July 17th, 2023. Ukraine war post NATO: Is there deception about the realities of Ukraine survival post Russian invasion? Recommend: Douglas Macgregor & Trish Wood… for a different perspective this is worth listening too.

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“THIS IS A LOST WAR”.  Maybe even 14 mn Ukrainians have left Ukraine reducing the population to 21 mn – naturally these figures are estimates.

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Ben Hodges

@general_ben

“NATO Expansion” is a Kremlin phrase. The question should be: why did nations seek NATO Membership as soon as they were no longer occupied or dominated by Russia? What did they know about the Kremlin that motivated them to want to join a collective defence alliance?

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Phillips P. OBrien

@PhillipsPOBrien

Jul 15

I think we need to stop using the NATO ‘expanded’ eastward after the Cold War ended. It didnt push East, states in east joined it enthusiastically. It would be more accurate to say it was ‘invited’ eastward.

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Anne Applebaum

@anneapplebaum

17th July 2023

Russia’s crimes in Syria have been repeated in Ukraine

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The White Helmets

@SyriaCivilDef

17th July 2023

Today we remember #WhiteHelmets volunteer Hommam Al-Assi, who was killed on this day 2 years ago in a double-tap strike by the regime and Russia in a scene all too familiar, as it was repeated just 5 days ago when volunteer Abdul Basit Ahmed Abdel-Khaleq was also killed in a… Show more

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Anne Applebaum

@anneapplebaum

A new Gulag is emerging

Illustration of detained
                                        Ukrainian civilians digging into
                                        frozen ground. (AP
                                        Illustration/Peter Hamlin)

apnews.com Thousands of Ukraine civilians are being held in Russian prisons. Russia plans to build many more Thousands of Ukrainian civilians are being detained across Russia and the Ukrainian territories it occupies, in centers ranging from brand-new

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The Atlantic

@TheAtlantic

“The Gulag was supposed to belong to the past. Now it belongs to the present. If Ukrainians don’t want it to be part of their future, they will have to physically remove these camps—and the people who run them,”

@anneapplebaum

writes:

theatlantic.com Russia Has a New Gulag Moscow has revived the Soviet-era labor camp.

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Mick Wallace

@wallacemick

16th July 2023

The Political Class in #EU that have promoted the War + opposed Peace, now want to ban Russian + Belarusian athletes from the Olympics..? Given that #US + #NATO Allies killed millions in illegal Wars in #Afghanistan #Iraq #Syria #Libya, are they not wanting to ban them as well..?

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CEPA

@cepa

17th July 2023

“If Putin is not defeated in Ukraine, it will get worse.”

@kvolker

ft.com

Ukraine is currently doing Nato’s job for it

Kyiv remaining stuck in the waiting room is a green light for Putin to attack again

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Kenneth Roth

@KenRoth

17th July 2023

The European Court of Human Rights challenges Russia’s lack of any serious investigation of who ordered the 2015 murder of Boris Nemtsov just outside the Kremlin. He “was an unremitting critic of Mr. Putin’s autocracy,” corruption, and invasion of Ukraine.

washingtonpost.com Opinion | A murder at the Kremlin walls: Who ordered Boris Nemtsov dead? On Feb. 27, 2015, Boris Nemtsov was murdered. Now a decision of the European Court of Human Rights raises questions about why.

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Jason Jay Smart

@officejjsmart

 HUBRIS: THE SIN THAT MAKES EMPIRES FALL  Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, whose personal corruption – stealing billions from the  Army – has been a great assistance to Ukraine .  Shoigu’s father was an ethnic Tuvan & his mother was from Ukraine .  Obviously,… Show more

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Garry Kasparov

@Kasparov63

Pathetic to hear people in Vilnius suggesting corruption as an excuse for not providing Ukraine a NATO ascension plan. If Zelenskyy were corrupt, Biden wouldn’t be president!

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GB News

@GBNEWS

‘There are big questions over levels of corruption in Ukraine.’ Jo Phillips assesses whether Ukraine should join Nato.  GB News on YouTube https://bit.ly/3vAYaw0

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Dmytro Kuleba

@DmytroKuleba

17th July 2023

Russia shot down #MH17 9 years ago, killing all 298 people aboard. It lied about the tragedy for years trying to dodge accountability, until the Dutch trial stated the truth. We mourn the MH17 victims and reiterate: accountability for Russian crimes is inevitable.

@United24media

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The Rejoin EU Party

@RejoinP

17th July 2023

The BBC showing that we swapped wealth for poverty and got little or nothing in return. #RejoinEU

Logistics and transportation of Container
                    Cargo ship and Cargo plane with working crane bridge
                    in shipyard at sunrise

bbc.co.uk

What impact has Brexit had on the UK economy?

It is three years since the UK left the EU and time to start looking at the evidence.

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ian bremmer

@ianbremmer

16th July 2023

can’t we all just get along

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ian bremmer

@ianbremmer

16th July 2023

some secrets aren’t worth keeping i explain why someone needs to tell that to the american govt: https://youtu.be/7wmlQW8Qizs

@gzeromedia

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244,585 views Jul 15, 2023 #ssdi #ssi #socialsecurity

Colonel Douglas Macgregor shares inside intel on the Russia-Ukraine war with Stephen Gardner. Ukraine is losing and NATO knows it. Zelenskyy is in a silent battle between selling out Ukraine to get money for Ukraine and losing his life or position. The Corruption in DC is unfathomable. The amount of money being siphoned off Americans is criminal. Ex-Cia Ray McGovern is right, the military-industrial complex is making profits off the lost lives of Ukrainian and Russian soldiers and no one cares because they aren’t American men and women.

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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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President [ Dwight] Eisenhower warned us, five star general, he said watch out for the military-industrial complex. That’s a threat to our freedom, to our economy, and what we have now is a gigantic taxpayer draining empire that is devouring itself, which, as you say, it’s creating more resistance, more fighting, against us oversees.

Ralph Nader

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