Fiona Erleigh

Lover of ballet, dance, travel, maths (yes really!) ex-dancer, ex-banker. Open to new ideas.

[Fiona Erleigh @FionaErleigh]

@Mdp_66 @Bushra1Shaikh Thanks for explaining 🙈🙄

[Fiona Erleigh @FionaErleigh]

@ricwe123 The UK PM clearly hasn’t been informed.

[Fiona Erleigh @FionaErleigh]

@georgegalloway British Empire vs Russian Empire. Lookup “The Great Game”

[Richard @ricwe123]

Do you know in 2014, Ukraine needed a loan?

There were two offers on the table:

🔴The IMF dangled a $15 billion lifeline but, as always, it came with strings firmly attached.

-Scrap the ban on private land ownership.

-Slash pensions and subsidies,classic austerity.

🔴Russia also offered $15 billion, no strings attached, no IMF-style conditions, and no neoliberal gutting of the economy.

President Viktor Yanukovych picked the Russian deal.

So what happened?

Washington instigated a coup, ousted the President, and installed a new puppet regime.

The new Ukranian government bent the knee to the IMF, signed off an austerity program and opened the door to privatization.

Now, massive chunks of Ukrainian land,about a third, are in the hands of US giants like BlackRock.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

From a glacier that melted. Because climate change is REAL
Don’t worry though. our #PedoPOTUS is very busy renaming lakes because he’s having a toddler tantrum with Canada whilst unable to negotiate an end to the War with Iran he started.

[Badger @Bertrom]

My students were always a bit gobsmacked when I showed them this in the Film Industry and Synergy classes.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Her dad grew up illiterate, and when she started the foundation, she had her dad run it for the rest of his life because they brought him so much joy to provide books to kids‼️ An extraordinary American legend
BE A DOLLY NOT AN ELON‼️

[✨🎻Harmonic melody🎻✨ @diep84930]

🎭 Diana Damrau & Jonas Kaufmann – La Traviata 🥂✨

Verdi’s famous Libiamo comes alive with dazzling voices, playful chemistry, and irresistible theatrical energy. A sparkling celebration of love, joy, and the magic of opera! 🎶❤️

[Fiona Erleigh @FionaErleigh]

@diep84930 I think this is Mikhailovsky Theatre not Bolshoi. Her partner looks like Nikita Chetverikov. Both are Mikhailovsky principals now

[marydejevsky @marydejevsky]

Times when you don't know whether to laugh or cry. @CIADirector in talks in Moscow, but death of @DollyParton topping all news channels

[Fiona Erleigh @FionaErleigh]

@afshinrattansi It’s obfuscating the US public who don’t realise USA is biggest funder of NATO. So he’s selling weapons mostly to himself. He’ll lose that expenditure and maybe also that income if he pulls USA out of NATO

[Fiona Erleigh @FionaErleigh]

@afshinrattansi Are rest of NATO also selling their weapons to NATO before they are loaned/sold/given to Ukraine?

[Marwa Osman || مروة عثمان @Marwa__Osman]

Israel has apparently given the so-called "Board of Peace" three days to stop the paper kites coming out of Gaza or else it will unleash a massive air aggression on the Strip.

And honestly, what more is there to say?

You don't need a 20-post thread for this one. The headline is the entire dystopian joke.

A nuclear-armed entity, armed to the teeth and claiming regional military supremacy, terrorizing, bombing multiple states, genociding the population of one state while ethnically cleansing the population of another state, is threatening another devastating attack because children in Gaza are flying paper kites.

Children living amid rubble.
Children with barely any electricity, food, water or normal childhood left.

And somehow, the paper kite is the threat that requires an ultimatum.

Let that sink in. Not a missile. Not a fighter jet. Not an army.

A piece of paper. A string. And a child.

If this does not capture the sheer absurdity of the reality Palestinians are being forced to live through, I don not know what does.

[Richard @ricwe123]

That moment when Victoria Nuland, in 2016, was bragging to the US Congress about how thoroughly Washington had taken over Ukraine after the 2014 coup.

She spelled it all out without shame:

🔴US operatives embedded in a dozen Ukrainian ministries.

🔴American-trained cops patrolling 18 cities.

🔴The US Treasury gutting 60 Ukrainian banks while sparing depositors to keep people quiet.

🔴Hundreds of millions of dollars funneled into molding Ukraine’s military.

This wasn’t "assistance", it was a takeover dressed up as aid.

"Unprovoked"
😂😂😂

[✨🎻Harmonic melody🎻✨ @diep84930]

An explosion of color to chase away the blues 🥰
The exhilarating *Elite Syncopations* by The Royal Ballet

[Fiona Erleigh @FionaErleigh]

@sinoriakos @BowesChay Ah so they handover the blueprints because they are now ‘out of date’ for UK purposes. That makes sense.

[der_oberlausitzer 🖤 ❤️ 💛 @oberlausitzer_]

🇵🇱 Der Primaballerina-Brunnen auf dem Kościuszko-Platz in Podwębie… (Polen)

Wirklich ein wunderschöner und vorallem entspannter Hingucker, wie Ich finde. 😍😍

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

The percentage of child dead in the Ukrainian conflict is 0.3%.
Zero point three per cent.

The percentage of child dead in the Gaza conflict is 37.7%.
Thirty seven point seven per cent.

In a single statistic, there you have the difference between a war and a genocide.