Yet now Poles almost unanimously say they see in Ukrainians “people like us”.
It is too easy to misinterpret this as being motivated entirely by sympathy for those who share the same ethnicity, culture or religion. But this unprompted outpouring of compassion and empathy is primarily moulded by geography and shared history.
Polish people are reacting to Russia’s assault on Ukraine as if they themselves were at war. These neighbouring countries of the region share a traumatic past and an anxious sense of themselves: their sovereignty feels fragile and nervously held.
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(Yahoo reprint)
The grift can’t really be that severe for russian military equipm…
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Why is none of this being reported on UK news shows today?
Indeed. Because it would expose Johnson for the entirely corrupt Russian-bought political asset that he is? But we all already knew that - but perhaps the masses have not yet realised it. It needs to be shouted from the rooftops.
ETA this also demonstrated how ‘bought’ by Russia our PM is.
@anon33176345 - I also heard that and could not decide if she had been brainwashed or was just driving trollies.
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Note that Kherson is an occupied city and there have been large anti-Russian protests.
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Trivia: Nintendo had delayed the release of the original Advance Wars in Europe and Japan after the 9/11 attacks. The game was released in the US on September 10th, 2001.
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I think you are charitable. Her motives seemed as clear as Putin’s.
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post can so be empty!
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And hugely dependent on oligarch money to prop up the City
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Yes. I have been alternately depressed, embarrassed, humiliated about my being a British citizen in recent years.
This latest wholly deliberate, vicious positioning re Ukrainian entry has at last made me ashamed to be British. I am ashamed of my country. I am ashamed of my government.
The British people want to be much more generous but have no way to make the government listen and act on that.
and Re James O’Brien’s comment (see LBC video earlier above) ‘did you see Kharkiv station - 1939 in colour’ - this from Marina Hyde rather nailed that one, too.
One of the things people often say when they see a colourised photo from the past is how vividly it brings history to life. The type of historical images we are more accustomed – and perhaps more inured – to seeing in monochrome are made breathtakingly new in colour, and this or that photo from the second world war is given such immediacy that it feels like something more relatable from our present.
Yet for the first time yesterday, I saw the technique work in the other direction. When an image of the vast and desperate crowds at Kharkiv train station was flying around, an ITN cameraman posted the same picture but in black and white, and it instantly felt 10 times more arresting. Happening right now was a tableau straight from Europe’s dark past – thousands of tightly packed people massed on a station platform and trying to flee, vastly outnumbering the available train space. Perhaps we know best how to read this picture when we literally see it in black and white.
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Or, as Beau put it, “Ukraine has gained superiority in surface-to-air tomatoes, Russia cannot catch-up.”
I love puns, even in the face of horrible events, no, especially in the face of horrible events. 
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Art of STEEL did not immediately return Motherboard’s request for comment.
Yeah, Vice journalist, I think they have other things to focus on right now.
Also:
ETA: this was supposed to be a reply to @mr_raccoon . No idea why it didn’t link
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Any Russian with common sense and the resources/privilege to get out is wise to do so before Putin’s gangster regime takes the next logical step and closes the exit doors. Now that they’ve set out on this course it’s only a matter of time before the country returns to its traditional status as “the prison of nations”.
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Thread:
Short version for non-twitter users (also posted by AnarchoWabbit)
Russia are not the voice of anti-fascism, despite what the tankies say.
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Are these the Ukrainian biological weapons that Putin’s henchpeople are telling us about? No wonder they are afraid of them.
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The life of a Repo Man is always intense.
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