On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

For our consideration:

https://snyder.substack.com/p/gratitude-to-ukraine-2024

Listening to The House on CBC Radio One at the moment. There is a class-action lawsuit intended to bring those who donated to the organizers of the Convoy Siege of Ottawa last winter to account financially for their role in keeping that siege going, and the consequences of it to the people living and working in downtown Ottawa. Listening to James Manson argue against that lawsuit is quietly infuriating me further.

And they move on to the medical consequences of "misinformation"...which certainly motivated some of the Convoy participants. Others were there to promote and enforce disinformation re: masking and vaccines. And we do not forget that "memorandum of understanding" calling for the removal of the Trudeau government, either. Timed to coincide with Putin's invasion of Ukraine, said invasion still underway. (Speaking of which: after the Convoy lawsuit, the show moves on to "how do we properly solve the Wagner group?", referring to the mercenary organization "working" alongside the Russian military against the Ukrainians.)

1. "BYOD = Bring Your Own Distaster"?

2. Concerns over the consequences of Ukraine further reversing Putinist armed robberies.

3. The ridicule-worthiness of the official Putinist position.

https://twitter.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/1550210215878053888

Go read, please?

On the "Ru.lag" concept, revising old horrors, being made reality from Ukrainian communities into Putinist Russia:

https://bylinetimes.com/2022/03/31/putins-gulag-based-empire-of-abduction-deportation-and-modern-slavery/

As at home, so abroad:

https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2022/04/putins-war-in-ukraine-outgrowth-of-his.html

David Brin on the ability to learn from mistakes on past battlefields:

https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2022/04/contemplating-historical-perspectives.html

(While I worked on posting these links, I'm listening to Cross-Country Checkup, today focusing on the Papal Apology for the crimes of the Residential Schools in Canada this past week. There will be consequences to that Apology in the times to come - if the fascist movements of the modern world be successfully stopped from preventing them - and I hope they will be all to the good.)

We've seen what happens when dictators take the countries under their control down such roads before, haven't we?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-putin-warns-pro-western-traitors-ukraine-1.6386960

Thus are those two closing questions from last night are answered.

Ukrainians and Russians alike - some of whom are still going to be able to read this, depending on when and where they access the Internet from - have no such guarantees right now.

I'll probably try to discuss other stuff that also still matters to me later tonight. But I'm not going to be very enthusiastic about it.

I loved watching this.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-impeachment-hearing-offers-universal-anti-corruption-lesson-73433157971

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-struggle-to-establish-trump-admin-behavior-as-normal-73432645853

Looking at this on the one hand:

[FORUM] Do you think Kazakhstan will be next after Ukraine?

And on the other, the first two tweets in this posting:

http://ed-rex.livejournal.com/408474.html

Mulling it all over...and thinking that - as I replied to the latter - Russia Today, Fox News, and Quebecor/Sun Media are all doing similar things right now for similar reasons. RT is the only one explicitly backed by a national government, but there is a similarilty to all three.