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vyorei · 6 months
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FUCK YES THAT'S THE STUFF
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mysharona1987 · 4 months
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So the Secretary of State is rather conflicted these days.
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i-am-aprl · 3 months
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“I want to speak to Biden and send him a message: What have these children done?!”
A Palestinian in Gaza delivers a message to Joe Biden and Anthony Blinken while carrying the bodies of two infants killed by Israeli occupation forces.
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lasttarrasque · 4 months
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intersectionalpraxis · 3 months
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We said it was lies. We said this was strategically done to continue to collectively punish Palestinian people, and instead of investigating properly (which I'm sure the US government wasn't planning to do in the first place), you're trusting the IOF who has been committing war crimes...
This is laughable to me because what credibility? Ya'll exist in echo chambers together. You just 'trust' they're not lying? Do you have any idea what kind of damage this has done irreparably so because mainstream news outlets have taken this and run with it to the point where now people are saying there are terrorists in UNRWA. But as I have said before -even if there were people involved in any attacks, that doesn't give you the right to cut funding to an organization that is helping innocent populations of people from disaster and crisis.
Anytime 'Israeli intelligence' discovers something we know to be wary about it because the zionist entity is filled with genocidal monsters, and now we just have to let this one go? This is beyond injustice.
The IOF has not and will never be credible.
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odinsblog · 5 months
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That look (wincing) says everything
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dadsinsuits · 1 month
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Antony Blinken
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captain-casual · 15 days
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Ppffftttt— I’m sorry, did you say the UNITED STATES is now telling other countries to USE THEIR POLITICAL LEVERAGE to reduce conflict??
Brilliant. What an original idea. I’d guess they all told Blinken EXACTLY where he can go.
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Blinken: US urging Israel to investigate airstrike that killed World Central Kitchen workers | Reuters
Washington has urged Israel to conduct a swift, thorough and impartial investigation into an Israeli airstrike that killed seven aid workers with the World Central Kitchen charity in Gaza, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday.
Blinken arrived in Paris for talks with senior officials including President Emmanuel Macron hours after the Washington-based NGO was struck by an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza, adding pressure on Washington to toughen its stance in the war between Israel and Hamas.
"We've spoken directly to the Israeli government about this particular incident. We've urged a swift, a thorough and impartial investigation," Blinken told reporters at a press conference in Paris, adding that humanitarian workers have to be protected.
"These people are heroes, they run into the fire, not away from it," he said of the NGO workers killed in the strike. "We shouldn't have a situation where people who are simply trying to help their fellow human beings are themselves at grave risk."
But Blinken stopped short of directly condemning the attack, unlike his French counterpart Stephane Sejourne. Speaking alongside Blinken, Sejourne voiced France's "firm condemnation" of the Israeli airstrike.
"Nothing can justify such a tragedy," he said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the airstrike was unintended and tragic, and the military pledged an independent inquiry.
Biden faces pressure from foreign partners, human rights groups and some of his fellow Democrats in Congress to impose conditions on arms transfers to rein in Israel’s offensive in Hamas-ruled Gaza where health officials say more than 32,000 Palestinians have been killed, many of them civilians.
"The killing of these employees – and so many U.N. and other aid workers – is unacceptable. Enough is enough. There must be an immediate and independent investigation," Democratic U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen said.
Hours before the Israeli strike on WCK workers on Monday, Reuters reported that the Biden administration was considering proceeding with an $18 billion arms transfer package to Israel.
Asked if incidents like the killing of WCK workers made the United States think twice about its "flood of weapons" to Israel, Blinken did not address the specific question but said all U.S. arms transfers happened consistent to policy requirements.
"From Day One, we have worked to impress upon Israel, the imperative of protecting civilians, of adhering fully to international humanitarian law, to the law of armed conflict. That is something that we are looking at and review on a regular basis," he added.
CRITICAL MOMENT IN UKRAINE
Blinken was due to hold talks with Macron later in the day. "You can sense the Americans are a bit uncomfortable at the moment," said one French diplomat, pointing to the contrast between Washington's humanitarian efforts in Gaza and its supply of weapons to Israel.
Earlier in the day, Blinken said Ukraine was at a critical moment in its war with Russia and urgently needs more Western support, bemoaning the stalemate in Congress over a multibillion-dollar military package for Kyiv.
"It is absolutely essential to get Ukrainians what they continue to need to defend themselves, particularly when it comes to munitions and air defences," he told reporters.
"It's another reason why the supplementary budget request that President (Joe) Biden has made to (the U.S.) Congress must be fulfilled as quickly as possible."
Biden has urged the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives to endorse the military and financial aid package, but House Speaker Mike Johnson has held up the matter for months, citing domestic priorities.
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importals98 · 16 days
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mirkobloom77 · 19 days
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‼️🇮🇱🇵🇸🇺🇸 More Democrats sign letter to Biden calling for halt of weapons sales to Israel
🔸 Sources: Al Jazeera and @RepMarkPocan
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vyorei · 6 months
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Here's an amalgamation of news from the last 2 hours
Schools, hospitals, the one road civilians are fleeing down, NOTHING IS FUCKING SAFE.
WERE YOU ANGRY ABOUT AL-AHLI? WELL HERE, THERE'S FUCKING MORE. BRING THAT RAGE BACK AND START MAKING NOISE.
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tomorrowusa · 2 months
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Sweden officially joined NATO on Thursday. It had been neutral since 1814.
One of Putin's pretexts for his illegal invasion of Ukraine was to prevent NATO expansion. What the invasion really did was to cause NATO to become reinvigorated and expanded.
With Finland and Sweden joining NATO, the land border between Russia and NATO has doubled in length. And the Baltic is now a Sea of NATO with Russia holding only a couple of relatively short strips of coastline near Kaliningrad and Saint Petersburg. This represents a spectacular strategic failure for Putin.
Sweden on Thursday formally joined NATO as the 32nd member of the transatlantic military alliance, ending decades of post-World War II neutrality as concerns about Russian aggression in Europe have spiked following Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and Secretary of State Antony Blinken presided at a ceremony in which Sweden's "instrument of accession" to the alliance was officially deposited at the State Department. "This is a historic moment for Sweden. It's historic for alliance. It's history for the transatlantic relationship," Blinken said. "Our NATO alliance is now stronger, larger than it's ever been." Kristersson wrote in a social media post that "we are therefore a safer country." Later Thursday. Kristersson will visit the White House and then be a guest of honor at President Joe Biden's State of the Union address to Congress.
Ukraine will eventually join NATO but it probably won't happen while active hostilities continue. Expect to hear Sweden mentioned at the State of the Union address.
Biden, in his speech to Congress, is expected to cite Sweden's accession to NATO as evidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin's intent to divide and weaken the alliance has failed as a direct result of the Ukraine invasion. And, the Democratic president is expected to use Sweden's decision to join to step up calls for reluctant Republicans to approved stalled military assistance to Ukraine as the war enters its third year. Biden and his NATO counterparts have vowed that Ukraine will join one day, too.
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Russian imperialism of the past 300 years has caused its neighbors to seek more protection against it. Few people in Eastern Europe have fond memories of being Russian or Soviet colonies. With Putin acting like a хуйло for the past 20 years, the only safe option is NATO membership.
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soon-palestine · 5 months
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quotesfrommyreading · 11 months
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Fate has placed Taiwan and Ukraine in similar positions. Both have giant neighbors who once ruled them as imperial possessions. Both have undergone democratic transformations and have thus become an ideological danger to the autocrats who covet their territory. Just as Putin has made the erasure of Ukraine’s sovereignty central to his political project, Xi has vowed to unify China and Taiwan, by force if necessary. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned in October that China may be working on a “much faster timeline” for dealing—somehow—with Taiwan. U.S. military and intelligence leaders have pointed to 2027 as a potential time frame for an invasion, believing that China’s military modernization will have advanced sufficiently by then.
  —  Taiwan Wants China to Think Twice About an Invasion
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astroskeptic · 3 months
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Fuck Antony Blinken
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