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„Americans with ties to @realDonaldTrump have carried out covert influence operations in Greenland, according to Danish media reports, with Denmark’s security and intelligence service, PET, warning the territory »is the target of influence campaigns of various kinds«.
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Thomas Crosbie (@crosbie_soc), an associate professor of military operations at the Royal Danish Defense College [1] [2] that provides training and education for the Danish defense forces, warned that Greenland is unlikely to get the better of Trump in a negotiation.
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– »Trumpʼs primary identity as a deal-maker is someone who forces his will on the people heʼs negotiating with, and someone who has a very long track record of betraying people who heʼs negotiated deals with,
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not honoring his commitments, both in private and public life, and exploiting those around him ... I really see zero benefits to Greenlandic people other than a very temporary boost to their self esteem«.
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And, he added, »it would be crazy to agree to something in the hope that a deal may come. I mean, if you give away your territory in the hopes that you might get a deal afterwards — that would be just really imprudent«.
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Meanwhile, an invasion would »mean the end of @NATO«, [...] said {@RomainChuffart, who heads the Washington, D.C.-based Arctic Institute [3] [4] [5]}, and the »U.S. would be … shooting itself in the foot and waving goodbye to an alliance it has helped create«.”
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The 11 tankers — all but one apparently laden — collectively are carrying an estimated 9.4 million barrels of oil according to @TankerTrackers, an independent oil-tracking firm that measures how high a vessel is above sea level to determine its load.”
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POLITICO spoke with officials, diplomats, experts and @NATO insiders to map out how Europe could deter the @POTUS from getting that far, and what its options are if he does. They were granted anonymity to speak freely.”
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„Deployed to Iraq as a member of the Indiana National Guard from November 2004 to Nov. 2005, Specialist Jonathan Ross of the 138th Signal Battalion earned the Army Commendation Medal,
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the Army Good Conduct Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Medal and the Iraq Campaign Medal among others, according to the guard.
During his time in Iraq, Ross was a machine gunner on a combat logistical patrol team, court documents show.
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After he returned home, Ross joined the U.S. Border Patrol in 2007 in El Paso, Texas and worked for the agency until 2015 as a field intelligence agent who gathered and analyzed information on drug cartels and human traffickers.
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testified [2] to a House committee that Russians pushing the creation of spheres of influence had been offering to somehow »swap« Venezuela, their closest ally in Latin America, for Ukraine.”
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„The blatant lies about Minneapolis serve several purposes. They perpetuate the false narrative that federal agents are in constant peril and therefore justified in using lethal force at the slightest hint of danger.
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They assure federal agents that they can harm or even kill American citizens with impunity, and warn those who might be moved to protest Trump’s immigration policies of the same thing.
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Perhaps most grim, they communicate to the public that if you happen to be killed by a federal agent, your government will bear false witness to the world that you were a terrorist.”
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„The Department of Homeland Security (@DHSgov) on Wed. released a Md. woman who was held for 25 days despite evidence that her lawyers say proves she was born in the US and is a citizen.
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Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales, 22, walked out of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center Wednesday afternoon in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where she was met by members of her legal team, according to one of her lawyers, Victoria Slatton.
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– »We were afraid that it wasn’t really going to happen, and then when we saw her, it was very surreal and we were really, really happy« – Slatton said in an interview. – »There was a lot of tearing up«.