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In the row over the failed UK China spying case, our govt and media are missing the main point. Espionage is always prejudicial to our national security, whether done by adversaries like China or less hostile states. So every case must be investigated and prosecuted regardless.

The utter irony of Putin and Trump meeting soon in Budapest to jointly seal Ukraine’s fate should not be lost on anybody. This is the very same city where the US, the UK, and Russia came together 31 years ago to give Ukraine ironclad assurances that its territorial integrity

The silence from our govt and media on the conviction of former Reform UK Wales leader, Nathan Gill, as a Russian agent of influence is deafening. Gill appears to be just one link in a wider and deeper connection between Reform UK and Putin’s Kremlin. This needs to be exposed.

The collapse of the Chinese espionage case in Parliament is potentially disastrous for national security and deterrence. Our refusal to define China as an adversary for cynical economic reasons is exactly the same mistake we made with Russia 20 years ago. Why do we never learn?

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem – Byline Times…. Here from ⁦@BylineTimes⁩ the kind of piece our newspapers might have done in the olden days. The way they TV and radio are avoiding the Gill-Farage story is weird

The lack of media pressure on Farage Tice Yusuf Anderson etc to speak about the Nathan Gill Russian bribery scandal is mind blowing.

Why is Nathan Gill not a household name?

Donald Trump should not be given the honour of a state visit whilst he remains in flagrant breach of UK law. In 2023 he brought and lost a spurious case against Orbis in London. He has since ignored High Court orders to pay £680k in costs. Trump has no respect for this country.

The only credible security guarantee for Ukraine is NATO membership. Anything less will feel like the 1994 Budapest Memorandum.

In his latest truth social post Trump appears to switched from demanding an immediate ceasefire to accepting Russia’s position there’s a full agreement first. Went to Alaska saying he wouldn’t be happy if there was no ceasefire #TACO

Putin predictably ran rings round Trump in Alaska. Welcomed back on the world stage, he can tighten his autocratic grip in Moscow and boost his position with the Global South, who won’t have to fear US secondary sanctions when trading with Russia. Trump, however, gained nothing.

It’s important this week to remember that Putin has violated every bilateral treaty Russia signed with Ukraine since independence in 1992. The Budapest Memo(1994), Friendship(1997) and Border(2003) Treaties all guaranteed Ukrainian territorial integrity but counted for nothing.

Trump is like a moth to Putin’s flame. By agreeing a summit on US soil and already talking about Ukraine ceding territory to the Russian invader, he’s gifted Putin a victory in advance. And with the uniquely unqualified Witkoff as his negotiator, the Kremlin will be celebrating.

Trump is clearly worried about the Epstein files and so gaslighting with false claims about the Russia investigation. If the ‘Steele Dossier’ was “fake”, why did he fail every time he tried to sue us? And he’s still in breach of the UK High Court costs order awarded against him.

The latest attempts by Trump’s team to claim the Kremlin didn’t actively support his 2016 campaign are ludicrous. Inter alia, Putin’s comments on the subject at Helsinki in 2018 and the infamous 2016 Veselnitskaya/Don Jnr conversation in Trump Tower clearly prove that they did.

And so it begins. The USG has now broken ranks with Western allies by lifting sanctions on Russian banks, some close to the Kremlin. This despite the fact that Russia’s economy has started to creak and Moscow has recently increased missile and drone attacks on Ukraine. Cui bono?

It’s increasingly clear that Trump isn’t fully committed to NATO’s Article V mutual defence. This has major implications for Western deterrence, at least short term, which no amount of fawning on him by NATO leaders can counter. We must develop fallback defence plans accordingly.

Is there a Russian spy in the White House?

The UK govt should resist any pressure to get involved in attacking Iran, the ultimate aim of which is clearly regime change. Last time we did similar, in Iraq, it was a disaster and did not serve Britain’s interests. These are and will remain firmly centred in Europe (Ukraine).

An extraordinary performance by Trump at the G7, playing his usual role as Putin’s spokesman and apologist in chief. Russia was ejected from the G8 for illegally invading a sovereign neighbour, Ukraine. Readmitting Putin could not conceivably be in America’s national interest.