Yeah, it’s a civil war though. There’s no danger of it spilling over into a larger conflict. It’s not splitting hairs. It’s ridiculous, and unproductive, to compare the Chechen wars or the takeover of Crimea to the full invasion of Ukraine. The takeover of Crimea and inflaming the conflict in Donbas should’ve woken…

It can be arranged

Um, Amanda Knox was in prison in Italy, part of the EU, and I don’t recall the US getting her out of prison. Her conviction was overturned in Italy and she got out of prison and fled. But yeah, the difference is “white, ‘conventionally pretty’”. Use your head

There was no war to take over Crimea. And the Chechen wars are not really comparable, Chechnya was a republic of Russia, fought for independence, then got brought back into the fold. The Yugoslav wars came about from the breakup of Yugoslavia, so again more akin to an intra-country war and insurgency. While Putin…

I don’t think the Daily Mail readers would find anything wrong with those comments. And if it’s wrong it’s not even a “misquote.” There’s nothing wrong with the part that’s actually quoted,

What is your point? If you live in a place that’s directly threatened by a war, of course you are going to care about that war more than one that was on a different continent?

but did he even say it?

Do you realize your source is a tweet that’s quoting a Daily Mail article that doesn’t actually direct quote the part about “used to seeing conflict in Africa and Asia

This has a 0% chance of helping and a non-zero percent chance of actively harming her. You should not do this or publicize this

If Steph Curry had been arrested, it would almost guarantee that his greater name recognition would be a huge detriment to him and would do the opposite of getting him released sooner

Russia has had a moratorium against capital punishment since since 1996, they’re not utter savages like Americans. They’re not handing out a death sentence for drugs much less publicly executing someone for that. Doesn’t mean she couldn’t just end up dead out of spite but it would be an “accident”. 

“entry level writers” does not excuse it. Based on the drivel they’ve been spouting, I can confidently say that had more knowledge of geopolitics and foreign policy than the Jezebel writers when I was in 7th grade. Certainly after you go through high school and college you should have some sense of the nuances…

Seriously. If I were her family I’d want Jezebel to shut the fuck up about it. The entitlement expressed here if it were translated and read to the power that be in Russia is exactly the kind of thing that would make them just throw away the key out of spite

Yeah, it’s like Emily Leibert thinks that if Steph Curry were in Russian jail, we’d be declaring war on Russia. Every time Jezebel writers write anything that involves anything outside of their narrow American/race/celebrities knowledge base, it exposes such profound ignorance, like not even a high-school level of…

I get it, but those are also very different situations. Abu Ghraib was perpetrated by the aggressor in that war, us, and the Japanese internment camps, yeah, if Ukraine were putting Russians who are Ukrainian citizens in prison camps, that would be a something to report on. If you don’t like something the Ukrainian…

Aka public opinion? What the fuck are you talking about lol

I mean what stupid tweets or Instagram feeds even are you all reading? I’ve followed quite a bit of Ukraine news on Reddit and whatnot, and I have seen quite a bit of different commentary, and some of it is juvenile just talking about what big balls Ukrainians have and whatnot (as if it takes balls to defend your…

??? Nah, it you. “EmIsMe making a comment on the internet isn’t going to cause WWIII.” Obviously ONE comment isn’t going to cause WWIII, but when you take everyone’s individual comments, i.e. public opinion, it certainly does matter. 

So your point is ... that public opinion doesn’t matter? You think that if the dominant narrative, or even a common narrative about the Russia/Ukraine war was—it’s more of the same, no big deal, and the only reason people are caring about it is because it’s white people fighting white people, and a bunch of…

“But continually casting coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as racist isn’t a very convincing argument”