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Blimey. That's mental.

The only sensible answer is "no, because they inherited a shit show and we're skint". It's impossible to discuss the impossible job labour have without mentioning who made the job impossible.

A puppet master and a henchman? Whichever, he is part of the US government machine, albeit unelected.

I hadn't appreciated he was another dinlo playing the poster rather than the post. I'll factor that in.

You seem to be extremely unaware that the actions of the US government impact us.

What's not shambolic about it?

65 abstentions as well. So 83 voting with the USA/Russia or abstaining, and 93 voting as they should. That's alarmingly close to the tide turning. Amazing that Hungary have a seat at the EU table.

Absolutely disgraceful. When there's the inevitable response, it'll all the fault of those nasty Palestinians whining about being displaced from their land so that settlers can move in. At least it'll give Hypo some joy though.

I suspect that nic is an alt login for a regular, but defo not for TDMickey.

Sigh. You need to understand what your new word actually means mate, and need to understand the concept of mutual condemnation. The issue though is that in your mind there is fault on one side only. Hamas dragging those 2 lads to the release site was appalling form and will have been terrible for them. That's indisputable. Anyone should acknowledge that. Additionally, anyone with a modicum of humanity will appreciate that those 620 people who Israel should have released but failed to may be just a wee bit affected by what's happened to them, and I rather suspect there captors won't have been giving them a cuddle saying never mind. You don't have to look for equivalence to see bad behaviour on 2 sides. Only prejudice or stupidity would prevent that.

Seems that quite a few federal agency are ignoring the idiot. https://www.thedailybeast.com/agencies-tell-staffers-defy-musks-wild-justify-your-job-demand/ It seems that Trump is so stupid, he's forgotten that the people he's pissing off are voters.

They got their people. In a poor way, yes, but they got them. Your inability to say about word about shitty Israeli behaviour says it all.

Yes, but seemingly you haven't read it. The deal was that that they get their 6 people. They have them. They were to return people in exchange. They haven't. How Israeli people are returned in the future has no nothing to do with Israel not returning Palestinians yesterday. You've gone a bit Trump esque here mate.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjry4nqw4z0o Israel have now welched on the deal and are refusing to release Palestinian captives, including hundreds held without charge since October 7th. Backing out on agreements, shooting kids in the back, following settlers around while they run amok in the west bank. Not what I'd call that actions of people wanting peace.

2 Palestinian kids shot in the back by Israeli military today. No excuses. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/22/two-children-killed-in-occupied-west-bank-as-israel-steps-up-sweeping-raids

Different formation I reckon. 4231.

Shandy

He certainly has. Makes you wonder what he could have done for us. Hey ho.

Assuming there's a bona fide case for asylum, where do you say they should be booted out to? The place where they were originally fleeing from?

Bill

Disgraceful Disgraceful I'm still amazed that people refuse to acknowledge that the behaviour of both sides is appalling. They don't have to be equally bad to do that. That said, Hamas behaviour today was a disgrace, but there's no denying that watching the bombing of Gaza as if it's a spectator sport is appalling. Nobody should be celebrating the deaths of innocent people.

Absolutely this. It must be collective though, all of Europe, Australia, NZ, and other sensible democracies. I think the next week or so is going to be very interesting though, and I think we'll see some unexpected alliances.

The answer was in SoG's link. Donny's rating is well below Zelensky's. His ego will be all bruised by that and Zelensky telling the world what we all know.

I'd love to know Donny's popularity rating in the US now. I'd hazard a guess it's lower than Zelensky's.

I think it's more of a Trump/Putin relationship, and a shared support of authoritarianism and push back against democracy. Zelensky rightly hit back against Trump, and he's reacted with both barrels. What matters now is the reactions of leaders of civilised democracies, but I think there will be some very interesting alignments coming up.