James Bernstein

@defense_civil25 @louisevanrhyn For a start NATO is a defence alliance - also without Congressional approval (unconstitutional) & while peace talks were happening (illegal under UN Charter). History is clear: US interventions don’t liberate — they devastate: Vietnam. Central America, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan.

Every member of NATO refused the call to help the United States to restore freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. All of Them!!

@mark_barnes56 @Bruceps @CyrilRamaphosa @nomkhitamona was your successor in 2021 (she also follows me on X that I hardly use now )- she resigned in May 2024, citing a lack of timely government funding and the entity being placed into business rescue - maybe she can add some colour to its failure

🇿🇦A Commission of Enquiry is warranted to determine exactly what destroyed SAPO between 2019 and 2024🇿🇦@CyrilRamaphosa

@patrickgaspard @louisevanrhyn You would think he would at least use AI to check his grammar and syntax

All of this was predictable. Israel’s reckless escalation by attacking civilian infrastructure. Iran’s response that expands the regional combatants. And most predictable of all - Trump’s bombastic cluelessness that will spiral us into cataclysm.

@LeahK28 @geordinhl It took me 10 minutes at midrand -

Had a life changing moment today - renewed my driver's license in Cape Town @ Goodwood Licensing Dept. It takes 20 minutes, you just show up, they open early, they're polite and quick. I kid you not. It takes an entire day in Joburg, 1 DAY vs 20 MIN. The DA difference @geordinhl

@grahamdelacy @terryflewers 😂😂

@terryflewers Could the Dowman goal be considered a ‘set piece’ goal. It was an Everton corner. 😂😂

Arsenal have 35 goals from open play, second-best in the league, and they’re the Premier League’s top scorers overall. Yet with all the noise about set pieces, that attacking output has somehow gone completely under the radar

@FerretGee Do you remember when people (and Toto to be fair) were nervous about Toto’s gamble on Antonelli

Happy for Antonelli, he really is a talent to be watched. #F1

@FerretGee @WeahsCousin Why insult Temu like this…

@WeahsCousin His hair is just Temu Boris Johnson

Henry Pollock running to the crowd to shush them about 90 seconds before he lobbed the ball straight back to France with the game in the bag. If anyone ever suited that haircut it is him.

@JohnPerlman 😂😂

What is it about teenagers with unruly hair this weekend?

@CindyPoluta 😂

Piastri: it’s been a while since I’ve had a chance to watch two F1 races #F1 #ChinaGP

@RanjeniM We did it - our Lewis got podium 😊

I’m a wreck. This sport will kill us man 😭 #ChineseGP

@jozi117 @wilkinsoncape 😂😂

@wilkinsoncape ActionSA are like a Trojan Horse virus

Vote Action SA, get ANC water mafia (and goodness knows what else…)

@MotshidisiM Why weren’t you anchoring the six nations rugby? It was a brilliant series, especially all the games today and especially the France vs England. I remember the old days when @John_C_Robbie used to be a pundit on the six nations - as always, he was brilliant

Hle 😍🥰

So @WorldRugby don’t like @Springboks vs @AllBlacks playing in their respective green and black because it clashes for people who are colour blind. But it’s ok for @EnglandRugby to play in white and @FranceRugby to play in a very light blue? Very hard to see on TV #fravseng

@MTshwete They did 😊

Italy must do the things

@4KobusWiese @SimonBorchardt It was a brilliant game

@SimonBorchardt Agreed, score not true reflection of the game, the Scots were dominating most of the game.

One of Scotland's greatest wins. Final scoreline flatters France – a lot.

@AppleSupport @Apple For some reason my iPhone 17 FaceID no longer recognises me wearing my glasses - I have to take them off - I have never ever had this problem up until today (and my glasses have not changed) - IOS was updated latest night - could that be problem?

Why didn’t Trump explain to us why he was about to launch a major war in the biggest national address of the year just THREE days ago?

The US is bombing Iran — without Congressional approval (unconstitutional) and while peace talks were happening (illegal under UN Charter). History is clear: US interventions don’t liberate — they devastate: Vietnam. Central America, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan. US never learns.

@IngrahamAngle Hitler dominate German politics for almost 15 years - it took a world war to destroy him and his cult

When future historians want to understand how Trump dominated American politics for 12 years, they should watch and read this speech.

This business of Trump ending 8 wars is absolute bunk Exactly no one in academic international relations would support that assertion. Trump is lying