Posted on 02/02/2022 1:02:48 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Russian forces are poised to invade Ukraine unless the United States and NATO cave to Vladimir Putin's demands. The Biden administration and the Western military alliance have no plans to mount a meaningful response to Russia's unprovoked aggression, but they have gone to great lengths to ensure their symbolic expression of outrage will be as "gender inclusive" as possible.
The NATO Gender-Inclusive Language Manual, published in April 2020, offers crucial guidance for Western military officials regarding the use of "communication as a basis for advancing gender equality." The pivotal document was prepared by the office of Clare Hutchinson, who has served as the NATO secretary general's special representative for women, peace, and security since January 2018.
The document contains familiar suggestions regarding gender-neutral job titles: "Cleaner" is preferable to "cleaning lady," while "doctor" is preferable to "lady doctor." (Yes, these are real examples.) A member of the armed services should be described as a "serviceperson," while other gendered terms, such as "manpower," should be avoided. The serviceperson wasn't "manning" the anti-aircraft gun, for example, "they" were "staffing" the anti-aircraft gun, and so on.
Putin might not fear the West's resolve when it comes to defending Ukraine or deterring future aggression. But he should know that every NATO document and internal communication regarding his military efforts will be relentlessly inclusive in their terminology.
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
So many young women are going to die... and the men next to them...
Thought that was a Bee headline.
This is not from the Babylon Bee?
I expect they demand gender-inclusive rapes in Afghanistan, as well.
Oh noes!!! What will Putin do now??? A Gender-Inclusive response and he may just throw up his hands and say “I give up”.
LOL. I assumed this was a Babylon Bee article too.
... and the gender-confused as well. It would be an equal opportunity slaughter.
Well, that ought to send Putin back on his heels. Unleash the tranny commandos!
was looking for the Bee by line, guess even the Bee wouldn’t touch that one...
This place is full of deranged lunatics
Scotty BEAM ME UP!!
Yeah, but they’re sending then in from Fort Bragg. Don’t they know the Russians might accuse service persons from bases named after Confederate Generals of being racists?
The political left and right are both arguing to stay out of this:
The left: Salon, 2/2/22: In the rapidly worsening Ukraine fiasco, the U.S. is reaping exactly what it sowed
“U.S. media spins a one-sided narrative of Russian aggression — but decades of U.S. meddling is what got us here.
what are Americans to believe about the rising tensions over Ukraine? The United States and Russia both claim their escalations are defensive, responding to threats and escalations by the other side, but the resulting spiral of escalation can only make war more likely. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is warning that “panic” by U.S. and Western leaders is already causing economic destabilization in Ukraine.
American allies do not all support the current U.S. policy. Germany is wisely refusing to funnel more weapons into Ukraine, in keeping with its longstanding policy of not sending weapons into conflict zones. Ralf Stegner, a senior Member of Parliament for Germany’s ruling Social Democrats, told the BBC on Jan. 25 that the Minsk-Normandy process agreed to by France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine in 2015 is still the right framework for ending the civil war.
“The Minsk Agreement hasn’t been applied by both sides,” Stegner explained, “and it just doesn’t make any sense to think that forcing up the military possibilities would make it better. Rather, I think it’s the hour of diplomacy.”
By contrast, most American politicians and corporate media have fallen in line with a one-sided narrative that paints Russia as the aggressor in Ukraine, and support sending more and more weapons to Ukrainian government forces. After decades of U.S. military disasters based on such one-sided narratives, Americans should know better by now. But what are our leaders and the corporate media not telling us this time?
The most critical events that have been airbrushed out of the West’s political narrative are the violation of agreements made by Western leaders at the end of the Cold War not to expand NATO into Eastern Europe, and the U.S.-backed coup in Ukraine in February 2014. Western mainstream media accounts date the crisis in Ukraine back to Russia’s 2014 reintegration of Crimea, and the decision by ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine to secede from Ukraine as the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics.
But these were not unprovoked actions. They were responses to the U.S.-backed coup, in which an armed mob led by the neo-Nazi Right Sector militia stormed the Ukrainian parliament, forcing elected President Viktor Yanukovych and members of his party to flee for their lives. ...”
The right: The SUN, 1/26/22:
Neo-Nazi militias in Ukraine are preparing for all-out war with Russia as they arm themselves for the fight against Vladimir Putin’s forces.
“Telegram messages seen by The Sun Online show how the extreme far-right Azov Battalion are carrying out military-style drills and pledging to fight to the death. ...
Despite their use of neo-Nazi symbols such as the Wolfsangel and their ties to violent football hooliganism and Ukraine’s infamous “Ultras”, the Battalion was incorporated into Ukraine’s National Guards to support their fight against Russia, and today is said to still have several thousand members. ...”
I’m sure Ivan is quaking in his boots.
It wasn’t that long ago that winning was the only goal.
Translated: “We are glad to have women and trans people die for an bad cause.”
You beat me to it!
The elites are trying to cram down their insanity on the masses.
It is a blatant abuse of their power.
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