Министр обороны США Ллойд Остин заявил, что Пентагон перебросит ближе к Израилю авианосец USS Gerald R. Ford, крейсер USS Normandy и несколько эсминцев из состава авианосной ударной группы. Вместе с этим, Тель-Авив получит дополнительное вооружение и боеприпасы, в т.ч. к системе ПРО "Железный купол". Также для демонстрации силы и поддержки Израиля США увеличат количество самолетов F-15, F-16 и A-10 на авиабазах в регионе.
Министр обороны США Ллойд Остин заявил, что Пентагон перебросит ближе к Израилю авианосец USS Gerald R. Ford, крейсер USS Normandy и несколько эсминцев из состава авианосной ударной группы. Вместе с этим, Тель-Авив получит дополнительное вооружение и боеприпасы, в т.ч. к системе ПРО "Железный купол". Также для демонстрации силы и поддержки Израиля США увеличат количество самолетов F-15, F-16 и A-10 на авиабазах в регионе.
"There are a lot of things that Telegram could have been doing this whole time. And they know exactly what they are and they've chosen not to do them. That's why I don't trust them," she said. On Telegram’s website, it says that Pavel Durov “supports Telegram financially and ideologically while Nikolai (Duvov)’s input is technological.” Currently, the Telegram team is based in Dubai, having moved around from Berlin, London and Singapore after departing Russia. Meanwhile, the company which owns Telegram is registered in the British Virgin Islands. Either way, Durov says that he withdrew his resignation but that he was ousted from his company anyway. Subsequently, control of the company was reportedly handed to oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Igor Sechin, both allegedly close associates of Russian leader Vladimir Putin. The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores.
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