@lionrace
Anti-fascist, anti-Trump. Passionate Europhile. Victim of a political crime. Goldsmiths College UoL. Maker of things. Foodie. Love walking and wild places. 🐾🐕🌳🌻🌍 ❤️ 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 #FBPE #Taxtherich #SlavaUkraini #ClimateCrisis
🟧 Columnists — @therickwilson.bsky.social — Rick Wilson — Letter from America — (Edition 83)
The Bear Mutated — Vladimir Putin’s greatest trick was convincing the West that the Cold War ended in 1991 with a whimper and a Big Mac in Pushkin Square.
It is incredibly dangerous that Russia is the main beneficiary of Trump's war in Iran.
While the Middle East burns, Putin gets high oil prices and sanction waivers.
This is exactly what the Kremlin needed, and Washington just gave it to them for free
The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
President Macron gently showing up Keir Starmer near Cyprus
🇫🇷has an aircraft carrier there, 🇬🇧 has nothing🤦♂️
#r4today #Cyprus #IranWar #Trump #skynews
NEW: Is this the broligarchy’s first world war? AI, like war & rape, is a hyper-masculine fantasy of God-like power, a myth at the dark heart of what we’re seeing play out in the Gulf. This war hasn’t replaced the Epstein scandal. It is the Epstein scandal.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Cancel the visit and cool our so called friendship with the States.
Charlie shouldn’t walk in the red carpet footsteps of the war criminal Putin!
#FuckTrump #FuckNetanyahu
Sizewell C is predicted to cost £38 billion.
For the same amount of money, you could install solar panels, heat pumps and batteries in 3 million homes.
That would generate energy locally, rather than put massive strains on an already overloaded grid.
Makes you think.
Labour’s 2019 Green New Deal promised 90% decarbonisation of energy by 2030, also utilities being put back into public ownership. Time to revisit.
This is an absolutely huge jump in oil prices.
It's also why Europe needs to get off fossil fuels asap (beyond climate change impact). We can't be beholden to this.
Starmer: “President Trump has expressed his disagreement with our decision not to get involved in the initial strikes, but it is my duty to judge what is in Britain’s national interest. That is what I have done, and I stand by it.”
Round of applause for you Starmer
👏 👏
Hoping you're right 🙏. Time will tell.
When Brexit was slammed for being an act of pure prejudice, all the Brexiters howled about ‘sovereignty’ and ‘taking back control’.
Now, the very same people howl that we should just obey Trump and put our country in the firing line.
They lied about everything. All of it. Every single part.
Are people joining the dots yet?
Everything Trump does benefits Putin.
#EpsteinWar
This is nothing like Iraq where the UK are concerned because thank God the government seem to have learned the lessons of Tony Blairs mad involvement.
Even if Tony Blair has not.
Note to the UK: this is what the special relationship looks like.
succession of retired former generals and security chiefs, including a British former deputy chief of NATO and the former head of MI6 and the former head of Us forces(europe), have been appearing in interviews, all of them saying the same thing, The war is illegal stupid and nobody knows how it ends
Excellent article here by Ian Dunt.
Russia is main beneficiary of Iran war-fuelled spike in oil prices
• Rise in crude prices gives Kremlin breathing room after recent slump in oil revenues
• Yet Moscow could struggle to boost exports amid drone attacks in Black Sea ports & sea ice in Baltic terminals
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Nick Thomas-Symonds MP: "It is in our country's interests to have a stronger trading relationship and stronger security relationship." 🇪🇺
China will buy more oil from Russia owing to the Iran war.
The price of Urals crude oil is rocketing.
Supplies of weapons to Ukraine are constrained by the Iran war.
Putin must think all his Christmases have arrived at once.
app.ft.com/content/1149...
GOP man on #Radio4 saying US military is better when it works with UK. But UK military isn't better joining a war with no plan, no exit strategy, no goal. Also illegal.
It’s about time the UK unhooked itself from US control of our nuclear deterrent.
Seismic shift in European security. French President Emmanuel Macron announced today that #France, the #UK, Germany, Poland, the #Netherlands, #Belgium, #Greece, #Sweden, and #Denmark have joined forces on “advanced deterrence.” This includes creating Europe’s own nuclear umbrella backed by 🇬🇧 and 🇫🇷.
Polish PM confirms talks with Macron on "nuclear umbrella"
#Ukraine #Russia
#Poland #France
www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...
Europeans who fled to Dubai to avoid taxes, trashing Europe while praising Dubai, are now paying the price.
They are hiding in basements, begging Europe for help, alongside influencers posting UAE‑funded propaganda that claims everything is fine while they wait to be evacuated
It tells you something about the disorientating rate of change underway that nobody is particularly shocked that a head of state has been assassinated by other states, something which has *never happened* in the modern era. Which is illegal under US law. Shed no tears for Khamanei, but still.
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Leaders in Syria, Venezuela and now Iran have all discovered that Russian support only goes so far.
🔗 www.politico.eu/article/vlad...
Shocking scenes happening not far from where I live.
Shocking scenes happening not far from where I live.
