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Cynical sideline spectator of domestic & foreign issues. Gave up trying to explain the Obvious to the Oblivious. Cat wrangler. Gamer. Historical stuff. Ex-CC.

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Sixteen seconds of forlorn sadness.
🐈❤️🇺🇦
#LongLiveUkraine

[Volodymyr Omelyan @V_Omelyan]

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Київщина

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@RichardGrenell Absolute crock of shyte!
Let's be clear about you. You had nothing to do with #BudapestMemorandum & you really don't have a clue about ex-Soviet nuclear weapons.
#PipeDownDick

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Worrying insight from a retired British Army Officer who was NATO's deputy supreme commander of Europe

Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "You've been critical of Donald Trump, you wrote an article saying it's worse than appeasement the way Trump was behaving. But it now appears that Ukraine the UK and Europe are all going along with it, are they wrong?"

Sir Richard Shirreff, "If Russia refuses the ceasefire the illusion of diplomacy collapses"

"If Russia accepts the ceasefire then the real test begins"

"The test is when Washington recognises that Russia inevitably breaks that ceasefire as it absolutely certainly will, because nobody can trust Russia"

"That will allow Russia once again to dictate the terms of reality to President Trump"

Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Is that your view of a peace deal, that Russia would always end up breaking peace?"

Sir Richard Shirreff, "Absolutely, no question about it. It will manufacture an excuse, an attack, it will flood the information space with fabricated evidence, it'll claim victimhood, it will weaponise diplomacy"

"Russia can't be trusted"

"This is in a sense the naivety of the White House that Russia has only ever been an empire"

"Russia is an imperial state that will never stop until it has dismantled Ukraine and brought it back under the empire, removed it from the map as a soverign state"

"And the only thing that is going to force Russia to stop, is if Russia is firmly stopped and defeated"

"This peace deal if it happens will allow Putin to declare victory and to stage another attack when he's ready"

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@EXEOX2 @GandonAmy 5. Credibility lost, morale shattered, then came drastic office closures & literally thousands of staff-years of expertise, knowledge & experience lost. Waste & inefficiency can be measured in many ways, but not by SCS. Needs an independent group to do that, proper auditing. End.

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@EXEOX2 @GandonAmy 4. Anything with low scores didn't get addressed: it got scrapped or sidelined instead. Or used as 'leverage' to make poor work colleagues lives a misery. It was unjust unfair manipulation of staff input to have SCS make some detrimental disruptions. The 'You Told Us' con trick!

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk saying Europe must become strong enough to deal with Russia on its own:

“500 million Europeans are begging 300 million Americans to protect them from 140 million Russians who for 3 years haven’t been able to ‘deal’ with 40 million Ukrainians”

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@kejamieson_ Thanks for the confirmation. Got a house-move to sort first, then will look up Tallinn options for end of the year 🤞

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Elon Musk has called Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) a “traitor” after visiting Ukraine this weekend. Kelly is a 25-year U.S. Navy pilot veteran and retired astronaut.

RETWEET if you stand with @CaptMarkKelly against Elon Musk’s unpatriotic attacks!

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Three years of resistance. Three years of gratitude. Three years of absolute heroism of Ukrainians. I am proud of Ukraine! I thank everyone who defends and supports it. Everyone who works for Ukraine. And may the memory of all those who gave their lives for our state and people be eternal. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

#SupportUkraine

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@EXEOX2 @paullewismoney @Moneybox My sister is just dealing with this for our late mother. I'll ask her how it's going with DWP later this week.

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@implausibleblog @OliDugmore "Individually deal with each country!"
Alexa, play a clip that shows Kate Hoey still has no idea how the EU works.
#TheDavidDavisSyndrome #DExEUdimwittery

[Auschwitz Exhibition @auschwitzxhibit]

"Remember, it didn’t start with gas chambers. It started with politicians dividing the people with ‘us vs. them.’ It started with intolerance and hate speech, and when people stopped caring, became desensitized, and turned a blind eye, it became a slippery slope to genocide".

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@BBCkatyaadler Really enjoyed Part 1. Well done on getting over the Russia & China aspects, hopefully a wake-up call to many. But also liked the 'travelogue' focus too. Beautiful yet tragic lands.

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@ProfTonyPollard Great work with a great legacy. Maybe there might come a day where your co-author regains what he once had, now currently lost? Here's hoping.

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

10,000,000s of Brits are being ripped off by overpaying on energy, mobile, broadband, water bills and more. Tonight on 8pm ITV it's BillBuster time. I'll show you how to fight back by cutting costs and keeping more cash in your pockets not theirs. Please do share and pass word.

[Auschwitz Exhibition @auschwitzxhibit]

Ilse Geuze left her parents’ farm in Austria to attend a school for children with disabilities. In Dec.1940 they received a letter: Ilse had been admitted to the institution. No visits or phone calls were allowed.

In January 1941, they received an urn holding her ashes.

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@kejamieson_ Merry Christmas to you & Gunner 😊