Tag: embassies

A massive new US embassy complex in a tiny Middle East nation is raising eyebrows

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)1 Comment
Source: US embassy in Beirut on Twitter

A massive new US embassy complex in a tiny Middle East nation is raising eyebrows

Sprawling over a 43-acre site, the complex in the Beirut suburb of Awkar is almost two-and-a-half times the size of the land the White House sits on and more than 21 soccer fields.

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Plans for the embassy complex were announced in 2015 and it is reported to have cost $1 billion.

Lebanon is part of the Belt and Road Initiative.

Western nations want ‘democracy’ in Syria so badly they close embassies and prevent Syrians from voting in presidential elections

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

*Blog version slightly longer -by Eva K Bartlett

This week, Syrians around the world will vote in the 2021 Presidential elections (those in Syria will vote on May 26). That is, if Western nations re-open the embassies they so democratically shut years ago.

Western nations want ‘democracy’ in Syria so badly they close embassies and prevent Syrians from voting in presidential elections