This headline might be confusing for Americans. Free insulin?
I took it to mean they are withholding insulin from anyone that doesn’t have Russian citizenship. Price or no price.
The article does say free insulin paid by the government. We have that in my country (Brazil), even for foreigners, but my first thought was that in the USA not even citizens get that.
Unitedstatesans minds blowing right now.
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Because I’m not a redneck who only watches and understands news about the weekend chicken fight in his own backyard?
An official document has already been issued [by the Russia-appointed administration] that medicines purchased from the Russian state budget will not be issued to foreign citizens, that is, citizens of Ukraine.
It does not sound that sinister until you realize these people usually can’t even get back to Ukraine.
for me anyway it is really sinister. Putin is evil.
Yeah, it’s really fucked up once you zoom out a bit. You wouldn’t even do this to POWs and these people are civilians that are being treated even worse.
For context: A Type 1 diabetic, the type that requires insulin to survive, will live for, about a week or so, tops, without any insulin. And that week is going to be torture as diabetic ketoacidosis sets in and the body literally starts trying to eat itself to stay alive, while the person becomes dehydrated from the constant pissing and never-ending thirst, and their blood turns into basically, syrup.
This is torture, plain and simple.
My first thought was that maybe Russia was experiencing shortages due to the deteriorating economic situation in Russia but, reading the article, this feels more like a petty bureaucrat that’s upset that the occupied people of Ukraine are not cooperating as well as he wishes, so he makes passive-aggressive “punishments” of the people. This may ultimately be good for the war effort, leading to more behind-the-lines resistance movements.
Putin has done so many shitty things during the war that it’s hard to rank them. This, however, is among the worst.
No, no, deliberately bombing a shelter with the word “Children” on it was the…
You know what, it’s all bad. It’s impossible to rank.
I think forceful deportation of people to Russia is worse. But that’s just my opinion.
This is incredibly cruel.
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