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Trump: “We’re going to run Venezuela to make sure it's run properly” The country he’s supposed to be running: https://t.co/fAkEB26Q9n
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Before commenting “democrat run city,” consider: - I am not a democrat - The city above is in the United States - It is under the jurisdiction of the US gov’t - Venezuela is not
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Left: MAGA explaining that international law is fake and gay, so Trump can do anything he wants, including kidnap a sitting president Right: MAGA explaining that the separation of powers and states’ rights are real and important, so Trump is powerless to run his own country https://t.co/7wN5Hm0Jyi
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The truth is Maduro was never affiliated with the “Cartel of the Suns,” which smuggled huge shipments of cocaine from a CIA warehouse in pre-Chavez Venezuela. Maduro’s real ‘crime’ is refusing to work with the cartels, like Trump allies Daniel Noboa in Ecuador and Juan Orlando Hernandez in Honduras - the convicted coke-trafficking former president who Trump just pardoned.
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Maduro’s other actual ‘crimes’ are obvious: he sits on the world’s greatest oil reserves, which the US has prevented Venezuela from developing or exporting for over a decade with a suffocating unilateral sanctions regime. And, of course, he refuses to recognize Israel.
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Hands down the most antagonistic interview opening I’ve ever seen. Jake Tapper berates Trump’s hostage envoy for “directly negotiating with terrorists” and asks how a Jewish American could “deal with people who are definitionally antisemitic murderers?” https://t.co/0hNPJCYxvp
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In his last act as State Dept spokesman, a smirking Matt Miller can be seen escorting in armed guards who forcibly detained @samhusseini. This sums up his time at State perfectly: https://t.co/dsv5iKnoZO
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Audio of British Def. Sec. Wallace entertaining Ukrainian nuclear ambitions on phone call w/ a prankster he believed to be the Ukrainian PM was just released. The MoD insists YouTube take it down, calling it Russian propaganda —and “a substantial risk to UK National security”🧵
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Right out the gate, Wallace promises new anti-aircraft systems and takes a not-so-subtle shot at France & Germany. Then the UK Defence Sec. seems genuinely unsure whether or not the ‘Ukrainian Prime Minister’ realizes a No-Fly Zone would likely do the regime more harm than good:
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UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace: “We are not going to directly attack Russian ships or airplanes… at this stage” though it’s a “difficult thing for me to say.” However, he promises more weapons & to let Ukraine regime help decide how close British warships buzz the Russian navy
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“We have always wanted you to join NATO, which is why our training teams were there… over the last five years” UK Defence Minister tells pretend Ukrainian Prime Minister. He blames other NATO nations for failure to secure Ukraine’s membership
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INSANE: Phony Ukraine PM asks for help with nuclear weapons & actual British Defence Secretary replies UK “will support Ukraine” if they “want to explore new weapons.” Apparently there were even wilder segments removed due to potential impact on “the national security of the UK”
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British Defence Secretary advises a man he incorrectly believes to be the Ukrainian Prime Minister to “just be very careful” about efforts to acquire nuclear weapons. As a signatory to Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the UK “can’t be seen to be” involved. In other words: CYA.
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Wallace almost loses his cool when he senses he’s being blamed for foreign mercenaries fleeing Ukraine on arrival. After a brief lecture on the concept of a “free press,” the UK Defense Secretary labels British field medic and 6-year veteran Jake Priday an “idiot” and a “failure”
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The only time the British Defense Secretary actually seems to verge on a moment of clarity is when the pair of pranksters tries to coach him into chanting “Slava Vovan and Lexus.” Even then it’s not enough!
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Missed this earlier—naturally UK would prefer to use Ukrainians as cannon fodder “at this stage.” But will they to fight Russia themselves at “the next stage?” Wallace seems unwilling to go beyond current deployments in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania & Ukraine “orbital training team”
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Pranksters request “newer NLAW anti-tank weapons,” saying those previously delivered by the UK “often fail.” Wallace tells fake Ukraine PM they’ve already sent 4,000+ (“We’re running out of our own!”) and shifts blame to “the Ukrainian General Staff” for logistical bottlenecks.
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NLAWs a central focus of the British MoD takedown demand, which incidentally reads like a mob boss ultimatum: “I am confident you would not wish to be a conduit for Russian propaganda or be in any way associated with the potential consequences of this kind of media manipulation”
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In sum: UK MoD responded to being duped by the dudes who prank called Lukashenko & Elton John by - calling it propaganda, blaming the “Russian state” - demanding YouTube “remove (or at least block) access to the video” - not disputing the substance of his comments in the least
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Full video available on the Vovan and Lexus YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/5IJ4hKqweKQ
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“The episode raises serious questions about the security & defence failings that led to pranksters getting through to one of the UK’s most senior ministers & managing to get him to talk about a highly sensitive military & diplomatic situation in Ukraine”🤡 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/21/video-released-showing-russian-hoax-call-with-uk-defence-secretary
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It wasn’t just Ben Wallace—Home Secretary Priti Patel reportedly fell for it too & an investigation has been announced. Hopefully it goes better than the investigation they did 4 years ago after the same exact guys called Boris Johnson pretending to be the Armenian Prime Minister https://t.co/7hiCS4ZeHf
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In 2018, the @AP was more critical of Ukraine’s state-sponsored child soldier training camps, noting with alarm that kids “as young as 8” were being given AKs, “advised not to think of Ukraine’s enemies as people,” and taught to “shoot to kill” them in pursuit of a “White Europe” https://t.co/869x8fEoTQ
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Remember when the Ukrainian National Guard’s infamous neo-nazi Azov Battalion bragged about the interactive puff piece the New York Times published on their child soldier training camps? https://t.co/UpA1V8EcUT
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After threatening to "hunt down" so-called "Russian propagandists" around the world, Kiev's infamous spokesperson Sarah Ashton-Cirillo was fired, then rehired. Now Cirillo is likely to fired once again after being fooled by Russian pranksters posing as former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. In the conversation, Cirillo: - Admits their company has been reduced to 14 soldiers by disastrous counter-offensive -Claims “Russians are not European… Russians are Asian. Ultimately they do come from the Mongols, they come from a grouping of people who want to be slaves.” “I wish the rest of Europe and the Western world understood that we are protecting European values and Western values... These people [Russians] are not human. They are enemies of humanity.” - Claims Dugin’s daughter “wasn’t some woman who accidentally killed. This was an evil creature who died a death they deserved.” - Admits decision to fire Cirillo was “political” and came “the highest level” — so high that it didn’t come from Ukraine itself but “New York.” - Claims they were fired because they served as the “expert witness” in trial of fellow U.S. citizen Gonzalo Lira. “The Republicans are trying to use the case of Gonzalo Lira —the ‘Russian asset’ that I testified against — as to try to say we don’t like free speech.” “I do believe that they were very angry in Washington that I was being talked about with Gonzalo Lira, that the two Americans were being discussed, and [the Ukrainians] were told, ‘make it go away.’” “Because I made it clear: Russian propagandists will be hunted down.” - Acknowledges that the Kiev regime's constant lies are jeopardizing relations with other Western states: “If we are making promises we can’t keep and not being realistic, our partners can’t trust us.” “One of the problems is that the messaging that we have coming out is truly fantastic [based in fantasy].” “That’s good for fighting the Russians. It’s not good when we’re using this in discussions with our partners in Washington, our partners in Brussels, and our partners in especially the Eastern European nations.” - Throws Zelensky under the bus — “it’s been 19 months. It’s not about theatre anymore. It’s not about populism on the world stage.” - Brags about personally convincing the Kiev regime’s “partners” at CNN to self-censor their coverage of foreign mercenaries in Ukraine. But when asked later about the British merc recently executed by his own people, Cirillo's tune changes. “We have a terrible problem with most foreign fighters here because they are just a step above mercenaries, and they come here because all they know is warfare.” “And while I defend them in public, in private I know many of them have very far-right leanings, so there’s some Nazi groups… many of them are doing this because they have no lives in their own countries.” “We have security risks, and more importantly we have morale and psychological issues because foreign soldiers are here for the money — most of them.” “And those people are gonna be the ones that are willing to engage in drugs, willing to engage in fundraising where they’re putting the money in their own pocket.” “It did not surprise me that someone was murdered. What surprises me is that we’re still allowing this to happen.” - Claims Maria Butina was a “terrible spy” and “a step above a whore,” and insists she her current political position was a reward from Putin, which is “the reason that we know the [Russian] Duma can never be taken seriously.” - Then, after being offered a (fake) deputy position Ukraine’s rubber-stamp legislature by (fake) Poroshenko, Cirillo takes the bait, literally jolting upright and immediately accepting: “Wow, sir. I would be honored, sir.”
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BREAKING: Sarah Ashton-Cirillo just uploaded, then immediately deleted, a video claiming to be the victim of a “deep fake—an AI generation meant to impugn the foreign fighters” of Ukraine Unfortunately for Kiev’s unhinged English-language spokesperson, the internet lasts forever