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America, The Country of Contradiction

Joe Biden asks Congress for $33 billion to send to Ukraine for the Ukrainian Army while the MTA goes to war with fare evaders.

Branden Janese
Apr 29, 2022
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Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images

Europeans go to war like it ain’t nothing. There was the 100-year war. Two Word Wars. There was the war on Black Africans and the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade. Now the Russians have invaded Ukraine and for some bizarre reason, the American government is shoveling money overseas to help shed more European blood. On Thursday,…

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