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Basil Brush🦊 retweeted
This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban in Afghanistan thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
Credit to: Jim Keller
Basil Brush🦊 retweeted
Victoria Barracks sale protest: John Howard headlines eclectic rally against sale of historic Paddington defence facility
Did he mention his Govt tried to flog it off in ‘97? Lest he forgot …
smh.com.au/politics/federal/…
Basil Brush🦊 retweeted
Victoria has the cheapest electricity in the world, Pauline Hanson and the Liberals are lying
Basil Brush🦊 retweeted
Artem Koval, 12, has died after more than a week in hospital.
His 8-year-old sister, Arina, was killed in the same russian attack six days ago.
A brother and a sister. Both killed by russia.
And the world keeps looking away.
Basil Brush🦊 retweeted
🇺🇦🇷🇺 RUSSIAN SOURCES SAY AN ENTIRE ASSAULT COMPANY HAS BEEN WIPED OUT NEAR KHARKIV
Russian sources are reporting the complete destruction of the 4th Motorized Rifle Company of Russia’s 127th Motorized Rifle Regiment during recent fighting along the Belgorod-Kharkiv axis.
The company belonged to the regiment’s 2nd Battalion, which has been involved in operations around Vovchansk and neighboring sectors of northern Kharkiv Oblast.
If confirmed, the loss would represent a serious blow to the unit. The exact number of soldiers killed, wounded, captured or missing has not been established, and the claim of the company’s complete destruction remains unverified.
What makes the reports particularly striking is that they are emerging from Russian sources themselves.
Russian military channels have repeatedly circulated appeals from relatives searching for soldiers who disappeared after being sent into combat. Some families have been left without clear information about whether their loved ones are alive, wounded, captured or dead.
These accounts contrast with Moscow’s official emphasis on territorial advances and successful offensive operations.
The northern Kharkiv front has become a costly battlefield, with Russian forces continuing to commit personnel to attacks around Vovchansk despite persistent Ukrainian resistance.
Losing an entire company is not simply a matter of replacing names on a personnel roster. Combat experience, coordination between soldiers, familiarity with the terrain and effective small-unit leadership take time to develop. Replacements cannot immediately restore those capabilities.
For Russian commanders, continuing assaults with depleted formations can create additional problems, particularly when surviving personnel are exhausted and newly assigned troops have limited experience operating together.
The reported destruction of the 4th Company does not establish the wider condition of the 127th Regiment or prove that Russian operations in the sector have collapsed.
But if the Russian accounts are accurate, they provide another indication of the human cost Moscow’s forces are absorbing in their attempts to advance through northern Kharkiv Oblast.
Behind the battlefield reports are Russian families still searching for answers about soldiers who never returned from their missions.
Basil Brush🦊 retweeted
RT if you think Trophy Hunting is a CRIME & should be BANNED!
#WorldLionDay #bantrophyhunting
ON and the LNP appear to favour Australia reverting to a previous century of dirty coal and CSG pollution, as their wealthy backers stand to gain greater profit.
Australia enjoys surge in wind, solar and battery projects, with $32.5 billion now financed or under construction reneweconomy.com.au/australi…
Basil Brush🦊 retweeted
World’s wealthiest people are not just profiting from the polluting causes of #climate breakdown, they are also increasingly cashing in on the catastrophic consequences, according to a study by Oxfam.
theguardian.com/environment/…
Always question propaganda spread by RWNJ and the Murdoch gutter press. Is that the truth, or did you read it in the Murdoch press?
Basil Brush🦊 retweeted
饿到喝尿吃树皮的俄军士兵，投降乌克兰反倒活了下来。
一段从前线流出来的审讯现场，94名俄军战俘排成一排报数。
队伍里走出来一个军官。
胸前挂着伤，自报家门是第3步兵营的少校马纳姆科夫。
他面对镜头开口第一句，直接控诉自己的后方指挥官。
战斗最紧张的时候，长官自己先乘车撤了。
临走前把电台关死，扔下一句“就地组织环形防御，死守”。
电台一掐，后方就把这几十号人当成了耗材。
阵地上断水断粮整整一个半月。
几十个人趴在泥地里舔雨水积成的水坑，水坑干了就喝自己的尿。
身边一个战友严重脱水，活活死在战壕里。
饿极了怎么办？
剥树皮嚼，拔地里的野草，摘路边的荨麻在野战炉子上煮成水充饥。
三个受了重伤的士兵，连一块止血纱布和止痛药都拿不到，在旁边拖到断气。
按俄军内部的战前宣传，投降乌克兰会遭到非人折磨。
结果这帮被逼到绝境的残兵，在乌军第3突击旅阵地前举了白旗。
乌克兰军医进场，立刻给伤员做清创。
少校脑壳里嵌着的弹片、肋侧扎进去的碎铁块，当场取了出来，送去卧床休息。
吃上了热饭，喝上了干净水。
马纳姆科夫在镜头前苦笑了一下：
“整整一个半月，我第一次吃上一顿饱饭，居然是在战俘营里。”
善待战俘除了人道原则，背后有一套极其现实的利益驱动。
镜头后方，乌克兰士兵一句话点透了关键：
这批人是换回自家兄弟最好的筹码。
死战俘换不回自己人，只有活着的、治好伤的俄军军官和士兵，才能在谈判桌上按人头把被俘乌军换回家。
更深层的影响在战场之外。
这94个人亲眼看到长官把他们当炮灰扔在绝境，也亲身体验了对面的战俘营给他们治伤发饭。
这些战俘一旦被交换回国，他们亲口说出的每一个细节，都会在俄军基层私下传开。
保障战俘活下来，不仅是为了人道和换俘，也是在用肉眼可见的事实瓦解对手的抵抗意志。
Basil Brush🦊 retweeted
Jared Kushner received $2 billion from Saudi Arabia & the UAE to carry out political favors and was encouraged to keep the money in Israel’s central bank.
This is the biggest corruption scandal in political history.
Kushner has managed to outcrime Trump!
Basil Brush🦊 retweeted
Pete Hegseth was thoroughly embarrassed by Senator Tammy Duckworth.
Senator Tammy Duckworth—a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel who lost both her legs while serving in Iraq—pressed Hegseth with a question:
Tammy Duckworth: "I’m glad you brought that up. Can you name even one ASEAN member country and explain what kind of agreement we have with it? And, while you’re at it, do you know how many countries are in ASEAN? Frankly, I’m not even sure you know who our allies are."
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: "Well, I can’t give you the exact number, but I certainly know who our allies are: South Korea, Japan, and Australia..."
Tammy Duckworth: "None of the countries you just mentioned are members of ASEAN. I suggest you do your homework better before engaging in these kinds of discussions."
The level of incompetence of the person leading the Pentagon—it’s simply unbelievable.
16 Years After Deepwater Horizon Spill, Deep Sea Life in The Gulf of Mexico Shows No Sign of Recovery. #TheDirtyOilIndustry just keeps on giving. 🔥
Basil Brush🦊 retweeted
That was easy. From NASA. science.nasa.gov/climate-cha…
Basil Brush🦊 retweeted
53 orangutans have now been rescued from forests devastated by fires in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, and the scale of destruction is horrifying.
More than 48,500 hectares have burned this year. Orangutans are being found starving, injured and desperately searching for food in forests that have been destroyed.
These are critically endangered animals losing the very habitat they depend on to survive. How much wildlife must suffer before protecting forests becomes a priority rather than an afterthought?
Basil Brush🦊 retweeted
Last year, Trump invited Conor McGregor to the White House… after the MMA wrestler raped a woman so brutally that her tampon had to be surgically removed.
A forensic examiner testified this in court, and McGregor was found GUILTY of rape by a 12-person jury.
Oh, AND a paramedic who examined her testified that she "had not seen a patient as bruised as her in a long time."
SOMEHOW, THIS QUALIFIED HIM FOR A TRUMP WHITE HOUSE VISIT.
Birds of a feather 🪶
Basil Brush🦊 retweeted
Charles Kushner, Jared’s father, pleaded guilty to 18 counts of tax evasion and witness tampering. He hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, filmed it, sent the tape to his sister. Trump pardoned him and made him ambassador to France and Monaco.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charle…