Mark Davies

And if Russia conquered Ukraine, what then? Would Hungary leave EU and NATO?!

Pew Research Institute (2023):

• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants

• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants

• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.

And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."

It's *not* about immigration.

Pulled the price out of his backside, presumably!

Yeah, because Ukrainie doesn't already have a government. What a jerk!

And here we are: the entire transatlantic alliance is now talking about Greenland, instead of talking about ending the war in Ukraine.

I read Lviv when browsing this! Wondered when you'd been there. Shows the weighting of my feed.

He'd know I guess, being a well practised blackmailer himself.

Basically, take the reverse of everything he says to get the truth, so yes!

One of the emperor Augustus's best tricks for legitimizing his authoritarian rule: he made a point of losing at games, joking about his bad luck, and paying his forfeits cheerfully. It made his reign look less arbitrary and terrifying to fellow members of the Roman elite.

Even when MAGA finds out Trump's entire cabal got heavily leveraged short the market last month, they'll only love him more, despite having to do it from a Hooverville.

Trump's approval may be toxic. He's certainly hurting the right wing in Canada and Australia.

Why don't they tell that to Musk!

Trump, Putin and the midnight of the 21st century The betrayal of Ukraine will haunt us

We won’t be able to forget 12/02/2025 - much though we might like to
Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine will haunt us.
(Piece from me. Free to read)
nickcohen.substack.com/p/trump-puti...

It's weird how time works. It's already 2025 in Polynesia, in the USA it's still 2024 but in Russia it's 1951.
#HappyNewYear

Despite pretending to be a man of the people, Nigel Farage makes £97,000 PER MONTH making him the highest paid MP. (At that's not for his MP job!)

Despite never being in his constituency and still chasing his own fame, career and profit.

Nigel farage is a grifter.

Repost of you agree

New Zealand almost split by islands.

Maybe we should ask Tulsi Gabbard.

I'm no expert on US politics or history, but something like this isn't totally new. The power of the robber barons in the late 19th century was faced down and democracy was revitalised. It could happen again, but I'm looking in from the outside. I don't envy you.

The criminality of Assad and his Russian and Iranian backers is all the fault of the US!

I'm not sure there's anything better. Reaganite reforms (Rogernomics in NZ) weakened democratic oversight of the economy, particularly of the banking sector. Not sure there's any easy answer, but currently we seem to be encouraged to think democracy doesn't work. I'd say it's our best hope.

I think unfettered capitalism is different from what has existed at times.

But in liberal democracies it was regulated and taxation saw some wealth redistribution. State financed health and education, state housing made a huge difference. Here in New Zealand we had relatively devolved wealth until Reaganite reforms started in the 80s.

That didn't work in the Soviet bloc. Regulated capitalism has produced results, but the ideology of letting wealth be vacuumed to the top (starting with Reagan) has led to this.

True, they've festered for years. And look to be set to get much worse now. Maybe a bit of Teddy Roosevelt would help.

Well, it might not sort European underspending on defence, but the raping of healthcare by insurance companies is pretty peculiar to the US. And tax cuts for the wealthy doesn't help any.

Get your billionaires to pay their taxes, and get a proper healthcare system, and problem sorted!

Sorry, I'm agreeing with you. I misread the 'some fraction'. The same is true in Wales (i.e. a few see themselves as English).

Ethnicity doesn't reflect identity; look at South Wales, which similar to the Donbas, had many non-Welsh immigrate to work. A couple of generations on, they're Welsh, even if English-speaking.

This is why we cant just give up and freeze the war

Ahn Gwi-ryeong makes quite the contrast to Josh Hawley.