Alan Sked
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Alan Sked
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Alan Sked is emeritus professor of international history at LSE. His views are his own, NOT those of LSE. Author of key work ‘The Case for Brexit’.
London, England Katılım Mart 2016
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I backed Trump’s war against Iran. But he’s messed up badly telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/2…
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🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇸🇪🇺 AMERICA MAY LEARN LATE
"HODGES: We are going to regret that we, United States, didn’t do more to help Ukraine, because Ukraine going to win this war. Ukraine’s defeat of Russia is in best interests of all of us. Ukraine will become dominant defense industry power in Europe. America will be left behind."- Hodges 🇺🇸
That is the warning Washington keeps treating like background noise.
Ukraine is not waiting around to be saved. It is building, adapting, striking, producing, learning faster than the comfortable armies watching from the sidelines.
If America helps too slowly, it will not just be a moral failure.
It will be a strategic one.
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Ukraine is preparing a real drone apocalypse for Russia.
By the end of 2026, the Armed Forces of Ukraine could be capable of launching up to 1,000 strike drones against Russian territory in a single day.
This is not just an increase in production. It is an entirely new level of warfare — where every day, an entire airborne army of drones could rise into the sky, capable of simultaneously striking targets deep across the Russian rear.
Oil depots, airfields, factories, warehouses, and logistics hubs would all face constant, exhausting pressure.
The real question is: how long could Russia withstand that pace, especially when it still struggles to intercept drones with the same effectiveness Ukrainian forces have demonstrated throughout the war?
What do you think?

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🇸🇾🇩🇪 Syria has rejected Germany’s plan to return over 700,000 Syrian refugees to their home country.
"We categorically reject any attempts at forced deportation,” said Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani.
He added that Syrians in Germany are a “strategic resource” rather than a burden.

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Japan's Justice Minister Hiroshi Hiraguchi has taken a tough decision on the orders of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi!
The plan to deport every illegal foreign resident living in Japan — titled the "Zero Illegal Foreign Residents Plan" has been officially signed.
Now, no one will be able to live in Japan illegally.
- @Crazyunfill94

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🚨 The Islamic regime HANGED Iranian MMA Champion Gholamreza Khani Shekarab
They hanged Gholamreza today.
He was our MMA champion, a coach and international referee.
A real fighter who always made us proud.
They accused him of spying for Israel.
He had no fair trial.
They didn’t give him a real lawyer.
They only tortured him until he gave forced confessions.
They took one of our own and hanged him like he was nothing.
This regime is killing our people every single day.
This truly breaks my heart.
The world needs to know his name.
Rest in power, Gholamreza. 💔

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Iran's main oil hub is literally on fire right now and nobody's talking about it. Kharg Island handles 90% of their crude exports. That's their entire economy. And right now?
Storage tanks are maxed out, gas is flaring everywhere, and multiple fires are burning because they can't move their oil anywhere. I spent years watching us send plane loads of cash to these guys while they funded terrorism across the Middle East. Made me sick every time. This is different though. No diplomacy theater.
No pallets of money in the dead of night. Just pure economic pressure that actually works. They were warned what would happen if they kept playing games. Now their most critical infrastructure is overwhelmed and burning while their economy suffocates. You can negotiate with people all day long, but sometimes the only language that works is the one they can't ignore. This is what actual leverage looks like when you're willing to use it.
What do you think? Should we keep the pressure on or go back to the old playbook of sending them billions and hoping they behave?

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Most people have no idea about the real history of Al-Aqsa Mosque, because they’ve only been fed the Islamic Palestinian propaganda version of events.
They believe that Al-Aqsa has always been Islam’s third holiest site, that it has belonged to Muslims since the dawn of time, and that Israel is the oppressor for merely existing near it.
None of that is true.
The Temple Mount in Jerusalem was the holiest site in Judaism for over a thousand years before Islam even appeared in history. It housed the First and Second Jewish Temples, the center of Jewish worship and pilgrimage.
When the Romans destroyed the Second Temple in 70 AD, they built pagan shrines over it, but its Jewish identity never disappeared.
In the 7th century Islam emerges and expands through conquest, and begins hijacking Jewish and Christian sites, prophets, and narratives.
At first, Jerusalem had no major significance in Islam. Muhammad never set foot there. There was no mosque. There was no pilgrimage. There was no Islamic history tied to the city.
But that changed during the brutal power struggle between Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan and Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr.
By the late 7th century, Islam was deeply divided. Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr controlled Mecca and Medina, the two holiest cities in Islam. And Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, the Umayyad Caliph, controlled the Levant.
But Abd al-Malik had a problem, he didn’t want the people of the Levant traveling to Mecca for pilgrimage, because that would give power to his rival.
Abd al-Malik declared the Temple Mount as Alaqsa mosque that was mentioned in the quran, and he made it an alternative place of pilgrimage.
He ordered the construction of the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque to divert attention from Mecca.
And just like that, Islam manufactured a holy site for political gain.
The real Masjid Al-Aqsa referred to in the Quran was not in Jerusalem, it was between Mecca and Ta’if. There was no mosque in Jerusalem at the time. There was no Islamic presence there.
Yet, centuries later, after Islam had conquered the city, the Islamic narrative retroactively applied this Quranic verse to Jerusalem, again, for political convenience.
If Israel wanted to act like Islamic conquerors, it could have easily done to Al-Aqsa what Turkey did to the Hagia Sophia.
It could have converted the mosque into the Third Temple, banned Muslim prayer on the site, erased any trace of Islamic history, as Muslims did to Christian and Jewish sites throughout history.
But Israel didn’t do that. Israel allows Muslims to pray there freely. Israel protects Al-Aqsa, even as it is used to spread anti-Semitic propaganda and incite violence.
Yet, despite this, the world condemns Israel for merely existing in its own capital.
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Russia openly announces that it intends to render Kyiv uninhabitable within a month through a series of attacks.
Why?
Because Ukraine allegedly attacked a Russian vocational school and killed students.
However:
To this day, there is no verified evidence of this attack on students.
Furthermore:
According to data verified by the UN and UNICEF (as of November 2025), 1,611 Ukrainian schools have been damaged or destroyed by Russia (verified cases only). The actual figure is significantly higher—approximately 4,500 attacks on schools.
That is the Russian mindset.
We call it an excuse for further genocide.

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Nicola Sturgeon allegedly hid behind “no comment” for seven hours when questioned by the police over Murrells £400K fraud.
The rotten culture at the top of the SNP is impossible to ignore now.
thescottishsun.co.uk/news/16305227/…
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Heartbreaking.
These are children no older than 8 to 11 wearing balaclavas, dressed as terrorists, cheering while holding real automatic rifles and munitions. Not toys.
This is what Palestinian society is doing to its own kids. Systematic indoctrination from the youngest age, turning children into weapons for the next round of violence.
And when these same children eventually become martyrs in this endless conflict, much of the world will scream about dead kids and Israeli “cruelty”… while staying completely silent on the parents and leaders who raised them this way.
This is exactly why peace has never come, and probably never will. As long as they teach their children to worship death, the cycle continues.
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ELIMINATED: 🚫
The Israeli military announced the elimination of Muhammad Ibrahim Abu Mallouh, also known as Hamada Abu Riyad.
According to the IDF, he operated within Hamas’ production department headquarters. Reports and publicly available information also indicate he was affiliated with Hamas and had previously served in the Hamas-run security forces in Gaza.
Terrorists really dropping Like 🪰 🪰 🪰 🪰 ……..

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@RadioGenoa Labour did exactly the same in Britain. Both Germany and Britain are now a complete mess.

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@RadioGenoa Merkel is the architect of Europe's destruction. It will take generations to fix what she did - if can be done at all. The long term harm she and her cronies did is massive.
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