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Iran Nuke Deal On The Verge After Russia Makes Unexpected Last-Minute Demands

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The Ukraine war is threatening to throw a monkey wrench into the <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-nuclear-deal-negotiators-announce-they-are-very-close-agreement">weekend optimism</a> which started building especially on Friday reports that a revived Iran nuclear deal is mere “steps away” and <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-nuclear-deal-negotiators-announce-they-are-very-close-agreement">“very close”</a>.
It appears Russia is ready to play hard-ball following for the past week the US and EU ratcheting up unprecedented sanctions targeting Moscow’s banking sector and top officials, including sanctions against Putin himself, which the Russian president on Saturday <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/evacuation-ceasefires-break-down-russian-shelling-resumes-key-port-cities">stressed is</a>“tantamount to an act of war”. 
Moscow is now pointing to the fresh Ukraine-related sanctions as directly detrimental to its ability to trade with Iran if the JCPOA nuclear deal is restored. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/iran-nuclear-deal-threatened-by-russian-demands-over-ukraine-sanctions-11646487044">on Saturday for the first time</a> demanded written guarantees that the new anti-Russia sanctions won’t get in the way.
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“We have asked for a written guarantee…that the current process triggered by the United States does not in any way damage our right to free and full trade, economic and investment cooperation and military-technical cooperation with the Islamic Republic,” Lavrov said.
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Following the Lavrov statement, Russia’s chief negotiator in Vienna stated there were still issues to be hammered out “to ensure smooth civil nuclear cooperation with Iran.”
The irony is that Washington desperately needs this deal to go through given it would open up badly needed global oil supply, at a moment it’s been scrambling to find Europe alternatives in the scenario of Putin weaponizing his significant energy leverage if he chooses to. The White House has also come under significant domestic and media pressure for not targeting Russian oil exports as punishment for the Ukraine invasion. Here’s what’s at stake on that front, based on analysis in <a href="https://asiatimes.com/2022/02/russia-may-hold-iran-nuke-deal-hostage-over-ukraine/">Asia Times</a>:
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News reports noted Iran could possibly ramp up shipments beyond 1 million barrels a day within months of a revived accord, offering potential relief as the Ukraine conflict pushed oil above $100 a barrel. 
The Chinese representative, Wang Qun, has also said that the talks are at a “last stage,” telling reporters last week that interlocutors are “only a small step away from the final agreement.”
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And chief British negotiator Stephanie Al-Qaq <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-nuclear-deal-negotiators-announce-they-are-very-close-agreement">said Friday</a> of the Vienna talks, “We are very close to an agreement,” and that “Now we have to take a few final steps.” There are reports the Biden’s State Department and Western officials broadly have been itching to see a deal finalized “this week”.
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According to commentary in <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/iran-nuclear-deal-threatened-by-russian-demands-over-ukraine-sanctions-11646487044">The Wall Street Journal</a>: 
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It was always understood by Western officials that Russia’s specific role within the 2015 nuclear deal would need to be protected from sanctions. That includes receiving enriched uranium from Iran and exchanging it for yellowcake, Russia’s work to turn Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility into a research center and other nuclear-specific deliveries to Tehran’s facilities.
However, Mr. Lavrov appeared to demand far more sweeping guarantees that could introduce major loopholes in the tight financial, economic and energy sanctions the West has imposed in recent days because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Thus it’s clear that the Western powers negotiating in Vienna knew that for all parties to sign on to a revived deal they couldn’t target any signatory nation’s ability to trade with Tehran. But indeed the unprecedented avalanche of fresh sanctions on Moscow have muddied this past week’s building optimism on reaching a final deal.
One unnamed Western diplomat cited by WSJ said there are suspicions Russia could now hold the Iran deal hostage at a politically sensitive moment for Biden, who is struggling to assure the domestic public that sanctions measures on Russia will not blow back to harshly on Americans at the gas pump.
“But if Lavrov is using this as a play to try to carve a huge hole out of the overall Ukraine sanctions, that’s a different story,” the diplomat was <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/iran-nuclear-deal-threatened-by-russian-demands-over-ukraine-sanctions-11646487044">quoted as saying</a>. 
 
 
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Visa, MasterCard suspend Russian operations

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International card companies Mastercard and Visa have announced they are ceasing operations and disconnecting all Russian banks from their payment systems due to sanctions related to Moscow’s ongoing war in Ukraine. 
However, Russia-issued cards will continue to work within the country, since all local payments are processed via the internal National Payment Card System (NSPK), created in 2014.
Visa Inc. announced on Saturday night that it was “immediately” beginning to “work with its clients and partners within Russia to cease all Visa transactions over the coming days.”
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Once complete, all transactions initiated with Visa cards issued in Russia will no longer work outside the country and any Visa cards issued by financial institutions outside of Russia will no longer work within the Russian Federation.
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“We regret the impact this will have on our valued colleagues, and on the clients, partners, merchants and cardholders we serve in Russia,” said Al Kelly, chairman and CEO of Visa.
Mastercard made a similar decision which followed its “recent action to block multiple financial institutions from the Mastercard payment network, as required by regulators globally.”
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…noting the unprecedented nature of the current conflict and the uncertain economic environment – we have decided to suspend our network services in Russia.
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While all Visa and MasterCard-branded cards issued by Russian banks will stop working abroad – all internal transactions are expected to proceed as usual since they are processed via the NSPK ever since the first rounds of Ukraine-related Western sanctions in 2014.
Russia also has its own national payment system, Mir, which was launched by the Central Bank in 2015, a year after sanctions against the country were introduced. Back then, several Russian banks were temporarily unable to use Visa and Mastercard due to the penalties.
The unprecedented flurry of Western sanctions on Russian banks, businesses, media outlets, senior officials, and lawmakers comes in retaliation to Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
The Kremlin claims the February 24 attack was launched with the purpose of “demilitarization” and “denazification” of the country, and to protect the people of eastern Ukraine following years of a grueling blockade that claimed thousands of lives. 
Kiev insists the invasion was unprovoked, maintaining it had no plans to retake the breakaway Donetsk and Lugansk regions by force.
 
 
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Russia is deploying brutal siege tactics in Ukraine

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The Russian assault on Ukraine is ongoing, with Russian forces moving on major population centers including Mariupol in the southeast and the capitol, Kyiv. As the war moves into major cities, Russia has started to deploy brutal siege tactics — like using cluster munitions and bombing civilian infrastructure — which its military previously utilized in conflicts in Syria and Chechnya.
Such tactics could be a prelude to costly street-to-street fighting as Russia attempts to take Ukraine’s major cities, though tactical blunders on the ground, particularly outside of Kyiv, have in some cases stalled Russian ground advances.
Ukrainian armed forces, combined with the Territorial Defense Forces protecting individual cities and a <a href="https://www.vox.com/22956752/ukraine-resistance-volunteers-russia-invasion">civilian population</a> armed with rifles and <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/2/26/22952073/ukraine-civilian-volunteers-kyiv-war-effort">determined to resist occupation</a>, have thus far had unexpected success in fending off Russian assaults. Western efforts to arm, train, and fund the Ukrainian military, too, have given it the capacity to punch far above its weight — something the Russian government, in an effort to downplay the seriousness and scale of the invasion, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/2/27/22953539/ukraine-invasion-putin-russia-baffling-war-strategy">didn’t deploy forces to counter</a>, Mason Clark, the lead Russia analyst at the Institute for the Study of War, told Vox last week.
But that’s changed in recent days: Russian ground troops are still stalled outside Kyiv, but they have managed to make significant headway in Kharkiv and Mariupol, in addition to capturing the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/03/nuclear-power-plant-fire-ukraine-zaporizhzhia/">the Zaporizhzhia facility</a>, on Friday. Russian forces are also attempting to move on Odessa, another port city in the southwest.
According to Rita Konaev, the associate director of analysis at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Russia’s evolving military tactics underscore a new direction for the conflict.
“The Russian approach to urban warfare very much emphasizes priming and prepping the ground for any sort of ground operation with this destruction from the air. It’s to break morale, it’s to cause significant damage to the infrastructure of cities, it’s to cause high levels of displacement from the cities,” Konaev told Vox. “That air campaign is an integrated and important part of the way that Russia sees warfare.”
<h3>Russia is deploying devastating siege tactics against Ukrainian cities</h3>
Analysts say Russia is currently preparing the ground in Ukraine’s cities by trying to raze as much infrastructure as possible by air in order to make the ground assault easier.
“The key thing that we’ve been watching in the last 72 hours is, they’ve been starting to directly shell major cities, primarily Kharkiv, but we’re now seeing it in Mariupol as well, that they refrained from doing in the early days of the war,” Clark told Vox in an interview Thursday.
Kharkiv is Ukraine’s second-largest city and has already seen heavy fighting, including rocket attacks resulting in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/28/ukraine-several-killed-by-russian-rocket-strikes-in-civilian-areas-of-kharkiv">civilian casualties</a>.
Now, according to Clark, those attacks are likely to be stepped up from the early days of the conflict, when Russia “likely did not use these higher-scale artillery fires and airstrikes and those sorts of assets because they expected a quick victory” — which hasn’t occurred — “and didn’t want the portrayal in international and domestic Russian media of destroying Ukrainian cities.”
In a small village near Kharkiv, which is close to Ukraine’s eastern border with Russia, civilians have been caught up in intense shelling, <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/4/its-hell-civilians-caught-in-russian-shelling-around-kharkiv">Al Jazeera</a> reported Friday. The most recent attacks reportedly killed three civilians. Although the city of Kharkiv is still under Ukrainian control, it’s been under heavy and indiscriminate shelling since the beginning of the war, with significant escalation starting February 28, according to a report by the Digital Forensic Research Labs’s Michael Sheldon, published by <a href="https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/mapped-russias-shelling-of-civilians-in-kharkiv/">Atlantic Council</a>. That report found that Russia had used BM-30 300mm multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), which can <a href="https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/03/01/russian-rockets-are-falling-indiscriminately-on-ukrainian-cities">launch cluster munitions</a> — essentially bombs containing smaller munitions, which can cause extreme devastation when used in civilian areas.
“Cluster munitions have a relatively high failure rate, meaning that a bunch of them don’t explode, they don’t detonate [after] impact. So in addition to that initial impact, all of that unexploded ordnance remains, on massive areas where people used to live, and want to continue living, and then they’re basically like landmines,” Konaev said.
In addition to ongoing shelling, Russia is also attempting to cut off resources to key cities. In Mariupol, a city of more than 400,000, water, heat, and electricity have been <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/04/ukraine-russia-siege-tactics-mariupol/">shut off for days</a> throughout a ferocious Russian bombardment campaign. According to Konaev, urban areas are dependent on a “pretty fragile grid system of life-saving and life-necessity utilities. If you damage one pipe, it can damage water access or heating for thousands of people.” The kind of destruction Russia is unleashing, therefore, could affect millions as the war continues.
“It will be devastating,” Konaev said, “because it’s going to depend on whether they’re going to still allow that humanitarian corridor where people are allowed to leave, and how are they going to be treating those movements?”
Thus far, humanitarian ceasefires to allow evacuations haven’t been successful, despite an <a href="https://www.axios.com/russia-ukraine-peace-talks-belarus-938faa52-5f99-41a3-aae1-1dcd42c9583c.html">ostensible agreement</a> between Russia and Ukraine; Mariupol and the city of Volnovakha halted evacuations on Saturday as Russian attacks on civilian targets resumed, the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-and-russia-agree-to-open-corridors-for-civilians-to-evacuate-mariupol-11646470358">Wall Street Journal’s Yaroslav Trofimov reported</a>.
“These will be real sieges,” a US official told the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/04/ukraine-russia-siege-tactics-mariupol/">Washington Post’s Paul Sonne and Ellen Nakashima</a> Friday. “They will be almost medieval in their approach. They will cordon cities. They will bombard them until the ground bounces. And then they will go in, and they’ll go street to street.”
<h3>The Russian military has used these same strategies in Syria and Chechnya</h3>
Past conflicts paint an alarming picture of where Russia’s siege tactics could be headed, experts told Vox. Though it’s unclear how far Russia might go in Ukraine, the most extreme version of such tactics can result in mass civilian casualties.
“In Syria, Russia’s predominant role was as part of the air campaign, so an air bombardment that just targeted cities, that’s where you saw the [extensive use of] cluster munitions,” Konaev told Vox. “Most of the heavy lifting that the Russians did was concentrated on aerial bombardment,” which <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/5/syrians-recount-horror-under-russian-air-attacks">decimated parts of Aleppo</a> and other Syrian cities.
“They used everything they could in Aleppo, and as much as I don’t want to see this, I wouldn’t be surprised if they started using the same planes, bombs and missiles to target civilians in Ukraine,” Mustafa al-Qaseem, a Syrian refugee from Aleppo who settled in Germany, <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/5/syrians-recount-horror-under-russian-air-attacks">told Al Jazeera</a>.
Syria isn’t the only parallel; in the first Chechen War, in 1994 and 1995, Russian forces attacked the Chechen capitol, Grozny, flattening it with aerial bombardments before withdrawing in 1997. Then, in December 1999, Russia went back and destroyed what remained, until Grozny was so decimated that the UN declared it <a href="https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2022/03/02/putin-grozny-chechen-ukraine-russia-military-past">the most destroyed city on Earth</a>.
In both Syria and Chechnya, the Russian military was able to hone the devastating — and possibly illegal — tactics it is now beginning to deploy in Ukraine.
“Health workers were targeted, medical facilities were bombed, there have been confirmed reports where doctors and humanitarian convoys did not want to have their location be shared during the deconfliction process [in Syria],” Sahr Muhammedally, the director for the MENA region and South Asia at the Center for Civilians in Conflict, told Vox. ”Russia bombed these facilities, even knowing that these were hospitals.”
Hospitals and ambulances have reportedly been hit in Ukraine, too; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/01/politics/blinken-russia-ukraine/index.html">US Secretary of State Antony Blinken</a> condemned Russia for the attacks on Tuesday, while advocating for the Russian Federation to be removed from the UN Security Council. US officials have so far declined to say that Russia is deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure, but the lack of discernment by Russia in the war so far is having brutal effects.
“It is really horrific to see this, this intentional targeting of civilians to submit them, to get them to give up,” Muhammedally told Vox. “We saw this in Homs, we saw this in Aleppo, and even neighborhoods were bombed, markets were hit.”
Now, Ukrainian cities could be facing the same kind of destruction.
<h3>The future of the Ukrainian war includes much more devastation</h3>
Ukrainians aren’t fighting like they intend to give up any time soon — which will almost inevitably lead to further destruction as the fight shifts to ground warfare.
“We tend to think about urban warfare as this door-to-door, building by building, street by street fight, which is a predominantly ground battle, reliant on infantry and artillery, which is correct,” Konaev said. “But it’s also a multi-domain battle that involves this air bombardment element, especially for Russia.”
Some analysts, Konaev included, have pointed to the battle for Mosul in 2017 as an indicator of the brutal morass that such urban ground assaults can become.
While there are obvious differences — among other things, Ukraine is a sovereign country fighting against an unprovoked invasion, rather than a brutal terrorist group — there are also some parallels with the nine-month-long battle for Mosul.
“It took nine months because ISIS was well-trained, well supplied, and very dedicated to its cause,” Konaev said — a situation reflected by the Ukrainian armed forces and civilian resistance. What’s more, she said, defenders have an unquestioned advantage in urban fighting, and it will be more challenging for the invading force to hold a city, in part because they lack intimate knowledge of the area.
“You have the power but you have to fight smart,” <a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/urban-warfare-expert-offiers-ukraine-tips-battling-russia-urban-combat/">John Spencer</a>, the chair of Urban Warfare Studies at West Point’s Modern War Institute, <a href="https://twitter.com/SpencerGuard/status/1497583308976189443?s=20&t=d4YS1dnnt7goOOc5KTO2Ug">tweeted last month</a> in a thread explaining his advice to the Ukrainian resistance. “The urban defense is hell for any soldier. It usually take 5 attackers to 1 defender. Russians do not have the numbers.”
As Russia’s siege tactics indicate, though, Putin is intent on taking Ukraine’s cities — and whether or not he succeeds, history suggests the next phase of the war could cause even more civilian casualties.
 
 
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Watch Live: Convoy Of Truckers Arrive At Final Staging Area Before Push To D.C. Region

At least 1,000 ‘<a href="https://thepeoplesconvoy.org/">freedom convoy</a>‘ vehicles converged at a speedway in Hagerstown, Maryland, on Friday night and through Saturday morning into the afternoon as some made the 2,500-mile journey from Southern California, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/03/05/peoples-convoy-protest-hagerstown/">WaPo</a>. The convoy is at a staging area where their next move could be Washington, D.C., to protest the COVID-19 vaccine and other public health mandates.
<a href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/truck-convoy-expected-to-enter-dc-area-saturday/2991174/">NBC4 Washington</a> reports the convoy is planning to drive onto the Capital Beltway on Saturday, but a convoy spokesperson said they’ll stay in Hagerstown for another night. 
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The convoy left a rural parking lot in Adelanto, California, on Feb. 22 and is now at its last staging area, about 73 miles outside of D.C. 
Here’s the convoy’s route across America as it appears Hagerstown is the last staging area before D.C. 
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<li>Adelanto, California</li>
<li>Kingman, Arizona</li>
<li>Lupton, Arizona</li>
<li>Glenrio, Texas</li>
<li>Elk City, Oklahoma</li>
<li>Vinita, Oklahoma</li>
<li>Sullivan, Missouri</li>
<li>Indianapolis, Indiana</li>
<li>Cambridge, Ohio</li>
<li>Hagerstown, Maryland</li>
<li>The D.C. Beltway area</li>
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As the <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/thousands-of-vehicles-in-truck-led-convoy-gather-in-maryland-last-stop-before-dc-region_4318323.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_campaign=breaking-2022-03-05-3&utm_medium=email&est=EjPDJcjFSZ%2BFshqXChzJek0InYYHvvtvV1dU4BbeAFSUoOsuupj91IviHEbUHHpwbA%3D%3D">Epoch Times</a> notes:
Organizers of the convoy told The Epoch Times that the group has adjusted its plans and are no longer aiming to arrive in Washington on Saturday as previously reported. Rather, they will be staying in Hagerstown, Maryland—about 70 miles northwest of Washington—for Saturday, and will be headed to an unspecified location two miles from the D.C. Beltway area either on Sunday or Monday.
Numbers in the convoy have fluctuated as vehicles and trucks join and drop off along the way. It’s unclear how many vehicles will be headed to the nation’s capital.
One of the organizers, Mike Landis, said he will be driving to Washington. He pointed to a symbolic U.S. flag that had been gifted to him by the grandson of a fallen soldier killed during WWII.
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“In Oklahoma, his grandson drove from Texas to give it to me because his mother said that this is the first thing that reminds her of freedom since WWII and they wanted it to fly behind the lead truck,” he told a rally in Hagerstown on Friday.
“I can tell you one thing right now. The government can claim that they have all this opposition for us waiting in D.C. but that flag on the back of my truck will go down Constitution Avenue between the White House and the Washington Monument before this is over.”
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Aerial footage from the area shows a massive line of trucks. 
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PEOPLES CONVOY IN HAGERSTOWN!
Nothing to see here folks! 😭😂 <a href="https://t.co/ij4ArymOdS">pic.twitter.com/ij4ArymOdS</a>
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So this is the approx. size of the convoy in Hagerstown, MD. They say they’re heading to DC today, and most likely many of them will, though there’s still not a consensus on when they’re going or even where (some say the beltway; others indicate they’re going into DC). <a href="https://t.co/6R0EpSOqTq">pic.twitter.com/6R0EpSOqTq</a>
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) <a href="https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1500132145515347971?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
Hundreds of trucks are seen parked at a speedway in Hagerstown.  
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a> Stay with <a href="https://twitter.com/nbcwashington?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nbcwashington</a> for how THIS <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TruckerConvoy?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TruckerConvoy</a>, staging in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HagerstownMD?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HagerstownMD</a> right now, could affect your weekend travel plans and possibly even your commute on Monday <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BreakingNews?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BreakingNews</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/mdtraffic?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#mdtraffic</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/dctraffic?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#dctraffic</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/vatraffic?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#vatraffic</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PeoplesConvoy?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PeoplesConvoy</a> <a href="https://t.co/oVwFJ54r9b">pic.twitter.com/oVwFJ54r9b</a>
— ʙʀᴀᴅ ꜰʀᴇɪᴛᴀꜱ (@Chopper4Brad) <a href="https://twitter.com/Chopper4Brad/status/1500124943350124544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
Here are scenes on the ground. 
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Many people here say there’s a rally at the “People’s Convoy” gathering in Hagerstown tonight. Lots of people lining the roads and on highway overpasses in case they decide to head out today. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PeoplesConvoy?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PeoplesConvoy</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/hagerstown?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#hagerstown</a> <a href="https://t.co/OOPMCXwTtZ">pic.twitter.com/OOPMCXwTtZ</a>
— Valerie Bonk, JD (@ValerieBonk) <a href="https://twitter.com/ValerieBonk/status/1500169721706160139?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Julius, who has been following the convoy since California, shares what he’s experienced being a part of the People’s Convoy:
“We have the media saying this is fizzling out, it’s only 3 miles, but it’s about 7 miles long, it is absolutely crazy” <a href="https://t.co/sV9wiFJPZa">pic.twitter.com/sV9wiFJPZa</a>
— Sav (@RapidFire_Pod) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidFire_Pod/status/1500227705610153988?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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James a trucker from North Carolina:
“This convoy is not about Trump, it’s not about Biden, it’s not about Republican or Democrats.
This is about the American flag and the American people and that was presented in full force when we drove across this country” <a href="https://t.co/d9tInPdhyy">pic.twitter.com/d9tInPdhyy</a>
— Sav (@RapidFire_Pod) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidFire_Pod/status/1500239565675761669?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Plenty of donated snacks and drinks here at the trucker’s convoy.
I’ve been told since getting here they plan on a 7pm rally here and will NOT be going to DC today. <a href="https://t.co/VRuvFMLwkO">pic.twitter.com/VRuvFMLwkO</a>
— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) <a href="https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1500173019913859072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Covering the “People’s Convoy” for <a href="https://twitter.com/WTOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WTOP</a> as hundreds of trucks gather here in Hagerstown before going to the D.C. area. Melissa Ramhoff from Frostburg, Maryland, told me it’s the “best thing that has happened in two years.” <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PeoplesConvoy?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PeoplesConvoy</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/hagerstownspeedway?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#hagerstownspeedway</a> <a href="https://t.co/zja0gn5SeR">pic.twitter.com/zja0gn5SeR</a>
— Valerie Bonk, JD (@ValerieBonk) <a href="https://twitter.com/ValerieBonk/status/1500164893294616578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Hagerstown, Maryland and The People’s Convoy 🇺🇸 <a href="https://t.co/Cra0cCbkCs">pic.twitter.com/Cra0cCbkCs</a>
— 𝚁𝙰𝙶𝙴 𝙰𝙶𝙰𝙸𝙽𝚂𝚃 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝚅𝙰𝙲𝙲𝙸𝙽𝙴 (@72powpow) <a href="https://twitter.com/72powpow/status/1500152487902203910?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
And there are multiple live feeds to monitor when the convoy begins the final leg to D.C. (that’s if they do). 
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<a href="https://battleplan.news/watch?id=6222bde060b88b4f266a860d" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Debunking MSM Lies With the Trucker Convoy</a>
 
 
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news Watch Live: Convoy Of Truckers Arrive At Final Staging Area Before Push To D.C. Region

At least 1,000 ‘freedom convoy‘ vehicles converged at a speedway in Hagerstown, Maryland, on Friday night and through Saturday morning into the afternoon as some made the 2,500-mile journey from Southern California, according to WaPo. The convoy is a…