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Oliver Styles

@OliverStyles

Winemaker, Writer, Fencer, Fisherman, Tinker.

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Oliver Styles
Oliver Styles@OliverStyles·
The week's wine news: 🍷Iran conflict hits wine bottle prices; 🍷One Battle After Another wine hits Spanish press; 🍷Spanish winemaker slams government on Iran; 🍷EU approves Tokaji changes; and 🍷NTM's Joey Starr on rum ... and Snoop's 2Pac cuvée... wine-searcher.com/m/2026/03/snoo…
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Oliver Styles@OliverStyles·
@VeronicaLake23 @snarky_mk So you can bomb a country with no recourse to law/third party approval, with the announced intention of changing its political direction, killing thousands of innocents, and the people that engage in this will be martyrs? ...and they're the terrorists?
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Pinbacker 🇳🇿@VeronicaLake23·
Iran has been flouting international law for decades. Now all of a sudden all the lefties and the UN are: You cant do that, how dare you. Your hypocrisy is screaming
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Oliver Styles@OliverStyles·
@VeronicaLake23 @snarky_mk Well, according to you, if a third party believes the US and Israel have broken international law (as you or the UN or whoever defines it), that party is totally justified in bombing the US and Israel.
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Pinbacker 🇳🇿@VeronicaLake23·
@snarky_mk @OliverStyles Just responding to you, who is so intent that America and Israel are breaking international law. So what should be done about it.
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Oliver Styles@OliverStyles·
@NMowbray23 Let's accept the premise that "policing nations that do horrible things to their own people is a GOOD thing". Which nations, do you think, are now open to being "policed"? What's the bar they have to pass?
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NickMowbray@NMowbray23·
Hearing an IRG daughters perspective is horrific. Makes it sickening that leaders like Chris Hipkins and Helen Clark would rather tell the world not to intervene against such atrocities. Shame on them for choosing this political BS /International law- over real mass human suffering. Regimes SHOULD fear consequences for atrocities. Without deterrence it only gets worse. Policing nations that do horrible things to their own people is a GOOD thing in my opinion. This soft BS approach is the same reason NZ crime went nuts under labour. Nothing they do or think works in the real world. They live in flawed theory and are clueless individual's who pander to a side for political points. Shame on them.
Michelle Maxwell ™@MichelleMaxwell

This will give chills. Imagine the pain and shame she has endured 💔 I will pray she is able to escape alive🙏

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Oliver Styles
Oliver Styles@OliverStyles·
@VeronicaLake23 Well, if you consider terrorism as the threat of or use of force to obtain political ends, we (the US/UK/etc) might even be worse than them...
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Oliver Styles@OliverStyles·
@VeronicaLake23 Iran would have been obliterated had it even tried to launch a nuke – as a deterrent, it might've worked. Look at the definition of terrorism and see if "we" might fit that bill (spoiler: we do, and have a history of it, not least Iran in 1953).
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Pinbacker 🇳🇿@VeronicaLake23·
@OliverStyles Because IRAN is so trustworthy, they were months if not weeks away from producing nuclear bombs and would have used them They are terrorists. There is no other argument
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Oliver Styles@OliverStyles·
@VeronicaLake23 1 - The US withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018, which prompted Iran to ignore limitations; 2 - was not Iran's nuclear threat "obliterated" (Trump) last year? You may have to admit the thought that the ppl in suits and in power and on "our side" are also capable of lying.
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Pinbacker 🇳🇿@VeronicaLake23·
LHGrey™️@grey4626

Every fucking idiot still whining about “escalation” or “Trump’s recklessness” needs to get on their goddamn knees and thank whatever god they pretend to believe in that a real wartime President has the balls and struck first. Iran wasn’t “close” to a bomb. Iran was three weeks from eleven of them. Declassified. Breakout time: zero. Highly enriched uranium at 60%+ purity, already weapon-grade feedstock, spinning in cascades that the IAEA had been gaslit about for years. The mullahs weren’t bluffing for negotiation leverage; they were sprinting toward the finish line because their death cult theology demands it. Mutually assured destruction? That’s Western psychology. These savages believe martyrdom is a ticket to paradise and dragging the Great Satan down with them is the ultimate flex. They don’t fear retaliation; they crave it. That’s not speculation; that’s the eschatology they preach in every Friday sermon while their IRGC engineers quietly crossed the 90% threshold in underground halls we couldn’t bomb fast enough. Trump didn’t “start” a war. He ended the slow-motion suicide pact the previous regimes had been sleepwalking toward. Precision decapitation strikes on Fordow, Natanz, and the undisclosed sites the Israelis had been begging us to hit for a decade. B-2s, bunker-busters, and follow-on cruise salvos that turned their enrichment halls into smoking craters before the first Iranian missile battery could even spin up. That’s not “aggression”; that’s preemption executed with surgical lethality...the kind Sun Tzu would salute and Clausewitz would call “absolute war” done right. You don’t wait for the enemy to mate-check your king when he’s already loading the warheads. You shatter the board. The critics screeching “diplomacy” and “intelligence community says no imminent threat”? Those are the same psychological cowards who spent decades projecting their own risk-averse, therapy-culture minds onto a regime that stones women, hangs gays, and funds every proxy death cult from Hezbollah to the Houthis. They’re not analysts; they’re enablers with Stockholm syndrome. Their “restraint” fetish is just sophisticated suicide. They wanted to virtue-signal while Tehran’s scientists finished the final 20% enrichment sprint and mated the physics package to Shahab-3s and whatever solid-fuel ICBMs the North Koreans had already smuggled in. One spark...Israel, a tanker, a carrier group...and the regime that chants “Death to America” every single day would have lit the fuse. Trump acted. He didn’t ask permission. He didn’t leak it to the New York Times first. He didn’t tie it up in endless NSC meetings until the window slammed shut. He saw the intelligence, recognized the existential math, and ordered the hammer. That’s what wartime leadership looks like. Not the limp-dicked “strategic patience” that let Iran’s proxy army ring Israel with rockets and turn the Red Sea into a shooting gallery. So yeah, 0Hour is right...every sniveling, bed-wetting, keyboard jihadist who’s crying about “warmongering” today should be kissing the ground Trump walked on. Because if he hadn’t moved when he did, you wouldn’t be typing your performative outrage from the safety of your cushy American life. You’d be glowing in the dark while the mullahs toasted their caliphate from whatever bunker survived the first exchange. History won’t remember the hand-wringers. It will remember the man who refused to let the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism cross the nuclear Rubicon. Thank you, Mr. President. And the rest of you spineless fucks can choke on it. 🗡️💀🇺🇸🗡️

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Oliver Styles
Oliver Styles@OliverStyles·
@VeronicaLake23 The exact same arguments were made 23 years ago. Terrible human rights, missiles at Israel, gassed his own people, brutal dictator, imminent WMD threat, liberate the people, etc. It didn't hold up then, it doesn't now.
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Oliver Styles@OliverStyles·
@VeronicaLake23 Absolutely. I remember making your arguments, from a well-meaning place in my heart, as we went into Iraq in 2003. I was so horribly wrong.
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Pinbacker 🇳🇿@VeronicaLake23·
@OliverStyles We could argue all day and never agree. So let’s leave it there. I believe that Israel and the US are totally justified. You don’t.
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Pinbacker 🇳🇿@VeronicaLake23·
@OliverStyles The countries you list above have not continually shouted death to all the Jews death to America (in their offical policies) Have not run dedicated terrorist attacks in xs of 47,000 across the western world since 9/11
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Oliver Styles
Oliver Styles@OliverStyles·
@VeronicaLake23 Those missiles are in response to what, do you think? Also note that our "allies" are now hurling missiles into Iran, which makes us no better than the Iranians and their proxies. The below is from a very Right Wing publication. We are now no better than Hezbollah.
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Pinbacker 🇳🇿@VeronicaLake23·
@OliverStyles Ok Continually lobbing missiles in Israel for decades either directly or by their proxies.
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Oliver Styles
Oliver Styles@OliverStyles·
@VeronicaLake23 I wouldn't say you're referring to "International Law", rather Human Rights. And in that sense, yes, the country is v. repressive. But so is North Korea, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Belarus, China ... why not them too? Russia is only just above Iran for instance ourworldindata.org/grapher/human-…
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Pinbacker 🇳🇿@VeronicaLake23·
@OliverStyles Have they been Throwing gays off buildings Torturing murdering women for showing a single strand of hair Treating women like chattels Among other atrocities
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Oliver Styles
Oliver Styles@OliverStyles·
@CMMwine @wblakegray I'd be genuinely keen to get your feedback on those points where you say I'm confused - feel free to DM or I can flick you my email?
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Christian Miller
Christian Miller@CMMwine·
@wblakegray I think he makes some good stand-alone points, but conflates some independent issues or factors, and is very confused on macro vs. micro-economics.
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W. Blake Gray@wblakegray·
Great editorial by Oliver Styles. Winery workers are also middle-to-high-end wine consumers; by cutting staff, wineries are also reducing their customer base. wine-searcher.com/m/2026/02/wine…
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Oliver Styles@OliverStyles·
@saltyreigns Interesting take. The bombing of Dresden was enough to justify the invasion of Poland? The slaughter in Gaza was enough to justify Oct 7th? The killing of Iraqi women and children enough to justify 9/11?
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Malakai ™️@saltyreigns·
The attacks on innocent people in Dubai are enough to justify the original attack on Iran. Anyone saying otherwise are not the good guys. Helen Clark has outed herself as being objectively evil.
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Oliver Styles@OliverStyles·
The week in wine news: 🍷 Piedmont in crisis; 🍷 Swiss viticulture under threat; 🍷 Chilean wines pulled from Japan; 🍷 Montpeyroux gets appellation status; 🍷 More glassmaker closures; and... 🍷 Protests in Cognac. All the headlines you missed: wine-searcher.com/m/2026/02/pied…
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Oliver Styles@OliverStyles·
@SonofOmahu Two people caught drinking in a drink ban zone. One rich, other poor. They both get a $10,000 fine. One is bankrupted, the other pays the fine with small change. Crude analogy but you're compounding injustice (in my view, granted) by choosing to lecture only one of those two.
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Lawrence Hakiwai (Father/of two)
@OliverStyles If there only a simple way for brown New Zealanders to not be prosecuted for committing a crime or sentenced more harshly committing crimes. Try NOT COMMITTING CRIMES.
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Oliver Styles@OliverStyles·
@SonofOmahu Well, I could answer that the simple way not to get prosecuted for committing a crime or sentenced more harshly would be to be a white NZer...
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Lawrence Hakiwai (Father/of two)
@OliverStyles MY POINT is that there is a very simple way to not get prosecuted for committing a crime or sentenced more harshly for committing a crime. DO NOT COMMIT CRIME. It really is that simple. Yes it is.
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