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[RESETBirmingham @ResetBrum]

Watch the vigils and #protests in #Iran at the horrific loss and shooting down of the Ukrainian plane 💔🖤
"All these years of crime and death in this land" is one of the slogans #TrueFaceOfIran #PS572 #IranAttacks #IranProtests #IranProtests2020

[BBC NEWS فارسی @bbcpersian]

"این همه سال جنایت، مرگ بر این ولایت"
این یکی از شعارهای معترضانی است که امروز در تهران سر دادند. آنها برای اعتراض به سقوط هواپیمای اوکراینی در اثر اصابت موشک سپاه تجمع کردند

[Steven Pifer @steven_pifer]

Chancellor Scholz does not have to send #Ukraine #Germany's own #Leopards. He can authorize Poland, Finland, Netherlands and others to transfer their Leopards to Ukraine.

Scholz's reluctance means longer war, more tragedy for Ukraine and badly tarnished reputation for Berlin.

[Vassyl Lonchyna @lonchyna]

Germany, take note! Shame on your denial of Leopards to Ukraine.

[🇺🇦Paula Chertok🗽 @PaulaChertok]

William Cohen: If Germany needs US cover for political reasons, we should just give it. Whatever it takes to get Leopards to Ukraine. If it means sending some Abrams tanks, do it. Russia is annihilating Ukraine & slaughtering Ukrainians. We should do anything we can to stop it.

[Margo Gontar 🔱 @MargoGontar]

If Germany does not give its consent to Leopard tanks transfer, Poland will create coalition of countries ready to donate part of their Leopards to Ukraine, Polish PM Morawiecki said.

📸 AP, source: Suspilne

[RESETBirmingham @ResetBrum]

@jsargentr @SlawomirDebski @LauraWalkerKC Had it been in NATO Putin would never have dared. NATO said it would admit Ukraine..one day..in 2008 and then did nothing, stupid move, so imperialist Putin/Russia, who'd always meddled and fomented in Ukraine, was unperturbed to invade & make war in 2014 https://t.co/sfo5679Ntl

[RESETBirmingham @ResetBrum]

@kamilkazani Bizarre conceit! Who r these "Anglo-Saxons" (A-S) according to u/the author? Aus, Canada, NZ, USA? Obvsly u know how mixed heritage all these r. + calling UK A-S is wrong &offensive as 3/4 countries in it r Celtic, only England is A-S. Is Celtic Ireland in 'Catholic Non-Slavs'?🤪

[RESETBirmingham @ResetBrum]

@AnnaKovacic2 @NATO @jensstoltenberg Haven't kept up with Belt and Road and Chinese 'neo-colonialism' then? Check out Chinese funding and control all over Africa, ownership or control of ports, infrastructure and mining from Pakistan and Sri Lanka to Brazil etc. etc.

[RESETBirmingham @ResetBrum]

******T H I S******

[NATO @NATO]

❝The price we pay as the EU, as #NATO, is the price we can measure in currency, in money. The price they pay is measured in lives lost every day. So, we should stop complaining and step up and provide support, full stop.❞

🗣 @JensStoltenberg to MEP's

#StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦

[🇺🇦 Валерія Voshchevska @Val_Voshchevska]

It's sad to see how successful Russian propaganda has been. Everyone who doesn't support Ukraine is a victim of it, in one way or another. If you don't support a country that was illegally invaded & is bombed daily, with people killed, something is wrong with your value system.

[RESETBirmingham @ResetBrum]

@apmassaro3 Scholtz/Germany's argument is absurd. Escalation?! Russia is *already* committing imperialist invasion, massbombing, genocide and vast crimes on a fellow European country. It must be stopped! Allowing it to continue and denying/blocking help to Ukraine is immoral and horrific.

[RESETBirmingham @ResetBrum]

@arnocast @JamesMillerMP2 @ABaerbock Finally...starting to turn...
Why wait so long?!

[Arnaud Castaignet @arnocast]

If Poland send Leopard tanks to Ukraine, Germany won't oppose it, @ABaerbock says on French TV.

[Paul Rieckhoff🇺🇸🇺🇦 @PaulRieckhoff]

I’m with ⁦@SenatorMenendez⁩ on this. As long as Erdoğan is there, sending F-16s to Turkey is a no-go. However, we SHOULD be sending them to Ukraine. They need them more now than Greece or any other American ally. #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇸🇺🇦 https://t.co/jUfozTezlG

[Samuel Ramani @SamRamani2]

The Netherlands is currently phasing out its F-16s for 52 F-35As. This air force modernization provides opportunities for Ukraine, as the US has rhetorically at least loosened countervailing pressure on NATO allies supplying jets to Ukraine
https://t.co/Cf9Hdpa4IX

[Marv 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸 @marlowc2324]

What USAF doin?

We retired 48 F-15s, 47 F-16s, and 42 A-10s last year. Poor guys are just sitting in a warehouse… Imagine Dnipro today had they had this kind of protection.

[RESETBirmingham @ResetBrum]

@jsargentr @SlawomirDebski @LauraWalkerKC Had it been in NATO Putin would never have dared. NATO said it would admit Ukraine..one day..in 2008 and then did nothing, stupid move, so imperialist Putin/Russia, who'd always meddled and fomented in Ukraine, was unperturbed to invade & make war in 2014 https://t.co/sfo5679Ntl

[PB 🇺🇦 🌻 @pb_in_ny]

@RX1_CMDTY @SlawomirDebski Does the West want 🇺🇦 to win? A few countries say yes, they want 🇺🇦 to win but @POTUS has never said he wants 🇺🇦 to win. He says 🇺🇦 must defend itself but never uses the word WIN. @SecDef & @SecBlinken were scolded by POTUS for using the words #Ukraine must WIN. #UkraineMustWin

[RX1_CMDTY @RX1_CMDTY]

@SlawomirDebski Pointless. The real question is - where are those F16s, ATACMS, GLSDBs, Abrams? Do we really want Ukraine to win here? Doesnt seem like to me...

[RESETBirmingham @ResetBrum]

@SlawomirDebski Or simply if we'd admitted Ukraine to NATO. Especially after vague statements we would..one day...in 2008. This would've incensed imperialist Putin and so NATO's continued inaction meant he took his chance to invade and make war in Crimea & Donbas in 2014
https://t.co/sfo5679Ntl

[Igor Sushko @igorsushko]

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: After #Netherlands announced they can supply F-16s to #Ukraine, we now have the following statement from US Ambassador to the OSCE Michael Carpenter:
US will support the transfer of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine by allies.