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

For Schifinson Central and Easter Europeans are expendable. Let the Russians enjoy their orgy of bloodlust, then you'll get gas, trade and be happy.
Bad NATO enlargement!
Schifrinson failed to get Ukrainian-style killing fields in the Baltics States.
https://carnegieendowment.org/2023/10/16/what-washington-got-wrong-about-nato-expansion-in-1990s-pub-90771

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Tech bros really want to be gangsta rappers
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FriendlyKozak 🇺🇦: Breaking: Scientists are puzzled at recent evidence that suggests that one can continue to become even more divorced, even years after signing papers.
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Hanerasv and viinasokk kui Covidiravi ja sarnased parteid asuvad teadagi kus. Meedia asub lohus. Kas keegi aga ronib paremal serval ülespoole?
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daniel vaarik: Kas pead ka vahel lolluse mäel piknikku? Ehk siis see olukord, kus sa vaatasid Youtube'ist teema kohta ühte filmi ja arvad, et asi ongi selge.
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History of CEE. The order may vary, however.
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Wojtek44: #OTD in 1747 the Załuski Library opened to the public in Warsaw, Poland. Its initial collection of 200K volumes grew to 400K by 1794, which made it the biggest public library in 18th-c. Europe. It was first looted by Russians and later burned by Germans.📽️ https://youtube.com/watch?v=gX2lULi15Yw
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People who have said not a word about Russian war crimes, rapes, torture, castrations, kidnapping of Ukrainian children, DEMAND in all caps cancellation of the legalization of gay marriage by the Estonian parliament.
Gay marriages are illegal in Russia, and war crimes legal too.
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Lєta 🇺🇦 enneaegne artikulatsioon: Lausa nõuavad
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This is rather sick. But glad Russia now agrees that the crimes of the Soviet Union are Russian, not anyone else's.
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Stardust Collector: Look at this Russia-produced clip where Russia with a matreshka breaks the emblem of Ukraine and the USSR emblem appears.
Recently, Ukraine replaced the USSR swastikas for a trizub at the memorial of Motherland.
Think about this clip next time you see a matreshka, not an…
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The Finno-Ugric Liiv minority in Latvia visited by President @edgarsrinkevics.
(Unfortunately Twitter translates Liiv (libiešu) as the "Libyan" language.
cc: @X
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Valsts prezidenta kanceleja: Valsts prezidents @edgarsrinkevics Mazirbē: "Latvijas valsts pienākums ir nosargāt lībiešu valodu un kultūras mantojumu!"
🔗https://www.president.lv/lv/jaunums/valsts-prezidents-mazirbe-latvijas-valsts-pienakums-ir-nosargat-libiesu-valodu-un-kulturas-mantojumu
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toomas ilves, ex-verif: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/russian-bombers-us-patriot-surface-to-air-missiles-ukraine-dh6x8vcgn
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The Washington Post: The looming courtroom showdown is poised to push his insistence that election fraud occurred in 2020 toward the center of the 2024 presidential campaign, a dismaying prospect for Republicans and some of Trump’s advisers who have urged him to stop belaboring that subject.…
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Well it is the UN after all. Did you expect anything else?
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Denis Zakharov: So UN is concerned about a person who:
- Was a combatant during the invasion in 2014
- Publicaly refused to wear press vests
- Traveled inside Russian military vehicles all the time
- Was an open nationalist with his "nazbol" Instagram handle
How is this about cluster munitions? https://t.co/I9UK21Nozu
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Re Ok, no lion anymore. City-slickers can't the difference between a wild boar and a lion.
https://n.respublicae.eu/brianklaas/status/1682397104105222144?s=20
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Brian Klaas: Okay then https://t.co/x4VMpIirVA
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They are so sick. All that "culture", with no effect whatsoever.
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Save Ukraine: "If we don't learn the 🇷🇺 anthem, they will send us to the basement, where they interrogate and beat you if you say something wrong." Such horrors were experienced by Nastya (16) in occupied Henichesk. We managed to bring the girl home before the Russians sent her to an orphanage https://t.co/YVBFoKFNk5
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"The buck stops with the crank lawyers that gave the president advice that he followed"
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Republican Accountability: Mike Pence on the potential indictment of Trump for Jan. 6:
"I hope it doesn't come to that. I'm not convinced that the president acting on the bad advice of a group of crank lawyers that came into the White House in the days before January 6 is actually criminal." https://t.co/tT7ibFU6LS
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Miks on Vene Õigususklik Kirik Eestis ikka registreeritud?
Neid videosid on sadade kaupa. Kas ukrainlaste tapmise õnnistamine on "usuvabadus"?
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Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇦: The reality of russian “Christianity.” The russian Orthodox Church is a demonic and terrorist organization. The russian orthodox priests continue to bless tanks and rockets so they would be more effective at killing Ukrainians. https://t.co/4FYMQyp1jR
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Re https://n.respublicae.eu/KarinaVinnikova/status/1676316292838563845?s=20
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Karina Vinnikova: @CriTown @i_am_weasel_98 @Orlined @preciousInka They are.
But 🇷🇺 Christianity is when a priest hallows a ballistic missile called “Satan”. https://t.co/MfnpAN7gBy
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Glad to see a little sanity from LATAM in this gremium
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Benjamin Alvarez: "Today it is Ukraine, but tomorrow it could be any of us." Chilean President Gabriel Boric with an impassioned speech at the #EUCELAC Summit in Brussels today. With English subtitles: https://t.co/E0rOE9VOyB
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Yet they whine and cry "Russophobia" when they can't visas to the EU. "It's a violation of human rights!"
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Bad Baltic Takes: At a beach resort in russia, a banner encourages people from the Baltic countries and gay people to go drown themselves. (Other tourists pay double.)
Of course, there are no tourists to read this here. In reality, russia’s efforts to lure people from the Baltics to russia have… https://n.respublicae.eu/i/web/status/1681233872804012035 https://t.co/6rtPPy3xa2
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Hungary's idea of how to win friends and influence people.
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Ambassador David Pressman: Statement of Hungary’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in response to the joint statement of 38 countries below: https://t.co/GaNyRLtYeG
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Good analytic thread from @icds' @IvanUlisesKK on Russia's unilateral Black Sea Grain Initiative suspension.
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Ivan U. Kłyszcz: Russia's suspended participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative might play out differently from the last time it did so, in October 2022. Four points to highlight:
First, Putin has been hinting since March at creating a Russian grain… https://t.co/xVgSS9rIi8
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"the sides of the road could be mined.”
Best tourism promotion I've seen in my life.
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Steve Rosenberg: After the attack on the Kerch bridge, Russian newspapers encouraging readers to go ahead with summer holidays in occupied Crimea, suggesting a 400km detour to get there, but warning against too many stops along the way: “the sides of the road could be mined.” #ReadingRussia https://t.co/oAYGTGdqYa
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