Blenheim Gardens in Minehead, West Somerset views from a bench, chat, debate and discussion with Rob Hopcott

Well thank goodness! At last we have some sunshine and Blenheim Gardens in Minehead, West Somerset, where today's bench is situated looks great today!

I love the flowers in Blenheim Gardens. There is also crazy golf here and a cafe in peak Summer season and it's not far away from the sea so, if you get fed up with looking at the flowers, you can nip down the road and gaze at the Bristol Channel.

Today's topic to discuss on the bench is national aggression!

The thing that puzzles me about governments is that they act so completely differently from their individual people.

Currently, Putin over in Russia is being very aggressive towards the Georgians and in my humble opinion clearly would like to extend Russia to include at least some of Georgia, if not all of it.

Would any ordinary Russian want to extend the Russian territories? I doubt it. Territorial ambition is something that people in government aspire to not the ordinary people. Perhaps, to get into government, people have to be particularly power mad which makes them susceptible to invading other countries.

Imagine if Britain decided to take over and occupy Southern Ireland. How would this improve my life? It wouldn't - not one little bit. I wouldn't even get a bigger garden out of it! Probably it would make my life worse because I'd have to pay for a bigger army. My son might get killed trying to kill somebody else's son in some Irish bog. What's the point?

Let's tell all our governments clearly. Territorial aggression - no way!

What do you think?

Bye for now

Rob

(Rob Hopcott - online author)