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The Kremlin is reportedly telling Russian civilians that the presence of Ukrainian troops inside their borders is the “new normal”, according to the independent Russian-language publication Meduza. Kyiv’s forces launched a successful incursion into Russian soil earlier this month, a development that could turn the conflict on its head.
Citing its sources close to the Kremlin, Meduza says that propagandists have been instructed to convince Russians that the presence of Ukrainian troops inside their borders is the “new normal”
The Kremlin isn’t expecting to be able to drive them out soonhttps://t.co/PZUg42X0XB
— Francis Scarr (@francis_scarr) August 21, 2024
The Russian government apparently does not expect to expel Ukrainian forces in the near future, so it wants its people to adjust to the Ukrainian presence. “This is necessary so that people consider what is happening not an aberration, but a new norm, albeit temporary. This should be reassuring,” a Kremlin-linked source told the outlet. The “new normal” — where have we heard that one before?
→ UK public backs Labour’s deportations plan
Yvette Cooper may be catching flak in the press for her plans to deport more illegal migrants, but the new Home Secretary’s proposed measures are clearly popular with the wider public. New polling from YouGov reveals that 67% of Britons support an increase in deportations, including 58% of Labour voters. The corresponding figures for Tory and Reform UK voters are an overwhelming 92% and 96% respectively, and even a clear majority of Lib Dems — 55% — would get behind the crackdown.
Cooper previously referred to the Conservatives’ Rwanda plan as “damaging” and “unethical”, yet her own reinvention as Theresa May with a red rosette seems to have gone down well with the electorate. Rwanda 2.0?
→ Nancy Pelosi rebranded as ‘The Godmother’
Nancy Pelosi’s devotees at the DNC are wearing pins of her portrait, in the style of The Godfather’s silhouette portrait of Vito Corleone, affixed with the caption: “The Godmother”.
I’ve seen a few Dem members wearing these Nancy Pelosi “Godmother” pins today pic.twitter.com/5voHgwc93p
— Sarah Ferris (@sarahnferris) August 20, 2024
Pelosi has been the subject of countless memes portraying her — perhaps accurately — as the ruthless puppet master of the Democratic Party. Insiders suggest that she pushed Joe Biden out of the presidential race this summer through shadowy string-pulling, the latest example in a long career of running the party from behind the scenes. For this, DNC attendees are apparently grateful. At least it’s better than the Saint Fauci prayer candles.
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SubscribeBig talk from Cooper, but how is she going to achieve it? Where is she going to deport these people too? Especially when you have human rights lawyers of the Starmer kind unravelling your plans at every juncture.
The human rights lawyers can put up a case for the migrants but it is the tribunal judges that decide and magistrates have been happy enough to dish out savage sentences to “right wing” rioters and the judges may be happy to fall in with the wishes of the new government of a more congenial ideological stripe. Some well publicised deportations while the rest are hurriedly rubber stamped through might to the trick.
Labour seems to have the ability to enable swift justice when it suits them, just as they managed, through fellow travellers, to delay justice while they were in opposition. Naturally, the swift justice doesn’t seem to apply for people inciting the genocide of Jews.
Rwanda?
Mass deportations? Possible but only so Labour can appear ‘tough’ while they let in and approve many more, especially of the soon to be official state religion.