Michael“Ministry of Defence seeks £3.2bn as costs overrun in Yemen and Ukraine”
Utter madness to spend this on death and war and incompetence to overrun budget.
Charlie Stross@therightarticle @Lazarou Bllame fucking Putin for that. And remember, it could be worse: last time the UK was in a REAL war, the country came within a week of bankruptcy and the top income tax rate hit 97% and food rationing didn't end for another nine years afterwards.
Certainly blame the Tories for most of the shit we're in, but it's not *all* their fault (except for not getting serious about Putin earlier—say, after the Litvinenko and Salisbury murders).
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈@cstross @therightarticle we could have avoided so much hassle now if everyone wasnt such a sellout back in the 00s.
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@Lazarou @therightarticle Remember the 90s? Russia got fucked over by US neoconservatives moving into the power vacuum left by the collapse of the USSR, with Yeltsin as a figurehead. It was a clusterfuck that made brexitland look prosperous and comfortable. So *at first* Putin looked like a stabilizing figure (and a non-drunk one), lip service to democracy, all that sort of thing. Then after about 2008 things took a dark turn ...
@Lazarou @therightarticle With 20/20 hindsight Putin was Putin all along, but he was cunning and smart enough to wear a mask at first.