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The same states & state leaders who claim to care about people in/from #Ukraine support collective punishment of #Palestinians whilst being complicit in ethnic cleansing and genocide. Then the same states & state leaders who are critical of what is happening in #Gaza by the Israeli state and military forces, commit acts of atrocities against people in Ukraine, people in #Rojava, against people in their own country (as do all states), to name just a few examples. You then have push backs & beefing up of borders, especially by the #EU - #FortressEurope with #Frontext - like Italy that has passed laws to clamp down on ships like the @louisemichel doing rescue missions, the US (it hasn't stopped just because Trump went) & the UK with the Home Secretary Suella Braverman not content with prison ships, former military bases, & other punitive forms of detention, attacks the UN's Refugee Convention so she can intensify her attacks on people fleeing wars, persecution and climate catastrophe that the west is central to. After all, it is part of her "dream". We are often told the state has no money for things we need to survive, but there is always money to fund wars and sure up corporate profits whether through corrupt contracts e.g. PPE or for bank bailouts like in 2008.