niceguyadi.bsky.social
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These look the same as Russian glide bombs: a dumb bomb with ailerons and GPS fitted.
Russians have been dropping theirs all over the front and into Ukrainian cities, and they regularly miss their mark by tens of metres, if not more.
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Stay safe. I look forward to the day when I don’t have to think this for you and many others.
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When your government lets law enforcement agents take people into custody whilst concealing their identities and legal authority, it is only a matter of time before this happens:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-5874...
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I like to imagine him sitting them down and taking them through brochures of Moscow apartment blocks they might be living in very soon.
…Before going back to his study to pore over brochures of Nanjing apartment blocks he might be living in very soon.
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The global media circus may have moved onto the Middle East.
But at the very least, all Europeans should see this and know Russia would do the same to them and their loved ones without compunction.
Russian defeat remains absolutely necessary.
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“Hey guys, you know that country who keeps invading its neighbours and using oil and gas shutoffs to blackmail everyone else?
We should buy more oil and gas from them!”
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The tragedy is that Farage is so widely presented as credible that people like yourself have to fact-check his drivel in the 1st place.
There’s politicians being economical with the truth and statistics. And then there’s just making up bollocks and presenting it as truth.
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The misleading of the public over Iraq was just as serious as over the Suez crisis. So why did it recover after Suez but not after Iraq?
Is it simply that no one was actually held accountable?
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The Truthing here could have been a lot shorter and more accurate if he’d just acknowledged “I won’t get a peace prize”. Everyone else can fill in all the reasons why he won’t.
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Russian banks lend money to Russian government. But Russian government then has to use part of what they’ve borrowed to prop up the banks, because they’re state-owned.
This is what happens when I country is run by a Mafia.
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Russian state owned banks?
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I hope the Russian internet can cope with 25,000 men discovering porn for the first time.
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Anyone here old enough to remember Hans Blix saying exactly the same thing for the IAEA about Iraq in early 2003?
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Russian hubris would be funny if it wasn’t so damaging for those they’d push around.
The only people on earth who’d believe a nation of corrupt drunkards like this could march on Poland are Russian.
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I don’t know who you are. There are (funnily enough) seven countries in the G7.
And yet I’m dead certain I know which is your country from this.
Which is very very SAD.
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Let the Russian Federation collapse, then restore relations with whichever of the 21 republics show they can behave like grown-ups.
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Ukrainian drone be all like “get a haircut, hippy.”
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Yet again, obviously no military value here. Just Russians attacking Ukrainian civilians in their homes.
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Russia: “Hey India, come buy our latest fighter jet!”
India: “Didn’t you take all the T80s you were supposed to deliver to us and get them blown up in Ukraine?”
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So Russian govt need to create bonds so that they can sell them to Russian banks, which they majority own, so that they can pay off the bonds to the banks that they own.
The funny question is who will fold first? The banks or the government?
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“Putin talked to me for a long time, and I listened. He said they want revenge for being humiliated on their airfields, and I was too afraid to say ‘please don’t’ on the phone.
Khamenei doesn’t listen to me, so Putin will take care of that for me, which is good because I believe all he says.”
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Trump doesn’t see that his re-election was the best thing to happen to Putin in 3 years. Not because they’re aligned, but because Trump is so easy to manipulate, and his arrogance prevents him from noticing.
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This is what happens when you tolerate every level of your government stealing.
People moan about it in the West, but this is what it actually looks like.
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Lavrov speaks good English. But he continually confuses the word “hysterically” with “reasonably”.
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"We take your taxes to feed our war machine, and give ourselves backhanders. This should be enough for you, stop expecting more."
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Russian gas cheap. Large parts of European electorate uninformed.
Take away cheap (blood) gas and replace with more expensive gas: bills go up. People complain, vote for the guy saying "we should be more friendly with Russia".
The uninformed/indifferent need to get Russian gas is bad for us all.
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📌
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Trump complains ‘I think Putin may be tapping me along.’
Has call with Putin, announces great success that Putin is willing to have ‘negotiations toward ceasefire’.
Either he’s being stupid or thinks everyone else is. Or both.
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Presumably, real Putin will remain in his armoured bunker, and his double will have to go off for an ice cream whilst pretending to take the call from the school.
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Have you got a link? I can’t find it on The Times’ website
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Not a great parallel. The Great Famine wasn’t some enormous Machiavellian British plot to kill or evict all the Catholics of Ireland, for the Protestants to claim.
Despite the callousness of the British response in neglecting to help as it unfolded.
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Great idea. Evict them from their homeland, because it’s a war zone, into another war zone.
Have they considered the European reaction, since this is just going to mean 1m Palestinians trying to escape Libya by boat into Europe.
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Russia: “we demand you surrender and give us all your lands and children”
Ukraine: “no”
Russia: (gesticulating wildly) “see? They don’t want peace!”
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“I’ll do it one day one”
“I’ll do it by 100 days”
“I’ll do it in 2-3 weeks”
It’s as plausible as a teenager avoiding doing homework.
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Great, but both nations need to stop entertaining defence companies to produce ludicrously expensive systems.
Ukraine has shown what's needed today isn't small numbers of the coolest system, but systems that do the job and can be produced in numbers.
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This is just a reminder of this outrageous waste of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
The writer’s talent could have made a career for him, if he hadn’t thrown his lot in with an invasion of sheer evil.
The tragedies he describes are all ultimately of Russia’s making.
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Covfefe
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They’ll just say climate change is driven by China/USA/India/everyone else, and there’s nothing we can do.
You’re better off arguing that depending on foreign fossil fuels (our North Sea is dwindling) makes us hostages to their price hikes.
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They can’t put EW on the vehicle. But if they don’t pretend to, their vehicle will be confiscated/stolen and they’ll have to walk to the contact line getting cut apart by FPV drones.
The meat has nowhere to turn. But at least they can die in a loaf instead of on their boots.
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Not sure. Most of the European powers today mark it on the 8th, including Germany.
This is more like Trump declaring 25th December “American Jesus birthday-day”
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory...
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Classic Trump. Doesn’t know enough of his own country’s history to realise the USA was still fighting the war until Japanese capitulation in September.
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Fine, but what about Iraq? Hmm mm?
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They only get firearms when they’re put into an assault. If they’re anywhere near their officers in the rear, they’re unarmed.
The brass know exactly what would happen if the meat had weapons anywhere near them.
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What was that phrase of Roosevelt’s again? “Shout loudly and hold a soft pecker”?
It was something like that, I think.
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Ukraine should just say they’ll observe a three day ceasefire from the 10th May. And fly all the drones to Moscow on the 9th.
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I suppose we can now add the word “subsidy” to “tariff” in the list of political terms he doesn’t understand.
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Because he admires Putin, he's deluded himself into thinking the admiration runs in both directions. It never has. Putin is using Trump and he's too vain to notice it.
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Also “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength”
I’d love to know if he’s managed to swallow his own doublethink yet.
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But don’t worry, under their plan Russia will be selling Ukraine energy from there. Great deal right.
And I’m sure they’d never, ever turn off the supply any time they felt like blackmailing you.
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Funnily enough the Russian story is “failure to adhere to safety protocols”.
Cigarettes it is, then.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...