Ukraine Always Get What You Want

I’ve found Yale’s Timothy Snyder’s online lectures on the making of Ukraine to be fantastic:

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNewfxO7LhBoz_1Mx1MaO6sw_

 

Twitter is sadly deficient in translation but here is a big deal in Deutschland: (I had to translate manually, YMMV on the vid.)

Alice #Schwarzer and I wrote a "Manifesto for Peace". For #Verhandlungen instead #Panzer . Starting today, anyone can join: http://change.org/p/manifest-fürmanifest-f%C3%BCr-frieden
We invite you to a rally at the Brandenburg Gate on February 25, 2 p.m. #AufstandfuerFrieden



Play it 4 or 5 times and you might grok it if you're a unilinguist.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/13/russia-diaspora-war-ukraine/


As Russian troops stormed into Ukraine last February, sending millions of Ukrainians fleeing for their lives, thousands of Russians also raced to pack their bags and leave home, fearing the Kremlin would shut the borders and impose martial law.

Some had long opposed rising authoritarianism, and the invasion was a last straw. Others were driven by economic interest, to preserve livelihoods or escape the bite of sanctions. Then, last autumn, a military mobilization spurred hundreds of thousands of men to run.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war has set off a historic exodus of his own people. Initial data show that at least 500,000, and perhaps nearly 1 million, have left in the year since the invasion began — a tidal wave on scale with emigration following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991.

Now, like then, the departures stand to redefine the country for generations. And the flood may still be in its early stages. The war seems nowhere near finished. Any new conscription effort by the Kremlin will spark new departures, as will worsening economic conditions, which are expected as the conflict drags on.

The huge outflow has swelled existing Russian expatriate communities across the world and created new ones.

 

questo fottuto tipo

Italy’s Berlusconi Attacks Ukraine’s Zelensky, Sparking a Storm in Rome

 

I won't know what to think until I hear from Taibbi.

 

Berlusconi, buddy of Putin and Trump. Appropriate place to drop in *vigorous jacking off motion*

 

This is a heck of a story.

 

Meanwhile, another NATO meeting.

Russia-Ukraine war live: fighter jet plans set to be on agenda as Nato defence ministers meet; Bakhmut under heavy fire

 

Yes, because Poland will just sit back and enjoy it.

Dutch F-35s intercept three Russian military aircraft near Poland - Netherlands' defence ministry

 

Ukraine taking a highly technical approach to defending its territory:

 

Those darn Russian windows.