A whopping 20% of Maldives' exports are chips to Russia
These go into Russian missiles and drones to kill Ukrainians
Maybe dump them as a recipient of our assistance @EU_Commission and forget it as a tourist destination while we're at it
https://t.co/GEgEtT4BRn via @NikkeiAsia
Indeed.
Sorry for repeating: high time for the Allies to be serious on secondary sanctions, i.e. all-out.
Not to enact and to enforce them means more Ukrainian deaths.
All other considerations are anecdotal.
@RedCollectiveUK@jeremycorbyn you're joking, he enabled the bastards, they wouldn't have been able to destroy the country without his help. he voted with them to cause the damage and wreck the NHS. the revisionism from the old git supporters is comical
The longer Putin stays in power the more dangerous our world will be - the better the devil we know is a wise idea, but it doesn't apply in this case. Without Putin, the world is safer from conventional and nuclear escalation.
3/6
The demise of #Prigozhin, a genocidal mass murderer, shows the rot in Putin's regime.
Like any fascist state, there will only be hope when it ends. The fastest route to this is giving Ukrainians what they need to free their country.
34 countries in the world including US, France, Germany, Italy recognized the #ArmenianGenocide of 1915, that recognition also represents their commitment to prevent further genocides from happening, yet we are seeing NO ACTION but Armenian Genocide repetition
#SanctionAzerbaijan
As a descendant of the Armenian Genocide that occurred a century ago, I find the unfolding situation in #artsakh horrifying and inhumane. https://t.co/iz4OGsIDN2 Armenians face genocide in Azerbaijan, former ICC prosecutor warns
One wonders how corruption at this level, easily bought and paid for by well-connected Russians, helped convinced Moscow of all the things it could feasibly get away... https://t.co/MZEXhGU3oz
What is the connection between Tories & Russia, really? Putin's Russia is a criminal state, which wishes to see the EU broken up ... why would Russian oligarchs want to donate to the Tory Party? ... all so puzzling.