I'm at a Republican Party event in Ohio. It has been going on for an hour, and took until now for anyone, the candidate for attorney general, Keith Faber, to mention Donald Trump once. And a minute later he said he supported the prosecution of January 6th rioters.

Another terrible thing about the public livestream execution thing is that nobody was asking for it. It’s just being done to satisfy Trump’s far reaching bloodlust

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

I'm old enough to remember how a deal to supply Yanukovych with cheap oil and gas in early December 2013 was declared to be another strategic master class from Putin

The relationship between Putin and Trump in October 2026 has eerie echoes of the relationship between Putin and Yanukovych in October 2013

But that is alongside Hormuz or Israel issues going to be part of a wider dynamic where Trump's geopolitical vandalism will boomerang back into US domestic politics and further exacerbate internal escalation within American society

Depends which regional DSA. Some have been quite firmly pro-Putin. Just needs enough on the Left to pull together with everyone else, to provide an alternative to tankie nihilism

Europe is waking up, but it is at the pace of European peacetime integration rather than at the pace of European warfare

Unless in the next 2 years DSA, Dems and anti-Trump conservatives can work together to pull the US away from the internal chaos Trump and MAGA are steering it towards then the world is heading to a post-American order

The heightened likelihood of America paralysed and facing internal chaos means every of America's allies need to develop capacities to secure their interests without Americans

Yes. But can America?

Violence on a wider scale

We are much further on that front than would have been considered possible a decade ago

I'd worry more about how chaotic and nasty US domestic politics is going to become after November

Trump's brain is mush and his party is about to get wrecked in mid-terms. In about 3 months time he'll be so sucked into existential battles in US domestic politics that pretty much everyone outside America will ignore his strategic brainfarts

The Putin regime's entire geopolitical strategy hinges on Trump and MAGA hacks ruling the US over decades when there are signs building of such a massive backlash against Trumpism in American society that it has the potential to viciously savage everyone associated with Trump

Or an alternate possibility is that as with every previous supposed breakthrough between Russia and the US it eventually falls apart due to Trump's mush-brained ineptitude and binds Russia closely to a US President who is reaching Yeltsin levels of unpopularity among Americans

The Ukrainians will keep hitting Russian refineries

Ossoff is one of the very few people adequately channeling Evelyn Normielib these days the base doesn't want to hear entreaties to our better natures, they don't want to go high while the other side goes low, they want someone to come on the TV and go "these people are garbage" he's good at it