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What troubles me? A friend from Ukraine, who directs FPV ops, looks at all these new Allied armoured fighting vehicles and says "You see that ? Well, if we hit it from an angle of degrees using we can blow its turret off in no more than hits. One hit if they leave the hatch open."

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Distressing & devastating for nature protection & restoration, biodiversity & natural heritage. Investigation is under way following death of one of Ireland's oldest breeding white-tailed eagles. Initial post-mortem results indicate poisoning as possible cause of death www.rte.ie/news/munster...

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I've never knowlingly heard or listened to a Taylor Swift song. Granted, maybe they've played one as background musak in a supermarket. But I wouldn't know it. May it forever stay that way 🙏

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Elon Used So Much Ketamine He Couldn’t Pee Right: Report www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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"Trump's government lawyers are brazenly changing their arguments on the fly — often in front of the same court — when faced with a loss or ruling that they don’t like. Indeed, maximizing Trump’s power might be this administration’s only consistent position." — @snipy.bsky.social

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New: White House says it's investigating after a hacker reportedly accessed the phone contacts of Trump's chief of staff Susie Wiles. WH spox. wouldn't say if the feds had any evidence that her contacts were stolen via access a cloud account associated with her phone, or if targeted by spyware.

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Republicans have a new talking point for gutting Medicaid and SNAP to give billionaires even more tax cuts: “We are all going to die.” If your senator is a GOP ghoul like Joni Ernst, they need to hear from the constituents they’re betraying with Trump’s Tax Scam: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

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In a lot of places a lot of people depend on those glaciers as their sources of water. No glaciers, no water. No water, no habitability. No habitability, displacement. Displacement, forced migration and conflicts. A climate-changed world is a more desperate and violent world.

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Trump’s administration is putting zip ties on children. These babies dressed to go with their mom to court, bc she was doing the LAWFUL thing & our government ZIP TIED them 😩 I don’t want my tax dollars paying for babies to be zip tied, do you? It was never about protecting us from criminals.

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Meanwhile, Keir Starmer is reportedly on the brink of signing a £1.6 billion trade agreement with the Gulf states, including Saudi Arabia. Never mind human rights. They don't matter to "Sir" hypocritical former human rights lawyer Starmer and the Labour party.

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JD Vance’s campaign plane is now being used for migrant deportation flights.

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Why do many people in #Ireland no longer believe in 'government'? This, for starters. Who elected these liars, cheats, frauds? Whoever voted for them should be ashamed. #HousingCrisis www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

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🆕 🔋 The US has a major blind spot when it comes to its reliance on #China for critical minerals and battery supply chains, leaving the country vulnerable to #nationalsecurity threats. Read the latest briefer from Ben Taulli and Joshua Busby ⬇️

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My Blocked Accounts is filling up nicely: mainly Gaza scams, dickheads who think blocking Gaza scams makes you anti-Palestinian, the odd Russian security service account or three, plus the generally offensive and detestable who should have stuck to X.

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Carbon credits? Oh, business as usual (greenhouse gas emissions) whilst trading the Emperor's New Clothes as a means of greenwashing the fact that businesses and EU member states are continuing to drive global temperatures up. If anyone thinks that carbon credits will save us, think again.

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Nope.

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Kellogg is doing us a favour. Whether he intends it as a warning or not, his recent comments put the issue of NATO's potentially imminent dysfunction back at the top of the agenda. US commitment to Article 5 is clearly transactional and conditional. Europe cannot rely on the US. 🧵

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I don't do 'alarmism'. And I formulate all my professional analyses and recommendations for governments with clearly set out assumptions, probabilities and uncertainties. Always. So when I say I expect to witness the outbreak of European War 3 in what's left of my lifetime, I mean it.

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Two month old post even more applicable now. I wasn't planning on retiring anyway: I enjoy my work too much. But I can see a change of plan in which I end up in the military in some capacity (hopefully planning) as we fight the Russians on the plains and in the valleys across Europe before I'm 70.

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⚠️ Basically what Kellogg is saying or warning us about is that Trump when he gets frustrated (ie doesn't get his own way) is likely to 'walk away' from the security of Europe altogether. That signals to Moscow open season on EU/NATO member states in Europe: Go for invasion, which will lead to WW3.*

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Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 – long before NATO membership was on the table. But Trump’s envoy now calls Moscow’s fears about NATO “fair.” www.kyivpost.com/post/53648

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Western mainstream media have played a major and deeply disturbing role in amplifying the ideas of Russian fascist ideologue Alexander Dugin, both in the West and beyond. 1/10

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Last night, russians wiped out half of a residential block in Bilozerske, destroyed a trolleybus depot in Kharkiv and a private post office in Odesa, terrorizing civilians w 90 drones and 2 ballistic missiles. But let's give putin another two-week deadline to see if he suddenly starts wanting peace.

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Planet Labs just unveiled striking satellite imagery of Blatten, laying bare the tragic aftermath and what little is left of the village.

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Monday: increased tensions as Vice Admiral Kulakov aggressively shadowed German frigate “Bayern” (and perhaps submarine U-33 according to RU telegram posts) in the Baltic www.fr.de/politik/bedr...

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The illegal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine is continuing. The map below is the latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 30 May 2025. #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦

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Taiwan’s fate could hinge on a battle for the American imagination. warontherocks.com/20...

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