top image: 2020 vote :jokerfication:
bottom image 2022 vote :jokerfied:
wasn't sure whether to put in doomer or dunk tank. yearly symbolic vote. USUALLY only Ukraine/USA vote no and Europe "merely" abstains.
top image: 2020 vote :jokerfication:
bottom image 2022 vote :jokerfied:
wasn't sure whether to put in doomer or dunk tank. yearly symbolic vote. USUALLY only Ukraine/USA vote no and Europe "merely" abstains.
I just assumed that was the cause of the dramatic "No" shift; Russia doing what it is while putting forward "combating Nazism" as one of it's reasons for the Ukraine war meant this was gonna be aggressively shot down
Still amusing to see countries which suffered horribly under Nazism just voting against it
This whole Ukraine thing is grim. There will be no "surrender". Russia has taken what they hope to take/hold. Once they're fully in control of those territories they will wait until West Ukrainians cannot attack any more and Donetsk/Lugansk will get their negotiated settlement. NATO Media will say it was a win for Ukraine because Russia didn't take all of Ukraine and didn't kill every last Ukrainian, wHiCh WaS tHeIr GoAl FrOm ThE sTaRt!
Europeans will be the most mad. There's already protests in Italy, Czechia, France, Austria calling for their governments to start encouraging negotiations. After people realize it was all for nothing, heads will roll. They lost their cheap energy. They lost their political security. NATO is dragging them into a conflict that could go nuclear.
The worst is that all of these socdem politicians and the centre-right liberals will be replaced by fascists and far-right parties. Who will then cut social programs and implement austerity because countries will be struggling, aaand 1930s/40s fascism will come back to Europe (as if it ever left). Perhaps that was the plan all along.