This is what autocracy looks like:
US Senator Jeff Merkley asks Trump's pick for ambassador to Canada, if he believes in freedom of speech. He does.
Merkley then asks if people inside Canada should be able to disagree with the Prime Minister of Canada. He agrees.
Merkley then asks if people inside the US should be allowed to say something Trump disagrees with, and you can immediately sense, that the ambassador gets uneasy, because in an autocracy, that is not allowed.
Russia has a hard time fighting 1 country in Ukraine.
Today military leaders from 30 countries meet in London to form the coalition of the willing to help Ukraine.
United Kingdom has a standing military of 138,000 personnel. France has 205,000, Germany 186,000.*
Good luck spinning that as not a problem on Russian state tv.
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* Note: It is not yet known which countries are part of the coalition, but the point remains.
I find it quite amusing that the party which held signs saying โMass deportation now!โ at their rallies to illustrate their complete lack of empathy, is the same party which is now crying โHave empathy for Elon Musk โ he is losing his business!!!โ
Thoughts and prayers you guysโฆ thoughts and prayers. ๐
The Trump administration deletes evidence database documenting Putin's war crimes, including the abduction of thousands of Ukrainian children, thereby preventing the rescue of these most vulnerable victims of the war.
This Wired overview of historic dictatorships and modern day Trumpism and Putinism is impressively well written.
I learned a number of things I did not know, and I highly recommend it:
@npub1fzqk...zc8g do you agree, that if Russia gets to keep Crimea, it will set the precedent, that attacking other nations helps expand Russia; whereas if Russia loses Crimea, it sets the precedent that attacking other nations is costly and not worth it?
