Nobody has the intention to invade Ukraine
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The tweet above was...well, words fail me.
I can only deal with this by attempting to lighten the mood somewhat, but I doubt even this could do that...
I can only deal with this by attempting to lighten the mood somewhat, but I doubt even this could do that...
Clearly they should pull the troops out of there.......thereby letting Russia have free reign of the cities. Yeah, that's the ticket.
Yeah, I saw a bunch of Ukranians complaining about that statement earlier today, particularly pointing out they didn't cover other things like the Russians that were torturing Ukrainian POWs on camera and then asking for donations to "produce more content". They also seem to neglect to mention that Russia's been doing plenty of targeting of populated residential areas when no military forces were there. Not to mention that right after Russia agreed not to hit port facilities so Ukraine could export grain back around July 23rd, they still hit a port the very next day with a missile. (Odessa for referance.)
So... are you calling out the ukrainians for putting soldiers and equipment where the russians are attacking, or amnesty international for calling them out for putting soldiers and equipment where the russians are attacking?
Amnesty International for using what could be interpreted as a pro-Russia position that the ongoing war is Ukraine’s fault for not having unconditionally surrendered the second that Russia starting shelling their cities.
Thank you. See: that's why you don't use one word posts to sum up difficult positions.
The boss of the main transport workers’ union, who recently became a left-wing folk hero, turns out to be a Putin apologist Tankie who blames the EU for ‘bullying’ Russia.
(The man is rabidly pro-Brexit, like most British union bosses.)
(The man is rabidly pro-Brexit, like most British union bosses.)
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Oh dear...
For those unfamiliar with "The New Statesman":
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(Source: - https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/new-statesman/ )
It was The New Frontiersman.
The New Statesman was also the name of a sitcom about fictional evil Tory politician Alan B’Stard, as played by Rik Mayall. Although to be accurate, that evil politician character would probably be a milquetoast centrist when compared to today’s GOP style Tories.
How can there be such a thing? Putin's a fascist, not a communist.
Technically most of the "oligarchs" (in the 90s Yeltsin era sense) and current ruling elites (the so called siloviki) had origins as Soviet era apparatchiks of various sorts. I think the late Karen Dawisher has argued in a lecture that many of them robbed the Soviet state and undermined Gorbachev and his reforms (they took the money) and helped set themselves up in the post-Soviet era. Putin was just lucky that Yeltsn's inner circle was dumb enough to think he was a "reformer".
The head of AI-Ukraine resigned over the global org's refusal to allow their edits for that report. AI global head Agnes Callamard's response to the controversy:
Maybe worth noting that Kate Allen, AI-UK head from 2001-2021, had been in a 20-year relationship with "Red Ken" Livingstone, the tankie ex-mayor of London, and "they shared a deep-seated political ideology":
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Livingstone since went on to write for Russia Today justifying the 2008 Russian annexation of Crimea.
AI is really not what it used to be. People who have long since written off the Salvation Army as "problematic" shouldn't hold up AI as a moral authority.