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Congratulations to Poland and all Poles on your Independence Day!
As the past year has shown once again, without your steadfast, principled and sustained support for liberty and justice on our continent, Europe would have little to be proud of in 2022.
Dziękuję z całego serca!
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Russia on 'irreversible' path to clash with West, France says https://euobserver.com/world/156409
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When your commanders tell you to switch into civilian clothes and just try to get out, that sure sounds like... a rout.
A rout. R-O-U-T.
RT @wartranslated: Russian fighter who was previously in Kherson, "13th", is in panic mode, saying... just watch for yourself.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1590833755966836736
"We have been waiting for you for so long, but we knew you would come!" ♥️♥️♥️🥲
RT @2uwmp: Звільнена Снігурівка.
«Ми вас так довго чекали, але знали, що ви приїдете!»
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This is a delightful piece, adumbrating a famous quote and its true history. https://www.thebulwark.com/my-father-and-the-birth-of-modern-conservatism/ via @BulwarkOnline
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With the (admittedly challenging) retreat of Russia from Kherson being compared to Dunkirk, will we see Russian civilians coming to Kherson Oblast to provide assistance?
Or is that an "Anglo-Saxon" thing?
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1590779593530945536
An interesting analysis of the fallout from the elections by great @StevenErlanger and @jotted
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/10/world/europe/europe-republican-party-election-ukraine.html?smid=tw-share
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1590774126054182912
Perusing the media it seems, to paraphrase Bob Dylan,
"He not busy laughing is busy hating... Donald Trump"
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1590755859167993857
Ummm..
"Mastodon" derives from MASTOS, breast plus ODONT, tooth.
So ... would a plastic surgeon specialising in breast implants be a Mastodontist?
I'd show myself out but then I would just go to my Mastodon site.
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Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Fight Can Overcome US Skeptics https://www.justsecurity.org/84076/ukraines-anti-corruption-fight-can-overcome-us-skeptics/
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1590734490544275457
good thread:
RT @TheStudyofWar: The battle of #Kherson is not over, but Russian forces have entered a new phase—prioritizing withdrawing their forces across the river in good order and delaying Ukrainian forces, rather than seeking to halt the Ukrainian counteroffensive entirely. /1 https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-november-9
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1590549096926175232
The US lives rent-free in Putin's head.
Solovyov: if the withdrawal was announced just one day earlier, it might have helped Biden and the Democrats: “[The withdrawal] was announced after Nov. 8, on Nov. 9, so it wouldn’t influence the U.S. elections.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-state-media-sent-reeling-over-us-midterm-election-results?source=twitter&via=desktop
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"Looking ahead, American democracy now has some breathing room," @RadioFreeTom writes. But the United States isn't out of the woods yet. https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/11/democracy-won/672061/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1590541658525171712
Another excellent, well-reasoned analytic thread from Gen Mick Ryan, aka @WarintheFuture
RT @WarintheFuture: More information is emerging about the Russian withdrawal from West Bank of the Dniepr River in #Ukraine. This will have a range of impacts on the war. 1/25 🧵
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.@yarotrof gets what Western policy-makers don't. I am beginning to think the latter understand neither Ukraine nor democratic governance.
Their ignorance and delusional arrogance is astounding.
RT @yarotrof: A negotiated permanent settlement is impossible now. No Ukrainian president will survive rewarding Russia with occupied Ukrainian land. A negotiated ceasefire would just allow Russia to rearm, refit, and try going for Kyiv ag…
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Kuidas käibetõdede pidev kordamine, kommentaatorite "grupimõtlemine" ja gallupite viletsa metodoloogia tõttu pani USA juhtiv meedia vahevalimistega totaalselt puusse.
Õpetlik lugemine loodetavasti ka meie nn. analüütikutele.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/09/media-blew-red-wave-predictions-wrong/
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Ikka kõige olulisem küsimus Eesti ja eestlaste jaoks.
https://www.err.ee/1608783061/jarvi-kui-ekre-saab-valitsusse-tuleb-abielureferendum #ERR
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From Estonia. Where Digital is Native. And come in at #2 in the world in internet freedom.
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