#on: ukraine

[unwilting]

The reversal in Russian politics towards the growth of domestically funded regional markets and away from Western-dominated investments was an unacceptable demonstration of sovereignty. Longer term, weakening Russia serves as a prerequisite for United States aspirations to go to war with China, to contain and suppress its growth, to keep it in a lowly state of dependence and as a source of inexpensive labor.

Just this month, this same columnist published a new article, the first in a series, on the United States New Cold War (dubbed Era of Great Power Conflict). This article complains the US is not ready to invade Taiwan, a province of China being fueled and groomed for another proxy conflict in the coming years. These sorts of articles may appear to pour water on the United State’s prospects in China, but the reality is that they continue to the process of manufacturing consent for these wars, and serve to boost investment and funding to the Military Industrial Complex. These sorts of articles and opinions erode the ability of the American public to resist the attempt to manufacture consent for present and future conflicts. They should be considered psychological war on the brains of your own citizens, with the frequency and intensity they have been used with since early 2022 at least (really the last 75 years). A real journalist and media company would throw a little caution in their words as the United States engages in nuclear brinkmanship with two nuclear armed countries. Instead, they tow the line and take up the airwaves. Combine that with the corporate owned search and browser industries that decide what order search results pop up in to an extent, and the numerous ‘disinfo’ sites that are waiting to trap you if you search the right keywords, and even our brains are not sovereign.

We want diplomacy, negotiations, security guarantees and sovereignty established for everyone involved! It’s quite simple, we don’t want perpetual war or nuclear annihilation. We want a new world order that respects the UN charter, focuses on win win cooperation, and solves the world’s most pressing issues, together. Poverty, education, climate change…all solvable problems with understanding and cooperation.

The only thing we want to go to war with is poverty, climate change and hunger.

[witchlinda]

Taisiia Onofriichuk from Ukraine performs her hoop routine to the sound of "Thriller" by Michael Jackson at the 2024 Paris Olympics Rhythmic Gymnastics Individual Qualifiers

[moon000e]

Heyyyy… thats hatsune miku from donetsk region in ukraine!

[gaesnek]

So russian and belarusian athletes are banned from competing under their countries' flag for the war in Ukraine but Isreali athletes are still allowed to compete under Isreali's flag despite Isreal's genocide being 4 times as deadly as the Ukrainian invasion?? Fuck Isreal. Fuck Russia. Fuck the Olympic Committee. Free Palestine. Free Ukraine.

[ayo-edebiri]

[folklorespring]

Obsessed with how Yaroslava Mahuchikh was power napping in her sleeping bag every second between jumps. Female urge to cocoon yourself.

[mysharona1987]

You just know the NYT has a “style guide” for this sort of thing.

Maybe someone there should get fed up and leak it.

[w0lp3rtinger]

"- I have a lot of problems with Biden. He is clearly the better of the two options, which I recognize is a very low bar. Being better than Trump cannot be the standard, because Donald Trump is the absence of a standard.

"But the truth is, even if Trump looses, that won't be the end of this. The people who cooked up Project 2025 will just move onto Project 2029 instead, because for them, this is so much more than just one election, or indeed, one candidate. Project 2025 is born from impulse as old as America. It's an impulse that says one class of Americans is entitled to lead, and the rest of us are lucky to be allowed to serve- that thinks there should be a limited government when it comes to rules they have to live by, but also a unitary executive to keep the rest of us in line. These are old, old ideas that have been shouted from podiums-... but have now been placed into a new handbook for an only too willing president to use on day one.

"And in a perfect world, I would love if we had an opposing party better able to articulate a strong defense of our country's ideals and that also consistently lived up to them. People are entitled to hope for more from the next four years than someone just not being Trump (and for at least two supreme court justices to die)-...

"And for anyone tempted to think, 'Well, we survived Trump's first term,' first, not everyone did, and it should hopefully be very clear by now a second Trump term really does promise to be far, far worse, because if Trump's first term was defined by chaos, his second could be defined by ruthless efficiency. That should be troubling to absolutely everyone because Project 2025 is a movement who's members joke about wanting a white homeland and insist women have to have more babies to uphold western society.-

"We need to be better than this."

-John Oliver, June 19th of 2024

[peterokii]

ressource thread !!

[pengychan]

"Oh the media being biased/silent on Gaza is a conspiracy theory"

I am a literal journalist and this is what happened when I pitched an article to a magazine I write for:

We covered conflict before. We denounced PMs' positions as wrong before. But this is where the editor balks - anything that makes it look even vaguely like we might, possibly, support Gaza. Even if the article itself would not have been an opinion piece, but a news feature about events on the ground.

We have free press, baby! But avoid the matter entirely if you can. It's delicate and depressing, why would you talk about it? Don't rock the boat. Be quiet. You don't need to go there.

Self-censorship is alive and well.

[unwilting]

According to Oleksiy Kuzmenko, “The advance of the Intermarium is seen by Azov as an integral part of the long-term strategy of Reconquista, which is meant to bring together nations of European origin globally under the [white supremacist] banner of reclaiming land and culture.” Reconquista is the name of Azov’s broader geopolitical project, also coordinated by Olena Semenyaka, “to create our own Right International,” as she described it, and “defend the white race.”

[greencarnation]

"ukraine invasion" vs "israel-hamas war" hm. something something wording and western media bias and propaganda

[bloodfreakcastiel]

[robotpussy]

the white western world believes the famine and death of black and brown people is integral and natural to our existence and that is why there is such little care and disregard, ignorance and eagerness to portray palestine and sudan as anything but genocide

[justsmth2]

how are we feeling about first tmagp hiatus?