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If Trump does win at least we'll all get to feel really smug when he abandons Ukraine to Russia and say "We told you so"

Oh, I think I can imagine the exculpations.

It’s the Dems’ fault for choosing a loser and Putin invaded while Biden was in charge leaving Trump to clean up the mess (cough, Afghanistan) and the Dems didn’t work with the Reps thus FORCING the latter to block aid for Ukraine.
Etc.

Well, yes, obviously if Trump wins I think it's reasonable to blame the Dems for picking a candidate so weak she came up short against the most awful candidate the GOP have ever put up. Why wouldn't it?

So assuming you took in the original point about Ukraine, you will be blaming the Dems if Trump sharts all over the Ukes? Good to know.

What's the death toll of Ukes under Biden versus under Trump so far?

Biden failed to deter Putin and failed to give Ukraine adequate means to defend himself. People need to stop using Trump as a scapegoat.

This would be a lot more compelling argument if (a) Trump hadn't repeatedly praised the Russian attack, and recently criticized them for resisting, and (b) if his allies in the House of Representatives hadn't repeatedly opposed aid to Ukraine.

I agree that Ukraine was invaded because Putin thought the US would do nothing. And he thought the US would do nothing, because of the nature of withdrawal from Afghanistan.

But ultimately, Trump and his proxies have repeatedly backed Russia over Ukraine. So you'll forgive me if I think that a Trump victory would be anything other than a disaster for Ukraine.

Also: "how many dead" is a fucked up measure. It suggests that if the UK had been invaded by the Nazis in WW2, but only 150,000 people died in the invasion, then that would have been a better outcome than us - you know - fighting off the invasion.

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“Budding architect turning his life around”

Reality:

“Kaba’s criminal record dated back to the age of 13, but by his late teens he had graduated from petty crime to serious violence with convictions for stabbings and grievous bodily harm.”

Wonder if the Mayor of London might wish to revise his statement from yesterday, in light of new information released by the court..?

Ought villains really to be killed on the basis of whether they were armed in the past or will be in the future, and not on the basis of whether they are armed and threatening right now? What would Arnie say?

There needs to be more work done on providing a reasonable belief justification for the police, not the golf club reaction, who cares? He was a wrong 'un anyway.

Trials are conducted on the basis of law and evidence. Neither the usual suspects, golf club or rentacrowd, cannot be legislated away.

Our law provides, and in this case provided, a defence to the charge in the eyes of the jury. A cursory following of the trial rendered this outcome more or less certain (at least to me).

The reasonable belief that you are acting in self defence or the defence of another in a split second moment situation is well provided for by the law. I don't think further work needs to be done.

I doubt if this prosecution should have been brought. Once you had the camera evidence and the evidence of the defence witnesses who were present at the time it was over.

I don't think any reasonable person would disagree with the verdict, on seeing the evidence.
And that has absolutely nothing to do with anyone's view of how bad a person Kaba might, or might not have been.

But contrast with the US, where Trump is campaigning on giving the police absolute immunity.
I vastly prefer our system, where they have to justify their actions.