Big Bro Pashka

@paschka.bsky.social

Everybody's favorite big bro

I saw a video of a small girl in a Russian orphanage these days. Her diaper was full and she hugged a stuffed bunny, all while trillions are funneled into the war. It was that moment when my general disdain for Putin, the propagandists, the apathetic masses, turned into pure, burning hatred.

Joni Askola@joniaskola.bsky.social · last wk.

The amusing contradiction in Russian propaganda is that they insist sanctions don’t hurt them and only hurt the West, yet they keep asking us to lift them. Which one is it?

Oppenheimer and The Odyssey are movies about men feeling guilt and shame over their life's crowning achievement bringing untold suffering into the world clearly this is an expression of Christopher Nolan's guilt for popularizing superhero movies with The Dark Knight

I did the reasonable thing and bought more when the markets dipped, fully confident about a coming TACO. It's too early to say whether it was smart, but it looks like I just made money from betting against the US. This should really scare the US and the West as a whole.

My wife, who lived in Moscow until 2020, recently had a bit of nostalgia about her career (and spectacular earnings) in her company back there. This weekend, her former boss and company owner has been shot down by the Russian air defense in his light aircraft outside of Moscow.

Since the start of the full-scale invasion, 2,000 children abducted by Russia have been successfully returned to Ukraine. Specifically, 83 children returned home with the assistance of Qatar, and 19 through the mediation of Melania Trump.

-kid is sick for days -no one in this house sleeps more than 5 hours. -tired.jpg -"gotta patch myself of up with a liter of energy drink." -still tired but now I also have to pee all the time.

So Trump's Greenland deal is basically maintaining the status quo, while the EU-US trade deal is put on hold. Europeans may think this was a good outcome, but in Trump's (and his followers) mind, he won big time after unthinkable provocation. He goes oit of this with "My art of the deal worked."

Pretty sure we wouldn't talk about Greenland if Denmark had nukes. We wouldn't talk about the war in Ukraine if Ukraine had kept their nukes. There's a lesson here that many countries are currently learning.

3/ Some Europeans continue to put their faith in the US. American soldiers will refuse orders, American institutions will intervene, the midterms will save us, Democrats will return Greenland, and so on. The problem is that this mindset places Europe in a helpless position, with no agency of its own