Gray Connolly
@GrayConnolly
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Husbandist|Strategist|Militarist|Jurist|Papist ~ Red Tory ~ ISTJ ~ Souths/Richmond ~ Basset Hound aide-de-camp ~ Proverbs 27:17 ~ RT=interesting / Like=noted
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Joined February 2012
As November ends, traditionally, a month for remembering those who have passed, I now, finally, publish, "A Grief Endured". I hope my own account helps anyone who struggles with their loss and their grief. It is, always, okay to not be okay. GC .
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Whatever your politics, Steve Bannon is 100% right here.
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The juxtaposition of the “presidents club” versus Trump with the New York Police & Firefighters is one of those contrasts that explains a good deal of the recent past.
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You need to be Jeb!-maxxing. You need to be posting more Jeb! memes. You need to share the Jeb! electoral college pic whenever a state declares tomorrow. Jeb! memes are always funny.
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Joe Rogan exposing Bari Weiss as the dumb person's idea of a smart person, more or less captures this moment, perfectly.
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@TIME Doctors, Nurses, Emergency Workers, spend almost the entire year trying to fight the worst pandemic in a century with many dying in the process - and you award this bauble to a man who spent the year in a basement & a woman so unpopular she did not even make it to the primaries.
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@RichardHanania Saying the ‘quiet part out loud’ about Eugenics and the killing of those with disabilities? You do realise Nazi promoters of this were hanged for this after World War II?.
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I am finally watching the @martyrmade / Tucker discussion on Churchill. I am not sure who among the critics have actually watched it. As I dislike Twitter pile-ons, I think everyone should watch what X says before X is put in the tumbril. My response as a Churchillian below.
Darryl Cooper may be the best and most honest popular historian in the United States. His latest project is the most forbidden of all: trying to understand World War Two. (1:20) History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict.(12:39) The Jonestown Cult.(32:10) World War Two.(45:04) How
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Is there an honest explanation for why major cities in a First World country cannot count votes in a national election that comes around every 4 years? Are these Democratic-run cities surprised that these elections are being held? This is the stuff of a banana republic.
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Must say, first genocide in history where the allegedly genocided "men" stood around in balaclavas screaming at a lone female who the 'genocided' had raped and kept hostage for 470 days . never forget who supported Hamas & what they did to innocent girls and women.
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The people of Hong Kong are fighting for their very existence and the media chooses. a teenager travelling the world. to preach against travelling the world.
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Marie Antoinette is a very good Turing test for people. She was put to a sham public trial by French revolutionaries, who even tortured her children to make them testify against her. She then died, after her husband Louis XVI, a martyr to the Faith.⚜️✝️ Anyone defaming her🚩
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@samhaselby This is an actual line from the Spanish far right- that conquistadores liberated the Aztecs from their evil human sacrifice regime.
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Obama commuted Bradley Manning's sentence for treacherous acts that endangered/killed allied troops & foreign guides/translators
Obama used his pardon and commutation power to give a second chance to people who deserved empathy, not racists who showed none.
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An ever relevant meme …
We were proud and enthusiastic to open Drag Storytime at the magnificent Marrickville Library this morning. It was sad that the ABC’s scheduled storytime at Rockdale was cancelled earlier this week due to extremist harassment. We stand in solidarity with rainbow families.
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I am often asked, “why are you so defensive of the French?”. What other civilisation would produce this scene? . #ViveLaFrance 🇫🇷.
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The always moving story of General Charles de Gaulle, who would become the greatest President of France, and his daughter Anne, who was born with Downs syndrome, is not well known outside of France but deserves to be.
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Basically every slippery slope argument in the last 20 years against social and moral decay has been proved to have been, if anything, far too cautious in its warning of collapse.
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Errr, Hillary called Tulsi Gabbard a 'Russian Asset'.
Hillary Clinton says abuse of female politicians on social media is 'viral'
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CNN - and this is peak American liberalism - is saying the Russians want to invade Ukraine to get at the "LGBTI" population. You cannot make this stuff up.
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An amusing aspect of the last 2+ years was journos, academics, etal, threatening to leave this platform as it was no longer rigged for them . and yet Community Notes routinely corrects media & government spin & this platform replaces much of what media did (or refused to do).
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A brutal reminder of Trump’s capacity to turn out his voters - even when he runs unopposed.
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The EU treats Poland often rudely, while the US remains stuck in 1985 & thinks Germany is an Ally. Meanwhile, here are the Poles, the most reliable UK-US Ally, in peace or war, getting the job done, as always.
Every 🇺🇦 Ukrainian citizen leaving his country in consequence of the Russian aggression will be welcomed in 🇵🇱 Poland. More info on help for Ukrainian citizens 👇.EN PL & UA
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The West now reaps in 2022 what was sown in the 1990s. The folly of the post Cold War Davos consensus - liberalism, disarmament, energy dependence, supply chain vulnerability, free trade enriching adversaries, open borders - is now laid bare. What comes next will be interesting.
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As Khruschev said to Mao of Nuclear War: ."The survivors would envy the dead"
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It means Joe Biden is in a place of grave sin or he is not actually Catholic in any serious sense.
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The current CIA Director, William Burns [left], and a former CIA Director (and US Defense secretary), Robert Gates [right], both warned years ago, in the clearest terms, of the inevitable Russian response to any attempt to expand NATO to include Ukraine. Are these two Putinists?
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Paul Krugman with the all time greatest Inflation tweet ever
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Whatever may be said of France’s President Macron, his response to the awfulness of Finnish Coffee was genuine
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"A proud alumnus of the Hunter Biden school of meritocracy".
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@padrebrendon The priests sailing in RMS Titanic all perished heroically, many hearing final confessions and ministering to those who knew they were unlikely to survive the ship's sinking.
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The upshot of the Twitter files is complete vindication for @mirandadevine over the Hunter Biden “laptop from hell” and its suppression by biased and perhaps malevolent actors
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Apparently everything is infrastructure now except the actual critical energy infrastructure, which is "a private sector decision" . because the world is run by completely unserious clowns.
"That is a private sector decision": White House officials say they have not offered advice to Colonial Pipeline on whether to pay ransom to hackers who shut down a vital U.S. pipeline
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It is remarkable that the counting of votes ceases, almost as if by magic, only in a few heavily Democratic cities and only just as the Republican President runs up very large majorities in rural and ex-suburban areas.
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@AP What is wrong with you at the AP? Bush 41 was the youngest carrier pilot in WW2. He was shot down over the Pacific. He held every major office one can hold. A thoroughly decent man, adoring husband, and loving father. What pathetic people you are.
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This is basic Catholic social teaching especially its attacks on consumerism & its defence of the family, the uniqueness of the individual person & human roots in identity. (If you somehow think this is fascism then the word has no meaning now).
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CNN employees?.
Does anyone have thinner skin than MLB umpires?.
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Bill Clinton made a young White House Intern his concubine .versus.Trump had a phone call that gave the Swamp 'the sads'. "stark contrast".
President Trump delivered remarks following his acquittal with a celebratory tone, which was in stark contrast with Bill Clinton's remarks following his own acquittal
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@jeanguerre Perhaps using Latinx is where you are going wrong? As no one of Latin descent uses Latinx?.
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On any view @realchrisrufo on his own has done more to win conservative & simply common sense battles than billions of dollars in think tankery and David French-like preemptive capitulation. Bravo.
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"I cannot believe people lost trust in a media that said the Russian Orthodox Church was going to take over the White House"
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Hereditary peers are the most hardworking of the Lords, as their electorate is their ancestors & the nation. They owe no politician anything & cannot be bought off like the modern peers of "Tony's Cronies" vintage. The King should exercise the veto unused since 1708.
"Measures to modernise the constitution will be introduced, including House of Lords reform, to remove the right of hereditary peers to sit and vote in the Lords," King Charles says. Follow live
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Barack Obama spent high school smoking weed with the “choom gang”. .
In the yearbook for his elite private prep school, Brett Kavanaugh declared himself treasurer of the “Keg City Club.” .
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Imagine telling yourself in 2013 that in 10 years time, the Germans will be cancelling the "Anne Frank Kindergarten" because of . "Diversity"
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Solidarity from Maori for the Jews - a very religious people and if you know Maori & Pasifika, many are named for the heroes and heroines of the Jewish Scriptures.
The Pro-Palestine Protest was meant to be at 2pm today. but this haka scared them away and they rescheduled for Sunday. No to Anti-Semetic behaviour in NZ.
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"I cannot believe that all these Latinos whose religious parents fled chaos and tyranny did not vote for the party of the people looting their small businesses and burning their churches down".
People shocked Trump got even more votes this election: Maybe next time don’t torch American cities while screaming “defund the police” the summer before the election. I don’t know. Just spitballing here. I’m not a political genius.
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I trust this 🧵has been of interest to people those who are ignorant about what the British imperial position was in the lead up to what becomes World War II & fair to @martyrmade 's position as a critic & puts plainly the British imperial position on its own terms.
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No one in the ever credulous world of cable TV news is remotely curious as to why all of the propaganda in Tbilisi is in large font English ….
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This guide to European elections & parties is brilliant … no idea who composed it but kudos
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"No one has proved Elvis is not still alive".
To be clear, the Senate intelligence committee has not found evidence exonerating Trump, either.
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Harry is a former Army officer and would, were he anyone else, at least protest this lese majeste towards our late Queen . that our Queen was his own grandmother, and Harry is happy for her late majesty to be mocked as long as the Netflix cheque clears, is just abominable.
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Almost every day for the last few months, I have received DMs from people in various parts of the world (esp the US) asking how Australia fell under some Orwellian tyranny with our major cities under public health orders/lockdowns. I think I need to explain 'Australia 101'.
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There is a Trump tweet for everything
Obama’s attack on the internet is another top down power grab. Net neutrality is the Fairness Doctrine. Will target conservative media.
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The sheer unseriousness of Western liberalism goes without saying but it comes into a dangerously sharp focus at moments like these.
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Claire has written some brilliant pieces this year but I think her analysis of Donald Trump's 2024 presidential victory is her best - I will not summarise. Read it all. Bravo @clairlemon
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As Josef Stalin said, "It is not the votes that count but who counts the votes".
Pennsylvania secretary of state says it will take 'days' to count 'overwhelming majority' of votes.
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Errr, Hezbollah is a terrorist organisation. .
Even Hezbollah, the Shiite political movement and militia that the United States has branded a terrorist organization, has helped ring in the season in previous years, importing a Santa to Beirut’s southern suburbs to distribute gifts.
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"After growing up in the same tribe as Elizabeth Warren, Mr Phillips served in Vietnam with Richard Blumenthal and came under fire in Bosnia with Hillary Clinton".
Literally nothing of the narrative & its resulting rage-mobbing was true.
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Nothing says the “restoration of historic norms” more than a political family like Biden’s just relentlessly cashing in on decades of holding public office. even the Borgias left magnificent buildings & artistic riches as a legacy of their crooked tenure.
A voicemail is aired showing that Rob Walker, the spouse of Jill Biden’s former top personal White House aide, told Tony Bobulinski “you’re just going to bury all of us, man" when he learned he would go on record with the facts.
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Vivek's basic legit point reflects Asian vs Western cultural norms - but West's ideal is 'the renaissance man', ie a generalist. Better question is why Anglophone peoples are so apparently 'mediocre' & yet built nations that are (rightly) magnets for everyone from everywhere?.
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if.
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As the Queen would no doubt recall, in WW2, it was the Americans who pressed the British for racially segregated messes and bars - and the British who said no, as all troops wear the King’s uniform
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@MatthewStadlen Trying to do a "but what about?" in relation to the systematic raping of British girls (and in some cases their murder) is despicable.
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Media credibility died by suicide.
.@NBCNews featured a pair of "undecided" voters during a network town hall earlier this week who had previously declared their support for Democratic nominee @JoeBiden on the network's sister channel, @MSNBC. via @CAndersonMO and @DavidRutz
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My periodic reminder that the former US President, Richard Nixon, would sit in parks with his dog, Checkers, and offer valuable life advice to the impressionable and wayward youth.
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Compare Western media covering Prigozhin - in a language & culture none of them understand - with the complete disinterest in covering the now nightly riots in France.
Riots have now spread to the city of Lyon in France. This is out of control ⚠️⚠️⚠️
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This is a very smart move and will be the biggest legacy of this time - difficult to overstate how important this move is, strategically.
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The Poles - as in WW2 and the Cold War - are the most reliable, fearless, decent, allies, we could have. Even now the Poles are preparing themselves for whatever may emanate from Russia, while also welcoming the Ukrainian refugees . And they will get no thanks from the US.
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@ChristinaPushaw One imagines the same FBI that let Hillary Clinton walk free and Jeffrey Epstein run a global child sex abuse ring can be trusted to do the right thing here.
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@elonmusk @jack @Cernovich @annecollier @eirliani @podesta_lesley @ellagirwin Elon Musk in mere weeks has done more to combat the apparently rampant child sex abuse materials [see @elizableu 's tweets] here than the previous Twitter management in well over a decade. Noteworthy that Baker [exFBI!] seems to have done nothing despite this problem being known.
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Ironic that @tanya_plibersek is a member of a government trying to enact a "Misinformation" law & here is Tanya being corrected by @CommunityNotes for her peddling literal misinformation about Nuclear power. ⚛️
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Malcolm Nance has apparently been fighting against/'hunted' by the Russians in Ukraine & despite the intense physical demands of 'fire & movement' in the biggest war in Europe since 1945 . his kneepads are in pristine condition & his undershirt looks brand new . seems legit
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The Trumps go to Iraq & CNN is in full broken mode. CNN needs a shrink or, more likely, an exorcist.
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This is precisely why you never ever give an inch to Leninist/Alinsky politics. The Flake has incentivised this sort of political confrontation and violence. You will only get more of it.
Watching Flake decide he wants a FBI investigation, never forget: This is why we do direct action. This is why we “get in people’s faces.” This is why our stories matter.
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Any honest observer would concede that Joe Rogan would have done an infinitely better job here than Chris Wallace. #Debates2020.
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@politicalsock @AuronMacintyre No, Bari Weiss is not very smart, sorry. Go back in the drawer, mr sock.
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@LibraryJournal @sofiayleung Have you considered the opportunities offered by code learning?.
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Have always thought Chess overrated as a test of one’s strategic thinking esp clearly - but even so one expects that a grand master player can see, like anyone, what was always blindingly obvious
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@polanskydj Same. The disgraceful collapse in Afghanistan saw only one officer's career ended: a LtCol based in the US who posted critical videos on YouTube.
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Approx 25% of wheat grown that is exported comes from what is now Ukraine. Was true in the times of Pericles & Athenian grain shipments from “Scythia”. Many more will die of hunger & resulting revolutions if the war is not ended asap. It should occupy every sensible person’s mind.
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This tweet aged well.
@AviWoolf @20committee if I was Iran, would pray now that Trump does not win - imagine the hit a Trump would put out on a Qasem Soleimani?.
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"I have adopted friends who are searching for their birth moms, but I don’t really have a birth mom. I have a donor and a surrogate. So I can’t even fantasize about finding that one woman that I long for." . This @Advo_Katy piece is horrific reading.
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Firstly, it astounds me (and no doubt many in the old Empire) why Americans in 2024 are so invested in the British Empire in the 1930s when the Americans of the 1939-1941 period wanted no part of WW2 & the US had to be bombed into WW2 & it was the Nazis who declared war on the US.
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Good morning to all of the newly minted cardiologists and pulmonologists here, transitioning from their recent epidemiologist practices.
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@BallysBoots The King served in the Royal Navy and is a qualified pilot & has been a diligent Colonel-in-Chief of numerous regiments and corps. His medals are his. You are anon whose only accomplishment is embarrassing the Everton legacy here.
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Truth hurts . Trump was right here. Where are the Germans right now?.Hashtagging?.
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As so often Nixon 100% right - the fall of the Shah of Iran in 1979 was the great strategic catastrophe after the Communists taking power in China. Nixon's comments are spot on re the Shah's support for Israel & the sheer idiocy of western liberals (esp Jewish ones cf pre Oct 7).
Nixon reveals what the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, said to to him during their last meeting.
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If the US was a police state, Manning's hanging would have been on pay per view
Harvard's bow to CIA pressure shows America is a "police state," says Chelsea Manning
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Old enough to remember when Trump berated NATO members for expecting the US to defend them from Russia while Germany etal bought Russian gas & helped fund Russia's significant military build up . and all the blue chekists here mocking Trump. Biden brought the Norms back . .
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