Emmy & BAFTA-winning filmmaker, credits include Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke, Ukraine: The People’s Fight, Aftershock, Syria Behind the Lines
As a faithful listener to @RestIsPolitics, I wish they would take this opportunity to become as knowledgeable about gender politics as they are about other political issues. They manifest the casual misogyny of men whose wives and daughters are insulated by wealth and privilege.
Senator Graham says he has never heard Trump so angry. Somewhere in Europe, nobody is sleeping badly about this.
Let’s be precise about what’s actually happening here.
Europe has spent thirty years trying to contain Iran through diplomacy. The JCPOA was a European initiative. Trump tore it up in 2018. Iran’s nuclear programme accelerated directly as a result. Europe warned this would happen. Nobody listened. Now Graham is calling European diplomacy “a miserable failure” while standing next to the man who blew up the only agreement that was working.
As for the Strait of Hormuz. Europe imports oil through it, yes. So does China. So does India. So does Japan. If Graham wants a coalition, he has a planet to call. What he appears to want, however, is specifically European military assets deployed in support of a war Europe was not consulted on, did not request and does not want.
That is not an alliance. That’s a shit show.
Graham says this makes him “second guess the value of these alliances.” Europe has been second guessing that value since Trump. Welcome to the conversation, Senator. You are about eight years late.
Hey CA friends and followers, my very talented sister in law and Golden Gate Park fanatic Marta has written a local's guide to the park, a real labour of love for her these last couple of years. Check it out if you're heading to SF.... https://t.co/ZJgQ7DEIkQ
Testing lenses & accidentally filmed the American prog hardcore @greyhavenband trying to find food. To cut a long weird story short, it was the highlight of my week to offer them a night’s sleep not in a van. Here’s the vid I made to promote their new album. I have a new calling
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