I remember two years ago standing in my office, discussing the crazy epidemic Wuhan, China was experiencing with my officemates, wondering how they were going to cope with it.
Never once imagining what was coming, including, for me, a layoff.
Now, we’re discussing crazy events in another far-off city, Kiev, Ukraine, wondering how they’ll deal with it.
Suddenly, it occurs to me that maybe I should be wondering what’s coming for me here.
Nice. If they’re mixing styrofoam in, that’s a bit more napalm-y than a straight Molotov cocktail.
https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/from-molotov-cocktails-to-blocking-stree-idUSRTS5Z24K/1593095825 via @Reuters
I remember somebody with a lot of followers (including me, at least, at the time) On Here a year or two ago snickering disbelievingly about the connection between anti-vaxxers, Putinistas, and election conspiracy-theorists.
https://www.politico.eu/article/finland-nato-membership-sanna-marin-ukraine-russia/
«A citizens’ initiative to hold a referendum on whether Finland should join NATO gathered the required 50,000 signatures in less than a week, which forces parliament to debate it.»
https://twitter.com/SanaSaeed/status/1498076694380437506?s=20&t=XgGkBl5tfDGeBe-PhOSgOA
This doesn’t seem good.
Sana Saeed (@SanaSaeed) Tweeted: “We are together: the Moroccans, the Arabs and the Blacks. On the other side, (are) the Ukrainians. A bus arrives every 15 mins to pick them up and us, every 4 hours. They choose who will ride. The borders are not far, they are about 100m away”
https://twitter.com/iyad_elbaghdadi/status/1498201449297321986?s=20&t=aIE65WIaUkbK2kKS3I-H7g
https://twitter.com/GoharHayrapety1/status/1497974158105456650?s=20&t=aIE65WIaUkbK2kKS3I-H7g
Ä°yad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي (@iyad_elbaghdadi) Tweeted: Who else is seeing something really ugly lurking underneath all the talk of the “civilized West”? War is bringing back a euphoria of standing up for principles, but is also bringing a lot of darkness to the surface
https://twitter.com/FranklinH3000/status/1498116398228381699?s=20&t=Fu_Y6HjW4M84ay8IXejacw
I’m not going to remember what I meant in 6 months, but:
MAN. We’ve been outdone by Europe again. The best we could come up with was Barack Obama. (Well, and Al Franken.)
I couldn’t help but laugh.
Franklin Harris (@FranklinH3000) Tweeted: I had to check these weren’t Photoshops. Zelenskyy really made a movie called “Corporal vs. Napoleon.” This war was pre-memed.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/02/26/world/ukraine-russia-war
Obviously, I don’t know how to New York Times. Better link:
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/europe/100000008230025/ukraine-volunteers.html
So, the Snake Island 13 and the old woman telling Russian soldiers to put sunflower seeds in their pockets was hard core, but this… She’s crying but she’s still going to point the weapon downrange at another human and pull the trigger. She might be afraid, or mourning her own impending death, or the death of a 19-year-old Russian soldier, but she’s still going to do it, and THAT’S hard core.
P.S. who knows how long this link will show the crying schoolteacher.
No. China is Russia to Taiwan’s Ukraine, not Ukraine to Taiwan’s Donbas. We are returning to the old days of imperialism and geopolitics with “spheres of influence”.
«On the other hand, the fundamental geopolitical dynamics underlying Putin’s invasion of Ukraine are anathema to sovereignty-obsessed Beijing. Just imagine Taiwan declaring independence like the separatists in Donbas and turning to a sympathetic nuclear superpower for recognition?»
How long before we resume our forward & upward path of democracy, human rights, and capitalism (in the form of free trade, as opposed to rent-seeking, crony capitalism, and kleptocracy)? Overblown language, but I feel it.
