@vonderleyen@MarkJCarney@eucopresident Euro-Canadian economic and defense integration:
- NADO: North Atlantic Drift Organization
- NADA: ... Alliance
- NADU: ... Union
The NAD is a natural phenomenon that links Canada and Europe. Also a hint that the US (in NATO but not yet in NADO) drifts. Others want nada of that.
- Bridget Brink
Former US Ambassador to Ukraine about her resignation:
"I cannot stand by while a country is invaded, a democracy bombarded, and children killed with impunity.
The America I love, the one our grandparents served, would never stand by and let such horrors happen. Or give up helping our friends. Or appease the aggressor.
I resigned ... because the policy was to put pressure on the victim Ukraine, rather than on the aggressor, Russia"
Respect
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@blue_eyedKeti > russia positions itself as a deeply religious, primordial Christian nation that honors the Bible
Which is of course credible to Western idiots, due to USSR's longest stretch of anti-religion anywhere in recent history at 70 years, which was longer than their life expectancy.
@PorLaPatria1896@KyivIndependent It would be hilarious if Ukraine annexed Belarus and offered its independence in exchange for getting back Donbas and Crimea, plus 100 years of half of russian energy and minerals profits as partial war compensation.
FT Exclusive: A Russian online sabotage network was behind a series of arson attacks on Sir Keir Starmer’s family home and other targets linked to the UK prime minister, an FT investigation has found. https://t.co/QojC6ifRP2
@MthrSuperiorBen Maybe b/c of the servitude to and absorption of invading cultures, being dominated for centuries by the Golden Horde, Tatars, Ottomans. Moskva's quislings were aided by the hordes and beat more progressive Novgorod.
And being a bully is less effort than working for a common good
🔴 Four Ukrainian rescuers killed in Russian strike double-tap attack.
Ukraine's State Emergency Service rescuers Dmytrii Boyko, Danylo Tishchenko, Serhii Makovetskyi, and Vadym Zinchenko were killed and nine others injured during a secondary Russian attack on a civilian enterprise in Kharkiv on the night of June 15.
@UNESCO@UNESCO_kyiv "In the context of the physical escalation involving the body of the woman following the assault by the rapist, UNESCO condemns the reported punch that hit the woman's head, which is an important organ."
—Honestly, LLM trained on UNESCO communiqués.
@fbermingham Maybe we shouldn't let in Chinese cars, network gear, mobile phones? All these are means of surveillance. Not to mention, goods in general. If they support russia, we know which side they chose. What did Ukraine ever do to China?
@berlin_bridge russia takes every and all opportunity to prove how evil they are. They don't realize there's no need for further proof, we knew it since time immemorial.
Russia bombed the Dovzhenko Film Studio in Kyiv overnight, destroying Ukraine's largest costume archive, roughly 100,000 costumes and 3 million clothing items, built up over decades of Ukrainian filmmaking history. Gone.
This wasn't incidental. It's part of a pattern of strikes on Ukrainian cultural sites, alongside this week's hit on the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, that target memory and identity, not just infrastructure.
I hope the international film community responds loudly. And I'd add this: after four years of full-scale war, some Western festivals are quietly making room again for Russian films and "Russian perspectives." Whatever the intent, gestures toward neutrality in this context don't read as balance, they read as normalization.
To understand the scale of today’s Russian crime against humanity’s historical heritage: it is the equivalent of bombing St. Peter’s Basilica in a war of conquest against Italy, or Notre-Dame de Paris against France, Westminster Abbey against Britain, or Aachen Cathedral.
I just watched priests trying to save crucifixes from a burning monastery.
This is what russia is destroying.
The Kyiv Lavra is one of the holiest Orthodox sites on earth. A UNESCO World Heritage site.
Moscow calls itself “Christian civilisation.”
It’s literally barbarism.