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Receiving much pushback for calling out #GenMilley's @thejointstaff comment on Ukraine as 'landlocked'.
Critics argue that 🇷🇺 control over the #BlackSea renders 🇺🇦 effectively landlocked.
However, even a broad interpretation of 'landlocked' is flawed. Here's a 🧵why:
Critics argue that 🇷🇺 control over the #BlackSea renders 🇺🇦 effectively landlocked.
However, even a broad interpretation of 'landlocked' is flawed. Here's a 🧵why:
Claiming UKR is landlocked militarily requires overlooking Crimea's significance to Putin. It's key in controlling access to the crucial Caspian Sea, Don-Volga Canal, and a major portion of Russia's extensive inland waterway system. #Ukraine #MilitaryPerspective
In 2021, Putin emphasized the waterway's importance, pledging billions for development to connect the Black Sea and the Baltic.
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Federal law makes the act of providing a #falsestatement to the government a #crime.
You know what this looks like:
@Alyssa_Milano
@voxdotcom
@RepBarbaraLee
@gethimouttahere
@CBSNews
@chrislhayes
@sfpelosi
@TexasTribune
@RaicesTexas
@Refugees
@RefugeesChief
@NPR
You know what this looks like:
@Alyssa_Milano
@voxdotcom
@RepBarbaraLee
@gethimouttahere
@CBSNews
@chrislhayes
@sfpelosi
@TexasTribune
@RaicesTexas
@Refugees
@RefugeesChief
@NPR
FBI Agent [to a person of interest, after appropriate warnings]:
"Were you at First Central Bank between 10 and 11 am on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2016?"
Person of Interest: "Not at all! I was in South Carolina, boarding the Big M Riverboat, for a day of gambling with friends."
"Were you at First Central Bank between 10 and 11 am on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2016?"
Person of Interest: "Not at all! I was in South Carolina, boarding the Big M Riverboat, for a day of gambling with friends."
FBI Agent: "Let me show you a video taken inside the bank on the date and time in question." [shows video clearly depicting the person of interest in the bank, video date, and time stamp confirms date and time].
