u/Hunor_Deak

“I was promised a career in international diplomacy. In reality, it was just a façade,” Svetlana Pozhidaeva tells Le Temps. In 2012, the Russian woman, who was less than 30 years old, was more familiar with fashion runways than meetings at the United Nations.

A graduate of Russia’s elite Moscow State Institute of International Relations, which is run by the foreign ministry, she first came in touch with Jeffrey Epstein through modeling in 2008.

https://genevasolutions.news/global-news/my-diplomatic-work-was-just-a-facade-how-epstein-corrupted-the-international-peace-institute-in-geneva

https://www.deviantart.com/chemicalbakery/art/bisexual-lighting-1351015117

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cddlgqlm7q2o

People granted asylum in the UK face having to pay back around £10,000 towards the cost of their accommodation and support once they start earning, under government plans.

The new measures, which are part of the Immigration and Asylum Bill, are aimed at recovering costs from all adults with sufficient funds.

Asylum seekers who have the right to work in the UK will have to pay the flat-rate fee before they are eligible to settle permanently.

Those whose claims have been rejected and leave the country will have to repay the costs before they can return to the UK.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said the changes would demonstrate "asylum support is a right, but it is also a responsibility

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yz952dm74o

The Home Office has vowed to introduce new "capped safe and legal" routes for refugees to come to the UK from later this year.

The department said it would allow organisations like universities, community groups and businesses to sponsor refugees who applied to come to the UK, a model based on Canada's asylum system.

The government also said it would press ahead with changes to how human rights and modern slavery laws are applied to asylum applications to root out what it described as "vexatious" claims.

The Conservatives said no extra people should be let into the country until illegal immigration was stopped while Reform UK said it would reverse the scheme if elected to government.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said the new system would protect "genuine refugees" while "closing loopholes that have been too often abused".

"Britain has always offered sanctuary to those  fleeing war and persecution," she said.

“Food chain.” By Yair Netanyahu from 2017, showing George Soros dangling the world in front of a reptilian creature, a figure highly reminiscent of the antisemitic “happy merchant” image, as well a prominent critics of the Netanyahus, including the former prime minister Ehud Barak and Meni Naftali.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PropagandaPosters/comments/1ui98io/food_chain_by_yair_netanyahu_from_2017_showing/

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - From an argument over dog poo to an alleged anti-Semitic caricature he posted on Facebook, Yair Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister's 26-year-old son, is courting controversy with his social media activity.

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/netanyahus-son-under-fire-over-anti-semitic-imagery-on-facebook-idUSKCN1BL0CW/

"My family thought I was a loser, so my brother gave me a job and I've spent the last 15 years trying to justify it. I've done that to the best of my ability – and it's been enormous fun." - Dan Houser

(Psssst GTA 4 and 5 are better than 6. It's very true!)

Baby in a bulldozer. The baby is MAGA/Trump, the bulldozer is American power built up by previous generations. Allies have to coddle the baby so it won't wreck too many things. The Russians encourage the baby to misbehave so they wreck things as fast as possible (faster than Russia can) and the Chinese are hoping for the baby to drive the bulldozer into a ditch, so they can take global power. The Chinese are not nihilists, so they are unhappy about the situation, but they assume this is America now due to the 'historical' path liberal capitalism takes which is decay and a turn to Fascism (democratic decline as Vlad Vexler would put it.), their opinion not mine. I distrust the 'linear', with a preset path, history argument.

Boy I love Dr Timothy Snyder. He is not perfect but way superior to the 'conversations' modern media in the UK has.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/24/politics/video/nato-rutte-trump-trillion-vrtc

Edit:

https://nypost.com/2026/06/24/us-news/rutte-claims-to-trump-your-european-allies-have-been-there-on-iran-as-he-flatters-prez-with-trump-trillion-chart/

>His bold attempt to whitewash European opposition to the Iran conflict failed to convince Trump.

>“We were let down,” Trump said.

>“I was disappointed with Italy. I was disappointed with the UK… We were disappointed with Germany and France. We’re disappointed with most of them. Spain is a horror show.”

This is my problem with Americans and Russians. Trying to suck your own dick never ends well. The Iran War is stupid. It's stupid. Everything is just advertising with nothing to back it up, and endless greed. They're telling you that Trump is the best and you believe it, until the reflecting pool is a green sludgy mess and NOOSE smashes up your face like a private fascist army. Everything else is fake too. The titties aren't real, and the opportunities aren't opportunities at all. To seize them, you end up in so much debt that you'll be a slave for the rest of your life.

And the weird need to export this way of life as the 'best'.

https://statedept.substack.com/p/the-digital-sovereignty-trap

Also: *insert word* + trap is getting boring as a header for IR concepts.