How well do they have to know Russian?
(Bert Kreischer looks around nervously)
A very nice Ukrainian folk song by some very nice Ukrainian ladies:
A rough translation of the lyrics:
Tanks were burning, smoking, and BTRs were burning,
Muscovites were standing around in complete stupor.
Bastards were burning, smoking,
local people ran up and started to help,
throwing diesel into the flames.
The orcs began to flee, running in shock to the forest.
Hunters were already standing there, they shot the swine-dogs.
In a bunker sat the dickhead, listening to news from Mama [Ukraine],
scratching his botoxed muzzle, why did he come to us.
We warn the Muscovites - we will beat them up,
and will burn all to the ground, whatever horde may come.
For me, her appeal to lift sanctions rings hollow due to all the grandmas and kids that are suffering in Ukraine due to incoming missiles, bombs, and artillery fire targeting civilian infrastructure.
For all of Putin’s talk about how Russians and Ukrainians are one people, he has done more to drive them apart since Stalin and the Holodomor.
Less sweet, but similar sentiment. And more in my wheelhouse.
(In case you were unaware, Jinjer is a Ukranian band.)
This report raises significant concerns about Credit Suisse’s compliance with the severe sanctions imposed by United States and its allies and partners on the architects and enablers of Russia’s brutal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine
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I don’t think it should be the GOP anymore. I think there should be a new party, just as the Republican party was new when Lincoln won.
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There is a huge difference between being wrong about certain human and civil rights issues and actually being fascist. That’s my point: when push came to shove, some Republicans went ‘hey, wait a second, that’s too far’ and actually pushed back.
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I love it when men tell me how to feel about politicians who vote against women’s rights. Puts me right in my place.
Some asshole spray painted a white Z on five power distribution boxes in central Kamakura (Kanagawa Prefecture, about half an hour from Tokyo.)
In other news, I am increasingly seeing キーウ (Kyiv) instead of キエフ (Kiev) in the Japanese media, with several government agencies using it as well. To put that in perspective, although it is written in kanji, Beijing is still called Peking in Japanese.
Unfortunately boycotts are always painful to ordinary citizens of belligerent countries by necessity, but can’t we all agree that stopping sales specifically of lifesaving cancer medicines to Russia is not an especially good way to exert pressure on Putin?
“This house is not a shelter anymore.”
Given that was posted the middle of December last year, that’s disturbingly prescient.
I’ll suggest each of them flips a coin then and picks a fascist militia on the resulting side. As long as they place themselves on the front line of the conflict it will increase the odds of an optimal outcome: fewer living German neo-Nazis.
One would think, given that many if not all neo-Nazi trends involve anti-european movements, that they would be more willing to support russia than Ukraine. Is what happened in USA, is what is happening in Spain: Though in public they say how horrible is this war and poor white european people that look like us are suffering, they are the first to vote against sending military help or santioning russia.
Yesternight, the first refugees arrived to El Retiro (a decently posh disctrict in Madrid). The neighbours went down to salute and applaud them: https://twitter.com/Guyb/status/1508520576868098048
These are the same people who publicly protested they did not want “unnacompanied foreign minors” in “their houses” when we tried to get support for syrian refugees.
