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@KareemRifai "Rumors are circulating, because I am right now circulating them..."

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@emilyshar1 Iran is in a way heartbreaking, because one gets the sense that, under a different government, its people could be a great and welcome part of the West.

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@visegrad24 To be fair, Clare Daly is not at all representative of Western politicians. But, my dear Irish voters: What on earth is with Clare Daly and Mick Wallace representing your country in the European Parliament?

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@KareemRifai You don't know them, they go to another school.

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@carbdiem Ooo, no. Complain about American tourists if you want, but you're not entitled to stiff people of money they rely on. Some British people have this very self-righteous view about tipping. Just consider it to be part of the bill, when you're here. We do.

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@whatever2067 Of course...

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@yarotrof @diazbriseno This is a good opportunity for a serious conversation about the security risks associated with the Russian-citizen community in Spain, and in general with anyone who maintains ties to an enemy state.

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@RealCynicalFox This is so incorrect. Russia is liable for the destruction it has inflicted on Ukraine. To the extent it has assets in the West, those can quite rightfully be confiscated and redirected to Ukraine. This is perfectly "rules-based".

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@KittySiddy @TrueSlazac Free and fair elections? Free speech? Civil liberties for the population? Not imprisoning those who speak out against the regime? Not having a literal dictator? So many metrics from which to choose...

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@USConst_Amend_I “We see you” is one of those loathsome, vaguely threatening bratty obnoxisms that offend while conveying nothing responsive. Yet, it’s all protected… The Fourth, Fifth, and Eighth are up there. But you were always my favorite.

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@jaanus Does anyone remember the Russian guy in the Baltics who posted something like, I'm a Russian patriot, but I can't say it out loud because they'd send me to Russia 😅

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@__Injaneb96 So many Iranian Americans have been a welcome voice of sanity on Israel, Ukraine, and indeed Iran, amid this barrage of Islamism, anti-Westernism, and sort of weird postcolonial grievance...

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@Valen10Francois I cannot wrap my mind around the anti-nuclear thing. Much as it pains me to say, France's policy (despite aging infrastructure and lack of recent investment) is broadly the correct one, and Germany's is wrong...

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@smurdawg @carbdiem No, not here. Tips are incorporated into the wage structure and everyone's expectations. You don't have to like it, but if you travel here, yes, it is your responsibility to tip according to American custom. Consider it mandatory.

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@chrnclsofmdnss @VlastimilBalaty Most of the Russian-speaking Ukrainians I've encountered really don't like Russia destroying their cities and killing them. This should be obvious.

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@KittySiddy @TrueSlazac Uh huh.

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@NAFORaccoon @Will_MassiNAFO They’re no longer going to wait for the US to do something before they do the same thing.

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@RealCynicalFox That is absolutely not required. If Moscow parks its assets in the United States, or Belgium, or the UK, then those assets are subject to the jurisdiction of the laws of those countries. What the kangaroo laws of a dictatorship have to say about it is of no moment.

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@Granty58 @carbdiem Maybe so! Thanks for that view. Be sure to tip appropriately if you travel here, though. Foreigners using sociopolitical opinions as an excuse to be cheap are generally viewed fairly negatively.

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@DoctorVive I feel like everyone must have been appalled at the first part of this thread, only to have the conclusion turn out like something instilled by a cult...

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@Valen10Francois I'll never forget reading a French comment on some lifestyle piece regarding a man pursuing a woman he knew was married. The French guy was like, well, maybe her husband just isn't that satisfying, you never know. And the Americans were appalled. 😅

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@rickghannam @DrEliDavid America supports Israel, and rightfully so.

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@visegrad24 @SteinbachErika I mean – yes, the Allies did want to defeat Germany, which they did in fact do. Deal with it. And regarding those crimes, that was the Red Army (although the expulsions were agreed). They cannot forgive the Western allies for defeating them, so they lash out.

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@padigoodspeed @emilyshar1 You know, with the advent of smartphones, I think the rest of the world has gotten to see for the first time real scenes of daily resistance and bravery in Iran. Those young women defying the morality police were very inspiring...

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@MarkGaleotti @Vladi_Moscou @gudkovd @MoscowTimes This is *deeply* immoral, and cynical – every Russian citizen fails every day in his / her responsibility to change Russia's regime. How can we accept Russian citizens when Ukrainians are fighting for their lives? It's also counterproductive – these people will be the most...

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@FlyingDutchPall Tf is that

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@PoleConnection @nexta_tv Gay couples having inheritance and hospital visitation rights is not going to lead to the downfall of Poland.

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@aaronsibarium They are completely obsessed with the Foucaultian power framework. They’re unable to see the world except in those terms.

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@TrueSlazac Russia is a dictatorship. Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are (more or less) liberal democracies. No need to be a chauvinist to recognize the facts.

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@FlyingDutchPall He'd never build those huge legs just to give himself one floor...

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"...Many among us say... we have to find a compromise, and one must be able to negotiate. From a 🇷🇺 perspective, it's not about a compromise; it's about victory. That seems to us absurd and antiquated...", but 🇩🇪 must grasp that perspective. @ClaudMajor

Sicherheitsexpertin Claudia Major über Donald Trump und die Nato – Podcast

Washingtons Nato-Partner reagieren verstört auf Donald Trumps Drohungen. Europa müsse dringend seine Verteidigungsstrategie überdenken, sagt die Sicherheitsexpertin Claudia Major: Was kann die Nato...

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@ThosChamberlain @JoshKraushaar Aliens do not have a right to be present in the United States – and notwithstanding the efforts of their enablers at US universities, some have seriously worn out their welcome here. We're not obliged to continue to suffer their presence.

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@panyiszabolcs What are the chances that Hungarian politics will shift away from using Hungarian minorities in neighboring countries as a way to interfere and obstruct...

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@Porkchop_EXP I have been saying this to European friends – I knew this intellectually, but it wasn't until I spent a couple of winters in northern Europe that I realized how psychologically difficult it is, particularly if you don't grow up there. Like, I have lived places much colder...

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@David_K_Clark Neither Slovenia nor Poland is a poor country, nor have they been for some time. Odd bit of chauvinism... As seen from outside, the UK needs to address its productivity problem, but the Conservative Party has entrenched preferences for a) parked foreign wealth and b) the old.

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@SwannMarcus89 Well, a mass mvmt of 🇺🇦 women (along with their children, and elderly people) seems to have caused far less disruption in Europe than other migrant flows skewed toward young men. Various confounding factors – but I'd bet mvmt of younger men in particular causes more problems.

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@davidrvetter @Noahpinion Beginning to suspect that we aren't seeing generic climate activist anti-Westernism here, so much as pro-PRC anti-Westernism.

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@EFDavies @ndr Aus 2010: „Es sind diese Äußerungen, die bei Kritikern den Verdacht nähren, hier spreche eine EKD-Ratsvorsitzende über Sicherheitspolitik wie eine Elftklässlerin.” Zählt mich dazu. Warum sollte ihre Meinung zu 🇷🇺s Krieg in der 🇺🇦 von Bedeutung sein?

Stell dir vor, es ist Krieg: Die wunderbare Welt der Bischöfin Käßmann

Nach ihrer Wahl ins neue Amt blieb Margot Käßmann zunächst keine Zeit für Afghanistan. Nun lautet das Motto: „Wir haben die Moral, ihr die Probleme.“ Derart provoziert, erwächst manchem endlich...

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@aziz0nomics South Africa and Ireland should really pick up the slack here.

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@TrueSlazac No one has ever asked this about the French...

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@JackTindale "Read more about our crime prevention and 'livable Denmark' strategies to learn about the changes we've been making."

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@KareemRifai Children and budding dictators don't like to be told what to do, but we're darn well going to keep telling them.

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@SilingWu @DrewPavlou Tell it to Weibo.

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@VinokCollective @Roal_Yr Ukrainians aren't the right color or religion, so in these people's worldview, they cannot be "oppressed". I keep saying: unlike Bin Laden, no one in 🇺🇲 who wasn't Ukrainian, Russian, Jewish, Polish, or an academic had ever even heard of Bandera before Russia's war in Ukraine.

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@MKarnitschnig Reunification wouldn’t have been necessary without the USSR. As in, the USSR is the reason the GDR was able to repress its citizens for 40 years. I always feel like I must be missing something major in the German discourse on this…

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@RealCynicalFox Our courts, and those of our allies, are independent of the government, unlike Russia's courts – and no doubt Russia will sue. If the consequences are that corrupt regimes think twice about storing assets in the West, then that is for the best in the long term. And these...

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@OliverStuenkel A posição da Ucrânia é completamente justa; a posição da Rússia, o agressor, é completamente injusta. Se o Brasil não pode ajudar a Ucrânia a vencer juntando-se ao Ocidente e fornecendo armas ou outra assistência, o mínimo que pode fazer é ficar quieto.

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@yuhline @CabotJasper The People's Republic of China is our adversary (i.e., our enemy, but politely). Rep. Pelosi should feel more than free to tell off anyone heckling her from a PRC-linked organization. "Go back to China, that’s where your headquarters is", is quite clearly in reference to this.

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@ChiChiWu8 @KarenAttiah Hong Kong people whom I encounter here often lament the loss of British Hong Kong – if not British rule per se, then the free and unique society that existed there before the territory was crushed by the Chinese state. These narratives are incredibly tired…

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@marcorubio Why keep moving the goalposts, Senator? Just vote for the deal, and then see if you can get a stricter one after November. And whatever you do, pass support for Ukraine now. Stop deflecting and take responsibility for governing.

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@BjorkBrodern @Actually_Tina Yes, that’s pretty obvious, and thank goodness there are people with compassion out there, like this woman.

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@JenniferDHWA So sorry to hear this. I will add you both to my prayers, alongside the people of Ukraine.

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@Rrrrnessa @Alijayshannon Ahh, the old hearts and minds approach...

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@rmslim @JoeBiden And this would be to their benefit, because Muslim Americans famously have warm feelings toward Donald Trump?

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@shashj Can any Finns or Finnish-speakers comment on how Pres Niinistö's visit is being covered in Finnish media?

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@alpendamon @sgodofsk She was also in a bikini chained to Jabba the Hutt.

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@Lavrovskyi @DucuGavril I mean, I’d support this if it were the last practicable option, but we should just give Ukraine what it needs…

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@Tatarigami_UA @Andluver As an American, to me she is American – and she is acting against our national interests...

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@KareemRifai Eternal memory to her and to the many victims of the Iranian regime, when Iran is free...

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@islamicize Ex-Muslims *really* threaten and irritate Islamists, we can tell from the pushback. But we don't need a "use" for ex-Muslims – if they're pro-Western ex-Muslims in the West, then they're just Westerners. And it's their voices that are most important for non-Muslims to hear.

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Super glad that Clare Daly lost her seat in the European Parliament. I lay a lot of very justified criticism on Ireland. But today, I appreciate the voters of that country for kicking Clare Daly to the curb. Perhaps she can retire to the sunshine of Assad's Damascus.

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@SenRickScott 1. We're not sending Ukraine a check. Most of this money, as you well know, is spent in the United States; 2. Ensuring Ukraine's victory over Russia's occupation force is vital to our alliances and European security; 3. These are separate issues; you can do two things at once.

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@aarmlovi Amazing how even here, most of the Americans are like, yeah man, it sucks, just pay the tip though, and the Brits are like, THIS IS EXPLOITATIVE HELL, PAY YOUR WORKERS I REFUSE TO BE USED but srsly I don't want to pay the tip but I still want to vacation in America 🥺

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@Roal_Yr You have many allies abroad, and we consider it an obligation and a privilege to make our voices heard and demand more support for Ukraine from our elected officials. You’re not alone, and he is not in charge.

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@IuliiaMendel The Catholic Church should be directing their complaints to Russia and to its sham Orthodox Patriarchate. His Holiness seems to be displaying some of the anti-Western sentiments that plague certain Latin Americans of his generation, rather than seeing the situation as it is...

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@AnnaGvarishvili Why is she allowed in the EU, one might reasonably wonder...

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@IuliiaMendel Agreed. Start with Peskov's daughter's Paris apartment abd other assets in the West, and move on from there.

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@Noahpinion Ian Garner is not at all anti-Ukraine. This is very much sarcasm...

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@marcorubio This is embarrassing and beneath the dignity of your office, to which you were elected, by us, i.a. to represent our country before foreign officials. Both of these issues are your responsibility. Not one or the other. Please stop making excuses and authorize that funding.

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@JoshEakle I mean, some of my ancestors were among them, but I wouldn't have let them in. They *did* practice an alien religion. They *were* poor and bedraggled. They *did* congregate unhygeniecally, form gangs, and so on. No need to rhapsodize. They were pretty undesirable.

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@BriansUnwelcome Ask if that is always, or even usually, true...

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@KareemRifai Rep. Posey is my Congressman. His district includes significant aerospace and defense. Shame.

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@KareemRifai Why does Mike Lee suck so hard about almost everything.

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@amazingmap And yet we never hear anyone complain about Argentine imperialism...

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@strxwmxn @dumplingrry @BlackRedGuard1 Will no one think of the Hews 🙏

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@RealAndyMerc @P_Kallioniemi *Where* can we watch this in the United States? I visited the website, but it just shows special screenings in cities that are nowhere near where I live.

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@scrawnya Right. This must be why ethnic Russians from Moscow and the ethnic Russian heartland are so vastly overrepresented among the occupiers killed in Ukraine...

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@RealCynicalFox ...assets don't belong to us. At the moment, they still nominally belong to Russia (or to oligarchs, or to state enterprises), but Ukraine is entitled to them under the very rules-based international order you reference.

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@mahlia_lone @CalibreObscura You appear not to have any idea that Russia targets and murders civilians in Ukraine daily. A shopping center in Kharkiv was targeted with missiles yesterday. Honestly, after the past eight months, I never want to hear the word "Palestine" again...

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I sometimes see these messages posted by people I don't know – by newly naturalized citizens, of all backgrounds, enthusiastic about our country and proud to become American. Whenever one pops up, I and other native-born Americans are reminded of why this country is exceptional.

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I have just become American. Thatcher said that Europe was built by history, and America by philosophy. That also applies to the nationality of immigrants — I was born in France by accident, and have become American out of profound love for this country. But really, I think I

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@IdiotWithATwit @smurdawg @carbdiem Yes – generally when visitors from abroad use social activism as an excuse for being cheap, we view that negatively. It's obviously not a visitor's place to fail to conform to the tipping culture. If it will change, 🇺🇸ns will change it – and not by individual acts of cheapness.

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@splendid_pete Again: let's all leave NATO, while simultaneously joining a new NATO but without Hungary.

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@ulrichspeck Good luck, it worked out really well with Russia.

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@DrewPavlou She's from New Jersey.

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@RG_Horvath @bopanc This is an Australian exchange, but I'm reminded of the British commentator who said something like, You Americans romanticize revolutions because yours went so well. Usually, they make things worse.

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@Tyler_A_Harper It shouldn't be astounding, for two reasons. First, this isn't a proxy war. Ukraine isn't a 🇺🇸 proxy; it's an independent country whose people do not want to live under 🇷🇺 domination, and they are entitled to ask for, and to receive, aid in the amount required for victory...

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@IzaTabaro @HistoryBoomer From the Euphrates to the Caribbean.

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@HusseinAboubak I mean, I understand what the Islamists see in progressivism – a soft-headed ideology that is a perfect vehicle for the former to insinuate itself into Western polite society – but I really still struggle to understand any appeal that runs the other way. Self-loathing?

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@panyiszabolcs @VSquare_Project @EU_Commission No offense to the Orban government (OK, some offense), but "Huxit" would be a gift. Hungary is not wanted in the EU, at this point.

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@marcorubio Please just vote to support Ukraine without making more excuses, Senator.

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@U24_gov_ua I think I'm very tired of him, and I also think we need leadership that fully supports Ukraine.

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@TrueSlazac Not Puerto Rican and no expert, but it seems fairly clear there is no majority in Puerto Rico for independence. There is a loud and vocal minority whom you will hear in the media. My clear sense is that Puerto Ricans want more attention from Washington, and possibly statehood...

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@AnyaM8_ @TfL Apropos of nothing, the British “Way Out” (as opposed to our “Exit”) for some reason brings a smile to my face. “There’s hope! You’re nearly there!”

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@nother_fella @Gerashchenko_en This is part of the reason it's so important to restrict the travel and migration of Russian citizens to Western countries. I feel like I'm screaming into the void about this.

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Good. Congratulations, Sweden, and welcome to the alliance. 🇺🇸🤝🇸🇪

It’s official: Sweden to join NATO

Hungary finally lets Sweden into the military alliance, dealing a blow to Russia.

www.politico.eu

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@AkbarSAhmed @diazbriseno This should be dealt with swiftly. The US government’s policy is pro-Israel. It’s one thing for citizens of a free country to express themselves; it’s quite another to undermine the elected government’s position from within the State Department.

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@thejackhopkins I don't care for the MAGA rhetoric, but these are two completely different things.

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@peterjukes Most of what you describe as “terrorizing” Palestinian civilians is designed to prevent events like what happened yesterday. I understand the desire for greater Palestinian self-determination, but sniffing out the rabid anti-🇮🇱 ideology, not to mention Hamas, is a prerequisite.

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@padigoodspeed @emilyshar1 ...and as with so many diaspora communities, many in the Iranian American community have introduced the rest of us to what Iran might look like if its people lived in freedom. (Minus a few shills for the Islamic Republic...)

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