A4 Pacific wrote:We are only supporting equipment supplied prior to the conflict. I can't let my customers down.
Two or three months ago, I didn’t think I could dislike more, your advocacy of appeasement over Ukraine. Turning a blind eye to the egregious murderous slaughter of thousands of innocents being committed there. Throwing Ukraine to the dogs. Yet having read of your business’ dependence on mother Russia, I now have a better understanding of your vested financial interest in normalising relations with Putin’s horrific regime.
You appear to want to learn a little more about Kaliningrad? Here’s a nice article for you:
https://theconversation.com/kaliningrad-russias-unsinkable-aircraft-carrier-deep-in-nato-territory-182541
I'll openly admit I'm not a big fan of Ukraine, it wasn't that long ago it was being touted as the destination for all the stolen Rotax 91x engines, amongst other things. There's also a significant number of drug/crime gangs operating in our cities led by Ukrainian gangs. I do feel sorry to the decent population, but they ain't all nice.
No I don't want our armed forces sent to fight their war if the response could be a nuke dropped on London. Risk vs reward just doesn't add up. You want to fight for them? I'll buy you a set of fatigues and you can go fight in your own name, not mine.
Oddly enough, I never bothered to research the geographical history of Kaliningrad some years ago when I started dealing with these guys, and I very much doubt they are in Putins inner circle, they are a small group of engineers, not oligarchs. Besides, I'm not spending money with them, I'm just supporting my customers, which I'm obliged to do. Abandoning my customers won't help anybody.
As for "vested financial interest", if you knew the figures involved, you'd realise how stupid that statement was, and anyway, it doesn't remove the responsibility to my customers.
All I've done is challenge your desire to escalate this into world war 3, a war none of us can win. You seem intent to attack my opinion because it doesn't match yours. Well, you can shove your opinion of me and my opinion up your ****.
I'm done.
The quickest way to fall out with people is, discuss politics.