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Re: Ukraine crisis

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2022 10:16 pm
by Watchman
I’m surprised the Ukraine’s biggest supporter hasn’t been riding on the coattails of their current successes, because there’s nothing in it for him personally

Re: Ukraine crisis

Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2022 11:45 am
by davidjay
No worries, Damo's got their backs.


Re: Ukraine crisis

Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2022 6:30 pm
by kreuzberger
The story of Snake Island and “Russian warship, go fuck yourself” is told compellingly today by The Guardian's Luke Harding. It's compelling stuff.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... ake-island

Re: Ukraine War

Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2023 9:04 pm
by kreuzberger
Admittedly, I am no great fan of war.

It makes mince of far more decent men, women, and children than it does of ratlike thieves and miscreants. It is a hateful business by any measure.

And here we are in the first week of 2023. Ukraine is enjoying an, at best, optimistic flavour of ascendancy, losing "only" nine good men to ten provincial panel-beaters and rural plumbers of the other side. The aggressor is landing too few Shahed-powered blows to make much of a strategic difference, apart from a slow flow of cumulative tears

This is where I am torn; my hourly doom-scroll though Twitter throws up, (I choose my words carefully), of Russian bodyparts and accompanying gloating. Can we even begin to appreciate what that footage smells like? Do a thousand back stories and infinite widows' agonies even register?

This war will ebb and flow. The consensus is that Russia will muster more concerted firepower within the next week or two, and only a fool would consider that they won't retaliate with some of the most appalling footage imaginable.

Pushed to call it, it would suggest that the Ukrainians will double down with their resistance but I don't think that a perennially broken Russia is the answer.

Re: Ukraine crisis

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2023 5:23 pm
by Youngian
CoE infested with cancel culture. What a charming line up.

Re: Ukraine crisis

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2023 6:00 pm
by Abernathy
Georgie is right fond of the word “lickspittle”, isn’t he? Should be sent back in time to the 18th century, where he could also wear his fuckwit stupid hat to his heart’s content.

Re: Ukraine crisis

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2023 6:02 pm
by Malcolm Armsteen
Abernathy wrote: Mon Jan 09, 2023 6:00 pm Georgie is right fond of the word “lickspittle”, isn’t he? Should be sent back in time to the 18th century, where he could also wear his fuckwit stupid hat to his heart’s content.
Likes lawyers, too - until it comes to putting his hand in his pocket...

Re: Ukraine crisis

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2023 8:16 pm
by Yug
One assumes that whoever took the original booking didn't realise it was for a swivel-eyed anti-Semitic Putin apologist and his odious chums, and when the line-up was announced the Parochial Church Council couldn't refund the money quick enough.


Note to Garglewax, and other peddlers of filth:

Your right to freeze peach doesn't mean other people are required to give you a platform. They are free to say no fuck off and die in a fire you disgusting little Putinist lickspittle* lapdog.


* Gorgeous George doesn't have the word trademarked or anything, and it certainly applies to Putin's poodle.

Re: Ukraine crisis

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2023 9:10 pm
by The Weeping Angel
Youngian wrote: Mon Jan 09, 2023 5:23 pm CoE infested with cancel culture. What a charming line up.
Special shout out to the vile David Miller a man who once claimed that an interfaith meeting Muslims and Jews was a Zionist plot to brainwash Muslims.

Re: Ukraine crisis

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2023 10:37 pm
by Malcolm Armsteen
Youngian wrote: Mon Jan 09, 2023 5:23 pm CoE infested with cancel culture. What a charming line up.
Clare Daly
Irish politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Ireland for the Dublin constituency since July 2019. She is a member of Independents 4 Change, part of The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL. In the 1980s Daly was a member of the Labour Party as a teenager but was expelled alongside other members after being accused of being Trotskyists infiltrating the party using the tactic of entryism. She was subsequently a founding member of "Militant Labour", later known as the Socialist Party.

Michael Wallace
Irish politician and former property developer who has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Ireland for the South constituency since July 2019. He is a member of Independents 4 Change, part of The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Wexford constituency from 2011 to 2019. Entering politics in 2011 following the post-2008 Irish economic downturn, Wallace was almost immediately considered to be one of the most eccentric and unconventional figures in Irish national politics. Establishing a reputation for anti-establishment and populist views... He soon aligned himself with Clare Daly, forming a political duo still operating as a unit today.

Max Blumenthal
American journalist, author and blogger who is the editor of The Grayzone website, which is known for spreading conspiracy theories and engaging in denial of atrocities committed by dictatorial regimes. He was a writer for The Nation, AlterNet, The Daily Beast, Al Akhbar, and Media Matters for America, and has contributed to Al Jazeera English, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. He has been a writing fellow of the Nation Institute. He is a regular contributor to Russian state-owned Sputnik and RT, and has been accused of spreading Russian propaganda.

Anya Parampil
Journalist on Bluementhal's 'news' website The Grayzone. The Grayzone is known for misleading reporting and sympathetic coverage of authoritarian regimes. The Grayzone has denied human rights abuses against Uyghurs, promulgated conspiracy theories about Venezuela, Xinjiang, Syria and other regions, and promoted pro-Russian propaganda during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

George Galloway
aka Gorgeous George Garglewax. Copper-bottom cunt.

Chris Williamson
Notorious anti-semite Corbynite, expelled from the Labour party. The turd that won't flush.

Andy Hudd
Vice president ASLEF and all that entails...

Peter Ford
Ex-diplomat, Arabist. In 2016, he suggested opposition forces were responsible for an attack on a UN humanitarian convoy in September 2016 which led to the deaths of 10 humanitarians. A UN panel of inquiry said the attack was conducted from the air, and only Syrian and Russian air forces were operating in the area. The UN panel stated "that it did not have evidence to conclude that the incident was a deliberate attack on a humanitarian target". He accused the British government of lies and political mistakes in Syria from the start of the uprising, thus aggravating the situation. He argued that Prime Minister David Cameron should have either committed British forces or refrained from encouraging opposition forces from mounting a campaign against the Syrian government. Ford believes that the British leaders expected an early end of the Syrian government and overestimated the strength of the moderate opposition, whom they did not provide with sufficient help. Ford argued that the fall of Assad would open a "Pandora's box", repeating the mistakes of Libya and Iraq. In his opinion, the fall of the Syrian government would lead to the massacres of Christians, Shias, Alawites, Druze and other minorities.

Lowkey (Lo-Ki - geddit?)
Kareem Dennis (born 23 May 1986), a British rapper and activist from London. He is a vocal opponent of Zionism and is a patron of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. He characterises Zionism as colonialism and ethnic cleansing. Lowkey has been a prominent member of the Stop the War Coalition and has spoken against the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In May 2017, Lowkey endorsed Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in the 2017 UK general election.

David Miller
British sociologist whose research and publications focus on Islamophobia and propaganda. Miller was Professor of Sociology at the University of Strathclyde (2004–2011) and the University of Bath (2011–2018) and was Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Bristol (2018-2021). He is the co-founder and co-director of the non-profit company Public Interest Investigations (PII), which runs two projects, Spinwatch and Powerbase. One of his lectures at the University of Bristol led to complaints, including from students, with allegations of antisemitism and the spreading of conspiracy theories. Although Miller was, according to Jonathan Cook in Mondoweiss, cleared of the allegations, a further investigation was launched as a result of comments he made about both Israel and Jewish student groups. The investigation found that Miller's comments were not unlawful but his employment by the university was terminated in October 2021 because it was deemed he had not met the standards of behaviour expected of staff.


What a lovely bunch...

Re: Ukraine crisis

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2023 10:58 pm
by Spoonman
Daly & Wallace are regarded as national embarrassments to most people in Ireland. All being well they'll have their arses tossed out of the EU Parliament in next year's elections.

Re: Ukraine crisis

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 8:00 am
by Watchman
I would have thought that Mr Hudd had more immediate issues to deal with

Re: Ukraine crisis

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 10:23 am
by Youngian
Miller and Williamson’s Iranian TV show welcoming opportunities to weaken the relative power of US imperialism.

Re: Ukraine crisis

Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2023 10:26 am
by RedSparrows
Meanwhile, from someone who is both actually intelligent and who actually gives a shit about the actual problem in the actual war and the actual cultural degredation of it all:

https://www.noemamag.com/the-true-story-of-z/

Etkind is a very good Russian academic-in-exile, long one of the genuine (in my view) 'crossover' academics - being Russian, but with a more interpretive bent than a fair amount of Russian academia, which is a bit more... regurgitative, shall we say.

Re: Ukraine crisis

Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2023 11:04 am
by Andy McDandy
Yesterday Hitchens used his column to argue that we have no business with Ukraine. As expected, every mouth breathing armchair general weighed in below the line. However, this stood out:
Thethingis.., Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom, 7 minutes ago

Putin has caused such havoc in the world, it's time we all got together and removed him!
Surprised they didn't say we should "just get a man in to sort it out".

Re: Ukraine crisis

Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2023 10:05 pm
by Youngian
Finger on the pulse

Re: Ukraine crisis

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2023 9:20 am
by Watchman
Hope he’s not had too many meetings with “The Saviour of the Western World”

Ukraine deputy minister sacked for alleged theft of $400,000
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/ ... SApp_Other

Re: Ukraine crisis

Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2023 6:13 pm
by Watchman
My black humour was not appreciated today; I merely commented on the irony of the rest of Europe asking the Germans to send in the tanks

Re: Ukraine crisis

Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2023 7:23 pm
by kreuzberger
Watchman wrote: Wed Jan 25, 2023 6:13 pm My black humour was not appreciated today; I merely commented on the irony of the rest of Europe asking the Germans to send in the tanks
An irony not lost on Germany but that sort of irony which doesn't elicit a wry smile.

The thought of tanks rolling over Ukraine and potentially Belorussia are close to unbearable, especially for those living with or within a generation of the bitter shame.

Edit; yes, the whole role-reversal thing is readily understood, but it doesn't cut much ice. Putin, cunt that he is, hasn't come close to the German national-crime during the Nazi-era, so it all comes down to whataboutery.

As for Wagenknecht (ex-Die Linke leader), I used to have a great deal of time for her but she is becoming Galloway in a frock. She is being branded "extremely divisive divider and an agitator", and the Berlin faction is distancing itself from her latest anti-NATO ravings.

Fuck knows what she is trying to achieve. It's not as if Putin's mates in the AfD are going to line up behind her.

Re: Ukraine crisis

Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2023 3:49 pm
by mattomac
The more I read about Germany post war the more it makes sense, but you can’t really put it down in a 250 word tweet.

As for Boris Johnson, he would help himself if he didn’t time every single visit when he has some scandal back here, like just once Johnson.