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Was being a touch facetious with the Garrett/Madden line..........
More emphasising the heavyweight boxer with a brain and seemingly a vision to contribute positively side of things.

Interesting that his party seems pro-EU as David said, what would have had his brother wearing Soviet Union colours on the world stage on the weekend??
I would've thought that there's something behind that??
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King Monkey wrote:Was being a touch facetious with the Garrett/Madden line..........
More emphasising the heavyweight boxer with a brain and seemingly a vision to contribute positively side of things.

Interesting that his party seems pro-EU as David said, what would have had his brother wearing Soviet Union colours on the world stage on the weekend??
I would've thought that there's something behind that??
Absolutely there'd be something in it, but not necessarily by the boxers. I'd suspect promoters and other interested stakeholders would carry a bit of weight.

Regarding Madden, he studied teaching and worked as a teacher while playing footy in the early days, then was the president of the AFLPA for a number of years then, while still playing, qualified as an architect. Not really a dunce either.
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http://www.crikey.com.au/2014/05/19/loo ... f-its-own/

As always, geography is crucial to understanding this conflict. The map paints a stark picture of Ukraine's ethnolinguistic divisions.
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Even more stark is the correlation between Russian/Ukrainian language regions and political allegience.
A clearly divided country.
Perhaps the powers-that-be got this one wrong, similar to Yugoslavia. Lumping disparate ethnicities and languages together only for the inevitable tensions to arise. Hopefully this can be resolved in a different way to tragedy that ended Yugoslavia.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26387353
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This is a worry. Let's hope cooler heads prevail.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... es-ukraine
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