The White House says Indian PM Modi’s visit is part of an effort to counter China. That is exactly the wrong mentality - similar to our attitude toward Russia that helped provoke the war in Ukraine.🧵

Jun 27, 2023 · 10:22 AM UTC

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We need to begin a new era. The world is too dangerous a place for major powers to always be thinking in terms of “countering” each other. We share this planet.
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Our goal should not be how to counter each other but rather how to collaborate with each other. From nuclear bombs to climate crisis to AI, the most critical issues must be faced together.
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Stand firm for what we believe in, yes - and not be anybody’s fool - but we must free ourselves from the default perspective of us versus them, the reactive and oppositional mentality that inevitably leads to conflict.
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The only way the world will be safe for our children’s children is if we learn to wage peace.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Unfortunately @POTUS and @DNC feels an overwhelming need to say the quiet part out loud.
Replying to @marwilliamson
"WE" DEFINITELY Provoked the War in the Ukraine, Bombed the Nordic Pipeline, and refused peace negotiations, Putin, wants the war over, and all he asks is that the U.S. stop sending weapons and arms, and he will cease the war. "WE" are keeping the war going.
Replying to @marwilliamson
Ukraine wanting to exist is not provokation. Do better.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
The thing that provoked a war in Ukraine was Vladimir Putin wanting to invade a sovereign nation and steal its land. Nothing that Biden did. Don't do the enemy's job for them, Marianne.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
How did the US provoke the war in Ukraine?
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Replying to @marwilliamson
global warming caused by war is not counted military factories are not counted in CO2 emmisions by order of the COPP because america demanded it
Replying to @CharlieJGardner
6 billion people never fly why do well off environmentalists still fly on jets ? ?
Says the right wing operative with zero foreign policy experience.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
When Biden invited Modi I figured the motivation had to be stirring up trouble between India and China. Their long standing dispute over territory can go a long way to achieve the warmongering ways of the state department. Not able to help.
Replying to @marwilliamson
Yet the children of #Palestine are tortured by Israelis everyday & your okay with #IsraeliCrimes
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