Anya

I have seen mutuals who flirt with a support of a possible American intervention in Venezuela.

Let me remind you we are currently supporting Ukraine, a country that is being illegally invaded. The Maduro regime is an awful communist dictatorship. But it doesn't make illegal invasions ok.

What allies?
@demiurg.bsky.social

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🔹️According to him and a joint group of French military analysts, giving up the unoccupied part of the Donetsk region to Russia without a fight would be madness, because the largest part of the fortified lines and five cities still remain there.

❗️"Now you won't find a single corruption scandal in Russia, because there are no bodies/agencies that would be responsible for it. Russia has a real dictatorship," – Macron.

Nigel Farage:
“If Brexit is a disaster, I’ll go live abroad.”
The UK Public:
"Can we help you packing, Nigel?"

From December 3 to 5, President Macron will visit China.

The visit will focus on the economy and cooperation not just between France and China, but between the EU and China, too. I assume that Russia's war in Ukraine and EU security will also be discussed.

Lecturing on Watergate this morning and trying to decide how to communicate "no, Congress used to care when presidents did crimes!" without derailing the lecture and/or sobbing

Canada clinches deal to join Europe’s €150B defense scheme The deal concludes months of tough talks and will allow Ottawa to take part in procurements financed by the EU’s SAFE program.

Canada has reached a final agreement to join the EU’s €150 billion Security Action for Europe program, becoming the first third country to take part in the bloc’s flagship joint procurement initiative.

Hagseth, did you read this? Perhaps you should and you will find out your future.

Former Auschwitz prisoner can sue German publisher for writing "Polish death camp", rules court

A court has ruled that Polish former Auschwitz prisoner Stanisław Zalewski, now aged 100, can seek financial compensation from a German publisher that used the term "Polish extermination camp" to describe a former German-Nazi camp in occupied Poland.

Think it's less their Conservativeness, and more they are self-centred, noisy prats.

OTD in 1918 USSR invaded Latvia. This is how Russia became the world's largest country. We keep peacefully attacking our neighbours.

Fury as Nigel Farage ally backs project to get young Brits to move to Dubai Charlie Mullins has been accused of giving up on Britain after saying he is supporting a project encouraging young people to move to Dubai

Fury as Nigel Farage ally backs project to get young Brits to move to Dubai

This fact escapes leading intellectuals of our times, such as @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social, @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social & fuckstickbunchofnumbers

We are unable to convince Ukrainians that our terror will stop if they surrender to us, because it will not. Thus they keep fighting.

Opening the door to throw Hegseth under the bus:

Sure. Just don’t shell us by mistake again like at Maczuga
That stung

Because while electricity doesn’t care where you live, energy providers do. Mind you many of them don’t even produce any. They buy it from traders. The good intention was to introduce competition and lower prices to customers while running infrastructure separately. Road to hell and all that

Merkel here expresses a sentiment so many Germans had following the fall of the Berlin Wall: that the big ideological fights were done.

That we now have to fight again for democracy and our system and freedom is something that we all need to realise.

Swiss politicians decry ‘gold bar diplomacy’ in Trump trade deal Backlash over role played in talks by executives from companies including Rolex and Richemont

Hmm, “There is a sense from some in Switzerland that this [the US deal] was very close to corruption”... which is true if you think that something that is x is also very close to x... www.ft.com/content/36c9...

BBC News is also a good example. Historically technocratic, sees the world is changing, attempts to compensate through bothsidesism (effectively procedural populism), fails to please anyone and in so doing compromises its essential quality (technocracy).

Let's hear it for the unashamedly selfish elderly who really don't care about the nation's finances as long as they don't pay a penny extra.

If we want to treat non workers we'll, then those who work will have to pay, and there aren't enough billionaires. Yep, there will be a squeezed middle. Problem is no politician will be honest about this.

The important bit for those in the UK who keep throwing around Customs Union with the EU... Brussels red lines are that goods won't move any more freely than people or the UK's financial contributions (unless it suits the EU to cherry-pick)

Wild how people like this, just like russians, still can’t comprehend that the Revolution of Dignity wasn’t staged. It was Ukrainians choosing freedom over fear. Imperialists and small minds always assume someone else must be pulling the strings, because they’ve never seen a nation with a spine.

On this day in 1939, while allied with Nazi Germany, Russia invaded Finland.

Roughly 11% of the country was eventually occupied by Russians, and since 1947 has remained so.

Russian propagandists:

If we don't stop and the Chinese begin, we’ll reach Paris and Lisbon.

Perfect is the enemy of good

Same everywhere, purists conditioned to believe that a vote means agreement with everything a candidate stands for. Ignoring the messy reality of democracies, hierarchy of goals etc

The state of comments on this 😬
It’s like baseload, intermittency, electricity grids or interregional transfers didn’t even register on either side of the border.

“But our wind/ gas / fill in the blanks! You thieves” They cry

“London pays for everyone, you scroungers” they answer

There is this thing called the national grid. And its high voltage magic doesn’t care about devolved borders.