Jack Brown

Construction Design Manager.
Unhealthy obsessions in politics and medicine.
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[Jack Brown @jacky81196]

"London
A place for everyone"

Unless you're an asylum seeker, part of LGBTQ+, or one of the 100's of minorities this corrupt, facist government hate to their core.
#LondonNYE

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

This is why.

When some russian in a hotel asks me why I do not want to talk to him, when some European asks me why I am not "tolerant" – the answer is in this photo.

There are thousands of such kids in Ukraine whose parents were killed simply because russians followed their crazy tsar instead of stopping him.

The russian army is 2.4 million. Most of them have been to Ukraine. The police is about 1 million. There are also smaller forces – FSB (200 thousand), National Guard (340 thousand) and others. So we are already at more than four million people involved.

And then count those who work as subcontractors for the army. Those who work in weapons factories. Count the government and everyone working for it. You get every 10th adult russian working for the war. 30% of russia's budget is spent on it.

This is not "Putin's war," this is "every russian's war."

So when I meet a russian man in some hotel, I know there is a 10% chance he is directly involved. And the remaining 90% support it –
by action or inaction.

So how should I treat them?

If he wants a conversation, he should start by asking for forgiveness and condemning their army and their regime. In all other cases, I won't even talk to such a person.

[Oliver @OWS1892]

"Can't afford health insurance? Then fuck off and die on the pavement."
This is Farage's vision for the UK.

[The Rev. Anton Mittens 🌹👮🎓 @MittensOff]

Source unknown, but very useful to throw at a lamppost lover.

[leilani dowding 🌸🚜 ☮️ @LeilaniDowding]

Why isn’t the the 3rd victim of the Golders Green stabber defined by his religion?

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

@ClaudiaWebbe Why haven't you mentioned the third victim, was it because he is Muslim?

[Robespierre (YouTube) 📢 @MaxFRobespierre]

Are the flag shaggers intelligent enough to understand this?

[Trump Lie Tracker (Commentary Account) @MAGALieTracker]

BREAKING: We just reviewed Trump’s recent National Security Strategy and Greenland isn’t even mentioned once. Remember this when Trump officials talk about how conquering Greenland is a top national security priority. They are lying to you.

[Paul Mason @paulmasonnews]

Trump's Greenland heist - what's in Britain's national interest?

Donald Trump's threat to impose trade sanctions on the UK and much of Western Europe unless Greenland is "sold" to the USA is unjust and outrageous. Keir Starmer is right to make Greenland a red line in our relationship with the USA. I am in favour of the UK joining any reciprocal tariffs and mobilising the Joint Expeditionary Force (which we lead) to strengthen Arctic security.

The Greenland crisis, hard on the heels of Venezuela and the attempt to sell Ukraine down the river, shows the UK also needs an urgent uplift of Defence spending.

But what is our strategy and what is our national interest here? These are questions no British politician has properly considered, because we have been relying on the rules-based global order and the Special Relationship.

Now, as the 2025 National Security Strategy indicates, we have to formulate a UK grand strategy in a mercurial world, where our alliances are unstable and fragmentary. We have values, and we must stick to them; but we also have interests - and they can collide with our values.

Why does Trump want Greenland? First off, there are no valid security reasons for the land grab. The US has a massive base at Thule in the north and unrestricted military access.

Second, assuming the USA is still interested in its NATO commitments, the Arctic security threat is concentrated between 40w and 40e - from the Eastern coast of Greenland thru the demilitarised Norwegian Islands of Svalbard and Jan Mayen, to the Russian air and missile bases at Nagurskoye on Alexandra Land and Rogachevo on Novaya Zemlya.

The Russian Duma has taken an unhealthy interest in Svalbard, because significant Rare Earth metals lie beneath the ocean there.

Trump, meanwhile, knows there are two massive Rare Earth and Uranium deposits on Greenland.

If the Greenland claim were about security it would start from the question of how we partially remilitarise Eastern Greenland, largely unpopulated, by reviving the old US bases (Bluie East II etc)

And once Europe's current show of force in the West of Greenland is made good, it is on the East (Atlantic) coast that the EU and JEF should focus, strengthening the maritime defences along the GIUK gap, and finding ways to project power around Svalbard without militarising or further polluting the archipelago itself.

Trump is trying to short circuit any collaborative process because he knows Denmark will not trample the rights of Greenland's indigenous population to exploit its mineral wealth. If he gets away with this, and Greenland becomes part of the USA, then we have US crappy environmental standards right on our doorstep, laying waste to a fragile and rapidly changing ecosphere.

The UK should be clear: we don't want that. But our priority has to be the security of Europe itself - which starts in Ukraine.

We have limited military force and limited geopolitical attention. Right now both should be applied to the problem of Russian aggression in #1 Ukraine #2 Baltics #3 VIC Svalbard - Greenland is not a priority for the UK and if we are going to devote resources to militarising and securing it, we should be asking all of Europe's free riders - Ireland, Austria - to stump up cash and forces to do so.

The most urgent decision the UK govt now has to take is to Rearm in earnest and find the money to do so this year, not the next decade. Any idea that the current fiscal rules and the OBR's insane neoliberal models are adequate for meeting this challenge has to go out of the window.

There is a solution to Greenland - which is for its population to be compensated for the exploitation of its mineral resources under sustainable conditions, and for EU/JEF to set up bases on its Atlantic coastline.

But the whole episode shows once again how big a mistake Brexit was - Trump has no interest in a constructive trade deal; our future is with the biggest market in the world.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

Everyone arguing about Trump’s Greenland tariffs is missing the bigger picture.

Yes, Trump is acting in bad faith. Yes, tariffs are coercive. But for the UK, this shock only hurts because Brexit already stripped away our economic shock absorbers.

Look at the data. Nearly half of UK trade is with the EU. The US is under 20%. In cars, the sector screaming loudest, the EU takes over half of exports. Brexit permanently damaged our biggest market. Trump is just exploiting the weakness.

That’s why this isn’t really about Trump. It’s about leverage. The EU can respond collectively. The UK can’t. We’re reduced to pleading, appeasing, and hoping for carve-outs exactly the position Brexit promised we’d escape.

And that’s why the polling is so bleak. Not because voters suddenly love the Tories again, but because no one trusts anyone. Nearly a third say “none of the above” on the economy. People can feel that governments promise control they no longer have.

Starmer’s mistake wasn’t being firm now. It was appeasing earlier, pretending special access to the US could replace Europe. Like Chamberlain, he mistook politeness for strategy.

Trump didn’t create this fragility. Brexit did. Trump is just stress-testing it and it’s cracking exactly where the warnings said it would.

[Beefeater @Beefeater_Fella]

The consequences of the United States attacking / invading or annexing Greenland: Here’s just a few possibilities of how it plays out for the US.

The geopolitical equivalent of committing state suicide.

The first effect is this: The US seizing territory from a NATO country, won’t be letters of protest or Ambassador recalls.

It will trigger the end of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, which provides at its core - a treaty between member nations. At the heart and design of this treaty is the collective defence obligation “an armed attack on one, is an attack on all”.

This treaty has kept the peace for over 75 years, and it will cease to exist immediately, as the aggressor is a member of NATO. The organisation will lose a principal ally, while creating a new enemy.

Potential repercussions: If only a few of these materialise - it will be catastrophic for the USA.

Europe will immediately demand the closure of every U.S. military base on the continent. Ramstein in Germany, Aviano in Italy, Lakenheath in the UK.

The US’s ability to project power into the Middle East and Africa vanishes overnight. They will be evicted from the very soil they helped liberate and defended for decades, and forced to retreat to their own shores as a fortress nation, isolated and friendless. Perhaps Trump may even forge new alliances with Russia and China.

Economically, the European Union is the largest single market in the world, and they will immediately be compelled to respond to it, under Article 47.2 TFEU - which is the EU’s own mutual defence treaty and framework.

Europe will likely move to call in U.S. debt and dump their dollar reserves, sending the value of our currency into a death spiral.

The U.S. economy, which relies on the dollar being the global reserve currency, will collapse. Inflation will make the post-COVID spikes look like a rounding error. US citizens savings will be worthless before the ink dries on the invasion orders.

Corporate America will face an extinction event. U.S. companies will be expelled from the European market. Apple, Google, McDonald's, and Tesla will see their assets seized or their operations banned.

Trillions of dollars in market capitalization will be incinerated in minutes. The stock market will not just crash; it will close. We are talking about the complete de-globalization of American industry, cutting them off from the wealthiest consumers on the planet.

The skies will go silent. European aviation authorities will almost certainly ground all Boeing jets and ban U.S. airlines from their airspace. Transatlantic travel will cease. If US citizens are in Paris or Berlin, they are stuck there. The logistical arteries that feed our supply chains will be severed.

The US will be cut off from European medicine, machinery, and technology. They will be an island nation in the worst possible sense.

The cultural isolation will be just as stinging. The International Olympic Committee and FIFA will have no choice but to bar the United States from competition, just as they did with Russia.

For individual Americans, the consequences will be personal and painful. Visa-free travel to Europe will end immediately. Americans currently living or working in Europe will lose their legal protections and residency status.

This is the end of trust, and it does not reset.

You cannot invade a democratic ally and then say "my bad" four years later. The psychological break will be permanent.

Europe will realize that the United States is no longer a partner but a predator. Europe will build its own defense architecture, their own financial systems, and their own alliances that specifically exclude the US.

The West will continue, but the United States will no longer be part of it. This is by design of the Trump regime and it’s army of social media influencers acting as officially endorsed pseudo advisors.

Invading or annexing Greenland is not a show of strength; it is an act of national suicide.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

But it's even worse than this.

Trump knows that if he invades Greenland, no future Democratic president would do anything but give it back. He can't allow that.

Which means invading Greenland is also him deciding that there'll *be* no future Democratic presidents.

Get it now?

[Jack Brown @jacky81196]

@linda_acosta @Viralvid_89 @akafaceUS Soaimi was a minor at the point of the crime.

Im not defending what he did, but our laws are lenient for those under 18. If he steps a foot wrong in 2 years, he will face prison time for this offense

[Jack Brown @jacky81196]

@sharonne_young @Viralvid_89 @akafaceUS Soaimi was 15 at the time of the crime.

Not defending his actions but minors are punished differently.

[Jack Brown @jacky81196]

@kromsafur @Viralvid_89 @akafaceUS Also consider the fact that Soaimi was a minor at the point of the crime.

Im not defending what he did, but our laws are lenient for those under 18. If he steps a foot wrong in 2 years, he will face prison time for this offense

[Larry & Paul @larryandpaul]

#GeneralElection

[Jack Brown @jacky81196]

@brutalfightz This bully deserves internet justice... Thats all im sayin...

[the Juice Media @thejuicemedia]

The British Government has made a tourism ad ahead of the coming election, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative 🇬🇧

[Jack Brown @jacky81196]

I think this poll needs some... "correcting..." #GTTO #GTTONow

[Politics Polls @PoliticsPollss]

Who do you think is the better politician? #Politics

[Jack Brown @jacky81196]

@BadManBetting Good god... what is the luck like...