Putin thought he would take Ukraine in 3 days but after 500 he is in total disarray
500 not out
PUTIN thought he would take Ukraine in three days.
Now, 500 days since his invasion, he is in disarray militarily, politically and economically.
Maybe the dictator was duped into over-confidence by his lying generals.
Maybe his own assessment was simply deranged, like his view of history which deems Ukraine illegitimate.
But President Zelensky’s tenacious nation has held off the supposedly mighty Russian forces, killed tens of thousands, obliterated vast quantities of hardware and pushed them into retreat.
Ukrainians have been brutalised, raped and murdered, their cities razed and homes looted.
But they and their forces have held up with immense courage — plus crucial help from the West in aid, munitions and other support which we must maintain until Putin’s defeat.
Ukraine is fighting for its freedom and ultimately the West’s.
A victorious tyrant would not stop at Kyiv.
“Together, we are too strong for Russia to win,” insists defiant grandmother Alla Drozd.
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At the start we never dared hope that would be so.
In 500 days Ukraine’s heroism has convinced us otherwise.
Keir as mud
HOW’S this for decisive?
Keir Starmer admits the new vehicle emissions tax being brainlessly extended by his Labour Mayor to outer London will impoverish the lowest-paid — but insists it has to be done.
He also thinks his MPs are right to OPPOSE it in a cost-of-living crisis.
Eh? This is fence-sitting as performance art.
Starmer wants voters to trust him with power, making a dozen decisions for Britain by lunchtime.
He can’t have a quid each way then.
London’s air is cleaner already than it has been in living memory.
Clobbering workers and families now is just plain wrong.
But then Labour is in thrall to demented eco-zealots — including their funder, Just Stop Oil’s Dale Vince.
Look at its Welsh Government, the “blueprint” for a Starmer administration, letting Extinction Rebellion’s doomsday nutters co-write its green policy.
Tory Welsh Secretary David Davies demands to know why Labour is legitimising these anti-social protest loons.
It’s because they like them, admire them, agree with them and bank millions from the same donor.
Dread wall
WE sympathise with panicky Red Wall Tory MPs over the failure to cut immigration.
But an orchestrated rebellion against Rishi Sunak over it will do them more harm than good.
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Time is too short before an election next year — and they may just make their already terrifying polling worse.
Voters, above all else, loathe chaotic and divided parties.