NotSoGreatWestern

Dazed & Confused. How on Earth did we end up here?

[NotSoGreatWestern @so_western]

Heroiam slava!

[FrontlineMedics.Org @FrontlineMedic9]

Today, we celebrate the joy of Christmas with loved ones.

Unfortunately, for many Ukrainians, this Christmas has been destroyed by Russian criminals and their weapons.

This Christmas, many brave women and men will miss time with their families, as they serve on the front defending freedom for Ukraine and the rest of the world. Many families will have an empty seat because their loved ones have made the ultimate sacrifice for Ukraine.

This Christmas we recognize the soldiers and volunteers working tirelessly, remember those who have fallen, and pray for the families left behind.

Slava Ukraini!

[Old Gassy @OldGassy1984]

"So, Nigel, we want you just to walk along this road in the style of any completely normal human being."
"Completely normal?"
"Yes, that's right -- completely normal."

[Alan Brown @AlanBrownSNP]

Referring to Dunblane as “one murder” is a shameful distortion of one of Scotland’s darkest days.

16 children and their teacher were massacred in the UK’s deadliest mass shooting.

A stark reminder of just how out of touch Britain’s privileged elites really are.

[Oksii ✚ 🇺🇦 @Oksii33]

This message is for every person who still has imperialistic ambitions to control the internal affairs of other countries: go fuck yourself

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

Ronaldo screaming “I’m back” after two goals against Uzbekistan and then scoring one charity penalty before being knocked out of the Round of 16 again is my highlight of the World Cup unless he gets arrested later.

[Lars Sivertsen @larssivertsen]

The thing about mommy calling the school principal to get some special treatment for her special little guy is that it rarely works out all that well for the kid in the long run.

[Crushbarbarians @Nuancefactcheck]

This is actually insane.

"Putin throws his opponents out of windows."

"No, no, no...he's just really popular."

"Popular? Russia is in shambles."

"OH YEAH!? AT LEAST IT ISN'T UKRAINE!"

"... But Putin DID that to Ukraine."

"I blame Zelensky."

[NotSoGreatWestern @so_western]

@TouchlineX He's a very brave boy

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

In reality, Ukraine is the bastion of traditional values that Russia claims to be.

[Bosnian Football @BosniaNTBall]

My goodness, the stereotypes write themselves……🤷‍♂️ #FIFAWorldCup 🇧🇦🇺🇸

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

“They begged to have a picture with me.”

[Jessica Berlin @berlin_bridge]

Russia wins best own goal of the World Cup 🏆

[Cameron 🇺🇸 🗽🦅 @CameronCorduroy]

>renames it to the Department of War
>names himself the Secretary of War
>fights one war
>loses

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

Someone looked through an FPV drone camera, saw an elderly woman in a wheelchair, and decided to kill her.

An 87-year-old woman and her son were killed by a Russian FPV drone in Nikopol. Police are still working to identify a third victim.

[Kateryna Lisunova @KaterynaLis]

Very emotional moment from the interview with Zelenskyy. You should watch this.

JOURNALIST: Do you miss being an actor?

ZELENSKYY:?I miss being a good father.

JOURNALIST: When your children were little, what did you tell them the most? What was the thing that you told them the most when they were small?

ZELENSKYY: I love you.

JOURNALIST: And what do you tell them now that they're older?

ZELENSKYY: Oh, I miss you.

JOURNALIST: When was the last time you cried?

ZELENSKYY: I will try to do it after our interview. No, I mean this, between us. I'm a normal man and then there are a lot of different moments, between us, almost each day, a lot of losses on the battlefield and civilians, and there are absolutely crazy attacks on our people.

And I'm just, it's… I mean, It's very difficult really, when I give orders (medals). I said about it. It's always difficult for me when I give orders (medals) to the mothers and fathers, who lost their children. In such moments, really, I often cry.

JOURNALIST: Are you a hero?

ZELENSKYY: No.

JOURNALIST: So who is your hero?

ZELENSKYY:?My hero? My children, my army, our army, and Ukrainian people. So I'm a part… I'm also a Ukrainian, so I'm a part of our nation. But now our nation, I think, that our nation is absolutely heroic.

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

When Notre-Dame burned in 2019, the world stopped.

Today, Russia damages Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a monastery nearly 1,000 years old and older than Notre-Dame itself.

A thousand years of history deserves the same attention, the same sympathy, and the same protection.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

No, sweetie.

Donetsk was a city of a million roses when its own Ukrainian flag flew above it.

Back then, it was also the fastest-growing and most rapidly prospering city in Ukraine -- home to what was the finest regional airport in Eastern Europe, one of the world's best football stadiums, a state-of-the-art railway terminal, and one of the cleanest, best-maintained cities in the region.

Its elites were running Kyiv, and every time I visited Donetsk as a student, riding the famous trolleybus Route No. 2 through the city, I was amazed by how many new office buildings were appearing, how much money was flowing into the city, and how many international companies were opening their doors there.

Fifteen years ago, to us kids from Donbas, Donetsk felt like the center of the universe because it had everything one could possibly dream of. It was a young city of universities and libraries, where the overwhelming majority of boys and girls from across Donbas went to study, including those from my own small hometown an hour away by bus.

Names like Liverpool or Detroit Rock City may mean nothing to you, but our Ukrainian Donetsk was a city of great rock clubs and unforgettable concerts. We traveled there to see Western bands perform.

We bought rock merchandise at the legendary Right House store near Krytyi Market. Scorpions, Rihanna, and Beyoncé performed at the famous Donbass Arena. Schoolchildren from across Donbas were bused in to watch Shakhtar Donetsk matches. The city even had a famous monument to The Beatles.

It was a city where we sang songs on guitars in its beautifully maintained parks and along the Kalmius embankment before heading out to buy the famous "green Donetsk burgers." Our older friends moved there after graduation, formed rock bands, recorded full albums, and held wedding celebrations in the squares around Donbas Arena. We traveled there to visit the legendary Radio Market in search of films, music, and books.

And then you arrived.

And you turned the wealthiest, most prosperous Ukrainian city into a piece of shit.

You deceived many of its people with sweet promises of Russian oil-fueled prosperity broadcast from television screens, but what you brought instead was war.

You transformed a thriving city into a criminal wasteland ruled by ethnic gangs from Russia, into a kingdom of Stalinist terror straight out of the 1930s, complete with torture chambers in the infamous Izolyatsia prison camp. You turned the magnificent Donetsk Airport into lifeless gray rubble, while the vast stands of Donbas Arena have spent a second decade slowly being reclaimed by weeds instead of hosting Champions League finals and Metallica concerts.

You swept away an entire generation of the city's men through your forced mobilization and threw them against Ukrainian machine guns until there were barely enough people left to keep basic municipal services running. Because of you, prosperous Donetsk became a withered desert without reliable water, because your war destroyed the canal system that carried water from the Siverskyi Donets River into Donbas. For years now, people have lived with chronic water shortages and have been reduced shitting into plastic bags forever.

You dragged Donetsk back like seventy years in time. You turned it into a depressed backwater, devoid of hope and future. Even ten years ago, tens of thousands of people, the most active, the most talented, the most entrepreneurial, fled the city and found refuge in Kyiv and elsewhere in Ukraine. Many of them still remember our Donetsk with tears in their eyes, the Donetsk that existed before the arrival of the "Russian World."

You transformed it into something that even my pro-Russian acquaintances are shocked to see when they return after years of occupation.

It was you who trampled the million roses of our Ukrainian Donetsk into shit beneath the tracks of your tanks and the boots of your death troops, turning them into a foul swamp of death and despair.

And that stain will forever remain on the conscience of fascist Russia, which brings nothing but destruction, decay, and death wherever it goes.

[NotSoGreatWestern @so_western]

@RonFilipkowski Not the first time FIFA, Trump Tower, and corruption have come together. Any parrots involved?

[Mark O'Haire @MarkOHaire]

Alan Partridge tries to explain the format of the 1994 World Cup finals with the never-to-be-forgotten Soccermeter.

[𝖕𝖚𝖘𝖘𝖞 𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖙💦 @pussyrrriot]

Russia's greatest export remains death and destruction

This is what a city looks like after the arrival of the "russian world." Toretsk, Donetsk region

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

June 4 is the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression. It honours kids affected by war and violence. Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, at least 707 Ukrainian children have been killed. Behind every number is a child whose future has been stolen. Russia must be held accountable for these crimes.

@United24media