ukraine@war

ukraine@war

Day 783

Apr 16, 2024
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Photo c/o abdymok

Half the fun of riding a bicycle is when it rains.

Which brings me back to yesterday’s downpour of somber regret over Team USA’s reluctance to shoot missiles down in Ukraine’s sacred airspace.

Anne at The Atlantic explains America’s varying responses to bloody messes in Israel and Ukraine, pointing out key differences between the protagonists and antagonists, the second one being that, unlike the Islamic State, Team Russia has a squad of moron lawmakers in the US Congress who are eager and willing to regurgitate Moscow’s talking points.

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