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Feeling similarly. Russia is 100% violating international law but is not the only country doing so right now by a longshot. The US is also pressing a tremendo
by pempem 5y ago
Feeling similarly.
Russia is 100% violating international law but is not the only country doing so right now by a longshot.
The US is also pressing a tremendous propaganda effort that seems to ignore domestic issues, other international issues and fully whitewash our own slow-roll of Ukraine's attempts to join the EU (1, 2) or NATO
1. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/zelenskyy-ukraine-wants-a-step-by-step-plan-towards-future-eu-membership/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/zelenskyy...
2. https://carnegieendowment.org/2018/02/27/eu-and-ukraine-taking-breath-pub-75648 https://carnegieendowment.org/2018/02/27/eu-and-ukraine-taki...
"further EU approximation will not be achieved so easily. There is frustration in Kiev that a deeper relationship with the EU has not brought a membership perspective or the kind of large-scale financial assistance that new member states have received." (2018)
And the cost of gas continues to go up while crude goes down (3) and we are doing what would have been unthinkable in 2019, pushing more domestic drilling. (4)
3. https://www.marketplace.org/2022/03/18/why-arent-gas-prices-dropping-if-oil-is-getting-cheaper/ https://www.marketplace.org/2022/03/18/why-arent-gas-prices-...
4. https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/new-data-biden-slays-trumps-first-year-drilling-permitting-by-34-2022-01-21/ https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/new-da...
It truly feels like another set of years in the upside down.