Bastard Putrid,he is bleeping mad I think.
this is what a colleague of mine wrote yesterday.
I have friends in Ukraine. I've not been able to contact them today - I don't know whether they're on their way out of the country or whether they have taken refuge somewhere. Both live in Kiev. One of them has a Polish mother and father, so she may have headed there with them. One of the others is just staying at home. She has parents living in Donetsk and she says they moved into the cellar of their house. Both came up with an interesting take on Putin. Apparently, they watched the one-hour broadcast he put out a few nights ago and they reckons he's losing his marbles. One of them's a doctor, so there may be some truth in what she says. She said he seemed to be ranting, and one occasion his Russian seemed odd. If that's true, it's even more worrying. The comparisons between him and Hitler are chilling. She worked for MSF in the Donbas region a few years ago and she said it was awful and now she thinks the rest of Ukraine may end up the same way, ie a total mess.
The sanctions are just a joke. What is the government going to do? Empty all the kids out of their private schools in Surrey? Compulsorily purchase their mansions? Buy Abramovich out of Chelsea? The only people sanctions will hit are the people and anyway, a lot of the European countries won't apply them. Germany and Italy have already said they won't and I reckon France won't either. And what about Switzerland, where most of them have got their money? If I know this, Putin knows a hell of a lot more, and he's gambled on NATO doing nothing, which he was right about. I know they were never going to go into Ukraine, and so did he, but NATO is fractured now, and the same suspects as above will do very little if the conflict spills into Poland for example. As you say dabs, worrying times ahead. Personally, I don't think Putin will stop at Ukraine.