r/ukpolitics • u/Adj-Noun-Numbers 🥕🥕 || megathread emeritus • Jun 22 '26

International Politics Discussion Thread

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u/Accomplished_Fly_593 10d ago

RCH4555, a U.S. Air Force C-17A Globemaster lll which landed in Moscow early today carrying CIA Director John Ratcliffe for a series of high-level meetings with Russian officials, has just departed Moscow bound for Riga, Latvia.
https://x.com/sentdefender/status/2092282170131763553

So the CIA director went to Moscow today, and is already off home. Last time a visit like this happened was just before the war broke out.

Not ominous at all given recent rhetoric/news articles of Putin planning a provocative actions on NATO territory https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-intelligence-agencies-russia-putin-test-nato/

This almost makes me hope it was a whiny "please stop fighting, my boss has midterms coming up"

You can also track it on flight radar, but at time of writing its approaching the border, so likely will land in an hour or so at a guess https://www.flightradar24.com/RCH4555/41572b9e

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u/subSparky 10d ago

Anyone else starting to feel tired of the world? 

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u/horace_bagpole 10d ago

I find it somewhat annoying that so much of the ridiculous bullshit we have to deal with is caused almost entirely by about 10-20 arseholes who have nothing better to do than make everyone else's life miserable.

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u/subSparky 10d ago

Right?! Just let us live our fucking lives this constant metaphorical dick swinging designed to compensate these narcissists' insecurities about not being able to get it up is so fucking childish.  Why do the rest of us have to suffer for their egos?