Russia's War Against Ukraine

[Sir Slash]

The Uighurs must be wondering where their songs are?  :-X

[Gusington]

^Yeah them too.

[Gusington]

All of the above said, the Ukrainian singer has one hell of a good voice.

[Pete Dero]

https://twitter.com/francska1/status/1512340125002440705

Russian state TV has taken a video from the set of a Russian series filmed near St Petersburg on 20 March and told viewers that it shows Ukrainians preparing fake corpses for the scene of a "staged" attack by Russian forces on Ukrainian civilians.

[Gusington]

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[JasonPratt]

BTW did Bolivia forget what hemisphere they're in? WTF?

Cuban connections I'm guessing. (Not surprisingly, Cuba also voted no.)

[Gusington]

I'm trying to remember the last time I read a reference to Bolivia anywhere...other than here.

[jamus34]

I'm trying to remember the last time I read a reference to Bolivia anywhere...other than here.

High school history talking about Simon Bolivar?

[Gusington]

The 'George Washington of South America'? Probably.

[Sir Slash]

Didn't he throw a Peso across the Amazon River?

[FarAway Sooner]

Where the hell is the media and Pink Floyd on that crisis?

In their defense, there is a link with Ukraine : guitarist David Gilmour has a Ukrainian daughter-in-law and Ukrainian grandchildren.

The fact that Khlyvniuk was a member of a successful US-based band who returned to Ukraine to defend his country, but is seen wearing a Yankees hat in Kiev, makes it even more poignant for a North American audience, I think.

Gilmour also knew Khlyvniuk from his performance (Gilmour had performed with Boombox at a London concert in 2015) and contacted him for permission to feature the video in his own release.  For those of you who haven't seen the original video that Khlyvniuk posted (which PF used in their video) on Instagram, it's quite moving:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYpOrwksgbA

[Gusington]

Ukraine's 'iron general' - credited with leading Ukrainian armed forces against the current Russian onslaught and surviving:

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/08/ukraines-iron-general-zaluzhnyy-00023901

[Gusington]

Russian troops actually made Chernobyl facilities MORE radioactive than they were before the invasion:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/08/europe/chernobyl-russian-withdrawal-intl-cmd/index.html

[Skoop]

^its shit like this that pisses me off.

There's been a war in Yemen since 2015. The UN estimates that 233,000 civilians have been killed. Over 4,000,000 have been displaced. Over 5,000,000 are in immediate threat of starving. Over 20,000,000 are in need of some form of urgent humanitarian assistance.

Where the hell is the media and Pink Floyd on that crisis?

I totally agree and hate it has to be like this, I mean we looked the other way when putin was leveling aleppo and assad was nerve gasing his people.  But Ukraine is prime time, and out rages the western world when it happens in their back yard. 

[GDS_Starfury]

^its shit like this that pisses me off.

There's been a war in Yemen since 2015. The UN estimates that 233,000 civilians have been killed. Over 4,000,000 have been displaced. Over 5,000,000 are in immediate threat of starving. Over 20,000,000 are in need of some form of urgent humanitarian assistance.

Where the hell is the media and Pink Floyd on that crisis?

I could state the obvious but