R Phelps

The question is, will every news paper headline tomorrow reflect this insanity? If not, what is even the point of journalists?

The one advantage the rest of the world will have over the US in the future is it won't have to deal psychologically with knowing this senile fuckwit was their president.

Bro have you ever even piloted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz bro

I hope we get a shot of Elbridge Colby sobbing somewhere.

This is the way.

Amazing how similar this description is to Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine.

Uk Labour's instagram account shares an image of Sir Kier Starmer standing in parliament saying "It is my duty to judge what is in Britain's national interest, and that is the judgement I made. I stand by it."

Sign of where things are going that in a shockingly competent move Labour's social media team are actually straight up promoting the fact that he had this falling out with Trump re the Iran war. The British right wing press and party establishments may have fucked up here methinks.

'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Party Where This Regularly Happens

UK should not back a war that boosts Vladimir Putin Rising energy prices inadvertently strengthen Russia and weaken incumbent European governments

"Our “influence” is a commodity that we want to spend on one thing above all: that Donald Trump not do things that help Putin" - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Clear thinking from @stephenkb.bsky.social , which currently eludes much of the Right in Britain

UK should not back a war that boosts Vladimir Putin Rising energy prices inadvertently strengthen Russia and weaken incumbent European governments

Today's newsletter on the British political implications and policy consequences of Donald Trump's war with Iran.

This will surprise you but they are not good!

Literally everything that happens to the UK now just adds to the reasons to #Rejoin. Insane it's not part of elite discourse.

A couple of years ago the Conservatives turned down an opportunity to build a huge electricity cable to Morocco - to bring solar & wind power on dark winter evenings* - which would have substantially reduced the UK's reliance on fossil fuels - and helped to protect us.

They turned it down.

Not just Westminster. You go to any academic talk w big brains at LSE or Kings about the UK's long term strategy and literally no one will say 'the greatest way we could increase our influence over our future is to rejoin the EU'. Not even as a thought experiment or observation on current reality.

How Chemistry and Rocket Motors Constrain American Warfighting Solid rocket motors—and the chemicals that fuel them—are a major limitation on America’s missile stockpiles, and one that cannot be solved by additional funding alone.

Don’t forget, making more rockets and missiles is waaaaaay harder than just throwing some money at a chemist or a factory. Our latest analysis in the National interest:

nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/ho...

Starmer the dove, Farage the hawk.

As we ”celebrate” 10 years since #Brexit, since 2016, the cumulative GDP/ capita growth in U.K. was just 4%.

By comparison in Romania was 55%.

Industrial recession means EU has less to lose from trade disruption, making confrontation cheaper now than later.

It's grim but there's an opportunity for Starmer's ratings to do a Carney, and pin Iran on Farage from now to 2029 tho.

Leavitt woman take son for Trump war.

In 2022, Russia had invaded Ukraine

But this year, Trump started his own vanity war

Entirely self-inflicted and entirely pointless

Hard to think of an intellectual current, if you can call it that, that has disgraced itself so quickly and thoroughly.
Charap, Moyn and Ashford should be laughed at wherever they go.

Woe for the Narrative

First solid results from Baden-Württemberg are in. Özdemir's lead over Hagel is actually larger than the original projection: 1.6 points up from 1 point.

An Özdemir win would matter in another sense too. 7 decades after the first "guest workers" came to the federal republic, he would be the first minister-president of a German state to have Turkish roots. It wasn't a big factor in the campaign - people just like him (⬇️) - but is a moment nonetheless.

1/3rd the UK's GDP, very similar annual support to Ukraine.

The UK should be doing so much more.

This was something I unfortunately rather forcefully pointed out to a war studies lecturer who had spent the entirety of a talk this week about NATO wanging on about out of touch woke British elites. If they were in touch we'd be rejoining.

This was something I unfortunately rather forcefully pointed out to a war studies lecturer who had spent the entirety of a talk this week about NATO wanging on about out of touch woke British elites. If they were in touch we'd be rejoining.

Starmer’s position is entirely consistent with what he wrote about Iraq in 2003, a fact of enormous inconvenience to just about everybody currently criticising it. Happily for them, just like the entire bloody Chilcot Inquiry it is apparently very easy to ignore.