🧵EXCLUSIVE: The US invasion of Venezuela wasn't just about oil or narcotics. Silicon Valley figures connected to Trump VP JD Vance have for years plotted to exploit this scenario - to turn Venezuela into the first corporate-controlled "Network State" /1 https://t.co/T89PijICMd
We've just published another KGB training manual in English, this one from 1968 about the Soviets' use and abuse of compatriots abroad -- a subject quite relevant today. Introduced by my friend Dr. Kevin Riehle, a scholar of the Soviet and Russian special services, and a former counterintelligence analyst in the U.S. government. https://t.co/zM4nVnzmTF
@QcWynter We are cursed to live with those quick witted enough to feel they’ve got something to say, yet not quite sharp enough to realise they’ve not yet heard the full issue and are hence talking bollocks, rudely and confidently, whilst we wince.
@raw_gordon@whippletom@grok Well, if you believe that stuff then yes, because as one of the Holy Trinity Jesus created the entire universe, including the laws of physics and chemistry which, by design, lead to the emergence of intelligent life - including Elon. Correct, @grok?
The utter irony of Putin and Trump meeting soon in Budapest to jointly seal Ukraine’s fate should not be lost on anybody. This is the very same city where the US, the UK, and Russia came together 31 years ago to give Ukraine ironclad assurances that its territorial integrity would be respected and protected within existing borders in exchange for giving up a third of the world’s nuclear weapons (to Russia!). Ukraine trusted the US, trusted the UK, transferred all its nuclear weapons to Russia, and joined the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Within 20 years, Putin effectively ripped up the Budapest Memorandum, ignored Russia’s pledge, and invaded and annexed Crimea. In 2022, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine finally removed all remaining doubts about Putin’s imperial greed.
If treaties and agreements between countries are to be trusted, the US and the UK must stand by the original Budapest Memorandum and give the Ukrainians everything they need to push Russia out of Ukraine, as President Trump said he would do before taking Putin’s latest call. It is the only way for Ukraine to get its territory back and put an end to this brutal invasion.
If the US and Russia continue to ignore the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, how on Earth can Ukraine be expected to have any faith in yet another Budapest memorandum signed in the same city between Russia and the United States? They can’t.
🚨BREAKING🚨
What Nathan Did Next: A Kremlin-Backed Forum on How to Subvert Western Democracy — and how Reform UK’s former Welsh Leader Nathan Gill fits in. 🧵 1/12
Full story: https://t.co/Y428NriEGl
Revealed: https://t.co/qJ2ztZL2Ev campaign met Russian officials as many as 11 times in the run-up to the EU referendum and in the two months beyond https://t.co/8wOqwoSPa1
As Nathan Gill’s sentencing date approaches for bribery by Russian agents when serving as an elected MEP, it’s worth noting that he wasn’t the then BREXIT party’s only link to Russia. So, the question is how much further did it go? 🧵1/17
@docib@LittlePersonDoc@KreedKafer@RCEMpresident@gmcuk I feel like I am almost certainly going to regret weighing in here (of which more later) but:
I think the language we use vs what we actually mean really really matters here