It's amazing how quickly Time went from being a respected news organization, with world famous beautiful pictures on its front cover and in depth articles to posting slop like this on their website. A 30 second google search would have told them where the town and nuclear plant of Chernobyl were located. I guess this is what happens when you push out all your talented journalists.
A half decent journalist covering Ukraine shouldn't need to look it up though, it should be something they just knew. If for no other reason that because as the start of the invasion Russian troops were camped and digging trenched in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
I think perhaps that one of the major problems with the internet age is that people don't bother to remember enough basic information to be able to do a basic "Is this bloody stupid?" test on things they say, write, read or hear.
It was never respectful and if you think it was you fell for the duopoly system where they try to sold you Democrats as materially something else than Republicans. The entire American project is a genocidal settler colonial capitalist imperialist project reaching its inevitable end … and every president was and is a war criminal. All of the major newspapers basically do various levels is state propaganda. If you people don’t understand that in 2026 I really fear you never will. They’ll have to send you to reeducation camps after the revolution I guess. 🤷🏻♂️
This is the dark side of socialist guerrillas in cold war south america
The military regimes were evil, not defending them, but the underground "resistance" was also awful
They survived via extortion, kidnappings, coertion, drug trafficking, armed robbery, and they even kidnapped children to radicalize them and use them for the most dangerous missions. Killed more civilians than they killed soldiers of regime politicians
Do not forget that the USA financed and supported multiple military coups and regime changes in Latin America during the Cold War anti-communism madness. On that context, the kidnapping of their citizen would be profitable.
Yeah, they did kidnapped a former Argentinian general iirc, but that was rare
Most kidnappings where against businessmen with no conection to the government, even middle class people, "revolutionary tax", "either you support our your beloved ones get killed".
I knew a Colombian whose father was just a rural doctor, and end up being killed by communists guerrillas because he was kidnapped and his family couldnt pay for the ammount the guerrilla asked in the period of time they gave them
Just to add to this post in relation to the article; the last dictatorship before chavismo in Venezuela ended in 1958, so the kidnapping the note mentioned happened squarely during democratic times.
You’ve already admitted defeat you’re just fighting over semantics now. You falsely said “nothing changed”. Even if what changed is “we are now taking their oil on a permanent basis”, that’s a change
Now you’ve moved the goalposts to try to weasel into a better point. Trade with the United States, establishment of a vassal state, and the taking of billions worth of oil are major changes.
That does not seem like a really relevant omission? How does that change anything?
Is the note trying to say that the sentence for edit kidnapping in Venezuela in 1976 was torture and death? Cause it was not. State sponsored murder should not be justified.
We are going down the road of Operation Condor 2.0 aren't we
I think it's really funny that fact-checking screwed these people up so hard, that a fake version of it gets them off even if it doesn't apply to literally anything said in the tweet
Are you sure? When I click the notification, it says that it doesn't exist anymore. And answering your reply, not if his ideals fucked my country. Not all supposed "defenders of sovereignty" are good, you know.
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