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#Russia is about to carve up #Syria. Watch an almost giddy #Putin welcome #Erdogan to Moscow today. He does that hand hug thing, putting his other hand on their very warm handshake, and says what I think is “you bring good weather.” They chuckle.
What a difference a few days make when America is compromised by a corrupt & incompetent dictator wannabe POTUS. Compare Putin-Erdogan handshake in Russia to Pence-Erdogan handshake in Turkey. It's hard to even grasp what hell Trump has unleashed on the Kurds, Syria, & the world.
😨“Operation Peace Spring”—How perfectly Orwellian🙃propaganda-speak. That’s what #Erdogan has codenamed #Turkey’s offensive in #Syria, which has slaughtered and displaced the Kurds & democratic SDF forces, with clear echoes of ethnic cleansing and war crimes. #Russia #Putin
🚨Russia, Turkey agree to JOINTLY REMOVE Kurdish fighters along Turkey’s border in northern Syria as U.S. withdraws troops washingtonpost.com/world/middle_e…
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Gaslighting & Theater. That's the Republicans. Today's stunt: Trump propagandists stormed the impeachment inquiry. Just like w/ Russia investigation, they can’t dispute damning facts. So they reframe them, play language games, act outraged, as they smear investigators & process.
Just like in Mueller Russia probe, Republicans hurl propaganda slogans to flip criminality & abuse onto those investigating it.
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😤This pumped me up with hope today: Republicans are exhausted having to defend Trump’s indefensible bullshit day in & day out. (@mattklewis on @ReliableSources)

Trump counts on exhausting democracy’s defenders. (Lord knows he has!) But the exhaustion goes the other way too.
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The meeting in Turkey between #Putin, #Erdogan & #Rouhani was a bad thing

They were planning how to carve up #Syria among other things
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He didn't say "So do whatever you want"
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