"Donald Trump has said the Duke of Sussex 'is not speaking for the UK' after Prince Harry told the US to honour its obligations in the Ukrainian conflict. 'I think I am speaking for the UK more than Prince Harry … but I appreciate his advice very much,' the US president said…."~ Reuters#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #economy #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #UK #NATO #Europe/9https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2026/apr/24/donald-trump-prince-harry-ukraine-video

"A lot of thoughts spring to mind in relation to this, but at the very forefront, one question: do the US’s evangelical Christians, who overwhelmingly support Trump, have a red line and if so, can they find it with both hands?I’m stating the obvious but it’s worth raising again, if only to boggle at the sheer shamelessness of a religious community that has thrown in its lot with Trump."#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalists #bible #PerformativePiety/5

"Just the President’s word that the Pope said something he demonstrably never said."#Trump #JDVance #Hegseth #PopeLeo #WhiteChristianNationalism #MAGA/11

@wdlindsy Is it not more that #trump has come round to believing that he is God, with the power, at his command to destroy the whole world if he sees fit?

LEGO: "What Shall We Do with Drunken Hegseth?" Early in the Morning!Hegseth "used a Fake BIBLE verse from the movie Pulp Fiction during a Pentagon Christian worship service."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc_2gyVhIr4 Thanks for the heads-up, David Bainbridge! @davebainbridge #USPol #Hegseth #EUPol #Iran #News #palestine .

@wdlindsy It still amazes me that these people feel that the ENTIRE WORLD is wrong and they and four other people actually know the REAL TRUTH

Alternating reassurance and ultimatum degrades the credibility of both in negotiations. Counterparts read the cycle, not the individual statement — and calibrate accordingly. Actual coercive leverage comes from the interdiction platform being demonstrably sustainable, not from rhetoric around it.

Killersare prevalent in the US govt under #Trump, #Hegseth, #Mullin..."George Kollitides -director of the Pentagon’s new Economic Defense Unit, was a board mem of Tier 1 Group, which trained 4 of the Saudi operatives involved in the 2018 #murder of journalist J Khashoggi.Under Saudi crown prince #MBS’s approval,the agents tricked Khashoggi into going to the Saudi Consulate in TR -where they ambushed & strangled him, & dismembered & disposed of his body."#ETTD #USPolhttps://responsiblestatecraft.org/khashoggi-cerberus/

"Every action that he’s taken since that war began has only made it worse. It’s only made costs go up. In general, people are looking at this with understandable wariness. ...What we’re seeing now—in some ways it resembles the aftermath of January 6—is that there’s a sense that he’s done. He’s a loser. He’s cooked."Hence Trump's rage. Hence "Let's blow up some boats full of poor people in the Pacific. We'll make ourselves winners again."#Trump #war #Iran #ApprovalRating #economy/4