But I thought perennial control of the Black Sea was the God-given right of the great Russian empire and a fundamental reality of geopolitics and even putting a scratch on the Black Sea fleet would spark the WW3? Chat what happened?

There is something extra pathetic about fash men slathering their aging faces with Instagram grade face filters.

Surely at least half this image is bots at this point? I'm so glad to have ditched that fash app.

Endless, endless impunity. How tf is a fragile new Syria supposed to work with western partners in good faith when the US actively enables this, and EU states turn a blind eye?

Why even spend a few million building infrastructure when Israel can just blow it up at any time with zero consequences?

For the price of a pint you supported some studio though

(... Yeah that's all I got)

Putin is dead and the country is run by his 29 doppelgangers, prove me wrong

Be the Eastern Euro the Brankos of the world think you are

I think a lot of nominally progressive people from big powerful countries just cannot really wrap their heads around the value of proper national independence for small countries. Sort of like chocolate sprinkles on a cappuccino, nice but no sense causing a fuss over.

That's an incredible photo

No no, the "security" here means security for my sense of moral superiority, not security for actual cities, silly

WWAUD (What would a Ukrainian do?)

I will never tire of saying this: Ukrainians are what Europeans claim to be

I've already put more effort into refuting this paywalled article than it did into convincing me.

Look if the author really is getting screwed over the publisher and the social media person it's not on us to address.

"Criticising Putin and Russia" means nothing in itself by the way. So did Navalnyi and so does Girkin