Jon.
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Feb 17, 2022 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
**OPINION THREAD** #Ukraine#Russia
I'm off on night shift soonish so thought I'd get my opinion in beforehand. If Russia is going to launch an attack in Ukraine, I believe it will start during my shift tonight...
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Russia now has in the region of 140,000 ground troops, a host of amphibious warfare vessels, and goodness knows how many air assets capable of dropping more troops in, all massed near Ukraine if it wants to use them
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We've now been monitoring this crisis for over 3 months, and the crisis is worse now than it has been at any point since the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine took place
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In the last 24hrs alone we've seen diplomatic talks by #France fail dismally with Putin stating he will not be the one to start military action (but we don't expect he will, he's been building the propaganda for a false flag operation for a while now)...
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Sep 15, 2021 • 16 tweets • 1 min read
Australian PM opens the announcement
"The future of the Indo-Pacific will impact all of our futures"
So as of a short while ago, the #Taliban control 24 of 32 regional capital cities and were around 15km south of #Kabul. The #US has begun evacuation of the Embassy in Kabul, moving personnel to Kabul International Airport which...
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...is a few miles north of the Embassy.
3,600 US and #UK troops are supposedly deployed to evacuate the remaining American and British citizens along with hundreds of Afghan interpreters who face death at the hands of the #TalibanTerrorists.
US Air Force & RAF flights...
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Aug 12, 2021 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
This yesterday from the #US Press Secretary's chat with reporters at the White House regarding #Afghanistan.
Absolutley bewildering attitude to the posibility of a designated terrorist organisation taking total control of a country... (1/6)
She also stated:
"Ultimately, the #Afghan National Security Defense Forces have the equipment, numbers, and training to fight back. They have what they need. What they need to determine is if they have the political will to fight back...
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