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#NAFO Keep Buggering On. Winston Churchill

🇺🇸👀 Axios: Acting U.S. sanctions czar Gene Lange joined Trump envoys Witkoff and Kushner in Moscow, signaling that sanctions relief was part of discussions with Russia. Lange took part in preparatory talks with Putin envoy Dmitriev but did not attend the meeting with Putin.

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‼️ POLITICO: For the first time in decades, NATO allies held submarine-hunting drills off Iceland without U.S. ships or aircraft, as European and Canadian forces took lead in defending North Atlantic. The exercise focused on GIUK Gap, a key route for Russian nuclear submarines entering the Atlantic.

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Maybe it was time, but sad to see Gabriel Martinelli go, & I think he deserved better from certain people when it came to his departure. Fans connect with players who they can see love the club, and he was one of those from his very 1st appearance. He leaves as a champion, and he deserved that.

Gabriel Martinelli holds his Premier League winners medal

If there are any film industry peeps who follow me from Japan, let me know if there are any good distribution companies I can show ROGUE TROOPER to! I’s love to see it reach Japan and I think you’d love it! 🇯🇵💪🏼❤️✌🏼🇯🇵

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Please remember that much of the world is smarter than average Americans, and infinitely more politically aware. They know that Trump isn’t an aberration. He’ll be gone soon, but our knuckle-dragging, moronic electorate will elect another monster instead. We can’t be trusted.

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⚡⚡ GAME CHANGER: 200km (120mi) from the Arctic Circle is not safe for Russia. Ukraine just hit Russia's critical nuclear and satellite launch base. The reach is INCREDIBLE. The Western press totally missed it.

To anyone who does not live in Paris but visits the city at regular intervals (as I do), the transformation has been staggering: Paris has been reclaimed from cars. It can be done, and could be done in London too. It is all about political will and taking the risk of being unpopular - for a while.

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2w ago

“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”

I’m getting emails from people explaining they think what happened over Monkey Cage was terrible , but they have decided to appear on the next series because…. PLEASE DON’T SEND ME THOSE EMAILS - just do it if you want to - giving me your reasons doesn’t make it easier for me even if it does for you

🇺🇸🇺🇦 The Atlantic: Raytheon and Lockheed, makers of Patriot, justify their concerns with intellectual property theft and technology transfer, but what they are really worried about is that Ukrainians will find a way to improve Patriot and produce it faster and for much less money than they do in US.

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Ukrainian attacks damaged nearly half of Russia's oil refining capacity. With repair efforts dragging on, critical refineries remain offline in Russia, crippling their oil output and throwing future military budgets into uncertainty. Experts warn of a protracted impact. 1/5