toomas ilves, ex-verif @ilvestoomas@respublicae.eu
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A perceptive and thoughtful thread from @MassDara
RT @MassDara: Sharing some overdue thoughts today.
First up: appraisal of the operation under Surovikin’s command, Russia’s transition to the defensive, and the strategy underpinning their strikes on Ukraine’s electrical grid. (/1)
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1601322896739422208
The provincialism and isolation from the real world by these talking heads probably explains a good deal of their proclivity toward glorifying genocide.
RT @bayraktar_1love: Russian propagandists are surprised that there are people in Kherson who can speak English.
Imagine their pure surprise if they find out that there is also an English-speaking cat from Kherson
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Another Bannon acolyte flooding the zone with idiocy
RT @atrupar: Rep. James Comer on Fox News suggests the Brittney Griner prisoner swap had something to do with Hunter Biden
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1601312440914149376
From Ribbentrop on, a simply outstanding sense of responsibility for its own actions, eh @dw_russian
RT @dw_russian: Жизнь для российского вождя
Приятней все же без "Дождя".
Карикатура DW
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1601210136328298497
Good confession for The Hague
RT @EuromaidanPress: Putin admits that Russian army strives to destroy critical civilian infrastructure in Ukraine
Russia seeks to destroy 🇺🇦energy system in order to retaliate for Ukrainian strikes on the Crimean bridge, Putin claims.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1600982960248827904
Been hanging out with Dima the Dim again, it seems.
RT @anders_aslund: This is the first time that I have seen Putin seeming drunk in any context. He talks nonsense as usual, but he seems to realize that he is a loser. Very interesting & promising. All Russians will see that he is drunk & weak.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1600956462012207105
Do so, this is a great program.
RT @StanfordCDDRL: #Ukrainian practitioners & policymakers: Apply now for CDDRL's Strengthening Ukrainian Democracy and Development (SU-DD) Program — a 7-week training program to foster actionable solutions to current challenges for Ukrainian democracy & human development ➡️ https://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/su-dd
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1600955291918471168
Another smart, intriguing thread from Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani
RT @kamilkazani: National Divorce
Within the next year Russia will spiral into a deep political crisis. There is a nonzero chance that it may scale up existing separatist tendencies leading to the breakup of the empire. In this thread I will outline a model of how this process could look like🧵
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1600583182772051968
😂🤣
RT @steve_vladeck: “Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?”
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1600549224625717266
I was waiting for the trolls to start in with the personal, obscenity-laced attacks regarding Dozhd. It took two hours. Slow day.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1600242533182775296
Wow. The brother of the police officer murdered by the mob on January 6th about the congressmen who denied the crime yet had the audacity to show up at the ceremony for the defenders of the Congress.
RT @MacFarlaneNews: FLASH: Family of officer Brian Sicknick refuses to shake hands with Sen McConnell and Rep McCarthy at Congressional gold medal ceremony. Brian’s brother Ken Sicknick tells me why ====>
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1600237560227278849
Sorry, but this is no way to run a TV station abroad.
Milan Kundera has an essay "Why I translated Diderot" (i.e. not Dostoyevsky). You can't have an ethical system based on raw emotions, rending hair and wailing.
Dozhd needs editorial supervision and guidelines not this.
RT @echofm_online: Генеральный директор телеканала «Дождь» Наталья Синдеева просит вернуться на работу уволенного ведущего эфира Алексея Коростелёва и других журналистов, которые ушли в послед…
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1600221378317148160
I know it's hard to accept but Latvia is no longer your colony. It's a foreign country. If you repeatedly treat its laws and its culture with imperial contempt, it will backfire.
Calling oneself a liberal or anti-putin gets no special dispensation or entitlements.
Life is tough
RT @realNepareizais: Pašlaik VISI labie krievi- 🇷🇺liberālā opozīcija vienotā fronē uzbrūk Latvijai. Un man nav nekādu šaubu, ka pienāks diena, kad viņi līdzīgi uzbruks Ukrainai. Par kriev…
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Maybe they’ll even use it to wash themselves 🤷
RT @Gerashchenko_en: First toilets and washing machines, now bathtubs.
What do you think they will put on their looting lists next?
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1600167512276373504
It's Figaro Putin. Amazing how he can make ice sculptures in far away Chita *and* run the country.
Only Putin is to blame.
RT @Maks_NAFO_FELLA: In Chita (Russia) , ice figures of orks were installed around the fountain on Lenin Square.
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1600139610109378563
"As we talked about earlier, the rest of us are not in favor of Putin's puppet".
RT @daniel_freund: THIS is the sound of the Hungarian veto against financial aid for Ukraine:
"Hungary is not in favor of the amendment of the financial regulation."
Orban is going into full escalation.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1600088995798536193
Hyvää itsenäisyyspäivää!
Onnittelut Suomelle ja suomalaisille!
Õnnitlusi Soome ja soomlastele!
Ever since our arrival up here in this oh-so-hospitable part of Europe, our *peoples* have been at each other's side.
Soon at NATO headquarters, our flags will fly side by side too.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1600057708446556160
Rest in peace, heroes.
RT @FormulaGe: 33 Georgians have died defending #Ukraine since #Russia's full-fledged invasion started on February 24th. These are their names.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1599825887800610816
Oh yes, give 'em visas...
RT @TOrynski: This is what I found on my car this morning. Someone also spat on it and tried to break of my mirrors (luckily they fold both ways so no damage done). Apparently some friendly Russian person is not happy with it being parked in Finland. Why? (1)
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1599714428567502848
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