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When talking about Greenland, Senator Ted Cruz said: “To become an American is the greatest gift we can give anyone on planet Earth.” https://t.co/J4FemSYcg0
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Seven facts about Operation “Spiderweb” — a Ukrainian strike that will go down in history as one of the most successful special operations ever conducted. 1. Ukrainian special forces spent 1.5 years preparing and planning the attack. 1/n https://t.co/CZHUS6OmRZ
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2/ 2. Special cargo containers were custom-designed (see photos) to conceal drones. The drones were hidden in wooden boxes mounted beneath the container roofs. https://t.co/APSKnadbim
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3/ 3. Unwitting russian drivers were hired to transport the trucks near russian air bases. The total distance to the targets was approximately 5,000 kilometers.
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4/ 4. The roofs of the cargo trucks were remotely opened, releasing a swarm of drones that flew directly toward russia’s long-range bombers (see photos). https://t.co/IBRDuJMMLt
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5/ 5. After launching, the trailers self-destructed to avoid detection or recovery (see photos). https://t.co/DWZo4HlOfa
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6/ 6. The strikes hit four russian airfields (see photos), damaging or destroying over 40 russian aircraft, including A-50 surveillance planes, Tu-95s, and Tu-22M3 strategic bombers. The attack reportedly disabled 34% of russia’s strategic cruise missile carriers. https://t.co/0oWVPnRSpU
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7/ 7. According to Ukraine’s Security Service, Operation Spiderweb inflicted an estimated $7 billion in damage on russia’s strategic aviation.
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8/ This is one of the greatest russian defeats in modern history — not just a blow, but a surgical strike against the core of russia’s long-range strike capabilities. The Ukrainian operation will be studied in military textbooks for decades to come.
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9/ This is how you stop a war: by crippling your enemy’s ability to wage it. Slava Ukraini.
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Powerful text from Bridget Brink: I was U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. I resigned because of Trump's foreign policy. I have proudly served five presidents ― to make sure the United States is the strongest, greatest country that the world has ever known. 1/n https://t.co/gdHq8c89Jg
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2/ I respect the president’s right and responsibility to determine U.S. foreign policy ― with proper checks and balances by U.S. Congress. It is the role of America’s Foreign Service to execute that policy.
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3/ Unfortunately, the policy since the beginning of the Trump administration has been to put pressure on the victim, Ukraine, rather than on the aggressor, Russia.
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4/ As such, I could no longer in good faith carry out the administration’s policy and felt it was my duty to step down. After nearly three decades serving our country, I resigned as our ambassador to Ukraine.
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5/ I cannot stand by while a country is invaded, a democracy bombarded, and children killedwith impunity. I believe that the only way to secure U.S. interests is to stand up for democracies and to stand against autocrats.
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6/ Peace at any price is not peace at all ― it is appeasement. And history has taught us time and again that appeasement does not lead to safety, security or prosperity. It leads to more war and suffering.
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7/ Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, it has done what can only be described as pure evil: killed thousands of civilians, including 700 children, with missiles and drones that hit their homes and apartments in the dead of night
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8/ It has committed over 150,000 war crimes, abducted 20,000 children from their families, and forced millions of men, women and children to flee into Europe and elsewhere.
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9/ For three years I heard the stories, saw the brutality, and felt the pain of families whose sons and daughters were killed and wounded by Russian missiles and drones that hit playgrounds, churches and schools.
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10/ Over a career spent in conflict zones, I’ve seen mass atrocities and wanton destruction first-hand but we have never seen violence so systematic, so widespread and so horrifying in Europe since World War II.
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11/ Why does Russia’s invasion of Ukraine matter to the United States? It matters because how we handle this war will speak volumes to our friends as well as our foes. If we allow Putin to redraw borders by force, he won’t stop with Ukraine.
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12/ Taken at his word, Putin’s ambition is to resurrect an imperial past ― and he can’t do that without threatening the security of our NATO allies.
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13/ And if Putin succeeds, it sends signals to China that will undermine the security balance in Asia and throughout the world. That will have profound implications for America’s safety, security, and prosperity.
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14/ Russia’s war is about more than foreign policy or economics. It’s about who we are. The America I love, the one our grandparents served, would never stand by and let such horrors happen.
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According to Trump, russia defeated Hitler?! The ignorance and stupidity of this man has no bounds. https://t.co/GTo8ldzs1L