And we’ve been ignoring this and letting it happen… this is what angers people about our actions on the world stage. 
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Is that Patrice Lumumba?
Nvm. I googled it. Yeah, it is.
We did a really good job fucking up the Congo for multiple generations, didn’t we?
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Yeah, Lumumba…
There are a number of countries we could substitute for Congo there, too… 
But I’ll stress, that just because we’ve been imperialist assholes doesn’t mean Russia has some clean slate or that others should not hold the responsible for their own imperialist actions. I do understand why some would back Russia over the US, though, and until we can come to terms with that and change our behavior as the global hegemon, then that will be exploitable by other upcoming or wanna-be hegemons.
We should all stop striving for hegemony, is what I’m saying…
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Apparently (just reported on BBC2’s Newsnight) that arsehole Orban has agreed that Hungary will pay for its Russian gas in rubles as per his master’s demands. The ruble apparently rallied on this announcement.
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I doubt that this will stop the false accusations from Labour right wingers, who would never do a thing like support Putin…
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Facebook today reported an increase in attacks on accounts run by Ukraine military personnel. In some cases, attackers took over accounts and posted “videos calling on the Army to surrender,” but Facebook said it blocked sharing of the videos.
Apple has restored an app sponsored by Alexei Navalny, a prominent leader of Russia’s political opposition, to the company’s Russian app store. Apple took down the app last September, days before Russia’s legislative elections, under pressure from the Russian government.
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Mayor Ivan Fedorov said that Russians began to kidnap teachers and lecturers of the Melitopol University and are trying to resume education under Russian dictate.
It is consistent with Russia’s publication on why and how to erase Ukraine:
Ukraine’s denazification operation, which began with a military phase, will follow in peacetime the same logic of stages as a military operation. At each of them, irreversible changes will have to be achieved, which will be the results of the corresponding stage. The necessary initial steps of denazification can be defined as follows:
Liquidation of the armed Nazi formations (understood to mean any armed formations of Ukraine, including the Armed Forces of Ukraine), as well as the military, informational and educational infrastructure supporting their activity;
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LePen has been polling well against Macron.
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What the!?
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Given the two-round system, people really need to rally around the candidate that’s third in the polls (Mélenchon) to stop that Fascist from getting into the run-off.
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The problem with that plan is that it will fail the second the right rallies around Le Pen. That’s how she gets those good second round polls after all. Betting that the left will be substantially better at rallying around a candidate who can’t win than the right is at rallying around one who can is optimistic.
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If you all loved your country so much you would stay the hell in it.
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That echos some other radical fundamentalist propaganda. 
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30 people killed, more than 100 wounded in Russian strike on train station in eastern Ukraine – reports
Ukraine’s state railway company say that more than 30 people have been killed and more than 100 were wounded after two Russian rockets struck Kramatorsk railway station in east Ukraine.The Donetsk governor, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said thousands of civilians were at the station trying to evacuate to safer areas of Ukraine when it was hit.
Reuters report that three trains carrying evacuees were blocked in the same part of Ukraine on Thursday after an airstrike on the line, according to the head of Ukrainian Railways.
Updated at 10.00 BST
The chair of the Russian aluminium company Rusal has called for an impartial investigation into the killing of civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, which he described as a crime.
In a rare public comment from a Russian firm on the conflict, Bernard Zonneveld, a Dutch national, did not say who was to blame for the deaths of civilians in the town, instead urging an end to the “fratricidal” conflict.
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