#Ukraine 🇺🇦 — Russia 🇷🇺 War

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Analysis: The China-Russia Axis Takes Shape

The bond has been decades in the making, but Russia’s war in Ukraine has tightened their embrace.

— September 11, 2023 | By Bonny Lin | Foreign Policy

Alex Nabaum Illustration For Foreign Policy

In July, nearly a dozen Chinese and Russian warships conducted 20 combat exercises in the Sea of Japan before beginning a 2,300-nautical-mile joint patrol, including into the waters near Alaska. These two operations, according to the Chinese defense ministry, “reflect the level of the strategic mutual trust” between the two countries and their militaries.

The increasingly close relationship between China and Russia has been decades in the making, but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has tightened their embrace. Both countries made a clear strategic choice to prioritize relations with each other, given what they perceive as a common threat from the U.S.-led West. The deepening of bilateral ties is accompanied by a joint push for global realignment as the two countries use non-Western multilateral institutions—such as the BRICS forum and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)—to expand their influence in the developing world. Although neither Beijing nor Moscow currently has plans to establish a formal military alliance, major shocks, such as a Sino-U.S. conflict over Taiwan, could yet bring it about.

The cover of Foreign Policy's fall 2023 print magazine shows a jack made up of joined hands lifting up the world. Cover text reads: The Alliances That Matter Now: Multilateralism is at a dead end, but powerful blocs are getting things done."

China and Russia’s push for better relations began after the end of the Cold War. Moscow became frustrated with its loss of influence and status, and Beijing saw itself as the victim of Western sanctions after its forceful crackdown of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. In the 1990s and 2000s, the two countries upgraded relations, settled their disputed borders, and deepened their arms sales. Russia became the dominant supplier of advanced weapons to China.

When Xi Jinping assumed power in 2012, China was already Russia’s largest trading partner, and the two countries regularly engaged in military exercises. They advocated for each other in international forums; in parallel, they founded the SCO and BRICS grouping to deepen cooperation with neighbors and major developing countries.

When the two countries upgraded their relations again in 2019, the strategic drivers for much closer relations were already present. Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 damaged its relations with the West and led to a first set of economic sanctions. Similarly, Washington identified Beijing as its most important long-term challenge, redirected military resources to the Pacific, and launched a trade war against Chinese companies. Moscow and Beijing were deeply suspicious of what they saw as Western support for the color revolutions in various countries and worried that they might be targets as well. Just as China refused to condemn Russian military actions in Chechnya, Georgia, Syria, and Ukraine, Russia fully backed Chinese positions on Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet, and Xinjiang. The Kremlin also demonstrated tacit support for Chinese territorial claims against its neighbors in the South China Sea and East China Sea.

Since launching its war in Ukraine, Russia has become China’s fastest-growing trading partner. Visiting Moscow in March, Xi declared that deepening ties to Russia was a “strategic choice” that China had made. Even the mutiny in June by Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin that took his mercenary army almost to the gates of Moscow did not change China’s overall position toward Russia, though Beijing has embraced tactical adjustments to “de-risk” its dependency on Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Building on their strong relationship, Xi and Putin released a joint statement in February 2022 announcing a “No Limits” strategic partnership between the two countries. The statement expressed a litany of grievances against the United States, while Chinese state media hailed a “new era” of international relations not defined by Washington. Coming only a few weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, enhanced relations were likely calculated by Moscow to strengthen its overall geopolitical position before the attack.

It’s not clear how much prior detailed knowledge Xi had about Putin’s plans to launch a full-scale war, but their relationship endured the test. If anything, the Western response to Russia’s war reinforced China’s worst fears, further pushing it to align with Russia. Beijing viewed Russian security concerns about NATO expansion as legitimate and expected the West to address them as it sought a way to prevent or stop the war. Instead, the United States, the European Union, and their partners armed Ukraine and tried to paralyze Russia with unprecedented sanctions. Naturally, this has amplified concerns in Beijing that Washington and its allies could be similarly unaccommodating toward Chinese designs on Taiwan.

Against the background of increased mutual threat perceptions, both sides are boosting ties with like-minded countries. On one side, this includes a reenergized, expanded NATO and its growing linkages to the Indo-Pacific, as well as an invigoration of Washington’s bilateral, trilateral, and minilateral arrangements in Asia. Developed Western democracies—with the G-7 in the lead—are also exploring how their experience deterring and sanctioning Russia could be leveraged against China in potential future contingencies.

On the other side, Xi envisions the China-Russia partnership as the foundation for shaping “the global landscape and the future of humanity.” Both countries recognize that while the leading democracies are relatively united, many countries in the global south remain reluctant to align with either the West or China and Russia. In Xi and Putin’s view, winning support in the global south is key to pushing back against what they consider U.S. hegemony.

Alex Nabaum Illustration For Foreign Policy

In the global multilateral institutions, China and Russia are coordinating with each other to block the United States from advancing agendas that do not align with their interests. The U.N. Security Council is often paralyzed by their veto powers, while other institutions have turned into battlegrounds for seeking influence. Beijing and Moscow view the G-20, where their joint weight is relatively greater, as a key forum for cooperation.

But the most promising venues are BRICS and the SCO, established to exclude the developed West and anchor joint Chinese-Russian efforts to reshape the international system. Both are set up for expansion—in terms of scope, membership, and other partnerships. They are the primary means for China and Russia to create a web of influence that increasingly ties strategically important countries to both powers.

The BRICS grouping—initially made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—is at the heart of Moscow and Beijing’s efforts to build a bloc of economically powerful countries to resist what they call Western “Unilateralism.” In late August, another six states, including Egypt, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, were invited to join the group. With their growing economic power, the BRICS countries are pushing for cooperation on a range of issues, including ways to reduce the dominance of the U.S. dollar and stabilize global supply chains against Western calls for “Decoupling” and “De-risking.” Dozens of other countries have expressed interest in joining BRICS.

The SCO, in contrast, is a Eurasian grouping of Russia, China, and their friends. With the exception of India, all are members of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. The accession of Iran in July and Belarus’s membership application put the SCO on course to bring China’s and Russia’s closest and strongest military partners under one umbrella. If the SCO substantially deepens security cooperation, it could grow into a counterweight against U.S.-led Coalitions.

Both BRICS and the SCO, however, operate by consensus, and it will take time to transform both groups into cohesive, powerful geopolitical actors that can function like the G-7 or NATO. The presence of India in both groups will make it difficult for China and Russia to turn either into a staunchly anti-Western outfit. The diversity of members—which include democracies and autocracies with vastly different cultures—means that China and Russia will have to work hard to ensure significant influence over each organization and its individual members.

What’s next? Continued Sino-Russian convergence is the most likely course. But that is not set in stone—and progress can be accelerated, slowed, or reversed. Absent external shocks, Beijing and Moscow may not need to significantly upgrade their relationship from its current trajectory. Xi and Putin share similar views of a hostile West and recognize the strategic advantages of closer alignment. But they remain wary of each other, with neither wanting to be responsible for or subordinate to the other.

Major changes or shocks, however, could drive them closer at a faster pace. Should Russia suffer a devastating military setback in Ukraine that risks the collapse of Putin’s regime, China might reconsider the question of substantial military aid. If China, in turn, finds itself in a major Taiwan crisis or conflict against the United States, Beijing could lean more on Moscow. During a conflict over Taiwan, Russia could also engage in opportunistic aggression elsewhere that would tie China and Russia together in the eyes of the international community, even if Moscow’s actions were not coordinated with Beijing.

A change in the trajectory toward ever closer Chinese-Russian ties may also be possible, though it is far less likely. Some Chinese experts worry that Russia will always prioritize its own interests over any consideration of bilateral ties. If, for instance, former U.S. President Donald Trump wins another term, he could decrease U.S. support for Ukraine and offer Putin improved relations. This, in turn, could dim the Kremlin’s willingness to support China against the United States. It’s not clear if this worry is shared by top Chinese or Russian leaders, but mutual distrust and skepticism of the other remain in both countries.

— This article appears in the Fall 2023 issue of Foreign Policy. | Bonny Lin, the Director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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If we go down, we go down FIGHTING… together. 🇪🇪 ✊ 🇺🇦 (The flags are inspired by how the Ukrainian war prisoners [read: heroes] are greeted when they return back home to Ukraine - by wearing the Ukrainian flag tied around their necks like capes.)

America has turned its back on Ukraine and their European allies and is clearly under the influence of Russia(n propaganda). But we will NOT let the Fire Nation Russia win!

Fuck Putin's Russia & Trump's America! 🇷🇺 🖕 🇺🇸

@Americans - We don't care about your regrets after voting for Trump. And we're not here to clean up this mess FOR YOU that your government is creating. Don't just speak - empty words mean nothing to us anymore. We need you to ACT!!! (@Europe as well.)

Donate NOW to support Ukraine in their battle to defend their homeland (and the whole of Europe) from the Russian invasion! Don't give the Russians a chance to lick their wounds, regroup and launch another wave of destruction to spread their imperialistic war in the next corner of Europe.

Here are some trustworthy charities working towards that goal in Estonia: (Likes are welcome, reblogs are helpful, donations are invaluable! 🫶)

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Official Estonian organizations:

Estonian Defence League

Estonian National Defence Promotion Foundation

Estonian Rescue Association

Estonian Food Bank

Estonian Red Cross

Estonian Refugee Council

Estonian NGOs:

NGO Mondo

NGO Vaba Ukraina

NGO Will For Victory

Universities supporting the studies of Ukrainian students in Estonia:

Tallinn University of Technology

University of Tartu

When strangers are coming, they come to your house. They kill you all and say: "We're not guilty, NOT GUILTY…" 🕊️

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💰 U.S. TAXPAYERS: SPONSORING MIAMI CLUB ROUNDS & UKRAINIAN WAR GRAVES One’s a Hero, the Other’s a HOE-ro! 🤡

🪖 Expendable War Meat vs. 👠 Escapist Bottle Rat

Wanna hear the biggest scam since student loan forgiveness? We’re out here funneling billions into Ukraine’s war machine while their men are physically locked in a meat grinder with no escape, and their women? Oh, their women are out here in Miami, getting plastered, shaking ass in VIP sections, and collecting American simp bucks like a side quest in Grand Theft Welfare.

Meanwhile, back in their "homeland," any Ukrainian man caught trying to escape is immediately snatched up and shipped straight to the front lines like a disposable Walmart-brand Stormtrooper. Doesn’t matter if he’s 18 or 58—he’s getting sent straight into the meat grinder where he can either die in a trench for "freedom" or get blown into government-issued confetti by a drone strike.

But women? Nah, they get a free pass. No forced service. No accountability. Just a direct pipeline to American sugar daddies and a fast-track entry to bottle service culture.

WHERE’S THAT "EQUALITY" YOU LOVE SO MUCH?

Oh, I know exactly what some weak-minded clowns are about to say— "Men are the protectors, women are the providers." 🚨 Bullshit detected. 🚨

🔹 Israel makes both genders serve in the military. Try again. 🔹 Russia isn’t stopping Ukrainian women from going back to "fight." They just don’t want to. 🔹 Feminism mysteriously vanishes when these club rats are dodging the draft in stilettos.

These Ukrainian women aren’t "providers." They’re out here being provided for by clueless American men, drinking $30 cocktails and slurping up tax-funded handouts like government assistance was their birthright.

Meanwhile, Ukraine is selling the "bravery" of their men as cannon fodder, trapping them in a warzone they never asked for. If a man dares to run? He’s getting dragged back kicking and screaming like a medieval serf, because Ukraine isn’t a "democracy"—it’s a government-run kill box.

WOULD UKRAINE ACTUALLY BE WORSE OFF UNDER RUSSIA?

This is the question that no one wants to answer. The U.S. and Europe have been funding this dumpster fire like it’s a GoFundMe for military-industrial kickbacks, but let’s get real:

🇺🇦 Under Ukraine:

Men are forced to fight and die. No escape.

Women are free to party, get ran through, and post "support Ukraine" hashtags while sipping mojitos.

The economy is a black hole that only survives on unlimited Western handouts.

🇷🇺 Under Russia:

The same level of corruption, minus the illusion of democracy.

Ukraine wouldn’t need infinite U.S. tax dollars to function.

The same women would still be hoeing overseas, but without the victim narrative.

Be honest—what’s actually different? The West gets to pretend Ukraine is fighting some grand battle for "freedom," while the reality is that the entire country is just a high-yield money-laundering scheme with a body count.

Meanwhile, in Miami, Ukraine’s "victims" are deep-throating Grey Goose bottles and getting flown out by NBA benchwarmers. Yeah, let’s keep writing blank checks for that. Sounds legit.

WHY SHOULD I GIVE A SINGLE F*?**

Ukraine doesn’t care about the lives of its own men. Why should I?

The entire country has become a human sacrifice ritual where men are treated as expendable chess pieces while the women get to ride out the war with luxury shopping sprees. And you’re telling me I should care? For what? So Ukraine can keep existing as an open-air money-laundering operation? So its women can keep racking up American simp dollars while their men get body-bagged?

Miss me with that nonsense.

Ukraine is not a democracy. It’s not a victim. It’s not our problem. If they don’t even care about their own men, why should we?

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Fair play Macron, fair play!

Let's hope the rest of the west starts standing their ground some more!

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💥UKRAINIAN LOSSES SURPASS HALF A MILLION CASUALTIES IN LESS THAN TWO YEARS OF WAR WITH RUSSIA💥

⚡️ 🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukrainian Losses in Russian Special Military Operation on December 1, 2023

▪️ Throughout the SMO, Ukraine's armed forces suffered a total of 536,854 irretrievable losses, including 214,883 fatalities.

The irretrievable losses also encompass 62,000 missing persons, prisoners, and disabled individuals.

▪️ In addition, 864,374 individuals were temporarily out of service.

🔻 Therefore, the total losses of Ukrainian forces exceed 1.4 million people.

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⚡️🇷🇺Russian sources report that the FSB of Russia conducted an investigation and opened two criminal cases regarding the transportation of 59 aircraft and helicopters (Il-76 and Mi-8) from Russia to other countries from March 2022 to June 2023

3 of these helicopters somehow 3 Mi-8 helicopters got into 🇺🇦Ukraine and are used against the Russian army during the war.

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From Wall Street Journal: Ukrainian 🇺🇦 special forces are using drones & night vision technology to fight a Sudanese 🇸🇩 rebel group called the Rapid Support Forces, who are backed by Russia’s 🇷🇺 Wagner mercenary group. It is odd to read about Ukraine 🇺🇦 & Russia 🇷🇺 engaged in a proxy war thousands of miles away while, at the same time, they are fighting a hot war within each other’s respective…

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damn so i became curious about moldova 🇲🇩 after mercy chapter 18 so i looked it up. lmao i thought the official language was french for some reason but its actually romanian so is terry speaking romanian? my british ass is impressed lol since i can only speak english like most brits and here’s our psycho speaking multi languages fluently haha. anyway i also thought moldova 🇲🇩 (my phone keeps making flags sorry) was in central europe and then it says its in eastern europe and it being affected by the ukranian 🇺🇦 war against russia 🇷🇺. how did terry get a visa for daniel? well, he is pretty much karate god so i suppose he can do whatever he fuckin likes. amazing story much love.

I do believe CK is taking place in like 2017 for season one and it is supposed to be only like 2019 by season five- something like that and something I keep forgetting.

So even though the war in Ukraine has been ongoing since 2014, it was only recently in 2022 that Russia escalated it and actually invaded them which caused the rest of the world to sort of reckon with the ramped up tension and potential for a world conflict.

Now, I don’t claim to be an expert and I only have the cliff notes versions but I didn’t really factor it in as with season five only supposed to be 2019 - I don’t think the conflict, considering it is five years old at that point but before the recent escalations would affect them too much.

Also, origanally they were going to be in the mountains somewhere - it was written that he could tell that they were in the mountains and I wanted it to be in Romania 🇷🇴- the Carpathian Mountains - plus their dense forests as well - in which case Moldova would have been the buffer between them and Ukraine but I decided I wanted the added factor of them being somewhere that they could not be extradited back to the states - and Romanian does, so next door Moldova it was, which used to be part of Romania.

I imagine, for some reason, that Terry speaks French and Romanian is a love language therefore he probably could adapt to learning it.

That being said I don’t HC him as speaking Romanian as such and he had brought people with him he trusts - so no guarantee they do and in my mind, don’t know why, but the nurse speaks Spanish 🤷‍♀️ and so does one of the maids.

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After 3 LONG #BloodyBiden Years of #WAR💥 and Escalating WAR🧨 #DealMaker #GOAT #PresidentTrump🤩 and his #MAGA🇺🇸 #DreamTeam🏆 are finally reaching a peace☮️ agreement between #PresidentPutin Russia🇷🇺 and #CorruptUkraine🇺🇦 and their Comedian #Crackhead Clown Zelle-something or other…

This WAR💣 has cost so much Casualties⚰️❤️‍🩹🪦 Destruction🔥 and Monies💰 for both countries🌍 and the U.S.🇺🇸 Taxpayers💸 and North Korea🇰🇵 too‼️🤯

THANK YOU President Trump for not only bringing this to an end🙅‍♂️🛑✋ but including in the deal a way for Ukraine to pay us back🤑 and secure a mineral✨ deal too‼️👏🤩����🥰🙏🫡🇺🇸#REBTD😇

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Trump’s Ukraine Wake-up Call: Points He’s Now Making Are What Russia Said All Along

When A War is Built On Lies, Making Peace Will Hurt The Liars

— By Tarik Cyril Amar | 20 February 2025 | RT

US President Donald Trump returns to the White House on February 19, 2025 in Washington, DC. © Win McNamee/Getty Images

Let’s play a game: It’s called “Putin says, and so does Trump.” Because, recently, after years of disagreeing on, really, everything – from the order of the world to the meaning of simple phrases such as “not one inch” – the leaderships of Russia and the US have suddenly found not merely a common language, but a lot to agree on.

In particular regarding Ukraine, which used to be the Ground Zero of their great disagreement. That’s a good thing in case you wonder. As in, the good things that keep the world from burning, literally. The US president has just observed that World War III had become a real possibility under the preceding Biden/Harris (or whoever was really in charge) administration. And he’s correct: There’s a reason why the metaphorical fingers of the famous Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists have crept “closer than ever” to “midnight.”

Now, the American president agrees with the Russian one that Ukraine’s leader Vladimir Zelensky is one election short. Indeed, in a withering social media post, Trump has been blunt: Zelensky is a “dictator.”

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin also see eye to eye concerning the root cause of the Ukraine War, namely NATO’s – that is, let’s be frank, America’s – predictably catastrophic yet perniciously obstinate policy of overreach. That in turn, means Trump and Putin also share a sensible and rather traditional assumption which – somehow – many in the West’s elites have managed to forget: namely that all great powers have legitimate security interests in their neighborhood.

With thinking in Washington and Moscow converging this far, it is no wonder that there is agreement now as well on centering their relationship on sensible and mutually respectful dialogue on national interests.

And speaking of national interests, Trump has been clear that he can’t recognize any in sinking ceaseless billions into the Zelensky regime, its war, and its humungous corruption. True, the American president may have gotten his precise figures wrong, but for all the NAFO-id “fact-checkers” (i.e. info-warriors) out there: Don’t be silly: Trump’s key point stands, whether the US has wasted 500 or somewhere between 100 and 200 billion dollars on this bloody and stupid business.

So does, by the way, his characterization of Zelensky as a “dictator.” I know, for many in the West it feels like root canal extraction to finally face that reality, but the Zelensky regime is authoritarian and its leader had no right to give himself a waver on his last election. Therefore, his term ran out on 20 May 2024. Since then, like it or not, Zelensky’s legitimacy has at the very best been in an extremely murky gray zone. Moreover, he did not turn so bossy because of the military escalation of February 2022. In reality, his many prewar opponents and critics in Ukraine were accusing him – correctly – of severe authoritarian tendencies in 2021 already.

Tarik Cyril Amar, A Historian from Germany working at Koç University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory.

And make no mistake: this is not a “soft” authoritarianism. It hasn’t “merely” muzzled the media, as even the staunchly bellicist New York Times has admitted. Instead, this is a regime with teeth and claws and a great appetite for harsh repression. Ask the members supportterts of the 11 - yes: 11 - opposition parties the Zelensky regime has long suppressed. Or the clergy and believers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) that has simply been banned. There are also individuals suppressed by police-state methods and even murdered in detention. Consider the cases of, for instance, the socialist activist Bohdan Syrotiuk, currently being subjected to a political trial, and the libertarian Gonzalo Lira, a US citizen and social media journalist, whom Ukrainian authorities tortured and killed for his criticism of the proxy war and the Zelensky regime (and also robbed him).

As should be clear by now, Trump and Putin and more broadly Russia and the US are not agreeing because of some dark Russian information war magic. Zelensky’s silly – and very arrogant – attempt to depict the American president as a helpless victim of Moscow’s “disinformation” only made Trump even angrier. And rightly so. Because the reason for the new spirit of agreement between Washington and Moscow is simple: Regarding Ukraine, the US government under Trump has rediscovered reality.

That reality includes another fact Kiev hates to hear about: Russia, in Trump’s words, has “the cards” in the war. True again: Moscow does have the upper hand on the ground, and any negotiation that aims to actually end this senseless war will have to start from that reality. If not, the war won’t end.

It is true that there are rumors – partly due to Germany’s Annalena “360 Degrees” Baerbock not mastering the diplomatic art of discretion (surprise!) – about insane EU-European ideas of pumping another 700 billion euros into the meatgrinder. But Euro-fantasies tend to fall short. And even if they don’t this time, all that would happen is making the EU’s economic malaise much deeper and Ukraine’s defeat much worse.

In that regard, let’s not overlook something simple but very important about Trump’s harsh approach to Zelensky and his regime: As US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz has highlighted on Fox News, the US president is exerting pressure to speed up the process of ending the war by diplomacy. About that, Trump is, of course, absolutely right, because every single day of fighting is completely superfluous. This war should not only never have happened, it is also over. For those not blinded by wishful thinking and ideology, the result is clear: Russia has won. The sooner this futile madness finally ends, the more Ukrainians – and Russians, too – won’t be killed, injured, or maimed for life in a fight that does not even have a prospect of making a difference.

Trump’s political opponents are, of course, trying to exploit this moment, namely by shouting “betrayal!” Such as senator Richard Blumenthal from the Democratic Party, for instance. For good measure, the senator also denounced the president’s actions as “utterly despicable” and “disgusting.” Trump, he charged, has disregarded the “truth” and the “sacrifice of brave [Ukrainian] men and women who are upholding their freedom and ours.”

Really? Let’s talk about the truth then: In reality, Ukrainians have been sacrificed indeed, but not for anyone’s “freedom.” Instead they have been used as cannon fodder in a proxy war that was explicitly designed to inflict a strategic, that is, crippling defeat on Russia. Ukraine has been devastated but not for any noble values, whether “freedom,” “democracy,” or even gay parades and mixed bathrooms. Ukraine has been sacrificed, as so many before, in a US play for geopolitical advantage.

Trump is right to pull the plug on all of this. And he is right to stop babying Zelensky and his regime. And he is right to agree with Putin where both simply agree with reality.

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The imminent collapse of American Colonialism.

For over 2000 years, raiding, conquering, and squatting have been how “civilisations” behaved. The more recent hegemonies of Europe, including Britain and now the United States, have been the most damaging to our planet. The rape of other nations to fuel a voracious appetite for self-enrichment has brought us to an inevitable end, some say, like a Ponzi scheme that one cannot taper. I believe…

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I AM SICK OF BEING FORCED TO TALK ABOUT GAZA, PALESTINE AND ISRAEL WHILE

WHILE THERE ARE COUNTRIES AT WAR FOR 10 YEARS LIKE SYRIA, YEMEN, LYBIA OR SOMALIA, ETC

DO NOT FORGET OR LET US FORGET SYRIA

OK?!!!!!

NOW RECENTLY THE CHRISTIANS IN ARMENIA 🇦🇲 BEING BULLIED FOR AZERBAIYAN 🇦🇿 🤬🤬

OR HAITI 🇭🇹 WHICH IS TYRANNIZED BY CRIMINALS LED BY LITERALLY A CANNIBAL

OR EVEN UKRAINE THAT NEED TO BE FREE AND FIGHT AGAINST RUSSIA CAUSE RUZIA IS A NaZi WITH Z COUNTRY

OK?!

Syria are still on war, famine, ISIS, Al Qaeda, even Russians and Wagner destroys the Syrians that wants Democracy cause Assad is a Dictator that sell his country to The Kremlin and Alí Kamenei and his Femicide Anti-Woman Regime of Iran

If you talk about Syria that still have Refugees on Europe SINCE 2011 after the Arabian Spring

MANY PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD will talk about Gaza,

BUT NO ONE TALKS ABOUT THE HELL THAT IS LIVING IN SYRIA, JUST THE KURDS IN ROJAVA RESIST THE NAZI DICTATOR CALLED BASHAR AL ASSAD

JUST LIKE THE KURDS AND THE NORTH CYPRIOTS RESIST THE DICTATOR OF ERDOGAN OF TÜRKIYE/TURKEY

I Don't care about Israel or Palestine or Gaza anymore

UNLESS PEOPLE CARE ABOUT SYRIA LIKE THEY CARE WHEN ISIS CARRIED OUT ATTACKS IN ALL EUROPE ON 2015

I have MEMORY

Syrians that wants FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY ARE HUMANS THAT SUFFER TOO 😡

LET'S TALK ABOUT SYRIA, YEMEN, HAITÍ THAT IS RULED BY BARBEQUE A CANNIBAL, VENEZUELA, UKRAINE, GEORGIA, ARMENIA, TAIWAN OR MYANMAR OR EVEN SUDAN/NUBIA

OR THE CHRISTIANS BEING SLAUGHTERED BY MUSLIMS IN NIGERIA, AFRICA

OK?!

CAUSE THOSE COUNTRIES DO NOT HAVE A LOBBY, MARKETING OR THE PUBLICITY THAT PALESTINE AND ISRAEL HAS!!

ARMENIA

GEORGIA

TAIWAN

SYRIA

YEMEN

OR THE BELARUSIANS THAT WANT A BELARUS WITHOUT LUKASHENKO A FREE AND DEMOCRATIC BELARUS

UKRAINE

HAITI

OR AFGHANISTAN NOW RULED BY MYSOGYNISTS TALIBANS JUST LIKE ALÍ KAMENEI THAT KILL IRANIANS WOMANS THAT WANTS AMD DESERVES FREEDOM WHILE THE WESTERN FEMINISTS IGNORE BOTH WOMANS FROM IRAN AND AFGHANISTAN!! 🤬🤬😡😡🇮🇷

OR HONG KONG AND SINKIANG OPPRESSED BY XI JINPING THAT SPREAD COVID-19 BY OPENNING THE CHINESE FRONTIERS WHILE TAIWAN WARNED US IN FEBRUARY OF 2020 CAUSE THE CORRUPTED OMS DECLARED COVID-19 A PANDEMIC THE 20 MARCH OF 2020 I remember the day cause is when my sister has a birthday on march 20th

AND NOW XI JINPING ARE TRYING TO INVADE TAIWAN THAT WARNED US ABOUT THE DANGEROUS OF THE COVID-19 CAUSE IA CALLED 19 CAUSE THTA DISEASE BEGGING IN THE END OF 2019 BEFORE THE YEAR 2020

OK???!! 😡😡🤬🤬🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰

OR EVEN SOMALIA

Etc etc etc ETC

OR MAYBE ONLY JUST GAZA/PALESTINE AND ISRAEL DESERVES TO HAVE A VOICE??

WHAT ABOUT CUBA AMD VENEZUELA RULED BY TYRANTS!?

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despo ukraine losing big

🚨☢️🇷🇺🇺🇦There are reports that Ukraine may be planning to detonate dirty bombs at some nuclear sites including the Kursk nuclear plant and the Zaporozhye nuclear plant. If true, this is bad news for both parties.#Russia #Russian #Ukraine #Kursk #NUCLEAR #NuclearEnergy #war pic.twitter.com/fETSqRGGkx— Blackman (@who_is_blackman) August 16, 2024