National Intelligence

If it had been explicit three years ago that Ukraine would never be let into NATO, then there would never have been a Russian invasion. If Russia kept what it had captured, then that would prove that it was no threat, unable to capture more than one fifth of Ukraine, never mind to invade Western Europe, much less the United States.

Pete Hegseth has not departed from "the rules-based international order", which has only ever been the right of the United States, and by extension also of the State of Israel, to behave in absolutely any way that they pleased. What we saw today was that order in action. Also today, the United States Senate confirmed Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence. She is on the Myrotvorets list. States with the United States Director of National Intelligence on their kill lists are indeed unlikely to attain membership of NATO.

The Active Club Network turns out to have a growing presence in Britain, where it is planning to take over should the opportunity arise, and these things can happen even in the unlikeliest of places. Through the Atomwaffen Division, that Network crosses over with the Russian Volunteer Corps of Denis Kapustin, otherwise White Rex, and thus with the likes of Svoboda, Pravy Sektor, the National Corps, C14, the Azov Brigade, the Aidar Battalion, the Donbas Battalion, the Dnipro-1 Battalion, the Dnipro-2 Battalion, the Kraken Regiment, and the Freedom of Russia Legion, although whereas that last was begun and still largely consists of defected prisoners of war, the RVC is a body of true believing neo-Nazis who are fighting for Ukraine on that basis.

Of sitting MPs this century, Islamists and the Far Right have murdered one each. Yet while Prevent is coming in for some grief, and perhaps deservedly so, over the murder of Sir David Amess, MI5 turns out to have been employing a neo-Nazi who took a machete to his girlfriend, and lying about it to three different courts of law. How many more of those does it have? And what is it doing about Active Club England and the rest of its world? What is Prevent doing? What is anyone doing?

The Ukrainian refugee scheme would not appear to have been intended for Palestinians, but it has turned out to allow for them, and the blame for that can be attached only to the people who devised it. There is no point blaming the judge. The only reason to object in principle to Palestinians rather than to Ukrainians is that Palestinians are brown while Ukrainians are white. Not all Ukrainians are supporters of the organisations listed above, with their links to proscribed terrorist organisations in this country such as National Action, but then not all Palestinians are supporters of Hamas, and even that is an enemy of the people who perpetrate acts of Islamist terrorism in Britain, with a history of rounding up and killing anyone who attempted to get al-Qaeda or the so-called Islamic State up and running in Gaza. We were all supposed to have been delighted when those people, the ones who had bombed Britain, had taken over as much of Syria as Israel did not yet want. But that is not the view of Director Gabbard.

From Syria, the IS bombers of Britain have been sending fighters for Volodymyr Zelensky because Bashar al-Assad was allied to Vladimir Putin. Refugees from Gaza are fleeing the devastation wrought by an IDF that had been supplied, free of charge, with invaluable intelligence from nightly spy flights out of RAF Akrotiri, which is British sovereign territory. But those who promised to "stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes", yet with no definition of "it", now look even sillier than those who opposed a ceasefire in Gaza, although of course they were mostly the same people. Why is any of them still in public life?