by Otti Vogt IL N’Y A PAS DE 2nde 🇪🇺 ! «Le monde n’est pas divisé entre Nord et Sud, ni dans une guerre froide entre 🇺🇸 et 🇨🇳 Ce sont des cartes dépassées Aujourd’hui, le monde se fragmente en 4 régimes L’étatisme autoritaire Le traditionalisme autoritaire La démocratie populiste La voie européenne » ⤵️

Bloomberg's @rosaprince.bsky.social says unpicking Brexit "could be a vote winner for Starmer" and "more importantly, on the policy side, what he really needs is to deliver growth. So, if any of this can lead to an economic uptick, then it should be something he should consider." ~AA

NEW Prime Minister Starmer: "The future of Greenland is for the Kingdom of Denmark, and for Greenland themselves to decide, and only for Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark." ~AA

Reform UK's director for Wales has been removed from Cwmbran Community Council for failing to attend meetings. David Thomas is also goes by the names "DJ Dowster" and "Dr Squeegees" (I am not joking). Find out more about Dr Squeegees here: willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/special-re...

Incredibly awkward EU Commission press conference, with representatives unable and unwilling to answer questions on Greenland. To the extent they just ghost journalists insisting on the issue. ~AA

2. Russia isn’t a great power, so stop thinking of it as one.

Russia’s only real chances to win anything in Ukraine are political – by convincing the US and Europe that it’s inevitably winning. Take that away, and Russia looks much more vulnerable.

After four years – equivalent to all of the US Civil War or almost all of WW1 - it’s no closer to this goal than it was in 2022. There’s no reason to think that Russia, with a weaker economy, will do in 2026 or 2027 what it was unable to do in 2022-2025.

Russia has expended extraordinary levels of resources, lost hundreds of thousands of men, and restructured its economy all in the attempt to win a war it started for no obvious reason against a smaller, less well-resourced state.

Last night's edition of "Report" on Rai3 was so depressing, highlighting how investigations into the Capaci & via D'Amelio bombings have systematically avoided looking at evidence of involvement of neo-fascist groups. Seeing interviews with now aged protagonists reminds us we're running out of time.

A lot of people who were really worked up about "free speech" a few years ago and they've gone really quiet in the past year.

Reform UK won’t say ‘private’ when talking about the NHS. Richard Tice is calling it ‘independent’: "Instead of giving £26bn to the already bloated wasteful NHS, we proposed easing pressure on the health service by incentivising those who can afford to pay more to go independent with a tax break."

Then, changing tactics in favor of infantry groups, in October last year alone, the Russians lost up to 25,000 soldiers during the capture of about 30 square kilometers in the Pokrovsk area.

Nobody could have predicted this.

When people argue that renewable energy sources are too expensive, remember that we don’t invade countries to seize wind farms and there are no solar cartels. Fossil fuels have enormous geopolitical, public health, and climate externalities.

We will either end fossil fuel dependency and the predatory extractivist basis of global production, or they will end us through wars and ecological collapse - all at the same time.

Esattamente

With Trump's cognitive collapse and Vance sinking into a cesspit of delusionally online groyperism perhaps Stephen Miller and Marco Rubio are now the most powerful figures in America

If it wasn't clear to everyone that Trump is not calling the shots when it comes to this first press conference announcing Miller and Rubio's war in Venezuela then it should be now.

These freaks want territorial expansion and they know Trump will do everything he can to deliver. This isn’t just a tweet from some random asshole either. This is Stephen Miller’s wife. Miller was in the room with Trump during the kidnapping of Maduro.

Trump is trying to force US oil companies to rebuild Venezuelan oil fields that are too expensive to invest in at current crude prices while a full blown energy revolution is happening with cheap solar and electrification growing exponentially. This is a dying empire shit.

Trump just handed Russia and China all kinds of pretext and precedent to take illegal, unilateral action. We are headed into very dangerous times.

The political media in the UK tripping over themselves to report, broadcast and comment on Nigel Farage’s remarks on the situation in Venezuela. And that’s exactly why we’re in the situation we’re in right now.

“Maduro’s arrest violates the principle of non-use of force under international law. “No lasting political solution can be imposed on Venezuela from abroad; only the Venezuelan people can decide their future.”

French Foreign Ministry: “The removal of Maduro from power and the violation of sovereignty constitute a serious act of aggression against the dignity of the Venezuelan people and their right to determine their own future.

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

A deeply stupid and irresponsible statement from Farage. As per. The fact is that Farage is on the wrong side. He always has been and always will be. He’s a wildly corrupt, traitorous little turd. Not sure how any voters are still managing to convince themselves otherwise.

Shocking no one. An oil tanker, bound for Venezuela, chased halfway around the globe, while Russia tells the US to back off.

Kharkiv right now ‼️

The very same "president" that asked his generals if they could just shoot the American protesters in Washington D.C. during his first term.

If the Iranian regime falls, Russia is in real trouble. No Shahed drones, no cheap terror from the sky - and Putin’s war machine starts to collapse. Is it your New Year’s wish too? 🥂

Zelensky: Another year passes, earned by the dedication, resilience, and daily work of Ukrainians. This year was made possible by our defenders, who stood not just for Ukraine but for all who value freedom and dignity. We move forward with memory, hope, unity, and humanity. Happy New Year, Ukraine!

A Ukrainian long-range drone strike has blown up Russia’s Combine Temp oil depot in Rybinsk. That’s 270km north of Moscow. #explodey

There is still hope.

This is the plan Number 10 is surprised isn’t working: “Instead of delivering on the priorities of the people who actually voted for us, we’re going to loudly pledge to deliver for the people we feel *should’ve* voted for us, even when they’re fully offensive to our actual voting coalition”

Their median voter is a 40 year old woman, teacher, either in private rental or with a mortgage, who is concerned about the cost or living. Labour however would like their voter to be a 60 something, male, ex manual labour, home owner, voted brexit because he hates Pakistanis.

#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦

Iranian social media shows the Revolutionary Guard now using live fire against protestors.

Demonstrations against the government are spreading across Iran. Iranian social media is currently showing a big march in Malard.

Western analysts have found no evidence that more than 90 drones tried to attack Putin's residence in Valdai. In their opinion, this may be a disinformation campaign to have a pretext for military escalation in Ukraine and disrupt peace talks.

🇩🇪🇺🇦 The German government agrees with Ukraine that Russia may use the fake "attack" on Putin's residence in Valdai to escalate the war — DW. A representative of the German government recalled that Zelensky rejected accusations and warned that Russia may use this as an excuse to continue strikes.

Reform's Kent Council reduced to begging Starmer for more money after running their council into the ground. #KentCouncilFail #ReformUKShambles #BrokenBritainPolitics #LocalGovernmentCrisis #FiscalIncompetence

“Climate-related disasters caused severe economic harm in 2025, with the 10 most costly responsible for damage exceeding €100 billion.” The true costs are MUCH higher & rising fast. They want us to think we can’t afford to change to address the #ClimateCrisis. The truth is we can’t afford NOT to.

Reform UK Review 2025 In May 2025 Nigel Farage said: “I do not want the NHS funded through general taxation.” In January, he was asked about an insurance-based model for the NHS earlier this year, comparable to the one used in the States. He said he is “open to anything”.

So after the Conservatives spend years accusing Keir Starmer of betraying Britain in his work as a former Human Right's lawyer, Kemi Badenoch's own Shadow Attorney General in the Lords takes a job representing a sanctioned Russian oligarch

I’m remember getting a tonne of shit when I wrote something years ago about being half-Romanian. Seeing the mail go from A to B is quite extraordinary

It should never be possible for any minister to revoke citizenship with a stroke of the pen. #checks #balances Jenrick - like Farage - wants to be an unaccountable tyrant like Trump.

And remember this: “Republika Srpska’s politics has long been dominated by Milorad Dodik, a genocide-denying nationalist who is under UK sanctions for “undermining the hard-won peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina”. The Bosnian Serb strongman is close to Viktor Orbán and Vladimir Putin.”

Remember these two names: Charles Crawford, Britain’s ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina in the mid-1990s, & Sir Dominick Chilcott, a former UK ambassador to Ireland, are registered as lobbyists for Republika Srpska on the government’s recently launched Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (FIRS)