This is how moral bankruptcy looks like. The Pope in Hungary kissed Illarion, the Russian Orthodox Church leader. Illarion is under Ukrainian sanctions for supporting russian genocide. And after kissing this war criminal, the Pope went to comfort Ukrainian refugees. 1/n
2/ Here is the list of some of Pope’s past actions and statements regarding the russian war against Ukraine:
3/ Pope has asked a russian and a Ukrainian woman to carry the cross together. Sure, what’s the difference between the evil and the good?
4/ Pope prayed to God: “Bring enemies to a handshake so that they can taste mutual forgiveness.” Equating the aggressor and the victim is a sign of moral bankruptcy.
5/ Pope called the death of a russian propagandist Dugina on the territory of Russia an “innocent” victim of the war.
6/ Pope infamously declared: “I have great respect for the Russian people, for Russian humanism.” He should visit Bucha, Irpin and other Ukrainian cities to see russian humanism.
7/ According to Pope: "The third world war is going on in Ukraine, in which several empires are fighting." He clarified that: “there are imperial interests, not only of the Russian Empire but also of other empires.”
8/ Pope asked to pause the war for two weeks to celebrate Passover. This is instead of condemning the Russian aggression against Ukraine, demanding to stop killing civilians, raping women and children, beheading and castrating men.
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Amnesty International is a morally bankrupt organization with zero accountability for its actions. In August 2022, Amnesty accused Ukrainian army of endangering civilians. Then, in response to the public outcry, Amnesty commissioned an independent evaluation of their report. 1/n
2/ Now, after seeing the report from the committee, Amnesty decided not to make the results public. Move over, they tried to influence the summary of the “independent” report and they actually succeeded! The behavior of Amnesty was never about finding and reporting the truth.
3/ The Amnesty's Secretary General Agnes has personally blocked me, because I was pointing out her moral bankruptcy and demanded her resignation. What Amnesty and Agnes dis is criminal! They further enabled russian atrocities in Ukraine.
Sending “cluster munitions” to Ukraine could be the most important decision of the war. On Wednesday, two GOP congressmen pushed the Pentagon to send cluster bombs to Ukraine.
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2/ House Armed Services Chair Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) and Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) initiated the push, saying: “The administration (is) not giving Ukraine the weapons it needs to win. Chief among them is cluster munitions.”
3/ I am not a military expert, but Dan Rice has been telling me this for quite some time and I definitely trust Dan on this issue. Russia has been using “cluster munitions” nonstop, and it only makes sense to provide such weapons to Ukraine.
Christina Jolos shares a horrific story of how they were escaping Mariupol last year. Here is her story: 1/n
2/ Yesterday, at our own risk, we left Mariupol under gunfire. We stayed overnight in a field in a gray zone. It was freezing outside. Thank God we are alive. We are alive to scream that everyone who stayed in Mariupol needs help!
3/ We didn't have a humanitarian convoy, no one took us out, we ran behind cars under fire, we joined a group and taped "Children!" signs on our cars. I personally put my own son in the car to the sound of a rocket exploding not far from us. No one saved us, we saved ourselves..
I cannot even imagine what kind of pain this woman went through. Olesia’s entire family was killed by russians and she joined the army to fight them.
Here is her story: 1/n
2/n Olesia was a surgeon, had a husband and two children. Her parents lived in Mariupol.
3/n Since the beginning of the full-scale war in 2022, Olesia's parents were helping evacuate civilians. When the russians captured Mariupol, collaborators handed them over to the russians, and both were executed. Their bodies laid on the street for almost three months.
The sign says: “Enemy, know this: We are all Putin.” This is something that many people do not understand. It is not Putin’s war against Ukraine. Even if you take out Putin, nothing will change. He is a symptom of a much bigger sickness. Here is why… 1/n
2/n It is not Putin, but russians who are killing Ukrainians, raping women and children (as young as 4 years old), castrating men, shelling civilians.
3/n All the available polls show that most russians support what russia is doing in Ukraine. Some supporters of “good russians theory” will tell me that polls cannot be trusted. Then go and talk to the regular russians on Telegram channels.
I didn’t want to comment earlier, because there were too many speculations. So, what do we know now? Basically, it is very likely that it was a fake Putin, doing a fake show, for a fake audience.
2/n There is compelling evidence that it was Putin’s doppelganger in Crimea and Mariupol. Putin was limping, which for some reason happens only when he is abroad. AI face analytics tools put a fairly low confidence that Putin in Mariupol resembles Putin in Moscow.
3/n The original video of Putin meeting locals in Mariupol contained women screaming “It’s all a lie! It’s all for show!” Some russian propaganda channels forgot to cut it out, and so they accidentally broadcasted the original video.