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Clap for Ukraine? UK to Hold National Moment of Silence to Show ‘Solidarity’ Against Russia
Breitbart ^ | 02-16-2023 | KURT ZINDULKA

Posted on 02/16/2023 6:26:34 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

The UK government announced that the country will observe a moment of silence to honour the Ukrainians and demonstrate Britain’s “solidarity” with the war effort against Russia.

In a move reminiscent of the “clap for carers” initiative during the Chinese coronavirus crisis to celebrate healthcare workers and even the annual Armistice Day commemoration remembering the huge sacrifice of the British and Empire in two worlds wars, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government has announced that there will be a “national moment” of silence on February 24th. The silence late this month marks the one-year anniversary since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blueandyellowpompoms; clap; moment; neocons4biden; pleaseclap; silence; uk; zelviswrestleshitler
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To: Cronos

I agree with you that the Nazis in Ukraine are a minority. I’m just saying they’re probably a bigger minority than in other countries.


21 posted on 02/16/2023 7:18:55 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

22 posted on 02/16/2023 7:48:47 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: ganeemead
Are you American? If so, why are you praying for the victory of a nation that has backed BLM with the aim of destroying America?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4084841/posts
23 posted on 02/16/2023 8:04:09 AM PST by FormerFRLurker
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Watched an interview program with 100+ y.o. WWI veterans.

Harry Patch’s story is fascinating. He was on a Lewis gunner team. During the Battle of Passchendaele one night he and his team were out front on a forward position. They pulled up and headed back to their trench. Harry was leading, carrying the Lewis gun. There was a ravine coming up. One of his mates told him to get low and go down via a low spot rather than walking out on a high spot before going down. His mate told him they’d be silhouetted. Harry said he was tired and ignored the advice. They all followed him. When they got to the bottom a mortar round came and exploded just over the last man obliterating him. It also killed two others. Harry was haunted by the guilt for the rest of his life. Probably lived so long to prolong having to answer to his mates. He basically said as much during the interview. He was really broken up about it even at >100 years old.


24 posted on 02/16/2023 8:09:43 AM PST by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Send an angry letter too.


25 posted on 02/16/2023 8:29:41 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Tell It Right

“bigger minority than in other countries”?

They got 1% in the last elections and have no representation in Parliament.

So at best 1% of the population are Nazi supporters. That’s not bigger than say north america or Russia


26 posted on 02/16/2023 8:33:08 AM PST by Cronos
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To: Tell It Right

Churchill wasn’t a choir boy himself.


27 posted on 02/16/2023 9:15:23 AM PST by NorseViking
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To: FormerFRLurker

WTF are you talking about??


28 posted on 02/16/2023 9:39:02 AM PST by ganeemead (Ukraine/Zelensky: Adding an element of chutzpah to ordinary Nazism...)
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To: ganeemead

WTF are you talking about??

See the link.

29 posted on 02/16/2023 10:12:06 AM PST by FormerFRLurker
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Guess take a knee is already taken.


30 posted on 02/16/2023 10:14:22 AM PST by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: FormerFRLurker

Nothing meaningful or solid in the linked article. Are you a demokkkrat??


31 posted on 02/16/2023 10:24:01 AM PST by ganeemead (Ukraine/Zelensky: Adding an element of chutzpah to ordinary Nazism...)
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To: Tell It Right

You are going to get a lot of blow back for that comment. I’m sort of sitting here in the middle of this not sure what to think about the escalating proxy war against Russia. I am always skeptical of “Nazi” claims, but also am mindful that Zelensky has put all his eggs in the Democrat basket.


32 posted on 02/16/2023 11:26:20 AM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: Sam Gamgee

I meant it as a joke against everybody and their mama claiming Ukraine is full of nazis.


33 posted on 02/16/2023 11:27:36 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: NorseViking

No he wasn’t and keep in mind he warned FDR about Stalinist Russia. In fact Churchill was known to abandon some freedom fighters that he deemed too Marxist. He was well aware that Russia was simply a convenient ally at the time, but was never comfortable with the West’s relationship with them.


34 posted on 02/16/2023 11:29:04 AM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: Tell It Right

Oh sorry missed that...


35 posted on 02/16/2023 11:29:27 AM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: Sam Gamgee

Do you realize that Churchill was a guy who offered Stalin Eastern Europe and half of Germany in Tehran? Otherwise there was idea that he is not going to chase the Germans back to Berlin.
Also Churchill was strictly against the formation of Israel, believing that it is a communist plot.
And that is just a couple of his antics.


36 posted on 02/16/2023 7:44:29 PM PST by NorseViking
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To: NorseViking

I guess my history is different. My belief was that it was FDR who wanted to give the entire baby with the bath water to Stalin and Churchill begged for something less.

Obviously I take issue with WWI Churchill whose Germanphobe outlook caused him to support punishing Germany after that war.


37 posted on 02/17/2023 11:38:53 AM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: Sam Gamgee

Germophobe outlook? For punishing Germany after the war??
How does that square with this Churchill quote:

“If the Allies at the peace table at Versailles had allowed a Hohenzollern, a Wittelsbach and a Habsburg to return to their thrones, there would have been no Hitler. A democratic basis of society might have been preserved by a crowned Weimar in contact with the victorious Allies.”
– Winston Churchill


38 posted on 02/17/2023 11:48:53 AM PST by Reily
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To: Reily

Interesting. I wonder when he said that and is it contrary to what he supported at the end of 1918?


39 posted on 02/17/2023 11:51:14 AM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: Sam Gamgee

I was surprised that you viewed Churchill as a Germanophobe.

Churchill was a monarchist, supporter of the British monarchy which was Kraut in origin and closely related to almost all the crown heads of Europe. A legacy of Prince Albert’s foreign policy - make all the crown heads one family (his family mostly!) and that way preserve peace in Europe. Well he tried !


40 posted on 02/17/2023 12:01:22 PM PST by Reily
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