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highplainsdem

(48,976 posts) Sat Mar 12, 2022, 11:41 AM Mar 2022

Ukraine's former ambassador to Austria is pissed at the BBC: "The nation of Churchill my ass..."

Link to tweet

Good for him. Even with his decades of experience as a diplomat, there are times diplomacy is a waste of time and energy.

The BBC needed to hear this.

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Ukraine's former ambassador to Austria is pissed at the BBC: "The nation of Churchill my ass..." (Original Post) highplainsdem Mar 2022 OP

Can't blame him. Reporters tend to do that... Wounded Bear Mar 2022 #1

I'm not blaming him. I love what he tweeted. I just added a bit to the OP to make that clearer. highplainsdem Mar 2022 #2

Didn't mean to say you were... Wounded Bear Mar 2022 #3

Well, since he's talking about producers from only one network, I can see him getting highplainsdem Mar 2022 #5

Right now we are the nation of Neville Chamberlain. Richard_GB Mar 2022 #4

Wouldn't have predicted a couple years ago that Ukraine would be a beacon tanyev Mar 2022 #6

Wounded Bear

(58,654 posts)

1. Can't blame him. Reporters tend to do that...

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Mar 12, 2022, 11:43 AM

Mar 2022

highplainsdem

(48,976 posts)

2. I'm not blaming him. I love what he tweeted. I just added a bit to the OP to make that clearer.

Reply to Wounded Bear (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 12, 2022, 11:47 AM

Mar 2022

Wounded Bear

(58,654 posts)

3. Didn't mean to say you were...

Reply to highplainsdem (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 12, 2022, 11:50 AM

Mar 2022

reporters' questions do get repetitive at times.

highplainsdem

(48,976 posts)

5. Well, since he's talking about producers from only one network, I can see him getting

Reply to Wounded Bear (Reply #3)

Sat Mar 12, 2022, 11:59 AM

Mar 2022

exasperated by the same defeatist question.

Richard_GB

(50 posts)

4. Right now we are the nation of Neville Chamberlain.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Mar 12, 2022, 11:58 AM

Mar 2022

And Boris is way worse than Chamberlain.

tanyev

(42,556 posts)

6. Wouldn't have predicted a couple years ago that Ukraine would be a beacon

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Mar 12, 2022, 01:58 PM

Mar 2022

of leadership for Western democracy, but here we are.

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