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British Marines boarded an oil tanker because they thought it might be bringing Iranian oil to Syria, in breach of EU sanctions

The UK military doesn't protect anyone. It does BS like this: collectively punishes civilians, starving them of oil, for empire bbc.com/news/uk-488650…
Syria has been crippled by a fuel crisis and forced to impose austerity because the US and EU are going of their way to economically suffocate the country, collectively punishing civilians, starving them of oil, making lives hell to destabilize their gov.
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As the ex UN special rapporteur said: US/EU sanctions on Syria, Venezuela, and beyond "are comparable with medieval sieges of towns."

"21st-century sanctions attempt to bring not just a town, but sovereign countries to their knees."

It's economic warfare
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The US embassy in Ottawa boasted in a March 2017 memo, “Canada Adopts ‘America First’ Foreign Policy,” just after PM Trudeau appointed hard-line hawk Chrystia Freeland as foreign minister.

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She knew this, but called it "Russian disinfo"
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@BBCBreaking While Western corporate media propaganda portrays the anti-China protesters in Hong Kong as "progressive," they are violently breaking into the legislature and hanging up the flag of the genocidal, racist, mass-murdering British empire — which colonized HK
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