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Eswatini?



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Ryuu96 said:
S.Peelman said:

I already said that.

Sorry

Nah I guess I should've tweeted it first lol.

Jumpin said:

Eswatini?

New name for Swaziland, one of the two tiny countries by South Africa.



Ryuu96 said:
SanAndreasX said:

Friendly reminder that this fascist POS was a keynote speaker at CPAC in Texas this year. 

I live in a border state, and I do not feel under attack. Most of what is going on is fueled by American demand for illicit meth and opioids. It's disgusting how many Americans condone what Putin is doing to Ukraine. Who knew that we had so many Americans who miss the USSR?

Ryuu96 said:

China and India still being cowards.

China is just too chickenshit to get their hands dirty and risk their lucrative trade by getting directly involved, but China absolutely wants this war. India mostly seems to want cheap Russian oil. 

I don't know if we'll ever have peace until we can figure out a way to strike at Moscow and Beijing in a way that makes their leadership afraid to FAFO. 



Small surprise that Hungary is green in the list. Same fashist running the country like Russia.



drkohler said:

Small surprise that Hungary is green in the list. Same fashist running the country like Russia.

Good point. I hadn’t spotted that. Same with Turkey which seems to be playing both sides.



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Similarly I mildly expected Kazakhstan to be in favour of a thing like this, instead of just 'abstention', they've been extremely critical thus far.



drkohler said:

Small surprise that Hungary is green in the list. Same fashist running the country like Russia.

On the other hand, I'm surprised that Nicaragua was red. I wonder why they were against it?



Jumpin said:

Eswatini?

Actually, the correct spelling in Swazi is eSwatini, not Eswatini

Both eSwatini and Swaziland mean the same, i.e. "Land of the Swazis". The change came both as a commemoration for 50 years of independence and to avoid confusions with the similarly-spelled Switzerland.



Bofferbrauer2 said:
drkohler said:

Small surprise that Hungary is green in the list. Same fashist running the country like Russia.

On the other hand, I'm surprised that Nicaragua was red. I wonder why they were against it?

Nicaragua’s current government is very left-leaning psuedo-communist, and as a result typically anti-Western. They are the type to accuse the US/Nato of triggering the conflict. It is just pandering to Russian interests.



According to https://liveuamap.com 4 Ukrainian planes appears to have been downed today by Russia pretty far off from the front line.
4 planes in a day might just be the single worst day for Ukraine air forces since the beginning of the invasion.
so far though only one victim is reported between all pilots.
Hope this is just a fluke and doesn't become a trend.