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Posted on 10/31/2026 7:53:01 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The traditional “family photo” to open the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting has been abruptly cancelled in the US after a host of nations – including Australia and the UK – refused to appear beside the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov.
The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, pulled the plug after several European officials, the UK and Australia made it known they would boycott or walk out of the snapshot that often kicks off such international gatherings.
Rubio still opened the talks in Atlanta with an appeal for unity on the issues that threaten international security and trade.
“We are in a critical moment,” Rubio told his colleagues. “We are facing a series of interconnected economic and geopolitical crises.”
About one-third of countries at the talks made it known they would not appear beside any Russian representatives.
European Union nations had made clear they would boycott any photo with the Russians. “In no case will there be a family photo with European partners and Mr Lavrov together because … there is no normality with Russia,” Germany’s foreign affairs minister, Johann Wadephul, warned ahead of Friday’s session.
The UK foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, promised similar. “We do not engage in that way with the Russians and have not for a number of years,” he said.
During the meeting’s opening session, Australia’s foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as brutal and unjustified - in front of Lavrov - saying Russia’s illegal war had affected international markets and worsened global food security.
A spokesperson for Wong said Australia supported the US decision to cancel the group photo. “Australia has been clear and consistent: we will not normalise Russia’s brutal and illegal invasion of Ukraine.
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All of them a bunch of insecure whiney babies. Adults aren’t adult anymore.
I was trying to word this same feeling, but you nailed it, thank you.
anybody else remember when adults could smoke in public?
Hitler didn’t smoke. But the men who defeated him did.
and they were not hiding behind a dumpster to smoke either.
And those who had to fight for him did, too. Mostly.
Tobacco addiction was a great problem among soldiers of all sides then. Not so much during the war, maybe, but the long-term consequences were often grave, especially because the tobacco addiction didn’t end when the guns were silent at last, but mostly continued for years….
There was a small pack of 4 cigarettes in ration boxes during World War II. What better way to get all of our military addicted to tobacco? The percentage of American men addicted to tobacco grew more than 20% from just before the war to the early 1950s.
Can’t blame them.
Oh, I hadn’t been aware of that.
However, in war, many soldiers smoke in order to calm their (understandably) frayed nerves. In Germany, before WW 2, it was really bad with tobacco: eighty per cent of men and twenty per cent of women smoked - the poor had pipes and the middle class cigarettes, the wealthier preferred cigars.
Thus, in the Nazi era, there was a powerful campaign to reduce tobacco consumption, however, the success of that was extremely limited - tobacco is dreadfully addictive, after all.
In the years of misery 1945-48, cigarettes were even used as currency, since the Reichsmark was worth next to nothing. And in 5he following years, smoking was considered Western, democratic and free.
It was not until the Seventies that tobacco consumption became more restricted. Sadly, the firms which had made obscene fortunes with tobacco never had to compensate those whom tobacco had harmed so much.
In America, the tobacco industry really had to cough up (pun intended) large sums to help rectify the wrong they had done. I sometimes envy America for having dismissed tobacco, this killer, from grace 🙂
Nowadays, the son of Germany‘s late largest tobacco producer, J.Ph. Reemtsma, whose father had made his multimillion (in dollars) fortune by providing the German forces in WW 2 with tobacco, founded a so called sociological institute, which specialises in churning out Germanophobic sludge.
Father and son, both evil men, albeit in different ways.
This is a case of deflection from their own internal problems. “Putin is the real bad man here(and he is)!!! You need to stop complaining about the bad things we are doing to ourselves.”
When the SHTF, you should include cigarettes within your survival supplies. I don't smoke and rarely drink, but I have supplies of cigarettes, cigars, whiskey on hand... just in case. When tensions get raw, cigarettes can be traded and will lessen frayed nerves. Also include ammo in supplies. All these are more valuable than cash (or credit cards) when society collapses.
US Soldiers also used cigarettes and chocolate as exchange for services, and other things available on the black market, especially after the war ended. American cigarettes were highly desired.
Absolutely true👍🏻🙂
And, as you said, cigarettes, just like alcohol, can always be bartered. Even sugar, salt, honey, cornstarch, white rice, vinegar made of white wine and water in glass bottles - they keep indefinitely, if they are kept cool, dry, and dark. Good for eating and for bartering.
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said it received information from the United States through joint channels about preparations for a terrorist attack in Moscow and that it is taking appropriate measures. This was reported by the Russian news agency RIA. The US Embassy in Moscow separately said it is 'aware of a credible threat of a mass casualty event' on Saturday at the Tsaritsyno Museum Reserve in Moscow and said the US government is coordinating with Russian authorities. (Reuters)
Adolf Hitler quit smoking in his early life—having previously smoked 25 to 40 cigarettes a day—after concluding that the habit was a waste of money
He viewed tobacco as “decadent” and a “genetic poison” that polluted the body, fitting into his broader ideological fixation on physical cleanliness and racial hygiene.
Nazi ideology linked smoking to physical deterioration, premature aging, and harm to women’s fertility and motherhood (such as concerns over nicotine passing through breast milk).
Though Eva Braun, Martin Bormann, and Hermann Göring continued to smoke.
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