Notices by Donald Roy (djr2024@mastodon.social)

@amszmidt

There were informal pressures to prevent #greece and #turkiye going to war with each other - as they came close to at times in the 1960s and 1970s. these worked - in part because the #us was behind the policy and also because the two had a very rough military parity. I do not think there was an actual clause. The last country to attack an ally while still in formal alliance with it was #germany attacking #hungary in the summer of 1944 .

@landley @acb @HighlandLawyer @Di4na @cstross

That was also the experience of #indiragandhi !

@glynmoody

This makes the past sanctioning of #uk members of parliament by #china look mild by comparison

@br00t4c

This is an interesting and perceptive article but I am not sure I agree entirely with it. The time to discuss the wider issues will be after the judicial proceedings against the rioters and thus who incited them have concluded; otherwise it could be seen to prejudice them. There been some subtle changes already in the narrative - the inaccurate and pejorative adjective 'illegal' when referring to migration has been replaced in official statements by the neutral term 'irregular'.