Stoking the complacency that has been preventing Europe from stepping up to counter russia properly. A real dereliction of 🇬🇧 leadership

But critics argue that Ireland, awash with cash from a corporation tax bonanza paid by global firms with big operations in the country, is using its neutral status to duck its 21st-century responsibilities.

Finland provides the blueprint in so many ways. Even if Europe just upped its manpower levels in its forces the signal would be clear to russia that we will have a strong response ready.

Fantastic work and more good stuff happening!

Fantastic work once again with the @69thsb.bsky.social 💪🇺🇦

As the cost of article 5 being shown to be merely a piece of paper will make spending 3.5% by 2035 (a total joke when russia will be able to rebuild its military force in under 2 years should the war in Ukraine halt) seem trivial.

Great article & totally agree with the fundamentals. But what frustrates me so much is this is part of the wider lack of honesty in the discourse. We are entirely unprepared militarily to fulfil our NATO obligations should russia attempt an incursion into say Estonia. We have to spend now to prepare

There’s nothing yucky about being clear you want your country to belong in the democratic and free European system, not the autocratic murderous russian mir. She’s not got a thing in common with Trump, quite obviously.

Saw it at the handover, it was a dream truck, well done @69thsb.bsky.social and @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social once more

Looking forward to some convoluted explanations citing biblical tracts and Whig-era politics to justify drunk thugs attacking the police from man of the people Danny

It could be that you’ve peaked with this post, but knowing you more cinematic legs of the journey will come up! So good

Tankies be tankieing

I do hope she would at least say this of Putin!

But maybe not