There is actually an interest, but it's buried in realpolitik
Russia wants to remain the sole European petroleum economy. Unfortunately for Russia, there's some decent prospects in Ukranian territory, so an - in Russian eyes - out of control Ukraine threaten's Russia's most effective geopolitical bargaining tool.
Under that reading of it, there's not any actual "good guys" anywhere to be found in this story, but that is the way realpolitik tends to go. For starters, Russia's strategic interests demand that the Ukraine is condemned to existence in abject poverty as a perpetual buffer state for Russia's exclusive benefit. More-or-less what the Soviet Union did with East Germany.
It's not difficult to spot Ukraine's interest in moving itself into the NATO camp, even if this does result in armed conflict ... particularly if they can convince NATO to do the fighting for them.
Look, if you're going to copy-and-paste your post, I will copy-and-paste my response:
Yeah, no.
I assume you're familiar with the effect on the Greek economy from being part of the Euro? And your solution is to expand this misbegotten idea worldwide?
Are you working for the German goverment?
That's before we even get to "who runs this international currency?"
If you think that any country given that role would not immediately seek to use it as a weapon to dominate other countries, you're a fool. Unless you instead prefer giving to, for instance, an unelected, unaccountable clique of bureaucrats?
Yeah, no.
I assume you're familiar with the effect on the Greek economy from being part of the Euro? And your solution is to expand this misbegotten idea worldwide?
Are you working for the German goverment?
That's before we even get to "who runs this international currency?"
If you think that any country given that role would not immediately seek to use it as a weapon to dominate other countries, you're a fool. Unless you instead prefer giving to, for instance, an unelected, unaccountable clique of bureaucrats?
They seem to be doing great financially because they have the typical consoomer goods you associate with a good life, but they have no savings and basically they are right on the verge of financial ruin if just one thing goes wrong.
The WEF's ideal citizen subject, then
You're coming at this from a logical perspective, trying to discern the operable rules and applying them.
They are coming at this from an activist perspective, and they are unwilling to punish somebody from a disadvantaged background. Thus they will use any of the rules available in any fashion required to prevent any harm being inflicted on the disadvantaged person.
And yes, that does mean that to these activists, some people are simply not within the bounds of the law.
Whether the actions are right or wrong, is there no sense of duty or "chain of command"
Some of these bureaucrats appear to be more activist than bureaucrat; their own conception of their role is specifically to subvert the public will to instead conform to their own moral codes.
To summarise, during a Parliamentary debate about just how it came to be that the NHS has re-interpreted a law - not something the NHS is allowed to do - to update single-sex wards to allow single-sex and transgender people in, the case of a woman who was raped in a single-sex ward by a biological male was raised. This case was fought by the NHS for a year on the basis that because the biological male in question was transgender he wasn't actually biologically male, and therefore no rape took place - despite CCTV evidence to the contrary.
The NHS's response to this is to commit to supporting the NHS's regulations (not the law as written by Parliament) and to "supporting the maintenance/strengthening of trans rights in the update" - apparently granting trans women to right to rape is not far enough for the NHS.
If you listen to her other commentary, her concern appears to be that, in giving people free will, they have been given the opportunity to do the wrong thing. Sarkeesian's ideal world would appear to allow you free choice - from the carefully-curated options presented by Bell Hooks & co.
Yeah, but Canada is a country that has Schrodinger's civil liberties ... open the box on your protest of choice and find out if you get government support or police brutality!
One wonders if they would be appalled at the idea of prosecuting rape victims for the same...
At the onset of the interview, Wolfkill explained to Crouse that the team had decided to set Halo in a new “Silver” timeline – similar in concept to the J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek film series’ Kelvin timeline – in order to allow them the opportunity to make changes to the franchise’s original continuity and lore.
So it's explicitly not the Halo you wanted to see, but instead wears it like a skinsuit.
How long before Master Chief's gay romance with a trans man of colour?
One thing I can't help but notice ... Brave Sir Robin over there is holding that shield high, he's uncovering all of m'lady's legs ... but Brave Sir Robin is wearing a sodding great tin hat. If m'lady gets hit in the legs he's left uncovered, Brave Sir Robin is going to have to drag her around like a sack of potatoes and when that happens, she's going to get hit more.
Were Brave Sir Robin a little more concerned with protecting m'lady and a little less concerned with looking like he's protecting m'lady she might be better off...
LATE EDIT: Heh, the other Brave Sir Robin - the one in the tweet without the tin hat - is doing much the same thing. He's mostly protecting his own body armour rather than m'lady. Now if you were an arsehole you'd snipe legs or head - either on Brave Sir Robin or m'lady - and the way he's holding that makeshift shield there's very little Brave Sir Robin could to to stop you for either one.
Not even saying going for kill-shots in leg arteries, just if you were a bastard and wanted to give a guy or a girl a dead leg from a less-lethal round so you can watch them limp around the rest of the night. The only protection Brave Sir Robin presents is if the Police aren't actually interested in hurting anybody.
arguing that, unlike the false allegations that led to the brutal 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Black teen Emmett Till, Smollett's "ordeal" was victim-less.
Smollett was also ordered to make restitution to the city of Chicago of just over $120,000
I mean, the only people he hurt were taxpayers ... are those even really people?
sitting on all the Polonium
That being the problem. If somebody starts throwing polonium around, well, it's a very short list of possible candidates, is it not?
Now, if there's a sudden outbreak of a nasty cholera variant in Eastern Ukraine ... is that the Russians ethnically cleansing territory? Is that the Ukrainians conducting a scorched earth defence? Not too easy to tell, is it?
Fair. There's also a website - https://newp.io/ - and an in-game squadron, the creatively-named NEWP.
Indeed, especially given how Castreau has pioneered the new semi-legal system that operates in Canada. Oppress your population to the limit of the law, and then, when that isn't enough, declare martial law for long enough to go break some heads but not long enough to be held to account ... then return to oppressing your population to the limit of the law.