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Posted by Shyaku on March 2, 2019, 6:35 pm, in reply to "BICOM and LBN"
People are heartily sick of what is going on, then acting.
Let the other side whip up the masses into a frenzy, its a judo move.
Give them enough rope ..
Putin does it at key times. Russian TV readily shows US propaganda to stoke the fire.
He stepped into Syria right at the very last moment, in what could have been otherwise seen as another Afghanistan in the making.
Its what one does when the other side is strong enough to do real or fatal damage (or stronger than that even - able to deal a knock out blow).
I am not going to go so far as to assert this is what Corbyn is doing, but it could be - he has survived this far against the apparent odds, so someone around him has a steady political head.