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Graduate of the realist school of International Politics. Economic history, Geopolitical analysis. The Causes of War & the Conditions of Peace Specialist in US foreign policy post 45

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Clem.PM @clempm.bsky.social · Jan 27

“I know the limits of international law but I still believe in peaceful means of conflict resolution and prevention. So I want to make the system work, but I know that it will take a longer time than normal to fix it – and meanwhile, many more people will die.”

UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese

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Clem.PM @clempm.bsky.social · 5h

Of course you have 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

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HotDog89 @hotdog89.bsky.social · 8h

says it all so ok to hate Russia but not Ukrane where a large % of theirs leaders came from it seems.

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Clem.PM @clempm.bsky.social · 11h

“According to Germany's former chancellor, Angela Merkel, Poland and the Baltic states blocked possible EU talks with Vladimir Putin before the war in Ukraine.”

Another chance to avoid war in Ukraine was lost

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Clem.PM @clempm.bsky.social · 11h

Stalin - Georgian
Beria -Georgian
Kruschev - UkrainIan
Brezhnev - Ukrainian
Chernenko - UkrainIan
Gorbachev - Ukrainian descent

The conflict is complicated multilayerd multifaceted having its roots in 100s of years of historical ethnic & Cultural contexts not simplist populust good guy vs bad guy

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Clem.PM @clempm.bsky.social · 13h

Stalin was not a Russian

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Clem.PM @clempm.bsky.social · 14h

You are a scholar of war now?

Clem.PM @clempm.bsky.social · 14h

This lady is proud of one the largest slaughters of women and children in living memory

Say no more

Shoshana Journey @shoshjourney.bsky.social · 17h

I am proud to deny the greatest lie of the 2020s.

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Clem.PM @clempm.bsky.social · 18h

Comment from a genocide denier

Shoshana Journey @shoshjourney.bsky.social · 18h

These claims have been debunked so many times. Brown University reveals itself as a shameless lying institution.

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Clem.PM @clempm.bsky.social · 18h

According to Brown University, Israel has killed more journalists in Gaza since October 2023, than in the US Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, Vietnam War, the wars in the former Yugoslavia and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan – combined

Where is the outrage in The West?

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Clem.PM @clempm.bsky.social · 1d

Since when did protesting against genocide become un-British?

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Clem.PM @clempm.bsky.social · 1d

Either you did not read or you did not understand my post
Either way its not my problem

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Talk With Saul @talkwithsaul.bsky.social · 1d

Remember this? Boy, did that create a big hoot. Did anything ever happen? Of course not. Will it ever get voted on? Maybe in a year or so. Will it pass? Probably not. But boy oh boy, did they make a lot of theater out of nothing.

Shona Murray @shonamurray.bsky.social · 21d

Via Euronews: EU moves to sanction Israel over Gaza, West Bank humanitarian crisis www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

EU moves to sanction Israel over Gaza, West Bank humanitarian crisis

Commission proposes package of sanctions that were trailed by Ursula von der Leyen in her State of the Union speech in Strasbourg last week. #EuropeNews

www.euronews.com

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Clem.PM @clempm.bsky.social · 1d

A great way to avoid bring in war to a speedy end. Ban diplomacy.
Madness

Clem.PM @clempm.bsky.social · 1d

Dont like democracy then?

Nordique Bonqeur Fella 🇸🇪🇦🇽🇫🇮🇩🇰🇧🇻🇮🇸 @nordicfella.bsky.social · 1d

For God's sake can we just remove Hungary's voting right already?!?
@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
@kajakallas.bsky.social

Clem.PM @clempm.bsky.social · 1d

That's the way to bring a war to a speedy conclusion - ban diplomats. Stop talking to diplomats

Dismal post

Kyiv Post @kyivpost.com · 1d

The European Union has agreed to limit the free movement of Russian diplomats across the bloc over espionage concerns, as part of its 19th sanctions package.

Hungary — the last holdout — has dropped its veto.

www.kyivpost.com/post/61604

EU Moves to Curb Russian Diplomats’ Travel Over Spy Concerns

Under the plan, Russian diplomats based in EU capitals will have to notify other governments of their travel plans before crossing borders.

www.kyivpost.com

Clem.PM @clempm.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder

a cartoon of donald duck holding a stack of money

ALT: a cartoon of donald duck holding a stack of money

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Clem.PM @clempm.bsky.social · 1d

In the early 90s some politicians wanted NATO replaced with a single & indivisible security architecture from Vancouver to Vladivostok based on arms control, peaceful coexistence - no state would improve its security at the expense of others

EG Hans-Dieter Genscher & Vaclav Havel

USA said no

HotDog89 @hotdog89.bsky.social · 1d

in my view NATO has always been problematic to say the least,. Set up during cold war it should have been closed down after the fall of USSR . Instead its been ever increasing on Russia one way or another. Its really a branch of USA power base.

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Clem.PM @clempm.bsky.social · 1d

USA was involved in 64 covert regime changes during the Cold War
NATO states either individually or collectively have destroyed large areas of West Asia creating failed states
USA supported a far right coup d’état in Ukraine in 2014

Next stop Georgia?

HotDog89 @hotdog89.bsky.social · 1d

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Clem.PM @clempm.bsky.social · 1d

USA was involved in 64 covert regime changes during the Cold War

NATO states either individually or collectively have destroyed large areas of West Asia creating failed states

USA supported a far right coup d’état in Ukraine in 2014

But you think there is no western interference in Georgia?

UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 1d

Russia accuses Brussels of attempted coup in Georgia
Tbilisi ‘under attack’ after protesters attempt to storm presidential palace as Georgian Dream claims landslide victory in local elections

Still smarting after losing Moldova 🇲🇩

archive.is/2025.10.06-1...

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Clem.PM @clempm.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for this

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Geoff Smith @fogcat.bsky.social · 1d

This book is well worth a read, not just for the Brexit stuff but for what Cambridge Analytica was doing in other countries too.

www.abebooks.co.uk/978059322914...

Mindfuck: Inside Cambridge Analytica’s Plot to Break the World - Christopher Wylie: 9780593229149 - AbeBooks

For the first time, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower tells the inside story of the data mining and psychological manipulation behind the election of Donald Trump and the Brexit referendum, connec...

www.abebooks.co.uk

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Danny 🏴🚩 @superpylon.bsky.social · 1d

a man with a bandage on his head is talking to a woman while another man looks on ..

ALT: a man with a bandage on his head is talking to a woman while another man looks on ..

media.tenor.com

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Clem.PM @clempm.bsky.social · 1d

I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it

Danny 🏴🚩 @superpylon.bsky.social · 1d

The first rule of Cult Club is we don't talk about the Cult Club

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James Bottomley @jamesbottomley.bsky.social · 1d

I winced when she said that - you'd think as an African herself she might be dimly aware of the terrible mass murders on that continent. She has such a low, colonialist view of her own people.

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Danny 🏴🚩 @superpylon.bsky.social · 1d

Badenoch having the audacity to say with a straight face that October 7th was the worst massacre in our lifetime and so we shouldn't protest a massacre on an industrial scale happening during our lifetime.

Honey, October 7th isn't even in the top 10 of massacres committed in my lifetime.

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