"The US has taken and continues to take a very strong interest in what happens in Ukraine." But what you said was "US proxy combatants", which is a far cry from that. You attempt to deny an entire suffering nation's people of agency, with such slander. ...
Reducing the desperate struggle for survival by the Ukrainian people to a russian propaganda attack angle ("US proxy combatants") casts a shadow over everything else Mike writes here, to me.
Caffeine == Nicotine is a tobacco industry public relations line, it is notable to see the minister using it, more evidence she is captured by tobacco lobbyists. The two drugs have some similarities. While the tobacco industry is implying that caffeine is ...
NZ put on the block to the highest bidder. NZ citizens the low-cost labour under our wealthy overlords. All to plan, I would think!
Across-the-board random-number cuts like this are a clear sign of blind ideology. Cut 7.5%....what if the 7.5% cut ends up costing us 20%? What if the cut is socially very valuable compared to the proposed tax cuts for rich people? Don't know, no analysis,...
To suggest that propaganda piece remotely represents Podolyak's position is nonsense - and the fact that Klarenberg quotes a Spectator article that includes a quote from Podolyak - hardly means Podolyak is a "source"! Plus Podolyak's comments in that ...
Russia-propaganda aligned piece from a former journalist for Russia Today and Sputnik - both state funded russian propaganda outlets. Russia is desperate to promote the idea that Ukraine's defeat is inevitable. “The past year of fruitless fighting has ...
It is more the (correct) accusation of him repeatedly invading and slaughtering his neighbours, that worries people. Putin's initially offhand comment that "Russia's borders do not end anywhere", now repeated on official russian propaganda bill boards - I ...
No one lying, misleading, fomenting division, should be credited with the conversations that result. Agree! Like giving credit to a ram raider for starting a conversation about crime...
Ames is 100% a shill for Poots, in my opinion. I always laugh when people writing about Ukraine are experts / journalists "formerly / currently based in Moscow". Here is Vatnik Soup's summary of Ames Like a good Putin puppy, he obediently promoted the ...
I think Ardern was NZ's Obama. Both came in with lots of hope and promise, but remained hard neoliberal and so inevitably could do nothing about entrenched inequality and disadvantage. Both were followed by cruel, right-wing, populist, anti-evidence ...
"...its a great time in the electoral cycle for this to happen….in 3 years nobody will remember." That is actually a very good point.
This incident is actually a good illustration of why such an arbitrary approach isn't a good idea.
And now this very weird reason - an ad hominem attack to which Trump might be especially susceptible. Will Americans Vote for a Man Who Is Now Widely Reported to Exude a Rancid Odor? I remember reading about the conservative tendency to be more easily ...
The point is, it is wildly one-sided. When did another country make war against russia, invade or subjugate it, post WWII? While the list of countries that russia has invaded and/or subjugated since WWII, is long.
I'm sure you know - the UK has a huge arms industry. So (as in the USA) much of the donated support remains in the donor country, not 'bags of money given to Zelenskyy' as russia's supporters like to say. Be great not to need an arms industry, but then you...
Subcontracting gone mad.
And he won despite China's malicious interference in Taiwan's elections. China's bullying and abuse of its democratic neighbour is appalling.
the West have no interest in democracies…and Ukraine sure as hell isn't one. Ukraine has free and open elections, with vigorous opposition and a free press. Zelenskyy and other government officials are widely criticised and discussed in the Ukrainian ...
Only russian propaganda sources make such claims about a March-April 2022 peace deal. The Ukrainian side says that the discovery of mass russian war crimes against civilians in occupied territories made all negotiations null and void. According to a May ...
Some background. Firstly, in Ukraine, even under martial law, freedom of speech is respected, and there is no and cannot be any criminal liability for criticizing the president. Therefore, the accusation that Lira or someone else was “jailed for ...
"provoking Russia"... russia "provokes" itself to invade various neighbours often, doesn't need any help. They invent whatever reasons suit them at the time.
US aid to Ukraine was 0.33% of GDP in 2023, most of which was spent in the USA employing Americans. 11 other countries contributed more as percentage of GDP. US aid to Ukraine has little to no influence on the USA's ability to pay for public services etc -...
You need to brush up your Late Latin obviously. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/viscidus (admission - I had never heard it in my life, had to look behind the world of warcraft results to find it....what a weird word to use) Amusing it was used by a ...
I had a glance at kiwiblog yesterday to see what that side was saying about this event. A great deal of really nasty misogyny and naked racism was on open display. I have no opinion on the shoplifting allegation at this point. But if what I saw is any ...
It should be reported - when Maggie Barry had her recent Air NZ agitation, she boarded the plane in the electorate of Labour MP Lemauga Lydia Sosene and - shockingly - landed in the electorate of National MP Joseph Mooney!! Relevant points.
Absolutely - what a bizarre and I suspect malicious detail to add. I don't recall ever seeing the electorate in which an offence was committed by an MP mentioned before. Irrelevant unless Swarbrick was part of the same shopping trip etc.
True, it was the right that took advantage. But no need to make it easier for them (and yes, they would have come up with some vapid attack slogan regardless, I suppose)
Using the advertising approach of calling it "3 waters" was a mistake I think. Should have just called it "water infrastructure" or "drinking water, storm water and sewage services" The disingenuous would have found "STOP water infrastructure!" or "STOP ...
The BBC is quite often guilty of bias, I agree. In my case, I see evil and wrong doing on both sides of the Israel / Palestine conflict. Those who cheerlead only for Palestine often hold up Al Jazeera as a reliable source - when in fact it is owned by ...
The last three on that list are who I think of when the term 'cookers' is used. So maybe it is a perfectly good term, just is being misused to include #1 on the list. Bit like the word 'nazi', has specific and real meaning, but often misused by applying to...
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