👨‍🚒 🇺🇸 👮‍♂️ John and Joe | StoryCorps

John Vigiano Sr. is a retired New York City firefighter whose two sons followed him into service—John Jr. was a firefighter, too, and Joe was a police detective. On September 11, 2001, both Vigiano brothers responded to the call from the World Trade Center, and both were killed while saving others. Here, John Sr. remembers his sons and reflects on coping with his tremendous loss.

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🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 Charlie Downes on X: In recent weeks, Trump has said he would not help Britain defend the Falklands, suggested that British sovereignty over the islands is under review, and is now pursuing unprecedented arms sales to Argentina.

Some “special relationship” that is.

It is increasingly clear that Britain can no longer assume American support, and our entire security apparatus will have to adjust accordingly.

It is a tragedy. Anglo-Saxon nations should stand by one another before anyone else.

📎 Charlie Downes

🇺🇸 🇪🇺 🚷 Donald Trump has criticised Europe's policy on mass immigration during his Dublin trip:

“What you're doing to yourselves, you're just killing yourselves”

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📝 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 The British reaction to the US supporting the Falklands going to Argentina and Irish unification under the Republic is so fractious and discombobulated because the truth of the British-American relationship has been one based on deep denial and repression.

In 1956 during the Suez Crisis the US made its policy clear: Britain would not be allowed to maintain any of its imperial possessions. Any attempt to maintain them would be met with raw American power.

The Argentineans fought the British in the early-80s with a large supply of American weapons. The Peace Process in 1997 in Ireland was brokered by the Americans and was de facto an Irish Republican victory.

The post-1956 policy has never changed. Why did the British act like this was not the reality? Many reasons, too many to go into here. But they didn’t. Now Trump is saying the quiet part out loud and British commentators are acting as if they were betrayed? These policies are four generations old.

I never understood why the British repress these obvious realities. Every foreign observer knows them. But until Trump says them out loud talking about them in Britain is like passing wind at a dinner party. Maybe Trump’s diplomatic trolling is a moment when Britain actually looks itself in the mirror.

https://multipolaritypod.substack.com/p/the-shift-to-a-multipolar-world-order

📎 Philip Pilkington