"Remember lads, if you're seen make sure to get back here so they can follow you to our position."
South Africa might as well be a failed state at this point. Nice for the theme-park tourists though.
Maybe the difference this time was this was a specific vote to kick (rightly) Russia off the human rights council at the UN and well lets face it China have their own human rights abuses to put it mildly. So maybe that explains why they voted against rather then abstained.
It wont be just Ukrainians, there'll be groups lining up to finish them off.
I really don't know how things are going to work out but it's the kind of thing that makes me think the last 20 years were a slow-burning culture war, and not in the "traditional" American sense.
An example I use is Hong Kong. Til 97 they had democracy and their own identity. The Brits pussied out completely and left them to it. Now we see the universities toing the Chinese line and ignoring Tiananmen Square. People might just realise that those institutions who shouted loudest turned their back and allowed history to be erased.
In the West we're seeing the same nonsense, spurred on by Russia (and China to some extent). Control, coercion, tough ****. I just wish people would cop on with their left/right nonsense. The truth is the truth. Look at the time and effort people put into discussing giant people who spent 20 years as a male being allowed to compete against women. And you're a bigot if you disagree. Family Guy had a great line about gay marriage. "I thought that was illegal?" "Nah just all of history until 5 months ago" :D I don't give a **** either way but for someone to even say it's a bit weird to them and they're not welcome on "the left". Take centuries of status quo and change it and just expect that everyone will think "Ah yeah that's normal". The right wing in America love this nonsense because it distracts people while they set up an even more corporatist version of China/Russia. The Right tend to be opportunistic with these things. And the Left have their usual issue of allowing perfection to be the enemy of good. We kinda see it with Daly, she's got her side and anything else that deviates has to be twisted into something about a completely unrelated subject. We're going through our own post-truth process and it'll not take much for us to go all the way with it.
Semi-random question, might have asked something similar earlier in the thread, anyone god any guides to the Russian revolution? One thing that strikes me is there's talk of the soviets (as in the councils) being one thing and the Bolsheviks being separate. Who were these soviets? Were they just a proxy? Did they merge?
Shame on South Africa for voting against it. Apartheid is not all that long ago and they vote against kicking Russia off the human rights council. Not a good look at all. Fair play to Hungary for doing the right thing and voting yes even if Orban and his government are detestable to say the least.
Fantastic to see!
Drone following a Russian soldier back to his position, they even take shots at it.
2 Irish diplomats asked to leave Moscow embassy. This is our excuse, if one was needed to kick out at least 20 of the staff in the russian embassy in Dublin
I can seriously see the Ukrainians setting up a mossad style death squad to hunt down the perpetrators. Might take years to get them all, but I think they will.
Council of Europe
Sorry I should have been more clear. I'm embarrassed that we actually have idiots in our population that vote these cretins into these positions. I hope our Ukrainian friends don't take them too seriously or as an indicator of a substantial opinion within the Irish populace.
Discoveries in Bucha getting more gruesome by the day
Bit late when they've been kicked out already, what was the other one they were kicked out of but Russia decided to leave?
Trotsky and Lenin a hundred years ago were under taking a mass slaughter and terror in the Ukraine.
Pool of pro-Russian tv presenter in Italy
If Russia need to stock up, I havent seen many loses of Russian mobile Crematoria on Oryx
Russia have announced that they are withdrawing from the UN Human Rights council ahead of schedule. I presume that is so the domestic media can tell the uninquisitive inmates the news.
Agreed. Their huge losses have also been widely discussed on Russian social media- contrary to the belief of many in the west. It's not as if Russians don't know about it. If anything it seems to reinforce the view that NATO is responsible and to strengthen support for the military to push on and get the job done.
Another Ward Carroll Video - In it he, and his guest examine some of the Russian Released footage of their Airforce - And are able to draw some conclusions from it
I seen a Google map with all their passport details and home locations. Apparently Estonian hackers got the data.
Edit - map in twitter link.
https://twitter.com/EerikNKross/status/1511821203304030210?t=sgHL_v3dT9KBetKYQ1Uy7w&s=19
Looks like his missus with her man-shoulders is wearing the whole 100kg of clothes like Joey in Friends.
This has been widely reported by the Russian media by the way (no attempt to cover up what he said to a foreign TV channel). I guess they're preparing the way for issuing a much higher official number.
The Ukrainians are now identifying the guys who looted and sent stuff back home.
He also said that one of the goals of the "special operation" was to prevent the Third World War.
Start a war to stop a war ...
"Huge tragedy for us". A huge avoidable self inflicted tragedy that will worsen you utter twat.
We all already know it, but still a big admission by Russia:-
No sure how it's to prevent WW3 though? But then again does Russian propaganda ever make sense - nope.
And he's a thundering gobsh1te into the bargain.
Actually yes was surprised they didn't abstain.
What's embarrassing for our country and makes you ashamed of them in regards to the list? Ireland voted "for"!
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