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Richard Medhurst
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Independent journalist: youtube.com/richardmedhurst | Bylines: Al Mayadeen, BAR and others | Syrian-British | ✉️ richimedhurst@gmail.com
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Ukraine are now asking NATO for fighter jets after getting their tanks. Why not just give them the nukes already and let’s get this whole thing over with?
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So do the Palestinians also get any tanks from Germany & Co or is their resistance against Israeli occupation still “terrorism”?
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US President Biden declared on Wednesday that “the United States will be sending 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine”. In March 2022 he compared the idea of sending ‘offensive equipment’ for Ukraine to “World War 3”.
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It is absolutely grotesque and unacceptable that European countries and Uncle Sam have so much money to spend on weapons, while many of their own go hungry and can’t afford to pay the bills because of their reckless foreign policy. This shows you where their true priorities lie.
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You need to understand that destroying any good ties between Europe and Russia is a staple of U.S. foreign policy— figuratively and literally (think Nordstream). This has been a long time in the making and Condaleezza Rice to Victoria Nuland to Biden are all on record saying it.
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Annalena Baerbock, German Minister of Foreign Affairs, said on Wednesday that Europe must “do more to defend Ukraine”. Part of her speech where she said “we are fighting a war against Russia” sparked international concern and discussion.
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They’re not just embarrassing themselves and their countries but endangering the whole planet. The world is officially 90 seconds “to midnight” i.e. closer to nuclear war and annihilation than ever before, even during the Cold War.
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The Russian diplomats who agreed to German reunification during 2+4 must be feeling pretty bummed out right now. All they got in return was NATO swallowing the entire Eastern Bloc, Germany rearmed, and sending tanks their way after killing 27 million Soviets during WW2.
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What bunkum in this thread. It’s clear what happens, and what does happen is clearly prearranged and preagreed if you look closely. She’s expecting the whole thing and doesn’t extend her hand. As he passes he places his right hand on his heart and bows his head before moving on.
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An Israeli young man enjoying taking a picture of a shot dead Palestinian boy, while the IOF murderers back out to give him enough space to take his time... He's even smiling... How humane do you find this post? THE MONSTERS!!!
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Like all occupiers, they think they can keep the Palestinians under control through terror and intimidation, but this never works. The Palestinians outnumber them, for this is their home, and the occupiers will ultimately be forced out like the French from Algeria.
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There’s a reason Germany had its wings clipped after two world wars. How did we go from disarming Germany, to Berlin spending more on its military than Russia, and now sending German tanks to Ukraine against Russians (again)? Imagine our grandparents hearing this shit
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BREAKING: Germany has decided to give #Ukraine fourteen of its Leopard 2A6 tanks to fight Russia. Poland has also been given permission to export some of its Leopard 2s to Ukraine.
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Petr Bystron, German MP: "This is an interesting approach that you are taking here. German tanks against Russia in Ukraine. Your grandfathers already tried that, by the way, back then with the Melnyks and Banderas, and what is the result?"
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A country with 25% of prisoners on the planet; where 19 year olds get life sentences for crack possession is in no moral position to lecture about justice and equality.
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I mean what can I say? Quranic Arabic is the essence of the Arabic language; Arabic in its purest form of grammar and poetry. Doubt he can even read in his own language never mind understood a book this complex.
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Some edgy dude burned a copy of the Quran in front of the Turkish embassy, so Turkey cancelled a visit by the Swedish Foreign Minister to Ankara on Jan 27. Sweden needs Turkey to okay its NATO membership bid.
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All these politicians calling for escalation with Russia— more weapons to Ukraine and more sanctions— let them go fight on the front lines and pay all their expenses out their own pocket. Don’t be shy now, there’s an entire brigade for foreign volunteers.
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