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I wrote a thing about Orwell and "patriotism"; the odd and interesting "love" part in "love of country", that isn't dinner dates but might be to do with possession and jealousy. You should read it because it is amusing, some think insightful.
abc.net.au/religion/the-patr…
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Enough with these ridiculous headlines like “Is a peace deal for Ukraine getting closer?”
No. It isn’t.
And every new act of buffoonery and total incompetence, every act of shameless betrayal for the sake of five minutes of self-admiration in front of TV cameras, every attempt to give Putin everything he wants just to make a buck out of it, too, pushes the end of this war further and further away.
I’m afraid we don’t yet fully grasp the extent to which this monstrous farce has emboldened Putin to keep fighting this war to the bitter end, at absolutely any cost, and, worst of all, to expand his megalomaniacal ambitions even further.
“For the first time in human history a generation of youths wasn’t dying on a battlefield or during childbirth -they had leisure time and prosperity in abundance and wanted entertainment that expressed how resentful they were about that” -Cunk/Brooker on Cinema
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LOL.
2. Even if a hospital has been 'militarized,' the attacking party must warn the hospital and give it a chance to fix the problem.
3. Then, the attacker must give the hospital a chance to evacuate.
4. Then, the attacker must exercise all precautions to minimize harm.
5. Then, the attacker must assess the proportionate harm to civilians. 🧵
Cunk on Cinema. Still funny but a bit more obviously a case of Charlie Brooker ventriloquising than the other ones.
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Moscow has been exploiting the polarising topic of ‘the Jews’ for domestic and foreign policy gain since the start of the Pale of Settlement, and a lot of Nazi tropes originate with Tsarist propaganda (“pan slavism”).
However, these are unlikely to gain much traction in Europe. The Kremlin will likely continue focusing on far-right and anti-war narratives while amplifying far-left messaging. 🇵🇸 vs. 🇮🇱 remains a powerful source of polarisation that Moscow can exploit.
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Whereas with modern left wing or ‘progressive’ antisemitism (‘antizionism’) _all_ the tropes originate with Moscow. That great “anti-imperialist” power that in plain sight ran one of the most aggressive empires of the last two centuries.
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David Robjant retweeted
The last diesel tanker which was still heading for US shores has turned around.
So in summary, Trump's diesel deal with Putin caused no diesel to arrive in the US, didn't drop diesel prices, and caused his party to badly lose the US Midterms.
The Art Of The Deal indeed. 📉💥
Damn right. And why are we letting this man and his people get bombed for saying it?
We keep hearing again that Russia supposedly needs security guarantees. Even though no one has attacked Russia for many decades. Since the Second World War, Moscow has not gone through even one decade without starting a war or using military force against another country.
So when the Russians now talk about a security architecture for themselves, or about security guarantees for Russia – they are hardly talking about real security. And peace.
What they really want – is to freely interfere in the affairs of other countries, and to use force whenever they want, and to make sure that no one can support liberty inside Russia because Putin wants to keep his personal power forever and pass on his imperialist and, in many ways, simply fascist views to the next generations.
From a speech at the Danish Folketing. (3/3)
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Au passage on rappelle que EMF (Étudiants Musulmans de France) qui agite en ce moment nos lycées et nos manifs est la branche étudiante de l’UOIF et de cette galaxie frériste, biberonnée à Tariq et Hani Ramadan.
Pour ceux qui n’ont toujours pas compris, relire « OPA sur l’Islam de France » de Fiammetta Venner. 👇
👁️ fnac.com/o11904563/OPA-sur-l…
L’Égypte vient d’inscrire 35 organisations sur sa liste des entités terroristes. Parmi elles figurent « Musulmans de France » (ex-UOIF), les Ligues des musulmans de Belgique et de Suisse, le Conseil des musulmans d’Europe et le Conseil européen de la fatwa et de la recherche.
english.ahram.org.eg/UI/Fron…
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Lisez ce thread jusqu’au bout. Depuis les premières violences, nous alertons dans @franctireurmag. J’ai demandé une commission d’enquête sur @LCI. Nous ne sommes qu’au début de comprendre combien la guerre hybride pèse dans le climat actuel.
👉 franc-tireur.fr/violences-so…
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Throttling Starshield during the peace talks is a crystal-clear attempt to pressure Ukraine into accepting unfavorable deals, I hope everyone understands this.
I hope it is also clear that Ukraine is the only side the U.S. chooses to pressure: the victim, not the aggressor.
Received briefings from Minister of Defense of Ukraine Yevhenii Khmara and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Mykhailo Drapatyi. Unfortunately, our units have been recording significant disruptions to Starshield’s operations over the territory of Ukraine for several days now – along the entire front line and in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Specifically, systematic speed restrictions are being imposed on Starshield, limiting it to 161 kilometers per hour (100 miles per hour). The Ukrainian military have already investigated the circumstances, and these are not random errors but systematic speed restrictions. For us, this primarily means a significant complication in intercepting Russian jet-powered drones. Unfortunately, there have already been strikes that got through because our interception systems cannot reach sufficient speeds and are unable to intercept in time. Unfortunately, this is helping the Russians kill more Ukrainians and carry out more accurate strikes against Ukraine. We are trying to establish all the circumstances with the American side.
“now you will have understood that the question [of marginal KWH electricity pricing] is [a] political [choice], and for that reason I suggest we stop there” #Geopop
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Thank you Andrea Moccia for describing this so clearly: the biggest component of Europe’s energy price crisis is an entirely optional pricing system originally intended to subsidise installation of solar and renewable capacity. It now mainly subsidises gas. Viz, our enemies.
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“Distancing.. [UK] from Trump, or.. shaking hands with the Iranian foreign minister in New York were actions aimed at British domestic opinion. They had little effect on the calculus in Tehran except perhaps to convince hardliners that there was weakness that could be exploited”
Given the foreign states organising attacks against military bases in Britain or people on its streets, what does 'national security' even mean now? markurban.substack.com/p/our…
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The pattern is they restore starsheild when they want Ukraine at a “peace negotiation” photo op, and then breach the contract to maximise death and destruction from Russian missiles the moment the “peace negotiation” is in the bag.
Seems that the Trump administration is still trying to deprive Ukraine of Starshield at this crucial time. The US is still going all out to help Putin. The new Congress and the investigations into this, cannot come soon enough.
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