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If they are clearing the room of anyone who will give reasoned advice this situation will only go one way... and its not right! 🤡 @IranWar #Trump

Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei
• More hardline than father
• He’s the IRGC candidate
• Relatively young: 56
• Avoids public
• Trusted by father, clerics
• Was in military during Iraq-Iran war
• His wife, Zahra, killed in Israeli airstrike w his father

Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.

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Nothing says Islamic "republic" more than [checks notes] hereditary succession of head of state. #Iran #Ayatollah

To clarify this: the context is college sports. Trump is saying that Russia helping Iran target Americans in a war is less important than the pay structure for athletes.

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That #Russia and #Belarusian flags were allowed to appear at the #WinterParalympics is a disgrace! The athletes should have been allowed to participate under the Olympics flag.

#vibes

GB News has lost £131.5m to date Cumulative losses in £

Keep not watching GB News guys... it's lost £131.5m to date but I'm sure it can do a lot worse than that.

Is NATO fit for war? | The Economist Insider Admiral Pierre Vandier has one of the most urgent jobs in Western defence. He is NATO’s supreme allied commander transformation, whose task it is to prepare the alliance for the wars of tomorrow. Sinc...

For @economist.com subscribers, my Inside Defence episode with Admiral Pierre Vandier, NATO's supreme allied commander Europe, is now out: www.economist.com/insider/insi...

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Who me?!

For Iran, Russia's lackluster response in its hour of need should come as no surprise.

🔗 www.politico.eu/article/vlad...

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IMHO It boils down to political cowardice but then again we (the electorate/society) don't reward political courage. We ultimately get the politics we collectively deserve.

So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:

- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

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So true.

Trump Creates Makeshift Situation Room In Mar-A-Lago Sauna

Trump Creates Makeshift Situation Room In Mar-A-Lago Sauna

Satires last gasp, surely!

Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey:

"Tax exiles like Isabel Oakeshott and washed up old footballers who mock ordinary people who stay in the UK and pay our taxes... As we protect them, it's only right for tax exiles to start paying taxes to fund our armed forces, just like the rest of us".

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If only the Russians had a term for people who prove valuable in stoking division in their adversaries political systems through stupidity..

Hey, I ordered the "tax avoidance" not the air raids and sheltering in my bath tub... someone from my home country needs to come at someone else's taxpayers expense and repatriate me!

Two smiling tax administration employees standing at Arrivals section of an airport with a large hand-drawn banner with the text translated above

“To all influencers and other tax exiles in Dubai, the tax authorities wish you a safe return to France”

Susie Wiles is wearing an Apple Watch during a highly classified meeting on Iran.

Unreal.

Image: Air Command West

According to Rheinmetall CEO Papperger in an interview with Table Today, there is currently a lack of funding for #Ukraine and much more could be provided in terms of military aid if only someone would pay for it. Papperger listed ammunition, air defence systems & tanks among the potential supplies.

Since we’re all going to become experts on this, here’s what seems to be the relevant part of the Ballot Secrecy Act 2023 - we can see that it criminalises influencing other voters (or intending to), and not as the “Democracy Volunteers” have suggested, conferring or colluding

Insight: How China is masking drone flights in potential Taiwan rehearsal A large Chinese military drone has conducted regular flights over the South China Sea in recent months while transmitting false transponder signals that made it appear to be other aircraft, including ...

A large Chinese military drone has conducted regular flights over the South China Sea in recent months while transmitting false transponder signals that made it appear to be other aircraft, including a sanctioned Belarusian cargo plane and a British Typhoon fighter jet reut.rs/3ZXVlTF

President Trump’s State of the Union Variety Show Were you not entertained?

@radiofreetom.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

One of the best reviews of whatever that was last night,
from @radiofreetom.bsky.social.

Every political call for a public inquiry is an admission that the political mechanisms of accountability failed in real time.

Years - 4
Victories - 0
Casualties - 1,260,000🌻
Coups -1
Ruble -💩
War crimes -♾
NATO -🇫🇮&🇸🇪
Goodwill gestures - 🤷
Warships -Submarines
Submarines -Sub marine
Aircraft - 🚀💥
Refineries -🔥🦩
Raccoons -1🦝
Tankies - 😭
Tanks -🚜
Red lines - ➡️

I remain a master strategist

a guy who claimed to be named John Barron and sounded a lot like Trump called into C-SPAN to complain about the Supreme Court's tariff decision and call Hakeem Jeffries "a dope"

(John Barron is a pseudonym Trump has used for himself when talking to journalists)