Sigrav

🌈 Politics History. 'Lost' prev Acc😡 Mostly mute. Learning to observe, observing to learn.🤷‍♂️. Pointless banter.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Needless to say, some of the greatest anti-Communists were Social Democrats. Trump wouldn’t know since he never was an anti-Communist—he wanted to cut business deals with the Soviet Union and admired the brutal repression of the Chinese regime.

[Die ganze Geschichte @GanzeGeschichte]

For a long time, it was not known that Hannelore Kohl—who would later become the wife of the German chancellor—had been gang-raped by several Soviet soldiers and then thrown out of a window as a 12-year-old girl while fleeing in 1945. Because she sustained permanent and chronically painful damage to a vertebra as a result, she may not have been able to suppress the memory of the incident for even a single day. Exactly 25 years ago today, she took her own life.

[David Aaronovitch @DAaronovitch]

Idiot. By the time the US entered the war Germany had given up on invading Britain and were stuck outside Moscow. Thanks for Lend Lease though even though your 1940 equivalents opposed even that

[Sigrav @SimonGr03440215]

@BBCSport

[Sigrav @SimonGr03440215]

@mrdanwalker

[Sigrav @SimonGr03440215]

#England

[Oliver Kamm @OliverKamm]

This absurd site has 640k followers 🙄. The picture was NOT taken before the Rosenbergs’ execution. The sentence was barbaric but they really were atomic spies, who lied for Stalin. Kremlin adopted their cause to divert attention from the genuinely antisemitic Slánský show trial.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

This is embarrassing from DeSantis. Britain stood alone, defending the free world, while we were on the sidelines, crippled by isolationism. And that's after Britain took the most horrific casualties confronting Imperial Germany in World War I.

[Sigrav @SimonGr03440215]

@WaiteMWT Ye I crashed earlier but might fall asleep neways 🤷‍♂️

[Yasmina @yasminalombaert]

“Russia: a system of "bandit robbery" - Leonid Ivashov, retired Russian colonel general and a prominent figure in Russian military.

In a candid analysis of the current state of putin’s Russia, General Ivashov argues that the Kremlin is not a collection of rival camps, but a single, unified team.

Their primary objective is not the welfare of the nation, but the consolidated control and extraction of the country’s vast resources.

According to the General, the infighting we witness is merely a facade—a "bandit struggle" for influence and wealth redistribution, while the country suffers under a mounting systemic crisis.

Ivashov paints a grim picture of a Russia where every critical sector, from the economy and science to healthcare and the military, is in a state of terminal decline. He argues that the current political model, established under the auspices of the ruling party, has completely exhausted its potential.

The centralisation of power has effectively turned Russia’s regions into powerless, marionette structures, stripping them of the ability to manage their own economies or address the needs of their local populations.

The General posits that the only way to arrest this degradation is through fundamental, "revolutionary" changes, not necessarily a violent civil war, but a systematic, top-to-bottom dismantling of the current authoritarian vertical.

Ivashov insists that the people must become the actual source of power, as nominally declared in the Constitution, rather than mere spectators to the elites’ power games.

Regions must regain control over their own territorial economies, ensuring that the wealth extracted from their land actually benefits the local people who live and work there.

Ivashov’s message is ultimately one of urgency. He challenges the public to stop supporting any specific political personality and to start supporting concrete actions that dismantle the current system of "bandit robbery".

Without organised, conscious involvement from the citizenry, he warns that the country will continue to wither away, with the public remaining nothing more than a "small coin" in the elites' high-stakes game.

Here’s the lowdown on General Ivashov’s recent, and pretty explosive, take on the state of putin’s Russia.

Narrator: “Ivashov is convinced that Russia today is experiencing not private difficulties, but a large-scale and comprehensive crisis. There are practically no spheres left, be it the economy, education, healthcare, or the army, where a decline would not be felt. Even political parties and civil institutions are devoid of independence and are not capable of proposing a way out of the current situation. He sees the reasons for this in the fact that the current management model has exhausted itself, and attempts to patch up the old system only exacerbate its decay. In these conditions, he believes, radical changes are inevitable, either from above or from below.”

Ivashov: “Today the country is in a state of a systemic crisis. There is not a single sphere, including the party-political sphere, and Vladimir Petrovich talks about this, which would not be in a state of crisis. Or maybe someone sees one sphere, in the economy or somewhere, in education, in science, where there would not be a crisis? And an exit from the systemic crisis is possible only through a revolution. And a revolution can be either from above—putin or someone starts dismantling the former system and creating the system, including in the economy, about which Mikhail Leonidovich spoke. But this should be a revolutionary process. Or, if the authorities do not do this, then a revolution begins from a riot, like in Biryulyovo, and then it goes somewhere spontaneously, and then there must be an organised force that will curb this spontaneous process and translate it into a normal revolutionary character of events.”

[Frank @FrankFWJH]

went back to their freedom and liberty in which it was legal to dehumanise and enslave people for 58 whole years longer the terrible British monarchy who taxed them too much 😞

[David Frum @davidfrum]

250 years after July 4, 1776, the successor of King George III pays taxes and publishes his returns. The successor of George Washington does not. https://t.co/CbIXDe8UQY

[Emily Sheffield @emilysheffield]

Don’t act the victim @danny__kruger it is unworthy of your long career in Parliament. You know full well he deserves this attention. I’ve been a journalist for thirty years and no where in our recent political history can I think of a similar situation where a politician didnt declare a sum this large and from then on comes one changing story after the next. Farage I hope will be found on the wrong side of parliamentary rules because otherwise the precedent set will be highly damaging for trust and process in our Parliamentary system. He can stand again in a by -election whatever happens. Journalists are now rightly looking at all his wealth. To see if there are more missed payments or assets he should have declared.

Above all this is also about public trust and this is where he has damaged himself the most - he has set himself apart as different and now he looks worse than those he has sought to criticise.

It was so easy if there was any doubt at all over the rules to declare £5 million given by a well known political donor and one who has made a fortune in crypto. Even if the gift was originally innocent, deciding to not declare it does NOT look innocent. And is was not for Farage to decide the correct interpretation from the moment he became an MP.

Without him Reform is dead in the water. That’s what is terrifying you all. But that’s not why journalists are chasing this story. It is the sheer size of the undeclared money by a Reform political donor. I don’t believe for a second you are not all shocked by it either.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

A European capital is on fire because Russia spent the night firing missiles at civilians in their beds.

Kyiv is full of smoke. People are buried under rubble.

This is terrorism.

[Sigrav @SimonGr03440215]

@jaltmxx1 Maybe when? Last week it was too hot. Dm

[BBC Newsnight @BBCNewsnight]

"You're spending something like £65 billion on defence and £360 billion on welfare. Lucky you, you must not feel any danger..."

Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski on Britain's defence spending.

#Newsnight

[Sigrav @SimonGr03440215]

@hellohimate Grindr was always all about window shopping anyways #grindr

[Rory Stewart @RoryStewartUK]

Worrying from Exeter - the University it seems planning to slash humanities teaching while telling colleagues it is “in line with the government’s industrial strategy”. https://t.co/oLERjBmyf9

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious.

Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal. https://t.co/72wxaVLzVT