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The NATO Communique and Ukraine: Too Clever by Half, by @PhillipsPOBrien https://open.substack.com/pub/phillipspobrien/p/the-nato-communique-and-ukraine-too?r=qn26&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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This, by military expert @PhillipsPOBrien, is what the communique should have said.
https://open.substack.com/pub/phillipspobrien/p/the-nato-communique-and-ukraine-too?r=qn26&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1679014911219736576
That's overdoing it. The glue of Art 5 is if it fails for anyone, the whole edifice collapses. Has nothing to do with Eastern Europe. If it fails for one, it fails for all. https://n.respublicae.eu/SpaghettiKozak/status/1678838964508143617
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SK Media🇺🇦: Absolutely this. The message russia gets is that an attack on Estonia or Latvia is likely to get the same "Why die for (obscure EE territory" whining, which could lead to Article V being ignored. https://n.respublicae.eu/mhmck/status/1678811038764892163
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It's back to nuking us... https://n.respublicae.eu/Gerashchenko_en/status/1678662934266892289
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Anton Gerashchenko: Russian propagandist Skabeyeva muses about nuclear and world war. She hopes to "control" that the war reaches even countries across the ocean. https://t.co/eh06Hrwkjs
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The 2020s version of the "Radical Chic" lampooned by Tom Wolfe in his eponymous essay 50 years ago.
Feted in Hollywood and Cannes, silent on Ukraine, jet-set cosplaying dissidents and the offended victims of a grassroots anti-trolling movement.
It really doesn't wash. At all. https://n.respublicae.eu/XSovietNews/status/1678723286480433155
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XSovietNews 🇺🇦: Leonid Volkov, Yulia Navalnaya and other Navalny associates arrive in Vilnius to lobby at the NATO summit to say that Russians are victims more than Ukrainians. https://n.respublicae.eu/sasha_sotnik/status/1678722885244813313
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Bucharest Redux. Rather wimpy, I'd say. But VVP is happy. https://n.respublicae.eu/HenryJFoy/status/1678788774166183937
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Henry Foy: And here it is. Nato's new statement, 15 years on from 2008, on Ukraine's membership ambitions.
"We will be in a position to extend an invitation to Ukraine to join the Alliance when Allies agree and conditions are met."
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/official_texts_217320.htm https://t.co/E9wPqgL2tn
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.@CER_IanBond nails the NATO final statement on NATO membership for Ukraine. https://n.respublicae.eu/CER_IanBond/status/1678715205600018432
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Ian Bond: A perfect summary. "We are more united than ever in our disagreement; we have spoken decisively in favour of indecision". https://n.respublicae.eu/DavidCadier/status/1678713087405219840
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Re Bonus tweet to the above:
In 2000, to mark the 300th anniversary of Karl XII's victory over Russia in Narva, the Swedish Lion was returned to his rightful place in that Estonian city.
https://www.visitestonia.com/en/monument-swedish-lion
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1678666535844323328
In Ukraine I saw a brave but ravaged land in limbo. It needs a future – it needs Nato | Timothy Garton Ash https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/11/president-biden-nato-summit-ukraine?CMP=share_btn_tw
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1678678487886970881
If you needed any additional proof for @brianlambie’s observation, @mfa_russia tweeted this just yesterday:
https://n.respublicae.eu/mfa_russia/status/1678506372210515974?s=46&t=P6bh7N_g0GWaN4mEo_JuMA
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Brian Lambie: More evidence that many Russians are still living in the 1700’s. Their proudest achievements relate to invasion, murder and theft, in an endless conflict of empires. They cannot imagine a world where Russia is a decent, peaceful, prosperous and cooperative neighbour.
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@BrennpunktUA 🇩🇪🇺🇦: #Scholz will wieder mit #Putin sprechen
Plötner hat in den vergangenen Wochen dafür geworben, wieder in einen engeren Dialog #Moskau zu kommen. Ein beschlossener #NATO Beitritt der Ukraine unmittelbar nach Einstellung der Kampfhandlungen könne den angestrebten Dialog erschweren
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More nonsense.
The overwhelming majority “ON TWITTER” are trolls, which is why NAFO even started took off.
It never would have done so were it not for the industrial level pollution on twitter from Russia.
People just got sick of Russian trolls.
No need for this “advice”
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блокировщик ботов | bot blocker: To start with the misconception.
Overwhelming majority of Russians ON TWITTER are anti-war activists, and it is critically important to understand why.
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Perhaps a Swede can clarify a bit of Cold War history my father told me when I was a kid.
In front of the Opera in Stockholm stands a statue of Karl XII, the king who unfortunately lost the battle of Poltava, consigning the Baltic countries, incl. Finland to Russian rule.
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Re Karl's statue has his arm pointing East. Sometime in the 1960s the Soviet embassy apparently demanded the statue be turned in another direction since Karl pointing East was aggressive, if not "revanchist".
Can anyone enlighten me on this episode?
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Next summer we need to organize a NATO-Hansa regatta, with stops at all major Baltic Sea NATO ports.
Königsberg will have sit it out for a little while longer.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1678513628411056128
Putin's 'ghost' train: Leaked documents reveal gym, spa, beauty equipment on board https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/10/europe/russia-putin-private-train-intl-cmd/index.html
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1678515509363453952
314 years to the day after losing the Battle of Poltava, which ultimately gave the Eastern littoral of the Baltic Sea to Russia, Sweden recoups its losses and the Baltic Sea is once again a sea of peace and security.
Välkommen till NATO.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1678521511244713985
One of these days Russia will realize Vladimir Putin is the worst thing ever to happen to it and the best thing for all whom Russians pathologically envy and hate.
(1989-91 rivals but was the work of of the subjugated, not a single hare-brained schemer-homeboy). https://n.respublicae.eu/michaeldweiss/status/1678520566515474434
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Michael Weiss: A fine summation of what Russia has just inflicted upon itself. 👇 https://n.respublicae.eu/martinkragh1/status/1678511056753180673
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