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
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