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US asked Ukraine for help fighting Iranian drones, Zelensky says Ukraine's president says Kyiv will only help if doing so does not deplete its own air defences.

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According to President Zelenskyy, countries in the Middle East fired about 800 patriot missiles in just three days — more than Ukraine has had during the entire war.

Illustration: eine Kreatur liegt gebettet in Wolken, umgeben von Sternen, einen von ihnen in der Hand haltend, das Telefon mit Kopfhörern daneben. Es ist sehr gemütlich

Gode Nacht ✨

A racoon holds a button in his hand, looking at Toad. From "A Lost Button" In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*

A racoon came out from behind a tree. “I heard that you were looking for a button,” he said. “Here is one that I just found.”

“That is not my button!” wailed Toad.

One weird trick to avoid such tragedies:

Don’t launch illegal, unnecessary wars on a whim.

If it feels like Trump appointed the most incompetent people imaginable to run the federal government, it’s because that was the plan. Bannon and the Broligarchs wanted to smash the administrative state and rebuild it in their own corrupt fascist imagine. Each department head was a wrecking ball.🧵

Hm. Horace suggests that perhaps the Chinese won't need to spy so much when they have their big new spy base...

Labour MP 'voluntarily suspends herself' amid China spy probe Joani Reid said she had temporarily stood down from the party after her husband was arrested on suspicion of spying for China.

Hm. Many, many questions (not least the illiteracy of these reports)...
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UK Border Force officer was 'working for China', court told Chi Leung

Hm. So many questions...

"Wai - who was also a volunteer special constable with the City of London Police and used to work for the Metropolitan Police... ran a private security company". "A second... officer... was found dead in May 2024 after being released on bail."
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Hm. Dragoons not a lot of use at sea?

Hm. Tacking will be a nightmare.

[Hm. Tho' in Trumpio's case he will have dropped something entirely more toxic. At least for those in the room.]

New Ayatollah just dropped.

Right after Congress refused to rein him in, too.

UK high streets turn to facial recognition in fight against shoplifting Theft and threats against shop floor workers have risen sharply since the Covid-19 pandemic

Parliament should take steps to ban this technology. There is no good and proportional reason to allow private companies to analyse and store people's biometric data, especially without notice or consent.
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Tweet by ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl @jonkarl In a lengthy phone interview, President Trump marveled at the success of the military operation against Iran and expressed no concern about what comes next. "I hope you are impressed," he said to me. "How do you like the performance? I mean, Venezuela is obvious. This might be even better. How do you like the performance?" I said _nobody questions the success of the military operation_, the concern is what happens next. "Forget about next," he answered. "They are decimated for a 10-year period before they could build it back." 3:26 PM · Mar 5, 2026 · 71.8K Views https://x.com/jonkarl/status/2029654727093325965

US journalism 🤩🫡

They deserve Dubai and Dubai deserves them

I don’t think these people could point to the countries they want to redesign on a map, and we’re all paying.

Hm. Quite, but what's the headline?

[Hm is Markwayne in any way related to the Haywains? A *very* good family of heavy waggons...]

[Hm. When does Hegseth-Hess make his flight to Scotland?]

It's this dude. Everything is about to become stupider.

Kinda impressed that they managed to find someone stupider and less principled to take the job.

'More distasteful and offensive as series wears on'. Ann Purser wasn't a fan of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). The Stage and Television Today (5th March 1970)

Kanwal Sibal @KanwalSibal • 6h X The Iranian ship will not be where it was if we had not invited it to talk part in our Milan exercise. We were the hosts. I am told that as per protocol for this exercise ships cannot carry any ammunition. It was defenceless. The Iranian naval personnel had paraded before our president. The attack by the US submarine was premeditated as the US was aware of the Iranian ship's presence in the exercise to which the US navy was invited but withdrew from participation at the last minute, presumably with this operation in mind. The US has ignored India's sensitivities as the ship was in these waters because of India's invitation. We are far from politically or militarily responsible for the US attack. Our"responsibility" is at a moral and human plane. A word of condolence by the Indian Navy ( after political clearance) at the loss of lives of those who were our invitees and saluted our president would be in order.

Some context to the Iranian boat that was targeted by US off Sri Lanka coast

Former Indian FM: “US was aware of the Iranian ship's presence in the exercise to which the US navy was invited but withdrew from participation at the last minute”

Surprised they didn't try this with the Pope.

['speshul']

Every nation has a "special" relationship with the Trump regime.

But Starmer is deluding himself if he believes that the relationship is symmetrical in trust, transparency and fairness.
#ukpoli #uspoli #theMadKing

Hm. Is there a team of monkeys to take in the sails?