Mitch

The Crimean War is one of the underdiscussed disasters of the 19th century. Most know the leadership was abominably bad, but the geopolitical consequences of destroying a conservative alliance on the continent to aid the Ottoman Turks was worse As Orlando Figes notes in his The Crimean War: "The Crimean War was a crucial watershed. It broke the old conservative alliance between Russia and the Austrians that had upheld the existing order on the European continent, allowing the emergence of new nation states in Italy, Romania and Germany. It left the Russians with a deep sense of resentment of the West, a feeling of betrayal that the other Christian states had sided with the Turks, and with frustrated ambitions in the Balkans that would continue to destabilize relations between the powers in the 1870s and the crises leading to the outbreak of the First World War."

I will judge you based on your opinions of this man

If RW Twitter thinks they love the Japs now… just wait until they find out how racist Japan is.

U.S. Marines play a friendly game of baseball against Japanese soldiers in November of 1945, just a few months after Japan surrendered in WW2. The Marines won 10-5

Farage has a personal brand that the British public has known for at least three decades, won two national elections leading two different parties, and has a substantial donor network. Most people probably don’t know who Rupert Lowe is, let alone recognise him.

There’s a cult of Lowe and it’s boring. The same old drivel they wheeled out against me when I questioned Farage is being parroted again. “We have to play the game”, “it’s 5D chess”, “trust the plan”, “I trust Rupert”, “stop being divisive”, etc. We need to get over this devotion to the leader as a movement. No one has pushed more strongly for Rupert to start and lead a party than me but that doesn’t mean he gets everything right. I don’t care if it makes me unpopular or I lose followers. Lord knows being a fan boy would be much better for my follower count. But iron sharpens iron and it will be good to have these debates in the end. We weren’t allowed to question the Dear Leader at Reform. Don’t turn Restore into the same thing. Our fiercest criticism should come from within the tent.

The U.S. did NOT overthrow a democratically-elected government in Iran in 1953. Stop allowing this false narrative to go unchallenged. 🧵1/11

HAPPENING NOW: A HUGE crowd has gathered in London, England for a protest against the far right in coordination with the No Kings day protests in the US