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People keep writing that Trump will attempt to compromise Western security for Russia’s benefit, as though Europe were some obedient Labrador waiting for its American owner to give it commands.
There is one rather enormous problem with that fantasy: Europe is sovereign, and Trump does not get to decide its future.
He can meet Putin, make grand promises, and draw imaginary lines across European maps until he runs out of crayons. None of it means a thing without Europe’s consent.
Europe is not Trump’s property, and its security is not something he can hand over to Moscow.
Trump can promise Putin whatever he likes. Europe has absolutely no obligation to deliver it.
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This is the price Ukrainians pay every day for the trump–putin diesel deal and trumpists’ courtship of putin. Every trump supporter bears responsibility for these deaths.
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The West is waking up to a simple fact: MAGA chose Russia.
For eighty years, Americans knew Moscow was the adversary. Truman knew it. Kennedy knew it. Reagan called the Soviet Union an evil empire. American soldiers prepared to stop Russian armour in Europe, taxpayers financed NATO, and intelligence officers spent careers penetrating the Kremlin.
Russia never changed. It invaded Georgia, seized Crimea, poisoned opponents, interfered in Western elections, attacked Western institutions, and launched the largest war in Europe since 1945.
What changed was part of America.
Trump spent years shouting “Russia, Russia, Russia” and “hoax”. It was never a hoax. Russian interference was real. The campaign to weaken NATO, divide America, discredit institutions and separate the US from Europe was real.
The Kremlin failed to break the West from outside. MAGA started helping from within.
So congratulations, Russia. You lost the Cold War, then found Americans willing to attack the alliance that defeated you and call it patriotism.
Quite a victory.
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Andrii Melnyk, Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the UN, quoted a statement by Russian propagandist Solovyev during an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council:
"When we are asked whether we should care about the people living in those [Ukrainian] cities, my answer is: Yes, we do. We are thinking about where to bury them."
@MelnykAndrij continued:
"So Russians are thinking where to bury us, Ukrainians, all together. Just let those words sink in, words that make one's blood run cold."
The ambassador stressed that these are neither literary metaphors nor rhetorical exaggerations:
"We're hearing, in plain and frightening terms, calls for all Ukrainians to be killed en masse - and for their bodies to be buried or maybe burned."
He also quoted another horrific statement by Medvedev:
"They [Ukrainians] must be destroyed. That's it."
Russia - a terrorist state that commits war crimes every single day - has no place in the UN.
For the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague:
Russian propagandist Solovyev says that Russia’s goal is to kill all residents of Ukrainian cities:
"And to those Kyiv residents who are still there, I repeat for the hundredth time: leave the city. You are doomed. To the residents of Odesa and Mykolaiv: you’ve had your laugh. When people ask, 'Do we really have to think about them at all?' Yes. We are thinking about where to bury all of you."
Calls for the mass murder of civilians are classified under international law and national legislation as among the gravest international crimes and criminal offenses and may fall under several key categories:
• direct and public incitement to genocide;
• instigation of war crimes and crimes against humanity;
• war propaganda and incitement to hatred.
Rob W 🇬🇧 retweeted
Putin 'dragging Europe into war' with Russia msn.com/en-gb/news/other/put… Wake up as Putin is already in a Warm war with Europe. He has attacks many of Europe's countries including GB.
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🇺🇸 Trump: “We told Zelenskyy: Do whatever you want, just don’t hit the diesel. And what does he do? He hits the diesel!”
Wait a second…
Wasn’t Ukraine supposed to have no cards? 😂
Apparently, we found a few.
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So fascist Putin has ordered his pet puppet Trump to get rid of President Zelenskyy a real leader who is leading his country against a warmongering land stealing evil Czar Putin? Sad day for the United States.
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The fact that Pensioners get just over £12K a year & yet an Illegal Migrant costs over £40K a year & yet the triple lock is supposed to be a big problem which shows this government doesn’t care about the people they are supposed to serve, but do care about the ones they are not supposed to serve.
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While everyone else is arguing about tractors, planning applications and whose fault the latest disaster is, Gerald is just… getting on with it.
Fifty years of combining and maintaining the same land that his history is now etched into. Miles of dry stone wall kept standing by a man who actually knows how those walls are supposed to work. No fuss, no cameras-first attitude, just a proper countryside craftsman and every day hero doing a job most people half his age would struggle with.
The hard working, kind, quiet (mostly inaudible) legend of Clarkson’s Farm. And a true custodian of the land (and people) he so loves!🤝
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PERSONAL POST 😔 ❤️
Back on here after a week's ban.
My crime? I reposted a video about Allah protecting someone and added: "Seems like Allah wasn't listening." That was it. The original post is still up.
I appealed straight away. I heard nothing for the entire week. No control over my account, engagement off a cliff, followers lost – and all the time and energy I'd put into building something here, gone. Starting again.
And energy is something I really can't spare.
For anyone new, or anyone who's forgotten: I live with severe ME. I've been mostly bedbound for a month. For the first several days I couldn't even look at a screen.
Every kind of energy – physical, mental, emotional, social – is really, really difficult to find.
People imagine ME means being a bit tired. It doesn't. It's bone-crushing fatigue – like having the worst case of Covid or flu you've ever had and the worst hangover, at the same time. Or climbing a mountain with a massive backpack on while feeling like that. Everything is heavy. That's my baseline. Every day.
On top of that: huge memory loss, problems with cognition, low blood pressure, freezing cold and shivering all the time even when it's warm, and a heart rate that hasn't dropped below 120 since Monday – hitting 140 while I'm lying in bed.
Everything costs. Not just physical things – thinking, feeling, talking, reading, replying. Before I do anything, I have to ask: can I afford this, and how much is it going to cost me? This post has a price. So does every reply.
It's why I haven't published an article in a long time. It's not that I don't care. I simply can't manage it at the moment.
This crash came off the back of a pile-on over my Arday articles, and the comments that followed. Then someone else decided to publicly undermine me on top of it. That's what stress does to a body with ME.
Last week I felt a little better, missed writing, and asked whether you'd want me to look into the benefits system. I got piled on for that too.
It's also been a rough week personally. After this week, I'm the worst I've ever been.
So if I don't get something quite right, give me a moment. Someone's pulled me up for saying the boat was empty. I corrected it as soon as I realised there was one person on board. That's what you do with a mistake. Sue me.
Another told me today I was wrong. When I mentioned my 21 years of police service, their comeback was: "Well, I got this from ChatGPT." Right then.
And what do people think I'm trying to gain from any of this? I've turned down every offer of interviews, TV and podcasts, because my health won't let me do them. I'm not in this to get something out of it.
I'm never going to be neutral, or user-friendly, or someone who appeals to everybody. I'm opinionated. I have strong views and I say them. That's the point.
I'm not infallible. I'm a human being doing the best I can, with what I have, to help people as much as I can – with the best of intentions.
So please, just give me a break.
If this matters to you, please share it – it helps more than you know right now. And if you live with chronic illness too, tell me how you budget your energy. I'd genuinely like to hear it.
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Talked to my dad in Kyiv. He had a very important meeting today and was coming home late.
On the way, he stopped at some random gas station to use the bathroom. It was only after he got home that he realized he had left his bag there.
Not only were his wallet and his passport inside, but so was his wife’s passport.
He set off to retrace his route and eventually made it back to the right gas station.
He went up to the cashier and explained the situation. She pulled his bag out from under the counter and handed it to him.
My dad told her that since he couldn’t thank the person who had brought the bag to her, he wanted to give her something for keeping it safe. She refused to take his money.
This is the Ukraine I know — a place where the majority of people are good, decent people who choose to do the right thing.
I wish I could personally thank Kateryna, the gas station attendant, and the unnamed man who found my father’s bag.
Since I can’t, I’m writing this down so I can hold them up as examples of what is right in this world.
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Aargh. !! Only gone and dropped my bloody phone in the bath!!!
Tried the "putting it in a bowl of rice for 3 days tip" but sadly lost all my contacts, apart from Uncle Ben....
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BREAKING: Doug Ford just unveiled a massive sign reading “Lake Ontario Now and Always” on the shoreline of Lake Ontario.
Trump would hate it if this went viral.
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So all these houses that they are intending to build (are building) where’s the infrastructure around them like new schools, doctors surgeries etc etc.
You can’t continually build new houses without putting in place services.
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🚨🚨BEACON ALERT | MISSING SERVING SOLDIER 🚨🚨
There are growing concerns for the welfare of Liam, aged 22, a serving soldier, who has been reported missing in Northumberland.
LAST SEEN: Shortly after midnight in the early hours of Saturday, 15 August 2026, heading towards Wylam from Wylam Bridge.
DESCRIPTION
- White
- 6ft 3ins
- Medium build
- Dark hair
- Tattoos down his right arm
LAST SEEN WEARING
- Black joggers
- Black Nike trainers
- Black T-shirt with large text and a diamond logo on the back
- Gold chain
Extensive enquiries are ongoing to locate Liam, and police and his family are growing increasingly concerned for his welfare.
If you have seen Liam, or have any information that could help locate him, please contact Northumbria Police.
Police Reference: NP-20260815-0424
Please share, particularly across Wylam and the surrounding areas.
#BeaconAlert #MissingPerson
