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Here’s a prediction: no matter how complimentary and reasonable #KeirStarmer is when he meets with Trump, he will ultimately suffer the same treatment as Trudeau and Zelenskyy, it’s a matter of time. Trump is a bully who respects strength not timidity. #r4today

Please! When did we all become such a bunch of pussies. We should absolutely stand up to bullies and tyrants. We have to admire and encourage what Zylensky said (in his calm measured way). Come on ppl! #R4today

Never appease a narcissist. #r4today

Nothing short of a European replacement for NATO, NOW will do in the face of an America that is busy demanufacturing itself at lightning speed. Merely calling the USA unstable doesn't do justice to the situation. #r4today

"is Volodymyr Zelenskyy the right man to deal with Trump"? And there is is. The start of the normalisation of conversations in the UK, around elections in Ukraine. Asked by Jonny Dymond, another right wing, public school toff brought in to the Today program. Disgraceful interviewing. #r4today

Russia has close ties with China. If Russia destabilises Europe (thanks to Trump undermining NATO & Western alliances), China dominates the Indo Pacific and BRICS replaces the dollar, the Western led world order under the U.S. will crumble. #r4today #BBCBreakfast #GMB #Skynews

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Justin Webb coming up with desperate 'both sides' rubbish about Trump and Biden regarding Ukraine to round off that interview. He is a disgrace to journalism. #r4today

#r4today TFTD is just weird.

Justin Webb has been Trump's principal apologist and normaliser for years, his mock astonishment him at saying Ukraine 'started' the war fools no-one. #r4today

🚨Breaking🚨 ⚖️The High Court has approved #Thames Water’s £3bn bailout loan. This is just a stay of execution. Thames will limp on for a few months like a profit-thirsty zombie. The privatised business model is rotten and must be condemned. Public ownership NOW!

I question the value of a serious news programme like @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social allowing a Trump representative to platform egregious lies like this and not get destroyed by a presenter on air. Because there will be viewers who’ll go away convinced this is happening. #r4today #BBCnewsnight

I heard this quote yesterday and it explains much of what’s unfolding right now. “You’ve got a strategist like Putin playing 5D chess against a chimpanzee.” Zelenskyy would do well to stay away from Riyadh, there’s no benefit to agreeing to any of their terms. #Ukraine #r4today

The KGB ‘played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality’... Donald Trump was cultivated as a Russian asset over 40 years and proved so willing to parrot anti-western propaganda that there were celebrations in Moscow... #r4today

#r4today providing facts to this thread will change this programme not one iota. Webb and co know the facts, but prefer ideology over truth.

A democracy failing in real time. #r4today

Trump has represented Russian interests since 2017 so the talks are #Russia and Russia’s little helper carving up Ukraine. #Ukraine stands alone unless European countries and Canada step up. If we don’t, we’re no better than Trump and can’t complain when #Putin comes for the Baltic states. #r4today

Thank god that Justin Webb's friend Mr Trump wasn't US president during WWII as he would have forced this nation into making a 'deal' with Nazi Germany on their terms. #r4today

#r4today Mythologising a dysfunctional plutocratic is not really a news item. Get a grip.

Only Donald Trump wants Russia back in the G8, the organisation remains the G7 so he's not going to get his way. Vance is right that there is an enemy within, it's the Trump administration, Reform, the AfD and other rightwing populists across Europe who take Putin's cash #r4today

Listening to Robinson’s faux incredulity and smug irony is tedious.Trivialising important issues and gliding by with asinine commentary and oh so funny ‘got-yers’ is pathetic #r4today