A Political Refugee From The Global Village

An Englishman in love with Bucharest's blowsy charms

Thursday, 16 July 2026

Former US Ambassador to KSA Chas Freeman this week

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"Zionism is as incompatible with non-aggression as Nazism was." "It takes a lot longer to build a missile interceptor, two or...

An unanswerable question seen on Facebook:

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  Can someone explain to me why if Israel protects itself from hostile Muslim neighbours that somehow does something good for the West?
Wednesday, 15 July 2026

Quotations

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"Dostoevsky sacrificed a great deal of knowledge for a new humanity and told this new humanity his deepest secret, his last formula, hi...

George Kennan who in his Long Telegram of February 22, 1946 said the US should contain Soviet Russia and later opposed the cold war, Nato and the arms race

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"Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go...

This is not 1938 but 1939

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Nothing made me so angry for a long time.  British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood just proscribed the IRGC, bowing to the Israel lobby. I s...
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Tuesday, 14 July 2026

'Israel Eyes Two Fronts: Iran Today, Turkey Next' - Chas Freeman, former US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia

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'There's a quote from Bezalel Smotrich who said that Witkoff told him the Palestinians in Gaza 'are Nazis and I'm not going ...
Monday, 13 July 2026

Lindsey Graham

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"I like the structural path we are on here. As long as we help Ukraine with the weapons they need and economic support, they will fight...
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Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said at the weekend that Israel is destroying everything in Southern Lebanon

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“I said that Southern Lebanon would become Gaza. We would apply the Rafah model. We would destroy everything there. We would deal with them ...
Sunday, 12 July 2026

A very bad man has died

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Lindsay Graham is dead. The Politician, dead and turned to clay, Will make a clout to keep the wind away. I am not fond of draughts, and yet...
Saturday, 11 July 2026

Conspiracies

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Max Blumenthal has repeatedly talked about how American NGOs pretended that a US Israeli regime change psychop in January was spontaneous an...

Murder most foul

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I am very shocked by her murder and mourn the wonderful Ann Widdecombe, a great Englishwoman and Catholic convert, but what's wrong with...
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Axis of evil

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The US deep state and Israel have brought disaster to the world starting in 2001. Nobody is held responsible. The new axis of evil consists ...
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Thursday, 9 July 2026

Jewish-Canadian writer Aaron Maté a few minutes ago

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About one-third of the world, including Iran’s 90 million people, live under crippling US sanctions.  So under the current order, the US get...

These lies are still widely believed

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Wednesday, 8 July 2026

Iran threatens to expand war to Red Sea

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The Daily Telegraph is the most wretchedly deceitful propaganda sheet in the world.  Trump has just said the Gulf ceasefire is off (it was n...
Tuesday, 7 July 2026

Quotations

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"Solitude is not an absence. It is a form of fullness. Almost no one understands this. They call it emptiness, oblivion, cold, collapse...
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From John Mearsheimer's speech to the Patriots for Europe conference at the European Parliament on November 10, 2025.

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(The transcript is here .) Some might argue that the EU, not NATO, was the main cause of European stability during the unipolar moment, whic...

The British should not feel guilty about slavery

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Konstantin Krisin: The strange thing about progress is that it only counts if you ignore where we started. Every civilisation practised slav...

Gideon Levy in Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz, July 5: I Thought It Was AI or Art. It Was a Palestinian Zip-tied to a Pole in Gaza

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What brings a young Israeli, someone serving in a combat unit, to torture a man by tying him to a pole? Did he wrong them somehow? He's ...

Ukraine's future looks very dark

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"The defeat of Ukraine is inevitable. The real question is how much of Ukraine outside of the Donbas, Kherson and Zaporhyzhia will Russ...
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Monday, 6 July 2026

Quotations

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"You get to choose your damn sacrifice. You don’t get to choose not to make one. And if you don't choose your sacrifice, time make...

Trump: I was shocked to see Iranians crying at Khamenei's funeral, as I thought people hated him.

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Mr. Trump told Barak Ravid of Axios: I was shocked to see Iranians crying at Khamenei's funeral, as I thought people hated him. He also ...

America has been at war for all but 6 years since 1776. The last war initiated by Persia (Iran) was from 1775 to 1776

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I saw this on LinkedIn . I haven't checked its veracity. American independence has really meant the start of their forever war. Only 6 f...
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Sunday, 5 July 2026

'Masha and the Bear' reminds me of the German waiters scare of 1910

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Fifty members of the British parliament from six parties have written an open letter to Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy demanding that the Russ...

In some ways America started well but went badly wrong - perhaps in 1860, perhaps under FDR, perhaps after September 11

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No American expected in the 1760s to see independence in his lifetime. Had someone like Pitt the Elder been British Prime Minister America w...
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Saturday, 4 July 2026

What a falling off is here. America has declined very much in 50 years

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I always had love-hate feelings for America but my reasons for love and for hate changed a lot over the years.  Finally I recently paid my f...
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Did Ukrainian spies explode bomb in Monaco?

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Explosion in Monaco: Investigators leaning towards SBU [Ukrainian successor to the KGB] involvement, Figaro reports. Can it be so?  If prove...
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