John O'Connell

"The greatest danger is not only aggression itself, but the world's gradual adaptation to it. Each tolerated violation becomes a precedent for the next." - Garry Kasparov He is right, absolutely...!

Well, look at that — without Orban, Fico immediately folded and calmly made peace with Zelensky in public.

The European army already exists. It has four years of combat experience and runs the most advanced drone programme on the planet. It just held the eastern front of European security against Russia's full weight. It is called Ukraine. The knowledge is already flowing into production lines in Norway, Poland, the Baltics, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. Each factory incorporating battlefield lessons no simulation has ever generated and no American defence contractor has access to. Washington told Zelensky he had no cards. Pulled the support. Slammed the door. A few months later sixteen American bases sit shredded across the Middle East, the Navy parked thousands of kilometres away because nothing closer is safe to dock, strike sorties burning hours of fuel just to reach the target, picked apart by Iran with Chinese and Russian satellite data, while drones cross airspace the United States used to own. That is the country still demanding Europe spend five percent of GDP on American hardware built for last century's war. I think the question answers itself.👇🖊️ open.substack.com/pub/gandalv/p/…

Imagine a phone hadn't been found with one of the 15 medics executed & buried with their ambulances. Anyone saying they were butchered would be called "antisemitic" - the official narrative would be they were Hamas. And still Israel is armed. And still journalists are banned.

The World Cup starts in 30 days and legit barely anyone cares. In America, probably barely anyone knows the world’s biggest sport competition starts in a month. This has been the worst rollout for the World Cup I have ever seen in my life. It was a mistake to award it to Modern America. It’s no longer a serious society.

Top journalist Ana Kasparian exposes absolute insanity. The Trump administration gave a $17.4M no bid contract to renovate fountains. The exact same job under a competitive contract would cost only $3.3M. Washington is intentionally looting taxpayers to enrich their cronies.

Stephen Kapos has attended every pro-Palestine march. He is Jewish and a survivor of the Holocaust. “We get the warmest, most enthusiastic response from the marchers. They are happy family events, nothing to do with hatred at all. It is a slur.” 🎯

“At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.” — Aldous Huxley

The UK’s exit from the EU single market has been an economic disaster. Most estimates now show: 1. UK GDP is around 4–6% lower than it otherwise would have been 2. Business investment fell roughly 10–15% below trend 3. Trade volumes and manufacturing competitiveness weakened sharply He was one of the main architects of this project. The damage to British industry, growth and long-term competitiveness is a direct consequence of that political choice

"My parents died years ago. I was very close to them. I still miss them terribly. I know I always will. I long to believe that their essence, their personalities, what I loved so much about them, are — really and truly — still in existence somewhere. I wouldn't ask very much, just five or ten minutes a year, say, to tell them about their grandchildren, to catch them up on the latest news, to remind them that I love them. There's a part of me — no matter how childish it sounds — that wonders how they are. “Is everything all right?” I want to ask. The last words I found myself saying to my father, at the moment of his death, were “Take care.” Sometimes I dream that I'm talking to my parents, and suddenly — still immersed in the dreamwork — I'm seized by the overpowering realization that they didn't really die, that it's all been some kind of horrible mistake. Why, here they are, alive and well, my father making wry jokes, my mother earnestly advising me to wear a muffler because the weather is chilly. When I wake up I go through an abbreviated process of mourning all over again. Plainly, there's something within me that's ready to believe in life after death. And it's not the least bit interested in whether there's any sober evidence for it. So I don't guffaw at the woman who visits her husband's grave and chats him up every now and then, maybe on the anniversary of his death. It's not hard to understand. And if I have difficulties with the ontological status of who she's talking to, that's all right. That's not what this is about. This is about humans being human." — Carl Sagan

Palestinians already have a place. It’s called Palestine.

"We are entering a decisive phase where Russia’s strategic depth is no longer safe. The war is already affecting life inside Russia, and this pressure will only grow.” - Budanov🇺🇦

Israel is committing genocide, the vast majority of genocide scholars (of whom I am one) and human rights organisations agree. @ZackPolanski is only stating a well-established truth. The campaign against him is a campaign of genocide denial.

We live in a world of double standards!

Cenk Uygur drops a bombshell. He confirms JD Vance intentionally sabotaged peace talks with Iran and immediately called Netanyahu to report mission accomplished. He reveals Vance is secretly collecting millions from Zionist donors. Washington is completely compromised.

Marjorie Taylor Greene: “To actually be asked by the president to back off and not help [Epstein survivors] — that’s when MAGA died. That’s when the entire thing shattered for me. We spent 8 weeks shut down. By the way, that was to stop the Epstein resolution from getting a House vote. That’s what that shutdown was about”

🏃‍♀️ Les françaises 🇫🇷 ont longtemps dominé la première série du second tour du 4x400m, avant de se faire remonter par l’Irlande 🇮🇪, emmenée par sa leader Sharlene Mawdsley ! Quelle remontada 😭 #WorldRelays #Athlétisme

These are the heroes Israel is hunting down and murdering in Lebanon. Not fighters. Paramedics whose only ‘crime’ is saving lives. Israel has now killed more than 100 paramedics in Lebanon in less than 2 months. This is medicide.

Trump will go to history as the president who has caused the US the most harm. Losing any sense of foreign policy strategy. Alienating everybody but a few dictators. Wasting US military resources on petty issues. The big question: Is this treason or stupidity?

PM Carney: “A lot of countries rushed into deals with the US—they weren’t really worth the paper they were written on.” I love the way Mark Carney calls out Trump’s performative bullshit. This is what I voted for.