Derrick Wyatt's Law and Policy Blog

Derrick Wyatt KC
Retired academic and lawyer
EU, international and constitutional law
Politics
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The coolness of NATO allies to Trump’s war on Iran is only part of the reason for Trump’s waning enthusiasm for NATO. He considered taking the US out of NATO in his first term and now his tactic is just to let everybody know he would never confront Putin.

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Options like mitigating the loss of the US nuclear umbrella by the UK acquiring its own airborne nukes for "forward deterrence" like France, and/or nuclear-sharing with allies, could have been urged by Blair if he had not insisted on portraying Trump as a reliable ally.
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Fukuyama: Ukrainians have systematically taken out Russian air defenses in Crimea with medium range drones and missiles. The peninsula depends on a narrow land route through the isthmus and the Kerch Bridge. Ukraine now reportedly controls the isthmus from the air and has repeatedly attacked the bridge. 1/

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No party can be described as progressive if it advocates undermining NATO in its stand against Russian aggression and other war crimes. Yes, that means the SNP, PC, and the Greens.

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We need as many people as possible to email the Port Authority of Las Palmas to reject the application to build the world’s first octopus farm. I just did it so please join me and act now. https://t.co/L1xPDccT3D

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Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp describes Lucy Connolly's imprisonment as being for an "off-colour" tweet - in fact she admitted intending to incite serious violence.
@FraserNelson exposes Philp's comment as inaccurate and misleading.
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Trump advisor John Bolton argued in 2022 for regime change in Russia
Russians would have a great future in economic partnership with Europeans
Europeans could offer a blueprint for the time when Russia has gone from Ukraine, and Putin has gone from Russia.

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Yes, it is time to start a dialogue with Russia - the Russia of tomorrow, after the regime change that is essential before it can normalise relations with its neighbours.
Why not a European conference on a blueprint for Russia's place in the European family after Putin has gone?

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Blair's Labour critique and programme for the UK is worth a read
He describes his approach as of the radical centre, but it could equally be described as of the centre right.
He says the US is the UK's "indispensable" ally - but does it still want to be?

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The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania has got it right. Putin will not stop until he is stopped. Russia is at the very least reckless in its launching of bomber-drones into the vicinity of NATO countries. The lack of a military response from NATO will be noted in Moscow.

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Putin will not stop until he is stopped.

A Russian military drone carrying explosives struck a residential building in Galați, #Romania. Russia continues to endanger civilians and test #NATO’s limits.

#Lithuania stands firmly with our ally Romania. We must strengthen and reinforce NATO’s eastern flank without delay.
We must increase support for #Ukraine and intensify pressure on #Russia.

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Macron is right to talk-up the risks for Putin of nuclear attacks on allies.
But will the temporary posting of french nuclear-armed jets to the territory of allies convince Putin that France would nuke Russia if Russia nuked airfields in Norway or Greece?

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@nratraasmra The US taxpayer contained Iran and Russia under Obama and Biden, less so under Donald Trump. Trump lacks a legal or moral compass, which most Americans do have, and most US Presidents have had too. MAGA is not America.

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The elite are disenchanted with Putin and his war with Ukraine, which is hitting the pockets of ordinary Russians.
Yet regime change is not imminent.

A successor to Putin might want to end the war, but would he want to make peace?

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Rutte's doing a good job against the odds.
But defence industry deals with the US won't make a US President like Trump willing to confront Putin if that is the opposite of what he wants to do.

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Some good news - scientists at Oxford university are developing an Ebola vaccine which will be ready for trials soon.

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Before Trump's war, Hormuz was open to shipping
US/Iran exchanges on Iran's nuclear activities had gone well + techical talks were to go ahead in Geneva in March.
Months of war later,
Nuclear talks are stalled,
Iran/Oman are planning a Hormuz shipping toll,
and Trump blames NATO.

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Trump is focussing on enriched uranium, as have previous talks on containing Iran's nuclear-weapons capabilities. But what about Iran's plutonium stocks?

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Putin allies back far-right and Russia-friendly AfD in Germany - yes the same AfD that Marco Rubio was defending last year, and Elon Musk was backing as a "moderate" party.

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Russia paving the way for attacks on the Baltics on the pretext that they are hosting Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia.
Linked to Russian jets flying dangerously close to RAF spy-plane in international airspace over the Black Sea?