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They plunder, they slaughter, and they steal: this they falsely name Empire, and where they make a wasteland, they call it peace- Calgacus.
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I have considerable doubts about Trump's motives, but if he brings an end to this war that Ukraine cannot win, and ends the immense suffering then that's enough. The making money part is based on repaying aid, not the peace deal.. If there ever is one.
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Unprovoked? You really can't be serious. No matter what atrocities Hamas created, to claim 7 October was not provoked is utterly ridiculous.
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Yeah participating in genocide isn't shameful but refusing to cite Russian aggression is. Utter blood hypocrisy from a mob of part-time moralists.
Why don't you fuck off and exam the concept of having a conscience that always that kind of fucked up priorities.
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Since the vast majority of Ukraine is perfectly safe. Why has Zelensky banned political parties, trade unions, arrested journalists and censored the media if its all so innocent?
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When has Putin threatened European countries?
How long do you think we should continue to force this conflict? Until Ukraine doesn't exist? Until the death toll is in the millions instead of hundreds of thousands? Until it escalates into WW3 as we try and prevent Ukraine's inevitable defeat?
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It's to try and explain crush injuries from bombing. For do you really think Israel is wanting to admit kiliing two Israeli children? Here's a bet, no independent autopsy will be allowed.
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As for the bodies. The female first returned as the mother was actually a guard killed in the same air strike. All the bodies had been placed together. No hostage has claimed they were ill treated so why beat two children to death? And why is Israel claiming beating?..
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Do you remember Israelis in Sderot all having a party on a hillside as they watched bombs killing men, women and children back in 2014? Why do you think a murderous, brutal occupation will not create visceral hatred?..
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Why would NATO get involved and what security does Ukraine have at the moment? Ukraine was used as a tool by the US in a plan that has manifestly failed. Is your answer to continue that failed plan until there's nothing left of Ukraine?
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It is a quasi democracy dedicated to the benefit of one religion which it's ideology has created into an ersatz people. Arguing that Israel is not a country based on religion is plain mental.
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Israel was founded by colonising a land proclaiming it to be the sole property of one religion and citing biblical evidence of that right. Israel demands the world recognises it as a Jewish state. It actually cannot be more evident than that..
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Are you actually living in the real world? OK, if the Zionist claim to Palestine is based on history, not religious allegories where is the historical evidence for David and Solomon?
How were Jews expelled from Palestine when there was a large Jewish population there in the 7th Century CE?
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That has to be the most ridiculous defence of a ridiculous claim that I've ever seen. 😂
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Are you saying that the people of Crimea have no right to determine their own future, and you think the right to self-determination should be crushed by force? Got it.
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Claiming Whataboutism is now just a defence reaction to justified accusations of utter hypocrisy.
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The LibDems joined the Tories in destroying the country in 2010, but all it takes for liberals to start wetting themselves with hysterical excitement is a demand to spend more on bombs and not the NHS or housing or anything else we desperately need money for.
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Remember when the US state dept during the Biden administration claimed it had no evidence of war crimes committed by Israel, nor that it had any evidence Israel was blocking aid, despite USAid reports claiming it was doing just that?
Its amazing how selective shameful can be.
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That is some laughable trip back to the 1950s. 😆
Here's a fun fact: European democracies of Free Europe enabled the Gaza Genocide.
Another fun fact: Any election that goes against neoliberal wishes is called failed and rejected as credible by the same neoliberals.
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Always have to laugh at fact checking in the UK media given the UK media's role in disseminating disinformation. Its even more amusing watching liberals break off their criticism of said media to suddenly cheer its output when it suits.
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In this case the Judaism claimed by its adherents in Israel and beyond, that is used to justify the mass murder of children and genocide, can't criticise any other religion for being in the stone age.
Esp when the Bible is used to justify that atrocity.
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and which uses a religious book for its claim to the land it founded the country, and has used such ever since to try and establish legitimacy, is not religious? Ok then.
As an atheist I have no time for religion, but I can tell you this, any religion..
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Your saying being Jewish is an ethnicity, ok then, so you are claiiming that a blue-eyed, blonde-hair European is the same ethnicity as a brown-eyed, brown-skinned Ethiopian. You're genuinely trying to say that's a fact?
As for religion. You are also claiming that a country founded on religion..
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Yes, the body is apparently of a female guard who was killed along with the family. You can imagine its probably difficult to identify who is who after an airstrike.
Israel is claiming Hamas beat the children to death with their fists, do you believe that?
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You first. 😆
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You mean the place that held a democratic referendum offering voters the choice of joining the Russian Federation or re-establishing the 1992 constitution that Ukraine abolished by force in 1995?
Yes I can. Did you know it existed before 2022?
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And seek peace with Russia. To his credit he did both, signing Steinmeier in Oct 2019 and pushing it through the Ukrainian parliament.
If you want to find out what the US is further responsible for, look into why he dropped all that including his anti-corruption drive.
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Actually what started the war in 2014 was a violent US sponsored neo-Nazi coup that toppled a democratically elected president, causing some of those areas who voted for him to rise up.
In 2019 Zelensky was elected on a pro-peace platform, to implement Minsk2..
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Here's another truth you all will ignore at your peril. The US used Ukraine to provoke a war with Russia that it thought could be won by sanctions, which then failed but it left Ukraine fighting anyway. The US president responsible also participated in the Gaza Genocide.
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Yet Putin is elected and Zelensky is now beyond his mandated term,
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Nope, its a political issue in Scotland over jobs. The economy of the NE basically revolves around oil and fishing, one is pretty much gone and the other hanging in there. No Scottish party save the Greens is putting its head above the parapet.
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Europe needed to stand on its own feet many years ago and extract itself from the folly that the US trying to project and then protect its hegemony brought with it. Trump may have actually done the continent a service by waking it up. I expect though they'll just give in.
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No it isn't that is what is known in the business as bollocks. You seriously think Russia wants a war with NATO?
And its not giving in to the aggressor, its recognising that the West's ploy to use Ukraine failed and ending the tragedy.
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Let's say they've become less reliable as they have come to be seen as political toys, but yes there can be justified criticism of governments using unreliable stats when convenient and then realising their error when not. That's politics.
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The SNP's policy on North Sea Oil is best described as in flux at the moment as is Labour's in Scotland. Forbes has stated that new licenses should be considered on a case by case basis. Of course existing licenses will be exploited.
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Ukrainian nationalists under Bandera participated in the genocide of over 1m Ukrainian Jews and the mass murder of over 100,000 Poles during exceptionally brutal massacres.
Bandera and the OUN are national heroes in Ukraine today.
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The Soviet Union instigated agricultural reforms over the entire USSR that contributed to famine, and yes Stalin (a Georgian) did engage in ethic cleansing. Like the UK did in Ireland using famine.
But here's some news, the USSR isn't Russia today, and some more news..
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Yes you may need to wipe all that pee off your seat and calm yourself down. You can't just spout shite and then say "ah.. but look what happened under the Soviet Union". I mean, you could point out the tens of millions we killed in India and wax hysterical too..
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The PISA ranking system has been increasingly criticized.
www.tes.com/magazine/arc...
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But since you brought Scotland up let me share something with you. In 2014 Scots born in Scotland voted narrowly for independence, Scots born in England and elsewhere in UK swung the vote against. I've no problem with that as all Scots are now Scots, but yes we have been "flooded" as you put it.😎
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Actually the Russians didn't flood it at all, you need to put your big boy pants on and stop swallowing everything shoved in your mouth. There was a large Russian majority in Crimea long before the referendum.
Get out of your bubble and back to Planet Earth..
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On the same day Israel killed 4 Palestinians in Rafah, but that's not a violation of the ceasefire.
Mistakenly returning the wrong body is however. What a fucked up world we live in.
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Its like denying that genocide has happened in Gaza, you know like western governments do along with the Biden administration.
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The peace deal kept the Donbas in Ukraine. The people of the Crimea voted in a democratic referendum to leave Ukraine and join the Russian Federation.
As a Scot I can appreciate the desire for self-determination, especially considering it is denied to us by England.
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Even with that limited resource now, which arguably should be left where it is, Scotland has sufficient positives to make our situation wholly artificial. There is no reason at all Scotland could not be as prosperous as our neighbours but here we are.
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Yes once again the UK fucked up massively, and it will continue to do so over and over again as that's what it does. Its trapped in an ideological straitjacket woven by a corrupt, privileged elite that can put a clown like Johnson into No.10 and act as it that's natural..
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You mean the discredited PISA tables that are riddled with countries shaping their stats?
Scotland has the largest inward investment of anywhere in the UK outwith London. It though isn't enough to offest the effects of UK economic policy.
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I've not damned Labour for anything they might do. The litany of lies, deceit and .. pragmatism, is enough. Its a scales thing though, the little positive against the not so little negative. It has a majority of around 170. It can do anything if it wants.