John Crofts

Interested in the English Revolution. Researching radicals in the New Model Army: 1647-1649.

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@kevin_ovenden Yes, and the points made by Akua Reindorf are well made and very helpful.

[Marta Havryshko @HavryshkoMarta]

What could you possibly know about Ukraine? You don’t even live there!”

👆The latest way to dismiss my expertise is really gaining traction.

My friends, millions of people live in Ukraine and still have no idea that:

🛑 The 🇩🇪neo-Nazi Stefan Kind is leading a group of German nationals with Nazi tattoos integrated into the 3rd Army Corps.

🛑 The Luftwaffe Battalion of AFU uses a Nazi eagle as its official symbol.

🛑 In a country where Nazis and their local helpers murdered 1.5 million Jews during the Holocaust, there is now an AFU unit named after an Abwehr formation, Nachtigal, that participated in the killing of Jews in Vinnytsia oblast in 1941.

Apparently, physical proximity alone is now supposed to count as expertise?

I am a Ukrainian citizen.
I lived in Ukraine for nearly 40 years of my life.
And my knowledge of this country runs infinitely deeper than that of your goddamn NAFO lapdogs and the assorted “think tank” experts who only discovered Ukraine in Feb.2022 and have been clinging ever since to their lazy good-versus-evil narrative.

I am that “Ukrainian voice”, the inconvenient, irritating, unmanageable one you would much rather silence than engage with.
But I exist. And I am far from alone.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Please retweet.

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@ShabbirLakha An inconvenient fact of history shows that Finland spent World War Two fighting with Nazi Germany. The Siege of Leningrad ring any bells! But that was then, now Germany are on our side and Russia is the enemy. Bob 'With God on our Side' anybody!

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@ShabbirLakha FFS. It sounds like a manifesto for a military coup. We give you, Dear Citizen, not the 'guns v butter' argument, but we say: 'Take up the gun for your country, and we will give you butter.' How progressive. 'Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.'

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@ShabbirLakha She also talks about freedom of speech 'in this country' as if she is talking to foreign tourists not British citizens.

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@kevin_ovenden I feel sorry for the dog.😂

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@ZackPolanski @meadwaj Funny, I thought MPs were elected to Parliament not to an exclusive drinking club.

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@JohnWRees I think all war studies and military history courses will now have to be rewritten in order to develop a new definition for 'tremendous Military Success.'

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@JohnWRees There is a lack of understanding that if you back down people will begin to doubt things you say. Not having a clear political line is a major problem, as is a lack of tactical ability.

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@SaulStaniforth @ZackPolanski Zack is right apart from when he says workers who drink at work should be fired. Good HR policies say employees in such situations should be managed by Occ' Health whilst on controlled leave. Disciplining the individual is a last resort.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

.@louismosley justifying who Palantir works with: "Those countries that are democratic & subject to the rule of law, that is where we will work"

Palantir supplies the military of an apartheid state that has slaughtered tens of thousands of kids. They have no place in our NHS.

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@gardener_the @JohnWRees @VersoBooks Highly recommend. Suggest read with Christopher Hill's 'The English Civil War Interpreted by Marx and Engels' in 'Science & Society', Winter 1948, Vol. 12, No. 1. Important as class analysis of the English Civil War/Revolution is often rejected by academia.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Breaking: Israeli forces have just killed two Lebanese paramedics in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon. A rapidly rising toll of paramedics being killed.

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@kevin_ovenden Looks like 'Operation Peace for Galilee' all over again. Next stop Beirut. Nothing from our wonderful press about the ethnic cleansing and terror bombing.

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@noranazmy Eid Mubarak Noran.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

'Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you –
Ye are many – they are few.’

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@LindseyAGerman A further issue is if Israel/US were to turn Iran into another Syria or Libya is the proximity of a nuclear armed Pakistan on its south eastern border. The same goes if Israel undertakes nuclear strikes; nuclear fallout doesn't respect borders.

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@JohnWRees Outrageous. This is baning the low hanging fruit in preparation for banning marches like the one held last Saturday by Stop the War, and other anti-war groups including CND.

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@philipskaggs @ShoahUkraine There is also a documentary on Netflix based on the book.

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@David_Jamieson7 @JohnWRees @buffsoldier_96 Indeed, going back even further in the '80s when I was a NUPE Branch Secretary I worked perfectly well with union activists who were Communist Party members, despite belonging to a 'Trotskyist' party. We had helpful political discussions. People should stop being daft.