My, what a difference a year and a war make. According to the media-political narrative, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky is the hero of the age. The new Churchill. The leader of “the cause of all free people”. Which is a very different tune than they were singing, less than a
As recently reported on the BFD, sending squads of keyboard heroes and internet warriors to an actual battlefront has worked out about exactly as you’d expect. To their complete shock, the memelords trying to earn internet points by “volunteering for Ukraine” are finding that in a real war, people
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The Duke of Cambridge has acknowledged that he may not succeed the Queen and the Prince of Wales as head of the Commonwealth, as he vowed not to be “telling people what to do”. […] In 2018, Commonwealth leaders decided that the Prince of Wales should succeed the Queen in the
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In what must be one of the most stunning events relating to state handling of the Covid pandemic (unreported by the mainstream media of course), none other than the European Parliament has savagely denounced Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s handling of vaccine mandate protests. The Blaze reports: Canadian Prime
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European MPs told today’s face of the day Canadian PM Justin Trudeau to his face exactly what they thought of him. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was forced to sit and watch as members of the European Parliament out-and-out denounced the leader to his face on Wednesday over his
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What happens when a motley clownshow of keyboard warriors, neckbeards and virtue-signalling internet attention-whores plonk their flabby carcasses in the middle of a warzone? Exactly what you think. The “Volunteers for Ukraine” subreddit is brimming with accounts of people who have made the decision to travel to Ukraine, procure weapons,
