I’m sorry the rest of the world doesn’t cowtail to your far right delusional version of reality

Hey now, you can’t forget the standing ovation for Yaroslav Hunka country

War crimes lol, war crimes like saving Donbas from mass murder by fanatic Ukrainian nationalists?

Ah yes, 100% made up. That poor Azov Battalion just doesn’t know what the flag means, they are too innocent

If you ban a huge amount of your country from leaving then you don’t have open borders. Simple as that. Banning men from leaving doesn’t make it an open border just because old women can leave.

Banning political parties, overthrowing your political opponents, arresting dissidents, and killing ethnic Russians in the east of the country are all markers of a functioning democracy!

Why, all the other democracies in the world need to take a page out of Ukraine’s book, start funding all of your news sources with foreign aid!

Historically that has not been the trend. Prohibition had related issues that could be dealt with, with the hindsight we have now but it you look at it, Prohibition was successful at reducing alcoholism. Secondly, no one said to make it illegal, just to put warnings on it to reduce consumption. Thirdly, there are other ways of reducing consumption besides outright criminalization, like raising taxes on a product significantly or limiting its sales for individuals.

This ignores the other issues of alcohol. Cigarettes may be worse for the one consuming them but alcohol kills many, many people in car crashes that would have been preventable without alcohol. Stopping the consumption of alcohol needs to be a goal as far as possible. Your point about cooking, I don’t really see as too important. Sure, alcohol has uses like cleaning or cooking, this doesn’t change the danger present from it.

Global Times is not China. It’s one news source so statements made by Global Times, especially in the editorials aren’t inherently statements made my China. They are run by individuals who sent the articles in. To claim that China made this statement is ridiculous and would be akin to saying that the US made a statement on something because of a single article NPR ran or that the UK made a statement because of a single article run by the BBC.