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Ukraine's Zelensky stays in power despite term expiring (www.bbc.com)

spoiler“He’s doomed to not be loved!” Never was there a more clear-cut case of “commentator’s curse” than when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was inaugurated on a sunny Kyiv day exactly five years ago. The TV narrator’s inference was that, after a landslide election victory with 73% of the vote, it could...

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I recall somebody saying how Ukraine is increasingly becoming more like the west, while the west is becoming more like Ukraine, and not in a good way.

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directly proving the point the comic is making

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was my thinking as well :) lemmygrad.ml/post/4642869

Ukraine war: what we know about the secret deal that could have ended the conflict in April 2022 (www.leparisien.fr)

“It was the best deal we could have had.” Two years later, a Ukrainian negotiator is still bitter: unveiled by the German daily Die Welt, in an article spotted by Le Figaro on Monday, the deal could have ended the war just weeks after the Russian invasion....

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Yeah, I remember that came out recently. Russia basically pulled back as a good will gesture and the west spun it as a big win. And completely agree that Russia has been incredibly naive, they just kept falling for western bullshit time and again all the way since Gorbachev days. Seems like the lesson is finally starting to sink in though. China’s been far more competent politically in my opinion.

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It was secret because western media tried to memory hole it.

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Remember all the western media talking about Russian army being on the verge of collapse incessantly?

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Soon we’ll start seeing articles about Russia’s symbolic conquest of Ukraine that had no strategic value.

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lol that is a nutty take, those charts he has kinda reminded me of this 😂

https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/1bce444c-49b2-450f-9d8c-634ba0154383.png

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Absolutely, and I think this is why a BRICS currency is inevitable long term. Countries outside US control can’t continue using the dollar because US uses it as a weapon.

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That’s my read on this as well. If China is dumping assets at a loss, they clearly see this as being very urgent.

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