oatmeal on Nostr: Keir Starmer, meet Blair. Tony Blair. A war criminal. [...] War in Europe, the ...

Keir Starmer, meet Blair. Tony Blair. A war criminal.

[...] War in Europe, the British economy in a post-Brexit doom loop, the "special relationship" between the US and Britain reduced to an abusive bad romance. If the story of the UK's post-Blair years could be summed up in musical form, it would have the title "Things Can Only Get Worse".

[Blair] "...brimming still with charm yet blank behind the eyes" sums it up pretty well.

[...] There are no regrets about Iraq, nor does he pause to reflect on how much of his legacy has turned to ashes, or whether he might not bear some responsibility. The portrait is of a politician who became a master of spin and sleight of hand but who, in the end, was largely lying to himself.

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio/2026/02/17/the-tony-blair-story-a-master-of-spin-who-in-the-end-was-largely-lying-to-himself/ or https://archive.ph/mbhRz

The Human Cost of the War in Iraq: A Mortality Study, 2002-2006 http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/images/10/11/human.cost.of.war.pdf (Multiple studies estimate between 400,000 to over 650,000 Iraqis died as a result of the war)

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