@FitFounder
Living an unbalanced life.
In your youth having time, health and no money. In middle age having money and health but no time. In old age having money and time but no health.
Always Poland 🇵🇱 in Europe’s defence.
From the winged hussars descending down to save Vienna, breaking the Nazi enigma code and to the uprising at the Gdańsk shipyard that ultimately won the Cold War right through to today in Ukraine. Always Poland!
Today, Poland became the first country to make it clear that it will send jets to Ukraine.
4 MiG-29 fighter jets will be sent in “the coming days.”
Poland leads the way, as it has since the start of this war.
🇵🇱🇺🇦
England’s 🇬🇧 most respected and distinguished Jurist, Lord Sumption making far too much sense as usual... he’s been a shining light for reason, truth and sound judgement against the obfuscation of this virus through the myriad of charts,models, alarmism.
It looks like
@zerohedge
was sent to the cyber gulag... shocking!!!!
It’s last article was connecting the Corona virus to a bio weapon based
Indian scientists finding HIV virus-like insertions in 2019-nCov virus that not found in any other coronavirus
#freezerohedge
#zerohedge
👇Bolton tirelessly advocated for Venezuela’s freedom & rightful President Guaido. He deserves our praise.
If
@realDonaldTrump
is considering new perspectives - he could not go past a Bronze Star recipient like
@VanHipp
as a great candidate
In the Japanese city of Odate, a group of schoolchildren sowed a field with sunflowers, extracted oil from it, and sold it to raise funds to help Ukrainians.
The funds raised were donated to the Embassy of Ukraine.
@ScottMorrisonMP
@JoshFrydenberg
the drums of history are beating to see which way you will turn? An Australian who has committed no crime.
#FreeAssange
Smash the Brits and secure his freedom home to Australia.
This man is a son, a father, a brother. He has won dozens of journalism awards. He's been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize every year since 2010. Powerful actors, including CIA, are engaged in a sophisticated effort to dehumanise, delegitimize and imprison him.
#ProtectJulian
At the time of Russia’s illegal invasion only 5 of 30 NATO members neighboured Russia, just 1/16th of its borders or 6%. Just a single paragraph was devoted to NATO in Putin’s dangerous nostalgic ideology “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians”. It’s a colonial War!
Struck by how calmly the Kremlin reacted to
#Finland
joining NATO yesterday.
Maybe Putin's invasion of Ukraine was not motivated solely by stopping NATO expansion as so many still claim?
"What Putin Fears Most" via
@JoDemocracy
@ICUVua
“The free should not be numbed by the sight of this vast graveyard of human liberties. It is the despots who should feel haunted. They, not we, should fear the future.”
-
#JohnFosterDulles
“A Policy of Boldness,” May 19, 1952 🇺🇸
@JakeSullivan46
Ricky Gervais put the nails into the coffin of the rotting corpse of the cult of celebrity. Any political party that pursues celebrity endorsement is destined to failure…
Golden Globes:
"You're in no position to lecture the public about anything," he said. "You know nothing
There is nothing worse than seeing celebrities, sports people and influencers telling people how to vote on anything politically, when you can CLEARLY see their eyes reading off a script.
So heartfelt! 😂😂😂😂
Interesting. I can’t believe a childhood hero of mine and cricket 🏏 great has now fallen this far to allegedly engage in disinformation and subterfuge on the good people of Pakistan. It is also hard to remove the image of him sitting next to Putin as Russia invaded Ukraine.
Sitting in a wheelchair with a plastered leg,
#ImranKhan
misled Pakistanis and the world for months that he could not walk. Credit to
#Pakistan
law enforcement, and especially to Police and Rangers, who made Khan walk again overnight, and busted months of
#PTI
disinformation.
@piersmorgan
Just tell the Americans that Cricket 🏏 is just a simple game where 11 a side hit and chase a round seamed red leather ball across a grass oval for 5 days straight and in the end Australians win 😉
Wow! Await the movie 🎥 🍿
It shows US Marine Green Berets are the most highly trained in the World. To extract someone from Japan where precision, robust dedication and adherence to process is imperative must have been a massive risk. No doubt Japan will hold some shame here.
👇We’ve seen tactical victories from the USA 🇺🇸, but in terms of high level Strategy is there anyone better to advise
@realDonaldTrump
than
@VanHipp
- can someone in the USA make this happen?! Should be NSA.
There is a pathway to resolve the Iranian situation while minimizing U.S. troop involvement.
Dusting off the old Reagan & JFK playbooks will help get us there. My
#FoxNews
op-ed.
#Iran
@VanHipp
would make an excellent National Security Advisor to President
@realDonaldTrump
, fresh ideas and strategic minds are needed to confront the challenges of our time.
👇For anyone who liked the book by Economist Mr. Varoufakis “Adults in the Room” this movie is an exciting release especially as I believe the Greek vote of 2015 was the progenitor ‘Big Bang moment’ to
#Brexit
and the
@realDonaldTrump
2016 election
@Flash_news_ua
Interesting. But Ukraine 🇺🇦 is winning and the West is bringing in the superior weapons, so why bother now. Absolute victory on the horizon.
My thoughts Oct 2022 👇
It will take now probably two generations of Ukrainians before any peace talks commence - that is 60 years away (Northern Ireland teaches us that).
For order - establish an iron curtain 2.0 around Russia with a DPRK <> ROK style DMZ of sorts which is the best one could hope for.
@GenFlynn
@lofly727
Well said General. The American idea and project in the history of the World is very special and rare (as Reagan said). The Constitutional Republic must be fully restored and protected against any creeping plutocracy or other transnational centralized interests. God speed.
Leslie 'Bull' Allen 🇦🇺 a WWII Australian stretcher bearer who carried 12 wounded American 🇺🇸 soldiers to safety whilst he was under constant sniper & mortar fire from the Japanese. They make them tough in Ballarat. The Bull got his nickname for how he played
@AFL
Aussie Rules.
India 🇮🇳 is an amazing Country.
A fifth of the worlds population and the largest democracy. India can change the World in its image. I wish the people of India every success. Australia has a special relationship - dare I say, underpinned by our shared passion for Cricket 🏏
@JohnRuddick2
Well said.
@realDonaldTrump
has made big & massive mistakes engaging these Eastern Establishment types, and Neocons like Bolton - I’ve said for ages the best USA 🇺🇸 NSA should be
@VanHipp
without any question.
@McFaul
Perhaps Mr. Polyanskiy
@Dpol_un
is very short and selective of memory?
Any mention of Russian made armaments that flowed across the border into Donbas to kill?👇
@McFaul
@UniofOxford
“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”
- Margaret Thatcher
@VanHipp
has the best Iran strategy👇which is not War.
Farsi media & conversations directly with the people. Change comes from within. The great Reagan & Brzezinski Poland<>Solidarnorsc ✌️ 🇵🇱 playbook.
@morningmika
should interview Van
Physically & mentally this is what
@melbournefc
did to Collingwood today. Worth way more than 4 points. Collingwood finally lose a close one to a great team on their level. Melbourne is now living rent free in every Collingwood players psyche
#AFLDeesPies
I think people have forgotten how little we knew about Covid-19 in March 2020 including but not limited to potentially non-fortuitous sequences in the virus identified or perhaps even a biological agent or weapon of War. Continuity of Government in such circumstances makes sense.
The unhinged media reaction in August 2022 to the then Prime Minister in March 2020 holding dormant additional ministerial commissions in case of incumbent ministers dying / indisposed due to the pandemic (as the UK PM almost did) … is why it was wise not to publicise this then
@DougAMacgregor
The Neville Chamberlain School of Foreign Affairs? They’ve been committing a hybrid war of Active Measures against the West for generations. Starting with the treachery at Yalta by insiders within the USA.
@JuliaDavisNews
In the 1970s the late Mr. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB targeted American neo-liberal University Professors through active measures.
In 2023, it now surely looks like the Paleo Conservatives & Libertarians of USA (Jones, Rogan, Carlson) are targeted?
@CarlZha
@xudezhi
I don’t see the US annexing parts of Syria or acquiring its territory by violence to make it a US state or a US protectorate? Even Turkey and all their issues with Kurds in Nth Syria hasn’t fallen to Russia’s level to invade.
Quite disingenuous to make any parallels with Russia’s
Very fine people?! 🫤
Leave those platitudes to the characters occupying the back-channels of foreign affairs that trade trust and information. The President of the United States should never need to even comment in these terms. This is weakness and unbecoming for the office.
🇮🇱 Israel-Hamas War - 2nd Update.
Death toll, number of casualties, hostages, IDF human observers, IDF unpreparedness and Iran.
Please share this tweet, or my Substack post:
Support Israelis in need - I will forward your donations to people who need it:
@WarintheFuture
@EliotACohen
Would anyone really wish position Russia with a choice between humiliating defeat and nuclear war?
Other off ramps surely.
@varunjoshi88
@piersmorgan
Indeed. The biggest difference being:
(i) Australian batsmen watch their crease and make sure the ball is dead;
and
(ii) Australian wicket keepers execute a throw on the stumps successfully.
@SpokespersonCHN
A very touching moment.
The Greatest achievement (miracle) of the CCP is poverty alleviation which is the highest of all human endeavours
@GrahamTAllison
👇
Wow 😮!
#AngePostecoglou
a student of the late great Ferenc Puskás bringing that tiki-taka beautiful game ⚽️ to Celtic Park
@CelticFC
- what a joy!
As Brian Clough said “If God had wanted us to play football in the clouds, he'd have put grass up there”
In the great and prophetic words of
@GrayConnolly
if there’s nothing left at all to conserve (home ownership, sound money et al) then there is no relevance to a conservative party.
An outcome and an unsurprising result that is totally expected.
@RealMarkLatham
very sensible approach and ultimately something I agree with - Assange has suffered enough for disclosing info in the public interest and the Australian Government should have got him back safe & sound by now. I don’t trust these foreign Governments.
.
@RealMarkLatham
on the news that Julian Assange is poised to be extradited to the US on espionage charges: I think he has suffered enough. He has also published material 'very much' in the public interest
MORE:
#theboltreport
@SpokespersonCHN
This was a fine meeting moment by
#YangJiechi
to repel any perceived derogation of China. The Century of Humiliation is in the dustbin of history and the USA side must recognise that. It cannot approach negotiations by lecturing or promulgating views undermining mutual respect.
The West's economic pain from its own sanctions, which have had little impact on Russia, is a classic example of cutting off one's nose to spite one's face. When the sanctions campaign began, I wrote about its likely boomerang effects on Western economies.
Wow 😯
👇People are reading, looking, learning and coming to their own conclusions without accepting a force fed narrative. The OPCW leaks have changed everything... the people know... they always do... smart
@Bobjacket
@piersmorgan
Same action. Same intent. I don’t agree with the Bairstow dismissal and England are right to be angry. But the progenitor to it was earlier in the test as seen on this footage.
He originally framed himself as the modern Mosaddegh, but walked this hot rhetoric back too…
“Khan said he no longer “blamed” the US and wants a “dignified” relationship if re-elected.”
- Khan interview w/ Financial Times Nov 2022
Faced with a no-confidence vote in parliament, Imran Khan claimed to be the victim of an American conspiracy to eject him from office. There is no evidence of this
In a World of vociferous opinions who vehemently refute
#Macron
‘s World view of a third pole of power in Europe to bring balance & avert a conflict of Thucydidean proportions between great nuclear powers - it is pleasing to read sensible responses from
@McFaul
and
@GerardAraud
I agree with Macron. I want Europe to become the world's "third world power." Another democratic great power in the world would benefit U.S. security, economic, and moral interests. But to become a great power, one has to act like one, and spend like one, esp on defense.
India 🇮🇳 was amazing. As a guest of the
@b20
in August I couldn’t be more complimentary or supportive of their rise and leadership of the Global South. Any criticism shows insecurity amongst the G7 that is much more telling. A desire for single dominion is unhealthy and unwise.
“India’s successful presidency of the G20 has drawn public praise from the West but private criticism among G7 leaders of India for using the G20 platform to showcase its geopolitical rise.” 1/4
@GRDecter
Global Reserve Currency and ability to create it without restraint via the private Federal Reserve. The Worlds most powerful military to defend interests. Leaders in science and innovation. Fiat metrics mean nothing against these powerful fundamentals.
The Lee Kuan Yew position for middle powers…
‘Without a strong economy, there can be no defence’, Lee asserted, ‘[without] a strong defence, there will be no Singapore. It will become a satellite, cowed and intimidated by its neighbours’.
@SecPompeo
Fantastic response here
@SecPompeo
- I think this is a brilliant strategy to decouple communication now speaking directly to the Iranian people rather than to their Theocratic regime. A
@VanHipp
tweet reminded me of this great Ronald Reagan strategy 👇
The world is beginning to see
#Iran
for the brutal terroristic regime that it is.
Dusting off the old Reagan playbook on Poland and communicating directly with the Iranian people is the next best move. My
#FoxNews
op-ed.
@JakeSullivan46
Thanks Jake.
#AUKUS
is perfectly natural - but any US alliances on the mainland of China are not. Strategic ambiguity on
#Taiwan
into perpetuity ♾️ ⬇️
What fine and very sensible comments from the great
@Salansar1
and I encourage all my friends to listen as very few can accurately articulate ⬇️
👏 🇺🇸 🇸🇦
“…we both fought communism together, we both fought terrorism together and we both stabilised the global economy together”
Mearsheimer’s view that Ukraine can have stability through surrender / subjugation to their bigger neighbour is wrong.
Imagine telling this to the late great
#LeeKuanYew
- he’d rip you to shreds with his fervour for the sovereignty of small Nations 🦐
@Gerashchenko_en
Esoteric meaning: mythology suggests Lisbon was founded by Odysseus.
Refer The Iliad - he always champions the Achaean cause when others question Agamemnon's command.
Is this Mr Solovyov subtle double entendre reference to his total loyalty to his leader amongst others of
@Gerashchenko_en
“To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.”
- Tacitus, Agricola 30.4
@Martin_Indyk
@RationalSettler
So far away here in Australia from the complexity of this debate, but hopefully US funding never comes with strings attached (like China) - but serves US l interests to strengthen the ideological bonds between freedom loving peoples and uplift the Middle East’s greatest democracy
“I've always believed that we were, each of us, put here for a reason, that there is a plan, somehow a divine plan for all of us. I know now that whatever days are left to me belong to Him.” – Ronald Reagan
A Journalist??? Surely you jest
@newscomauHQ
?! Khashoggi? OsamaBinLaden’s Partner & Confidante? An Active Operator for MuslimBrotherhood? The Nephew Of World’s Best-Known Illegal Arms Dealer (Adnan Khashoggi)?
Please follow
@sibeledmonds
if you even care to know & learn...
An internal royal power struggle and the “reckless and paranoid” behaviour of a Saudi Arabian prince led to the brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Story by
@emmareyn
via
@newscomauHQ
When all is said and done - someone should explore in detail the work of Dr Frank Plummer (the Worlds leading HIV virologist before his untimely death - only last month) on the 2012/13 novel coronavirus strain he acquired... just a thought? 🤷♂️
“We cut tax rates, reduced government regulation, and restrained Federal spending; and we unleashed the creativity of individuals and businesses. We gave them freedom to create; to keep the rewards of their own risk taking and hard work; and to reach for new, bold ideas.” -Reagan
He saved the World from mutually assured nuclear destruction during the Cuban missile crisis through the Russian back channel to Georgi Bolshokov. May we never forget him.
Good morning all & OTD in 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot, dying the next day. RFK was a complex man: devout Catholic, proponent of both order & justice, happiest when standing alone, who when he lay dying, asked if everyone else was "OK". We will not see his like again.
@vtchakarova
@sidhant
Not sure. Given even Mr. Lavrov secured special meetings in secret with
@RichardHaass
,
@CharlesKupchan
and Thomas Graham of
@CFR_org
I think even more than India 🇮🇳 , others have track II channels of communication w/ Russia - not necessarily a bad thing.
The Poles are a warrior nation who never surrender and never stop fighting - the best of friends and the worst of enemies … the Russians know this, too
Mr. "Roth", instead of claiming the high moral stance, work to
alleviate the suffering of Americans and try to rectify the trajectory of human rights in your homeland.
Good idea, isn't it?
This isn’t more escalatory to a kinetic hot war. At this juncture it is looking closer to “Operation Cyclone” when finance and munitions went into the Mujahideen to similarly stop Russian invaders - and win.
More evidence the US is at war with Russia: the House approves $13.6 billion in emergency military and civilian assistance, including US intelligence support, for Ukraine. It includes "$3.5 billion to replenish US stocks" of weapons already sent covertly.
“You, the mothers who sent their sons from faraway countries, wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.” ~ Atatürk
Hiking 🥾
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
- Robert Frost
Surrounded by a closed circle of ‘yes’ men who will be competing among themselves to show how loyal they are, the president will likely be told only what he would like to hear, writes
@Chellaney
;
#China
,
.
@jacindaardern
will joins Australia's national cabinet meeting on Tuesday. There, the leaders are expected to discuss a mooted "trans-Tasman bubble" that would allow Kiwis and Australians to freely travel between countries.