I think that if you don't believe the rape stories, you should personally fly to Ukraine to volunteer with OHCHR to record the stories yourself. It's possible the experience may help you develop a soul? It seems that someone was upset by my earlier post, so let me repost it just for you. Enjoy. Sergey Mardan: "I lose all my capacity for irony and sarcasm. I have no strength for either irony or sarcasm. Let's all of us share this feeling of national humiliation. Here is what it's all about. [Ukrainian] Azof [Brigade] Commanders have returned to Ukraine." "Pardon, I can't stay away from sarcasm. But sarcasm is the revenge of a weak people. If anyone suddenly resorts to sarcasm this is the verdict. In this instance, it applies to me. I'm attempting to joke so bitterly, because there is no cause for any jokes." "We were promised they'd stay until the end of the war. But to commemorate the 500-day jubilee [a reference to the start of the Russian War in Ukraine] the Turks festively handed over these dirtbags [Azov Brigade commanders, POWs by trilateral agreement between Russia, Ukraine and Turkey were to remain in Turkey] to the president of Ukraine, and he took them along in his presidential plane." "There is an iron curtain on Russia's Western flank. We're under a blockade. Our European part is under a blockade. Beyond that, we have 3 export corridors and we are an export-oriented country. Our domestic market is very small. We have neglected it for 30 years. It was of no interest to us. There is China, Turkey, and, in part, Iran across the Caspian Sea. And that's it." "It's all very simple. This was to be expected after [the Turkish] Presidential elections. The [Turkish] Presidential elections have come to an end. We certainly helped Erdogan win. We saw the Turkish opposition as an unacceptable option for us. This was better. But the problem is, both are worse for us." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFkdPfytIf8 Julia Davis: "State TV's hit piece about Prigozhin came out shortly before it was revealed that Putin spent time with him even after the mutiny. This is another indictment of Putin's regime, since everything they're condemning was totally fine before Prigozhin rebelled." https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1678624020197982209?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet |
Yeah... UNTIL Russia illegally invaded them, shelled their schools and hospitals and homes, raped, murdered, tortured, looted them. Now they want nothing to do with Russians. Go back now and very few Ukrainians identify with or want anything to do with Russia. |
Yes, this is what I heard from someone who made the trip to Ukraine. |
| More boys to the abattoir today. Zelensky needs to fill more pockets. |
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From Heather Cox Richardson:
Trump ally Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called for President Biden to withdraw from NATO altogether, saying bizarrely that NATO, which was formed in 1949 to stand against Soviet aggression and now stands against Russian expansion, is “entirely beholden to Russia.” Indeed, Trump recently boasted that he could end the war in 24 hours, and his former vice president Mike Pence noted that “the only way you’d solve this war in a day is if you gave Vladimir Putin what he wanted.” |
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See the column David Sanger filed at nyt from Vilnius
Even he’s given up hope Ukraine is screwed |
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Ukraine has got this…ruble is imploding; Russia’s financial reserves are tapped. They have really two trading partners now - China and Iran.
Russia will die from the inside and be worse off than the worst times of the USSR for generations. Whatever parts of their nuclear arsenal will be completely defunct in a decade (if any still work). Game, set, match. |
Lol don’t be ridiculous. This is wishful thinking. India, all of Latam and Africa are happy to do business with Russia. So is Israel! Honey the rest of the world just doesn’t consider this war any of their business and resent the western push to do so. |
By doing “business”, you mean acting as the discount gas station for these regions? Resent away…it’s just going to get worse for Russia going forward. |
| Another day for Zelensky to send conscripts to the meat grinder to “liberate” the ethnically Russian east. |
And another day to drug up Russian conscripts on amphetamines so that they happily charge into machine gun fire. Gotta stick with that World War I playbook because the money to do otherwise was stolen long ago. |
Russian projection |
Russia needs to get the f**k out of Ukraine, dummy. |