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  1. Pinned Tweet
    29 Dec 2016

    The next Secretary General of should be . You heard it here first.

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  2. Retweeted
    8 hours ago

    The notion that France can triangulate between US and Russia and lead Europe was fanciful in the DeGaulle era. The idea makes less sense now. This may play well domestically in France but on the global stage Macron looks out of touch.

    Trump, for now, is no longer the biggest NATO problem-child in the room. That baton has been passed to a former investment banker and France’s youngest head of state since Napoleon
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  3. Retweeted
    17 hours ago

    Let me make it simple for you: Ukraine did not interfere in the 2016 election. I cannot believe I even have to point this out. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

    1 reply 16 retweets 45 likes
  4. 2 hours ago

    The YPG is a terrorist organization. Why is this so hard for people to understand?

    346 replies 823 retweets 2,765 likes
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    4 hours ago

    Macron on an anti-Turkey rampage in press conference. Argues YPG is not a terrorist organization (even though of course PKK is and there is no difference whatsoever between the two), accuses Turkey of being “ambiguous on Isis” (Turkey one of its greatest victims)

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  6. 7 hours ago

    Unless China attacks a NATO member “in the North Atlantic region, north of the Tropic of Cancer”, then NATO has very little to do with China. The quickest way to get disappointed with NATO is by expecting it to do things it was never created or designed to do.

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  7. Retweeted
    22 hours ago

    I bet hated recording this focus group. 🤣 Traditional Labour voters queuing up to say they will vote for .

    Focus group of traditional Labour voters on why they're backing Boris
    Source: Channel 4 News
    276 replies 2,317 retweets 5,198 likes
  8. 17 hours ago

    Shah Shujah 😂

    Quote tweet this with something that you think should make a comeback
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    21 hours ago

    This decision comes after some vociferous lobbying from certain members of Congress, whose desire to excuse the IRA's campaign of violence seemingly lives on.

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  10. Dec 2

    Interesting seating arrangement.

    دیدار جنرال میلر و اسدالله خالد با جنرال دوستم در شمال کشور
    2 replies 1 retweet 8 likes
  11. Dec 2

    Afghanistan is a very complicated place...

    Top US and NATO General in , Scott Miller, met Gen. Dostum today in the north, awarded him two medals, one on behalf of AF forces and the other on behalf of NATO, according to a Dostum aide.
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  12. Dec 2

    A good piece on the state of UK politics ahead of the upcoming election 👇🏻

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  13. Retweeted
    Nov 30

    Which Tusk would you turn to in a crisis ?

    12 replies 76 retweets 193 likes
  14. Retweeted
    Dec 2

    No one is against good relations with Russia. The difference is between those who think Russia is responsible for current problems and those who think Europe is. (And thus also who is responsible for solving them.) Unfortunately Macron and Corbyn seem to belong to latter group

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    Dec 1

    "I ain't no terrorist" Narrator: but he was...

    0:38
    The BBC has released footage of an interview with London knife attacker Usman Khan, that was filmed after his home was raided by anti-terror police in 2008 and, during which he denied being a terrorist
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  16. Dec 1

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    Russia is not USSR. The latter was an existential threat, the former is not even a global threat. It may be a threat or a problem for Europe but it can’t summarize the strategic posture of NATO. We negotiated with USSR, there no reason not to do it with Russia.
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  17. Retweeted
    Nov 30

    Churchill, Jan. 20, 1940: “Only Finland—superb, nay, sublime in the jaws of peril—Finland shows what free men can do....Everyone can see how Communism rots the soul of a nation; how it makes it abject and hungry in peace, and proves it base and abominable in war.”

    On this day 80 years ago, Stalin again showed his true colors by invading neighboring Finland, revealing his imperial ambitions toward all of Eastern Europe, not just Poland.
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  18. Retweeted
    Nov 30

    When I visited Danish Arctic Command in Greenland in April I wondered why they had a Narwhal tusk on the wall. Now I know! 🇩🇰🇬🇱

    5 replies 10 retweets 54 likes
  19. Retweeted
    Nov 30

    Here is the criminal justice system going into overdrive to avoid anyone taking responsibility for the release of terrorists to commit terror again. The British state is fundamentally dysfunctional

    Parole Board statement on London Bridge attack on Friday 29 November 2019.
    95 replies 552 retweets 1,360 likes
  20. Retweeted
    Nov 30

    TANAP is now ready to deliver gas to Europe finally.

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  21. Retweeted
    Nov 29

    For all commentators, journalists, etc Next week NATO is holding a *Leaders Meeting* in London. This *IS NOT* a Summit. There is a big difference. If you want to learn more check out what and I wrote:

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    Nov 30

    1. Witnesses say he was getting to his feet 2. He was wearing a suicide vest that no one knew was fake 3. The officers from ran towards danger, vaulting over a barrier with no fear for their own safety 4. They undoubtedly saved lives 5. It’s ‘separate’ you numpty

    I have just watched 2 seperate videos of the shooting on London Bridge and I have to tell you that I am very troubled by what I have seen. The guy is lying there motionless on the floor, and the policeman just shoots him dead. That is not bravery, that's an extra-judicial murder.
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    Nov 30

    Because legislation brought in by your government in 2008 meant that dangerous terrorists had to automatically be released after half of their jail term. Conservatives changed the law in 2012 to end your automatic release policy but Khan was convicted before this.

    Usman Khan was sentenced for serious terror offence in Feb 2012. Thought to be so dangerous by judge he was given IPP sentence to prevent release if still serious threat. Instead he was released 6 yrs later without Parole Board assessment. How cd this be allowed to happen? ...1
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  24. Retweeted
    Nov 30

    Given the narwhal tusk-wielder is Polish, it's more at "wonderfully Polish" as in the Polish RAF squadron in WWII.

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    My gosh this is so wonderfully British, Armed with a historic Narwahl tusk from the Fishmongers Hall and two fire extinguishers these chaps see off a terrorist that has already murdered two people and is also wearing a…
    12 replies 136 retweets 532 likes
  25. Nov 30

    Sounds like a job for an EU Battlegroup 😂😂

    New development: EU now calling for international access to Xinjiang New EU Commission President von der Leyen plans phone conversation with the Chinese government on her first day of work. …
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  26. Nov 30

    A very informative thread ahead of the NATO Leaders Meeting next week 👇🏻

    leaders will meet in next week. Secretary General previewed the at his press conference.…
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  27. Retweeted
    Nov 30

    Good to see our alliance celebrated.

    First one for me: NATO flags, including Latvian🇱🇻, on The Mall on the way to Buckingham Palace.
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  28. Nov 30

    😂😂

    Am always surprised there is less debate on Twitter over who should have custody of Trieste.
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  29. Nov 30

    Amazing bravery!

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  30. Retweeted
    Nov 29

    Belgium, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway & Sweden have timed their assistance to the Iranian regime impeccably. This week, Iranian-backed thugs are shooting protestors in Iraq. Last week, the regime was shooting down protestors in Iran itself. What is Europe thinking?

    Today 🇳🇴 🇸🇪 🇩🇰 🇫🇮 🇧🇪 🇳🇱 announced that we are joining INSTEX together with the 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 to facilitate trade with 🇮🇷 and help preserve the .
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    Nov 29

    The attacker, wearing a hoax suicide belt, had been a guest at a Cambridge University conference on prisoner rehabilitation being held in the City of London.

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  32. Nov 29

    Pretty much peak Bad Ass right here 👇🏻

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    Nov 29

    Yes. That is a chap with a 5ft narwhal tusk, taken from Fishmongers Hall, tackling a terrorist on London Bridge

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  34. Nov 29

    Wow! 👇🏻

    0:51
    Here’s on the SAS...
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  35. Nov 29

    😂

    'Are you brain dead?' Turkey's Erdogan asks Macron before NATO summit
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  36. Retweeted
    Nov 28

    Now this is a surprise...

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  37. Retweeted
    Nov 29

    This should be a career ender in a normal world.

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    🚨 BREAKING: Video emerges of bashing the on Iranian TV for “believing that Israel has a right to exist.”
    471 replies 2,988 retweets 6,826 likes
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    Nov 28

    Scotland: On a second referendum on Scottish independence being held within the next year: Support: 42% Oppose: 50% via , 19 - 25 Nov

    77 replies 532 retweets 1,316 likes