toomas ilves, ex-verif @ilvestoomas@respublicae.eu

How to say you are an utter joke of an authoritarian regime without saying "we are an utter joke of an authoritarian regime"

@radeksikorski @carlbildt @kvolker @IevaIlves @tkesho3 @EtoBuziashvili @achkhikvadze
RT @FormulaGe: Georgia’s imprisoned former President @SaakashviliM has gone on hunger strike after being denied to attend his own trial virtually “due to lack of equipment.”

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😂But you won't reach anywhere in Europe until the visa ban is lifted anyway.
RT @Tendar: Russia couldn't even take Marinka after 8 years, a suburb of Donetsk City. But the art of the clownery was perfected by Russians.

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Yeah, Nürnberg is a far more appropriate place anyway.
RT @Gerashchenko_en: Attention, Netherlands!

Solovyev is displeased with the idea of a tribunal in the Hague.

Can't wait to see him there, on trial.

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Yeah, Iran's 55% inflation rate is simply great.
RT @polinaivanovva: Another oligarch told us — Iran gives him hope:

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What's her name? The Hague would certainly be interested. Another one to be charged with promoting genocide. Rwandans who did this got life in prison.

And Russian talking head propaganda stars are already getting nervous.
RT @sumlenny: The biggest Russian TV channel Rossia is happy that the Ukrainians suffer without electricity. The host makes jokes about a 18 y.o. girl who nearly died using a gas-powered generator. Why don't we send tanks to Ukraine, @Bundeskanz…

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Yeah, it's better to let those Russian drones and missiles kill Ukrainians in their own land unimpeded.

It's escalation!
RT @Euan_MacDonald: Case in point. Russia understands perfectly that NATO is a defense alliance, and the only threat it poses is to the Kremlin’s ability to invade its neighbors. It even moved troops from its border with Norway and sent them to Ukraine.

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Everyone send a greeting to @maksymeristavi please.
RT @apmassaro3: .@maksymeristavi was shadowbanned yesterday after sounding the alarm on the deplatforming of Ukrainians. I recommend everyone follow him for critical insights into Russian colonialism

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A polite understatement.
RT @andrewmichta: “To be a leader one has to have others willing to follow you. #Germany is finding this increasingly difficult today.” ⁦@bctallis⁩ speaking at the “Europe at War” conference in Stockholm. #Zeitenwende ⁦@AtlanticCouncil⁩ ⁦@KASNordics⁩ ⁦@Marshall_Center⁩

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С Новым Годом!
RT @VeikoSpolitis: Merry #Christmas /щасливого #Різдва! P.S. Seems that the representatives of Muscovite anti-civilisation have forgotten the dialect of Ukrainian language.

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But give us visas!!!
RT @justartsndstuff: "Pro-Putin Russian thug Simeon Boikov AKA “Aussie Cossack” was arrested today after he live streamed himself pushing an elderly Ukraine supporter down the stairs in Sydney, smashing the old man’s head into the pavement.

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Worth watching. Hope the guy is ok after this.
RT @wartranslated: Epic fail on Russian TV: channel interviewed a man who returned from Ukrainian capture, to talk about "horrors of Ukrainian captivity". The man goes on to tell they were treated well, fed 3 times a day, rights read out in full, the Geneva Convention properly followed.

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I wonder if EU officials and member state ambassadors meet with this guy? Seems like a real European.
RT @FormulaGe: "Let him f**ing die," Victor Japaridze, a Georgian Dream MP tells a colleague amid reports of @SaakashviliM's declining health in detention

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1602638703914274816

🤣 This is rich. I imagine Goebbels also issued statements like this. @DarthPutinKGB
RT @RussianEmbassy: #Russia records all cases of #UK’s & other Western capitals’ involvement in financial encouragement & arming of #Kievregime, in planning military actions against 🇷🇺facilities & military personnel. There will be specific legal consequences for all involved.
https://london.mid.ru/en/press-centre/embassy_comment_on_inappropriate_statements_by_some_uk_officials_december_11_2022/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1602381769579298836

2026? 🤣.

The Russian economy and military will crater long before 2026. Stolen Ukrainian toilets will be a dime a dozen at the Red Square flea market. Too bad there's no demand for them.
RT @ANovorossiya: Do not mess with Russia. Russia have enough military force to completely push Ukrainian forces to Lviv by 2026.

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This is kind of funny. Obnoxiously using its veto to blackmail the EU and blocking aid to Ukraine, Orban discovers there are work-arounds.

The EU is not stupid. Nor are its "bureaucrats". I'd start worrying about other work-arounds, ones that would leave Hungary out in the cold
RT @bneintellinews: EU Council adopted €18bn aid for Ukraine despite veto by Hungary . #bne #EmergingMarkets #hungary #ukraine https://intellinews.com/eu-council-adopted-18bn-aid-for-ukraine-despite-veto-by-hungary-264971/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1602227201767870465

Huh??? "International cooperation including with Russia (5)"

What planet are they living on?
RT @Abebab: this is a European Commission funded survey on future directions of AI and it is filled with unrealistic 0 world problems... i see the influence of longtermism everywhere 🙄

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Russia really knows how get people to like them.
RT @Gerashchenko_en: Arman Shuraev, a public figure and professional journalist from Kazakhstan, replied to arrogant speech and threats of Russian ambassador in Kazakhstan, Borodavkin.

Russia is losing its influence among its neighbors and is rightly viewed as a threat.

📹: Arman Shuraev/YouTube

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Thread on the insanity of Russia’s assault on Bakhmut
RT @Tendar: Instead of trying to encircle Bakhmut and slowly taking it, the Russian High command seems to have decided to launch a frontal attack on the city itself, proving my suspicion that Putin wants the city as fast as possible even when this means highest rate of own casualties. 1/8

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I keep being told I shouldn’t talk about former politicians
RT @RockOla69: Heinäluoma ei kieltäytynyt ottamasta kunniamerkkiä vastaan, vaikka Venäjä oli jo miehittänyt Krimin ja tuhonnut Aleppon kaupungin terroripommituksilla maan tasalle.

HILJAA!

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1601347849392123904

Indeed, why *should* Europe’s WHO HQ be located in A country whose State media peddaled anti-vaxer propaganda abroad?
RT @martenkokk: We 🇪🇪 proposed at #EPSCO meeting today to relocate the WHO’s European Office for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (NCD Office) from Moscow to Tallinn. Collaboration with agressor state in this respect would be unethical and irresponsible. #EPSCO

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