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@fluidlogic The naming amuses me now that I am reading this. At that time computers were huge but the BBC by today's standard is far from micro. I have several pi's, couple of NVidia's and a couple of Mac's and they are all bigger.

@fluidlogic In the early 1980s I was given a BBC computer to test. A friend of mine at the BBC just gave it to me to see how I got on with it. No instruction, just a computer. A while later Elite came out and that was it, I became full geek. I wrote a couple of programmes in BASIC and then went straight to machine code. That BBC computer was incredible. It took my friend years to get it back.

@Ukrainian_Art Maybe Zelenskyy will eventually honour his campaign promises and seek peace instead of expanding the war.

@taatm Russia is always focused on protecting the Russian people, it is a shame that we have to focus on attacking people who are nothing to do with us. The US attacks an innocent country every other year, Russia around one every ten years, Iran has not attacked another country in over 200 years. Yet the people allow the propaganda to tell us who are the good guys and who are the bad guys.

@nextcloud I care a lot about digital freedom which is why I do not trust Nextcloud getting involved with the EU. It is akin to hearing Starmer going on about freedom of speech whilst putting more people in prison for what they say online than Russia.

@nextcloud What will happen to Nextcloud?

@randahl @samueljohnson I am sorry as from your pro war stance I had assumed your were from the US. My gran was Irish although my family is predominately Scottish. None of what I say is lies, much of it is what I have seen and from people I know and still talk to from my time out there. If you respect the right to self determination how can you support the result of a violent coup by a minority? You cite western propaganda but one of the things I learnt when I lived in the FSU is that the people out there know that it is all propaganda. The problem in the west is that we believe that our politicians are telling us the truth. Every time you read the BBC where it mentions the war it does not say "the war in Ukraine", an objective reference, it say "Russia's all our invasion" or some such biased term. Prior to the Iraq war we used to get objective news and were allowed to look at the facts but now we only get propaganda. Yes, I have toned down but you still see me as the enemy because I want peace and you want war. The war is over really, it is just the fighting that continues. Russia has what it wanted but Putin would like to take more. The Russian people have no wish for more and now would be a good time to gain peace but the warmongers want more. More death and destruction that mean it will be impossible for Ukraine to recover. The young people will not return to the war zone, they have jobs in nicer places. The US will take the farm land in payment for the weapons. The country has been destroyed and you will see that as Russia but it began before 2014 and Ukraine is simply a proxy for the US to fight Russia. I accept that you think of me as a Russian fan but I was in Georgia when the Russians arrived and am no fan but I do prefer an end to war.

@randahl @samueljohnson It is risible nonsense to keep using the propaganda concept that Ukraine was a sovereign country after the coup. It clearly was not. The country split into its different groups and none controlled all the land of Ukraine and therefore none were sovereign. Media like the BBC push such propaganda to promote hatred and division such as yours. During the civil war the Nazi groups like Azov and Sich that we were funding were killing lots of the 40% of the population that voted for pro Russian parties. This was because the country could not align to the western model if allowed to democratically vote for a pro Russian government. So we were paying the people of western Ukraine to kill the people of eastern Ukraine in a civil war that was well underway before Russia, quite predictably took a side. The Ukrainian people, who are not stupid, could see where this was going. I find it amazing that people like yourself were surprised. Zelenskyy, who lived and worked in Russia and only spoke Russian, stood for election on a platform of avoiding a war that everyone knew was coming if Azov and Sich kept murdering the ethnic Russians. No one seemed to care about the ethnic Hungarians etc. that were also suffering ethnic cleansing. Unfortunately, as soon as Zelenskyy was elected, Boris Johnson went and had a word with Zelenskyy to explain the advantages of war and Zelenskyy tore up all the negotiations and promises to the people and went to war. The war was completely unnecessary and it was not Russia that wanted it but the Russian people will not allow the ethnic cleansing to return. People like you seem to believe that it is OK to ban the first language of a people from schools and governments but that is ethnic cleansing. Banning the church of the people is also ethnic cleansing but you are fine as you hate Russia. You probably also claim that Russia invaded Crimea even though in exactly the same situation we faught for Kosovo's right to cede. We started this war, not Russia, not even Ukraine. No one is talking about how the people of Donbas or Crimea would be protected if Russia left or if the bombing and genocide would return. Not even Russia cares about the people of Transcarpathia, they can just die quietly because we are busy killing Russians. War is wrong and dumb propaganda cannot make it right.

@randahl Given that Ukraine has targetted Moscow I am sure he will do so and there is no reason why any internation country would be surprised. Most have helped keep the war going and are unlikely to be listened to having chosen to be at war with Russia. We have always had the option of working toward peace yet constantly choose war. There is no surprise here.

@ChrisMayLA6 It would be better to wait until Britain has left the EU before any talks continue. It is contrary to what the British people want so it will only cause more instability and unrest. Those who wish to be the EU are welcome and those who do not wish to should be finagled in by corrupt politicians after the gravy train.

@MAKS23 Why would Russia attack another country unless attacked? Why not stop drumming up support for war and start working for peace?

@KyivIndependent Why? A lot of money and effort for nothing but propaganda. We need to stop starting wars and start building bridges.

@EUCommission 150 out of 500,000,000? Not exactly representative. Leaves the EU looking even more dictatorial.