In the dispatch from the Russian agency Tass, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu “informed President Vladimir Putin about the liberation of the Luhanski People’s Republic”.
At the top of the New York Times, “Capture of Lisitchansk gives Russia a victory in its attempt to conquer the entire Donbas region.” He notes, also prominently, that “it’s a great prize for Putin”:
Also at the top of the Wall Street Journal, the takeover of the city “effectively brings the eastern region under Russian control, showing how the tide of war has turned.”
Interviewed by Rossiya 1 television, Russian government spokesman Dmitri Peskov commented that Western countries, “led by Washington, do not allow Ukrainians to think or talk or discuss peace.”
Last Thursday, asked in a press conference by the NYT “how long will Americans have to pay more” for the war, in the price of fuel, Joe Biden replied: “for as long as necessary“.
And his economic adviser Brian Deese, after a replay of the speech, responded to the same question on CNN: “What you’ve heard from the president today was a clear articulation of what’s at stake. future of the liberal order in the world, and we have to stand firm”.
LONDON VS. BERLIN
In the Financial Times midweek, “UK plans to cut pipelines to the European Union if the gas crisis intensifies.”
And in the Observer, Sunday edition of the Guardian, the German foreign minister signed an article attacking the United Kingdom for undermining the “international rules-based order” with the announced revision of its agreement with the EU on Northern Ireland.
WHAT TO DO?
The Guancha portal, which inherited the Global Times’ role as the country’s most nationalist spokesperson, published a series of articles by academics from universities such as Fudan, discussing “how to react” to evidence that the US and NATO “continue to target China”. .
It registers warnings such as “Russian-Ukrainian conflict shows that having nuclear weapons does not prevent war”, “absolute sovereignty is the only way to defend against color revolutions” and “US and West are heading towards ungovernability”.
‘MENSTRUATORS’
The end of the constitutional right to abortion in the US has returned criticism of the Lancet cover, months ago, which cited “bodies with vaginas” (above) instead of “women”.
In the wake of the scientific journal, American and British entities and bodies continued to adopt expressions considered more inclusive, such as “menstruers”, which is leading to heavier criticism in the NYT and in the feminist magazine Ms. —is underlining that the argument in the Supreme Court was similar, that the Constitution does not discriminate against men and women, but “pregnant and non-pregnant persons.”
