History and Foreign Affairs

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History and Foreign Affairs

@RichardLan24

Interested in various historical periods. Have an MA in International Policy and Diplomacy.

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History and Foreign Affairs@RichardLan24·17 Ağu

"Could effectively offer Article 5 like language" to guarantee Ukraines security. This is a redundant statement. Either you offer Article 5 security to Ukraine or you don't. But how would this be enforced when Ukraine currently isn't a member of NATO?

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History and Foreign Affairs@RichardLan24·6 Eyl

@LBC @mattfrei Reform doesn't have the first clue about how to govern. They hearken back to a past that they never experienced (and know very little about), because it is easier than engaging intelligently with current issues. Starmer is a coward and short-sighted. That is why he fears Farage.

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LBC@LBC·6 Eyl

‘We were once the greatest country on earth and we’ve fallen fast.’ 19-year-old Reform councillor Kieran Mishchuk tells @MattFrei that Keir Starmer is ’scared’ of Nigel Farage's party.

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History and Foreign Affairs@RichardLan24·5 Eyl

@ZiaYusufUK So a group of unelected elites would be running the country?

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Zia Yusuf@ZiaYusufUK·4 Eyl

As PM, Nigel will assemble galactic level talent in the first Reform cabinet, many of whom won’t be MPs. The era of the likes of Miliband, Hancock and Reeves making the most important decisions in the land will be over. We need the best - including from outside politics👇

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History and Foreign Affairs@RichardLan24·1 Eyl

@Glenn_Diesen Or geography dictates who India chooses to appease. An aggressive expansionist power to one side, to the other the regional hegemon with a desire to reclaim historically held territory. Part of which is contained within your own borders.

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Glenn Diesen@Glenn_Diesen·31 Ağu

The US is angry that India chose China and Russia over it. This is wrong. The US threatens India with the ultimatum of "us" or "them," while China and Russia do not. India chose independence and freedom to decide its own foreign policy.

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History and Foreign Affairs@RichardLan24·1 Eyl

@ChivalryGuild @avaricum777 I think that he is smart enough, but I don't think that he would classify as being markedly intelligent under normal circumstances.

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The Chivalry Guild@ChivalryGuild·1 Eyl

@RichardLan24 @avaricum777 You don't think he's smart? Either way, I do think the "farthest right" part is definitely an indictment of how soft the Conservative Movement has been for decades and decades.

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captive dreamer@captive_dreamer·31 Ağu

"What are we even doing here?"

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History and Foreign Affairs@RichardLan24·31 Ağu

@ChivalryGuild @avaricum777 "Highest IQ" is surely an indictment of other right-wing politicians?

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The Chivalry Guild@ChivalryGuild·31 Ağu

@avaricum777 If JD Vance—the highest IQ, best spoken, farthest right major politician we've seen in decades—is not our guy, he might be the greatest actor ever to elected to office.

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History and Foreign Affairs@RichardLan24·31 Ağu

@JMcMurdockMP Grok doesn't store memory of deleted tweets. Using it as a defence is redundant.

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History and Foreign Affairs@RichardLan24·29 Ağu

@atamblyn04 It doesn't matter whether or not Labour has trans supportive members of parliament, or a supportive membership. The Labour government is enacting policy harmful to trans people. It is the government that you are supporting.

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Amelia Tamblyn🌹@atamblyn04·29 Ağu

It still astounds me that Your Party supporters will say that it's wrong for me to support Labour (a party with a largely trans supportive membership and good allies in Parliament) then defend a group with MPs who frame trans rights as in contest with women's safety.

Adnan Hussain MP@AdnanHussainMP

I agree, women's rights and safe spaces should not be encroached upon. Safe third spaces should be an alternative option.

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History and Foreign Affairs@RichardLan24·29 Ağu

@BartemyS @GoodwinMJ You are living in a fantasy world. Your opinion is underpinned by ignorance. You don't have the slightest understanding about the way in which society functions. You merely state an unsubstantiated opinion because it is simplistic. You don't grapple with complexity.

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History and Foreign Affairs@RichardLan24·29 Ağu

@BartemyS @GoodwinMJ You aren't answering the question. How do you account for a substantial percentage of welfare payments being for those in work? How do you account for full population employment being a fantasy. The Beveridge report was clear about this 80 years ago.

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Matt Goodwin@GoodwinMJ·29 Ağu

Welfare payments in the UK are on course to cost EACH taxpayer £3,000 a year by the end of the decade (The Telegraph). Insanity. We HAVE to get Britain back to work

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History and Foreign Affairs@RichardLan24·29 Ağu

@BartemyS @GoodwinMJ What do you plan for those who are in work, but don't earn enough to be free from welfare support? Or how do you account for there never being enough jobs for total employment? You have an incredibly simplistic understanding of the benefits system.

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Bartemy Jones@BartemyS·29 Ağu

@GoodwinMJ Welfare should be restricted to people who can't work. It should be verified they can't work. Fake asylum seekers should be deported en mass (men, women, children) and NOT receive welfare. People work benefit Britain Massive numbers of people on welfare harms Britain.

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History and Foreign Affairs@RichardLan24·28 Ağu

@JDVance But it doesn't motivate you towards further action. Children keep getting shot. You are hiding behind your faith to justify inaction because actual action would require you to confront an influential lobby, and piss off your supporters.

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JD Vance@JDVance·28 Ağu

We pray because our hearts are broken. We pray because we know God listens. We pray because we know that God works in mysterious ways, and can inspire us to further action. Why do you feel the need to attack other people for praying when kids were just killed praying?

Jen Psaki@jrpsaki

Prayer is not freaking enough. Prayers does not end school shootings. prayers do not make parents feel safe sending their kids to school. Prayer does not bring these kids back. Enough with the thoughts and prayers.

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History and Foreign Affairs@RichardLan24·21 Ağu

@Glenn_Diesen Less than a year after this speech, Russia would invade Georgia. Providing ample reason as to why former nations of the USSR, were hesitant to allow Russia to be a part of any sort of security pact.

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History and Foreign Affairs@RichardLan24·21 Ağu

@Glenn_Diesen 8 years prior to this speech Russia invaded Chechnya for the second time in less than a decade. While Putin was standing in Munich, Russia was still engaged in an imperialist war in Chechnya. Russia has proven itself to be untrustworthy.

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Glenn Diesen@Glenn_Diesen·21 Ağu

Putin's 2007 Munich speech is the most important he ever gave. After years of failed attempts to have Russia included in a shared pan-European security architecture based on indivisible security, Putin warned Russia could no longer accept the threats posed by US global primacy

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History and Foreign Affairs@RichardLan24·21 Ağu

@United24media This is rather worthless as a security guarantee. It will not deter Putin, considering that European leaders have been hesitant in risking conflict with Russia. Furthermore, military aid could be anything from boots on the ground, to training to equipment.

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History and Foreign Affairs@RichardLan24·21 Ağu

@United24media Generals often fight the last war, while Ukraine held of and repulsed the Russian advance of Kyiv, Russia will likely adapt strategy. The time required for Europe to mobilise might be too long. Europe needs to base its support in Ukraine to be ready immediately. Not eventually.

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History and Foreign Affairs@RichardLan24·21 Ağu

@United24media 24 hours to make a decision is relatively quick, but how long until they are expected to actually put plans into action? Are European nations currently equipped, or likely in the immediate future (5 years) to be prepared for rapid response?

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UNITED24 Media@United24media·21 Ağu

⚡ European leaders are considering a “NATO-light” plan, proposed by Italian PM Giorgia Meloni that would require allies to decide within 24 hours on military aid if Russia attacks Ukraine again.

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History and Foreign Affairs@RichardLan24·21 Ağu

@Mr_Andrew_Fox But the intent has always been to deny the possibility of a future Palestinian State. How do you think Hamas was formed? Why do you think Netanyahu prohibits the PLO from governing in Gaza. To pretend that the long-term plan hasn't always been the annexation West Bank is absurd.

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Andrew Fox@Mr_Andrew_Fox·20 Ağu

“would make a future Palestinian state virtually impossible” Well, duhhhhhh. This is what happens when you try and force Israel’s hand with unilateral acknowledgment of a Palestinian state. What did you think Israel was going to do?

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@LBC @mattfrei @ZiaYusufUK @Glenn_Diesen @ChivalryGuild @avaricum777 @JMcMurdockMP @atamblyn04