the slaughter. Pretending otherwise while refusing to share the burden is not principled leadership—it is reckless moral posturing at someone else’s expense. (Article by Grok).

Anyone who claims to be opposed to nationalism but who is also supportive of the Ukrainian regime and all its aims - eg to deny self determination to a section of the populace - makes no sense whatsoever. These ‘liberal’ anti-nationalists literally got into bed with Ukrainian Neo Nazis ffs.

Any chance he, and you as a supposed journalist, could mention the barbaric conscription in Ukraine, to Zelensky? The total removal of human rights from Ukrainian men? And maybe focus much more on the root causes of this war so that we can have some chance at peace??? progressivehub.net/wp-conten…

Crazy how MSM will do whatever they can to undermine diplomacy and prolong the bloodshed. Cunts.

I hope James Acaster has given most of his fee to charity? #TheTraitorsUK

lol as soon as Michael mentioned James Acaster’s name at the round table I said ‘I bet he crumbles right now and says he’s a traitor’. Such a crap series. #TheTraitorsUK

Best series of #bbuk for 20 years. Why has it taken so long since channel 4 days to have a series this good?!

I cover much of the above in this episode: youtu.be/xUVKNxBsmj4?is=dKHi…

Re ‘ADHD’, I don’t doubt there are people who’re very ‘neurodivergent’, so much so that it impacts their ability to work. They should be helped out. But it is clearly being over-diagnosed. Medicalising normalcy so big pharma can sell drugs. We are all on the spectrum!

‘The only democracy in the middle east’ lol

There aren't many prominent left-wing leaders willing to think for themselves and then defend conclusions even though it's not what the left-wing flock wants to hear. @yanisvaroufakis is not only one of the smartest leftists but one of the few who will never pander. Read this:

Really backing Ukraine would have meant supporting the various proposed peace deals, not carrying on a proxy war that has slowly but surely destroyed Ukraine and threatens to bring about a far wider war.

The total amount that every UK taxpayer has sent to Ukraine over the last three years now averages out at over £1,000 each. I am sure none of you needed that money, nor public services.

A Channel 4 documentary, and particularly the reactions to is, revealed that ADHD is a bluff. The emperor is naked. You cannot “have” ADHD, ADHD cannot “cause” or “explain” anything, it is just a name for certain behaviours many of us have, it is not a “neurodevelopmental disorder,” and the latest fad where people say, “I am neurodiverse!”, is bullshit because neurodiversity only means that we are all different, unless we are identical twins.

That is a fucking lie. By bombing Russia by proxy you make us all FAR less secure!!!!! Absolute cretins.

In January your UK energy bill is going up by over £400 a year. But at least you are gifting Lamborghinis and gold toilets to Ukrainian oligarchs.

Increasing military spending at the behest of Trump, using the ‘Russia threat’ narrative as justification. Meanwhile Trump is actively undermining that narrative, seeking peace with Russia… So cucked. #Budget2026

It’s so fucked up that there is no significant political party in the uk that will condemn this. I doubt even the Greens will. There is no anti-war option. Only different degrees of pro-war. Depressing. #Budget2026

Some people in the uk to receive £100, every person in Ukraine to receive £244. Labour you utter scumbags.

For those who decided to invent some bizarre new authoritarian law-and-order rule today to justify Moraes' ban on Bolsonaro leaving the country -- that if you're under investigation (without even being charged), it's normal to have your passport seized -- please note: Lula's son is engulfed in several major financial scandals and investigations relating to lobbyist corruption. His passport has never been seized or cancelled. In fact, he left Brazil to go live in extreme luxury in Spain (in the same neighborhood where several of the world's highest-paid soccer players live), where nobody can explain the source of what appears to be his great wealth. Countless rich and powerful people in Brazil, including Lula's allies, are under investigation yet freely leave the country when they want: jetting off to Dubai, France, wherever. Truly bizarre how some on the left start fabricating extremist police powers when it suits them.