At least, that's the way the independent Russian media is likely to portray it…
Tag: Russia
Trigger-Happy Russians Down Passenger Airliner, Killing All Aboard
Granted, it's not entirely impossible that the Ukrainians might have done it. But given that Putin's mercenaries and fifth-columnists have been destroying Ukrainian planes on a semi-regular basis, the preponderance of evidence points to Russian responsibility.
More sanctions. Now.
Topless Woman Stabs Soulless Man
The most burning question: Is she hot?
We Will Never Be Brothers
A poem by a young Ukrainian woman about the "fraternity" of Ukraine & Russia.
This is the best of the two translations I've seen:
We will never be brothers
Neither countrymen, nor blood brothers.
You don’t have the freedom breath –
We can’t be even stepbrothers.
You have called yourselves “elder brothers” –
We would like to be younger brothers, but not yours.
There’re so many of you, but you all are faceless.
You are huge, but we are great.
You press… you trudge,
You will choke on your envy.
You don’t know what freedom means,
You all are encased in chains from childhood up.
Silence is golden in your home,
And we burn Molotov cocktails,
Yes, there’s warm blood in our hearts,
What sort of blind “relatives” are you for us?
We all have fearless eyes,
We are dangerous without any weapons.
We grew up and became courageous
We all are at the shooters’ gunpoint.
We were forced to our knees by the hangmen –
But we revolted and corrected everything.
The rats are hiding and praying for nothing –
They will wash themselves with their blood.
You have new instructions –
And there’re revolt lights here.
You have your Tsar, but we have Democracy.
We will never be brothers.
"What is this doing on a blog mostly about Taiwan?" you might ask…
China Ponders Putin’s Georgian & Crimean Precedents
Is Vladimir Putin just about the world's greatest fool?
There is, however, one country with an imperial past and a renewed craving for empire that has territorial ambitions which make of it a threat to Russia, and that country is China…The majority of those who live there [Siberia] today are not Russian. Many of them are Chinese who have journeyed north in search of well-paid work; and China, which is just across the border from Siberia, is an economic juggernaut increasingly desperate for resources of the very sort that are found in abundance in Siberia.
Vladimir Putin should think hard about the precedent he is setting in the Crimea. The day may come when China does to Russia in Siberia what he is trying to do right now to the Ukraine in the Crimea. Putin's government piously states that its only concern is to protect the majority Russian population in the Crimea from the Tatars and the Ukrainians there. China, in time, will say the like about the Chinese in Siberia. And when that day comes, he will have alienated everyone of any significance who might otherwise have rallied to Russia's defense. [Emphasis added]
More on Putin's folly.
Iowahawk on the Ukraine
If you want to know who the good guys are in Ukraine, they’re the ones pulling down Lenin statues.
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) February 22, 2014
And replacing them with golden toilets:
Image from Boston.com
UPDATE: A similar monument to foreign domination was toppled in Taiwan just the other day…
Taipei Times: Toppled Sun Yat-sen statue in Tainan park.
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Russia Abuses Interpol
To seek revenge on its political refugees.
Readers are no doubt aware that Communist China currently games the Interpol system to victimize its Uyghur refugees as well.