US intelligence: Russia plans to attack Ukraine early next year

Looks like I got my wish. BBC has info they're ALL alive, uninjured and are being returned to their families!
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60554959

 

BBC is restarting its shortwave Russian language news broadcasts. Seems all this wonderful internet infrastructure doesn't work so well when a brutal dictator decides to start censoring the news.

 

Ideal! Great job, BBC!

 

Well, now I'm not sure if the language is Russian or English but either way they'll hear it.

 

Maybe we had better think about beaming news to Canada, what with Justin being such a tyrant and all....

 

OK - whatever. Provided Justin gets to keep shovelling out all that money he's taken to giving me and other old-timers. I can hardly believe my good luck after all these years! I still shudder, though, thinking about the bill my newly-adult grandchildren will be facing for it, likely for their whole lives...

 

Justin Bieber sends you money?

 

Doesn't everyone?

 

Alberta may provide US with Oil to mitigate the Russian oil.

 

Alberta would probably send maximum oil South, with or without the Putin factor, and whether or not the rest of Canada needed it. I haven't forgotten the 1980s when they had the slogan "Let the Eastern bastards (e.g. me) freeze in the dark." I think that's still a popular sentiment there.

 

Only when Hailey gives him permission to do so. She runs a tight ship. I think Justin B. needs that.

 

What's next - Nazi-style book burning?
https://sputniknews.com/20220304/whats-next-nazi-style-book-burning-wests-cancel-russia-effort-is-morally-insane-scholars-say-1093597729.html

 

The headline says "Scholars say" but the people referenced in the article are:

"Joe Quinn, an author and political analyst"
"Guy Mettan, a Swiss politician and journalist"

Neither seem to be scholarly, and Joe Quinn is known so little that all I can find on him is a Facebook group name-dropping him full of Infowars and other straight out conspiracy theory content.

 

So... Let's 'cancel' Pushkin and Dostoyevsky???

 

MediaBiasFactCheck.com rates Sputnik news the lowest of the low for accuracy.

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Worthless nonsense, not even worth an amusing laugh IMHO.

 

"As if accuracy is so very important in editorial commentary. Again, it's my opinion that it is utterly senseless to attempt to police thought. It doesn't matter to me whether it's Putin's government silencing dissidents or 'Woke' Westerners' attempting to 'cancel' an entire culture in response to current events.

 

Not at all. Cancel Putin - not Pushkin.

 

Shame on you for making me click on a link to a Sputnik "News" propaganda content.
Have a modicum of information hygiene.

 

You know, at this point in time, I don't give two rat's asses for Pushkin, Dostoyevsky and their place in global culture, individually or collectively. And keep in mind that unlike nearly 100% of "cancel culture"-bothered wingnuts, I actually was forced to read both of these authors' works. Including Pushkin's prose.

Unless you are a humanities major out to "resist Western cultural hegemony" or, actually, a Russian, I don't think you'd miss much if you haven't read a word of these. Especially now, when Russia is ran by a Fascist regime who wields "great Russian culture" and Russian language itself as a soft power asset. Russian Federation delenda est.