The Roundup
More protests in Georgia, a pro-Russia American congresswoman inadvertently launches a new fundraiser for Ukraine, and more!
It's Not Unusual to Be Betrayed By Your Own Comrades in the Donbass
The recent death of US-born pro-Russian propagandist Russell “Texas” Bentley at the hands of the Russians whom he was serving in the Russian-occupied Donbass region of Ukraine is not unusual. This video shows other pro-Russian leaders in the Donbass region who were also killed by Russians before Bentley met his own fate.
The lesson for anyone in the West who's seriously thinking about following in Bentley's footsteps is this: Go to the Donbass region only if you have a serious death wish who also wants to know first-hand what it's like to be betrayed by people whom you've actually trusted.
More Protests in Georgia
It's another week of protests in Georgia against the new registered foreign agents law that's similar to the one in Russia that the Putin regime uses to crack down on dissent. The police has been using water canons and tear gas on the demonstrators but they show no signs of abating.
More Pro-Palestinian Protests in the US
Since I wrote my last post, police have cleared one protest encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with more than 100 protesters detained.
Before the encampment at UCLA was cleared the protesters announced that they needed donations and they released a laundry list of the protesters’ needs, which included headlamps, airsoft goggles, canopies, umbrellas, and hot food for lunch. The donations had to be compliant with BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions of Israel) with no bagels, no coffee, and no bananas.
According to ABC News, of the total arrests that were made at the encampments at both Columbia University and The City College of New York (CCNY), nearly half were non-student protesters. At Columbia there were 112 arrests with 80 of the arrests being individuals affiliated with the university while 32 were unaffiliated with Columbia. At CCNY there were 170 arrests with 68 individuals who were affiliated with the college and 102 being unaffiliated with the college.
There is this video footage from Portland that has gone viral on Twitter/X because looks like it could have been a sketch on British comedy shows like Monty Python's Flying Circus and The Benny Hill Show.
A US Congresswoman Inadvertently Helps Ukraine
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is notorious for spending an inordinate amount of time making online posts, plastering the outside of her office with fan mail, being a staunch supporter of Donald Trump's Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, and being a rabid pro-Russia fan. She has been very vocal about the US cutting off all further aid to Ukraine. She literally threw a major hissy fit when Congress recently authorized a new round of funding and weapons to Ukraine with wide bipartisan support. Rep. Greene derided the bipartisan support as a “Uniparty.” She made this tweet where she said, “The Uniparty hates MAGA. They don't want to Make America Great Again. The Uniparty is MUGA. Make Ukraine Great Again. Another forever war spending hundreds of BILLIONS of your dollars brought to you by Uniparty Speaker Mike Johnson.” Here tweet included a picture of her holding a blue baseball cap with the letters “MUGA” embroidered in yellow.
Her creation of MUGA, which was originally meant to be sarcastic and a way to score cheap political points, has really taken off. It launched a bunch of memes, the majority created by NAFO, such as the ones below.
It led to Ukraine's United24 Media asking about purchasing a MUGA hat.
A few vendors have stepped up to create MUGA gear for sale. I'm only listing the vendors who said that they plan to donate the proceeds from the sales to various organizations dedicated to helping Ukraine.
By the way, someone from NAFO has generously purchased a MUGA hat just for Rep. Greene.
Bad Kremlin Propaganda About the History of Ukraine
The person who posted this nonsense on Twitter/X wants to see Ukraine's borders returned to what they were in 1654 while condemning the Russian czars and Soviet leaders, whom they say, have given Ukraine too much territory, which formed the basis of this war. They also call Ukraine a “fake country.”
This interpretation of history completely ignores the real history of Ukraine and Crimea but it's yet another example of Russia being so desperate to convince the world that it is right to invade Ukraine that its trolls are now grasping at straws in the hopes that the tide of sympathy will turn in Russia's direction.
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