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Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has argued in a newspaper interview that the US government didn’t “allow” any compromises that could have brought an end to the Russia-Ukraine conflict just weeks after Moscow’s military offensive began in February 2022.
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Schroeder said he was asked to help mediate the March 2022 peace negotiations between Ukrainian and Russian officials in Istanbul. He said that although representatives of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky were open to making concessions on such key issues as renouncing efforts to join NATO, “the Ukrainians did not agree to peace because they were not allowed to. They first had to ask the Americans about everything they discussed.”

they say cash will stay.

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2023/html/ecb.pr231018~111a014ae7.en.html

seen here: https://t.me/s/TheMediterraneanMan/1799

edit:
confirmation: Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says Israeli attack on Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza is massacre
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/world/doctors-without-borders-msf-says-israeli-attack-on-al-ahli-baptist-hospital-in-gaza-is-massacre/3023824#
https://archive.ph/TkrAF


edit2: it was an airstrike
https://www.voat.xyz/viewpost?postid=652ef756a43bd&commentid=652f01344c3b1

Reporter in San Ysidro, CA, explains how crossing point is entirely closed for legal traffic, but Jewish Family Services out of San Diego is importing illegals with buses daily.

seen here: https://t.me/s/inmagnaexcitatio/136226

seen here: https://t.me/s/durov/230

BEIRUT, October 13. /TASS/. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said upon arrival to Beirut that more anti-Israeli fronts may be opened in the future.

Abdollahian added that Iran would "continue to provide political and information support to the Palestinian resistance."

He emphasized that Iran and Saudi Arabia have a coordination mechanism "within the framework of their common strategy to support Palestine."
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Sixth day of the war, October 12th, status update and major events:
– Israeli death toll has surpassed 1300.
– Palestinian death toll is now higher, at 1600.
– Almost all Hamas activity outside the Gaza strip has been neutralized, except for periodic incursions into Zikkim and Sufa. It looks like we are headed towards the Israeli ground operation soon.
– An Israeli cabinet meeting was held regarding the impending invasion of Gaza.
– Sporadic rocket attacks, very small in size compared to previous days.
– Relentless bombing campaign of Gaza continues, no more clean water and electricity at all.
– Iranian Foreign Minister visits Iraq and Lebanon.
– Several false alarms on the Israeli border with Lebanon.
– Israel carried out airstrikes on the Syrian airports of Aleppo and Damascus, temporarily disabling both.
– Iran's 92nd Armored Division is seen moving on the road from Ahvaz to Khorammabad, headed towards the border with Iraq.

I never could quite decide how should I imagine a pale horse, maybe a bit violet for me.
Here is one example, but what color you imagine should be?
https://files.catbox.moe/fu4km1.jpg

The parents of Humza Yousaf, Scotland's first minister’s wife are currently in Gaza and have “nowhere to go” as Israel bombs the Palestinian territory. Yousaf’s wife, Nadia, is of Palestinian origin. Born in Glasgow to Pakistani immigrants, Yousaf became Scotland’s first minister in March, the first Muslim in that post since it was created in 1997. He and Nadia El-Nakla married in 2019, after divorcing their first spouses two years prior.

Valdai Speech seems all tolerant and nice, but on the other hand, Putin disagree even with a statement such as “Fighting against the USSR didn’t necessarily make you a Nazi”.
That was in article which appeared in “Politico” on this October 2nd, provoking Russian answer: "not only Ukraine that needs denazification today", because statements like this are supporting "forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance".


links:
russian answer: https://archive.ph/xmhk5
original article: https://www.politico.eu/article/fight-against-ussr-nazi-waffen-ss-trooper-yaroslav-hunka-world-war-ii-soviet-union-germany/

12 min long, but a good one

In her diary, “the president’s own daughter, believes his alleged showering with her could have helped create her sex addiction,” reports DailyMail.com.

Text on pic: "Generations come and go, like flowers they wither, like suns they collapse, like wind they are blown apart. But the Folk remains eternally!”
c. 1920, Marta Elisabet Fossel, Austrian.

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Quite interesting history in this picture. Painter was born in the middle of Austria, but moved to its border to Graz, and made this pic of Slovenian family in time of Carinthian plebiscite, probably to encourage them to vote for staying in new Austria state, then already with close ties to Wiemar Germany. She was wrong about "eternally" too, but nice pic.