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New School of Multilateralism
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And this week Bloomberg reported that Raiffeisen Bank clients in Russia had supplied companies in Putin’s military industrial complex.
The masks are off. Let‘s stop pretending.
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Still the most humane and thus the best version of Dune by David Lynch from 1984.
US military aid to Ukraine was briefly paused in recent days before resuming over the weekend as Trump administration debated its policy towards Kyiv. Weapons shipments restarted after the White House pulled back on its initial assessment to stop all aid to Ukraine. via Reuters