Outside Scandinavia, I don’t there is much other use of that symbol. It has been successfully tainted.
Maybe so, but I don’t accept it and I am hardly ashamed of having valknut symbols. Really hate this obsession with declaring symbols evil. Totenkopf is one thing, it is a death skull after all and used by the SS, but the valknut is a cultural symbol.
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From today:
The Celtic cross has also been appropriated by some white supremacist groups as well and they can frankly get to fuck with it. I personally don’t want my ethnicity tainted with their fuckwittery.
I suppose, ultimately, the swastika is just an Indian religious symbol but the associations in Europe are
too far gone for that to be rehabilitated any time soon.
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The irony.
Pretty much hit the nail on the head with both symbles.
On a minor note, wasn’t the swastika originally a pagan symble? I do digress away from the topic of the thread, but always thought it was pagan in its orgins.
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A bit unclear if it was she believed or believes. In believing, she was not alone. Believing it was a good idea now, is a bit different though given that the main reason why Ukraine should not have been admitted, was that Russia would take great offence etc. Now this matter less.
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It is also a symbol used by Hindus all over the world - obviously not for the the purpose it was used for in the 30s/40s and by some fringe elements in the West currently.
Just because symbols are funny:
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I’m frankly astonished that Mariupol continues to hold out. The people there must be Spartans or something. Unbelievable. I hope Ukrainian forces can get to the area quickly and in numbers to give the Russian forces surrounding Mariupol a rearward flank to worry about.
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I really do wish that Ukraine had a navy that could take back its coastline and perform some precision shelling of it’s own on the areas of Russian strongholds there. force them into close-quarters combat in cities they don’t know, where they’d be picked off by the locals. I wonder how they are getting armaments inside Mariupol to sustain it’s defense.
From an outsider, what are the alternatives for Germany? I’m trying to understand whether it’s really an ‘economic’ problem for Germany as suggested on here or more a ‘thousands of Germans will freeze to death if we cut off the pipeline’ problem.
My understanding is that Germany doesn’t have the infrastructure to ship in LNG via ports, and absolutely not in the quantity to make up the shortfall that cutting off from Russia would require. So I’m wondering if it’s even practical to cut the cord.
I absolutely won’t argue that Germany only has itself to blame for not reducing reliance on Russian resources while at the same time rolling back nuclear, but I just would like to understand whether there are alternatives right now.
EDIT: I saw in an old Reuters from the start of March that Germany’s gas storage facilities were 35% full and that this was adequate to get through the remainder of the year, but that the problem would be next winter where if they cut off the supply now, severe rationing would need to take place. So it would be possible to completely cut reliance, if Germans were all willing to sacrifice to that extent.
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For me the oil and gas is a side issue now.
Evidence of genocide is now occurring. This should be justification enough for the world to send in troops. Irrespective of economics this is basic humanitarianism.
Not NATO but the UN. Expel Russia from security council and intervene. Pressure is needed on BRAC to ensure it’s a united effort.
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Czech Defense Minister
“When something of this scale is happening and the UN is unable to take firm steps, then it is hopeless. They should find a way to send in blue helmets, that is, soldiers who would oversee respect for human rights and supplies. If the UN is incapable of doing that, then it is time to change it,”
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Part of me thinks that UN troops in the ground would only escalate it, making the possibility of nuclear weapons being deployed that much greater.
Russia should be isolated from the global economy, and have 20 years as peasants, and reparations made to Ukraine should be required before being allowed back into anything.
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