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Unfortinately, 'modern day slavery' exists in many counties around the world, including (according to Wikipedia at least) India (8 million) China (3.86 million), Pakistan (3.19 million), North Korea (2.64 million), Nigeria (1.39 million), Indonesia (1.22 million), Democratic Republic of the Congo (1 million), Russia (794,000) and the Philippines (784,000). One report says the US has more than 400,000 modern slaves working under forced labor conditions.
Are you sure that 'slavery was a thing in Russia whole lot longer than it was in US'? Technically correct, since the US was only founded in 1776, but slavery in what is now the US goes back much further. Do bear in mind that serfdom and slavery are not the same thing.
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The Romans had slaves aka slavs.
The word slave arrived in English via the Old French sclave. In Medieval Latin the word was sclavus and in Byzantine Greek σκλάβος.[11] Use of the word arose during the Early Medieval Period, when Slavs from Central and Eastern Europe (Saqaliba) were frequently enslaved by Moors from the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa
people were enslaving eachother for a long time.
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Good thread on Russia's demographics problems
https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1513926555336065026Russia, as a nation of 143 million, has an 18-year old conscript manpower pool smaller than 1914 France with a population of 40 million.
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Ukraine War Pushes Germans to Change. They Are Wavering.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/12/world/europe/germany-russia-ukraine-war.html -
Interesting short interview about Russian ideas with president of Chechnya in 1995
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Piece from my best man in the Guardian
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Does “my best man” imply slavery?
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Just wasn’t sure if the fixeh language police tolerated possessive pronouns in conjunction with people.
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French President Emmanuel Macron refused to describe Russian actions
in Ukraine as "genocide" in a television interview with public
broadcaster France 2.Asked whether he, like US President Joe Biden, would use the term
"genocide" for the killing of Ukrainians by the Russian military,
Macron said: “I would be careful with such terms today because these
two peoples [Russians and Ukrainians] are brothers.”“I want to continue to try, as much as I can, to stop this war and
rebuild peace. I am not sure that an escalation of rhetoric serves
that cause,” he added. “What we can say for sure is that the situation
is unacceptable and that these are war crimes. We are living through
war crimes that are unprecedented on our soil — our European soil.”Macron being Macron. Time for another call with Putin, perhaps?
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The US is inching closer to sending heavy weapons https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/04/12/pentagon-ukraine-weapons
Some extracts:
"Preliminary plans...included Mi-17 helicopters, howitzer cannons, coastal defense drones and protective suits...Some of the weapons...would probably require training... the Biden administration is open to doing so. The United States and its allies have been rushing arms to Ukraine for weeks, with the United States alone sending eight to 10 flights of military assistance into neighboring countries every day. As of Tuesday, the Pentagon was close to completing delivery of the last items in [an $800 million security assistance package approved by Biden on March 16]('https://12ft.io/proxy?ref=&q=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/16/us-weapons-ukraine/?itid=lk_inline_manual_20') and a $100 million set of shipments approved last week. The larger package included Switchblade drones that can be armed with explosives and flown into targets, Stinger antiaircraft missiles, and anti-armor weapons including Javelin missiles. The package approved last week included additional Javelins, after a request from Ukraine as it prepares for a renewed Russian offensive in the east. General Atomics, the maker of Reaper and Predator drones, "have aircraft available now for immediate transfer".
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Check out Chomsky in the New Statesman. On Putin:
“Why did he do it? There are two ways of looking at this question. One way, the fashionable way in the West, is to plumb the recesses of Putin’s twisted mind and try to determine what’s happening in his deep psyche. “The other way would be to look at the facts: for example, that in September 2021 the United States came out with a strong policy statement, calling for enhanced military cooperation with Ukraine, further sending of advanced military weapons, all part of the enhancement programme of Ukraine joining Nato.
Putin is as concerned with democracy as we are. If it’s possible to break out of the propaganda bubble for a few minutes, the US has a long record of undermining and destroying democracy. Do I have to run through it? Iran in 1953, Guatemala in 1954, Chile in 1973, on and on… But we are supposed to now honour and admire Washington’s enormous commitment to sovereignty and democracy.
“What about Nato expansion? There was an explicit, unambiguous promise by [US secretary of state] James Baker and president George HW Bush to Gorbachev that if he agreed to allow a unified Germany to rejoin Nato, the US would ensure that there would be no move one inch to the east. There’s a good deal of lying going on about this now.”
Chomsky, who observed in 1990 that “if the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every postwar American president would have been hanged”, spoke witheringly of Joe Biden. In Afghanistan, literally millions of people are facing imminent starvation. There’s food in the markets. But the United States, with the backing of Britain, has kept Afghanistan’s funds in New York banks and will not release them.”
[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.newstatesman.com/encounter/2022/04/noam-chomsky-were-approaching-the-most-dangerous-point-in-human-history[/URL]
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Macron being Macron. Time for another call with Putin, perhaps?
What would be achieved by Macron ending talks with Putin and calling it a genocide?
To me, this feels like an effort to keep diplomatic channels open, orchestrated with the UK and US.
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I was just watching chatroulette capture on youtube where a russian drunk casually mentioned how his relative is supposed to bring him a small ukrainian for him to work as a slave. We tend to forget that slavery was a thing in Russia whole lot longer than it was in US for example. Worst case scenario is that the children are not adopted, but are actually forced into slavery.