@MarkChangizi Netanyahu or his allies staged-managed the Oct 7th atrocity to create a justification for the violent subjugation of Gaza, intending the population would die or leave and Israel could annexe it. The Left say genocide for its resonance but ethnic cleansing is more accurate.
@Godfrey_Bloom The government know that they can't rely on the native veterans. That is why they want to call them up and get them out of the country. Then the imported soldiers will be given weapons and the run of the streets.
@A1an_M@Jacob_Rees_Mogg As well as your family, you also have a duty to your nation - not your rulers - but the people of your nation. Indeed your family can only survive and thrive as part of a larger tribe or nation. But don't confuse the interests of the nation with what the powerful say about it.
@norfsarf@CaneReese73604@Jacob_Rees_Mogg The British armed forces and as many of the veterans as can be forced there are going to Ukraine. It will be the new armed police force of foreign origin ('Gendarmery') who will be rounding up the remaining population.
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg The English are defined mainly by ancestry, though shared culture and national loyalty are also factors. Everybody equal under the law is a great tradition, but it can't hold under conditions of mass immigration. English legal culture has to adapt to the times.
@BantuPage I might be wrong but I read once that Europeans avoided colonizing all of Africa because of the risk of getting sick with malaria. Presumably Europeans were more prone to get it than the natives.
@1MikeFairclough It could be argued that the kick-back against Rees-Mogg has been a bit overdone here on X. Only a short bit of his talk had anything to do with signing up for the army. It shows him up as a bit of a useful idiot for the establishment rather than an evil mastermind.
@Godfrey_Bloom@Jacob_Rees_Mogg As with Boris the heights of pomposity are not matched by any brilliantly clear-eyed view of our political predicament. Both are somewhat mediocre. Neither outstandingly good nor particularly evil, just average people with a flawed understanding who we shouldn't trust to lead us.
@andrewknevett@Godfrey_Bloom@Jacob_Rees_Mogg And Britain joined WW2 supposedly to save Poland, a place where a lot of Germans lived (a bit like Russians in Ukraine). Poland never got saved, as the Soviets took it over, but in the end that didn't seem to matter.
🛑Meaghan, the daughter of Gen. Keith Kellogg, Donald Trump’s former special envoy for Ukraine, reproaches me for leaving my native Ukraine during the war and living in the US.
Do you know why I left, Meaghan?
Because I am a Jewish scholar of Ukrainian nationalism and the Holocaust who has received death threats from neo-Nazis — forces that the West has armed, funded, and legitimized, and that operate within the Ukrainian military, led by your beloved “leader of the free world,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
I hope your country, the United States, can protect me and my son. Europe certainly did not make me feel that it could.
🛑You lecture me about “civic duty” and hold yourself up as an example.
But you volunteered. It was your choice.
Most Ukrainian men today don't have that choice.
They are forcibly mobilized — grabbed off the streets, separated from their loved ones, and sent to the front, against their will, to kill and die. In the lost war that can't be won.
You served in a rear position, not for months at the zero line, where Ukrainian soldiers endure conditions civilians can barely imagine: shortages of water, food, medicine, and sometimes even the most basic means of survival.
You are a general’s daughter. You had privileges an ordinary Ukrainian soldier does not.
Ordinary soldiers often report hazing, abuse, suicidal orders, and violence within their own units. Read the investigations and testimonies concerning units such as Skelia, the 225th, and Shkval.
Before lecturing Ukrainians about duty, listen to the Ukrainians who are actually being forced to pay for that duty with their bodies.
🛑I am not an “apologist for national surrender.”
I am an advocate for Ukraine's national survival.
And there is no national survival without people left alive to constitute a nation.
Ukraine is bleeding people through death, injury, displacement, and demographic collapse. Millions have left, and many will never return. Births have collapsed while deaths vastly outnumber them.
And Ukrainians are dying to the soundtrack of your and other neoconservative voices chanting: “Stand with Ukraine.”
Standing with Ukraine should mean standing with Ukrainians, not with its corrupt political elites who turn war into a profitable business.
Standing with Ukraine should mean not treating Ukrainian lives as an inexhaustible resource for Western geopolitical convictions against Russia.
People like you, Meaghan, increasingly struggle to conceal the contempt beneath the rhetoric. Moral superiority and condescension cannot forever hide behind slogans about a “just peace” and Ukraine’s right to resist.
If you want more war and more blood, go to the front yourself. Take your own loved ones with you.
Leave my people alone.
And spare Ukrainians the lectures about how they ought to die.
@robinmonotti Pretty much all the wars that America+Britain have fought in recent decades have been against countries run by 'mad dictators who kill their own people'. (Saddam Hussein in Iraq, Bashar Assad in Syria, Khomeini/Khameini in Iran , Gaddafi in Libya etc)
💥Zelensky confirms Ukraine launched a massive drone attack on Russia.
Despite warnings from President Trump telling Ukraine not to target energy infrastructure due to the risks of exacerbating the energy crisis they have targeted a major oil refinery among other sites on the outskirts of Moscow.
Zelensky is determined to deliver on the Epstein class’ plan for a devastating ongoing energy crisis which will lead to huge economic meltdown and food shortages.
@ABridgen "Quockerwodger means a person who is controlled or manipulated by someone else, especially a politician who is effectively someone else’s puppet. Historically, a quockerwodger was described as a wooden toy or puppet."
@HDMW18@JenkinsLei70103@PWestoff But who let all the 'Moslem barbarians' into the country? And who is involved in setting up extremist Islamist sects like ISIS that cause havoc in Moslem countries? (answer: the Js) You can admire the Js but you can't be friends with them.
@PWestoff Your duty is to your family and nation - i.e. to the people of the nation. The only moral reason to obey the government is if they are governing on behalf of the nation. In our case they aren't.