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@AndrewPRLevi
Oct 5, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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Wikipedia 2051

Honecker & Johnson

Erich Ernst Paul Honecker (*25 August 1912 in Neunkirchen (Saar); †29 May 1994 in Santiago de Chile) was a German communist politician who rose to be head of the GDR state council. Through his adherence to relentless, self-interested … /1.
… ideology & associated incompetence he destroyed his country and caused incalculable harm to its people. Once everything collapsed in ignominy he was arrested & banished. West Germany invested hugely to try to repair the disaster. /2.
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (/ˈfɛfəl/ *19 June 1964, New York City) is an ex English nationalist politician who rose to be Prime Minister of the (former) United Kingdom. Through his adherence to relentless, self-interested …/3.
… ideology & associated incompetence he destroyed his country & caused incalculable harm to its people. Once everything collapsed in ignominy he ran away to an undisclosed location, subsequently tracked to within 100 yards of ul. Vosdvizhenka d.1
Moscow. /4.
The EU & USA invested hugely in Scotland (which, after independence, handed over all nuclear weapons, in a deal with President Ocasio-Cortez) & Ireland (in support of its unification). /5.
England’s turbulent confederacy collapsed in 2039. The international community has focused mainly on humanitarian aid & containment. Wales has been a UN protectorate since 2037. /6. End

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Mar 5
Letter to America

Dear Americans - friends, family, all,

I’m writing from the east Atlantic coast.

If the US is anything other than fully committed, at great scale and in the pre-eminent leadership role, in NATO, Europe, the US and the world face disaster.

Bookmark that. /1.
More importantly, stop this madness.

There isn’t a way out of this, any more than there is a way of avoiding gravity on the surface of the Earth.

Cutting down US military presence in Europe has been a huge mistake. Successive US administrations are guilty. /2.
That needs to be reversed. It’s a large part of the reason for the mess we’re in. Globally, as well as in Europe.

Waiting a couple of years into a world war before committing to do anything about it is a stupendously bad idea, and grotesquely costly in lives and treasure. /3.
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Sep 26, 2024
Donald Trump saying “Ukraine is finished” once again, starkly, highlights the question of what the world’s first & only (with the possible exception of Britain), & still remaining, hyper power would do geopolitically under his leadership.

But it isn’t just about Trump.

A 🧵/1.
I’ll be unashamedly Eurocentric.

There’s a broader & deeper story, of course. But Europe is a vital part of it.

The decision the USA has to make, as it did in the 1940s, & repeatedly at intervals after that, is whether it cares about Europe, & if so how much of it, & why. /2.
Does that include all of western Europe? Does it extend to central Europe? And eastern Europe? If so, should Ukraine be part of what the USA cares about (in the 40s that didn’t really play a role, given Ukraine’s status within the USSR)? And if so, how much of Ukraine? /3.
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Aug 23, 2024
.@timleunig in @FT is right about Brexit.

But it’s far worse.

Brexit ripped us out of our $19 trillion GDP domestic market & reduced us to one a 6th of it, thumped our economy, fractured the UK, threw our governance into chaos, & generated perilous geopolitical effects.

A🧵/1.
The EU (& the EEC/EC before it) has never been, was never intended to be, & was never claimed to be just another “trading partner”, however large.

Suggestions it was, or was claimed to be, are Brexiter mythology - sometimes cynically deliberate, sometimes plain ignorant. /2.
The EU is a common regulatory zone (the EU Single Market) & a common customs zone (the EU Customs Union).

It’s a continental scale domestic market - a massive economy similar in size to the USA - for everyone in it. /3.
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Aug 21, 2024
UK Government Debt - Wealth Beyond Imagination

Today’s headlines are again stoking debt panic.

We need to get a grip.

Strangling the economy to “balance the books” is as economically literate as burning down a factory to save on heating bills.

We need government debt.

A🧵/1. Image
💰in the 150 years to 1880 UK government debt rose over 10x, beyond $120B (it peaked around $150B c.1830 to 1850) [constant 2011 $)]

💰in the next 50-ish years, to the 1930s, it multiplied a further 5x to around $600B, (it was around $100B in the early 20th century) /2. Image
💰it was at a similar, $500B plus, level in the late 1960s, but with a peak of over $1,300B in 1947

💰in the 1970s, 80s & 90s it was around the $500B to $400B mark

💰by 2000 it was approaching $750B, by 2010 over double that, & in 2020 $2,800B

[Reminder: constant 2011 $] /3. Image
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Aug 11, 2024
Nice @prestonjbyrne.

Tendentious.

And (if you mean it seriously) wildly naive about what actually takes place, legally (although you’d say “in my opinion this is unconstitutional”: good luck!) in the USA.

Still, if we just look at England/UK: yes, there are many concerns. /1.
I never said or, I hope, implied (to a fair, reasonable reader) that there weren’t.

For example (not the subject of my already long 🧵which focused on the way criminal incitement & freedom of expression relate) I personally deeply dislike revocation of citizenship. /2.
But you know that’s a thing in the USA as well, including for natural born citizens.

Involuntary self-revocation (in the guise of “voluntary relinquishment”) of citizenship sounds about as Kafkaesque as it gets.

But there it is, lurking malignantly in the Land of the Free. /3.
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Aug 10, 2024
Twitter’s full of people trumpeting near zero understanding of English law or of the convictions in respect of the violence of the last 10 days or so.

Nor does the US 1st Amendment mean what many (often Americans) seem to think.

Frustrated? Maybe this will be some use.

A🧵/1.
“Incitement” was an offence under English common law pretty much forever.

In 2008 the Serious Crime Act 2007 replaced common law “incitement” with statutory offences of encouraging or assisting crime.

Incitement in respect of specific statutory offences remains. /2.
“Assisting” means roughly what you probably think it does. But, for clarity, it doesn’t require direct presence at the scene of the crime being “assisted”, or actions which are themselves part of that crime: if they assist the commission of it, that’s a criminal act itself. /3.
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