https://mobile.twitter.com/NikaMelkozerova/status/1498787870567550980
https://mobile.twitter.com/JulianRoepcke/status/1498787212720287744
Later that night, in the center of Donetsk, we sat down for dinner at a Mexican joint called Kaktus that also serves sushi and pizza.
Genocide is defined in both the Convention Against Genocide and the Rome Statute.
It’s not genocide because the goal is not to exterminate Ukrainians, it’s to capture the city and win the war. It’s obviously still criminal, it’s just a different crime.
https://twitter.com/ArthurDelaneyHP/status/1498789434501873675
Why are we still buying oil from Russia?
I don’t think we are. I heard of a US bound Russian tanker that turned around. Also keep in mind that lots of businesses like Mastercard will voluntarily pull out because with SWIFT down they literally can’t get paid for services rendered.
swift sanction doesn’t stop payments
Yup.
RT mixed in legitimate content along with propaganda.
I’m a bit conflicted about merschimer. I’ll note that the guy you linked tried to dunk on him by posting a 2 min vid of merschimer where he pretty accurately describes the situation 5 years ago, which many of the commenters note.
The path of least resistance, harm, and death would perhaps have been Merschimer’s, but I’m glad the situation caused Putin to revel himself and his long term war against the west. Then again, I’m not a currently dead Ukrainian or a nuked American.
Putin is in some ways responsible for Trump, and not having another Trump in my lifetime is probably worth a limited WW3.
i just forgot that he died last year
China miscalculated how badly an invasion would play and put themselves in a difficult position. Of course their natural position is anti-west and supportive of whatever narrative is in opposition to the west, but I think it’s clear to the leadership that they fucked up and now have to back off and really push the “we just want them to talk” line.
There was some amusing and heavy “we got him” energy on Twitter regarding China saying they oppose the invasion of a sovereign entity etc … as if hypocrisy would ever give pause to authoritarian nationalists.
Shatner has always refused to comment on politics. Hard to say what his deal is.
It does to the extent that businesses don’t want to deal with suitcases of cash or crypto, which describes the majority of large western corps.
ok, well it doesn’t “literally stop payments for their services”
swift makes payments more reliable because banks instantly know if the account has enough balance. without it, there’s like 0.5-1% (wild ass guess) of payments that are declined or returned. it’s a pretty big cost for big banks, but the bank continues to work
I remember RT from that one 22 weirdo who would post yootoobes from RT. had no idea they had shows with actual D-list American celebrities, wtf.
Last week there was one (1) lady protesting at the Utah Capitol. Saturday there were maybe 100. Last night the Governor, who is a wishy-washy little fuck, spoke on the steps. According to local news, possibly over 1000 people showed up when even I didn’t know about it until it was happening.
That’s a Ukrainian flag atop the building on the right.