BobbyB

The Wellington Arms, Baughurst, Hampshire. UK

But it's ok for Russia to use N. Korean troops, artillery and missiles?

Portraits

Summer.

Peggy's Cove lighthouse. Acrylics and Prismacolor pencils.

Thanks Jan, for the photo. Yesterday's ride in the Cotswolds with the Tandem Club.

"Now Iran controls the Straits." Iran always had control of the Straits of Hormuz. It's only 21 miles at its narrowest, overlooked by Iran. They just allowed free passage until this fiasco. Now tankers will pay for passage, just like the Suez Canal. Iran needs income to repair Trump's destruction.

Parallels: Putin wants regime change and to rescue Russian speakers in Ukraine, but destroys and kills indiscriminately. Trump wants regime change and to rescue the Iranian people, yet ends up destroying and killing indiscriminately. And for what?

From a photo by Trudy Allison Fennell. Australian Green Treefrog. Prismacolor Pencils and a little watercolour.

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.US Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote on X that achieving a "durable peace (in Ukraine) will require both sides to agree to difficult but necessary concessions". Ukraine: Give up more land, give up weapons, smaller army. So what difficult but necessary concessions is Russia agreeing to?

Mother: Can you do me some Christmas cards? Me: Ok. What would you like me to draw? Mother: Elves, holly & ivy etc. Me:

Once again Trump falls for a mouthful of carrot dangled by Putin.

Poison Dart Frogs by me. Pen&ink with watercolours.

Nice ride today.

I just solved Bellingcat's 'Small but Deadly' challenge 🏆 Try it yourself! challenge.bellingcat.com

Please enjoy this Klimt Eastwood

Trump sniped "they're calling us, we're not calling them," adding that the country was important for US national security. You mean a bit like the people of Ukraine calling Putin and asking to be liberated?

"Russia views comments by President Emmanuel Macron about extending France’s nuclear deterrent to other European countries as a “threat”, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday." Of course, Putin would never threathen the West with nukes.

#UkrainianView #JohathanPie Simply brilliant! This is what I call true moral #integrity. Please, spread the word.

After the arrival of the russian "liberators", the once flourishing city of Vuhledar was deserted, devoid of civilians. Only ruined buildings and scorched earth remain. Only a person out of his mind can call this "help to the population of Donbass"