it is time to negotiate a modus vivendi with 🇷🇺 (&🇨🇳)

As bad as present circumstances are, they will get much worse if we continue on our current trajectory.

15/ By July I had changed that assessment. We are now witnessing the self-inflicted demise of the Western world. By the end of the coming winter in Europe this will become very clear

Rather than doubling down on a failed and failing strategy perhaps

johnmenadue.com/cameron-leckie…

12/ Q8 Through sanctions, arming/equipping 🇺🇦 & now providing training, 🇦🇺 is effectively a party to this war. What guarantees are there that 🇦🇺 is not on the slippery slope to actual involvement in another overseas war? What are the consequences of this involvement?

9/ Q5 Noting that the Marise Payne cancelled a former 🇦🇺 soldiers passport only 2 years ago because he was planning to fight with the Azov Regiment, what safeguards are in place to ensure that this repulsive ideology is not encouraged within the ADF?

theage.com.au/national/fears…

8/ Q4 Pre-war, many major media outlets/human rights organisations reported on 🇺🇦 issue with a reprehensible ideology our grandparents fought against in WW2 👇

What safeguards are in place to ensure that 🇦🇺 does not train 🇺🇦 of this belief system?

moonofalabama.org/2022/04/azovre…

7/ Q3 Why has 🇦🇺 placed so little emphasis on diplomacy? It appears that 🇷🇺&🇺🇦 came close to an agreement in April yet this was scuppered by pressure from the 🇺🇸🇬🇧. Is the purpose here to weaken 🇷🇺 by fighting to the last 🇺🇦?

responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/09/02/dip…

6/ time, is 🇦🇺 just preparing more 🇺🇦 to become cannon fodder for 🇷🇺 artillery without offering any real prospect for victory?

5/ Q2 RichardMarles stated that 🇺🇦 is fighting with a ‘largely reservist force.’ This indicates that the majority of 🇺🇦 regular army has been destroyed. Given the extensive time that it takes to train civilians to become an effective combat force, and that 🇺🇦 lacks that

1/ Dear Anthony Albanese Senator Penny Wong Richard Marles

I have some questions on your decision to send 🇦🇺 tps to train 🇺🇦tps in the 🇬🇧

Q1 What is the intelligence assessment of the progress of the war?

The media narrative suggests that 🇺🇦 ‘is winning.’ This appears implausible.

💧Mary Kostakidis legality of pre-emption under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, Russia’s justification for invading Ukraine is on solid legal ground.` consortiumnews.com/2022/03/29/rus…

Among the many CIA interventions and provocations, creating a ‘genocide’ to justify the military intervention. theguardian.com/world/2001/mar…

#auspol 💧Mary Kostakidis
30. On Silencing Through Isolation

Ligma Johnson had it coming 🍆 💦

Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints.

No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.

Spot on Bruce Haigh!

'China is not a threat to Australia; the United States is.'

AUKUS: A US Trojan Horse undermining Australia’s sovereignty - johnmenadue.com/aukus-a-us-tro…

Must read by Pearls and Irritations.

Are we a sovereign nation? 😪

The Pentagon builds a network in our Department of Defence amidst media silence - johnmenadue.com/pentagon-takes…