the recurring theme of Western officials getting long history lectures after repeatedly showing their ass that they don't understand anything about the countries they're meddling in is so fucking funny

What are we even supposed to do with people like this. It's one thing to politically educate someone who's disengaged from politics, but how the hell are you supposed to unspaghettify the political consciousness of someone like this? And these aren't just quirky one offs, like half of the active voters are people like this. This stupid fucking country is just one big sanity check that I feel like I'm losing.

TL:DR the countries who voted against did so to prevent Russia from using this vote as a justification for their invasion of Ukraine. Indeed they used the pretense of "removing Nazis" for their invasion.

This doesn't explain why the West has repeatedly voted against it for over a decade.

Austrian guy calling himself Volkskanzler gets to attempt to make a government, very cool Austria! :austria-cool:

CGTN - Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen on Monday tasked Freedom Party's leader Herbert Kickl with forming a new government, local media reported.

Reuters - Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen on Monday tasked Kickl, head of the eurosceptic, Russia-friendly Freedom Party (FPO), with forming a coalition government after a centrist bid to assemble one without the FPO collapsed over the weekend.
[...]
[Kickl] then railed against a centrist attempt to form what he called a "coalition of losers" that sidelined the FPO. That collapsed at the weekend, leading Nehammer - who had described Kickl as a conspiracy theorist and security threat - to resign. The new leadership of Nehammer's centre-right People's Party (OVP) has signalled it will now enter coalition talks with the FPO, though there is no guarantee they will be able to form a coalition government and another election remains a possibility.

This guy is just a mask off Nazi, btw

In 2010, Kickl said he opposed branding Hitler's Waffen-SS as "collectively guilty" for war crimes. The FPO's first leader in 1955 had been a senior SS officer and a Nazi minister.
[...] Van der Bellen, a former leader of the left-wing Greens, said on Monday as he announced he had asked Kickl to form a government: "I did not take this step lightly."

Unrelated, did anyone make a news mega bingo for 2025 yet?

This is what I had for last year's bingo

Grandfather Nurgle is pleased

SK president declared martial law and blamed evil communist DPRK-supporting liberals for his 19% approval rating or something like that

Meanwhile, the DPRK:

Even in the one case where that might have actually happened, the IOF soldiers they were running towards murdered them anyway thinking they were Palestinian civilians.

his butt humper

Can liberals ever bash Putin without resorting to homophobia? Regardless, Trump wouldn't have control over that policy anyway, it's a Pentagon/security state adventure, which is ending in a complete disaster for them even without a president hostile to Project Ukraine.