This isn’t the world I want to live in.

GrannyGravy13

Claremont

The ceasefire has not 'failed'! The genocide continues.

Stage one of the ceasefire ended several weeks ago.

All parties involved have failed to agree on Stage two, in particular the release of all living hostages and the bodies of dead hostages, back to their loved ones.

I do not condone this latest attack. but and it’s a big but Hamas started this knowing full well that Israel would finish it.

There was never going to be a happy ending.

All involved in this conflict have my thoughts and prayers.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Netanyahu was never going to enter stage 2.

Claremont

The ceasefire has not 'failed'! The genocide continues.

Stage one of the ceasefire ended several weeks ago.

All parties involved have failed to agree on Stage two, in particular the release of all living hostages and the bodies of dead hostages, back to their loved ones.

I do not condone this latest attack. but and it’s a big but Hamas started this knowing full well that Israel would finish it.

There was never going to be a happy ending.

All involved in this conflict have my thoughts and prayers.

Quote nanna8 Wed 19-Mar-25 06:57:40
Not a reason, an excuse. A vile excuse. I don’t know the situation over there but here things are not looking good for Jewish people.

Yes nanna8 a vile excuse, in the UK children of Jews attending their schools are afraid to wear their school uniforms
in the streets, this was said by Moureen Lipman early last year,
graves had to be guarded too .

Not a reason, an excuse. A vile excuse. I don’t know the situation over there but here things are not looking good for Jewish people.

You are giving a reason for antisemitism nanna8 ?

You sometimes wonder whether Netanyahu has any idea of the anti Semitism his actions are causing across the world. Innocent Jewish people are being targeted left right and centre.

Aid workers have been killed

The ceasefire has not 'failed'! The genocide continues.

Sadly the ceasefire in Gaza failed just now so The American can’t do the impossible even if he thinks so. I don’t think Putin will be easily persuaded.

More like the Middle East I would think. Putin will come to an arrangement with the help of his American mate.

Agreed, Anniebach and Barleyfields.

If Putin directs missiles at the UK it's game over, and he knows that, so it is extremely unlikely that he will do so.

No, if you have no control over what may or may not happen. There lies madness.

Is it wise to live with ‘what if’s’ ?

Not invaded but if war is escalated the threat of Putin directing missiles at the UK is real or sabotage against our North Sea infrastructure. The way Putin is behaving it would not surprise me if the US restored arms supply to Ukraine

And you will hear of wars and rumours of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
(Matthew 24:6)

This is not new. I agree that both Putin and Trump are dangerous men, and they are joined by other dangerous men, such as Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un, but I don't think WW3 is imminent. We are being softened up for more spending on defence, which will shore up flagging economies worldwide, and talk of conscription and so on is spreading fear, so populations will accept it.

I'm not blindly optimistic, but neither do I think that we should stop enjoying our lives. It may be that in 5-10 years time, Putin (who by then will be a very old man) will be in a position to invade another country, and if that happens, the odds are that the other country will have rearmed too. Sands shift all the time. The odds on Putin invading the UK are vanishingly small, and we are cementing allegiances with other democracies that he has arguably been working to weaken.

It is depressing and difficult to avoid doom scrolling.

"All things shall pass" George Harrison

BlueBelle

Sorry Furret

Thank you x

The Serenity Prayer, a wonderful piece of advice. But finding the courage and wisdom is hard. I've reached the wisdom part in older age but I'm not sure I haven't bypassed the courage bit. Perhaps if everybody lived with the mantra "Do no harm" then everything good would have a chance to fall into place. But I don't think anything could change the hearts of the Putins and Trumps of this world.

Zumba369

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

A very good mantra to follow.

Zumba369

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

Amen to that!

At least we have good leaders in President Trump

Yes - a 'good' guy who mocks the disabled, insults and clearly despises all women, who is a racist, who is a fascist, who mocks American military heroes and who worships one god - money. And just to cap it all, publicly insults Zelensky to show his loyalty to ex KGB 'man' Putin.

Seriously - check your definition of 'good'.

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

We are currently in the situation in the states where, to quote a hackneyed saying the lunatics are now running the assylum.

They have a President who has the reading and vocabulary of an 8 year old - and presumably the intellectual powers of a child of that age and he has appointed an unelected foreigner, permanently high on drugs to run a key office of state.

A bit like Keir Starmer deciding to appoint Boris Johnson to run the Home Office! Imagine the totally justified national outrage if he did anything like that, yet the American public, even worse their elected representatives, haven't even cheaped. They must all be as mentally challenged as their President and his new best friend

10000 words are usual Barleyfields but since I am not an awarding authority, don’t bother… but a few paragraphs would be good??