Ukraine's drones made inoperable by restrictions on the speed permitted by SpaceX's Starlink network. Musk blames Trump. Any country relying the US or foreign tech companies will be held to ransom, can't defend itself. Need own satellites and systems to fight new imperialism.

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If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

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Religion has always been an instrument of state - used to gain and demonstrate power, to gather taxes, create political/military alliances and to ‘other’ groups who compete with the state or stand in the way of imperial expansion.

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Looking at where Christianity is in the world today reveals the footprint of the Roman Empire - followed by European imperialism over the last 500 years. I explored the use of Christianity by the Roman Empire (and vice versa) in my book: Domination. 3/3

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…which employed it as a way of securing wider alliances and military support. Christianity continued as the state religion of the empire’s successor kingdoms - which used it as a tool when creating their own empires. Missionaries prepared the ground for imperial expansion… 2/3

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