The British Foreign Secretary told the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry about the need to withdraw Russian armed forces from the Ukrainian border. Sergei Lavrov replied that the military is on the territory of his country. Liz Truss repeated that they should be withdrawn. To this, the Russian minister again objected that the military did not violate anything, since they had the right to conduct any maneuvers on the territory of the Russian Federation.

After that, he himself addressed a question to his British colleague: “Do you recognize the sovereignty of Russia over the Rostov and Voronezh regions?”

“Great Britain will never recognize Russian sovereignty over these regions,” the Foreign Minister replied after a short pause.

British Ambassador to the Russian Federation Deborah Bonnert had to intervene in the situation, who delicately explained to Mrs. Truss that we were really talking about Russian regions.

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/02/the-mediocracy-of-global-britain.html

  • Blottergrass [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    My least favorite thing about the PMC is that they're not even good at their jobs. Nice cushy salary instead of shitty wage like the rest of us because they're "paid for their mind" but their mind sucks.

    • bort_simp_son [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      They're there because of who they met at Yale and who their daddies are. That's absolutely it.

      • eduardog3000 [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Or in this case Oxford. Literally too, Liz Truss graduated from fuckin Oxford.

        • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Relatedly, why did both Britain and the US decide to build a sicko factory in a city called Cambridge?

    • Yanqui_UXO [any]
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      3 years ago

      Also for career politicians it's about winning "points," not really about long term strategy on behalf of their countries (that's gonna be someone else's problem by the time they're done). So in some sense Truss's behavior makes sense. It's not what a proper diplomat should do or say (she also rode a tank in Estonia lol, as a kind of pale shadow of Thatcher's move), but her "hardline" stance will definitely do her career good.

      • karl3422 [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        there's also the fact that only delusional idiots with the delusional self confidence of Cnut trying to turn back the tides put themselves up for election so they are the recruiting pool for government ministers

    • RedundantClam [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      This is what's maddening to me, and the fact that there is no shame in it. If my ass got exposed like this on an international stage I'd retreat from public life.

      I'm not the smartest person, but when I'm in a situation where I know I have to answer questions in front of people or present something I've generally spent hours pouring over the subject to be able to answer most questions thrown my way. She's the Foreign Secretary and can't be bothered to learn about the territory she's arguing about.

      • comi [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        That’s actually great tho, the world has passed the need for kissinger

    • CrimsonSage [any]
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      3 years ago

      This isn't the pmc though really this is unquestionably a capitalist. Like the pmc may be how she made her way, but if she isn't worth hundreds of millions at this point...

        • CrimsonSage [any]
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          3 years ago

          If you are living on the returns of your investments and not your labor you are a capitalist. So yes at a certain point increasing quantity changes the quality of a thing.

            • CrimsonSage [any]
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              3 years ago

              What else would I have meant? That is net worth, I feel like you are being pedantic at this point.