Jon Richardson

Checking in on Elbridge Colby who assured me the threat to Taiwan was so accute the US couldn't spare any weapons for Ukraine as his administration burns through a decade of missile production in a week to make snuff propoganda films.

Radical leftist!

Yes it’s hard to see a principle behind it. Plenty of minority or dispossessed groups around the world demanding separation or independence - would their slogans all be banned just because someone doesn’t agree? - Uighurs, Chechens, Crimean Tatars, Kurds, Catalans, Scots, Basques, Tibetans..

“Literally” responsible? As opposed to what? Stop abusing the language.

Republican? 😉

R word? R*gger? Remigration?

Up the Amazon without a paddle! (Or whatever the river was)

True, Trump makes GWB look like Churchill.

Morally bad. He was simply addressing the legal issues, more in response to questions raised about the Indian government rather than the US Navy.

On double tap strikes on drug/fishing boats it says “Legal experts have said such strikes could violate laws of warfare.” It’s the effing strikes themselves that are illegal not just the double taps.

Don’t they checked too hard if women and kids were around in Obama’s (probably illegal) drone strikes. But this was the Navy, not Trump.

True to a point. Although people were also raising these questions under Obama and GWB.

Agreed, though I don’t think it was addressing the question of moral clarity.

The Sinking of Iris Dena: It’s time to Revisit The Law of Armed Conflict Claims that the sinking of the Iranian ship by the US Navy represents a ‘strategic embarrassment’ for India are matters of opinion rather than conclusions grounded in international law.

Jus ad bellum - the law under which a state may justifiably resort to war - is regarded as distinct from jus in bello - the laws of armed conflict, how they are fought, like the Geneva Conventions. Here’s a useful article on the Iranian ship issue.

sundayguardianlive.com/editors-choi...

You probably know this but war crimes are governed by whether it is an armed conflict- which means when the shooting starts: even US attacks on Venezuelan fishing boats are defined by some as an armed conflict, i.e even if the target isn’t military.

X suspends 800m accounts in one year amid ‘massive’ scale of manipulation attempts Social media company tells MPs of continual fight against state-backed efforts, with Russia being most prolific Elon Musk’s X said it had suspended 800m accounts over a 12-month period as it fights the “massive” scale of attempts to manipulate the platform. The social media company told MPs it was continually fighting state-backed attempts to hijack the agenda on its network, with Russia the most prolific state actor, followed by Iran and China. Continue reading...

X suspends 800m accounts in one year amid ‘massive’ scale of manipulation attempts

They also tried to annex Western Sahara so not the best model for good international citizenship.

Maybe she can work out why, if I clicked on that story, it would take me back afterwards to the beginning of my feed, hours ago. I would have to scroll through miles of posts to get back to this spot. Didn’t happen before. Or maybe @bluesky.social could answer my questions about it.

Some but not most

It’s complete nonsense. Nothing to do with Trump. Moves were already under way to help them, but quietly not in public. Trump was just responding to trouble makers on social media making out that Australia was going to “send them back”. A delicate operation to make contact & ascertain their wishes.

Literally? How do you that? A day, a minute later, Iran would have dropped a nuke on Israel/developed a deliverable nuclear weapon?

“I have my war aims. If you don’t like them I have others.” (G. Marx)

Complete nonsense. Nothing to do with Trump. Moves were already under way to help them, but quietly not in public. Trump was just responding to trouble makers on social media making out that Australia was going to “send them back”. A delicate operation to make contact & ascertain their wishes.

Iran’s next supreme leader, Ali Khamenei’s son, is a powerful regime insider Iran’s Assembly of Experts chose Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in U.S-Israeli strikes, to be supreme leader, state media said.

Much to Trump’s shock and disappointment, the Assembly of Experts passed over Ayatollah Rubio. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Dad gets to be martyr, to boot. And they killed the missus, so that may or may not affect him negatively.

Who doesn’t want World, Safety AND Peace!

You’re not in favour of WORLD PEACE?!

Odd headline. Presumably means consult rather than re-examine or rethink.

@bsky.app Every time I read an article from a post in my feed, i get taken back to beginning of my feed, rather than to the last post I read. Why can’t you fix this?

@bsky.app Every time I read an article from a post in my feed, i get taken back to beginning of my feed, rather than to the last post I read. Why can’t you fix this?