George Szamuely
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PhD, Senior Research Fellow, Global Policy Institute. Author, Bombs for Peace: NATO's Humanitarian War on Yugoslavia, 2014.
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Did they walk out when a US secretary of state addressed them, following the invasion of Iraq or the destruction of Libya or the bombing of Yugoslavia?
As a sign of solidarity EU Ambassadors & others decided to leave w Ukraine the room when FM Lavrov addressed
@UN_HRC
& Conference on Disarmament. We cannot be expected to sit by while Russia is actively spreading disinformation & falsehoods regarding its aggression against 🇺🇦
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"The world is united against Russia!" Media barely notice that the two most populous nations on earth--India and China--both abstained in the UN Security Council vote condemning Russia.
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The more we learn about what the hell's been going on in Ukraine during the past few years, the more we come to understand Russia's concerns.
U.S. Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland says Washington is working with Ukraine to prevent biological research facilities from falling into Russian hands. She just confirmed every conspiracy theory about the existence of those labs.
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It never ceases to amaze that it's always the same two members of the European Parliament who ever raise important issues.
The attack on
#NordStream
was a terrible attack on European vital infrastructure, it was an act of Environmental Terrorism - A disastrous release of
#Methane
- Why is the
#EU
showing so little interest in finding out who did it.? Are they afraid that they won't like the answer..?
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If
@JZarif
will indeed be prevented from entering the country to address the UN Security Council, then there can no longer be any question of continuing to allow the US to host the UN.
The US rogue regime is illegally barring Iran’s foreign minister from UN headquarters in New York, where he is supposed to speak at the Security Council about the US murder of his top military official
This is a huge violation of the UN hosting agreement
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This is hilarious. We must continue to buy oil from Russia. Because if we don't, Russia will sell it somewhere else and make even more money. In other words, we have failed spectacularly trying to persuade the non-NATO world to stop buying fuel from Russia.
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It hardly needs mentioning that if the US or NATO were doing what Russia is doing, the media would be regaling us with breathless reports of military strikes of "pinpoint accuracy" and solemn, approving commentary from the usual "experts."
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At least they gave her a hearing. In the US or UK, she would have been cut off the moment she started departing from the accepted script.
Woman tells truth about Ukraine live on French media. Hosts are stunned. Part 1 video
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I don't understand how people aren't troubled by this.
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If this is confirmed, it is unquestionably a war crime.
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It bears repeating: Nothing that we have seen so far compares to the savagery of NATO's attack on Yugoslavia in 1999. NATO cheerfully targeted civilian infrastructure on the ground that it was "dual use," namely, that it could also be used by the military.
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Hmmm, this is odd. Turkey, a NATO member-state, has launched an invasion of Iraq. Not one word yet from NATO and EU representatives, voices still hoarse from two months of screaming at Russia.
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This is the person who is leading Finland into NATO, without a referendum, and with quite possibly dire consequences for her country and the world. Clearly, the right person to take such a momentous decision. NATO wants more such people running countries.
It seems Sana Marin of Finland visited Zelensky and became a cokehead. 😂
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The Western powers hate referendums. Well, some referendums.
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Why is Canada in the G7? It is not by any stretch of the imagination among the top seven economies in the world.
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UK Defense Minister Ben Wallace's speech today trashing the Red Army that crushed Hitler's invading forces 1941-1945 bears reading in full. It's truly repugnant.
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This is a day Germans should talk less about Russia and more about what Germans did to Russia. Within a few years the willfully ahistorical Germans will have convinced themselves that they were on the winning side in World War II.
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"If Hungary really votes overwhelmingly against democracy." There's something wrong with that sentence, though I can't figure out what it is.
If Hungary really votes overwhelmingly against democracy and for corruption I cannot see why it should be accepted in the EU. Kick it out!
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The key reason why you've failed to get an "interview" is that you waste everyone's time by recycling talking points, asking silly "When did you stop beating your wife?" questions and getting into pointless, tedious arguments. No one derives much benefit from your "interviews."
Does Tucker really think we journalists haven't been trying to interview President Putin every day since his full scale invasion of Ukraine? It's absurd -- we'll continue to ask for an interview, just as we have for years now.
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I love MI6--they are worth every penny of taxpayer money.
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Touching to listen congressional gasbags waxing lyrical about whistleblowers. This is the same crowd that hasn't said one word in support of Chelsea Manning or Edward Snowden, the same crowd that hasn't protested the threat of a 175-year prison term for Julian Assange.
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So, Viktor Medvedchuk, a Ukrainian opposition leader, currently under arrest by the Kiev authorities, has now been placed under UK sanctions. More "Western values" in action.
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Why is it always the same two people who talk any sense or decency at the European Parliament? Is there no one else?
"As long as Julian Assange is not free, you have no credibility talking about media freedom."
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Those who don't want to see US troops on US streets should reflect that that's probably how most of the rest of the world feels. They don't want US troops on their streets, or US drones, US bombers & US missiles overhead. In fact, US military anywhere in their neighborhoods.
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"Bombs for Peace"--It's been NATO's idiotic mantra for many years now.
🆕📹"Weapons are the way to peace,"
#NATO
Secretary General
@jensstoltenberg
stresses the importance of stepping up military support for
#Ukraine
’s 🇺🇦 self-defence at the World Economic Forum
#wef23
@wef
ℹ️:
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Nothing reveals the depravity into which the US has fallen than the week-long national mourning for John McCain imposed on the country. McCain's sole claim to fame is his insatiable craving for waging war against almost everyone, preferably small countries who can't fight back.
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Trump: The unhappiest person in the United States tonight is Hillary Clinton. She's asking: "Why didn't you do this for me?"
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On NATO's attempt to get Hungary to invade Yugoslavia in 1999.
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Following the death of Gorbachev, it's become clear that, while the USSR badly needed some kind of a perestroika in the 1980s, today it is the West that badly needs a perestroika. FBI, CIA, MI6, NATO, Five Eyes, etc--these institutions need to be disassembled root-and-branch.
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UK is directly involved in the fighting in Ukraine. UK forces are fighting a nuclear superpower. UK can't possibly take on Russia. If UK forces get destroyed by Russia, UK will invoke Article V & call in US to bail it out. Why is UK public silent on this?
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The "Putin brought down Johnson" theme isn't gaining traction, even though there is some truth to it. Johnson's disastrous and unnecessary intervention in Ukraine has helped trigger the economic crisis that has brought him down.
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NATO's war on Yugoslavia was the very definition of the "coward's war."
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Excellent. Let's hope this leads to a serious international effort to rein in Big Tech.
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Zelensky unfortunately tends to shoot his mouth off. Last weekend, he threatened that Ukraine would acquire nuclear weapons. That was catastrophic, to say the least. Yesterday, he was ready to go to Minsk to negotiate. Then he changed his mind. Today it's closure of the Straits.
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As predicted, huge victory for Orbán. Huge defeat for Ursula von der Leyen, George Soros and Vladimir Zelensky.
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A guest on
@TuckerCarlson
just pointed out that US is providing tactical intelligence to Ukrainian armed forces. In other words, US is directly helping Ukraine to target Russian personnel and armaments. That can't end well.
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Strange the way Russia has vanished from the news.
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The dog that didn't bark in the night: The Western governments' and media's strange lack of interest in finding out who blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines.
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All Russian players were banned from Wimbledon this year. But this year’s champion, Elena Rybakina, who was born in Russia to Russian parents, was allowed to compete because she claimed to be a Kazakhstani. Her only connection to that country is that she received money from it.
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Is this the most repulsive human being in US history who has ever run for the presidency? Genuine question.
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Hard to enumerate all of the ways in which this is one of the most repugnant tweets ever to have appeared on Twitter.
90 years after the Holodomor, the Kremlin is again using food as a weapon.
We stand with Ukraine to guarantee global food security.
Under President
@ZelenskyyUa
's Grain from Ukraine initiative, the
@EU_Commission
will pay to ship 40,000 tons of Ukrainian grain via two boats.
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The West has failed Ukraine in a staggering fashion. There was no reason to get involved in Ukraine politics and to overthrow Yanukovych. Thanks to Nuland & Co, Ukraine has lost Crimea and the Donbass--for ever.
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Texas was joined by 18 states, and the president of the United States. The Supreme Court's insouciant one-sentence dismissal, at a time when passions in the country were already running high and the failures of that absurd election were becoming manifest, was sheer recklessness.
The Supreme Court.
It is the proper forum for settling disputes. Texas brought a very comprehensive case on unconstitutional election arrangements. They should have let the two sides argue their case and made the call. Instead they punted. That makes them most responsible.
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Twenty-three years on, Serbs aren't letting the NATO bombing go. Who can blame them?
In response to the West's so-called anti-war stance, fans of Serbia's popular football club Red Star Belgrade held banners showing the countries invaded by the US.
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Putin has worked with five US presidents. He got on reasonably well with all of them except for Obama and Biden--two catastrophic presidencies, not coincidentally.
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Macron, after tonight's humiliating defeat, cannot now go down the crazy Boris Johnson path of urging more pointless war in Ukraine.
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It is amazing that not one journalist asked Mattis: How can you justify bombing sites where, according to your claims, deadly chemical agents, including sarin, are stored? Wouldn't they be released into the atmosphere? Wouldn't that lead to tens of thousands of deaths?
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The same commission that had nothing to say over the attack on the Crimean bridge.
"The EU condemns in the strongest possible terms the recent heinous attacks by Russia on Ukrainians and civilian infrastructure.
These barbaric attacks only show that Russia is opting for a tactic of indiscriminately bombing civilians."
Spokesperson
@ExtSpoxEU
#StandWithUkraine
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"We've seen no evidence of electoral fraud," the media cry. No one ever saw evidence of Russia's interference in, let alone theft of, the 2016 election. All we got were evidence-free assertions by intelligence officials. That didn't stop the media screaming "Russia!" for 4 years.
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Liz Cheney will supposedly vote to impeach Trump. If anything will inspire people to support Trump, it's this news.
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Hold it! Biological weapons in Ukraine labs? Weren't we just told that there were no biological weapons there, just innocuous research to counter horrid diseases.
Putin could unleash biological weapon from seized Ukraine lab, experts fear
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of the United States!
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I don't understand how anyone could have been under any illusions about Biden.
Oliver Stone on Joe Biden: I voted for him. I made a mistake.
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This is correct. The war in the Donbas has been going on for eight years. Some 13,000 have been killed--yet there were no protests, no outraged posturing over a "war in Europe."
People who suddenly declared themselves “anti-war” when Russia began its operation just want to return to the status quo of Ukrainian nazis slaughtering ethnic Russians in Donbas. They’re not actually anti-war, they’re virtue signaling to the warmongers.
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.
@barnes_law
makes the crucial point that the people who broke into the Capitol building had not heard Trump's speech. The intrusion took place while Trump was speaking.
LIVE tonight at 7 p.m. EST: the new dangerous precedents the establishment wants to impose using the pretext of January 6th, and pretending 1/6 is the "new 9/11." Also, how securities laws might help the new lawsuits coming against BigTech for the purge.
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1. The Ukraine disaster has been long in the making: George W Bush made a substantial contribution with the 2008 pledge the Ukraine & Georgia would eventually join NATO; Obama made a very substantial contribution by promoting the 2014 Maidan coup d'état.
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Let's see. Khrushchev's transferring Crimea from Russia to Ukraine, without bothering to consult the people of Crimea, was "legal." Holding a referendum to find out which state the people of Crimea wish to belong to is "illegal." Got it.
1. Russia's "referendums" were shams. No "vote" can happen under Russian occupation.
2. Crimea was land of Crimean Tatars long before Russian Empire. Krushchev legally transferred Crimea to Ukraine in USSR. Crimea voted freely in 1991 to remain Ukraine; int'lly recognized as such
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This was always a weird and creepy photograph, not to mention her boastful tweet.
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Why did the Biden administration decide to go all-in for Ukraine, a member of neither NATO nor the EU? Check out the symbiotic relationship between post-Maidan Ukraine and the Democratic Party.
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When this is all over, clowns such as Boris Johnson will be gone, and a new, more intelligent leadership will emerge in the West. More important, this new leadership will agree on one thing: the expansion of NATO was the "very midsummer of madness."
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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is one of the great con-men of our day.
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"She’s the most powerful woman in Europe, who has steered the bloc through a pandemic, repaired fraying ties with America, and is now navigating a war." Not a single one of those statements is true.
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I thought it was the Russians who were targeting the plant!
Ukraine will target Russian forces at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, says Zelenskiy – video
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Watching people rejoice over having been liberated from the grip of ISIS, al Qaeda, Jabhat al-Nusra & the rest of the jihadi gang is a moving and inspiring experience.
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Nope, and no one voted for her.
Did anyone in
#Europe
vote for this pledge of Countess
@vonderleyen
to give 18 billion Euros over the next 12 months to the corrupt neo-fascist
#Kiev
regime, dedicated to Washington's proxy war against
#Russia
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How wars are manufactured.
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Very important to realize that the US no longer even pretends that its sanctions are targeted at adversary "regimes." US sanctions are explicitly targeted at civilians. Their goal is to cause as much human misery as possible.
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Your "regime change" operation in Kiev in 2014 sure has worked out well, hasn't it? Particularly for Ukraine. It was you who instructed Ukrainians to make "civilizational choice." As cretinous a policy in a divided country such as Ukraine as could possibly be imagined.
All of us must now face the reality that we will not have peace in Europe until there is regime change in Russia. Then we should seek to welcome a new Russia as a partner for peace.
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Russophobia is anti-Semitism for respectable people. It's not acceptable any longer to blame the ills of the world, not to mention your own failings, on the Jews. But you can blame them on the Russians, and no one will upbraid you for irrational bigotry.
When the USSR fell, the kleptocrats swooped in—and Western banks waved Russian loot into their vaults. That was just the start.
@FranklinFoer
on how America succumbed to systematic contagion
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The importance of Putin's confronting Germany's Olaf Scholz over NATO's crime against Yugoslavia should not be underestimated. No major political leader has ever confronted NATO so starkly. The wormy Scholz was still reeling in Munich some days later.
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Anatomy of fake news. Putin didn't threaten to use nuclear weapons. He reiterated long-standing Russian nuclear doctrine. Russia would use nuclear weapons in retaliation to a nuclear attack and, possibly, if Russia's territorial integrity is threatened.
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I guess the murder of Darya Dugina as well as the call on NATO to start nuclear war with Russia jinxed Zelensky's Nobel Peace Prize hopes.
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It's different when WE do it!
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This might be a good time for key European countries to step forward and declare that talk--mostly in the US--of starting a war with Russia is the height of lunacy and needs to stop. Any such war would take place, initially at least, on the European continent.
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What an incredibly dumb take! The whole point is that there was no "Russian disinformation." Every single aspect of the RussiaGate hoax was invented by the Democrats. There never was any Russia in RussiaGate. Didn't you even read the Danchenko indictment?
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NATO countries seem strangely uninterested in finding out what actually happened to the Nord Stream gas pipelines.
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The Let's-Go-Fight-Putin crowd is having a catastrophic night.
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There is actual footage of Ukrainians torturing and murdering their POWs. There is no footage of Russians doing anything like that.
As things stand in Ukraine, I believe there is a far greater likelihood that Zelensky will be arrested and charged as a war criminal than Putin. The direct evidence of Ukrainian war crimes, complete with proof of intent, is overwhelming. And yet the western media ignores it.
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If
@realDonaldTrump
were to announce that he's launching a full-scale bombing attack on Syria, those who are so outraged by the "shithole" comment would be clapping their hands with glee. It's OK to turn countries into shitholes; it's just not OK to describe our handiwork as such
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@HansMahncke
Sounds to me as if she might have committed perjury. Not that anyone will pursue her.
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NATO sure made a good bargain when it brought Poland in as member. Reckless rantings from the Polish prime minister could get everyone in Europe into a world war that Poland itself is too militarily insignificant to fight.
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It's an amazing coincidence that the "fake accounts" and "fake sites" that Facebook, Twitter and Google are busily taking down are invariably associated with countries the US is waging covert/overt war on. I have yet to hear of a "fake" Israeli account.
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Such a shame neither the US nor the EU insisted on this in February 2014 when the democratically-elected government of Ukraine was overthrown. Instead, they welcomed the seizure of power with unrestrained joy.
I strongly welcome and support the leadership of ECOWAS Heads of State and Governments to defend constitutional order in Niger. The legitimate, democratically-elected government must be reinstated immediately.
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Your responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of thousands in a war that should never have happened will not soon be forgotten. It will be your legacy.
'We must not fall for this tissue of lies from Putin'
Boris slams Tucker Carlson's interview with Vladimir Putin in his Mail column
Read here:
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Good point. UK courts now admit they are holding Julian Assange for the Americans. Forget all the phony talk, which the media eagerly parroted for seven years, of Swedish "rape charges" and the "European arrest warrants."
So British citizens your tax dollars are now going toward confining
#Assange
for no other purpose than some trumped up US charges. He’s done his time for seeking asylum whilst on bail & he’s not wanted for extradition to Sweden because that case is still in a ‘preliminary’ stage.
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Because, professor, he doesn't have and never has had a "close personal relationship with Putin." You made all that stuff up.
Why can’t Trump leverage his close personal relationship with Putin to get Russia to abide by the INF Treaty?
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Said just before Finland joined Hitler's invasion of the USSR.
I have no opinion about the Finnish prime minister, but somehow this video reminded me of Churchill in 1940 on Finland—“superb, nay sublime,” where “the light of freedom…still burns so brightly in the frozen North.”
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Djokovic is a figure who has now transcended his sport. Federer and Nadal will, sadly, forever be in his shadow, much as Foreman and Frazier will forever be in Muhammad Ali's shadow.
If Djokovic plays & wins the Aussie open....it would probably top his 2 match points down to Federer moment....like him or not....the man is a writer of history.
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Not a parody. The UK media are filled daily with such twaddle.
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And I remember a time when people called these documents a lie.
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Congratulations
@georgegalloway
! Wonderful to see you back in Parliament, where you have long deserved to be.
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Funniest tweet of the day: Biden complaining about violations of sovereignty.
Putin’s Russia invaded its neighbors, violated our sovereignty by undermining elections, and attacks dissidents abroad. Yet our President wants to reward him with a seat at the table while alienating our closest democratic allies. It makes no sense.
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If the US and the EU had reacted to the violent overthrow of the legitimate government of Ukraine the way they are reacting to the overthrow of the government of Niger, there would be no war in Ukraine today.
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Unelected bureaucrat
@vonderleyen
threatens the Italians should they vote the wrong way. The arrogance is breathtaking.
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"The Soviets buried this history"! This disgusting creature lies and distorts history in order to conceal that the US is essentially bankrolling and supporting Nazis.
Eighty-two years ago, Nazis murdered 34,000 Jews at Babyn Yar. Soviets buried this history, which today Putin's government manipulates to provide cover for Russia's abuses in Ukraine. The U.S. is committed to justice for Holocaust survivors and accountability for atrocities.
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Zelensky's Ukraine has banned all opposition political parties and media, and is now seeking to ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Yes, it's a "fight for Democracy" all right.
The fight for Ukraine is the fight for Democracy itself.
Slava Ukraini. -NP
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I can't wait for NATO's next self-congratulatory summit with its delicious hors d'oeuvres, splendid wines and limitless gaseous speeches about "values."
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