@matthewrr
National & financial security. Former UK civil servant and financial intelligence professional. Senior Associate Fellow @rusi.bsky.social CFS. Loves ideas, cult fiction, anomalous stuff, landscapes and sanity. Views own.
We live in a country where major newspapers encouraged us to vote for an act of deep economic self-harm, which is now widely recognised, and continue to beat the drum for not repairing the damage. And people keep buying them. No accountability.
How is Britain supposed to fight with stuff it doesn’t have?
I just don’t understand the defence commentators’ clamour for war with Iran.
It makes no sense whatsoever.
does polymarket have a market on Trump being the one supplying Russia with the intelligence it’s supplying Iran
“Just do anything?”
Trump saying it is OK that Russia is helping Iran kill Americans has even the most MAGA-addled unable to respond. They have nowhere to go, except express blind loyalty to their master. If he says it, it must be right.
This is it??
It took them over a year to come up with four pages that lay out six pillars of the same things we have been doing for years.
Pathetic.
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
This is excellent.
CURB THEME.
Stuck in Laurence Fox’s lock up.
I can’t be the only one who thinks this.
I’m not convinced it would make sense to get involved even if the UK did have the capabilities available.
But that’s besides the point. We don’t.
Put simply a Tactical Exercise Without Troops is not a strategy, it’s a wargame.
If we examine the origins the the war on Iran, we get an inkling of a closed domain of international oligarchs, exploiting the state’s power and patriotic sentiment, while creating a world order in which the American state is much weaker. An oligarchical corridor.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-oligar...
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Waiting for him to take over the world so that I can post Claude Reigns
Ask your pal Vladimir about this one, Donny.
It will be interesting to watch JD Vance and others who've claimed that Ukraine needs to give in on territory because all wars end in negotiations, rushing to embrace Trump's demand for UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!
Democrats should reintroduce War Powers Resolution ASAP in Congress. Could at least force Republicans to explain why they're not open to putting any limitations at all on a megalomaniacal war leader.
2026 is going just great
Things getting tricky
Friday!
Europol warns Iran crisis raises threat of terror, extremism and cyberattacks reut.rs/46IPJR6
Beats me how no one in Washington figured out that the logical move for anti-regime Iranians and dissident elements in the regime when faced with a military intervention led by a wildly unreliable US is to sit back and see what happens rather than go Leeroy Jenkins on day 1
“Good people on both sides.”
WTAF
Check out Judge Nutmeg here.
I’m going to use it in conversation. Well, I would do, if anyone talked to me.
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Announcing the FIFA Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas
To @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social - from centre right friends of the real US abroad. Thank you for keeping the flag flying.
Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas):
“The utter corruption uncovered over the past few weeks is astounding. If Democrats take back the House majority next year, there will be much to review about her time in office. People have to be held accountable.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-puts...
