When Ukrainians do that to russian athletes they're called evil, racist, unprofessional, and are harassed
When Irish are doing this to Israeli players they're celebrated and praised
The double standards are ridiculous
People who didn’t really know Greenland existed a year ago are now confidently explaining the strategic implications of a nothingburger agreement that basically just reaffirms the same agreement we’ve had since the 1950s
Putin didn't invade Ukraine because of NATO. He invaded because Ukrainians were proving democracy works.
Historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum puts it plainly: Putin looked at Ukraine's democratic movement and thought, "If they can do it in Ukraine, then people could do it in Russia. So I need to crush this."
That's the real threat Ukraine posed. Not missiles. Not borders. A working democracy next door.
Applebaum frames the war as a fault line between the democratic and autocratic worlds. Russia isn't just trying to take territory. It's trying to erase Ukraine as a nation, reduce it to a colony, and send a message to every country that the post-1945 rules of Europe no longer apply.
Those rules were simple: no invasions, no wars, borders don't change by force. Russia understood exactly what it was breaking when it crossed into Ukraine.
This is very clear: The AFD supports the Russian slaughter of Ukrainian civilians, and will favor the slaughter and conquest of other Europeans too.
No one can say they didn't know, or were not warned.
The “blowback idea” of 9/11 is believed because it is narratively satisfying. It feels like that should be why because it feels logical. But it really wasn’t true. Bin Laden really did just “hate us for our freedoms.”
I can't believe I'm defending George Santos here, but if you're going to have a website where people can bet on "Will George Santos go to the State of The Union", you're basically asking for George Santos to place a bet.
The convention of reporting historical box office in nominal terms makes no sense, it’s like saying Biden and Trump are the two most popular presidents of all time because they got the most votes
🚨🌳 BREAKING: Nottingham Forest reach verbal agreement to sign Liam Delap from Chelsea, here we go!
Fee around £45m as @JPercyTelegraph reported, medical booked and #NFFC ready to proceed with formal steps.
Delap said yes to Forest project after speaking to Oliver Glasner.
A possible romantic relationship between a president and one of his aides isn’t something the public needs to know about.
by Ken Starr and Newt Gingrich