
Oliver Styles
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Oliver Styles
@OliverStyles
Winemaker, Writer, Fencer, Fisherman, Tinker.
Hawke's Bay Region Katılım Temmuz 2009
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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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@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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@snarky_mk @OliverStyles On the contrary, they will be revered for saving the world from the evils of Iran. A regime hell bent on destroying Israel The US then the rest of the world
Damien Grant@damienmgrant
A Rules Based Order that restrains victims of aggression and rewards genocidal theocratic regimes achieve their demonic aims is unsustainable. Shalom. stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360947…
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@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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@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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@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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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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@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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@OliverStyles If you can compare “us” to Iranian terrorism then you are smoking some serious shit
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@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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@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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@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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@OliverStyles Try this one instead
Eyal Yakoby@EYakoby
BREAKING: NATO also says that Iran was on the brink of obtaining a nuclear weapon.
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@VeronicaLake23 That post is so deranged I don't know where to begin. Have a nice day.
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@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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@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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@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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@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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@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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@OliverStyles Ok
Continually lobbing missiles in Israel for decades either directly or by their proxies.
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@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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@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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@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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@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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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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@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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It's not generational shift, it's not health, it's not loneliness. People just don't have enough money for wine...
wine-searcher.com/m/2026/02/wine…
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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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@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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@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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@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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@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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