During the Cuban Missile Crisis everyone had a healthy fear of nuclear annihilation, and everyone wanted de-escalation above all else. Today nobody even cares about the insane nuclear brinkmanship games being played, and all mainstream factions are calling only for escalation.
JUST IN: The White House is briefing TikTok stars about the war in Ukraine -- On Thursday afternoon, 30 top TikTok stars gathered on a Zoom call to receive key information about the war unfolding in Ukraine, Washington Post reported Friday.
Schrodinger's Putin: Simultaneously a crazy deranged lunatic and also much too level-headed and rational to respond to western escalations with nuclear weapons.
According to the UN, some 377,000 people died in the NATO-backed war in Yemen by the end of 2021, 70% of them children under the age of five.
This slaughter received less coverage over the past seven years combined than the war in Ukraine has in 14 days.
https://t.co/TE8BldYZi0
I've fact-checked the claims that Jeremy Corbyn is "pro-Putin". It turns out that no politician has been more consistent or more prescient about Putin than Corbyn. When he warned about Russian donor money he was mocked. My new column for Middle East Eye:
https://t.co/rrkcDmlSue
We now need a full scale, judge-led enquiry into how Britain's political media class was penetrated for so long, and up to the highest level, by Putin proxies. My new column for Middle East Eye:
https://t.co/rrkcDm4h5E