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Exclusive: Hezbollah has appointed Masatsugu Nagato, former CEO of Japan Post Holdings, as new Secretary General. Nagato is expected to continue the rocket campaigns against Israel and broaden investment from East Asian markets.
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Richard Nixon, just before the first televised debate with JFK:
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This proper looks like one of those random British newspaper articles where a local complains about rubbish left outside their house
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Of course the SPD rebounds far beyond all expectations just after I completed my dissertation on the SPD’s electoral collapse on a Federal level.
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The Western Left spent 20 years calling for an exit from Afghanistan, now that we are seeing the immediate impacts of that, suddenly the voices that were the loudest in calling for an exit for "peace" & to "end the forever wars" are nowhere to be found as the Taliban rampage on.
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The irony is that rather than being the second coming of European Fascism, Viktor Orban has a lot more in common with the populist authoritarianism and grifting of federal funds that defined quintessentially American demagogues like Boss Tweed, Huey Long or George Wallace
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Fairly sizeable drop for CDU/CSU. Whilst I’ve definitely seen excitement at a Green rebound. I think this is more to do with the attention Laschet has had in recent days regarding plagiarism allegations. Polls will probs move back to hi-20s for Union & ~20 for Greens fairly soon.
Germany, Kantar poll: CDU/CSU-EPP: 24% (-3) GRÜNE-G/EFA: 22% (+3) SPD-S&D: 18% (+1) FDP-RE: 13% AfD-ID: 11% LINKE-LEFT: 6% +/- vs. 20-27 July 2021 Fieldwork: 28 July - 3 August 2021 Sample size: 1,413 ➤ europeelects.eu/germany
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Replying to @Lauren_Southern
Yes, it isn't just white soldiers protecting Parisians, but as you can see, black soldiers and people of numerous other backgrounds.
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Replying to @nicholadrummond
Instead of the Abrams, which is $6-7 million, we should get the Merkava IV, $4.5 million a unit. Could be more effective in most scenarios.
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Replying to @nicholadrummond
It's an issue that's being ignored and within a decade may bring the country onto it's knees. Like the strikes of the 1970s, but non stop.
Actually that's just from actual experience now. They'll all look like the hospital in Threads in a decade.
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If you need an ambulance, it will take too long, once you're at hospital, there'll be blood on the floor & you'll be on a bed in a corridor.
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Replying to @nicholadrummond
Corbyn might be an idiot, but Labour are the only ones that actually fund anything decently. It will get really bad if we keep with Tories.
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Replying to @nicholadrummond
Guess that means you won't have any roads, decent schools, NHS and a continuously worsening armed forces. Tell me how that is once I move.
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We have occasional low key exercises, but I can't find much else.
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Not that I'm aware of, think its just the FPDA that we have in the East.
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A place that really shouldn't concern us, unless they don't complete the RFA's Tide class order.
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Maybe a flight of typhoons and a frigate?
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Would be pretty horrendous. Hilly terrain stops any thunder run by AFVs & large no. of artillery in hardened positions.
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Chines there for enormous refugee crisis if war broke out. Russia to stop any overspill into their territory. S Korea trying to keep calm.
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