Giving Putin, as well as the Putin wing of the GOP, the significant finger

Hungary approves Sweden joining NATO after months of delays

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Hungary’s parliament has approved Sweden’s NAYO accession nearly two years after the historically neutral country applied to join the western military alliance,
bringing to an end months of limbo and diplomatic wrangling.

 

This Powerful UN Speech Debunks Putin’s Propaganda

on Saturday during a meeting of the Security Council marking the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Poland’s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski rebuked a Russian ambassador for
lying about the state of the war, Ukraine’s leadership, and the threat Russia poses to the region.

In a powerful four-minute speech, Sikorski offered a “useful” correction of the record.

• "RussianAmbassador [Vasily] Nebenzya has called Kyiv the clients of the West,” Sikorski said.
  • “Actually, Kyiv is fighting to be independent of anybody.
• He calls them a criminal Kyiv regime.
  • In fact, Ukraine has a democratically elected government.
• He calls them Nazis.
  • Well, the president is Jewish. The defense minister is Muslim, and they have no political prisoners.
• He said that Ukraine was wallowing in corruption. Well, Aleksei Navalny documented how honest and full of probity his own country is.”

Sikorski went on:

• “The Russian Ambassador said that we are prisoners of Russophobia,”
  • Sikorski continued. “‘Phobia’ means irrational fear. Yet we are being threatened almost every day by the former president of Russia and by Putin propagandists with nuclear annihilation. I put to you that it’s not irrational. When Russia threatens us, we trust it.”
• “The Russian Ambassador [Nebenzya] is saying that we, the West, are somehow trying to persuade that Russia can never be beaten.
  • Well, Russia didn’t win the Crimean War,
  • it didn’t win the Russo-Japanese war,
  • it didn’t win World War I,
  • it didn’t win the Battle of Warsaw,
  • it didn’t win in Afghanistan, and
  • it didn’t win the Cold War.”
• “They failed to subjugate us then. They will fail to subjugate Ukraine, and us, now.”

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