Chris Bagnall

UK-based IT Consultant, Network Engineer, Photographer.
Expect commentary on world affairs, UK politics and tech geekery.
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[Carl Bildt @carlbildt]

Look at the 16 other countries that joined 🇷🇺🇺🇸 and voted against the 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇧 resolution condemning the 🇷🇺 aggression! What a list! Is that the way the world now looks?

[Blake Allen @Blake_Allen13]

If Assad can be defeated in Syria, Putin can be defeated in Ukraine. Iran can be free, Lebanon can be free, Sudan can be free, Belarus can be free, Georgia can be free and Myanmar can be free. Dictators need not run the world and the world’s long arc and still be toward freedom

[Sir William Browder KCMG @Billbrowder]

If Trump cuts aid for Ukraine, it will lead to Ukraine’s defences collapsing, which will set off a refugee crisis in Europe like we’ve never seen before (and that’s before Putin trains he guns on the Baltics). This is all avoidable if we seize the $300B of Russian reserves

[Paul Niland @PaulNiland]

This is very very wrong. The standard procedures for vetting holders of high offices exist for good reasons. No FBI checks until Trump has total dominance over it? Outrageous.

[Adrian Ramsay MP @AdrianRamsay]

MPs like Kemi Badenoch who want to stop the drive for net zero need to explain to those whose homes have been flooded during #StormBert why they think climate action is a luxury

These storms are increasingly driven by climate breakdown. We need to act faster, not drag our feet
@FT

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

Where I live, you often hear, "Forget Ukraine and Europe. Taiwan and China are what matters." The Taiwanese know better. They understand the interconnectedness of things. (They also know that people who would abandon Ukraine can hardly be counted on for anything else.)

[Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz]

A significant addition to the “russia could easily nuke the west” debates is that almost every single child of every single top russian official lives in said west

[Anders Östlund @andersostlund]

Russia providing advanced weapons and nuclear technology to North Korea has no impact on Moscow's relationship with Seoul, of course.

[Greg Bagwell @gregbagwell]

There is a huge lesson here in how we react to aggression. The slow drip response has allowed Putin to ratchet up his rhetoric and play for time or discord. Had we gone hard and more determined at the outset we could have seized the initiative and removed Putin’s room for games.

[Chris Bagnall @minotauruk]

@BylinesEast @_eleanorstorey If only agrivoltaics were a thing... oh wait, they've been around since the '80s, and from what I recall, studies in the Netherlands have shown certain crops yields actually *improve* when sharing land with PVs.

[Sergej Sumlenny, LL.M @sumlenny]

Germans are so much better than Scholz! 70% of Germans want arms supply for Ukraine, and 43% want MORE arms supply compared to now. The number of those who want less supply has dropped to 24% by 7 points within a month. So cool! Check our donation campaign for Ukraine ⬇️

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

"Collective sacrifice" here really means "Social Security and Medicaid recipients need to sacrifice so that I can pay less in taxes."

[Hib Bird 🇺🇦 @Jonny_hib_bird]

Many gullible westerners will take Putin's words about 'warnings to civilians' at face value, ignoring or unaware of the nightly civilian deaths, double tap attacks etc. And btw media is complicit in that when they don't mention this context & just repeat Putin's words verbatim

[Business Ukraine mag @Biz_Ukraine_Mag]

Great analysis of Putin’s ballistic missile strike on Dnipro. In brief - his nuclear bluff has been called so he needs new levers of intimidation

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Kim Jong-Un’s spokesperson thinks Lindsey needs to tone it down a little.

[Cornell Belcher @cornellbelcher]

Interesting how quickly perceptions can change when they’re not based in reality in the first place.

[Liveuamap @Liveuamap]

Just for history: Russia used long-range ballistic missiles provided by 3rd country(North Korea) long before ATACMS strikes in Russia

[Ukraine Solidarity Campaign 🇺🇦✊🏽🚩 @UkraineSol]

"The labour movt has a proud tradition of internationalism, of standing with oppressed people around the world. Ukraine didn't choose this war - it was forced to by an invader, a dictator who openly says it shouldn't exist"

@NadiaWhittomeMP on why we must #StandWithUkraine️

[Cormac Smith 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @CormacS63]

Russia loses 17,000 men in the last ‘10 days’ fighting Ukraine!

The USSR lost 15,000 in ‘10 years’ in Afghanistan.

This is not sustainable

Russia is weaker than we think

Time for Ukraine’s allies to go all in & break Russia’s back

Then the world will be a much safer place