If you take putin on his word you clearly fail the most basic intelligence test on planet earth.

Seen this all before.......laughable idea. Can just imagine a rerun of Srebrenica in Bosnia on a colossal scale.

At the peak of russian 'soft' power. No need to spell out what Sarkozy was like.

In front of a KGB church that is a nest of spies and should never have been allowed to be built.

Mordorian sabotage? Fits their modus operandi. We are in a state of war with them.

Exactement!

Probably saved thousands of the bravest and best equipped UA troops.

Absolutely, there's no such thing as 'innocent' russians anymore, they are all part of putlers regime and will do as he says. The only free russians are those fighting in the free russia brigade in Ukraine. It's too much of a coincidence for this collision to be an accident, it was intentional.

Casus belli then. It's clear. We have been at war with russia for the last few years, this is just another attack, along with cyber hacking, the Skrypals, the Bulgarian spy ring, the list is endless.

Casus belli?

Could well be, if they have an account on here it would be an embarrasing tweet to link them to it!

Surely that's happening already? Would certainly hope so.

Kompromat may not even be required to control Trump. Through manipulation of Trump's ego, vanity and love of money it is entirely possible. Secondly it works the other way Trump adores Putin as a 'perceived' strongman. Thirdly Putin probably promised s'th to Trump in the phone call a few weeks ago.

Hitler was the same, surrounded by yes men.

Why in god's name wasn't a plan b developed by the Europeans when Trump won the election last year? What did they think? Biden had foresight enough to pardon his son. Europe now needs to act as if there were 2 putins in power, one in mordor and one in the US.

Which is why Starmer and Macron should start by not wasting their time trying to appease Trump and should spend their time immediately convening a European army and putting both their countries on a war footing now.

The reaction of the guy in the audience is priceless!!!

Unfortunately you're absolutely right but if it makes them hate/dislike/question their system even 1% more it will have been worth it.

The sooner the civilised world equates trump with putin the better. He behaves and thinks like putin, period. It's terrifying but the quicker policymakers in the West realise, the better.