Politics
Monday 6 February 2023
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"[A]fter the Second World War, Germany was, as you know, divided into four occupation zones: American, British, French, and Soviet. So, the Soviet Union legally ended the occupation, but the United States did not.”
The United States, United Kingdom and France ended their military occupation of West Germany on May 5, 1955. -
“In accordance with [international law], China Coast Guard ships conduct patrol and management in waters under China’s jurisdiction to maintain maritime order and protect China’s legitimate and lawful rights and interests.”
China continues to unilaterally claim most of the South China Sea, while threatening its neighbors and disregarding international law. -
“…the report lacks scientific and objective evidence, and no sane person or specialist can reach such misleading conclusions.”
Despite years of denials and distortions from Syria and its ally, Russia, the chemical weapons watchdog offers overwhelming evidence Syrian government forces carried out the attack. -
“Ukraine formally proposed to Belarus a non-aggression pact while preparing for war near the Belarus-Ukraine border, seeming to repeat the scene where they deceived Russia with the Minsk Agreements.”
The Minsk Agreements were negotiated to stop Russia’s undeclared war in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, where Moscow-backed separatists fought Ukrainian government forces. -
“[A] nuclear power's defeat in a conventional war can provoke the outbreak of a nuclear war. The nuclear powers have not lost major conflicts on which their fate depends."
Nuclear powers have more than once been defeated in conventional wars that have affected their fate, and that has not led to a nuclear war. -
“We do not interfere in the internal affairs [of other countries], while President Macron's statement clearly indicates that France regards such interference as possible and resorts to it.”
The Kremlin’s activities across Africa remain largely in the shadows, but Russia’s record of foreign interference is undeniable. -
From Syria to Ukraine and beyond, the Wagner Group has been credibly accused of crimes against humanity.
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"[T]he United States has created a coalition of nearly all European member states of NATO and the EU and is using Ukraine to wage a proxy war against Russia with the old aim of finally solving the ‘Russian question,’ like Hitler, who sought a final solution to the ‘Jewish question.’ "
The Ukraine Defense Contact Group, a global coalition, is helping Ukraine fight Russian military aggression and never planned or discussed exterminating the Russian people. -
“Anyone who breaks the law has no political affiliations in the eyes of the court, which [j]ust takes action against them procedurally and according to law.”
The Hun Sen government has systematically used Cambodia’s judicial system to target political opposition. -
“In today’s Hong Kong, the rule of law is safeguarded, justice is upheld, and the legitimate rights of Hong Kong people are better protected in a safer environment.”
Hong Kong’s National Security Law has caused drastic damage to judicial independence and human rights. -
“The only thing that connects him with Ukraine is his place of birth.”
Sergei Korolev, the engineer behind Sputnik and the first human orbital flight, was born in Soviet Ukraine and considered himself Ukrainian. -
“This is such a monstrous shame that I will not even comment on the paranoia about our state’s nuclear plans.”
Using crass rhetoric, the former Russian president distorts WWII history to justify Russia’s war against Ukraine.