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Thread showing that the very countries/leaders that the US wants to step up in the fight against #covid are horrified by Trump’s latest tantrum. The US #WHO funding cut off is both shameful & dumb.
African Union Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat
Top European Union foreign affairs official Josep Borrell
Irish Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Simon Coveney
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas
Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian
Spokesperson for UK PM Prime Minister Boris Johnson
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Trump has put in place a de facto hold on funds to the @who, requiring agencies to obtain what appears to be ⁦@WhiteHouse⁩ clearance, which will cause needless delays & mean cuts at the worst possible time. A thread on why this is sheer madness: politico.eu/article/corona…
.@WHO needs $$ to urgently scale up in poor nations where #COVID is arriving&where death toll likely huge. @BillGates warns of some 10 mlln possible deaths in Africa. Trump may not care abt African lives, but he cares abt return to normalcy here-not poss when C19 raging elsewhere
See my @Nytimes op-Ed on how walls can’t protect us from large-scale outbreak in developing countries, as we are linked via family ties, global supply chains, and trading relations: nytimes.com/2020/04/07/opi…
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I have been drawn to the vision & electricity of @ewarren and the policy record of @MikeBloomberg on guns/climate. But I voted today for @JoeBiden. Here’s why:
The foundations of a progressive policy platform are empathy and decency, which @JoeBiden embodies to a truly rare extent. These qualities are also the antithesis of the narcissism and cruelty of @realDonaldTrump. The contrast will be stark.
.@JoeBiden is running not to go back in time or to “unite” w/ a @GOP that now cares more about itself than the country. He is running to bring America to a place where we care for one another, where everyone is seen and included & where government has your back when you stumble.
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1/6 Thread: a few preliminary thoughts tonight: US, FR, UK military strikes in #Syria are an appropriate response to the monstrous, repeated use of CW by the Assad regime against civilians.
2/6 More unilateral US sanctions wd not deter #Assad. Russia — which vetoed even the renewal of the UN-OPCW investigation mechanism, knowing it told the truth — would never allow any meaningful response through the #UNSC. Russia has never admitted a single regime use.
3/6 At one point some hoped that Iran — its own soldiers once gassed by Iraq — might press #Assad to cease CW use. But now, years into Assad’s serial use, Iran & Russia are completely complicit in Assad’s “win at any cost, win with any weapon” strategy.
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