volkerwirsing

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[–] volkerwirsing@feddit.org 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Apart from the whole issue with it being financed by a ruthless dictatorship: Aljazeera hasn't got reporters on the ground in Switzerland. So they are just using some of the usual international news agencies for this. And therefore there is no reason to use a news site financed by a ruthless dictatorship, you can just link to all those other sources reporting the same or you might want to take a look at swiss sources, who might have more insight into the issue than an arabic news channel financed by a ruthless dictatorship

[–] volkerwirsing@feddit.org 40 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)
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[–] volkerwirsing@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

This just shows how Trump completely destroyed normal politics. It does make sense for a country in Ukraines situation to talk to both parties and to get both parties on board. Then the plan could move along regardless of who wins the election in Nov. This would have been possible in the past, with George W. Bush, Obama, Clinton & all other presidents and was actually done for other conflicts and topics in the past. Trump... is special.