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soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
Sun Sep 6, 2020, 04:13 PM Sep 2020

Unknown men with batons are beating people on the #Minsk streets right now.


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Hanna Liubakova
@HannaLiubakova
#Belarus. Graphic content warning. Unknown men with batons are beating people on the #Minsk streets right now. Firstly, violence is back. Secondly,the legality is being completely ignored - these people look like ordinary bandits,without uniforms. They are breaking shop windows
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Unknown men with batons are beating people on the #Minsk streets right now. (Original Post) soothsayer Sep 2020 OP
As goes Belarus, so goes America. Budi Sep 2020 #1
This!👆 SheltieLover Sep 2020 #2
1st on Biden's Presidential to-do list. Budi Sep 2020 #3
Yup SheltieLover Sep 2020 #7
Just like Russia would never have dared Igel Sep 2020 #5
Security forces superpatriotman Sep 2020 #4
I rather liked the article in the LA Times about Mongolians in China. Igel Sep 2020 #6

SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
2. This!👆
Sun Sep 6, 2020, 04:19 PM
Sep 2020

He would never have dared if Hilary were President!

Someone needs to put putin in his place!

 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
3. 1st on Biden's Presidential to-do list.
Sun Sep 6, 2020, 04:25 PM
Sep 2020

Biden should give the orders from the inaugural podium as soon as he's sworn in.

Igel

(35,337 posts)
5. Just like Russia would never have dared
Sun Sep 6, 2020, 07:16 PM
Sep 2020

meddle in Ukraine if Obama were president.

Or media in Georgia if Gore had been president.

Notice that Georgia happened under Bush II, but Ukraine happened under Obama. Find a difference.

We could mention Abkhazia under Clinton. But two examples that need to be accounted for by any theory are sufficient at this point.

Igel

(35,337 posts)
6. I rather liked the article in the LA Times about Mongolians in China.
Sun Sep 6, 2020, 07:17 PM
Sep 2020

They're subject to many of the same kinds of genocide-oriented practices that Uighurs and Tibetans are, with an overlay of the common oppression that is now in place in Hong Kong.

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