The Ukrainian, 27, will not travel to Saudi Arabia, where she wouldn’t even be allowed to walk down the street unaccompanied
Ukrainian world chess champion not playing in dictatorial Saudi Arabia
”The Saudi State only exists so the US can rule the Oil Market. Terrorism, extreme misogyny, slavery and mass murder are therefore acceptable with impunity”.
This video is called The Famous Chess Trap In Action By Anna Muzychuk.
from The Independent ‘I am ready to stand for my principles’: Double world chess champion says she won’t defend titles in Saudi Arabia because of kingdom’s inequality
The Ukrainian, 27, will not travel to Saudi Arabia, where she wouldn’t even be allowed to walk down the street unaccompanied
”It would be great if the Ukrainian government would have principles as well, and would follow the example of this chess player by stopping selling Ukrainian warplanes to the Saudi absolute monarchy for their bloody war on the civilian people of Yemen. However, as they…
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”The Saudi State only exists so the US can rule the Oil Market. Terrorism, extreme misogyny, slavery and mass murder are therefore acceptable with impunity”.
So true! And so what does that say for the country that backs that up? It says that the same is true of the US because if the US was not up to its eyeballs in creating terrorists, and if our leaders weren’t misogynistic assholes and slavery in the form of ‘For Profit Prisons’ did not exist and mass murder of innocent civilians in foreign lands wasn’t condoned, the US would not back a country that engaged in all of this. They are birds of a feather, two peas in a pod and all that, you know!
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So true, isn’t it, Shelby? Yet sometimes I witness actions like this by millenials who have the courage, like this woman, to stand up for their principles. If the US were really the open, transparent democracy it pretends to be with an honest media, this woman would be on the front cover of Time as woman of the year.
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