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Try to imagine the suffering this baby is experiencing

@EthanLevins2 The majority of Americans?

Fox News is telling Americans that Iran is strapping suicide bombs to dolphins. Who believes this propaganda anymore?

@BrianMcDonaldIE Remembrance day in the UK takes on a similar meaning. The practical effect of 'remembrance' is confirmity with current foreign and defence policy. Poppy fascism, support for the troops, accusations of treachery or disloyalty, or just simply comparing everything with WW2 (not WW1)

Does this logic extend to others too? Should France cancel Bastille Day, or is “no celebration of militarism” applied selectively and especially when it marks victory over the Nazis?

@RobbieRinder It's important to say that this doesn't mean it's ok to kill Palestinians and that hatred of them is learned, taught, etc etc etc

On Carnaby Street last night, a kid on a bike cycled up, saw it was me, looked friendly at first then offered up his favourite “lyric”: “Heil Hitler.” I wasn’t sure whether to share this. I hadn’t experienced that personally before. The most striking thing: I wasn’t shocked. No threat. No anger. Not a victim. Just: what has he been taught Hatred is learned. We are not defined by it. We answer it by what we teach.

@Gianl1974 Is Ukraine advancing?

"Ukraine Cannot Stop Our Movement - President Vladmir Putin Putin is alleging that Ukrainian troops have not been able to stop the Russian troop's movement in the war he started against Ukraine. This has caused many people to ask: Are Shoigu and Gerasimov telling Putin what's actually going on in the battlefield? I don't think so! Putin may also be right: Ukrainian troops are not stopping the Russians from moving because they are not moving at all. You cannot stop something that is not moving from moving. The world is asking: If Russian troops are moving, are they moving to where? Back to Moscow?"

@GeromanAT Why on earth they don't just end the war so they can crack on and join the EU I don't know. For supreme victory? What a sick joke.

Best way to destroy EU even faster

Hello @Grok, historically, which right of the people is typically taken away first, in tyrannical regimes? Very concise.

@business But there's no corruption in the west 🙃

The US Air Force agreed to buy an undisclosed number of interceptor drones from a company backed by Trump’s sons, according to the firm, deepening the military’s ties to defense contractors linked to the first family . bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@Glenn_Diesen Russia has options but anyone thinking that one of those options is to attack Europe is insane

Perm was attacked today, about 1500-1800km from Ukraine. It is ridiculous to believe that these attacks on Russia are done solely by Ukraine. We are led by lunatics who will surely scream "unprovoked" when a powerful retaliation comes.

@UmlandAndreas @T_Krawchenko You're accidentally right as we've forgotten they also made a mess of their new found independence by fighting the Soviets and helping the Nazis dismember Czechoslavkia. So there might actually be an interesting parallel there after all.

@Cymru1984 @T_Krawchenko The same as with the Poles in 1939: They just could not get their act together.

Canadian "part time professor" Katchanovski's new book blaming Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Ukraine is supported by the likes of Elon Musk and David Sachs. It’s a farce. Thanks to @UmlandAndreas for coordinating this response from over 100 experts.

@MyLordBebo So would Ukraine prefer to be capturing territory or having a full scale military parade? I mean, it's not doing either but it's a strange thing to be poking fun at given the battlefield realities.

🇪🇺🇷🇺 EU's Kaja Kallas goes on her usual rant about Russia for five minutes straight She says that "grim battlefield math shows Russia is losing a record number of soldiers" "For the first time in years, Moscow’s Victory parade is about to take place without any heavy military equipment — this tells a lot about how the war is going for Russia" Conclusion? More sanctions, no cooperation with Russia even when the war is settled

@BrianMcDonaldIE Maybe we can all watch Ukraine's military parade instead 🙃

@BrianMcDonaldIE Meh, WhatsApp is spyware but they'll never say so

Ostorozhno Novosti reports that Cloudflare has flagged the domain of Russia’s state-backed MAX messenger as “spyware.” The developers say the label is due to a “misinterpretation of request headers” linked to standard web analytics, not any actual code analysis, adding that the service “regularly undergoes security audits” and that user data is “securely protected.”

@SaulStaniforth And he's correct. Hopefully he went on to say we're a vassal and that his job is to make us their favourite vassal

Kevin Maguire: "Christian Turner, who has replaced Peter Mandelson [as the UK ambassador to the US].. met a load of students & he told them there is no special relationship between the UK & US.. he said the only special relationship the US has is with Israel"

@Jayne70302874 @PolitlcsUK Israel is perhaps an example of what it looks like when one state doesn't recognise another or respect sovereignty. America is a good one as well. Russia is not. I'm talking about Russia above though.

@Cymru1984 @PolitlcsUK And to end wars- you more likely than not have to end up talking to whoever the enemy is- 'recognise' them or not. But confused - is that statement about the Ukraine War or Israel?!🤔

🚨 NEW: Zack Polanski suggests Donald Trump is worse than Vladimir Putin “As horrendous as Putin is… I’ve never seen him threaten genocide. I've never seen him threaten to wipe out a civilization… Starmer’s so-called special relationship is more of a danger than what Putin is doing in Ukraine” [@antoguerrera]

@Jayne70302874 @PolitlcsUK The words you've put there reflect some historical opinions he has but DO NOT reflect what you said above, or the conclusions of his earlier essay for example. You've changed the point you were making. Why? Because you cannot find the words you want.

@Cymru1984 @PolitlcsUK Eh? Nov 3 2023 address to Russia’s Public Chamber-'There was no Ukraine in the Russian Empire' &Ukraine had been artificially created by Lenin &the early Soviet authorities 'at the expense of southern Russian lands' Words must have different meanings to you.😏

@SaulStaniforth @DatguyPako @ZackPolanski I'm fairly sure if I drank at work I'd be sacked on the spot. I think MPs only get away with it as their work is largely meaningless.

.@ZackPolanski calls out the number of Labour MPs who are defending their right to drink & get drunk at work. The fact that these MP's are choosing this particular hill to die on shows just how out of touch they are.

@Jayne70302874 @PolitlcsUK I've read the essay direct - many times - and I suggest you do too. It simply doesn't say what you think it does and in fact says the opposite. As do his actions. Wars happen but you don't negotiate with countries you don't recognise.

@Cymru1984 @PolitlcsUK Eh? Put 'Does Putin view Ukraine as a separate country?' into Google. Says it's a summary of his 2021 essay. Where do you get it that Putin recognises Ukraine as a separate country that he's invaded? He's convinced it's already Russia! But will kill anyone in the way.

@Jayne70302874 @PolitlcsUK Hence I oppose all war. But, with respect, I don't think labelling all wars as genocide would help. And similar to what I said above, you won't find anything to the effects that Putin doesn't recognise Ukraine. Not a word.

@Cymru1984 @PolitlcsUK All war's a waste with innocents dead. Maybe if all war is labelled genocide, could be the end of wars-now that would be a good at least. People need to do some reading on everything 'Palestine' from about 1900s on &end of the Ottoman Empire. PS Putin doesn't recognise Ukraine!

@McFaul Not seeing any free world 🤷

Putin should not be invited to the G20 summit in the United States of America. Rehabilitating an imperialist dictator is not the job of the leader of the free world.