…No discussion of Western hypocrisy is complete without Ursula von der Leyen, the unelected queen of the European Commission and an unequivocal master of the genre.

There is a video, widely circulated at this point, of von der Leyen being heckled by a member of the public. The man asks a difficult question. She responds with a smile and a line that was clearly rehearsed:

‘If this was in Russia, he would be arrested.’

The crowd laughed.

The man was arrested.

Crosspost from https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11847282

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    2 months ago

    Nah mate, I applied that flair when you tried to convince others in a different post about how the Russians were right against Ukraine.

    All I did was to post that flair and nothing else, of which you deducted that I must be swallowing CIA propaganda. With those reasoning skills I now double doubt whatever you claim.

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      If you go far enough back in my post history, you’ll see where I started with “everyone who questions my favorite narrative is a Russian shill/bot/troll,” where I came to my senses, briefly reverted, and came to my senses again. It’s because I read and evaluated the evidence from Western sources, including declassified CIA file releases that I am thoroughly disabused of any Western propaganda, today.

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        2 months ago

        Does that mean you do not believe anymore that the Russians were just de-nazifying Eastern Ukraine by destroying entire cities by artillery?