• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia told the council before the vote that the resolution was “absurd and politicized.”

    What the hell is absurd about limiting nuclear proliferation, Vassily?

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      8 months ago

      Abandon all reason and logic, ye who enter the russian / MAGA rhetoric.

      This place is not a place of honor.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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      8 months ago

      “It’s absurd that you won’t let us have the political win with our populace by looking like a strong country by putting nukes in space” is what he meant.

    • mindlight@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      Anything you’d get him to answer would be as good as “it’s because the Russian economy is booming!”