@neil-lewis
Spanish Olive Oil Guy - international trade, foreign policy, economics, clean energy, food, transport. European liberal social democrat. Oh, and trees. Spain, Europe. (Don't do DMs. Don't need hookups nor $$$ ops!)
NEW: Israel has concluded in #Iran war
• Regime change not an option
• Protests didn’t mobilize
• Kurdish option is no more
Result: Escalation of strikes as Trump looks for “elegant exit” and wait for next round www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...
AP: “About 140 US troops have been wounded in the Iran war, including 8 severely.”
@apnews.com
Given Trump's illegal war that is devastating the Middle East and pushing up energy bills, Keir Starmer should advise the King to call off April’s state visit to the US.
A state visit should not be given to someone who repeatedly insults and damages our country.
Every move Tehran make to ensure trade and production around the Gulf is impossible also makes trade and production in Iran impossible. After a certain juncture in a society whose economy and infra is weakest in the region these effects will become irreparable whether the regime survives or not
"When Bishop Dermait of Armagh died in 852, an annalist ... wrote an obituary lauding him as 'the most learned of all the teachers of Europe' ... This sense of community with their continental neighbours is often denied to the people of early Ireland, in part by the tendency to label them as Celts."
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So he’s surrendering without accomplishing any of his stated objectives while declaring victory. Exactly what we said would happen.
¡Buenas noches!
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
the thing about the Iranian nomenklatura is they are also extremely corrupt
The EU and individual European countries have no idea how much damage their protection of Israel does to their reputation in the Global South — and some progressive parties to their voters at home. This can have generational effects!
For Israel, a failed Iranian state fractured by civil war is preferable to any other outcome. They don’t want to just change the regime in Iran, they want to collapse the state itself.
mondoweiss.net/2026/03/isra...
#Palestine #Israel
It shouldn’t take a congressional delegation to force the release of improperly detained families.
But I’m sooo happy that this family is heading home.
Muchas gracias to representatives Castro, Barragon, Dean, and Jacobs.
May the trumpets of our mariachi family ring again.
Problem solved
🚨 5 players from Iran’s women’s national football team have successfully sought refuge in Australia & declared support for Iran’s revolution
They left the team’s training camp and sought safety abroad
The players are
Fatemeh Pasandideh
Zahra Ghanbari
Zahra Sarbali
Atefeh Ramazanzadeh
Mona Hamoudi
It’s a pivotal moment for Bluesky. The company found success by positioning itself as a progressive replacement for Elon Musk’s X. Bluesky reports that its user base grew from 25 million users to over 40 million in 2025.
Bitcoin. Farage. Kwarteng.
What could possibly go wrong?
Oh: www.forbes.com/sites/digita...
If this is actually the new set of strategic goals, the Trump administration is admitting that they have strategically failed and this has been a disaster.
I have a magical device in my driveway that protects me from oil price shocks, emasculates petrothugs, slows the rising seas, and powers my car. During times like these, worth considering!
Summary of Hungarian arguments. Full text in the link.
New EU court case III
Rule of law/asylum law
Hungary sues EU court for damages, saying that the EU court breached EU law by fining Hungary for *its* breach of EU law eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
Do a Sanchez.
There comes a time when military strikes look less like defensive actions and more like retribution.
I would suggest to Starmer that no US or Israeli actions can be described as defensive, and we should send US warplanes on our bases home.
Remember, when they come, the refugees are not war refugees, they are Reform refugees.
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Worried dad here.
Perhaps we can crowd fund one of these right-wing editors to travel through the Straits of Hormuz?
This is good on the dangerous absurdity of some of the responses to the war. It's worth noting that 'betrayal', 'humiliation' and 'weakness' are exactly the same terms used week-in, week-out to describe how Brexit was undertaken. This is the embedded political psychology of the British right.
Ending free movement "led to a modest rise in the number of foreign born workers in the UK, but a dramatic shift in their countries of origin."
💥 New analysis from @jdportes.bsky.social & @johnspringford.bsky.social on the impact of Brexit on immigration to the UK
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/the-impact-o...
It looks like nature's engineers might finally catch a dam break!
Conservation groups joined state Rep. Mandy Lindsay, Rep. Elizabeth Velasco, Sen. Cathy Kipp and Sen. Lisa Cutter to introduce a first-of-its-kind bill to protect #beavers on #PublicLands 🦫🦫
Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/4rrmycJ
Ukraine currently produces more cruise missiles than the entire European Union.
Meanwhile, our stockpiles are nowhere near what is actually needed to deter Russia.
We have the industrial potential to fix this.
It is time to stop talking and truly step up production
