Kremlin Humiliated After 100+ Diplomats Walk Out of Lavrov Speech Justifying Ukraine Invasion

[Celerity]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/sergei-lavrov-humiliated-after-100-diplomats-walk-out-of-speech-justifying-ukraine-invasion



Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was ready to justify the invasion of Ukraine to a top UN human-rights forum on Tuesday—but was left humiliated when more than a hundred diplomats abruptly walked out. Lavrov was speaking to the UN Human Rights Council remotely after canceling his planned in-person appearance at the forum in Geneva.

However, Reuters reported that dozens of diplomats from the European Union, the United States, and Britain walked out en masse when Lavrov started speaking. Austrian representative Elisabeth Tichy-Fisslberger posted a video of the walkout and wrote: “This morning in the UN Human Rights Council more than 140 diplomats refused to listen to Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov’s futile attempt to justify unacceptable military aggression.” The diplomats reportedly stood outside the meeting holding a Ukrainian flag.

Link to tweet

https://www.reuters.com/world/eu-us-british-envoys-boycott-lavrov-speech-un-rights-forum-2022-03-01/

[PJMcK]

1. Oops

Putin done fuck up. Bigly.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Humiliation seems to be the theme for Putin these days.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. coward wasn't go to show in person, he might have been arrested...or offed.

[Igel]

7. Although the no-fly-over orders are becoming a problem.

Look at any map of central Europe. Now try to get by plane from Moscow to Kaliningrad. You'd have to have a plane that managed to go right down a strip in the center of the Baltic. If that's even possible. *That* will be a problem.

Now try Moscow to NYC. The Kattegat does not have an international airspace over it. So it's up and over Norway, down east of Turkey and across Africa, or the long-way round and you fly over NE Siberia.

This doesn't let Peskov off the hook--he's just doing the Russian "I'm the victim!" drivel. That kind of warped mindset is ensconced in a verb going back at least 170 years, yabednichat'. "Ya" = "I". "Beden" = &quot am) poor." It means to whine, complain by exaggerating or falsely claiming victimization. Literally, something along the lines of to (falsely) claim and say over and over, "I'm poor!" ("therefore you have to have sympathy for me and take my side&quot .

Peskov yabednichaet.

Why do I say this?

Had any country gotten notice that a plane carrying a high-level diplomatic official on the way to the UN that plane would have been cleared for fly-over.

Now, that said, how about we impose crushing sanctions on Belorus and make Lukashenka squeal like a stuck pig ... to Putain?

[Leghorn21]

4. I fairly swooned this morning seeing that smarmy fuck so thoroughly and

internationally humiliated and dissed, I mean I fkn

LOVED IT !!!!!!

[Bluethroughu]

5. Keep walking out on war/death.

[BlueIdaho]

6. Russia's reputation for honest dealing

Is shot to hell. Why waste time listening to anything Lying Lavrov has to say.