Reminder the British Army is, primarily, an American proxy militia

Yes- that triple divide describes the foreign policy spectrum more impartially than the often false, self-serving internationalist-isolationist binary.

If you are a UK based Techno-Optimist/AngloFuturist/e/acc who wants to do a British S3 (a la Jason Carman), hit me up. I have equipment, episodes, and some starter money for you.

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This is clearly true. Equally, Rightists demanding a securitised clampdown on political protest/non-violent dissent will, in turn, soon find their own pet causes repressed following the new precedent.

Berlin's among the fiercest opponents of the U.S.-led push to grab ~$300bn of Russian frozen assets. Germany and Japan fear that seizing, rather than freezing, the funds could create a precedent and inspire new claims against them for WWII-era crimes
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China,France agree to deepen military cooperation:”Collabor. bw the 2 militaries’ naval and air forces will help to further deepen mutual trust and cooperation,and jointly safeguard regional security and stability,🇨🇳’s defence ministry said in a statement” scmp.com/news/china/dip…

Why have Russian forces advanced in multiple directions and what are the implications? What are the future prospects? Today's analysis by Frontelligence Insight centers on Chasiv Yar, Kurakhkove, and Ocheretyne

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A competent British Industrial Strategy would’ve pushed RR to become an R&D, exporting powerhouse. Instead we outsource nuclear expertise whilst our own base withers.

Emergency laws will be brought to Cabinet on Tuesday to enable the Government to send asylum seekers back to the UK. It comes after the Minister for Justice said 80% of recent IP applicants arriving here came from the UK, via Northern Ireland rte.ie/news/2024/0427…

I don't blame Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺 for trying to preserve trade ties with China. We can't expect European countries that face a direct threat from Russia and have taken a big economic hit from the Ukraine War to wage trade wars on China.

So we shouldn't base our strategy on it. 1/

SCOOP: I reviewed an internal State Dept memo, parts of which was classified, that included the most extensive and serious to date warnings to Secretary Blinken over Israel’s possible non-compliance with international humanitarian law. Here’s what I learned 1/X

💥LIVE, from Israel, it is Saturday Night.
In Tel Aviv thousands call for Elections Now & Hostages Now.
(Sharon Ben-Porath שב״פ)

Aontú calls for ‘Irish Sea border in terms of people’ to ensure stricter immigration checks in Northern Ireland irishtimes.com/politics/2024/…

The Tatar Steppe

Time for a follow up on this I think, now that nebulous british interests have become the demonic string pullers behind every trend the dereks & derek jrs don't like

Will British troops put 'wet boots' on the beaches of Gaza to help deliver aid? No decision, just an option that's yet to cross Rishi Sunak 's desk. But the possibility of UK forces operating in the Holy Land for the first time since the 1940s.
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Ukraine used Yak-52 aircraft to intercept Russian Orlan-10 reconnaissance UAV in Odesa.

Yakovlev Yak-52 is a Soviet primary trainer aircraft that first flew in 1976.

Russia seems to be renewing offensive actions and making gains on multiple fronts.

It also seems that some pro-Russian channels are quite reliably reporting the Russian advance, with their claimed gains getting confirmed by DS the same or the next day.

This is never a good sign

I’m blown away at how apt these quotes are

A premature Palestinian infant who was rescued from her mother’s womb shortly after the woman was killed in an Israeli airstrike has died rte.ie/news/2024/0426…