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The full name is Conservatives, but often shortened to Tories. Hope that helps.

There was talk from one US official that the Allies could take the arms further into Ukraine so the troops didn't have to come so far back to pick them up and then return to whole way to the front line but I haven't heard that repeated

It sounds like a good idea but the problem there is that it could be interpreted differently by Putin.

There are 5-7 geographical historical places that Russia has been invaded in the past. The Ukraine is one. Chechnya is another.
Poland and Sweden are two others.
Some experts are afraid if Putin isnt stopped he will move against Nato countries. Which will inevitable escalate.
If Russia can be contained and financially and physically exhausted, (troops and weapons are.difficult to replace), in the Ukraine for long enough, Putin will be too weak to follow his own plan.
Who knows if this is a correct analysis of the war? But it's one that makes sense of his position to me.

I am so very afraid of this war escalating.

Me too maddyone hence I'm in favour of supplying Ukraine with anything and everything they need.
It will obviously be expensive for everybody, but what choice is there?

maddyone

I am so very afraid of this war escalating.

Me too, maddyone

RE 'escalation'. There's an interesting thread here from twitter

According to his bio, O'Brien is :

Professor of Strategic Studies, University St Andrews, Author: How the War was Won, and Second Most Powerful Man in the World. Editor in Chief, War in History

Phillips P. OBrien@PhillipsPOBrien
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The increase of Ukrainian attacks in Russia, now evident, show actually how reluctant the Russian government is to fully mobilise or escalate up the NBC chain. There was lots of talk early in the war about the Russians staging a false flag operation to justify escalation

The idea was they would need an incident. Well, that seems now unnecessary. The Ukrainians are blowing up vital facilities in a large Russian more than 350k people (Belogorod)

Heck the Belgorod Governor is openly discussing these attacks.

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The Kyiv Independent
@KyivIndependent
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⚡️Governor says fire erupted at military facility in Russia's Belgorod Oblast.

One person was injured, regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on May 1. Russia has accused Ukraine of shelling its neighboring regions, with Ukraine neither denying nor confirming this.

Phillips P. OBrien@PhillipsPOBrien
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Putin doesn’t need a false flag, the Ukrainians are providing him with an enormous, explosive banner, should he want to use it. But as of now he doesn’t want to. And that is interesting.