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

A smart thread from @bctallis. Do read.
RT @bctallis: How to deal with #Russia
- Short thread based on my talk at #LennartMeriConference 2023. #NeoIdealism

1. Ukraine's war is our war - & must be won.
That means restoring UA's 1991 borders & ensuring UA's ability to defend them - & the people within them. https://t.co/8nWKhjmKbJ

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RT @danielmullen: @wartranslated This is a very small area in a region with perhaps 1.5 million residents, but it shows just how thin the resources are within Russia. This would be the ideal time for all sorts of parties to take advantage of the situation all around the Russian Federation. #FreeRussia https://t.co/RjyhrE12Y4

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RT @Miguel_L71: Surprise, surprise; this thug did it "outside the potty" in the US, he loots in Russia but loves to live like a king in the decadent Free World! #russiaIsCollapsing https://t.co/xGvlCMxvs2

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Attn: @koutchoukalimar
RT @secretsqrl123: lots of people asking who will pay for the dutch F16s... dont worry holland has been waiting for years for payback https://t.co/LbB6JXFgvy

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Another country where populism (in this case left-populism, like right-populism, pro-Putin) roundly defeated by normal people.
RT @visegrad24: The New Democracy party of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis won the Greek elections today with 40%(a 1% increase)

The far-left, pro-Russian Syriza party declined by 11 percentage points, bringing them down to 20%

Varoufakis & his Pro-Russian MeRA25 are out of parliament

🇬🇷🇺🇦 https://t.co/22PTantmjD

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The embodiment of the Okhrana, NKVD, KGB, GRU and the FSB.
RT @BRyvkin: On the night of his assassination, Rasputin ate two poisoned pastries. Nothing happened. Drank a few glasses of poisoned madeira. Also nothing. He was then shot once, collapsed, arose & lunged at his killers. Then he was shot four more times before dying. Not 100% of this world. https://t.co/5QeUhCUwIH

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Nature vähem vingumist palun
RT @EU_Eurostat: ❄️🏠 In 2021, 6.9% of the EU population was unable to keep their home adequately warm.

Largest shares in:
🇧🇬Bulgaria (24%)
🇱🇹Lithuania (23%)
🇨🇾Cyprus (19%)

Lowest shares in:
🇫🇮Finland (1%)
🇸🇪Sweden, 🇸🇮Slovenia and 🇦🇹Austria (all below 2%)

👉 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20230515-1 https://t.co/qEV80Jf0kX

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TFW you see yourself vicariously reliving 2003
RT @Prune602: @JuliaDavisNews “We should remember that we’re standing alone”

~ Margarita Simonyan

All alone…could it be a consequence of your actions?

🇷🇺: 😡😭 https://t.co/i4tFwztJAK https://t.co/sKiWeTJaSk

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No wonder he drank too much... again. Those Anglo-Saxons and their CEE poodles again.
RT @ManiacMagic1: Lavrov's daughter expelled from Georgia with her relatives - Mtavari

She came to a wedding and booked the entire hotel, where Georgians protested outside. President Zurabishvili intervened and canceled the wedding. Lavrov's relatives were then expelled from the country. https://t.co/S52cLo5U88

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Bad hangover again? Hitting the sauce with Dima the Dim and Maria "lumpy sugar" Zahharova?
RT @RFI: Sommet du G7: une réunion d'«hystérie anti-russe et anti-chinoise» aux yeux de Moscou https://t.co/lfNZ8yOXbt https://t.co/krfRaw0jDU

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RT @anno1540: 💪 Sweden tacitly helped Ukraine prepare a full-blooded mechanized brigade numbering from 3 to 5 thousand people - The Times
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ukraine-spring-counter-offensive-explained-kyiv-key-options-objectives-9srbnml7h
According to sources, the brigade is equipped with Leopard 2 tanks, CV-90 infantry fighting vehicles and Archer artillery systems,… https://t.co/vwUskyFSlU https://t.co/yByV8sNwWX

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🤣 while its banks bankroll Russia.

This is not a serious country but with NATO guarding its eastern, northern and southern borders it doesn’t have to be.
RT @pravda_eng: 🤯 Austria's Defence Minister still insists that immediate participation in Ukraine's mine clearance violates neutrality
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/05/18/7402861/ https://t.co/xTk78b7M8B

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When do we start to quit this pointless organization that fulfills none of its initial intended purposes?
RT @MarkKersten: Deeply troubling.

UN official Virginia Gamba met w #ICC fugitive, Russia's Maria Lvova-Belova. The ICC Prosecutor, who has just been targeted by an absurd an arrest warrant by the Kremlin, asked the UN not to send Gamba. He was ignored. So too were Ukraine's abducted children. https://t.co/pegbFuh1fw

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Superb analysis from @NTenzer
RT @NTenzer: My 85th long-read on my strategy blog is the second part of my long essay on our medium- and long-term strategy for the time after #Russia's radical defeat.
After the democratic strategy, the strategy of deterrence (theses 6 to 14).
3rd part will come soon
https://tenzerstrategics.substack.com/p/twenty-theses-on-democracies-post-0cd https://t.co/7SYe46I26T

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Wherein @DarthPutinKGB and Solovyov experience a meeting of minds.
RT @KuldkeppMart: @SpaghettiKozak https://t.co/4o9PkZULNG

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A bunch of junior Colonels the NatSec community has never heard of or read, a paid Putin shill professor and a former ambassador known as a Russia apologist.

No wonder it's a paid advertisement. Trump used to pay for anti-NATO ads too.

"14 US national security experts", my *ss.
RT @Mylovanov: NYTimes publishes a (paid) letter by 14 US national security experts. Jeffrey Sachs among the signees.

It calls for peace by stopping to support Ukraine.

Every claim i…

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It was like this in Estonia 80 years ago.

Funny how people don't forget.
RT @charliekreuz: Check out Instagram page “@Wallevidence” for a collection of messages scrawled on Ukrainian surfaces by the Russians. Shocking but unsurprising reading. (H/t @francisjfarrell) https://t.co/jTwdQ3yE4Y

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Huomio Suomi! You don’t actually have the prime minister you think you do.

Or you have become a Baltic country again.
RT @francis_scarr: Today on Russian state TV, "expert" Alexei Fenenko achieved something really special

He was talking so much rubbish about the "Finnish prime minister" Kaja Kallas that even Olga Skabeyeva decided she had to intervene

And then he carried on as if nothing had happened https://t.co/STQrpeAZvn

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Special Counsel Jack Smith is NEVER going to get to finish.
RT @MuellerSheWrote: He told her that he and Donald were selling pardons for $2M, which he would split with Donald. 7/ https://t.co/7fchOP0XrR

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Best, most revealing thread of the day on what Russian mythology is about.
RT @mbk_center: It’s very interesting to see who Putin chose to sit next to during the Victory Day parade.

The two men next to him in this photo may have been presented as WW2 veterans, but neither served in that war at all.

But if they are not WW2 veterans, who are they? 1/6 https://t.co/aE1PrhFa0U

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