Ukrainian internal affairs adviser Anton Gerashchenko posted the clip on X (formerly Twitter) of the unnamed Russian serviceman describing how he had been "sent to slaughter" in the war.
Are we also listening to the videos posted by Russian soldiers on X of Ukrainian soldiers saying they're completely outmatched on every front? No?
Well then why do we care what a Ukrainian government official posts? Both sides are dumping propaganda into the void and we're just eating up whichever side we like more.
China is also blasting through their Paris commitments like they're nothing. It's actually absurd how much they're going to beat their Paris commitments by.
Even as China builds new supercritical coal plants, they're tanking utilization of existing coal plants to the point where peak fossil fuel use (according to the IEA) could happen THIS YEAR.
Yeah. China's speed running to true communism at a pace I wasn't expecting. There's a legitimate chance for the elimination of scarcity of basic goods in China "soon", which would lead to a flourishing of the arts.
There's a real question about how much use general-purpose generative AI actually has. The jobs it's taking are mostly creative and busywork-type jobs, which benefit a service-based economy like the US. Automation and data processing instead benefit an industrial-based economy like China.
The comment was about China arbitrarily arresting people for "espionage." In fact, China has a better track record of finding spies than the Canadian government has of recognizing that their spies were detained.
It's interesting how much news on this comm. comes from news agencies in the same few countries. Looking through the recent few posts, this is what I see:
Ukraine: Pravda, Ukrinform, Kyiv Independent, Kyiv Post
Other Europe: france24, DW, notesfrompoland, El Pais
Other (often only one article from each): straitstimes, SCMP, Al Jazeera, JapanToday, Buenos Aires Herald
This reflects a heavily American-centric lean, an Anglo-centric lean, and a Euro-centric lean. These biases are inherent based on where news is being drawn from. It's showing only one side of the picture. People like to argue that this is because the US (and the West at large) protects media freedoms, but to that I point to:
Notably, this was filed with the UN's ICJ rather than the decidedly not UN-backed ICC (which, since it's not a UN body, happens to lack the support of the US, Russia, and China as well as most of Southeast Asia and the Middle East).
I guess both sides really don't like Yemen lol