Daniel Cooney

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[BBC Breakfast @BBCBreakfast]

'I'm just Kev'

After being awarded a knighthood in the Birthday Honours, rugby league legend Sir Kevin Sinfield spoke to Sally Nugent for #BBCBreakfast about being made 'Sir Kev', running for the MND community, the 'pride' of his parents and how his great friend and Leeds Rhinos team mate Rob Burrow would have reacted

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[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

APPLEBAUM: The war in Ukraine is really fault line between democratic and autocratic worlds. Russians are trying to destroy Ukraine as a nation, they want it to disappear.

As an empire, they want Ukraine to be their colony. And they understood perfectly well that by invading Ukraine, they were defying this liberal world order.

They were defying the rules of post-war Europe, because in post-war Europe decision was made after 1945: we are not going to invade each other anymore, we are not going to have wars.

Instead, we are going to decide everything by diplomacy, and borders will not be changed by force. And Russians understood they were breaking that norm when they invaded Ukraine.

They also invaded Ukraine because Ukrainians were using that powerful democratic language we take for granted. Putin said, “If they can do it in Ukraine, then people could do it in Russia. So, I need to crush this Ukrainian democracy movement.”

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Poland Paid $50 Billion for America’s Friendship. Turns Out That Wasn’t the Deal.

Poland has spent fifty billion dollars on American weapons. F-35s, Abrams tanks, Patriots, HIMARS. The full catalogue, ordered with the desperate enthusiasm of a country that shares a border with Belarus.

Last week the Pentagon scrapped plans to deploy 4,200 troops to Poland. The brigade had already held a send-off ceremony, shipped its tanks, and sent advance personnel into Europe. Then came the call. Don’t bother.

Poland was blindsided. Their officials found out by ringing American congressmen. JD Vance turned up at the White House briefing today and told a Polish reporter he was overreacting. It was just a delay, he said. Europe needs to stand on its own two feet.

Poland spends nearly four percent of GDP on defence. It hosted American troops and paid fifteen thousand dollars per soldier per year for the privilege. It sent men to Iraq when Washington asked, even when France and Germany quietly suggested that everyone involved might regret it.

Rumsfeld once called Poland the most pro-American country on earth, including America itself. 

The reward for twenty years of that devotion is being told, by a man who has never heard a gunshot in anger, to look in the mirror.

[Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky_en]

"Let them cut me, let them hang me, but this needs publicity."

That is what a 68-year-old archery coach from a Buryat settlement says about his son's case. A Russian court has just given his son 5.5 years for posting one word online. [🧵1/12]

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

King Charles reminds Trump and MAGA that NATO invoked Article 5 for the first time after 9/11, when all alliance members came to the aid of the United States.

“Today, Mr. Speaker, that same unyielding resolve is needed for the defense of Ukraine and her most courageous people,” the king said, receiving a standing ovation🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦

[Daniel Cooney @DanielCooney]

@YCFCSouth See you there 👍

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

OMFG!

RFK Jr: "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction."

No, you imbecile. That’s a 98.33% drop. No math besides make-believe math makes it 600%.

[Kvist @kvistp]

Remember, ending air-defense aid to Ukraine is JD Vance's proudest accomplishments as Vice President.

[Igor Sushko @igorsushko]

Kyiv burns as Ukraine no longer has any Patriot interceptor missiles - the only defense against Russian Iskander ballistic missiles.
Vice President Vance recently bragged of his "proudest" achievement - cutting off military support for Ukraine.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

JD Vance: This Democratic idea that Donald Trump was Jeffery Epstein's best friend is a hoax. Jeffrey Epstein hated Trump.

(Jeffery Epstein in 2016: “I was Donald’s closest friend for 10 years.”)

[Amock_ @Amockx2022]

BREAKING : Italian 🇮🇹 Georgia Meloni becomes the first PM in the world to belt Trump for his remarks on Pope 🔥

🇺🇸 Trump –– "The Pope is weak against crime and he is not doing his job well. He is terrible for foreign policy"

🇮🇹 Meloni –– 🔥 "Trump's words toward the Holy Father are unacceptable. The Pope is the head of the Catholic Church and it is right and normal for him to call for peace and to condemn every form of war"

Trump expected support at Strait of Hormuz from Meloni but she's exposing his hypocrisy instead 🤣

[Leeds United @LUFC]

🎶 UNITED ARE BACK! 🎶

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

In today’s Vatnik Soup, we introduce Yanis Varoufakis, a Greek economist and politician. He’s best known for rising to power at the height of the Greek debt crisis, not solving anything but endearing himself to the left, and using his fame to promote Russian imperialism.

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[Caolan @CaolanReports]

The Russian embassy here is full of GRU agents.

Orban flew them from Moscow to Budapest to interfere with the election. Since then, journalists have been spied on and disinformation has flooded the media.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Orban’s security have tried to stop people filming his massive country estate. The police showed up when I was reporting in his village. That’s because he lives like a corrupt oligarch whilst claiming to be a man of the people.

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

JD Vance has accused European countries of 'interfering in the Hungarian election',  after he travelled to Hungary to interfere in the election

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

It's like the beginning of an apocalypse: Russia has attacked Kostyantynivka with banned phosphorus, which incinerates all living things, and dropped a FAB-1500 bomb on the city.

Terrible.

[Daniel Cooney @DanielCooney]

@YorkCityFC The Old Show Ground?

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

As I wrote, if you think a massive US gulag is being built just for illegal immigrants, along with a federal paramilitary force as large as the Marines, you're a fool. Billions in unaccountable cash from Venezuelan oil, shock troops, and detention camps. This is not a drill.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Not sure if the typically myopic US media has quite clocked what an angry shitstorm President Trump has stirred up abroad with his callous, ungrateful, inaccurate gibe about America’s NATO allies staying away from the Afghan frontline.
He’s managed to unite pretty much everybody against him, even his hitherto supporters on the populist right. Even Keir Starmer!