Seán Tipper

#FBPE 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇮🇪🇵🇸🇪🇸🇪🇪

Now back on X after a little break. Actually when last I posted something it was still called Twitter!
Supporting Ukraine 🇺🇦 ❤

[Artur Rehi @ArturRehi]

Over the past couple of months, russian military sources have been reporting that the intensity of Ukrainian strikes on logistics has increased many times over. We are talking about so-called middle strike. Until 2025, despite innovations in drone technology, Ukraine was
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[Mykhailo Rohoza @MykhailoRohoza]

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Ukraine’s geopolitical strike
Last night, Ukraine carried out an extremely important strike that should be called geopolitical, not just military: around 50 Ukrainian drones (according to official Russian data) hit the port of Primorsk in the Leningrad region (in Russia everything is upside down: there is no city of Leningrad, yet the region is still called Leningrad).
Why is this important?
First of all, it demonstrates Ukraine’s military capability — in this case not defending, but attacking: Primorsk is 920 kilometers from Ukraine. And clearly, they weren’t launched from right next door either.
It is also important because this port handles about 60% of Russia’s seaborne oil exports. It is critically important for the Russian budget, which is largely built on the sale of fossil and extractive resources.
But the most important thing is something else: the strike happened precisely at a time when, due to Trump’s erratic actions, a global oil/fuel crisis has emerged, and Russia has a chance to profit from the war unleashed by Israel. Ukraine is disrupting this “business deal” between the regimes of Putin and Netanyahu. And it is clearly not listening to the United States (remember how under Biden Ukraine was asked not to strike Russia’s oil infrastructure because gasoline in America might rise by one cent?). Because from Trump’s United States, for a year now, we have received neither weapons, nor funding, nor even moral support (those obsessively repeated complaints by Trump that Ukraine does not want to sign a peace deal — meaning capitulation — are already stuck in the artificial teeth of the “Red Coyote”). I suspect that even if we are receiving intelligence from the U.S. (Macron said only 25%), it is not thanks to Trump, but thanks to sober-minded leaders within some U.S. intelligence agencies (there are 25 of them in America!).
Thus, Ukraine is fighting while simultaneously reshaping concepts, perceptions, and evaluations — returning to the Gospel principle: “let your ‘yes’ be yes and your ‘no’ be no; anything beyond this comes from evil.”
And the cherry on top — for the second day, Pulkovo Airport has not been operating. Because of our drones. This also means losses for Russia and gives residents of Saint Petersburg a sense that Putin’s regime does not guarantee their safety.

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

1/ On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. This 🧵 highlights the first-person account of Russian paratrooper Pavel Filatyev, who was in the invasion force that entered Ukraine from Crimea, captured Kherson and unsuccessfully fought to reach Mykolaiv.

[Def Mon @DefMon3]

Unlucky.
I hear they are evacuating two villages because of this smoking accident.

[Love Britain, Hate Tories ℹ @realtoryparty]

This is Mark Field MP. Forced to resign from Parliament after being filmed trying to strangle a woman at a public event.
Whilst an MP he was having an affair with another married MP... she was called Liz Truss.
Nice people these Tories

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

1/ A 34-year-old former Russian paratrooper, Pavel Filatyev, has published a remarkable in-depth account of his experiences of the Ukraine war. He served with the Feodosia-based 56th Guards Air Assault Regiment and fought in southern Ukraine for two months. A 🧵 follows.

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

I have never seen Russian trolls so mobilised as now trying to kill the visa ban. And I have been watching them for 10 years

[BLYSKAVKA @blyskavka_ua]

1/2⚡️Western experts say senior officials and members of Russian President Putin's elite are panicking and want to start negotiations to end the bloody war in Ukraine. The announcement of this move was made in a report circulated to Western intelligence agencies.

[Claudia Webbe @ClaudiaWebbe]

The success of Scottish Water as a nationalised, people owned, utility is concealed from the voter because the profiteers can never let it be known that nationalisation works.

Would be a shame if word got out 😉.

[RareIrishStuff @RareIrishStuff]

A cloud free view of the teddy bear of the sea ☀️🇮🇪

[Oleksii Reznikov @oleksiireznikov]

UK promised, UK delivered! 🇺🇦🤝🇬🇧
More M270 MLRS arrived in Ukraine. Thanks to @BWallaceMP and all the 🇬🇧 people! Your support is amazing and so important for Ukraine. Our #UAarmy will skillfully use this "replenishment" at the battlefield.
P.S. More “gifts” will arrive soon.

[Sage Despatches @SageDespatches]

Sean Russell, the IRA's former Chief of Staff, died aboard a Nazi U-boat on the 14th August 1940. Today, PIRA Sinn Fein don't want to discuss IRA collaboration with Hitler, so I did it for them.

As we approach the anniversary, here's my blog again...

https://t.co/uNm20Xl1es

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Just heard on LBC…

Water firms are leaking 2.4bn litres of water EVERY DAY.

Since privatisation

Rather than repair pipes or build reservoirs

They have given £72bn to shareholders

And poured raw sewage into our water

Yet, they’ll fine us up to £1k if we water our gardens.

[Parody Ken Clarke @MrKennethClarke]

Energy shortages, water shortages, rapid inflation, higher interest rates, a damaging Brexit, polio back with a vengeance and a Prime Minister chilling in the gardens of his taxpayer funded homes. I did say he’d be useless didn’t I?

[Jim Waterson @jimwaterson]

Jacob Rees Mogg wrote an article criticising lazy civil servants staying at home. It featured this photo, supposedly of empty desks in the Serious Fraud Office. Unfortunately...the photo was actually taken in Rees Mogg's own cabinet office department. It has been quietly deleted.

[Ragnar Sass @ragnars]

The First very much (not)official NAFO convoy have arrived to Kyiv & now trucks are already on the way to frontline. It was a splendid only 46 hours drive from London. #WeAreNAFO

[Frank Kerr #ItsTime #SCRM 🇯🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇬 @frank_kerr]

Before 1914, the UK ruled one-fifth of the world's population, approximately 88 million subjects. In 1939, Canada, South Africa, Australia & New Zealand were given independence. Since then, a total of 62 countries have gained independence. Not one has asked to come back. 🤷‍♂️