Stuart Whyte

USA’s olieblokade påfører Cuba en katastrofal humanitær krise. Vil Castro-regimet overleve? Trump har fundet en måde at lægge et truende pres på det kommunistiske styre i Havana. Det er sket gennem afsættelsen af Nicolas Maduro og et stop for eksport af livsnødvendig olie til Cuba

19/2 2026

USA’s #olieblokade påfører #Cuba en katastrofal humanitær krise. Vil Cubas autoritære regime overleve?

#tRumpistan #tRump-regime #terrorstat #uspol #HumanitærKrise #menneskerettigheder #folkeret #eupol #dkpol

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I’m no legal expert

but the documents leaked to Epstein by Mandelson seem even more market sensitive to me than the Prince Andrew ones

(Mandelson leaked information about imminent $500bn eurozone bailout, £20bn of UK gov asset sales, tax changes etc)

Mussolini had a vain, over-imagined, sense of self-image to project.
There's also this with Trump, of course, but this semi-ridiculous glowering look has hints of Stalin's patriarchal 'weighing of souls' controlling stare in official posters etc.
Which a venal, sexual deviant just can't carry off.

Also no-one was "watching Corrie or whatever" when I saw it after local news, before switching to C4 news.
This incongruity was a kind of apologia for the didruption/intervention, which added a déférence for age to his arsenal of applecart upsetting & mediated frustration/impatience.
V. Intentional.

No, it was intended to mirror an older demographic's nostalgia for post-war chilhood/deceased parents & sense of alienation from/dissatisfaction with younger politicians handling of issues & 'modern' sensibilities.
Any nod would have broken this spell.
Even the unlit gas fire held a solid message.

I'm not so sure.
It did rather look like he'd inveigled his way into my grandmother's living room & chosen to sit himself in her recently dead husband's favourite chair.
E.g. Whose spectacles are those, on the mantlepiece behind him?

(it may well be a modern museum setting, for convenience)

The Age of Kleptocracy Geopolitical power, private gain.

“U.S. foreign policy is now largely subordinate to the private interests of the president and his retainers,” write @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social and @dhnexon.bsky.social.

Perhaps FIFA could ask their inaugural peace prize recipient when all those deals he's been working up will provide a host of post-conflict zones where displaced, bereaved or battle-traumatiséd children can play football on their neighbours' graves amongst live ordnance & rubble for display purposes

If you’re an American service member who gets killed in a retaliatory strike, your family can take comfort in the fact that it was done in service of making the host of Celebrity Apprentice feel like a big man for a minute, before he moved on to something else and forgets about this forever

NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE

then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results"

and i was like.
oh!

"We Know that the Kremlin is Very Worried" – Interview with Estonian Foreign Intelligence's Top Analyst - VSquare.org If at one moment Russian people have to choose between the television and the refrigerator, the refrigerator will win. If there is nothing left in the refrigerator, people might suddenly come to the streets and that is the end of this regime.

🇪🇪 Estonian intelligence's top Russia analyst Andres Vosman warns that Moscow obsessively monitors its society, dreads fallout from returning war veterans, and faces economic stagnation and dependence on China—making Russia unstable and unpredictable.

I've said it before and I will say it again. The same people that want you to work until you're 75 won't hire you after 50.

UK has not given US permission to use RAF bases for Iran strikes It comes as US President Donald Trump criticises Sir Keir Starmer's deal to hand over the Chagos Islands.

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ne e private secretary. The appointment of Andrew to replace the Duke of Kent as trade envoy was vigorously promoted by none other than Peter Mandelson, then out of government after his second cabinet resignation but still with the ear of prime minister Tony Blair. Blair overruled the principal opponent of the plan - none other than Andrew's big brother. Brian thought it wrongheaded as he suspected Andrew would use the post as an excuse to cultivate friendships with the wealthy, chase women and play golf. It would certainly be interesting to see the notes revealing why Blair ignored His Majesty's sage advice at the time. NUMBER CRUNCHING £43.0

Everything is Connected. From Private Eye:

The Three Conflicts Witkoff and Kushner Are Trying to Solve This Week

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(Russian) Agent Orange

Iran just raised the stakes. Could very well be why the regime seems to need to invade Iran. So not worth it, though.

Reuters: Iranian hackers claim they have videos of Trump with minors and is threatening to release them if the U.S. attacks Iran.

Ted Lieu: “Donald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands and thousands of times. In those files, there are highly disturbing allegations of Donald Trump raping children … of Donald Trump threatening to kill children. So I encourage the press to go look at these allegations.”

Some odd juxtaposituons in there but interested to hear broad results.

One wonders if there is any anthropologist in the world able to research & document this cultish enabling, promoting, apologist behaviour & it's obvious, darkly inhumane & politically desperate motivational drivers.

Someone give Rubio a violin, as he is already singing Emperor Nero's tune whilst *everything* burns.

The nuclear deal which previously was effective & independently evidenced/verified by the IAEA was trashed by Trump in his first term.
His inability to negotiate anything other than advantage for himself gave Iran 🟢 light to further repress/crackdown on protest, civil reformers, opposition etc

Rev Jesse Jackson playing basketball with Marvin Gaye. (NOT AI!)

There was no single reason for Brexit, but one them was surely pointlessly aggrieved men who made Nigel Farage their hobby when they should have just played more golf.

Danish "transport minister ready to shut down private parking companies" due to huge complaints of sharp practice, vague or over-specific terms, poorly marked bays, over-filled but un-notified capacity issues - resulting in spurious charges/fines.
Could do with similar action in UK now.

Every American needs to watch this:

Kongehuset har altid haft en tæt relation til Grønland, men ingen så tæt som kong Frederik Kong Frederik er i Grønland fra onsdag til fredag. Det sker i kølvandet på uro som følge af Trump-ytringer.

Not sure how much coverage this will get in UK, or indeed in the US, but King Frederik of Denmark is visiting Greenland over the next few days.
jyllands-posten.dk/indland/ECE1...

Allegations in Epstein files may amount to 'crimes against humanity,' UN experts say Millions of files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a "global criminal enterprise" that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity,...

Millions of files related to Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a 'global criminal enterprise' that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity, a panel of independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council says reut.rs/4rpxDfl

Proper "Emperor's New Clothes" possibilities available here.

Well, tangential though it may appear, the intensive, factory-farming model is a good analogy for what many right wing parties see as their societal role if ever reaching government.