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  • Israeli PM Netanyahu calls UK ‘the Islamic Republic of Britain’

  • Say what you will about Bibi Netanyahu, but the man's talent for being a piece of shit is top tier.

  • "The situation continues to deteriorate." The Russian budget deficit has risen to 6.5 trillion roubles

  • I probably should've quoted this part, as well:

    Of the 22.6 percent of households without a centralized sewage system, 16.8 percent use a system of pipes connected to pit toilets, RBC cited the State Statistics Service, Rosstat, as saying. The other 5.8 percent lack a sewage system altogether.

    I guess piping sewage into an open pit counts as a kind of system, and it's definitely septic.

  • "The situation continues to deteriorate." The Russian budget deficit has risen to 6.5 trillion roubles

  • I don’t want to mock people pretending they don’t have indoor toilets.

    Sadly, it's not really pretending. This article is from 2019, but the situation isn't much different today:

    More than one-fifth of Russian households do not have access to indoor plumbing, according to official statistics obtained by the RBC news website on Tuesday.

    and

    In rural Russia, almost two-thirds have no access to indoor toilets, 48.1 percent of whom use outhouses and 18.4 percent do not have a sewage system.

  • In war-torn Ukraine, showing sympathy for Palestine is no longer a taboo

  • You're just grandstanding about the US on an unrelated article, though

  • Ukraine May Be Just the Ally America Needs

  • USA has done next to nothing to help Ukraine or to put pressure on Russia.

    Since the 2022 invasion, the US has given $135 billion in military and other assistance to Ukraine, as well as imposing wide ranging sanctions on Russia individuals and businesses. If that's nothing, then Europe has also done nothing.

  • In war-torn Ukraine, showing sympathy for Palestine is no longer a taboo

  • I'm asking about why you're talking about the US media as opposed to the Ukrainian media, which would actually be relevant.

  • In war-torn Ukraine, showing sympathy for Palestine is no longer a taboo

  • Is "CBS News senior foreign correspondent Charlie D’Agata," a Ukrainian citizen? If not, then what does that have to do with the article, apart from the fact that he mentions Ukrainians on his way to being racist?

  • [Meta] Why was supersquirrel temp banned?

  • Oof, there's some dumb comments there, e.g.:

    Ukraine and Israel are de facto allies, more evidently in the last days when Ukraine hit Iranian ships

  • Russia May Attack the Baltic States with Ukrainian Drones – Lithuanian Intelligence

  • Does that count a perfidy, in a war crimes sense? It seems like it would but I don't want to make baseless accusations.

  • [Meta] How are my removed comments considered "Rule 3"?

  • I don't think you're remotely antisemitic, or at least nothing I've ever seen you write has given that impression. I'm just responding to a response to word in a comment which is getting lost here, to wit:

    I would say it’s a massive case of not providing citation of Zionists (the State of Isreal to be fully clear what I am referring to.) Is actively blocking weapons to Ukraine.

    The person above me asked why they said "Zionist" when they specifically meant Israel, and then I said what I did. I don't think you even the term "Zionist," in any of the removed comments, but feel free to correct me.

    I really don't know how I got here, tbh.

  • [Meta] How are my removed comments considered "Rule 3"?

  • Because when they said "Zionists" what they actually wanted to say was "the Jews?" And I only mean that tiny bit facetiously, because why else do you need to immediately and defensively explain what you meant by that specific imprecise choice of terms unless it's a dog whistle.

  • Ukraine @sopuli.xyz
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    Putin signs law imposing sweeping restrictions on Russians convicted in absentia

    kyivindependent.com /putin-signs-law-imposing-restrictions-russians-convicted-in-absentia/

  • EU lifts ban on Russian sable fur imports after Italy, Greece push

  • It's definitely because many non-disgustingly-rich EU citizens are clamoring for it.

  • Russians deliberately attacked a produce seller in Kherson.

  • It's good he's ok, and I wish the drone pilot's entire unit a quick and painful death.

  • Drone Crashes Near Putin’s Secretive Black Sea Palace, Killing Four on Beach

  • Russian authorities denied that the property, which at the time of construction boasted an “aquatic disco,” hookah lounge, casino, pole-dancing room, and a room for miniature railroads, belonged to Putin.

    Former KGB colonel turned dictator and international menace chooses to decorate his secret hideout like a Bond villain. Yeah, that's about right.

    In 2024, Russian opposition website “Proekt” claimed that the palace had been refurbished to reflect the Russian president’s newfound fixation with religion, writing: “The renovated version does not feature a casino, a striptease hall, or an arcade room. Instead, it has a chapel housing an icon of Saint Vladimir, Putin’s patron saint.”

    And then he got real, real weird.

  • A new Comintern: How the Kremlin lures Western “socialists” into the Russian army

  • I should say that I'm just picking on tankies and don't think it's remotely fair characterization of the vast majority of leftists.

  • A new Comintern: How the Kremlin lures Western “socialists” into the Russian army

  • Who would have guessed that "scratch a liberal, find a fascist," is more of an admission than an accusation?

  • Ukrainian Forces Hit Russian Fuel Tanker Convoy in Temporarily Occupied Zaporizhzhia Region

  • In an effort to stabilize domestic supplies, Russia recently imported around 30,000 metric tons of AI-92 gasoline by sea from Morocco, Reuters reported on July 31, citing industry sources. According to the report, the shipment was delivered aboard a Panama-flagged tanker that loaded fuel at the Moroccan port of Tangier in mid-July before arriving at the Arctic port of Murmansk.

    All the way to Murmansk? Obviously Novorossiysk is out, but even the Baltic ports aren't safe? That's unfortunate.

  • Russian Online Retail Prices Spike Amid Logistics Crisis After Wildberries Strikes

  • That probably wasn't even coherent in your own language.

  • Ukraine reportedly strikes Wildberries warehouse in Russia's Vladimir Oblast

  • And part of a university in Belgorod that was developing drone systems. Can't wait for the "war crimes" concern trolling.

  • Ukraine @sopuli.xyz
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    How Ukraine's strikes on Wildberries warehouses put Russians in a real jam

    kyivindependent.com /how-ukraines-strikes-on-wildberries-warehouses-put-russians-in-a-real-jam/