I had a major project delivery on the next day (that still need some significant last minute work). I didn’t really get much sleep on previous night either due to the project.
Everything everything went OK, but not fun to be tired and need the sleep, but simply not be to do it.
I doubt this is going to work.
I was visiting an Asian country where alcohol ads were banned (and generally attitudes towards alcohol were negative, not like in the middle east, but still), they constantly had TV ads for a compilation album CD (this was a while ago) that prominently featured a major alcohol brand.
It won’t change anything.
Putin is a mere symptom, not the cause.
I don’t say this lightly, I’ve lived in russia for over decade in the 90s and 2000s.
If this actually was a “putin problem” and not a “russia problem”, what benefit would there be to claim to otherwise?
This should have been done in 2022.
S Jaishankar, the external affairs minister, called Washington’s demand that New Delhi stop buying Russian crude “unjustified and unreasonable” and accused the west of hypocrisy, noting that Europe trades far more with Russia. To avoid the extra US tariff, India would have to replace about 42% of its oil imports.
The 42% figure needs some contextualisation. I believe the figure was significantly less (single digits?) before the beginning of the full scale invasion.
This sounds almost unreal, doesn’t it?
You don’t see how a bunch of Corbyn fanboys lying about easily verifyable facts would make someone from Ukraine less than willing to engage in a discussion in a diplomatic manner?
You may not be a Corbyn fanboy. To be honest it’s a bit difficult to track who is who in the threads for this post.
He is not anti-war, he is pro-russian genocidal imperialism.
He is a tankie, and when has the working class done well under regimes that tankies support?
As I mentioned in this thread, only an idiot would think such matters wouldn’t be reported in Ukrainian media (that has no stake in internal UK politics).
[1] actually referenced a different specific example, but the point remains.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/t5uaq4/private_eye_used_an_actual_image_from_stop_the/
The image in that reddit thread is from “Stop the War” fake-peace, pro russian genocidal imperialism organization. And that tankie Corbyn roach has a senior position in that shit org.
Yeah, yeah.
You don’t even know the position of a politician you’re fanboying for.
Someone did check the examples I provided and they are all true:
https://feddit.uk/post/35181984/19647124
I told you that such matters are reported on in Ukrainian media and they have both editorial and financial incentives to be honest about these sort things.
While I genuinely hope this will serve as a wake up call (not in the seemingly fake and preformative way done by the California governor) for the locals, from my time living there I have my doubts, it seems that Americans are a bit too well off and risk averse to take action.
Perhaps it may make sense to share a vignette from an Asian country I was travelling in.
We took the train from a regional capital to a smaller city. A week later, we were on our way back to the regional capital to catch a plane.
We go to the railway station and find out that Maoist rebels bombed the railway. So we we find a driver with an off-road vehicle to travel through the jungle road (it was in a terrible state, don’t think a regular car would have managed) to the regional capital.
On the way through the jungle we approach a group of burned out trucks with the military surrounding them. We ask them what happened. The military said the Maoist rebels stopped the trucks, let the drivers go (I believe they were actually treated well and the military said they were dropped off at the nearest village completely unharmed and with their belongings). The truck drivers were merely employees and get shit pay with significant dangers (trucks are often heavily overloaded, you constantly see them crash because of this).
So you might say, well what does this have to do with the US? While I don’t support Maoists (even though they likely had good reasons as that region was particularly corrupt and did not benefit from broader national economic growth), one has to admit that they definitely are not risk averse and are willing and able to go through.
To cite another (fictional) example, it’s like that scene in The Godfather 2 where Michael Corleone sees the commitment of the Cuban rebels and realizes that the Batista regime is not going to hold after he sees the Cuban rebel blow himself up to take out the goon leader, rather than face arrest (and likely torture and death).
America is not that kind of place (for better or worse).
P.S. Note this is not doomerism, nothing is final until it is. That being said nothing in this world comes easy. Freedom is not a mere polemic statement. Freedom requires painful, scary choices and immense sacrifices.
Keep telling yourself that.
You know I am right (even though you may not admit publicly). You’re too scared to look very clear and specific examples, because you know that Corbyn is a massive supporter of russian genocidal imperialism!
You’re only saying this because you can’t address the well documented points I brought up.
Anyone reading my post can see the context.
There is that supremacist paternalism that I was talking about.
This is exactly why Western “leftists” are either useful idiots (E.g. Varoufakis, who otherwise has very good ideas and a modern leftist worldview) or collaborators with the russians (Corbyn).
I am just highlighting how this comes off as.
The gall to assume I am just making shit up because I hate daddy Corbyn. Not mention thinking that our Ukrainian-language media (and even english language media run by Ukrainian diaspora in places like Canada) lack integrity to validate such reporting.
Height of arrogance, racism even.
I don’t even need to do a web search to write out these points. Who would have thought that in a country being invaded by russia for 11 years out of its 34 years of independence, the media would report on Western leaders collaborating with russians?
Or do you think we are all dumb eastern european sour cream n1ggaz who don’t have journalism?
You can look up the sources for the abovementioned points, it’s not difficult. Or assume I am lying, whatever works for you.
Nah, you talk big but you can’t even state Corbyn’s idiotic position on the full scale invasion of Ukraine without looking it up first (if you actually knew, you would have brought it up because it makes a very specific reference for someone in the UK, it’s been parroted by other fake leftists too).
I don’t need to do a web search, because I know Corbyn’s position:
I don’t even need to do a web search for this, because this relatively common knowledge in Ukraine (among people who know who Corbyn is).
But sure, Mr. Arcane2077, who doesn’t even speak Ukrainian or russian claims to be more knowledgeable than someone who lives in Ukraine and where collaboration with russians by scum such a Corbyn is widely reported.
Own your ignorance my man, don’t keep digging into the hole of stupidity that characterizes your knowledge of the relevant issues.
Keep playing dumb. You don’t even speak Ukrainian (or russian) and you’re acting like some sort authority with you “opportunity to fact check yourself”.
You don’t know jack shit (and we both know this). Keep pretending otherwise. 😄
It’s true, Corbyn worked with a RT, a russian propaganda service that’s managed by russian intel services.
Corbyn is one the largest promoter of russian propaganda narratives about “NATO is responsible for the invasion”.
Corbyn’s fake-peacenik organziation recognized Crimea as part of russia.
Even russians know it’s not true (about NATO), their sole goal is to manipulate ignorant, fake-leftists like yourself. You’re justing how ignorant you are.
It’s literally written in their key doctrinal text on foreign policy operations.
You don’t speak russian (or Ukrainian) and you’ve never lived in Ukraine or russia. You’re just a fake leftist who is in it for aesthetic reasons.
This is a very soviet way of thinking.