Ukraine continues to be the second most entitled national government with which America is involved. I'll just let you guess who #1 is, but second place is an achievement.
They're condemning Woody Allen for attending―well, remotely attending―the Moscow International Film Festival. This despite him also speaking against Vladimir Putin. Their scolding probably doesn't really register with Allen after his experiences with the scorched earth tactics of the late 2010s social justice movement. Still, it's worth noting that what Stivers identifies as the "wholesale global shunning of all things Russian" was not something that everybody came up with on their own, but was in fact instructed by the Ukrainian powers that be.
Who, it should be noted, blew up the Nord Stream pipeline and blamed Russia for it. There are now mountains of evidence for this, but everyone lets it go. There is no way they should get to tell anyone where they can and can't go.
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There's either not much or everything to be said about #1, but let's just take this as something that needs no further discussion right now.
You're right that Woody Allen is pretty much uncancellable at this point. When Ronan Farrow did his best/worst job of destroying his step-dad's reputation Woody became the poster boy for the social justice movement.
Once your standing in society is gone it's gone forever. That being the case someone like Woody can just get on with his life among the friends who never believed that stuff in the first place.
It looks like all the western media outlets have jumped on the good ship Andromeda and all who sailed on her as the perpetrators of the Nord Stream pipelines destruction. Here's a very interesting article Jer found on the CBC of all places that describes in part just how difficult that would have been. Of course, at the end the writer also agrees that it was the Ukrainians but we suggest Occam's Razor still applies.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/investigates/nord-stream-pipeline-explosion-ukraine-diver-1.7296527
There always seems to be a lot to talk about with regards to #1, but ipso facto it can be saved for another day.
Ronan Farrow has been the beneficiary of a culture where having an obvious ax to grind doesn't make you any less credible. Gullibility, in a word. It must feel strange for Allen to be condemned by the bleats of so many people who show no capacity for thinking independently. But then maybe after a while it stops bothering you so much. If you have good friends, that is.
It's easy to forget how involved it is just to breathe and move around at depths like that. We don't have the natural means to breathe underwater, so we have to carry heavy equipment. So blowing up a pipeline would be an even bigger task. Russia, of course, would have much easier ways of cutting off fuel to Germany, if that's what they wanted to do.
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