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Why #JoeBiden Will Get the #NobelPeacePrize - a thread 🧵

The #UkraineWar might be a blessing for the world in disguise by bringing about lasting world peace.

And, for this, we will have to thank the @POTUS

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How? Because, no matter what the cost, Western countries are determined to supply more and more weapons and ammunition to Ukraine to fight #Russia.

#Biden has said that #American support for #Ukraine will continue "as long as it takes."

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#Russia has been steadily destroying all this ammunition and these weapons, so much so that it is already summer (beginning of June) and the "spring #counteroffensive" of #Ukraine hasn't yet started, because they have no weapons to start any offensive.

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No tanks, aircraft, ammo, or men.

All their weapons, aircraft, etc. have been destroyed by Russia.

Western countries are now starting to raid their own armies and air forces to supply weapons to Ukraine. These, too, will be destroyed by Russian missiles and aircraft.

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The process will continue until no more weapons remain in any Western military. They will even starve to produce more weapons to be destroyed in #Ukraine. Because #Western populations are willing to endure any suffering necessary to help Ukraine.

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Without any #weapons, the #USA and its allies will have no means to prosecute any more wars, and they will also be completely bankrupt and unable to build any more weapons, and so the world will finally be at peace without destructive American-led wars.

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And, for this, the credit must go to Joe Biden, who has sacrificed #America and #Europe for the cause of #WorldPeace. We must also remember the sacrifices of the American people, who gave $100 billion to Ukraine even while facing a #DebtCeiling crisis.

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