Why Taiwan should be worried – politicalbetting.com
Why Taiwan should be worried – politicalbetting.com
BREAKING: A brand new account on Polymarket just made a massive bet that China will invade Taiwan this year.They will win $289K if they are correct.Insider or gamble? pic.twitter.com/ohH4q7mUtE
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Like China in Taiwan
He could only Taiwan
"Trump issues threats against multiple countries following Venezuela strike"
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5672700-trump-venezuela-cuba-mexico-threats/
https://news.sky.com/story/venezuela-live-trump-maduro-court-capture-strikes-colombia-greenland-latest-13489831#10800284
After the coup they remained unsold in CKD kit form. Years later two UK companies bought the unsold stock. One was Parkway Garage near Ledbury and R all the way through to Y plated Maestros ran round Ledbury for years. They were mainly the 1275 A plus cars. They came as LHD but could be converted to RHD at a cost.
Llandudno cosplay matelot fined £500. Rear-Admiral too. He might as well have gone for Admiral of the Fleet, so cheap.
Even wore a DSO (apparently a real one, only someone else won it) , but that isn't criminal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30cG5xP5mzU
Lots of USAF & RAF tankers seen nearby on previous threads.
Does feel like 2026 might be “the year” for various things though. I’m getting season finale vibes.
War is Peace! Ignorance is Strength! Hate is Love! Trump is Truth!
https://x.com/ScharoMaroof/status/2008168674029347007
Those who wanted us to Brexit so we could regain our sovereignty will hopefully be giving themselves a serious talking to and the leaders of the folly should be hung drawn and quartered
I and many others are pleased Ursula von der Leyen does not speak for us
Closer ties yes, but rejoin no
A little bit of Greenland's what I need
Manbaby number 5
The rules based international order never existed. It was always a utopian myth, not an actual reality.
Forget about how nice it would be to have one and deal with the cold, hard, realistic facts that countries have ALWAYS broken the rules. There has never been a time when it was not the case, as much as it would be nice were it to be the case.
A desire for utopia is not a reason to claim it exists, or act as if it does.
It's more than disrespectul. Passing yourself off as havign served in the services, and with a medal one below a VC is a terrible thing to do.
The strange aspect is that he had a good career, and has been respected and popular.
It's not a serious punisment though - just a small fine, so I hope he is deterred.
In this case, if the Crown declined to prosecute, then former service members will have been tempted to enforce their own justice on someone claiming their service, without having run the risks or done the work. Now that the Crown has prosecuted the contrary case is proved. Former service members know that the Crown will act if they provide evidence of the law being broken. Thus the King's Peace is maintained.
The OECD model tax convention, international standards in telephony, the WTO and incoterms, international maritime law, global aviation standards and the Warsaw Convention, international court of arbitration, etc etc.
Some of the above is starting to come a bit unstuck, but most of it holds. Without it we’d be in a state of chaos.
Although I agree no-one rattles pearls quite like Big G. He should get medals just for that. The best pearl rattler in North Wales.
A real-life' Walter Mitty posed as fake admiral and how he finally faced justice
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/real-life-walter-mitty-posing-33168759#ICID=Android_DailyPostNewsApp_AppShare
He was abducted from a foreign country and brought to trial having committed no crime in the US. He is no doubt a piece of shit, but if they can bang him up, why not you or me?
It did upset the armed forces present as explained in the article I posted
At one time he turned up at a memorial event, took over, and gave a speech.
Then Iran out of targets in America.
* Although I can talk. I backed the Boris landslide.
Being the only one to break the rules is brilliant, for as long as you get away with it. But the period for which that tends to be true tends to be short and then being an outlaw tends to suck. See the calculation that most drug dealers would make more money for less hassle working a minimum wage job.
It just doesn't seem like the right strategic choice for a country that likes the long term. Wait long enough and a some point their governments will be sufficiently aligned to propose all sorts of agreements, and wait longer still and there will be union.
The alternative seems quite non-Chinese - lots of death and destruction, a questionable outcome, and a black mark in Chinese history.
However the Taiwanese wouldn't be spending so much on armaments if I was right.
Edit: but that was if you did it deliberately. They'd rally round and help with a rescue plan if possible, if it wasn't an intentional bust.
Just think, if double-glazing were invented in 1775, they'd clean up the entire industry within decades.
How can countries break rules that never existed?
The only reason he won't is we're not important enough.
And, if it did happen, the Trump sympathisers on here will wring their hands and say, well Peter did once give a bad betting tip, maybe the US was right to kidnap him and lock him up on fraud charges.
These sorts of things are overlooked, but the authorities are surprising receptive to such things being pointed out to them. My uncle (who I never met) died when flying an Avro Anson. Sadly no Dura mechanics seem to have been on his ground crew, or he just ploughed into the Irish mountain for his own reasons - possibly testing radar stuff. Anyway, after a few gentle letters my father got the local church monument adjusted to include him.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/05/british-toilet-revolution-architects-loos
I hadn't realised public latrines aren't a statutory duty (he must mean in England, but on checking, they're only indirectly a duty in Scotland and Wales through the more general public health and tourism promotion duties, if that).
As one gets older ...
'British might is right' being an unarguable truth of course.
Worst mechanic in the Luftwaffe.
#oldonesarethebest
I mean, Maduro is Trump's kind of guy.
A year in the NY remand prison which kept Epstein safe.
When I were a lad I used to raid my dad's redundant RN (actually by then Reservist and then RNVR) kit for going sailing, which was OK for the shirt and work trousers. But he wouldn't let me have the CPO's jacket for informal day wear until the badges had been removed and the buttons replace with plain brass. Sensible chap.
My dad had one for WW2 even though he was a teenager for all of his time (trained as artificer). He did get to see some operational service in a trench somewhere around Rame Head (invasion alert)! He also earned them for other campaigns etc. My granddad had several for his 1915-1919 stint. But my other granddad - no papers, no medals, no record of service survives other than one photo of him training on a Hotchkiss LMG, with a Lewis Gunner badge on his sleeve. That's it. He can't have been the only man to set his war aside.
Edit: the gallantry awards are separate.
This is OUR Hemisphere, and President Trump will not allow our security to be threatened.
A few guys at the top live good lives. Everyone else is poor and fearful.
More evidence that a deal was done. "Rodríguez, a canny political operator, was envisaged as head of a transitional government in secret talks that her politician brother, Jorge, led with Washington last year about a post-Maduro future"
"This is Manchester United we're talking about here"
We all knew, even before the events of last week, the Monroe Doctrine was enjoying a new lease of life in the Trump Administration but let's be fair, it never really went away.
The notion of "buying" territories is hardly new for America - the Louisiana Purchase, Alaska? Making Denmark a commercial offer for Greenland would seem the sensible move - I always thought the only way Ireland would ever be reunited was if one side bought out the another.
Diplomancy via force majeure and the power of money - it's really nothing new. The Americans used financial leverage against France and ourselves over Suez and the Romans would bribe tribes to collaborate.
We might like to think international diplomacy is governed by rules and regulations more akin to a chess game but sometimes it isn't and forcing regime change through military or commercial power has occurred down the ages.