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DID YOU KNOW? #NATO was a world leader on same-sex marriage. The organisation extended equal benefits to same-sex couples in 2002, when only 1 country – the Netherlands 🇳🇱 – had equal marriage. 🌈

📸 Rainbow Road with SG @jensstoltenberg at the @UN#IDAHOBIT2019 | #IDAHOT (2/3) pic.twitter.com/G5pM5kQjB2— Dylan P. White (@dylanpwhite) May 17, 2019


16 posted on 03/28/2023 7:16:37 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: JonPreston

It’s not just that they are sinners. It’s that they take great delight in doing evil and in encouraging others to commit evil. Sick, sick stuff.


17 posted on 03/28/2023 7:18:46 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: JonPreston

and this is germane to russia’s invasion of Ukraine... how, exactly? Are you saying they murdered 10’s of thousands of Ukrainian civilians and put over 100k of their own mobiks into the meat grinder... to stop gay marriage?


18 posted on 03/28/2023 7:19:01 AM PDT by lump in the melting pot (Believe nothing until it is denied by the Kremlin)
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To: JonPreston
Damon M. Wilson (born May 24, 1973) is an American foreign policy expert and the President and CEO of the National Endowment for Democracy,[1][2] an independent grant-making foundation supporting freedom and democracy around the world. From 2011 to 2021, he was the Executive Vice President at the Atlantic Council, a nonpartisan think tank focused on international cooperation.[3] A former civil servant, Wilson served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European Affairs at the National Security Council during the second term of President George W. Bush.[4][5]

For over twenty years, Wilson has helped shape U.S. strategy and national security policy in regards to NATO and US-European relations to advance freedom and security around the world. He is an advocate for strengthening democratic alliances to address security challenges, believing “US interests are best served when Washington and its allies act in unison.”[21] Wilson views authoritarian Russia and China as “the main geopolitical challenge of the 21st century,” and that “there is no possible successful strategy to confront Putin’s aggression without a strong NATO.”[22][23]

From July 2001 to January 2004, Wilson served as deputy director of the Office of the NATO Secretary General, assisting Lord Robertson to transform the Alliance by enlarging NATO membership, implementing the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, and adapting Allied capabilities to face modern threats.[24] In this role, Wilson also supported NATO efforts to broker the Ohrid Agreement to avert civil war in Macedonia.[25][26]

From January 2004 to November 2006, as Director for Central, Eastern and Northern European Affairs at the National Security Council, Wilson coordinated U.S. interagency policy on Ukraine during the Orange Revolution, directed efforts to deepen engagement in Central and Eastern Europe, including the expansion of secure visa-free travel, and promoted close consultation with coalition partners in Iraq and Afghanistan. He also played a leading role in implementing the Belarus Democracy Act.[27] In 2007, Wilson served as the executive secretary and chief of staff at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, where he helped to manage the largest embassy in the world and implement a ‘civilian surge’ throughout Iraq. From December 2007 to January 2009, as Senior Director for European Affairs at the National Security Council, Wilson led U.S. government efforts to advance a Europe whole, free and at peace. He notably managed interagency policy on NATO, the European Union, Georgia, Ukraine, the Balkans, Eurasian energy security and Turkey, and helped plan numerous presidential visits to Europe, including the Bucharest NATO Summit and the 2008 US-EU Summit.[28]

From 2009 to 2011, Wilson directed the International Security program at the Atlantic Council think tank,[29] transforming it into the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.[30] In 2011, he was promoted to the role of Executive Vice President.[31] At the Atlantic Council, Wilson championed American leadership,[32] a strong NATO,[33] continued NATO enlargement,[34][35] support for democratic reforms in Ukraine and the Balkans, positioning US and NATO forces in the Baltic states,[36][37] and efforts to counter authoritarian powers Russia and China.[38] He also defended global LGBT rights, hosting global leaders for Pride and launching several diversity and inclusion programs within the organization.[39][40] During his tenure, he helped launch the Millennium Leadership Program,[41] the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East,[42] the Europe Center,[43] the Balkans Forward Initiative,[44] and the Digital Forensic Research Lab.[45]

In June 2021, Wilson was named as the President and chief executive officer of the National Endowment for Democracy, succeeding Carl Gershman.[46] During his first few months, he managed the safe passage of 923 Afghan grantees, staff and their family members during the 2021 evacuation from Afghanistan following the withdrawal of U.S. troops.[47][48] In December 2021, alongside USAID Administrator Samantha Power, Wilson moderated a session on human rights and press freedom during the Summit for Democracy.[49][50]

Wilson lives with his husband in Washington, D.C. and part-time in Charleston, SC. His mother, Mary Thornley, is President of Trident Technical College in Charleston, SC.[61]

Here's our foreign policy. It's run by the gaystapo. I wonder if he visits Graham when he's in SC?

A search for "Ukraine" on iri.org shows that they started a narrative in, wait for it, 2014. What a coinkydink. https://www.iri.org/search/?_search=ukraine&_paged=17


38 posted on 03/28/2023 8:00:04 AM PDT by Pollard ( >>> The Great Reset is already underway! <<<)
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