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If you want info (detailed, with links) on the how the Russia/Ukraine conflict came about, read this comprehensive 🧵
It includes articles from John Pilger, Paul Keating and Malcolm Fraser
#auspol
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The great Stephen Kinzer speaks about his new book on how the US spent 75 years engineering a war between Ukrainians and Russians. greatereurasia.substack.com/…
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THIS IS SO INSANE.
They just manually deleted Grok’s answer. Go and check your self.
Hey @grok, concise, no spin
Across all the released Epstein files, who seemed RELENTLESSLY, OBSESSIVELY DESPERATE to get onto Jeffrey Epstein’s island knowing he was a convicted pedophile in 2012?
State full name only.
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There’s this old joke:
“Wanna know why there’s never a coup in the US? Because there’s no US embassy in Washington.”
47 years ago, the Americans were preparing for another coup in Iran...
🗓️ November 4, 1979
47 years ago, Iranian students took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, exposing what became known as The Den of Espionage.
The Iranian people had not forgotten 1953. We remembered Operation Ajax, the CIA-backed coup against Mohammad Mosaddegh, the decades of dictatorship that followed, and the plundering of our national wealth by America and Britain.
We remembered. And this time, we stood our ground.
The seizure of the American Embassy by Iranian students on 13 Aban was more than an occupation. It became a defining moment in Iran's confrontation with American power and the beginning of a long series of setbacks for Washington.
Last time, the West rewrote our story. Hollywood gave us "Argo". Their media turned us into villains while burying the history behind November 4.
But the world is waking up.
Their propaganda monopoly is cracking.
Their censorship is failing.
47 years later, we still remember.
NOT AGAIN!
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Everyone screaming about Russians at the border.
Meanwhile Poland’s coup comes from Brussels via Berlin.
And Europe’s coup comes from Washington via London.
The risk of losing sovereignty was never in the east?
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Zelensky's thugs in Kiev knocked an old man with a crutch to the ground, then smashed his phone to destroy the evidence.
All because he tried to stop them from snatching another man off the street.
Real defenders of European democratic values.
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Checkmate.
“How can you claim to KNOW Iran has a nuclear weapons program, while insisting you DON'T KNOW whether Israel already has nuclear weapons?”
🚨🇮🇱 PIERS MORGAN CONFRONTS JEWISH INSTITUTE EXPERT OVER ISRAEL'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Piers: “Are you looking at me with a straight face and saying you don't know if Israel has nuclear weapons?”
Blaise gave the familiar pro-Israel lobbying response, claiming he couldn't say whether Israel possesses nuclear weapons.
Piers: “You're lying to me! Aren't you? You're just lying.”
Piers wasn't buying it, but Joe Kent later went straight for the contradiction:
How can you claim to KNOW Iran has a nuclear weapons program while insisting you DON'T KNOW whether Israel already has nuclear weapons?
Writer: Naz
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Zelensky promised in 2019 that if he ever broke the law, he would step down himself. He also promised he wouldn't run anywhere after five years, because he wanted to be a president nobody chases down the street.
That was the debate with Poroshenko, where he went after him over the Svinarchuk scandal, the people who stole from the army.
He won in a landslide on two promises: peace and an end to corruption. Seven years later the war is far bigger than Donbas ever was, his five-year term ran out in May 2024 with no election, and the corruption investigations have reached his inner circle, including his longtime business partner Timur Mindich.
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"I work for Ukraine, for the entire Ukrainian people".🤡
And this is what Zelensky is telling us right now, at the very moment when NABU is revealing allegations that top officials from SBU, the National Police, and the Prosecutor General’s Office — appointed under Zelensky himself — were beating Ukrainians with hammers, dousing them with acid, and running drug trafficking and other criminal enterprises alongside Russian citizen and alleged drug kingpin Yegor Burkin, aka “The Mexican.”
Meanwhile, other members of Zelensky’s inner circle — including Mindich, Yermak, and Chernyshov — are accused of looting Ukraine’s energy and defense sectors, with some making off abroad with their ill-gotten fortunes.
And all this while Zelensky’s press gangs are hunting down working-class men across the country and shipping them off to the front lines to kill and be killed in what critics describe as NATO’s proxy war against Russia.
Ah, yes. Public service, Zelensky-style: the people supply the blood, the cronies collect the cash, and the President delivers another inspirational speech about sacrifice. Preferably someone else’s.
Mr. President, perhaps the greatest service you could still render to the Ukrainian people would be to do it from behind bars.
Preferably for life.
At least then, for once, the state would be paying for your accommodation instead of the Ukrainian people paying for your entourage’s appetites.
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‼️ 𝗨𝗦 𝗗𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗟𝗢𝗣𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔 𝗧𝗢𝗠𝗔𝗛𝗔𝗪𝗞 𝗔𝗟𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗨𝗞𝗥𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗘
While people here speculate about how Washington's approach to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict might change following the Democrats' victory in the midterm congressional elections, America's diplomatic establishment continues to make a fortune from the war.
The US Air Force has announced a competition to develop a new air-launched cruise missile specifically for the Ukrainian Armed Forces: the ERAM (Extended Range Attack Munition).
According to the technical specifications, it is intended to be a hybrid between a conventional cruise missile and an advanced glide bomb.
The ERAM will be capable of carrying a 230-kilogram warhead over a distance of up to 450 kilometres at speeds of up to 700 kilometres per hour.
The missiles will be carried by F-16 fighter jets supplied to Ukraine. The weapon is expected to be based on the American AGM-188 series-production cruise missile (pictured).
In the future, the weapon may also be adapted for launch from Ukrainian MiG-29s and French Mirage fighter jets.
The main design priorities are low cost and mass production.
It is known that a contract to supply Kiev with 3,350 ERAM missiles, financed by Europe, will bring $825 million into American coffers.
Trump can make as many public declarations as he likes about his plans to end the war in Ukraine. Less visible people with money and manufacturing facilities will be very quick to explain to him why he is wrong.
@sashakots
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Un ministro bávaro que había criticado a Ucrania ha fallecido.
Poco a poco, surgen algunas preguntas.
Recientemente, se ha hecho público oficialmente que el servicio de inteligencia ucraniano, el SBU, ha participado en la secuestro y asesinato de personas, de una manera extremadamente brutal. (Adjunto el video oficial de la oficina anticorrupción traducido al español).
Quizás la teoría en sí sea descabellada, pero hay que reconocer que los ucranianos ya han demostrado ser capaces de llevar a cabo tales acciones.
Hace poco, intentaron asesinar a un empresario en Mónaco, y el año pasado asesinaron en España a un exministro.
Por lo tanto, podrían cometer actos terroristas contra personalidades alemanas y de otros países que aboguen por una reducción del apoyo financiero a Ucrania.
Todos los miembros de la AFD (Alternativa para Alemania) podrían estar, por lo tanto, potencialmente en peligro.
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Zelenskyy took a swipe at @elonmusk , saying it’s dangerous when so much money and power are concentrated in the hands of one person, and that separation of powers is necessary.
Just a reminder: Zelenskyy has already been in power for nearly 8 years, even though he was elected for a 5-year term. He refuses to hold elections.
His party holds an unprecedented mono-majority in parliament and has also been in power for more than 7 years. Elections are not being held there either.
World history has never seen such brazen hypocrisy…
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В Києві викрали та бусифікували 23 річного сина журналістки Ольги Левчук.
Утримують в полоні проти волі.
Звісно, якщо якийсь лікар спробує звільнили з полону хлопця - буде арешт. Режим.
Поліція відмовляється реагувати на беззаконня. Нема де українцю шукати захисту своїх прав.
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'Ukrainian soldiers are against elections, because they have no opportunity to vote', claims Zelensky
The interviewer's face says it all, cannot believe this little dictator
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian FM Lavrov:
Ukraine says Russia has stolen 10s of thousands of children from their parents, we asked the Ukrainians to provide a list. They took a while and gave us 339 names, not 10,000 not even 1,000.
Most of them adults and others traced to European countries.
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This is how Ukraine and it's wretched little talking heads like Clement Molin manufacture consent for the emotionally driven atrocity propaganda. Too bad (for them) it was overshadowed by the discovery of Azov's secret "detention facility" (torture house) this time.
Back in September, there was a video released in which Ukrainian political analyst Roman Pyatigorets says that underground schools were built as dual-purpose facilities.
The one in Kamyshevakha, which everyone is talking about, and which was hit with FAB-3000 now holds the full local administration plus drone operators.
It has smart air-purification/ventilation systems and food stocks, making it impossible to smoke people out.
He calls such bunkers impregnable fortresses that turn the area into a stronghold the enemy cannot enter or clear.
This video backfired in tremendous ways and proved what we have been saying all along - Ukraine is a terrorist state and its military is using civilians as a shield.
In recent days, news coverage concerning Ukraine 🇺🇦 has been flooded with a piece of manipulation centered on an alleged torture chamber in Kyiv.
Yet, there has been barely any mention of a double Russian strike on a school bunker in the south of the country, which resulted in 70 civilian casualties. Following an initial series of strikes using FAB guided bombs in Komyshuvakha—as numerous civilians and first responders were gathering around the school—a 3-ton guided bomb struck the building directly.
The school and its bunker served as a gathering point for civilians; given the flag displayed at the entrance, the facility was likely funded by the European Union. At least 40 civilians have been killed, and at least 30 others remain missing.
Russian forces released footage of the strike, claiming to have targeted the command post of a Ukrainian brigade. However, as shown in the initial video featuring first responders, only police officers and a large number of civilians are visible—a fact that contradicts the narrative put forward by Russia.
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Defense industry funded NATO think tank says Ukraine's fate is secured not through peace deals, but the defense industry:
Ukrainians have little faith in written guarantees.
Their most realistic security guarantee is a strong Ukrainian military backed by a powerful domestic defense industry, writes Leonid Baratz.
atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/uk…
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Even Trump admitted he lost because of the Iran war but Tony, stuck in his Biden-era script, makes it about “allies and autocrats”
The midterm results send a clear message: How we show up in the world affects our lives at home, and Americans understand that. When we alienate allies, appease autocrats, impose arbitrary tariffs, and drive needless conflict, American families pay the price. The Administration’s actions over the last two years have had real consequences for our security, our economy, and our everyday lives. Americans have spoken loud and clear. We should act on the message they're sending. A good place to start: a diplomatic resolution to President Trump's war of choice with Iran.
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Yes ladies and gentleman, my dear Sweden our it's MSM has just reached peak Putin-panic:
aftonbladet.se/ledare/a/w37W…
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Yulia Tymoshenko spent 20 years pulling Ukraine toward the West. Now she says foreign advisers run it.
She was Ukraine's prime minister twice and ran for president three times. In 2004 she stood next to Yushchenko on the Maidan as the face of the Orange Revolution, the pro-Western uprising that brought him to power.
In her words, the president, the government and the Rada no longer run Ukraine. Foreign advisory boards do, staffed by people nobody in the country knows and who answer to no one. Speaking on next year's budget, she called it "a budget of two Ukraines." In the first one, officials installed by these boards get 200,000 hryvnias a month and more, and salaries in the state monopolies reach a million. The second Ukraine is everyone else.
Strange complaint coming from her. As prime minister she signed the 2008 letter asking NATO for a Membership Action Plan. In 2013 she was one of the loudest voices for the EU Association Agreement and called on Ukrainians to take to the streets when Yanukovych refused to sign it.