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• It's hard to make predictions, especially about the future
• ‘Fries or salad?’ sums up all choices for the rest of your life!

[▪️ Geedeese ▪️ @Geedeese]

@RnaudBertrand Sooner rather than later we might arrive at the ironic situation where <>EUROPE<> will have to turn to <>MOSCOW<> to ask for protection against hostile U.S. actions.

[▪️ Geedeese ▪️ @Geedeese]

@ClarkeMicah Peter Hitchens is generally restrained but sometimes it IS necessary to call out these sloppy 'know-it-all' types.

[Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah]

.@bobborsley. 1/3 I am of course aware that Russia has invaded its neighbours, as have England (Scotland and Ireland) , the USA (Mexico and Canada) and Germany (you name it). Likewise I am aware that Russia has in been invaded by Poland(1920) Germany (1941) England and France(1853), France (1812) Sweden (1708) etc etc

[▪️ Geedeese ▪️ @Geedeese]

@narindertweets Nigel Farage, Richard Tice, Rupert Lowe and Kemi Badenoch were totally wrong on this.
Don't ever let these people anywhere near foreign policy!

(currently on holiday, it's bedtime here @narindertweets )

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

I get asked this all the time, so I am reposting my famous thread of all the top strategic thinkers - from Kissinger to Chomsky - who warned for years that war was coming if we pursued NATO expansion, yet had their advice ignored (which begs the question: why?).

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This notion that Europe can achieve strategic autonomy by continuing alone a hostile policy against Russia makes just about zero sense.

By all means become strategically autonomous from the US but do you really think that you'll achieve alone against Russia what you collectively couldn't with the US, especially when the US was militarily the much stronger power?

It's even excessively dangerous. Imagine a world where the US independently makes peace with Russia, and Europe effectively remains the only hostile power to it out there. When one major power exits a conflict through separate negotiations, the remaining belligerent often faces much more pressure; being the "odd one out" in great power politics isn't generally a great place to be in...

It's all the more bizarre because the Ukraine conflict disproportionately damaged Europe and not the US (which arguably gained a lot, if only from its increased LNG sales to a Europe cut from Russian energy). Theoretically, looking at its own interests, Europe should more eagerly want peace than the US...

The much more rational path to gain strategic independence would be to out-Trump Trump and pursue a European-led peace initiative that is based on Europe's interests. Strategic independence means having the freedom to pursue one's own interests, not maintaining positions that were based on an Atlantist understanding of the world that simply doesn't make sense anymore.

De Gaulle, for one, would have understood this. After all, he pursued his own diplomatic initiatives with the Soviet Union and China directly against American wishes. His politics was the contrary of isolating France or Europe into a more belligerent position than the US: it was about maintaining dialogue with all sides to balance between them. With this "strategy", if it can be called that, Europe risks becoming a pawn caught between Russian and American power, sacrificing its economic prosperity and security for a conflict neither side wants it to win.

[▪️ Geedeese ▪️ @Geedeese]

@Westfie84677955 @johnwedgey @ClarkeMicah @WhyWaffle Go and read up instead of lying.
There was no Arab (army) invasion of Israel in 1948. They did not cross the border of Israel; they were defending Palestine.

[▪️ Geedeese ▪️ @Geedeese]

@ClarkeMicah @WhyWaffle Steve Witkoff, Trump's special envoy, has come out and said it: "The war didn't need to happen. It was provoked."
https://t.co/Wxl6XBGIyz

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Witkoff: "The war didn't need to happen. It was provoked. It doesn't necessarily mean it was provoked by the Russians. There were all kinds of conversations back then about Ukraine joining NATO. That didn't need to happen. It basically became a threat to the Russians."

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Witkoff: "The war didn't need to happen. It was provoked. It doesn't necessarily mean it was provoked by the Russians. There were all kinds of conversations back then about Ukraine joining NATO. That didn't need to happen. It basically became a threat to the Russians."

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

There is a pattern here no one should ignore. Police across the West – the UK, Germany, France, Canada, Switzerland, the US – are locking people up, most especially journalists, for upsetting the feelings of those who support what the world's highest court has ruled is a plausible genocide.

Isn't that kind of democracy called a police state?

[▪️ Geedeese ▪️ @Geedeese]

@William_Laing @ClarkeMicah @BuckCllr Ukraine did start it. What Trump doesn't point out though, is the ppl involved were helped or coerced by US.

[▪️ Geedeese ▪️ @Geedeese]

@ZiaYusufUK Using waterfalls+wind+sun to generate electricity seems like a great idea to me instead of burning oil+gas+coal and discharging nasty fumes+soot in the air.
We should use the advantage of the British Isles and have large offshore wind farms. ✔️

[▪️ Geedeese ▪️ @Geedeese]

@kajakallas People want peace talks. EU doesn't want peace talks.

[▪️ Geedeese ▪️ @Geedeese]

@yorkshirebloke_ @narindertweets Migrants are far, far lower Per Capita, obviously! 🙄
@yorkshirebloke_

[▪️ Geedeese ▪️ @Geedeese]

@jackso96577 @Womanonthebus @HoodedClaw1974 @MayorofLondon @realDonaldTrump London is way down the list for violent crime.
Try WYorkshire, N.Yorkshire Middlesbrough+Stockton etc - it's almost twice the rate as London

(I think this Jeff lad is clueless @Womanonthebus )

https://t.co/PXJMD8vYbX

[▪️ Geedeese ▪️ @Geedeese]

@narindertweets London's violent crime rate is quite low compared to other areas.

[▪️ Geedeese ▪️ @Geedeese]

@jackso96577 @supertanskiii A nerdy adolescent posts a remark in the belief he's being original.
No wonder he's only got 31 followers. 😏

[▪️ Geedeese ▪️ @Geedeese]

@angeloinchina USAID pretended to help with help Ukraine with "democracy" but still the people voted for Victor Yanukovich, so that's when US orchestrated a coup!

[▪️ Geedeese ▪️ @Geedeese]

@RSA_Observer US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent himself wrote a piece direct for the Financial Times.
LINK––>https://t.co/r2GeSFfS1v

[▪️ Geedeese ▪️ @Geedeese]

@martynnunns @squatsons And Europe keeps pushing Ukraine into the mincer.

@martynnunns

[▪️ Geedeese ▪️ @Geedeese]

@supertanskiii In 2018 we started boycotting as many US+Israel products as practically possible. That soon evolved into boycotting ALL fast-food (& junk food). Takeaway outlets don't exist for us. So much healthier. Many changes for the better. This summer we plan to buy a Chinese car.

[▪️ Geedeese ▪️ @Geedeese]

@jameswe1ght @supertanskiii That's OK, it's a previous purchase. A financial boycott can neither be done retrospectively, nor entirely. But if people are spending, say, £3,000/yr on US products and then reduce that amount by half, it would have an impact.

Do you understand now?
@jameswe1ght