Here is a recap of the Ukraine situation, for those choosing to reject propaganda and continue seeking truth:
December 1994, Ukraine agrees to give up its nuclear arsenal in return for security guarantees from the US, UK, France, China and Russia.
February 2014, Russia invades and subsequently annexes Crimea, President Obama does next to nothing. War through weakness.
July 2019, Trump admin withholds $250 million in military aid to Ukraine to apply pressure to investigate alleged corruption by Hunter and Joe Biden.
February 2022, Russia invades a weakened Ukraine, world expects Zelenskyy to flee and Kyiv to fall within days. Ukrainians fight bravely for 3+ years, inflict hundreds of thousands of casualties on Russian army, weaken Putin politically.
U.S. has sent ~$70 billion in outdated military equipment to Ukraine since start of war, providing opportunity for U.S. military to modernize its weaponry. We’ve sent an additional $30+ billion in budget support, $75 billion in ancillary appropriations related to war.
~50,000 Ukrainians have died defending their homeland, protecting U.S. and Western interests in the process. Meanwhile, the U.S. President and V.P. are calling democratically-elected Zelenskyy a dictator and berating him in Oval Office in pursuit of a financial payoff.
The U.S. should be thanking Ukrainians, who have fought for our common interests with only modest financial support from a country with a ~$30 trillion GDP.
America can and will reclaim its backbone again soon, with better policy and messaging from common sense moderates.
Slava Ukraina.
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@IGClientHelp Bought Ryanair PLC (LSE) shares 2016. In 2021 IG Corporate Action moved all to Ryanair PLC (Euronext Dublin). I need to sell shares and IG tell me all they can do is "transfer the shares to another broker". Is this truly the only solution IG can offer?
It is NOT islamaphobic to detest, as I do, Hamas for the murder of Israelis
It is NOT anti-Semitic to detest, as I do, Netanyahu’s Govt for its treatment of Palestinians
It IS Islamaphobic or anti-Semitic to attack Muslims or Jews for the actions of Hamas or Netanyahu’s Govt
“I lost colleagues whilst I was working each day and the government has barely acknowledged that fact… People were dying in front of us & the morgues were full. We had no body bags left in the trust.”
Please listen to this heart-rending testimony 😔
Do you share my sympathy for David Neal, the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders & Immigration, who has been fired by @SuellaBraverman because he refused to tone down a report in which he described the Home Office's handling of Channel migrant crossings as “INEXCUSABLY AWFUL”?
Correction to @michaelgove
We Lords stopped two Tory amendments which were bonkers. One gave huge powers to Ministers to change ANY law on several issues, w/o scrutiny. The other allowed yet more pollution into heavily protected vulnerable rivers which you have already damaged.
Today, @maitlis looks at the mental health pandemic and why the numbers are rising so starkly.
She explains why she was compelled to make it and recounts one friend’s experience of their son’s rapid mental health decline that has “turned their world upside down.”
@GlobalPlayer
@RSPBEngland Been waiting forever for environ/wildlife groups to take forthright action, not ineffective statements like "we are deeply disappointed". Using polite diplomacy suits govt very nicely. Cheered when I saw the orig tweet & thought "Finally! Someone brave enough to call govt out".
1.5 million people were evacuated from London. Some to rural country areas, some as far as Canada.
These grifters continue to desperately rely on the ignorance of their followers.
“Whenever I’m about to do something, I think ‘Would an idiot do that?’ and if they would, I do not do that thing.” – Dwight Schrute
And what is the best way to spot an idiot? Look for the person who is cruel.
@TheNewsAgents@GlobalPlayer@jonsopel@lewis_goodall@JoJohnsonUK "Our economy needs people with the skills that you acquire in higher education in abundance"... waiting patiently to see the govt show they are serious about this and invest heavily & broadly in the knowledge and skills of our future workers
Why is it that we have to fight a constant battle in the UK, just to let beautiful and vital #wildflowers grow?! It seems everywhere I go in northern France, most of the roadside verges are left, without any impact on safety and a HUGE benefit for #wildlife. It’s nonsensical😖🐝