Drudge Retort: The Other Side of the News
Monday, February 09, 2026

  • Russian, Belorussian, and Israeli athletes compete at the Winter Olympics while Ukrainian athletes have been marginalized. The Israeli team was booed, as was VPOTUS JD and Usha Vance.
  • Hungary PM Viktor Orban declared Ukraine an enemy state. Hungary is an EU and NATO member and Orban is an ally of ICC-indicted war criminal Vladimir Putin.
  • Kiev denies involvement in an assassination attempt on Russian GRU General Vladimir Alekseev.
  • Ukrainian intelligence warns that Russia offered the US an economic cooperation package worth about $12 trillion (AKA the "Dmitriev package").
  • Germany indicted a Ukrainian national in connection with an alleged Russia-orchestrated plot to mail explosive parcels across Europe.
  • Russia continues attacking Ukraine's nuclear reactors sites with rockets and drones, trying to freeze and demoralize their population.
  • Total number of Russian military personnel losses KIA or WIA: 1,245,290.

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    While tens of thousands of people in Ukraine and Gaza suffered t the hands of Russian and Israel during the Bread and Circuses of the 2024 Summer Olympiad in Paris, the people of Ukraine and Gaza continue suffering today during the spectacle of the 2026 Winter Olympiad in Milan. And now Americans are suffering under the Iron Heel of the fascist and nefarious Trumpf junta.

    ~snip~

    International arrest warrants for war crimes issued by the ICC remain active for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, former IDF General Yoav Gallan, and Russian President Vladimir Putin. In addition, the Istanbul Public Prosecutor in Turkiye issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and 30 other suspected Israeli war criminals.

    In accordance with international law and the legally-binding ICC warrants, popular NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani pledged that he will order the NYPD to arrest Messrs Netanyahu and Putin should they appear in NYC jurisdiction for the UNGA or other matters. Similarly, Canada PM Mark Carney stated that he too would honor these ICC arrest warrants for those two sinister malefactors. The CBSA and the RCMP would immediately detain Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin the moment either of them land on Canadian soil.

    NYPD ESU is a well-trained and experienced tactical force designed to deal with lethal mass casualty-causing threats posed from terrorists, so the bodyguard details (PSD) protecting Netanyahu or Putin would be quickly rendered ineffective by these professionals. The RCMP is the analog of the US FBI and would similarly deal with the Israeli or Russian PSDs guarding Putin and Netanyahu.

    Indictments are merely allegations. To ensure a fair trial, Messrs Netanyahu, Gallant, and Putin must all be presumed innocent until they are proven guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt at an international tribunal to be held for them in the Hague at future dates.


    #1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-09 01:55 PM | Reply

    Coriolanus is aware that he has been *Killfiled* only four times.

    Your humble Bronx High School of Science graduate, blue collar Shakespearean, and retired US Army Lieutenant-Colonel finds it an honor to be "plonked" by rightwing trolls, AIPAC shills, antisemites, Islamophobes, and foreign agitators.

    Coriolanus will continue to fight for justice and the underdog in the US and other countries, denounce oligarchy and their sniveling kapos, as well as point out the hypocrisies of faux progressives on drudge.com and other platforms.




    #2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-09 05:27 PM | Reply

    For just one example of double standards and ultimate hypocrisy, Israel killed 71,851 Palestinians in Gaza since 7 Oct 2023, mostly women and children. 171,365 Palestinians have been wounded or maimed during the collective punishment pogrom against all of the Muslim inhabitants of Gaza to make way for a resort for Israeli real estate developers and lunatic Settlers.

    Excluding Ukrainian military casualties, Russia has killed 14,999 civilians in Ukraine and injured or wounded 40,601 since Feb 2022.

    Russian national athletes are therefore prohibited from participating in FIFA and the Olympics and must play under a neutral flag.

    But the Israeli national team proudly participated in the 2024 Summer Olympiad in Paris and is now at the 2026 Winter Olympiad in Milan, where they were rightly booed and jeered by the audience.

    US, EU, and global hypocrisy are simply stifling.


    #3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-09 06:21 PM | Reply

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