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Funny thing, WaPo of all places allowed a negative piece about this very matter a few years ago. Other ghastly extermination-by-abortion stats mentioned in that article include a 90% rate in the UK and 98% in Denmark.

Uh, yeah, and that makes them fucking monsters. People with Down syndrome can still lead productive, happy lives and an increasing number of them do just that as treatments improve (with modern medicine someone with Down's can reasonably expect to live to 60, for instance) - it's not an...

If you're a diplomat and can't think of anything diplomatic to say, you probably should not say anything at all, to paraphrase an old saying. In general, maintaining pleasantries even under enormous stress is literally a part of the job of being a diplomat and while embassies are often closed &...

If I were a supposedly trained diplomat like Melnyk? I'd be careful to maintain professionalism and dignity in my response, which means either not commenting at all or dropping a simple and restrained 'we can't do that'. Preferably the former, especially if my president has already responded to...

I don't believe it's unreasonable to expect diplomats to be able to control themselves and react diplomatically to a simple Twitter poll, especially when it's fairly obvious that the downside to pissing off a guy who is providing an important service to your embattled country massively outweighs...

I would have thought a diplomat might know well enough to, you know, comport himself in a diplomatic manner, even if he disagrees vehemently with the other guy - seriously reminds me of the sort of beggar who'd yell at you and even throw the money you already gave him back at you because it...

While that's hilarious, I was honestly thinking more-so about Biden, Blinken, Nuland etc. when I was writing up my post. TBH if Zelensky actually manages to pull through with a reasonable compromise that leaves Ukraine mostly intact and himself in the presidential office with his head still...