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ceasefires have been attempted with Minsk I & II. Both sides violated. According to the UN, from 2018-2021, 81.4% of civilian casualties in the conflict in Donbas came in rebel-held territory. 16.3% were in Ukrainian gov't controlled territory. 2.3% in "no mans land" that neither side controlled. link


Anything they can do to try to stop the current death and destruction, I'm all for.

I read the President Finland is an IKEA employee.  He's still assembling his cabinet.

Those Russians love them some Ikea.

Of course, this doesn't really look any different than our local Ikea on the last Saturday before college back-to-school, so...




https://twitter.com/olex_scherba/status/1499394611847909379?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1499394611847909379%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.surlyhorns.com%2Fboard%2Findex.php%3Fapp%3Dcoremodule%3Dsystemcontroller%3Dembedurl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Folex_scherba%2Fstatus%2F1499394611847909379%3Fs%3D21

looks just like the Ikea in Doral on a daily basis. And almost no one speaks english there either. 

Belarus must also be held accountable now.

Do they have anything worth sanctioning?

yeah, so as bad of a rap as we get here in the US, and we have our problems for sure.....racism in Europe is way worse than it is in the US, anybody who has spent a significant amount of time over in Europe already knows this. There have been many reports that bordering states like Poland, Hungary, and Bulgaria have tried to restrict minority refugees fleeing from inside Ukraine or have been giving Ukrainians (ie...white people) preference and letting them in first. There were roughly 16,000 African students studying in Ukraine at the start of the war, and many tens of thousands more living there permanently- and many have been restricted by bordering states from even entering their countries. 

Some of these remarks by European leaders are flat out disgusting. 


"These are not the refugees we are used to... these people are Europeans," Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov told journalists earlier this week, of the Ukrainians. "These people are intelligent, they are educated people. ... This is not the refugee wave we have been used to, people we were not sure about their identity, people with unclear pasts, who could have been even terrorists..."


Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki also said: “We will accept anyone who needs it. The Ukrainian society gets more afraid and stressed. We are ready to accept tens, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees.” This is while his country continues to deny entry to mostly Iraqi, Afghan and Syrian migrants and asylum seekers on its border with Belarus. The irony of European nations taking in refugees created by Russia’s aggression while shutting out those generated by their own invasions and occupations is apparently also lost on them.

Ton of reports on it, linked some below for anyone who wants to read...



https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2022/03/03/the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-shows-racism-has-no-boundaries/
https://time.com/6153276/ukraine-refugees-racism/


https://www.npr.org/2022/02/28/1083423348/europe-welcomes-ukrainian-refugees-but-others-less-so
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/03/europe/racism-border-ukraine-un/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/mar/02/people-of-colour-fleeing-ukraine-attacked-by-polish-nationalists

should come as no surprise though, seeing as how they treated and still treat Syrian refugees, and the really crazy/ironic part about that one is that it was US/NATO bombing the living shit out of that country created many of those refugees fleeing war in the first place.

chief exports of Belarus are Fertilizer and cheese

wouldn’t have guessed either lmao.