https://twitter.com/jackdetsch/status/1497590542993084420?s=21
Over 10000 protesters in Helsinki, 4000 in Turku and thousands in other cities here in Finland today.
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Point taken, but personally I think a bit of the “chuckle” factor implicitly comes from the assumption that Russians don’t like black people and all Real Russians know that.
https://twitter.com/samilindfors/status/1497542240817852419
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No, it really doesn’t, it comes from the fact that you don’t send someone who conspicuously doesn’t blend in somewhere as a spy, regardless of how much other training he has. But it’s a 50+ year old joke, at a time when there were probably about a dozen black people in the whole of Russia (point of clarification: this is hyperbole). The vast majority of Russians had never seen a black person - I was born in Moscow in 82 and I think the first one I remember seeing was when I was about 5 or 6. So it’s really not a joke about disliking black people.
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That thread Riverman posted and I commented on was debating whether the US was sending stingers. I think we know the answer to that now.
The West has clearly decided they’re not going to just let Putin take Ukraine w/o giving massive military support.
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The use of the word “Überfall” is remarkable because that’s the same word that is used to characterize Nazi Germany’s attacks on Poland, France and Russia.
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Thanks for this insight, appreciate it.
I mean when you see unarmed civilians standing in the way of tanks, how do you not get their back, right? The Ukrainian peoples’ incredible bravery and resolve is creating the window of opportunity for the West to help, and in combination with social media and camera phone video on the news, all but forcing the West to help. If Putin was able to take Kyiv as quickly as some thought, the West would almost certainly have backed down.
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Manchester City wearing No War shirts with Ukrainian flags, Everton players draped in Ukrainian flags.
https://twitter.com/footballdaily/status/1497625082012782593
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Yeah that’s what we all thought on Wednesday night. That it would be like the US invading Iraq - over before it started. But in retrospect a lot of things are different. Moral authority not being one of them.
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I thought Poland was run by the far right? Why do they hate Russia so much?
CNN citing US sources that more than 50% of Putin’s troop/equipment buildup is now deployed into Ukraine.
If the Ukrainians can hold this next wave off over the next 24-36 hours, that has to be a turning point, right?
Erm, not sure what they usually brew, but a shortage of vodka might end up being a bigger problem than a shortage of Molotov cocktails.
They normally brew beer.
Good thinking then. Nobody East of Berlin drinks that weak stuff anyway.