OPRE ROMA ! ..Sinti/Pavee, Ukrainian,Dutch,Irish,Shawnee-Delaware native ( IŠTÁ TȞÓ )
Greetings to all my cousins !
Master's degree European History, 1979 NMSU
Moscow’s hired guns keep repeating that we can’t use the $300bn of frozen Russian assets in Europe and that doing so would be “unprecedented.”
Except… it’s false.
Without even going back to the Cold War, the U.S. confiscated about $1.7bn from Iraq’s central bank after the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. There's even a movie with George Clooney about it, and some cool pics.
In 1992, after the shelling of Sarajevo, assets from Yugoslavia, Serbia, and Montenegro were frozen — and stayed that way until Serbia cooperated with the UN war-crimes tribunal in 2009.
Sudan had assets seized starting in 1997 for organizing attacks. Myanmar’s were frozen from 2003 after Aung San Suu Kyi’s arrest.
In 2011, over $100bn belonging to the Libyan state and its central bank were frozen to stop the regime from funding its crackdown. Some of it is still blocked.
And in 2012, the U.S. froze assets of Iran’s central bank over nuclear concerns.
Some Iraqi oil and now Venezuelian oil got seized too. You get my point ...
That was NOT our equipment. It was sold or given to the government of Afghanistan. Trump then gave Afghanistan to the Taliban; ergo he gifted all of this to the Taliban in exchange for his “Peace deal.“ … all that without his 9/11 camp David signing ceremony. #MAGA strikes again.
@xalapalynn2 Since I can't contact you via messenger, I sent you this. Tomorrow is my last day alive, I can't take it anymore. I'm finishing on the 13th.
OPRE ROMA !
A man was choked on the floor of a Charlotte restaurant by Border Patrol agents — and thousands of Americans invented a knife to justify it.
My newest oped on on the lies Americans tell themselves to excuse state violence. https://t.co/aYFW8pgtme
⚡️Fake news about "Zelenskyy's foreign passports found" during NABU searches
✅ This is fake. NABU has not published any videos or reports about such "finds" on its official resources.
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📽 First minutes after the strike in Odesa: the Turkish ship Cenk Roro is burning.
Today, putin met with Erdoğan.
Recep Tayyip, how’s that for a “surprise” from a friend?
Back in 1864, white Union Army soldiers came upon 500 Cheyenne and Arapaho civilians during the American Civil War who believed they were under US protection by treaty. Instead, those US troops butchered over 200 mostly women, kids and elders at the Sand Creek Massacre—horrible!
🚨 TRUMP’S WARNING TO EUROPE: “KEEP PLAYING GAMES AND YOU’LL END UP IN WORLD WAR III.”
Europe has heard this warning before. Almost word for word. And last time, it ended in the war everyone wanted to avoid.
In the 1930s, Neville Chamberlain stood for exactly this logic. Stop the killing. De escalate. Give concessions. Avoid escalation at all costs. He believed firmness would provoke war, and that restraint would preserve peace. He was sincere. He was wrong.
Appeasement did not prevent World War II. It caused it.
Europe learned, the hard way, that great wars do not start because someone resists aggression. They start because aggressors learn that threats work, that borders are negotiable, and that violence pays. Hitler did not stumble into war because Europe pushed too hard. He marched into it because Europe refused to stop him early.
The lesson burned into European memory is brutally simple: peace at any price becomes war at the highest price.
So when Trump warns that resisting aggression risks World War III, Europeans hear something different. They hear the argument that already failed them once. They hear Chamberlain. And they remember where that road leads.
The current war did not begin because Europe added fuel. It began because one country invaded another, expecting hesitation, division, and fear of escalation to do the work for them. Rewarding that calculation does not stop slaughter. It guarantees more of it, just spread over time and borders.
Yes, global tensions are real. Yes, the stakes are enormous. That is precisely why weakness is dangerous.
History does not punish firmness. It punishes denial. It punishes leaders who confuse calm with stability and restraint with wisdom.
Europe is not sleepwalking into catastrophe by resisting aggression. Europe is trying to avoid repeating the one mistake it swore it would never make again.
Stopping a war by giving the aggressor what he wants is not ending the fire. It is teaching the fire that it works.
That lesson cost Europe tens of millions of lives last time. They are not eager to relearn it.