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‘This Is Not Business’: Zelensky Slams Grain Scheme, Prep...

Zelensky warns of new sanctions after another ship carrying allegedly stolen Ukrainian grain reaches Israel, urging action against buyers and transporters in the scheme.

Ukraine not knowing their place again.

Dunno, they got at least some Euro politicians talking about sanctions on Israel over it.

Sanctions for selling grain vs no sanctions for killing civilians, killing journalists, torturing babies, systematic rape raping doctors to death and persistently attacking aid workers plus starvation as a weapon of war, collective punishment and Perfidy about perfectly sums up the reality of Europe's moral compass.

On a different note, seems a lot of NAFO types have North Korea 'announcing' they had 2000+ deaths in Kursk. Which they get by counting names on a 'memorial' wall and doubling the number, because it's 'double sided'.

It's actually- or at least, according to DPRK itself- a list of those given combat citations. And is clearly single sided anyway, not double.

The only admitted losses are the 101 on the actual memorial wall (with individual pictures and stated as being such by DPRK) shown last year.

Edited April 28Apr 28 by Zoraptor

1 hour ago, Zoraptor said:

Dunno, they got at least some Euro politicians talking about sanctions on Israel over it.

Sanctions for selling grain vs no sanctions for killing civilians, killing journalists, torturing babies, systematic rape raping doctors to death and persistently attacking aid workers plus starvation as a weapon of war, collective punishment and Perfidy about perfectly sums up the reality of Europe's moral compass.

I had missed that, that's hilarious. And people doubted that "relatively civilised" remark

On 4/28/2026 at 5:46 PM, Zoraptor said:

The only admitted losses are the 101 on the actual memorial wall

Do you really, really takes NORTH KOREAN numbers seriously?

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I do think that the west has a bit of fault in this war. If, in the moment that RU occupied Crimea, Japan, South Korea, Argentina, Germany, Sweden, Saudi Arabia, etc., announced that they would reconsider their membership in NPT, unless aggression towards a non nuclear state is severely punished and SWIFT ban tier sanctions were enforced back in 2014, alongside western forces deployed in the deoccupied Ukraine to dissuade aggression, RU wouldn't ever plan a full-scale invasion.

like usa was punished in last 80 year

usa vassal doesn't pursue nuclear weapon because they are usa vassal

not because some useless piece of paper

27 minutes ago, PaleElfPsion said:

Do you really, really takes NORTH KOREAN numbers seriously?

For a memorial, sure. It's in their interests to embiggen their contribution. And the other sources manage to be even less credible if you can be bothered checking them.

eg the BBC article on the topic managed to increase the size of the park by a factor of 1000000 (yes, one million fold; 52 km^2 instead of 5.2ha. Not a simple typo either, you cannot accidentally write 52km^2 instead of 52000m^2, at best you have someone who isn't aware that 52km^2 is a decent sized city and cannot do maths properly doing your verifications). They did, at least, manage to correct that, eventually. They also spent a lot of effort counting the names on the 'memorial' wall, but no time at all verifying that the names on the wall were of deaths. Neither was there any comment on how even their numbers don't get anywhere near the claimed number of deaths, ie 6000 out of 11000 deployed. Mostly because that number is extremely obvious bollocks, which makes relying on the exact same sources for information about the memorial park look dumb.

I do think that the west has a bit of fault in this war. If, in the moment that RU occupied Crimea, Japan, South Korea, Argentina, Germany, Sweden, Saudi Arabia, etc., announced that they would reconsider their membership in NPT, unless aggression towards a non nuclear state is severely punished and SWIFT ban tier sanctions were enforced back in 2014, alongside western forces deployed in the deoccupied Ukraine to dissuade aggression, RU wouldn't ever plan a full-scale invasion.

That just results in a full scale invasion in 2014, and, if the troops were followed through on, potentially nukes flying a month or so later.

People love to think that Russia doesn't really see Ukraine as an existential threat. Doesn't matter in the slightest what you think or I think- or even what Macron/ Biden/ Johnson/ Obama/ Merkel thought- in that matter, all that is important is what the Russians thought. To be frank, despite what western leaders say they all know that's how Russia sees it, which is precisely why they haven't deployed troops and- despite breathless media reports over the past 4 years- won't without Moscow's approval.

If it's an existential threat nukes are in play. There's no point having them otherwise.