R.Shearman. staying put for the vibes

Former education union official, industry super fund chair, history/economics teacher. Labor/trade union,China, Indonesia. Retweets not necessarily endorsement

[R.Shearman. staying put for the vibes @DickShearman]

Starmer is leading Labour to defeat and it's not because of a lack of defense spending

[Latika M Bourke @latikambourke]

Wow. Hours before he was due to host Australia's Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles at HMNB John Healey has QUIT over Starmer's lack of defence spending.

Healey's last outing was AUKMIN yesterday at Lancaster house.

[Joel Jenkins @boganintel]

The strait is closed again. It was never really open.

The Australian political and media class have NFI what’s coming.

Follow people that do like @baoshaoshan and @leckie_cameron 👍

[Joel Jenkins @boganintel]

The Australia-Israel-India friendship has never been so pronounced.

@AlboMP has us deep in a relationship with the two most ethno supremacist entities on the planet.

[Conor Hennessy 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈... 🇪🇺 @typingduck]

Iran & Russia, lol.

The UK is run by so many dipshits, you need to be a disphit to get promoted.

A dipshit-ocracy.

I'm sure Putin and Iran would love to destabilise the UK as much as the owners of the Daily Mail and Jewish Chronicle have.

But they haven't come close.

[R.Shearman. staying put for the vibes @DickShearman]

Sunset over the rice paddies tonight

[pinkmiss @LynneCampbell5]

Morning

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

🚨 BLOOD IN THE GULF AGAIN.

US strikes just hit another tanker — MT Jalveer, Indian crew on board, fire raging off Oman. This is the third vessel with Indian sailors attacked in days. Earlier US strike on an Iranian-linked ghost tanker already killed 3 Indian crew members.

While Trump bombs near Tehran and enforces his naval blockade, innocent Global South seafarers pay with their lives. India, Africa, Asia — all collateral in America's gangster empire desperate to strangle Iranian oil and punish any defiance.

This is not "maritime security." This is naked imperialism choking trade routes, spilling third-world blood to protect dollar hegemony and Israel. The same US that lectures on freedom turns the Gulf into a killing zone.

Multipolar world is watching. India and the Global South must wake up. No more sacrificing our people on the altar of Western wars. Resistance axis grows stronger every time they strike.

Enough innocent blood. Sovereignty or death.

[R.Shearman. staying put for the vibes @DickShearman]

You need to be very special to embarrass Merz and Macron

[Financial Times @FT]

FT Exclusive: France, Germany and other European nations are discussing proposals for a radical overhaul of the EU’s 15-year-old diplomatic service, including stripping powers from the bloc’s chief diplomat. https://t.co/HA2VQCNhsU

[💧Michael West @MichaelWestBiz]

"Penny Wong .. offered a meeting with some of the victims after 11 pm. It never happened."

[Michelle Pini @vmp9]

Does Australia have an illegal migrant problem, or do we have a compassion problem?
..The tragic death of a young "non-resident" as One Nation dogwhistling intensifies.
Why One Nation endangers Australia’s homeless — and everyone else https://t.co/UGgwsxkFst via @IndependentAus

[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

🇺🇸/IRAN - More US Strikes On Iran

▪️It's clear the US was planning escalation, seeking to knock over whatever Iran was trying to rebuild following the February-March US aggression, used Israel to break the illusion of ceasefire to escalate, and is attempting to dismantle parts of Iranian defenses particularly along the coasts;

▪️This will continue the same way the US has maintained cycles of fake talks and escalation vis-a-vis Russia in Ukrainen;

▪️Essentially this is "mowing the grass," rather than "paving the lawn" because US military industrial production simply is incapable of providing the capabilities to do the latter;

▪️US policy toward Iran mirrors its Russian policy, placing multi-domain pressure on Iran in the hopes synergies between pressures cause something somewhere to crack;

▪️There is also the continued controlled demolition of West Asian energy exports & the global economy - forcing China to replace up to 50% of its imported energy;

▪️ by cutting off other nations in Asia, including US proxies/potential proxies, it increases energy dependence in Asia on the US, thus enhancing US leverage in disrupting their respective ties to China, just as the US did to Europe regarding Russian energy exports.

▪️Meanwhile, the US continues preparing Europe to confront Russia more directly amid the US proxy war in Ukraine;

▪️As warned all the way back in February 2025, the US is using a "division of labor" to maintain the war in Ukraine through Europe while pivoting primary attention to its war on Iran and further encircling China in the process;

▪️Whether it works or not is up to the multipolar world - it has prepared for this campaign of global aggression and is weathering it - but so far appears unable to deter the US from escalating;

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Asked about Belfast Mark Rowley talks about people overseas whipping up division to create disorder & he specifically mentions Russian & Iranian state actors

Its not Russia & Iran orchestrating the far right violence we're seeing, but Rowley has a job to do & he's doing it

[R.Shearman. staying put for the vibes @DickShearman]

Labor embraced Trumpian policies
It’s been able to join an illegal war against Iran, lie about being a protagonist and double down on Trump fawning.
Hasn’t hurt yet

Trumpian policies hurt the Liberals. But who cares? That was months ago via @crikey_news https://t.co/peYDii6iIH

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Former Labor Foreign minister rips Albanese a new one:

“Belief US would defend Australia in event of an existential attack is a ‘ludicrous delusion’.”

Aukus is among Australia’s worst foreign policy decisions and requires ‘heroic’ optimism: Gareth Evans https://t.co/vOTiMjSw62

[🕯💧ShazH @shazh.bsky.social @ShazHaitch]

It's a major conflict of interest @AusFedPolice. Krissy Barrett MUST resign from Reichman Uni, given her role decides on IDF war crimes investigations, AND must recuse herself from deciding on IDF investigations, as most her Reichman colleagues are former or current IDF members

[R.Shearman. staying put for the vibes @DickShearman]

Good point. China won't let the US and its allies define its borders, maritime boundaries and interests. If unchallenged it will only get worse

[Andrew A. Michta @andrewmichta]

If unchallenged, it will only get worse. Appeasement breed more aggression.

[R.Shearman. staying put for the vibes @DickShearman]

The US is 'agreement incapable'

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

An Iranian official said "the basic outlines of a deal were in place and Trump 'disrupted' the agreed upon negotiating framework and made new demands".

This is Trump's so-called "art of the deal". He has done it for decades. He falsely claims to come to an agreement, then unilaterally changes the terms to benefit himself. He subsequently ignores everything that the deal requires of him, while demanding that the other party still abide by the agreement.

This is why Trump was sued thousands of times throughout his career, by former business partners and clients.

This is exactly how Trump imposed one-sided "trade deals" on countries, then immediately violated them anyway.

Imagine trying to make a deal with this criminal to end a war. It's impossible. Iran understands that any "deal" made will promptly be violated by the US, as soon as it's convenient.

The US empire is agreement incapable.

[roweafr @roweafr]

reflecting pool..@FinancialReview

[R.Shearman. staying put for the vibes @DickShearman]

They are already in the most servile Western countries. The US knows exactly what each has to offer and exploits their naivety to the fullest.

[Joe Guinan @joecguinan]

This is the end of U.S. diplomacy. No country can believe a word they say, ceasefires/agreements are worthless, negotiations can end in assassination and murder. Truly a rogue state, a dying superpower speed-running the process of decline. Will they take us all down with them?

[Amir @AmirAminiMD]

These absolute morons still have no Idea what Iran is, who Iranians are, what Shia Islam means and how horribly bad they have fucked up everything.