The Daily Mail is a right wing rage baiting piece of trash, they will always put the most "click inducing" thing in a headline, they only have so much space. Head shaving, finger breaking and dye throwing would get more clicks than a "boring" old stabbing. I think you need to look elsewhere for your agenda. Below is how a reputable paper headlines the story.
Oh and about your "eye roll" at what Clinton said, read this.
Also, it's predominantly read by women (but god only knows what goes in inside the minds of a Daily Mail editor)
Ironically, the article you posted from Snopes was exactly where I copy pasted the exact quote from.
What Clinton said is no less illogical because the United Nations voted on a resolution. Numerically speaking, she may have a point: more women and children may be "adversely affected" by war (since each father killed at the front logically is the father of one or more children and also leaves behind a partner or co-parent).
It's a stupid point though: being displaced, losing loved ones or even being raped, while horrible experiences, are not worse fates than being maimed or losing ones life on the battlefield.
Anyway, let's agree to disagree and not derail the thread further.
I had noticed that there seemed to be a lot of Russian groups on the deep state map in that area but I wasn't sure how accurate that was (For example Brigades and Divisions have the same icon even though they would typically be very different in size)
"It's a stupid point though: being displaced, losing loved ones or even being raped, while horrible experiences, are not worse fates than being maimed or losing ones life on the battlefield."
There are thousands and thousands of Ukrainian men prepaired to die or be maimed on the battlefield to prevent their loved ones being raped or murdered, think about this topic a little bit deeper.
And they're heroes (as are the women on the battlefield with them). But far more of them have died (and far more will die still) than the civilians they're defending (because they've done their jobs so admirably).
If you want to drink the victim-worshipping feminist koolaid that being displaced, losing a loved one or being raped is a worse fate than being blown to bits by a mine or artillery shell, you go right ahead, I'll stick to the rational world where the end of a life is a bigger loss than a trauma which can be recovered from.
Well I think/hope I would be willing to accept the "bigger loss" of loosing my life to prevent the "trauma which can be recovered from" raping of my daughter.
As for your "victim-worshipping feminist koolaid" comment, always remember, Strong women excite men and scare children.
Wasn't it Clinton who said 'All wars are caused by gangs of rabid, drug-addicted Smurfs running out of the jungles of Botswana with their arses blackened with shoe polish'?
Or have I confused my sources?
ive to re-evaluate my opinion of old papa smurf after reading that...always thought he was harmless
I know we won't know, we can only guess.
Was the blue spray or dye to represent a supporter of Ukraine?
Probably looks that way. There's an antiseptic spray known to livestock farmers as alamycin with a blue marker. It looks exactly like that.
In that part of the world they probably use it on Russians for medical use avoiding sanctions. The tormentors probably just had it to hand and used it on her to make their point of dehumanising.
The Russians call the Ukrainians, cattle so there could be that part too. Even though she's Russian.
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Russia must realise we aint going to fall for their sh1t right?
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Well that certainly has to be a redline for NATO, if russia blows up that plant it will really escalating things….seems inevitable at this point
Men are almost invariably the perpetrators in war and the cause of it, women almost always innocent victims, so I think Clinton is right. Male violence is the root problem.
As for the Daily Mail: the woman's injuries probably offered a "better" photo, so they ran with it
Obviously this could age badly, but there has been threats about somehing happening to the nuclear power plant every week for the past 1.5 years. Most of it is just clickbait.
A piece by retired Australian Army major general Mick Ryan.
(Mick Ryan is a strategist and retired Australian Army major general. He served in East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan, and as a strategist on the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff. He is also a non-resident fellow of the Lowy Institute and at the Washington-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies).
I guess it is more for Russian consumption than anything else. They may do something small and blame Ukraine.
I'd agree with that except for one thing: The destruction of the nova kakhovka dam. The western world has been roundly silent on the issue of the largest ecocide event to have occurred in recent history. Even going as far as offering Russia the benefit of the doubt on the issue while they "investigate". As though Russia deserve the benefit of the doubt anymore.
If there's one thing we can be certain of is that Putin takes advantage of grey zones. And so far there hasn't been a red line drawn underneath this issue. If the major NATO powers came out in unison on this issue ie..... "Mismanage or deliberately mess with the Zaporizhzhia power plant and you'll face dire consequences", then I'd be more confident.
Unfortunately they haven't barring a few US senators. I really hope I'm wrong. I really do. But I'm legitimately concerned on this one. Russia doesn't give a **** how much damage they cause or how many lives they take as they play their scorched earth tactics. Not even of their own country.
If there's a nuclear threat, I would be much more confident that it's America that will be sounding the alarm.
Or the radiation detectors
I don't see the benefit for Russia of doing this in terms of advancing their interests in Ukraine. It's been forecast several times that radioactive fallout would affect Russian soldiers and civilians just as much as it would Ukraine's, if not worse.
The only way I see Russia making this happen is if they know they're about to face a military rout and they blow the NPP as a way of salting the earth and metaphorically spitting on the floor before making a hasty retreat.
Even at that, propaganda about would be for an internal audience only. Every possible major international partner knows it would be Russia's doing. China may not mind doing business with evil, but it probably minds doing business with insane evil because insane evil is hard to predict and will happily cut off its nose to spite its face.
That's not to mention that back channel communications do happen. Only recently we heard that report about the CIA calling Moscow to reassure them that they had nothing to do with setting up the apparent rebellion staged by Wagner soldiers. That's not to mention that back channel deals happen on things like the grain and POWs. The sides do talk, and the USA will almost certainly have outlined to Russia what happens next if they blow the plant. We can remember back to what I'll call the 'Night of NATO' when NATO countries apparently conducted a huge series of coordinated aerial exercises across Europe. It was a big flex to Russia and a reminder of what's on hand to blow their Black Sea fleet out of the water if they try to get all WMD with it.
If Putin were to OK this, I think it would make pretty much of every aspect of his own life that much worse. The price on his head would increase tenfold.
I know Russia talks a lot of crap but just wondering if this is half true is it why there has not been another round of mobilisation in a good while?
Everyone knows Russia blew that dam, they're just not willing to get into a direct confrontation over it. The thing about blowing that dam is that the consequences of doing so are pretty much contained within Ukraine. The action was heinous and the consequences were terrible, but not a world ender. Until Putin threatens to do something that would spell disaster for the world or a large portion of it, I don't think direct confrontation happens. Blowing the NPP would be on the edge of this hypothetical collection of events, as it would likely spread a huge amount of fallout across a huge area.
I think your answer is in the first three words of that article...
Dmitry Medvedev claims....
One massive single explosion suggests that is a fuel dump.
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Ha good point.
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