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The Duran@theduran
September 21, 2025
UK loans to Ukraine

UK has been giving "loans" to Ukraine for the last three years, all of them backed by the interest from the Russian frozen assets.

Finance minister Rachel Reeves wants to mirror the EU €170B reparations loan scheme, which hands out more loans to Ukraine using Russian assets with Euroclear. The UK holds £25 billion in Russian assets.

One major reason Europe wants to keep this war going is to avoid the shit storm that it faces when Russia legally comes for its money.

POLITICO: This £25 billion would fund the U.K. “reparations loan” scheme, which the country’s finance ministry said would “work in lockstep” with the EU program. It added that the proposals “under consideration” could “unlock financing up to the full value of the assets held in the U.K.”

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The Duran@theduran
May 04, 2021
Macron panics as Le Pen WINS hate speech court case

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France's Marine Le Pen Acquitted in Case Over Violating Hate Speech Laws
https://sputniknews.com/europe/202105041082797685-frances-marine-le-pen-acquitted-in-case-over-violating-hate-speech-laws/

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alexmercouris@alexmercouris
23 hours ago
Join Alexander Mercouris Live Stream Today 20th May 2026 at 14:00 EDT, 19:00 London time

Putin is in China, shortly after Trump was in China. The two visits are an extraordinary study in contrasts. Whereas the Trump visit was striking because of the absence of substantive agreements, the Putin visit is packed with them.

That does not mean that the Trump visit was unimportant or a non event. If nothing else it gave the Chinese an opportunity to give Trump and the Americans the strongest warning they have ever given on the topic of Taiwan.

Claims that the warning is the same as warnings the Chinese have previously given are wrong. I have read every readout the Chinese Foreign Ministry has published following a meeting between the US President and the Chinese leadership extending back to the days of Barack Obama and Hu Jintao. No previous warning a Chinese leader has given on the topic of Taiwan has come close to the peremptory and threatening language Xi Jinping used in the warning he gave to Trump. The fact Xi did it in a semi public venue - in a plenary meeting where the ...

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MsTexasG@MsTexasG
1 hour ago

Are you telling me no one wants to come to a country run by genocidal pdf files who will send out the a$$-a$$ troops that indiscriminately drag people off of the streets?

I’m shocked 🥱

https://x.com/bbcnews/status/2057049244679147555?s=46

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intp1@intp1
1 hour ago

US Constitution may still be in effect!

Judge finds Asset freeze, Transaction ban, DeBanking of UN Special Rapporteur violated her First Amendment rights.

https://x.com/aseisfree/status/2057277759878000963?s=20

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Zarael@Zarael
June 17, 2024
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A quick commentary on the "Piss Summit"
I might not be able to upload much more or do lives for a while

My Fellow Duranianss.

Yes, it's happened again. I have been assaulted by a vicious Malware Bot Virus or whatever 911 Socks is and this thing is bad ! 

However I wanted to give you a "peace" of my mind concerning the "Piece" or piss, as Elensky calls it, as this thing fell to pieces before it even happened.

Coincidentally on the very SAME DAY  this crap happened Saudi Arabia DROPPED the US Petrodollar as a buying currency and NO ONE absolutely NO ONE is talking about this fact anywhere !!!

 

Hope to see you all asap.

 

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The Duran@theduran
September 29, 2023
Locals Community Private Telegram Messaging

Locals will be sunsetting the private messaging feature throughout the Locals website. In order to keep our private messaging active we have created a private Telegram messaging group called 'The Duran Locals.'

This is a private channel open only to our Locals subscriber community. In the private Telegram group you can send a message to the group or a private message to Alex or Alexander via a direct Telegram message. 

You can access Telegram for web, desktop or mobile here: https://telegram.org/

The link for this Telegram group is below (can be viewed by community subscribers).

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