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To: Les H who wrote (44039)	10/22/2024 9:23:07 PM
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Biden Quickly Backtracks After Saying Trump Should Be Locked Up The president appeared to slip by suggesting he wanted his predecessor put behind bars, but revised his comment to say he meant locked up “politically.” nytimes.com Sounds like Biden knows they've lost.

To: Les H who wrote (44039)	10/23/2024 6:59:03 AM
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Putin’s grotesque summit has exposed the West’s pretence of isolating Russia António Guterres’s invitation to the Kremlin’s Kazan meeting shows the failure of the United Nations telegraph.co.uk The invasion of Ukraine would be legal if the US allowed the UN Security Council to convene on resolution 2202 over Ukraine's bombing of the Donbass in February 2022 and Ukraine rejected the ceasefire demand, just as it did the demands from Germany and Russia. Technically, Russia has invoked the UN's Responsibility to Protect rule to intervene on behalf of ethnic Russians who were fleeing the Donbass. They have legal basis since the US invoked the same rule in Libya where they lied about protecting civilians. Instead, the air power and special forces was used to back the jihadist rebels in the overthrow of the government.