Well feck it the issue has to be addressed at some point so may as well be now.
Russian invasion of Ukraine | Fewer tweets, more discussion
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
It's turned off and nobody expects it to be turned on again.
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I only hope they manage to find a way to contact the Freedom of Russia legion.
Stroke of military brilliance there. Can’t see anything bad happening by sending anti-war folks to man your trenches.
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The problem is that, given the state of Russian materiel, they can't pull the old "grenade accidentally went off" trick around the officers.
Some people with knives would make those goons' job a lot more challenging. They're cowards who gang up 2, 3, 4 on 1 against peaceful protestors. They deserve to get shanked with a rusty knife. The problem for the world is that Putin has all of the people likely to fight back physically on his side.
"Comrade, you dropped your grenade and lost the pin! Latrine duty for a week!"
“Comrade captain seems to have fallen on his bayonet!”
I am sorry for your loss and the circumstances you've found yourself in, but I am also in awe of the courage and resilience you are displaying. Many people must be taking inspiration from you, hope this all ends sooner rather than later.
Hope Putin is taken down from within before things start to escalate.
What happened at 18:03 ?
A man in his 50s assaulted him because "he didn't speak Russian". Obviously some nationalistic types do not like English speaking people on the streets. For some, Russia is not fighting their brothers the Ukrainians, Russia is fighting the West.
Yeah, pretty grim stuff to get randomly assaulted on the street during a live stream.
And for the only reason that you speak English.
They aren’t even making any attempt to save her either. That’s grim.
Incredible how highly Russia valued Medvedchuk. Russians again going back on their public commitments not to trade Azovstal POWs for him. That will go down badly in Russia:
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Dying at war is for the poor.
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Out of these 4824 a total of one person sought asylum and 36 temporary protection.
The whole country is going to the gutter pretty fast. Depressing stuff all around. Problem is they're drawing Ukraine to the gutter along with them.
Can you even seek asylum to avoid conscription?
No.
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Regular russians are against the war though. When the west will finally get that putin is only a reflection of majority in russia, we’ll be able to move forward properly with our policies on russia. It’s not putin’s war as they try to paint in some western countries.Tweet
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Girkin, who is one of the main opinion-makers for radicalized warmongers, talks about the treason somewhere in the Russian higher-ups.
No but yes.
3. The position can be summarized in the following terms:
a) Fear of prosecution or punishment for draft-evasion does not in itself constitute well-founded fear of persecution under the definition. Conversely, draft-evasion does not exclude a person from being a refugee. He or she may be a draft evador and a refugee;
b) There are cases where the necessity to perform military service may be the sole ground for a claim to refugee status, i.e. when a person can show that the performance of military service would have required his participation in military action contrary to his genuine political, religious or moral convictions, or to valid reasons of conscience;
c) Not every conviction, genuine though it may be, will constitute a sufficient reason for claiming refugee status after draft-evasion. Where however the type of military action, with which an individual does not wish to be associated, is condemned by the international community as contray to basic rules of human conduct, punishment for draft-evasion could, in the light of all other requirements of the definition, in itself be regarded as persecution:
d) A person whose refusal to perform military service is based on genuine religious, moral or political convictions can also be considered a refugee, provided that the genuineness of such convictions and the likelihood of prosecution and sanction, or other treatment amounting to persecution, are established.
e) Assuming that the religious, moral or political conviction advanced is reasonably credible, and surrounding circumstances of the case do not argue otherwise, a draft evador of that description may be accorded refugee status even though the punishment be faces does not differ substantially from that meted out generally for this offence because of simple disinclination to serve.
this 100% harms, massive respect to you man. Caught between a rock and a hard place. Keep your chin up, and keep safe for fecks sake. Easy for armchair rambos to say you should do this or that. Do what's right for you and your family.
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You make out as if propaganda isn’t a thing. If the people with influence all day one thing, it convinces people that it’s the truth (see: Brexit)
Yakutsk. Couldn't be much further away from Ukraine, but more importantly perhaps, couldn't be much further away from Moscow.
Indeed it is.
But they were sure to drag her out of the way of the cameras into some kind of doorway.
To my mind. Those protesters are just as brave as the Ukrainian soldiers fighting against the Russian invaders.
That particular one was debunked really i think, but the queues are still there, not that bad yet though. Our police is monitoring and sharing the information with their Finnish colleagues in terms of people crossing the border also. It was covered in our news last night.
You concluded that from 2 tweets? Its not all black and white, especially since one video is concscripted people saying goodbyes to their love ones and the other is a queue in Yakutsk, long way from Moscow. Also add protests in a lot of cities and your post sounds wrong.
The queues have been 50-250m which is normal. Slightly more people crossing than a week ago but about 30% less than in 2019.
Many sources claiming that actual mobilization order is for 1 million people.
Seems like dissent is increasing all throughout the land.
Translation: Kadyrov for sending young people to war in Ukraine.
“You call people to go to Paradise, but you yourself do not go there. You don't want to die. You want to lie warm, eat delicious food and have fat conversations, ”Salah Mezhiev said.
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Translation: Kadyrov for sending young people to war in Ukraine.
“You call people to go to Paradise, but you yourself do not go there. You don't want to die. You want to lie warm, eat delicious food and have fat conversations, ”Salah Mezhiev said.