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Frmr lawyer, inv't banker & visiting lecturer shipping strategy. System approach/tweets. (Space)Shipping, logistics, AM/3DP, geo-politics/economics, defence.
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Joined November 2011
#US #Trump47 9 mths: handy metaphor of White House ballroom +new elite, #Versailles2.0 +not in #Project2025, not 'permitted' +privatised, sponsored by #tech/#crypto +disproportionate, no respect of past +demolition without salvage +pleasure, impress +no meaningful opposition
Trump's $250 million White House ballroom will be funded in part by big tech companies like Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft.
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#VZ internationally recognised (pre-#Trump47 ) opposition may now have an interest in stirring opposition to #US occupation and resource extraction.
A CIA source in Maduro's inner circle helped U.S. forces track his movements in his final days right up until his capture, according to two people familiar with the matter. Members of the Venezuelan military also cooperated w/the United States to secure Maduro's arrest. @Reuters
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#US #Trump47 may hv appointed VZ VP Rodriguez as new rex socii (client king) https://t.co/SGFZWLLUl2
This is completely unreported. It is an internal coup. I believe it will very soon become clear that Maduro's vice president Delcy Rodríguez (@delcyrodriguezv) has made a deal with the Americans. That's why it was possible for the Americans to capture Maduro so easily - Delcy
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Reminder on #Farage, and #Reform, being funded through #Bannon and the #Mercers, ie #Trump sponsors.
The networked evil that brought us Farage’s, Putin pleasing, Brexit: Here is the missing clip in which Farage confirms that Brexit would not have been possible without Bannon, Breitbart and by implication Cambridge Analyitica’s “help.”
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#DE #Merz voices #EU weakness in his own unique way - legalism. If you're #DK, you feel rather uncomfortable. If you're #RU, you can't quite rejoice at the projected impotence of EU - after all, they might now hv to signal #Trump they're willing to fight.
The legal assessment of the U.S. intervention is complex and requires careful consideration. International law remains the guiding framework. At this stage, political instability in Venezuela must be avoided. The objective is an orderly transition to an elected government.
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LatAm - an important #GlobalSouth promoter- is divided over #VZ. That can only stimulate local responses to #US which are incompatible.
Given Washington’s shifting justifications—oil, drugs, democracy—South American military planners will inevitably ask what this precedent means for their own security. The concern won’t be ideological; it will be strategic, and it will cut across governments of all stripes.
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Thread by @capitolhunters on the #RU #Putin- #US agreement to swap of #VZ for #UA. Trump would, on that basis, only be executing on a US commitment.
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@capitolhunters: The best take on today's attack on Venezuela is likely the most cynical: that it is staged and transactional. Trump wouldn't attack Russia's ally without permission - but in 2019...
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Frmr EP economics adviser, #UK #SOAS prof Daniela #Gabor points at #MX Pdt #Sheinbaum having more spine than her. #Greenland and #Mexico are both at risk.
look European elites, Mexico stands to loose a lot more from standing up to its neighbour and yet, some fucking spine. https://t.co/TIxyedbDV7
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Official #CN MFA reaction
China is deeply shocked by and strongly condemns the U.S.’s blatant use of force against a sovereign state and action against its president. Such hegemonic acts of the U.S. seriously violate international law and Venezuela’s sovereignty, and threaten peace and security in Latin
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#US signalling that inviting US #oil behemoths in to partake in national #resource exploitation may no longer be a #hedge against #geopolitical insecurity - in fact, it's a #risk factor in itself.
President Trump says that the U.S. is going to run Venezuela with a “group,” US oil companies will return to Venezuela.
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#Machado already discarded from queue. That #Nobel prize 'near miss' hasn't been forgotten. Machado may have offered some help to #US to invade #VZ, but she may end up getting the people's blame and no reward - ie 2025 equivalent of #IQ Ahmad #Chalabi.
President Trump states that Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado doesn’t have the “support or respect” to run Venezuela.
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#CN propagandist rightly, but sadly, calls out weakness of #EU and its woolly stance on international law.
@vonderleyen @kajakallas How is it a "peaceful transition" when your ally the U.S. is bombing another sovereign country and arrests its president by invasion? How would the EU react if another country bombed an European country and arrested its president? Where is the EU's stance on international law?
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#IT PM #Meloni blows hot & cold - yes to attacking those who launch hybrid attacks (so, #RU too?) but no to interference in politics of #sovereign state.
Ho seguito gli sviluppi in Venezuela fin dalle primissime evoluzioni. L’Italia, assieme ai principali partner internazionali, non ha mai riconosciuto la auto-proclamata vittoria elettorale di Maduro, condannando gli atti di repressione del regime e ha sempre sostenuto
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#RU #Putin's former key court philosopher sees the danger for Russia from #US intervention in #CN. His conclusion: joint RU-CN action
Now China is challenged. Russia is drawn in Ukrainian war. But if China let Venezuela and Iran fall China itself will be the next. And nobody will come to help.
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#CN initial reaction sets a tone - it can only get louder from here. Has #Trump47 bitten off more than they can chew?
#BREAKING 🇨🇳China Responded Strongly! 🇨🇳China is deeply SHOCKED by and STRONGLY CONDEMNS the🇺🇸U.S.’s blatant use of force against a sovereign state of🇻🇪#Venezuela and action against its president. Such hegemonic acts of the U.S. seriously violate international law and
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The #oil grab by #US #Trump47 has set alarm bells ringing. #RU and #OPEC economies are now exposed to US crude pricing pressures - IOW cartel has been strengthened by a new joiner. #NI is revising its OPEC #quota compliance strategies.
Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska warns that if the US secures control over Venezuela’s oil fields, after already moving into Guyana, it could end up overseeing more than half of the world’s reserves. In his view, Washington would then be able to hold oil prices near $50 a
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