Thread with additional context about Marina Ovsyannikova <a href="https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1503453848786059270?s=20&t=tg6BhUonY-O_6yZIdEhxnw" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1503453848786059270?s=2...</a><p>Her bravery is incredible.
Imagine if someone came on TV like this during the second gulf war and said "They're lying to you about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq" Would anyone even care? Some cynical people at the time would say, "sure they're lying." Lots of people would be like, "She's totally brainwashed, blah, blah." The whole thing would then be forgotten in two days and the war would go on as usual.
The polar opposite of this act is here: <a href="https://nitter.net/femeninna/status/1503464366330548227#m" rel="nofollow">https://nitter.net/femeninna/status/1503464366330548227#m</a><p><i>“If you think that we will stop in #Ukraine, you are deeply mistaken, this is just an intermediate stage” says the main Kremlin’s propagandist, Vladimir Solovyev</i>
I had a somewhat utopian thought today to prevent the next Ukraine invasion. Here are the components:<p>1. I have heard many stories online, and even in-person, of people calling home to Russia and their families not believing the facts of the war in Ukraine.<p>2. One of the bigger sub-stories from the war in Ukraine is the availability of commercial satellite imagery.<p>Problem: Information asymmetry can lead to state sponsored mass murder.<p>Solution: Require universal access to 24hr-old global imaging to all citizens, if your country wants to be part of the global economic system.<p>I skipped over many problems to avoid a wall of text. I look forward to hearing why this idea could never work.
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Can we grant her asylum?<p>Prove you worked against the regime and renounce your Russian Citizenship and get a Western passport. Let's see what Russians chose.
In dictatorship like russia, it is hard to believe that you can easily interrupt a live stream by standing behind a news anchor and nobody stops you (do not forget that this is the main TV channel in russia)
Secondly, the majority of people that work on TV say that live news is not really live, there is always a slight delay to avoid anything unexpected going live (but not in this case). Thirdly, 280$ fine while others facing 15 years in jail?<p>Seems like yet another masquerade created by Russian propaganda.
Then the next story down in Bloomberg's infinite scroll:<p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-14/elon-musk-challenges-vladimir-putin-to-single-combat-for-ukraine" rel="nofollow">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-14/elon-musk...</a><p>> Billionaire Elon Musk has challenged Russian President Vladimir Putin to “single combat”, with the “stakes” being Ukraine.<p>> With Mr Putin’s name written in Russian and Ukraine written in Ukrainian, the Tesla chief executive tweeted: “I hereby challenge (Vladimir Putin) to single combat.<p>> “Stakes are (Ukraine).”<p>The nerve of that guy. Ukraine isn't his to bet.
This takes no less courage than what Edward Snowden or Julian Assange did - the scale of actions may be different, but the amount of danger they put themselves into, in order to do what they believe is the right thing, is absolutely admirable.