Bob Seely

The New Total War, out now
▶️ "A must read", Andrew Roberts
▶️ "Remarkable," Daily Mail
▶️ "Indepensable," Mark Galeotti.
Ex-Soldier, Journo, MP. Excuse typoes

[Bob Seely @IoWBobSeely]

The New Total War, out now

✅ The strategy & tactics of Russia’s new total war
✅ Frontline accounts of Ukraine’s remarkable defence
✅ Why it's a template for conflict this century

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#UkraineWar

[Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky_en]

Why does Putin keep inventing enemies?

Because it is a fundamental mechanism of survival for his mafia-style regime. I spent 10 years in prison for opposing him and know what I am talking about.

(Read on🧵)

[Bob Seely @IoWBobSeely]

So this is significant.

CIA message: don’t attack NATO!

#Ukraine #Russia

[Lara Seligman @laraseligman]

SCOOP: The surprise visit by the director of the Central Intelligence Agency to Moscow this week was to deliver a warning to Russia not to attack NATO countries, according to people briefed on the visit. https://t.co/WPv7URc4As

[Bob Seely @IoWBobSeely]

@StevenEdginton Sack them

[Bob Seely @IoWBobSeely]

WTH?

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Rogue care firms were granted the right to bring 100,000 migrants into the UK, The Telegraph can reveal.

Care firms struck off or suspended for underpaying workers or securing visas for non-existent jobs were awarded at least 99,686 certificates to sponsor migrants to come to the UK, an analysis of official records showed ⤵️
https://t.co/MAbb4bmJ2R

[Bob Seely @IoWBobSeely]

@StevenEdginton Sack ‘em

[Nick Buckley MBE @NickBuckleyMBE]

Machete attack today in Cornwall. F*cking Cornwall. What have we done to our country? How did we allow it? It’s going to get bad very soon - very soon.

[Andy Preston @centre_right_]

Even more deaths in Middlesbrough area. Criminals and scrotes are ruining and ending lives.

And I’m still seeing BS blaming of Margaret Thatcher and poverty.

We need more prisons not more youth clubs.

[Bob Seely @IoWBobSeely]

@Steven_Swinford May be they could do now what will happen in 2029 anyway - the abandonment of crazy and self-destructive net zero.

[Bob Seely @IoWBobSeely]

Awful, frightening.

[Patrick Christys @PatrickChristys]

This is absolutely terrifying and horrendous.

[Bob Seely @IoWBobSeely]

@ArchRose90 @NJ_Timothy 👍

[Bob Seely @IoWBobSeely]

@ian_turner1985 @andyburnham Hi, I am clearly referring here to NI hikes, minimum wage hikes, etc. These are products of Labour's recent decisions. Thanks.

[Bob Seely @IoWBobSeely]

Respectfully, @andyburnham, you have made it more expensive and more difficult to employ people.

So perhaps you might start by reversing the changes that your party brought in re National Insurance, minimum wage, employment rights, etc., in order to encourage people to hire young people.

You are moaning about problems @UKLabour have created. You can fix them. Good luck doing so.

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

When I talk to young people about work, the same thing keeps coming up. Not a lack of ambition - a lack of a way in.

One million young people in this country are not in education, work or training. That's around one in eight. And six in ten of them have never had a job at all.

I know that these young people aren't lazy. They have been let down by a system that told them there was only one route to success, and then left them without the opportunities to get their foot in the door anywhere else.

Too often, work experience has depended on who you know, rather than what you can do.

Last month we changed the education system so that from 14, young people can access proper technical education, with real skills, real work experience and real links to employers where they live.

Now we're bringing employers, schools and colleges together to close the gap between the classroom and the workplace.

The youth unemployment crisis has been ignored for too long.

That ends now.

[Bob Seely @IoWBobSeely]

@BBCNews Because net-zero is a failure? Would love to see an accurate headline like that for once.

[Bob Seely @IoWBobSeely]

@CharlotteCGill Depressing. Thank you for exposing these 'academics'.

[Bob Seely @IoWBobSeely]

I listened, despite the unclear definition of what it was, but I am afraid that you lost me when your speaker described Nigel Farage as 'extreme'. Nazis are extreme, likewise some socialists, communists, etc. You can like Farage or not, but he ain't extreme by anyone's standards outside the Left.

It didn't help that the academic sidestepped questions after claiming that rightwing groups were better funded then then left, mentioning Soros briefly before moving on.

In the UK - where I assume he lives - the British state in recent years has given some 3,000 pro-migration charities £370 million with £78 million coming from the Home Office, which is often the lawfare target for pro-migration charities.

If your speaker can't get basic definitions right, and his arguments seem ignorant, wilfully or not, of some basic facts, certainly in the UK, it's difficult to take arguments seriously.

[Bob Seely @IoWBobSeely]

Sorry, your comment doesn't make sense, so I don't really know what you are trying to say.

I wouldn't qualify for Restore's definition of ethno-nationalist purity, as is clear from my first post, and I wouldn't want to.

However, I do believe that people living here should share British values. I do feel it's a shame that you lot in New Labour opened the doors to mass, low-skilled immigration to 'rub the right's nose' in diversity. It explains Brexit and the rise of Reform, so own your failures. You are now trying to drag your heels on the predominantly Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs inquiry because you know it has the potential to destroy Labour for good. Maybe Labour might consider prioritising the right to justice for the thousands of raped girls, and not your party's continuing credibility?

The Left, through academia, the media and political parties, have relentlessly attacked British values, identity and our culture, arguing either that they don't exist, or that they and our history are 'racist' or part of 'white privilege' or some other nonsense terminology, and that the empire is linked with slavery rather than its abolition, etc. etc. We've seen just how poisonous much of academia has become

Moderate immigration was welcome. But that's not what we have had. Just smearing people doesn't work anymore. People are fed up with both numbers coming here and the lack of integration. Perhaps you might try to understand that. And, as mentioned, I speak as the child of an immigrant and the husband of another. And yes, I am also aware of our poor record on this issue. We were punished for it in 2024.

Given your own party is now begging illegals - who should be deported on arrival not pandered to - not to rape women and children, do not think that perhaps you might think about issues such as cultural integration, multiculturalism, immigration numbers, etc. etc before you try to smear with ethno-nationalist accusations?

Your lot clearly have no intention of gripping this issue. Hopefully, this is the last Labour gov't in British history, and it will be replaced by something better.

Kind regards

Bob

[Bob Seely @IoWBobSeely]

@centrists4wall I am very high IQ. One of us has to be.

[Bob Seely @IoWBobSeely]

WILL RUSSIA HIT THE UK?

It's not definite, but I think it's becoming more possible, and there appears to be an increased sense in the Baltics and elsewhere that Putin will stage some kind of provocation.

In the Baltics, a scenario discussed is where the Russians stage an attack on their own people in, say in Kaliningrad, claim it's from a Ukrainian base in, say Lithuania or Poland, and then strike at 'targets' in those countries, the targets being empty buildings somewhere near a NATO base. But it will cause a significant ramp-up in tensions and the messaging will be clear.

In the UK, I think a) another assassination is an option, via organised crime, dark web, or possibly those who've come illegally on small boats, b) a really sustained cyber attack, potential as electricity demand goes up, or c) some kind of sabotage of military supply chains, although I think this is less likely in the UK.

Putin can't really use convention force, although his use and production of drones is very much ahead of NATO, so any 'attack' will be as much political as it is military, to divide NATO and to make European populations fearful of supporting Ukraine.

So, there's an increased risk, but also an increased risk of stumbling into confrontation too.

I look at all this stuff in my book The New Total War.
https://t.co/iYce4agtf9

@DPJHodges #Ukraine #Russia

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

Vladimir Putin is going to test Andy Burnham by attacking Britain > Daily Mail > https://t.co/ILY4fjE08I

[Bob Seely @IoWBobSeely]

@AsgaardSharon thank you for your informed comment

[Bob Seely @IoWBobSeely]

Hi Philip, I don't disagree at all, but that wasn't quite the point here. Daily cyber stuff or mapping of subsea cables IS daily, so is espionage, but I was talking more about a scenario where something significant happens in an escalatory sense that a) grabs media headlines, b) sends a clear signal, and c) has political intent such as dividing European opinion, etc. Regards. Bob