On this day in 1945, the US launched Operation Meetinghouse, where B-29 bombers firebombed Japan’s🇯🇵 capital of Tokyo. The night of 9 March 1945 was the single deadliest air raid of WW2, with approx. 100,000 deaths and a million people left homeless.

Russia's🇷🇺 University of St. Petersburg, will expel at least 13 students who were detained at the anti-war protests that have erupted across the country. More expulsion orders are expected. (Source: Kommersant Business Daily). Almost 14000 Russians have been arrested at anti-war protests

It’s not war crimes when we do it!

'Those global powers that resisted the sanctions more than anyone else were China🇨🇳 and Russia🇷🇺'

Prof. Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran on US sanctions on Iran

WATCH HERE: https://odysee.com/IranRussiaUkraine:35ab0a3a9cdb2786b2af0f0ce07bb0f7871162df

'It is an exaggerated response that has not been duplicated in other comparable situations such as the invasion of Iraq in 2003'

-Ex-UN Special Rapporteur Prof. Richard Falk on double standards over Ukraine & the Middle East

WATCH HERE: https://odysee.com/@GoingUndergroundRT:0/SAT-INTERVIEW-2:0

On this day in 2013, Xi Jinping is named the new President of China🇨🇳. Since then:

-100 million lifted out of extreme poverty

-extreme poverty completely eliminated

-GDP grew 6.4% a year from 2013-2020, accounting for 30% of global economic growth

-From 2013-2020, total trade volume between China and the 147 countries+territories part of the Belt and Road Initiative amounted to $9.2 trillion

-China’s installed renewable energy capacity of 895GW by 2020, larger than the next five nations combined (🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇳🇩🇪🇯🇵=809GW)

Ukrainians in the city of Kherson rallied to protest against occupying Russian soldiers this weekend

Surely with this much public resistance, an occupation of Ukraine is completely untenable and a major miscalculation by the Russian government?

#Ukraine🇺🇦 #Russia🇷🇺

Kiev, Ukraine🇺🇦: One person was killed and 6 injured after the remains of an alleged Russian rocket fell in Kurenivka district in the Ukrainian capital, according to Kiev's Mayor Vitali Klitchko.

Unilateral invasions violate the UN Charter, but surely a question worth asking?

#Ukraine #Russia

‘We realized that #Ukraine will not become a member of NATO. We understand this, we are adequate people…Kiev needs new formats of interaction with the West and separate security guarantees’

-Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Palestine🇵🇸: Anger erupts in Qalandiya after UK-US-EU-armed Israeli forces shot 3 Palestinians dead.

OTD in 1988, Saddam Hussein carried out the Halabja chemical attack, killing up to 5000 people on the day

The CIA aided Saddam's chemical attacks in the Iran-Iraq war, two-thirds of chemical attacks happened in the last 18 months of the war when CIA-Iraq cooperation peaked.

Photo: Donald Rumsfeld meets Saddam Hussein, he was acting as an envoy of US President Ronald Reagan at the time.

#Iraq #History