😳 A Finnish woman visited Karelia — territory the Soviet Union once seized from Finland — and was shocked by the poverty and decay
That’s basically the essence of the Kremlin’s Soviet mindset: invade a successful country, sacrifice hundreds of thousands of lives, seize territory — and turn it into a depressing dump.
🧵 Mongolia: Police attack people peacefully protesting Putin's visit to the country. Mongolian government refused to arrest him in accordance with the International Criminal Court arrest warrant.
Since it was actually Putin's double, they shouldn't have been afraid to arrest.
This is one very clear example of the repercussions of the West's ongoing policy of appeasement of Russia.
Such fallouts resulting from our cowardice will start small and continue to grow in significance like a snowball.
https://t.co/eqTE0cGaMO
The West could have offered Mongolia concrete guarantees of protection against Russia for the fallout following the arrest of Putin's double, but as exemplified in Ukraine, the West has proven to be unreliable & untrustworthy for democracies threatened by dictators.
Mongols always stand on the side of freedom.
We stand with Ukraine.
Бид эрх чөлөөний талд тууштай зогсоно.
liberté
dignité
invincibilité
🇲🇳 #LibertéMovement
🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine