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To anyone every under Soviet rule sees that leather coat and thinks NKVD.
In the West it means Gestapo but in CEE and the FSU it's NKVD.
RT @jasonomahony: @ilvestoomas We've seen that look before...
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When lifts in your shoes are not enough... there's always the NKVD leather coat.
RT @maxseddon: Major sartorial escalation from Medvedev, who visited the Uralvagonzavod tank factory in this leather trench coat
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Vladimir Putin, Kevin McCarthy, and the Ukraine War https://www.thebulwark.com/vladimir-putin-kevin-mccarthy-and-the-ukraine-war/ via @BulwarkOnline
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Mehel, kes seda tegi, tuleb välja, on Eesti pass. @kaitsepolitsei @MFAestonia
RT @visegrad24: A Russian man sucker-punched a Ukrainian refugee who attended a demonstration in Stockholm yesterday against the Russian invasion.
The Ukrainian had his nose broken
Swedes filmed the Russian screaming “fu**ing hohols” while getting arrested by the police
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Yeah, this is why we need to let them all come to Europe. So they can express themselves and learn what true liberal democracy is.
RT @visegrad24: A Russian man sucker-punched a Ukrainian refugee who attended a demonstration in Stockholm yesterday against the Russian invasion.
The Ukrainian had his nose broken
Swedes filmed the Russian screaming “fu**ing hohols” while getting arrested by the police
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1584552512433971202
Russian talk of Ukrainian ‘dirty bomb’ is ‘dirty blackmail’, says Kyiv https://www.ft.com/content/e0b17f23-ea77-4c95-96ae-8ebb2ba0cf19
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Another good @KuldkeppMart thread.
RT @KuldkeppMart: 8 months since the beginning of the invasion, the war is ongoing, even if its character is changing.
Ukraine is still winning, as it was already before February 24. By now, this includes a long streak of winning in the battlefield, not just in terms of morality or politics.
1/n
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.@GresselGustav is one of the consistently accurate German analysts writing on the war. https://ecfr.eu/article/mob-unhappy-why-russia-is-unlikely-to-emerge-victorious-in-ukraine/ via @ecfr
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Thread by @NTenzer on Thread Reader App https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1584283288122056704.html
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It's not just the Ukrainian community that finds him revolting. Add the Polish-Americans, and all the other hyphenated Americans: the Lithuanians, Latvians, Czechs and Slovaks and the Estonians.
They might just save US Foreign Policy from the Putinistas.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/23/vance-ukraine-war-ohio-senate/
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.@QOTSA, you rule! ... A whole country, it seems, and the most digitized one on the planet.
RT @PopulismUpdates: Alaska GOP Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka, on the subject of uh... well, she's referring to Estonia
(Source: @alaskalandmine)
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Stone-Agia. I bet she'll be on the Foreign Relations Committee if she gets in the US Senate.
cc @markomihkelson @luukasilves @IevaIlves
RT @PopulismUpdates: Alaska GOP Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka, on the subject of uh... well, she's referring to Estonia
(Source: @alaskalandmine)
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Like Qwerty keyboards and European railway track gauges, it's classic path dependence. Impossible to do things differently.
RT @MuKappa: Can russia change? History suggests that it can't.
National divorce, decolonization, balkanization, break up, call it what you may, is the only viable way forward.
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An excellent piece on Musk’s power and his relationship with the US Government.
When tech bros become this rich and powerful you begin to wonder whether democracy is taking a backseat… even in the world’s richest, most powerful country. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/22/elon-musk-ukraine-russia-washington-lawmakers/
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This, by @EliotACohen, is magnificent. And magnificently right. Kudos.
RT @EliotACohen: We are sending the right kit - belatedly, inadequately, even timidly - but we also need the words. This is a moment for some political eloquence. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/volodymyr-zelensky-ukraine-speech-churchill/671836/
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There are a lot, really A LOT more Russians in Germany than Iranians. How come we don't see a 100K demonstration in Berlin protesting Putin's war?
Instead we see them harassing Ukrainians who fled to Germany from the atrocities and war crimes of the Russian army.
RT @ianbremmer: incredible gathering of iranians in berlin today to protest the brutality of the islamic republic
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Maybe it's time to stand up to the people sending you to your pointless death in a madman's war?
RT @wartranslated: Mobiks in Donetsk oblast are starting to panic, they are being sent into attacks against Ukrainian defences. The level of panic is evidenced from the SBU intercepted call where two men ask their wives to "raise the question on all levels".
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