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Most interesting and enjoyable.

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Excellent talk. Agreed 100%

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Informative and clear. Thank you.

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Really interesting, I’m afraid I’m not particularly ‘clued in’ when it comes to all things politics but I’m interested and I enjoyed the detail of this discussion

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The papers in Britain today are full of Charles Windsor meeting Zelensky,aren't the papers in Britain always full of it.!!Charles is having the royal train reinstated(no doubt at our expense).Tsar Nicholas II also lived trains,he had to abdicate on one eventually.

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We have NO dentists here as Jacob knows,he smoothed the way for an Indian to come here and praised him in the House of commons,he has now gone private and recently charged me £240 for a filling.(Jacob kindly suggested a buy a set of pliers .In line with many people in England these days).However Ukrainian "refugees"who have been given houses ,jobs etc here routinely return to their country for dental treatment .Done refugees .Read the report of one who lives in Wiltshire on the BBC.

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I mean NHS dentists that is.

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If it came down to it ,between Russia and America I would always back Russia .

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If it came down to Europe or America ,I would always choose Europe.

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Glad your interview went so well with Suzy Weiss,Sir Jacob.Shame we can't read it unless we pay some schekels.Would have thought it could have been free for your devoted subscribers ?

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What an oxymoron that Suzy Weiss' bi line is the "Free"press.Far from it.

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On looking up Suzy Weiss and Bari Weiss I found an expose by one Ben Cohen, eloquently titled "Bari Weiss's Sh**ty Free Press",,talk about no honour amongst thieves,Mr Cohen obviously missed his metier in the corps diplomatique.!!!

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Another stunning example of hypocricy I find is when we hear talk about Freedom of Speech ,as Starmer did recently at the white house when the whole world knows English people are being jailed for their righteous indignation at the mass invasion of this country.We are second class citizens in this country whilst the illegal Human botritus are cosseted in luxury hotels.No problems with energy bills for them or cost of living.

I subscribe to "Letters from an Englishman"not letters to America, If I want letters from America I can listen to the archives of the marvellous Alastair Cook .

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At least Trump has started talking to Russia and Putin ,you have to .What's the alternative it just goes on otherwise .Its just a pity Putin didn't win a blitzkrieg and presented a fait accompli.Ukraine was always Russian,they even speak Russian there.Gorbachev himself was part Russian Part Ukrainian.

Isn't hypocricy amazing ,.It's like telling people to shut up and then continuing to mouth off.Foreign Office to that !!!

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There has been a lot of fuss recently about America sidelining Ukraine in the talks initiated by America in Saudi Arabia.America has form on this I know for a fact.During the Rhodesian war Kissinger went to South Africa and saw Vorster and agreed with him to cut off supplies to Rhodesia.Ge then presented Ian Smith with this fait accompli.Rhodesia could ignore the whole world but NOT South Africa.When Ian Smith was forced to step down,Supplies were resumed.Cold ,ruthless exercise of America's power.A reality.Don'think for one minute they're our friends ,look at the lesson from history of Suez.

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Interesting video.We hear a lot these days about the "Special relationship" with America.It was a term coined by Churchill.

It's never existed ,America and Americans are always out for what they can get .We've only just finished paying off the "Debt" we owe them over Churchill's war.A

war that brought this country nothing and the price of which was the destruction of our empire.

I went to a talk a few years ago at Frome given by Michael Portillo who is always worth listening to.When he was a Defence minister he said he got on well with his Russian counterparts but when the question of Ukraine cropped up ,the iron curtain came down again.(a phrase used originally by Dr Josef Goebbels NOT Churchill, incidentally,in February 1945)

Ukraine is NOT European, Ukrainian's are NOT Europeans.To have European "peacemakers" there is perpetuating the extension of NATO 's borders and the EEC's.This is what provoked Putin in the first place.

I've always enjoyed Chicken Kiev!!

Defend Ukraine ,take on Russia when we've opened our borders and can't stop the current invasion we're suffering.What a joke. The only one laughing is this Jewish clown who received another 2 5 billion from us."Laughing all the way to the bank "to coin a phrase of Liberace.

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That was great. Sir Jacob you are an excellent extemporaneous speaker.

You made a good point about Churchill and Roosevelt's early dealings with each other. People forget about that. FDR sent Averill Harriman to England to ameliorate the situation.

On a lighter note, I never thought I would see a film or a taped feed of you with a lava lamp in the background. Rock on!

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