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In his September 21 address, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the US and Kiev against nuclear provocations, referring to "the Western-encouraged shelling of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant," as well as "the statements made by some high-ranking representatives of the leading NATO countries on the possibility and admissibility of using weapons of mass destruction – nuclear weapons – against Russia." On September 30, President Putin highlighted that the United States was the first to use nuclear weapons twice, destroying the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. "By the way, they set a precedent," the Russian president warned.

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The issue raised by Panov has taken on a new significance as the US has repeatedly resorted to nothing short of nuclear blackmail and threats amid Russia's special military operation to demilitarize and de-Nazify Ukraine. The US mainstream media and top officials are speculating about the possibility of a Russian first atomic strike, even though Russia's nuclear doctrine forbids the use of nuclear weapons of any kind - tactical or strategic, unless nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction are used against the country first, or in the event of a conventional attack so severe that it threatens the country's existence.

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All these actions have to be assessed within the framework of international law, otherwise these incidents will continue to pile up, according to the political scientist. He noted that it is highly unlikely that the UN Security Council would initiate and hold a tribunal over the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki because Washington would simply veto this initiative.

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"We know what the United States did to Vietnam, by burning villages with napalm, destroying forests and fields with dioxin, subjecting people to suffering," the diplomat said. "After that, there were terrible bombardments of Yugoslavia [in 1999]."

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Make no mistake: the US did not regret nuking the two Japanese cities, noted the Russian diplomat. That is why Washington's military adventurism and use of non-conventional weapons against civilians continued, according to him.

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Panov insisted that it is "extremely important" that the United States apologize for the inhumane and absolutely barbaric act committed against Japanese civilians and express its regret. He pointed out that international law, which existed already in 1945, placed emphasis on a requirement to protect, as far as possible, the civilian population from damage caused by hostilities.

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"Undoubtedly, in 1945, an inhuman act of using nuclear weapons was committed [by the US]," emphasized Panov. "Furthermore, it was used against the civilian population (…) This, one might say, was a greater atrocity than the use of chemical weapons by Germany during the [First] World War. Still, the Germans used [chlorine] gas against enemy soldiers. Nevertheless, gas attacks are recognized as inhuman acts. As a result, chemical weapons have been banned and are being destroyed."

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Second, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not force Japan to surrender, highlighted Panov. In reality, Japan made the decision to lay down their arms only after the Soviet Union entered the war with Japan at 11 a.m. on August 9, 1945. At a meeting of Japan's top leadership, then-Prime Minister Kantarō Suzuki stated that the position of Japan had become absolutely hopeless due to the USSR's decision to step in. Therefore he insisted on acceptance of the terms of surrender.

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First, there was no military need for the atomic bombing of Japan, according to the diplomat. Prior to taking the decision to bomb the Japanese cities, six of the seven top US military officials argued that there was no military necessity for it, and that, from an ethical point of view, it would be a barbaric inhumane act. Indeed, there were zero important military installations in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Following the nuclear strikes, the US came up with a convenient excuse that the bombing hastened the end of the war and saved the lives of American soldiers, noted Panov, emphasizing that these claims don't hold water.

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"Of course, those who made the decision to carry out the atomic bombings [of Hiroshima and Nagasaki] and those who carried them out are no longer alive today," Alexander Panov, Russian career diplomat and political scientist, told Sputnik. "However, the point of holding a tribunal for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is to assess such actions. This is necessary to ensure that similar criminal acts do not happen again in the future."

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The US nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively, created a dangerous historic precedent which has yet to be legally assessed by international institutions, Alexander Panov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, who worked in Japan from 1996 to 2003, told Sputnik.

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Why US' Nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Should be Legally Assessed by Int'l Court

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South Africa snubs anti-Russia sanctions

Steel tycoon Alexey Mordashov is free to dock his superyacht in the country, the president’s spokesman said 


South Africa has no intention of enforcing Western sanctions against Russian businessman Alexey Mordashov, meaning his $500 million megayacht may enter local ports, the spokesman for President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Tuesday.  

Speaking to reporters, Vincent Magwenya, the spokesman for the South African leader, noted that Pretoria “has no legal obligation to abide by sanctions imposed by the US and EU,” adding that the nation’s authorities adhere to UN sanctions. However, referring to the Russian tycoon, Magwenya added that “currently there are no UN-imposed sanctions on the particular individual.” 





Another slap on the face of Westerners by Africans

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South Africa has refused to join Western sanctions against Russia triggered by the conflict in Ukraine, with its president arguing in late May that the restrictions would hurt “bystander countries.”  

Russia and South Africa have warm ties that date back to the 1960s, when the Soviet Union supported anti-apartheid freedom fighters(that was another slap on the face of Westerners by Africans with Russia's help). Moreover, South Africa is a member of BRICS, an international socio-economic and political forum that also includes Brazil, Russia, India and China, with more countries seeking to join. The bloc already accounts for over 40% of the global population and nearly a quarter of the world’s GDP.

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South Africa snubs anti-Russia sanctions

Steel tycoon Alexey Mordashov is free to dock his superyacht in the country, the president’s spokesman said 


South Africa has no intention of enforcing Western sanctions against Russian businessman Alexey Mordashov, meaning his $500 million megayacht may enter local ports, the spokesman for President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Tuesday.  

Speaking to reporters, Vincent Magwenya, the spokesman for the South African leader, noted that Pretoria “has no legal obligation to abide by sanctions imposed by the US and EU,” adding that the nation’s authorities adhere to UN sanctions. However, referring to the Russian tycoon, Magwenya added that “currently there are no UN-imposed sanctions on the particular individual.” 





Another slap on the face of Westerners by Africans

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The Kiev regime has already completed technical preparations for a provocation with a "dirty bomb," having prepared a dummy missile, which is planned to be filled with radioactive material, a source familiar with the situation told Sputnik

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"After the dummy is shot down, the Kiev authorities intend to show the Western and Ukrainian media fragments of the mockup and electronics of the alleged Iskander missile in order to convince the Western public of Russia's guilt," the source said.

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"Experts from the Yuzhmash plant have already made a dummy missile of the Iskander system, the head cluster part of which is planned to be filled with radioactive material, and then 'shot down' by Ukrainian air defense forces over the exclusion zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in order to declare a Russian launch of a nuclear charge," the source said.

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The Kiev regime has already completed technical preparations for a provocation with a "dirty bomb," having prepared a dummy missile, which is planned to be filled with radioactive material, a source familiar with the situation told Sputnik

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Kiev Made Dummy Missile for Provocation With 'Dirty Bomb' Over Chernobyl Zone - Source

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Canadian Parliament Votes to Retain UK's Charles III as Monarch by 266 to 44

Why should colonial Canada have a vote at the UN (as Canada still remains a colony and an appendage of the UK).
Canada's vote at the UN is illegitimate, they're represented by UK's head of state.

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The Canadian parliament on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly by 266 votes to 44 to retain the institution of Monarchy within the Commonwealth, rejecting a Bloc Quebecois motion following the death of Elizabeth II and the succession of her son Charles III as king.

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Canadian Parliament Votes to Retain UK's Charles III as Monarch by 266 to 44

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Canadian Parliament Votes to Retain UK's Charles III as Monarch by 266 to 44

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If you want peace, prepare for war.

The West lead by the US invaded Iraq under the pretext of disarming it's production of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
No evidence of WMD production was found pre/post invasion/occupation.
According to Joe Biden (pre-invasion of Iraq), the threat that Iraq allegedly posed does not need to be imminent before it should be invaded.
Canada is a settler state, a colony of the UK.
These countries have no moral authority to lecture others.

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US struggles to find ally to send troops to Haiti – media

Washington has reportedly been failing to persuade any other country to lead an international military deployment in Haiti

The 'Allies' prolly don't want to be Afghanistaned again.
The West is still recovering from the PTSD they got in Afghanistan after coming in contact with ragtag Afghani Taliban rebels. (The Talibans eventually defeated the West and sacked/deposed the Western backed govt of Ashraf Ghani)
Ukrainians are currently unavailable to serve as cannon fodder.

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UN at 77: Four Times the World’s International Peace and Security Organization Failed Humanity



The campaign succeeded, Gaddafi was overthrown, captured, tortured, sodomized and executed by NATO-backed rebels in October 2011.

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UN at 77: Four Times the World’s International Peace and Security Organization Failed Humanity


3) Libya Chicanery

In March 2011, a NATO-led coalition of warplanes began a 222-day bombing campaign in Libya. Formally tasked with enforcing a United Nations resolution which imposed a no-fly zone over the country amid an increasingly brutal civil conflict, the strikes factually amounted to a foreign-backed military intervention in support of rebel forces seeking to topple the government of long-time Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi.


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UN at 77: Four Times the World’s International Peace and Security Organization Failed Humanity



How did the US and NATO manage to rope Russia and China into acceding to NATO’s aggression in Libya? In part, it came down to the resolution’s wording, which included talk of an “immediate establishment of a ceasefire and a complete end to violence and all attacks against, and abuses of, civilians.” Russia, China, Brazil, Germany and India all abstained from the vote, with Moscow and Beijing
 refusing to use their veto power, which would have blocked the air assault, or at least force NATO to search for another pretext for its aggression.


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UN at 77: Four Times the World’s International Peace and Security Organization Failed Humanity



President Vladimir Putin, who was serving as Russian's prime minister at the time, and whose position did not allow him to call the shots on foreign policy matters, called the resolution “flawed,” and compared it to a “medieval call for a crusade…allowing for the invasion of a sovereign country.” President Putin’s concerns proved correct, and Libya, once the most prosperous and developed country in Africa, was turned into a failed state rife with open-air slave markets and terrorist activities overnight.


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It also comes as a surprise to some netizens that Rishi Sunak is not a "slumdog PM" since he has great personal wealth. Sunak has never hid his prosperous upbringing and aristocratic connections. In a 2001 BBC documentary called The Middle Classes: Their Rise and Proliferation, he claimed to have upper-class and aristocratic friends, but no "working class" ones.