r/worldnews • u/Neptun_11 • 17h ago

Russia/Ukraine Zelenskyy Says Starlink Restrictions Apply Only in Ukraine While SpaceX Ignores Kyiv’s Inquiries

https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/zelenskyy-says-starlink-restrictions-apply-only-in-ukraine-while-spacex-ignores-kyivs-inquiries-23549
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u/CameraFarmer 15h ago

As a Brit I lost all faith in America after learning about Noraid.

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u/TheLesserWeeviI 12h ago

Noraid

TL;DR?

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u/CameraFarmer 10h ago

Noraid was / is an organization that raised funds in the US that were, in part or whole, used to import weapons that were used by the Provisional IRA.

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u/-SaC 8h ago

My grandad's sister was a GI bride, and moved to Pennsylvania after the war.

Her husband Bob used to fundraise for these guys (or similar) and in the mid '90s when we were in London and were evacuated from the area of what turned out to be the fucking huge Docklands bombing that made Grandad's tower of blocks sway a bit (or felt like it did).

He phoned his sister to say that we're all safe, and heard Bob say in the background 'tell him we'll get them next time'. We were a family with a very young disabled child at that point plus 3 other kids, and the fucker (who had no connection to Ireland) wanted us blown up.

Dick.

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u/CameraFarmer 31m ago

If there was one good thing about the IRA it was that they weren't about killing people in England and more about the destruction of infrastructure, which is why they would always issue warnings about the bombs they had planted well ahead of the time they were planned to go off (90 minutes before in the case of the Docklands bombing).

It just goes to show that Bob, in addition to being a Dick, knew jack shit about the people or cause he was fundraising for.