diplomacy

How George W. Bush rejected diplomacy with the Taliban to launch Afghanistan invasion after 9/11

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George W. Bush told a State Department official who tried to persuade him not to invade Afghanistan: ‘F*** it, we’re going to war’. The former president gave the blunt comment at Camp David days after 9/11 as he decided whether to go after the Taliban, a new documentary reveals. Mike Morell, Bush’s briefer about the … Read more

China sends the world’s biggest plane to Poland packed full of PPE as part of its ‘mask diplomacy’

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The world’s largest cargo plane has flown from China to Poland as part of a 400-tonne medical supply run amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. The Antonov An-225 Mriya landed at Tianjin Binhai International Airport in North China late on Sunday (12th April), picking up roughly 250 tonnes of critical medical supplies in what is to be … Read more