Gary Alman 🇺🇦 🇪🇺

Consultant, Photographer, Liverpool FC. Wanderluster. YNWA #JFT97

[sergio tahini @_sergiotahini]

27 grad in berlin. tour de france läuft im wohnzimmer. nachher beim italiener verabredet. danach norwegen vs england gucken. europe stays winning

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@keithapearson I have a hotmail account that’s 26 years old but my main email account is a yahoo account which I think is about 20 years old.

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@savanah2j All the Americans saying we ain’t cheering for England on the anniversary of our independence. They forget who kicked Mexico out of California and Texas. England colonised 5% of the current USA. Who colonised the rest?

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@omnesvidente @Nick___Collins Actually the only country that can come close to changing the rules of football is the UK. As the UK control 4 of the 8 votes at IFAB, who actually control the rules of the game.

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@JPRaubenheimer @chloroquinecake @DanielPriestley Your economic argument is just nonsense. The NHS buys drugs cheaper than elsewhere because of economies of scale. That economies of scale works in other areas as well. The US healthcare maybe good (in some areas) but it’s significantly more expensive than the NHS.

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@chloroquinecake @JPRaubenheimer @DanielPriestley Your private insurance isnt getting you an ambulance or maternity care or a whole bunch of other stuff. It is very selective and if anything goes wrong with your private treatment, where do you think you end up?

[medoyid_ua @LetsArmUKR]

The drones didn't just hit a couple of substations last night. They carved out the exact vulnerability the Kremlin has spent years pretending doesn't exist: a "fortress" Crimea whose entire energy backbone folds under sustained Ukrainian strikes. Balaklava, Tavriya, and that Yalta-area node going dark isn't collateral, it's the direct consequence of treating occupied territory as a rear-area logistics hub while the front stays 300 km away. Sevastopol's governor is already announcing rolling blackouts because even their emergency schemes were built on the assumption that Ukraine would never reach this far with this much consistency.

This is what kinetic sanctions look like when you stop waiting for Brussels to agree on another toothless package. Every transformer turned into scrap metal is revenue Moscow can't spend on glide bombs, every hour without power is another reminder to the collaborators that the occupation isn't permanent. And yes, the Bridge is still standing for now. That window is exactly why anyone with a functioning brain in occupied Crimea who isn't all-in on the "Russian world" should be loading the car right now. History is not kind to those who bet on imperial real estate when the empire starts hemorrhaging infrastructure.

The larger point Western capitals still refuse to say out loud: this is cheaper European security policy than waiting for the next country on the list. Moscow's entire theory of victory rests on outlasting our attention span and our willingness to pay the real price later. Every Ukrainian long-range strike that degrades their rear areas, their refineries, their power generation, is deferring a bill that would otherwise come due in Tallinn, Warsaw or Berlin at much higher interest. This isn't charity. This is compound-interest avoidance.

The Kremlin will scream "terrorism" of course, because their information warfare doctrine has exactly one setting: accuse the victim of whatever they're doing at industrial scale. But let's be precise. One side is systematically destroying civilian energy infrastructure in a neighboring sovereign state. The other side is hitting dual-use military targets inside territory it has every legal and moral right to reclaim. The asymmetry isn't moral, it's technological and industrial. Ukraine is simply better at this phase of the war than the lumbering empire that still thinks mass is a substitute for precision and adaptation.

And before the usual suspects start whining about "escalation", remember the only thing that has ever slowed Moscow is the credible threat of higher costs imposed faster than they can adapt. Nuclear saber-rattling didn't stop the strikes on refineries. "Red lines" didn't stop ATACMS in Crimea. Their air defense turned out to be another Potemkin village once the drones started flying in meaningful numbers.

The math is brutal but simple. Moscow loses more conscripts taking a village that had 800 residents in 2021 than lived there before the war. Their soldier is their cheapest disposable asset, but even that account has a limit. Meanwhile their rear areas are burning weekly. This isn't sustainable for them. The question is whether the West will continue treating Ukrainian strikes as some kind of interesting sideshow or finally admit this is the most cost-effective defense spending Europe has seen since 1945.

Crimea is going dark one grid at a time. Good. Let every blackout be a reminder that empires don't get to keep what they steal when the victim learns how to hit back harder than the empire can endure. The only permanent solution remains the same one it's always been: complete military defeat of the Russian project on the battlefield, full restoration of Ukraine's borders, and the kind of security guarantees that come from breaking imperial momentum once and for all.

Anything less just kicks the war down the road toward your capital instead of ours.

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Just brilliant!

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Ok. I’m all in. Let’s go!

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

"I want to become one more of you." ✊

[Paris Saint-Germain @PSG_inside]

CHAMPIONS D’EUROPE !! 🏆❤️💙

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@tonymc39 But where is the promised investment. No sign of extending the landing stage or building a new cruise terminal?

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@aprilshowerman @BigAlSimmo @JayMcKenna87 £560

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@HijGF If season tickets had gone up inline with inflation since FSG took over, a Kop season ticket would be £1075. I think a kop season ticket this year is around £750.

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@Andy6times @KieranMaguire If tickets had gone up inline with inflation since FSG took over, a Kop season ticket would be £1075. I think a kop season ticket this year is around £750.

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@BigAlSimmo @JayMcKenna87 If tickets had gone up inline with inflation since FSG took over, a Kop season ticket would be £1075. I think a kop season ticket this year is around £750.

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@michaelmcguirek @ladtastic @NewstalkFM Thanks. That’s interesting. I presume they would have to prove the motivation was to watch Sky channels rather than any other content available.

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@ladtastic @michaelmcguirek @NewstalkFM France has recently started a crackdown. Fines have been between €400-€1000.

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@renewablesmiffy How does the grid handle the lack of inertia in the network at 80% renewables or is the 20% non-renewables enough?

[Ben Pescod @benpescod_]

Absolute icon. Never forget it.

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