Jon Richardson
@jon-richardson.bsky.social
Visiting Fellow
Centre for European Studies
Australian National University
https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/jon-richardson
https://theconversation.com/profiles/jon-richardson-1510140
https://insidestory.org.au/authors/jon-richardson/
Centre for European Studies
Australian National University
https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/jon-richardson
https://theconversation.com/profiles/jon-richardson-1510140
https://insidestory.org.au/authors/jon-richardson/
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This is an important and heartfelt letter. Unfortunately there has been a real blindspot among some people on the British and European left. We should oppose imperialism and fascism, wherever they occur.
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An Open Letter to Zarah Sultana
Galina Rymbu, an activist living in Ukraine, responds to Zarah Sultana's recent remarks on support for Ukraine.
heckle.scot
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
This is an important and heartfelt letter. Unfortunately there has been a real blindspot among some people on the British and European left. We should oppose imperialism and fascism, wherever they occur.
heckle.scot/2025/11/an-o...
heckle.scot/2025/11/an-o...
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Some notable things in what's being called the "Trump peace plan" but which could not have been more clearly written in Moscow if it came with a 2 for 1 deal on tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet. 🧵
November 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Some notable things in what's being called the "Trump peace plan" but which could not have been more clearly written in Moscow if it came with a 2 for 1 deal on tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet. 🧵
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Who's going to buy US weapons in future when it's clear Donald & GOP will cut you off if your invader bribes them as part of a "peace plan".
Art of the deal.
Art of the deal.
November 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Who's going to buy US weapons in future when it's clear Donald & GOP will cut you off if your invader bribes them as part of a "peace plan".
Art of the deal.
Art of the deal.
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The Nord Stream riddle: echoes of mistrust ripple through Europe www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The Nord Stream riddle: echoes of mistrust ripple through Europe
Three years after explosion that crippled Russian-German gas link, Polish court’s refusal to extradite Ukrainian suspect reignited old tensions
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:02 AM
The Nord Stream riddle: echoes of mistrust ripple through Europe www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Stopped by the @financialtimes.com mothership in London this week and spotted our recent award for our investigative documentary film published earlier this year about Russia’s executions of Ukrainian soldiers.
October 29, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Stopped by the @financialtimes.com mothership in London this week and spotted our recent award for our investigative documentary film published earlier this year about Russia’s executions of Ukrainian soldiers.
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NEW: The Trump administration quietly lifted sanctions on Wednesday against the Putin-backed Serbian leader Milorad Dodik after an intensive campaign on his behalf by Trump allies including Rudy Giuliani, Mike Flynn, Laura Loomer & high-priced lobbyists.
Sanctions Lifted on a Putin-Backed Autocrat After Lobbying by Trump Allies
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
NEW: The Trump administration quietly lifted sanctions on Wednesday against the Putin-backed Serbian leader Milorad Dodik after an intensive campaign on his behalf by Trump allies including Rudy Giuliani, Mike Flynn, Laura Loomer & high-priced lobbyists.
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"Because of other countries testing programs" President Trump ordered the Pentagon "to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis". Normally, testing nuclear weapons refers to explosive testing of a nuclear weapon, something the US has not done at full scale since 1992.
October 30, 2025 at 2:34 AM
"Because of other countries testing programs" President Trump ordered the Pentagon "to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis". Normally, testing nuclear weapons refers to explosive testing of a nuclear weapon, something the US has not done at full scale since 1992.
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The qualifying rounds for the sycophancy Olympics demand utter commitment from the contestants.
Stephen Miller: "Let me just say Mr President that this country was going to die without you. This country was going to actually die without you ... you alone saved it."
October 24, 2025 at 2:02 AM
The qualifying rounds for the sycophancy Olympics demand utter commitment from the contestants.
Americans might be interested to see where actual constitutional monarchies rank on global Democracy and Freedom Indexes (Economist, Freedom House). Monarchies in blue, US red, other republics white. 2 lists ordered for democracy, freedom.
October 17, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Americans might be interested to see where actual constitutional monarchies rank on global Democracy and Freedom Indexes (Economist, Freedom House). Monarchies in blue, US red, other republics white. 2 lists ordered for democracy, freedom.
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lol
October 14, 2025 at 3:50 AM
lol
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"None — repeat none — of America’s fentanyl has been found to originate from Venezuela. Yet Trump and Pete Hegseth, his compulsively strutting “secretary of war”, insist that the country is fuelling America’s opioid epidemic." Me on Trump's wag the dog script. www.ft.com/content/5b3e...
Venezuela is Trump’s useful enemy
Despite the president’s claims, the South American country is nowhere close to being the US’s biggest drug supplier
www.ft.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
"None — repeat none — of America’s fentanyl has been found to originate from Venezuela. Yet Trump and Pete Hegseth, his compulsively strutting “secretary of war”, insist that the country is fuelling America’s opioid epidemic." Me on Trump's wag the dog script. www.ft.com/content/5b3e...
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For your consideration:
October 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
For your consideration:
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Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social
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This obviously raises more questions about Joe Biden's mental competence
Trump, speaking to the Navy: "I was president in 2016, and then they rigged the election on me. And then we caught them, didn't we? We caught them."
October 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This obviously raises more questions about Joe Biden's mental competence
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Here’s my cliff notes summary of Pete Hegseth’s big military address today
September 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Here’s my cliff notes summary of Pete Hegseth’s big military address today
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Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference.
“One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception.
“The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”
“One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception.
“The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”
September 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference.
“One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception.
“The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”
“One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception.
“The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”
Strange that it should be a revelation. It was simply an extension via secret protocol of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which was always notorious for carving up Eastern Europe.
When I taught my Holocaust history course a few years ago at the University of Virginia, this document sparked one of our most interesting class discussions. It was a revelation (and puzzle) to many students, but that led to a deeper awareness of the underlying cynicism of both regimes.
Exactly 86 years ago, the arguably worst agreement in human history was signed - a friendship treaty between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Most people do not know about this second Hitler Stalin Pact, perhaps, because the Kremlin does not want them to know.
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September 29, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Strange that it should be a revelation. It was simply an extension via secret protocol of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which was always notorious for carving up Eastern Europe.
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"Charlie Kirk called Britain a “totalitarian third world hellhole”. Among Maga influencers it's common to talk of the UK's coming civil war. By all means Britain should deliver fruits to the Trumpian volcano. But it would be wise not to live in its shadow." My column. www.ft.com/content/37b4...
Trump and the limits to British flattery
Keir Starmer might be tempted to hymn ‘shared values’ but such talk rings increasingly hollow
www.ft.com
September 16, 2025 at 11:27 AM
"Charlie Kirk called Britain a “totalitarian third world hellhole”. Among Maga influencers it's common to talk of the UK's coming civil war. By all means Britain should deliver fruits to the Trumpian volcano. But it would be wise not to live in its shadow." My column. www.ft.com/content/37b4...
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Failure to ugly cry over a dead podcaster now a Federal offense.
September 16, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Failure to ugly cry over a dead podcaster now a Federal offense.
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“The trend in recent years has been for the great majority of extremist-related murders to be connected to some form of right-wing extremism. That is also true for 2024: for the third year in a row, all the murders identified were tied to right-wing extremism.”
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September 14, 2025 at 2:40 AM
“The trend in recent years has been for the great majority of extremist-related murders to be connected to some form of right-wing extremism. That is also true for 2024: for the third year in a row, all the murders identified were tied to right-wing extremism.”
www.adl.org/resources/re...
www.adl.org/resources/re...
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While any western soldiers in Ukraine would be legitimate targets, they'll be safe from Russia if they stay away from hospitals, kindergartens and apartment blocks.
September 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
While any western soldiers in Ukraine would be legitimate targets, they'll be safe from Russia if they stay away from hospitals, kindergartens and apartment blocks.
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💥Viktor Orbán bashing Russia in 2008, after it attacked Georgia: "The peoples of Central Europe have a duty to speak out... when an independent country is under military aggression."
A year later, he met Putin one-on-one for the first time. Everything changed.
The rest is history.
A year later, he met Putin one-on-one for the first time. Everything changed.
The rest is history.
September 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
💥Viktor Orbán bashing Russia in 2008, after it attacked Georgia: "The peoples of Central Europe have a duty to speak out... when an independent country is under military aggression."
A year later, he met Putin one-on-one for the first time. Everything changed.
The rest is history.
A year later, he met Putin one-on-one for the first time. Everything changed.
The rest is history.
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"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do to stop my simpleminded nephew from destroying your country."
September 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do to stop my simpleminded nephew from destroying your country."
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The internet is forever!!
September 1, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The internet is forever!!