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Phillips OBrien
1 day ago
Hi All, just sent out my free weekend update. Started with Russian strategy on the ground in 2025. By historical standards its a failure that should lead to defeat. Russian strength is flatlining, its casualties are up, and it took less than 1 percent of Ukraine.
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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Weekend Update #166: The Russian Strategy Would Normally Be Seen As A Failure
Zelensky Chooses Budanov; Putin Says Jump, Trump Says "How High?"
https://open.substack.com/pub/phillipspobrien/p/weekend-update-166-the-russian-strategy?r=1tgexa&utm_medium=ios
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Mark Chadbourn
1 day ago
Morning Bluesky.
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George Monbiot
1 day ago
Every imperial power drums up paranoid fears to justify aggression and expansion. If one excuse looks too ridiculous to attempt, another will always be found.
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Anne Applebaum
1 day ago
The conversation on Threads
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George Monbiot
1 day ago
To add to the madness of it all, the attack on Venezuela is clearly, above all, an oil grab. But we scarcely need oil any more.
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David G
1 day ago
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Phillips OBrien
1 day ago
Word of caution. Just because Trump claims that the USA controls things in Venezuela, it does not mean that it does or is anywhere close to doing so. All Trump has done so far is remove one dictator but leave a dictatorial system in place. Don't mistake his bluster for truth.
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Mark Chadbourn
about 22 hours ago
NBC News: āHow soon will elections be held in Venezuela? Within 30 days?ā Rubio: āElections? I think it is premature at this point.ā The US is going to be there for the long haul.
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Eliot Higgins
about 22 hours ago
Leaving the regime in place and forcing them to become a puppet government, or else. What could go wrong?
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Timothy Snyder
about 21 hours ago
The ethical and legal damage will be with us forever but itās the raging incompetence that will strike first, within the next few days.
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David Mohring
about 10 hours ago
TIme to go to just four eyes: āŖļøNew Zealand āŖļøAustralia āŖļøCanada āŖļøUnited Kingdom
#nzpol
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Watershitdown
about 10 hours ago
Time for nz to re-evaluate the five eyes network & military ties with this ever spiraling rogue state. Forget all those endless creeping China articles.
#nzpol
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Watershitdown
1 day ago
'Christmas is āa couple of days off", in the US and people generally return to work on January 3 or 4. Luxon said and expects to do the same this year..' It's Jan 4th, a major international situation hits and we get...
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Future Sprog
1 day ago
Time to dust off my email to the Minister of Defense and append, āI bloody told you and you didnāt listen!!!ā Nobody cares about oil prices when theyāre driving an EV.
@pezmico
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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine
1 day ago
Husband, when I read this response to him while driving: "what a fuckin' loser, man"
#nzpol
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Joanna Kidman
1 day ago
... Umm, hello? Mr Luxon?...This is Venezuela calling. ... ? Yeah gidday, we can't take your call right now. Please leave your message after the beep. ... Okaay, it's just that the Rules-Based International Order has broken down and... [BEEEEP]
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nzjanette
1 day ago
There's a lot going on here. An entirely absent PM and the entirety of our public response so far being a post on Twitter from the foreign minister - a post which doesn't even mention the US by name. Just incredibly haphazard and lackadaisical.
#nzpol
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#NZPOL
www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
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Kiwi expert on Venezuela attack: 'Time that we made our voice clear'
International relations expert Professor Robert Patman described the US' military actions against Venezuela as an audacious move.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/583145/kiwi-expert-on-venezuela-attack-time-that-we-made-our-voice-clear
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David Rothkopf
2 days ago
RIP Congress of the United States.
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Karen Monroy
1 day ago
āThe fact is there are no real checks on Trumpās power right now. Some of the courts are still holding on some of the executive orders but heās invaded a foreign state on a pretextā¦if this doesnāt ram home what it means to be governed by a rogue, out of control president, then what will?ā
#MustRead
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The Threat from America
America is not our enemy, but it's a danger to itself and the world
https://open.substack.com/pub/broligarchy/p/the-threat-from-america?r=5g02m&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
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Karen Monroy
1 day ago
Oh. My. Fucking. God. Fight for the countries sake. We donāt need weaklings. Impeach Now or Resign.
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Steven Beschloss
1 day ago
Seriously, what is wrong with this person?
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Joyce White Vance
1 day ago
New indictment; Same lack of sincerity about shutting down drug trafficking.
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Maduro & Venezuela: What Happens Next
And, a very special Substack Live Sunday morning
https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/maduro-and-venezuela-what-happens?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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"America cannot constrain its president right now. Itās been almost impossible to pick Trumpās āworstā acts, but the strikes on ānarco boatsā, aka murdering people without any form of due process in extrajudicial executions have to be up there."
broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-threat...
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The Threat from America
America is not our enemy, but it's a danger to itself and the world
https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-threat-from-america
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Can we also substititute (or add) AoNZ in this piece?
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Steven Beschloss
1 day ago
āWe should take it as a call to armsāthat Trumpās America is not our America, that on the 250th anniversary year of our nationās founding we wonāt remain quiet as these thugs escalate their attack on the rule of law & our unbreakable commitment to democracy.ā
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-a...
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Snapshot: A Deeply Appalling Press Conference
It's worse than I thought. Trump plans to "run" Venezuela and does not pretend he cares about anything beyond taking the oil.
https://www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-a-deeply-appalling-press?r=bb6o8
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Char
1 day ago
Absolutely useless fucking twat. š
#nzpol
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David Mohring
1 day ago
Just as Aotearoa New Zealand never joined the 2003 invasion of Iraq. āI made it very clear then that that was not something that either I or the New Zealand Government would want to back,ā - Helen Clark, then Prime Minister of New Zealand.
#nzpol
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Marama Davidson
1 day ago
Don't copy paste an Imperial response like other world "leaders" who are abandoning their independent foreign policy to cuddle up to Trump. Have some moral courage Luxon!
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Andy Gardner
1 day ago
Did it even get reported in NZ media that our deputy prime minister spent Christmas with a chainsaw-wielding lunatic?
#nzpol
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Disgruntled
2 days ago
Not mentioned: how it tanked their economy and needed Trump to bail them out
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Sabrina Fernandes
2 days ago
Rubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world. This is not a problem just for Venezuela.
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Jason Coward
1 day ago
Up the creek, winter hesitating; conspiringā unimpeded flowā¦
#Photography
#Landscape
#Nature
#Outdoors
#Colorado
#Winter
#Nikon
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Joss
1 day ago
Snow under the moon
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Ian The Daily Nature Photo Man
2 days ago
Feeling safe sharing this photo with you now š Pretty sure the "What is the maximum number of robin photos you can post in a year" counter, was set back to zero 2 days ago Happy new year robin to you all š¤
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Jeff
2 days ago
#Lichen
Rhizoplaca subdisrepens. NWT, Canada. The lichen is about 4cm left to right.
#fungi
#fungifriends
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The Fake History Hunter
3 days ago
Young boy reading book in a ruined bookshop in London devastated by an air raid - 1940
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JonSam
3 days ago
reminds me of a classic Japanese haiku: White Chrysanthemum Before That Perfect Flower Scissors Hesitate - Buson
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Landguy
3 days ago
Fall white mums looking for the sun.
#scape
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George Conway āļøšŗšø
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(((Tendar)))
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Finnish forces released a video showing the boarding operation of the Russian-linked cargo ship āFitburgā, which was detained on December 31, 2025. The ship is suspected of cutting undersea cables between Finland and Estonia.
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Anders Ć slund
1 day ago
The reasons for Trump's action in Venezuela emerge: 1. It is all about oil. Trump wants Venezuela's oil. 2. It looks like imperialism: Trump talks about long-term US occupation. 3. It is not about democracy. Trump dismisses MarĆa Corina Machado. 4. It is not about drugs.
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Di
1 day ago
EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ THIS. This administration is a bunch of fools. Yeah, we are gonna get the oil, we will rebuild the country. Not one of them has any experience or even common sense. Itās like a video game to them. As djt said āItās like watching tv.ā God help us.
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That phrase "Itās like watching tv.ā sums the situation up perfectly.
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Mark Hertling
1 day ago
Several people have asked me āhow did you know to write this article right before the attack?ā Iāll never tell (it was luck).
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Max Berger
1 day ago
The year is 2003. Iām 17 years old. Iām watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil. The year is 2026. Iām 40 years old. Iām watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.
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And Schumer actually believed them?!!
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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway
1 day ago
Not the worst response, but come ONNNNN
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Matt Novak
1 day ago
These freaks want territorial expansion and they know Trump will do everything he can to deliver. This isnāt just a tweet from some random asshole either. This is Stephen Millerās wife. Miller was in the room with Trump during the kidnapping of Maduro.
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Michael Hobbes
2 days ago
The same editorial board described Seattleās mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab
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