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@QasimRashid God clearly doesn't like her very much
@ConversationCA @iran-ConversationCA The Iran nuclear deal was the best chance at preventing a war like this from occurring. Unfortunately the seeds for this war were down when Trump withdrew from the agreement
@MAKS23 so the two main issues that everyone has been discussing a year ago? Phew, I was starting to think no progress had been made.
DR Congo: M23 rebels suspend peace talks with government

The group accuses the government of failing to respect a previous ceasefire deal.

@dgar I don't know... Poseidon seemed pretty upset this week
@Tendar that was a huge explosion. was that a fractional distillation tower? Or a crude oil storage tank?
@ScottLucas I lived in Ireland about 10 years ago for grad school. Although I was never physically attacked (others were though), the tracksuit kids constantly yelled racial slurs which made me and a lot of the other foreign students feel unwelcomed. Since the Garda never did anything about it, this was eventually going to spillover into overt violence. I'm not a fan of overly punitive policing but there needs to be actual consequences or the perpetrators will just be emboldened and do it again
@ScottLucas this might have been a concession that Trump made to get the Republican in the House to vote for the bill last week
@kevinrothrock Ukraine cares most about stopping attacks on their territory but this also has the consequence of reducing Russia's ability to attack NATO too
@MAKS23 Los Angeles