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Scott Ritter@RealScottRitter

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The Week in Review:

12 podcast appearances

9 televised interviews

6 articles published

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” But very importantly, I also wanted to expose a major failure in my own profession, in Economics. And that is that it in fact has validated the existence of unemployment.” — https://realprogressives.org/podcast_episod

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“India and Russia should consider the possibility of building ships for the transportation of oil and the creation of insurance companies in the field of energy.”- Indian Ambassador to Moscow

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Nuland really meant it when she said, “F–k the EU!”

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US divided #Korea when they pulled 38th Parallel out of a hat after Nuclear destruction of #Nagasaki – US then set up Anti-Communist Military Dictatorship that massacred over a hundred thousand – You want to talk about North Korea escalation? When will #US end their Occupation..?

John Pilger@johnpilger

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Today is the 80th anniversary of the battle for Stalingad. L:eningrad was fighting off the Nazis – heroic epics in Russia’s resistance to Germany and a prelude to the Red Army winning WW2. Yet in 2023 Germany is sending tanks against Russia. Be warned.

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Germany is also open to the possibility that bears poop in the forest…

Erakutsi haria

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Trollstoy@Trollstoy88

Erakutsi haria

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My friend George in Hungary gives the facts on Germany’s reunification pledge to remain peaceful and NATO’s promise not to expand to the East. #Russia had to withdraw its troops from East Germany, in exchange for the broken promises of keeping Germany out of any future conflicts.

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ZELENSKY: NATO SHOULD NUKE MOSCOW

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“Ukraine is ready to guarantee that long-range missiles will not attack the territory of the Russian Federation.” – Minister of Defense of Ukraine

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Not my values Ursula

Ursula von der Leyen@vonderleyen

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EU official

Dear @ZelenskyyUa, while Ukrainians are fighting to defend our common values, we support your economic security. To date, our EU support amounts to €50 billion. We are with you on this for the long haul. https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1RDGlaomVZlJL

Erakutsi haria

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George Szamuely@GeorgeSzamuely

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And he’s not even too old.

@tobararbulu # mmt@tobararbulu

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Lan bermeko programa sendo bat martxan jartzeko unea, ez inongo karitaterik!

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Indian Ambassador to Russia: “New Delhi intends to maintain a high level of interaction with Moscow”

The Eurasianist @Russ_Warrior

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The fast approaching Russian victory in the Ukraine will be remembered as NATO’s most embarassing defeat in history, it could have been simply avoided by its corrupt and incompetent leaders if they gave Russia the security assurances it requested in December 2021.

Max Blumenthal@MaxBlumenthal

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“Your enemy is not China. Your enemy is not Russia. Your enemy is the military industrial complex.”

@jimmy_dore

delivered one of the greatest rants I’ve seen on American national TV in a very long time. https://twitter.com/DOWNLOADdotNEW

Alan MacLeod@AlanRMacLeod

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Left map: Countries providing weapons to Ukraine.

Right map: Countries that recognize the State of Palestine.

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German investigators admit that the explosions of the “Nord Stream 1” and “Nord Stream 2” gas pipelines could have been carried out by one of the Western states, the British newspaper The Times reported.

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Lula’s presidency in Brazil proves that sometimes there can be life after vicious lawfare.

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Back in 2003 there was a “coalition of the willing” that assaulted the hapless Iraki people killing a million of them.  No one was held accountable for that crime against humanity, and members of that criminal coalition are today’s hawks in the Ukraine crisis.

Alfred de Zayas@Alfreddezayas

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Today a “coalition of Presidents for Peace” should declare that the international community will not tolerate a war between nuclear powers and will mediate for the survival of the planet.

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On two separate occasions in the UK, prominent opponents of NATO —

@ClareDalyMEP

@wallacemick

@DerbyChrisW

@georgegalloway

and others — have booked venues in London for a “No to NATO” rally. Both venues cancelled, citing threats and pressure:

AZ @AZgeopolitics

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Vovan and Lexus Prank with John Bolton – “The Minsk Agreements”[about buying time Ukraine to be armed and be stronger than 2014] “We should have been providing even more weapons,and more training and assistance”

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“Unbelievable, but true – we are again threatened by German Leopard tanks with crosses on board” – Putin, speaking at the event dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad.

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FriendOfRussia@NoMoreNATO

Briahna Joy Gray@briebriejoy

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American Hustle (w/@profwolff) “Brazil, Russia, India, China & South Africa, they are seriously working on developing their own internal currency…& the dollar is not going to be as good as gold anymore…These are all signs of a declining empire.” https://patreon.com/posts/episode-

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“If Ukraine wants to join the EU, it must guarantee the rights of national minorities”- Hungarian President

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The Western press predictably begins attacking Lula for the crime of saying: We have tens of millions of people facing extreme poverty and many others near starvation, and that – rather than the war in Ukraine – is where our resources and focus will go. https://bloomberg.com/opinion/articl

MintPress News@MintPressNews

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“Ukraine is on the verge of collapse. We’re going to watch that happen over the next several weeks.” – Col. Douglas Macgregor in an interview with Judge Andrew Napolitano on Wednesday

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Lavrov laying it out: the more weapons Zelensky gets, the more of “his” country he will lose

Trollstoy@Trollstoy88

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“Countries that provide military aid to Kiev” (as of January 2023)

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#HappyGroundhogDay #MMT

FriendOfRussia@NoMoreNATO

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Unbelievable, but true, Russia is again threatened by German Leopard tanks, they fight with the hands of Bandera. The ideology of Nazism in its modern guise again poses direct threats to Russia’s security. #StandWithPresidentPutin

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“This is not only the direct participation of the US in the explosions of the Nord Stream pipelines. Now Mrs. Nuland has, in fact, made a confession. So there is a lot to show with which methods the US is trying to secure its hegemony.” — Lavrov

George Szamuely@GeorgeSzamuely

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Nice glimpse into the life and career of Boris Johnson before he appointed himself Global-Warmaker-In-Chief. He and Zelensky are cut from the same cloth evidently

pocalypsis pocalypseos ?@apocalypseos

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“They send signals to all countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Do not accept Russian delegations, condemn them, join the sanctions. The vast majority of countries respect themselves… and for this reason, they are threatened with punishment.” — Lavrov

Taleb Alisalem@TalebSahara

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Pedro Sánchez visita y pone un ramo de flores en la tumba de Hassan II criminal de guerra que quemó a miles de civiles saharauis con bombas de Napalm y fósforo blanco y que secuestro a otros miles y fueron enterrados vivos. ¿Gobierno más progresista de la que…?

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Hunter Biden threatened Tucker Carlson with a lawsuit for talking about his laptop. Tucker chose violence. The monologue tonight is an absolute jaw-breaker that compares the Biden family to the Hussein dictatorship in Iraq

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India and Russia should consider the possibility of building ships for the transportation of oil and the creation of insurance companies in the field of energy Indian Ambassador to Moscow

FriendOfRussia@NoMoreNATO

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It’s a simple equation, the more weapons #NATO supplies to Kiev the more Ukrainian territory Russia will take. #StandWithRussia

pocalypsis pocalypseos ?@apocalypseos

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The City of London and Wall Street’s financialized economy sucks the wealth out of the labor force. China and Russia are creating a real physical economy through industrial engineering, science, technology, resources, and infrastructure that raises living standards and wages.

Disclose.tv@disclosetv

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JUST IN – Russia “again” threatened by German tanks — Putin

@apocalypseos

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“Every day of the global hybrid war unleashed by the United States, including in Ukraine against us, strengthens China and accelerates the formation of the center of a new world economic order in Southeast Asia.” — Sergey Glazyev

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Monetarism does not work!

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Lavrov: “The more long-range weapons are supplied to the Kiev regime, the further they will need to be moved away from the territories that are part of our country.”

@apocalypseos

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“@vonderleyen said that the outcome of the war should be the defeat of Russia, and such a defeat that it would not be able to restore the economy for decades. Is that not racism? Not Nazism? Not an attempt to solve the Russian question?” — Lavrov

@tobararbulu # mmt@tobararbulu

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Brexit is the only hope for the UK economy, #learnMMT

Hassan Mafi ‏@thatdayin1992

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History is repeating itself. Once again, the Nazis are going to fight Russia with German tanks. The difference is, this time, the Nazis have the full support of the West. But if history repeats itself, it’s not going to be a good outcome for the Nazis and those who support them.

Hassan Mafi ‏@thatdayin1992

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President Putin: Unbelievable, but it’s a fact—we are once again threatened by German Leopard tanks, with crosses on their hull. And once again seeking to battle Russia in Ukraine with the help of Hitler’s followers, the Banderites.

AZ @AZgeopolitics

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“Sanctions on Russian crude oil have ‘failed completely,’ oil analyst says” -CNBC

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500,000 people have been killed in Yemen, but your TV keeps forgetting to remind you

AZ @AZgeopolitics

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“Germany has no evidence of Russia’s involvement in the explosions on the “Nord Streams” – Prosecutor General of Germany

AZ @AZgeopolitics

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Turkish companies exported electronics, spare parts and other American-made goods to Russia, contrary to US sanctions and in violation of US export controls. -WSJ

Rev Laskaris@REVMAXXING

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NATO doesn’t liberate countries. It destroys them.

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#NATO the expanding cancer in Europe

Glenn Diesen@Glenn_Diesen

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End of hegemony: Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu tells US Ambassador to “get your dirty hands off Turkey”

Trollstoy@Trollstoy88

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“Russian troops destroyed a Norwegian NASAMS air defense system for the first time.” Russian MoD

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El Gobierno español lo ha dado todo por Marruecos, renunció al Sáhara Occidental, violó la legalidad internacional, votó en soledad en el Parlamento Europeo, renunció a todos los valores humanos y morales todo para proteger a Marruecos, sin embargo, solo recibe humillación.

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Here’s FM Szijjártó’s response to statements from

@AmbPressman

@USAmbHungary

Hungary is a sovereign country, no one from the outside can tell us how to live.

tim anderson@timand2037

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#Iran dumps #SWIFT. All banks of #Russia and over 100 banks in several other countries have been connected to Iran’s financial telecommunications system, known as #SEPAM, obviating the need for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT). https://tasnimnews.com/en/news/2023/0

@AZgeopolitics

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Former CIA director admitted that the US wants to overthrow the government in Russia If Russia or China ex-director of intelligence services states such things that want to overthrow the US goverment,mainstream media will cry so much that entire Universe can hear them

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Wow! Turkey’s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu tells the US ambassador to get his “dirty hands” off Turkey! Looks like Turkey is getting sick and tired of these criminals too!

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US continues to undermine its own position in the world due to its endless obsession to try to control every nation on the planet: Turkish Interior Ministry told the US to keep its dirty hands out of Turkish affairs.

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A little note on the state of Ukrainian manpower, suggesting, yet again, that Ukrainian losses are far higher than reported in the west and have left Ukraine extremely depleted and thinly stretched. Everything here comes from Ukrainian sources. (1)

Rokossovskiy@Ramon_Live_22

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Vamos, que admiten que estaban preparando una ofensiva en el donbass y Rusia les paró los pies.

Michael Tracey@mtracey

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While an alleged “spy balloon” rocks the nation to its core, the Secretary of Defense was just in the Philippines this week announcing the establishment of new US bases in anticipation of war with China over Taiwan. But remember, any response to this will be declared “unprovoked”

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There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance. —Imam Ali (AS) #LiveLikeAl

Aaron Maté@aaronjmate

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Tucker Carlson is exposing Americans to “Marxist-Leninist propaganda,” former NATO official says. https://twitter.com/EHunterChristi

Ryan Knight ☭@ProudSocialist

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If you think China is provoking war by sending a balloon then just wait until you find out about the empire that is surrounding China with military bases.

Rybar in English@rybar_en

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Finland will not join NATO without Sweden This was stated by Finland’s head of government, Sanna Marin, during a visit to Stockholm yesterday. The security of the two countries is linked, she says, so it would be better for the alliance to admit them together.

tim anderson@timand2037

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Which of these fake pretexts for war against 14 countries did your spineless government support?

Trollstoy@Trollstoy88

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Most essential parts of the Putin speech in Volgograd.

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The US tried to drive a wedge between Vietnam and China, but instead they are collaborating more closely. Vietnam has requested that China help it train cadres to conduct anti-corruption investigations, as it moves away from pro-Western economic policies

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Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US

Richard Medhurst@richimedhurst

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So how’s the brilliant G7 price cap on Russian oil doing?

India and China are buying Russian oil like there’s no tomorrow.

In January, Russia overtook Saudi Arabia as China’s top oil supplier.

Indian refiners are paying for Russian oil through Dubai in dirhams instead of USD.

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The ignorance of economics is absolutely lethal. Especially when unwitting leftists side with and support this absolutely shameful stance. This disgraceful position. This disgraceful ideology. They are not anti war, they just want private armies to defend private property.

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Zhirinovsky: “These are the last elections for Ukraine. There will be no more Ukraine. By 2024, a conflict will break out in the MidEast, everyone will forget what Ukraine is, Iran is not North Korea or Kosovo. Here will be the most terrible events. We are talking about WW3.”

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There is no national “debt.” Period. Debt to whom? What is owed? This is the most ridiculous, idiotic argument that ever existed. It is a reflection of complete and utter ignorance and the total indoctrination (gaslighting) of a citizenry about a non-issue.

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As the United States attempts to prepare the world mentally for war against China using a torrent of lies and slander, this ‘forgotten’ history should be enough to stop the propaganda in its tracks. Please read on:

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“Indian refiners have started paying for most of the Russian oil purchased through Dubai traders in UAE dirhams instead of US dollars,” – Reuters.

AZ @AZgeopolitics

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“The issue of Ukraine’s accession to NATO is not on the agenda.” -French Foreign Ministry

George Szamuely@GeorgeSzamuely

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Well, yes. The war in Ukraine has been a godsend to the US–almost as if it had wanted one all along. The dread possibility, ever since 1989, of dissolution of NATO has been postponed indefinitely. https://nytimes.com/2023/02/04/world/europe/europe-defense-ukraine-war.html

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JUST IN – German investigators have “no evidence at this stage” that Russia is behind the explosions at the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines, the Public Prosecutor General Frank told Welt today.

AZ @AZgeopolitics

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“Ukraine must fulfill the same conditions as all other candidates for EU membership. They include political, economic and legal criteria – but in all three areas the requirements are “far from being met,” Vice-President of the EU Parliament Katarina Barley

Real Progressives@RealProgressUS

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“The federal government can buy anything that is for sale priced in US dollars without fear of going broke.” – https://realprogressives.org/2017-09-04-fed

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As “tax time” nears, there are several important reasons for the US Government to tax, but none are to pay for federal spending. https://realprogressives.org/2017-06-29-the

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Iran will help Venezuela end its dependence on U.S. refining technologies, State-owned companies of Iran and Venezuela will begin a 100-day reconstruction of the largest oil refining complex in South America in the coming weeks.

@tobararbulu # mmt@tobararbulu

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Brexit is the only hope for the UK economy, #learnMMT https://twitter.com/RichardJMurphy

The UK is facing economic failure on a grand scale, and the Bank of England is just compounding it https://taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/02/03/the-uk-is-facing-economic-failure-on-a-grand-scale-and-the-bank-of-england-is-just-compounding-it/

@tobararbulu # mmt@tobararbulu

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Monetarism does not work! https://twitter.com/disclosetv/sta

Disclose.tv@disclosetv

JUST IN – ECB raises key interest rate by 0.5 to 3.0 percent.

David Vance@DVATW

In 1990, Gorbachev was assured that after the break up of the Soviet Union, NATO would not expand East. Look what happened…

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The German government is trying to convince other European countries to take part in the supply of tanks to Ukraine, as none of them wants to make specific promises about it – Der Spiegel.

FriendOfRussia@NoMoreNATO

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#NATO take note, an attack on Crimea is an attack on Russia, cross this red line at your peril. #StandWithRussia https://twitter.com/MedvedevRussia

Russia government official

International law respects the will of the people. Crimea is . Attacking Crimea means attacking Russia and escalating the conflict. The Ukrainian gang of drug addicts must understand that such attacks will be met with inevitable retaliation using weapons of any kind

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This sounds like it’s gonna be GREAT! If you want PEACE & an end to War come join us Feb 19 in DC! https://rageagainstwar.com