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Myrddin

Myrddin's Journal
Myrddin's Journal
August 3, 2022

This is where we are, James O'B sums it up!

This is scary - really scary

July 7, 2022

That's it - the useless fuck has agreed to go

https://twitter.com/PaulBrandITV/status/1544956239918120962

Tweet -"BREAKING: Boris Johnson is resigning"

EDIT TO ADD: the bad news...

Looks like we're stuck with the pustulent bellend until October?!?

There must be some solution, preferably GE?
April 8, 2022

Word of the day - testiculate

https://twitter.com/fridayfunnn/status/1512188969362067456

To wave one's arms about while talking bollocks
March 17, 2022

Putin's Playbook: #Reviewing Dugin's Foundations of Geopolitics

This book review", by Chase A Nelson USMC, from 2020 is rather illuminating.

https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2020/5/28/putins-playbook-reviewing-dugins-foundations-of-geopolitics

"...The United States, Europe, and every nation intertwined with Russia failed to see the signs. From the annexation of Crimea to Britain’s exit from the European Union, the grand strategy laid out in Aleksandr Dugin’s Foundation of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia has unfolded beautifully in a disastrous manner for the western rules-based international order. Perhaps, his words also telegraph the belligerent Putin’s future intentions.

Much more at the link

March 15, 2022

Marina Ovsyannikova - a very brave young woman - interrupts Russian TV

I've only just woken, and seen this on Sky news (link to Guardian), I looked to see if already posted - apologies if this is a repeat.

This young lady will be remembered for her bravery. I shudder to think what the Russian authorities are doing with her now?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/14/russian-tv-employee-interrupts-news-broadcast-marina-ovsyannikova

March 5, 2022

"This is absolutely genius" - as a Brit, it's absolutely shameful

Money laundering in London.

https://twitter.com/Billbrowder/status/1499826084820529153

The Tories are up to their ears in this!

February 24, 2022

CNN has video of Russiantanks crossing into Ukraine from Balarus

Source: The week

Multiple reports are now quoting Ukrainian officials as saying troops in Belarus are joining the Russian attack, meaning the offensive is now also coming from Ukraine's north.

Belarus, which is on Ukraine's northern border, has long been allied with Russia. Analysts describe the small country as Russia's "client state".

The attack from the north adds to Russia's attacks on Ukraine's east, and Russian troop movement on Odessa in the south.

Read more: https://theweek.com/russo-ukrainian-war/1010544/cnn-has-video-of-russian-tanks-crossing-into-ukraine-from-belarus



Edited to link to The Week which is a fixed, not a rolling headline, link.

Headline edited to match link

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