“Stop The War” is using an old Soviet playbook
It seems an odd name for a pro-war group, until you understand its Soviet-backed predecessor, the equally misnamed “World Peace Council”.
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On Ukraine aid, Bruno Maçães' math isn't mathing
The easiest way to get attention online is to say something new. And, as ever, the easiest way to say something new is to say something wrong.
Russian TV finally addresses drone strikes. Sort of.
After largely ignoring the impact of drone strikes inside Russia, their media is finally addressing the issue.. of, er.. its depiction in Estonian pork advertising.
If Eastern Europeans reported the world like the world reports Eastern Europe
Here’s what those tropes, clichés, and stereotypes sound like in reverse.
Seymour Hersh is still ‘a poor waif in his underwear’
This curious phrase was first used in a totally real conversation between Hersh and an anonymous US official.
Just negotiate with Russia to end the war, they said.
If Ukrainians stopped resisting, the fate of the Chechens today would be theirs tomorrow.
"Enough of this Soviet shit": How students created a ‘NATO Brigade’ in occupied Estonia
Satterfield was an imagined NATO base and a pre-internet meme. Some of its inhabitants went on to play a major role with the real NATO decades later.
