The screens at the Department of Housing and Urban Development were playing this video this morning

This is Munich the last time we let far-right ideas go way too far in Europe.

Let's not cross the point of no return once more.

📹British Pathé

🇪🇺 "No deal will work without Europe, and Europe will continue to support Ukraine," says EU high representative Kaja Kallas.

"Quick decisions are dirty deals that won't stop the war. Concessions before talks are appeasement that won't work. If Ukraine resists, Europe will increase support."

Representation without taxation for a handful of billionaires, taxation without representation for the rest of us.

Looks like Russian soldiers find the presence of donkeys at the front as ridiculous as we do.

😂😂😂

Ronald Reagan: “Our peaceful trading partners are not our enemies; they are our allies.

We should beware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends—weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.”

Stephen Miller and Elon Musk are running the country while Trump plays golf, signs stuff, shitposts on Truth Social, and sells merch.

I’m sure he wants the history of it all told his way.

Mad men…

30 years ago today on December 5th 1994, Ukraine agreed to voluntarily disarm itself of thousands of nuclear warheads, 176 intercontinental ballistic missiles, and 42 strategic bombers in exchange for security assurances from the United States, Britain, and Russia.
Betrayed by all.

Overnight, Russia launched a missile and drone attack. Two Iskander-M ballistic missiles and 44 Shahed drones were launched of which 30 drones were shot down and 12 suppressed by electronic warfare. One more drone returned to Belarus.

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The ISW explained what was behind the withdrawal of the Russian ships from the base in Tartus and the transfer of the PMK
news.obozrevatel.com/ukr/abroad/v...

Russia's disinformational tactics on Ukraine in a nutshell, by Snyder.

I used my last doorstep at the FAC to declare that peace through de-escalation is a failing and failed strategy. We need a new strategy, a winning strategy, a strategy of strength. Then the phonecalls would actually make sense.

Calm and purple.
A street in my small South Australian town of Gawler lined with jacaranda trees in bloom.