Nice little “bonus” is going to appear in his bank account this month.
What an utterly embarrassing piece.
Another example of the colonialist mindset of many Putin appeasers in which Russia is all that matters and Ukraine and its people have no agency or hope to live outside the shadow of a broken, corrupt mafia state.
Calling this a “border dispute” is like calling an armed robbery an “ownership dispute.”
“Border dispute” that’s a good one.
I guess if I break in my neighbour’s house, and I fight him to steal his TV, we now have an ownership dispute.
Seeing the RAF fly anti tank equipment to Ukraine earlier this week was great.
Long may it continue (cc: Biden Administration).
how to summarise Simon Jenkins:
On Afghanistan ‘The fault lies with western democracy at its most arrogant and interventionist’
‘There are overseas dangers facing Britain, such as those of cyberwar and industrial espionage, and it is right that they be addressed by this review. That is defence properly so called, **and it does not need 72,000 soldiers in tanks any more than it needs muskets, bows and arrows. The best defence of a free country in the 21st century is a robust economy, an open border and civil rights**. They do need defending – sometimes against their own government – but they cost nothing.’
On proper investigative procedures: ‘Public inquiries are institutionally corrupt, we should just give the money to victims’
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If he wasn’t so anti-Brexit I’d be almost certain he was being employed by Russia.
No it shouldnt.
I hope the UK sends direct response of troops to defend Ukraine if they ask.
> In February 2010, Jenkins argued in a Guardian article that British control over the Falkland Islands was a “expensive legacy of empire” and should be handed over to the Argentinian government.[16] He argued that they could be leased back under the supervision of the United Nations and that the 2,500 or so Falkland Islanders should not have “an unqualified veto on British government policy”.[16]
> In his 2011 book A Short History of England, he argued that the British Empire “was a remarkable institution that dismantled itself in good order”,[21] and upon its publication he wrote in The Telegraph that “I have come to regard **England as the most remarkable country in European history.**”[22]
This guy is the worst of both worlds. Cowardice and nationalist superiority what a balloon
Simon Jenkins should go fuck himself, along with the rest of the fascist sympathisers at the guardian.
Tankie writer from a tankie newspaper, not a surprise
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Nice little “bonus” is going to appear in his bank account this month.
What an utterly embarrassing piece.
Another example of the colonialist mindset of many Putin appeasers in which Russia is all that matters and Ukraine and its people have no agency or hope to live outside the shadow of a broken, corrupt mafia state.
Calling this a “border dispute” is like calling an armed robbery an “ownership dispute.”
“Border dispute” that’s a good one.
I guess if I break in my neighbour’s house, and I fight him to steal his TV, we now have an ownership dispute.
Seeing the RAF fly anti tank equipment to Ukraine earlier this week was great.
Long may it continue (cc: Biden Administration).
how to summarise Simon Jenkins:
On Afghanistan ‘The fault lies with western democracy at its most arrogant and interventionist’
[On Belarus](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/27/sanctions-achieve-nothing-belarus-lukashenko) :’Sanctions are imposed by the sanctimonious, and achieve nothing’
‘The west can disapprove all it likes of leaders like Belarus’s Lukashenko, but only engagement will change anything’
**This in particular I find amusing given the contrast with his take on Ukraine.**
[On Russia killing people in Britain](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/05/novichok-wiltshire-poisoning-russia-putin-world-cup) ‘If the novichok was planted by Russia, where’s the evidence?’
On defence:
‘There are overseas dangers facing Britain, such as those of cyberwar and industrial espionage, and it is right that they be addressed by this review. That is defence properly so called, **and it does not need 72,000 soldiers in tanks any more than it needs muskets, bows and arrows. The best defence of a free country in the 21st century is a robust economy, an open border and civil rights**. They do need defending – sometimes against their own government – but they cost nothing.’
On proper investigative procedures: ‘Public inquiries are institutionally corrupt, we should just give the money to victims’
​
If he wasn’t so anti-Brexit I’d be almost certain he was being employed by Russia.
No it shouldnt.
I hope the UK sends direct response of troops to defend Ukraine if they ask.
> In February 2010, Jenkins argued in a Guardian article that British control over the Falkland Islands was a “expensive legacy of empire” and should be handed over to the Argentinian government.[16] He argued that they could be leased back under the supervision of the United Nations and that the 2,500 or so Falkland Islanders should not have “an unqualified veto on British government policy”.[16]
> In his 2011 book A Short History of England, he argued that the British Empire “was a remarkable institution that dismantled itself in good order”,[21] and upon its publication he wrote in The Telegraph that “I have come to regard **England as the most remarkable country in European history.**”[22]
This guy is the worst of both worlds. Cowardice and nationalist superiority what a balloon
Simon Jenkins should go fuck himself, along with the rest of the fascist sympathisers at the guardian.
Tankie writer from a tankie newspaper, not a surprise
Guardian as traitorous as ever, I see.