Washington, D.C., June 16, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply alarmed by reports that Australian writer Alistair Kitchen was denied entry into the United States after border officials at the Los Angeles International Airport searched his phone and questioned him about his views on the Israel-Gaza war. “Alistair Kitchen’s deportation is a clear case of retaliation...
It’s crazy, because you’ll see both Russians and Ukrainians claim the other country has been infested and corrupted by the Evil Brown Foreigners, Woke Antifa Supersoldiers, and the Insidious Jewish Menace.
And its hardly unique to these two. Fascism is rampant all over Europe, particularly Eastern Europe where purging the old Soviet loyalists typically meant dumping resources into the laps of far-right extremist groups and their corporate backers. We could very easily see border wars between Ukraine and Poland or Ukraine and Romania in our future, entirely based on the “You’re people are inferior to our people and must be purged!” genocidal rhetoric that led to the bloodbaths in the Donbas and the massacres across occupied Ukraine.
Okay that HRW link got me. I guess that explains Ukraine.
It’s crazy, because you’ll see both Russians and Ukrainians claim the other country has been infested and corrupted by the Evil Brown Foreigners, Woke Antifa Supersoldiers, and the Insidious Jewish Menace.
And its hardly unique to these two. Fascism is rampant all over Europe, particularly Eastern Europe where purging the old Soviet loyalists typically meant dumping resources into the laps of far-right extremist groups and their corporate backers. We could very easily see border wars between Ukraine and Poland or Ukraine and Romania in our future, entirely based on the “You’re people are inferior to our people and must be purged!” genocidal rhetoric that led to the bloodbaths in the Donbas and the massacres across occupied Ukraine.