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Introduced 35 years ago this week... www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tEs...

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If Trump wants to see elections in Ukraine, all he has to do is use the power he keeps talking about to get the Russian invaders off Ukrainian soil. Then martial law in Ukraine ends, and elections will follow.

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A reminder. Democracy-to-demagoguery-to-tyranny. A warning from Plato (as related by BBC, 2017): youtu.be/cnzo9qXLFUo?...

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Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

submitted 17 days ago • 617 comments

Lieutenant Colonel V. F. Eberle (RE) on a Western Front Christmas, near Bazentin, 1916: "For a short period the foulness and desolation that surrounded us were forgotten." 'With a Royal Engineers Field Company in France and Italy', Pen & Sword, 2020 #Christmas #WW1

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

Ukrainian cultural diplomacy is when a global star performs a world-famous hit accompanied by a Ukrainian military bandura player. Sting sings with bandura player Taras Stolyar "Shape of My Heart" culturalforces.military / Instagram

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

A good thread highlighting just a few of the ways REALITY (that of cross-border commerce) itself is what "betrays" Brexit (i.e. undermines the absurd claims made for the structuralised degradation of one's OWN trading environment), and why UK politics STILL goes round in unicorn-seeking circles...

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Consequences for Russia of loss in Syria: 1. Reminder that Russia often loses wars; 2. Difficulty in maintaining colonial extraction in Africa; 3. Possibility of new pipelines to Europe; 4. Doctrine of supporting dictators fails.

submitted 75 days ago • 41 comments

Beware the terrifying Christmas pudding! Giving you nightmares since 1895. An illustration from an 1895 annual published by the British satirical magazine ‘Judy.’ From the collections of Cambridge University Library (CUL 1895.9.91) @theulspeccoll.bsky.social

submitted 64 days ago • 4 comments

I have only just come across this. It is also circulating on X. Raises some questions about this place. Worth a read.

submitted 98 days ago • 22 comments

Each of Trump's proposed appointments is a surprise. It is comforting to think that he is simply a vengeful old man, lashing out. This is unlikely. He and Musk and Putin have been talking for years. And the whole idea was that this time he had a plan. snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...

submitted 99 days ago • 210 comments

www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n... Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X

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Guardian – 12/11/1918: This is the great day – the great day of Peace... www.theguardian.com/world/from-t...

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

A reminder. Democracy-to-demagoguery-to-tyranny. A warning from Plato (as related by BBC, 2017): youtu.be/cnzo9qXLFUo?...

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments