“Mark our words, the European Union will spare no effort in ensuring that Putin experiences absolutely no repercussions for the outrageous death of a key opposition leader,” said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
This part, even though from the same article, is true…
At press time, the U.S. House of Representatives had reacted in solidarity to the statement with an arms bill guaranteeing $0 of aid to the Ukrainian military.
Sorry for mixing real NON-ONION news in here — I know you’re all easily confused to begin with — but…
From the Michigan Advance article: Death of Russian dissident raises stakes for U.S. aid to Ukraine, Biden warns…
[…]the U.S. House adjourned Thursday for a President’s Day recess without acting on aid.[…] House members are scheduled to return Feb. 28.
“It’s about time they step up, don’t you think? Instead of going on a two-week vacation?” Biden told reporters. “Two weeks. What are they thinking? My God, this is bizarre. And it’s just reinforcing all the concern, and almost — I won’t say panic, but real concern about the United States being a reliable ally. This is outrageous.”
Life once again imitates art. – r2
The Onion needs to try harder. This isn’t comedy; this is just news.
I thought that’s what they have usually done though? Just state the news in a blunt way that points out how fucking absurd it is.
The joke only works if you are ignorant to the reality of the world. Dude has been charged with war crimes already. What do you want world leaders to do? Invade Russia and effect a regime change? A) This was tried before, it didn’t go well and B) dude has nukes so doing that will go wayyyyy worse than it did the last time it was tried.
So we have to pretend regime change is easy and also pretend Russia doesn’t have nuclear weapons so that we can pretend that it would be easy to punish Putin for his crimes so we can react with “Heh, yeah world leaders are useless, LOL.”
Or, just bear with me, there are other options short of WW3… I know, crazy.