⚡️Oliver Carroll Wins "Dumb Takes On Ukraine" Award. Again.
Rather than positively assessing Ukraine's moves towards LGBTIQ+ equality, Carroll decides to repeat a Russian information warfare troll.
Russia created the "Ukrainian Far Right" bogeyman in 2014 to deter support for Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Far Right White Nationalist Ruschist Nazis have murdered hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians since Feb 24th 2022.
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Instead of questioning why USA provides Saudi Arabia with ATACMs and F-35s but not Ukraine, journalists like Carroll who exploit Ukraine to make a living, repay their debt to Ukraine with trolls like this.
Readers will recall that when Russia targeted a meeting of writers and journalists in Kramatorsk killing many of his fellow scribblers, Carroll, who worked in Moscow, justified the War Crime by suggesting Russia was targeting military in the area.
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As those of us who know international law and Kramatorsk (unlike Carroll) know there is NO legitimate target for Russia in Ukraine in a war of aggression.
LGBTIQ+ Ukrainians been on the avant garde of cultural change in Ukraine since at least 2014.
As a diplomat in eastern Ukraine for seven years, I paid close attention to attacks on LGBTIQ+ community members.
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These are Early Warning indicators of Ruschist aggression. Putin's schtick is paleo-conservatism. Ruschia, as it does in England by funding Cultural War trolling MPs, uses Paleo Conservative issues to reverse advances in equality guaranteed by post WWII peace settlement.
Here's me in Kryvyi Rih in 2018. I helped facilitate the first pride parade in Kryvyi Rih. Police protection from Ruschist provocateurs is necessary in Ukraine, as it is in London at far right rallies supported by Russia. 4/4
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