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

Facile, insulting statements a la "Latvia is like Roskomnadzor" or "Lavrov" are just boorish and merely show that like the Bourbons you learnt or understand nothing.

Attacking Latvians reveals a sense of entitlement you don't deserve and turns others into not wanting you either.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1600208304776839168

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…

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1600203417208487936

My return to Kherson: the courage of my hometown https://www.ft.com/content/edebcc74-ea99-4227-9917-3c055548ae5a

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1600173250276777985

So what do you suggest, @antelava? Continue to ignore their host's concerns?

Be rude and dismissive and treat the people in the country they reside in with contempt?

What would you if you were in charge and your citizens are enraged?
RT @antelava: I suspect most people I know on all sides of the divide will not like this piece on today’s Dozhd TV drama https://www.codastory.com/newsletters/latvia-bans-dozhd-tv/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1600172404101087262

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

Basically, if you're guest, treat your hosts with respect. You know, that уважение stuff you demand of others when you drink.

Treating your hosts arrogantly, acting as if their laws, rules and concerns don't matter is not how to behave.

Entitlement begins with responsibility

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1600147893238652929

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

The EU was far tougher on Austria when Haider's FPÖ entered a coalition government. Haider didn't take a ministerial post and the government didn't pass any discriminatory legislation, didn't blackmail the EU or undermine rule of law.

Why is Hungary treated with kid gloves?
RT @anneapplebaum: Kick Hungary out

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1600138854014406657

Toilets, washing machines, and like the nazis occupying the Netherlands, bicycles...They just can't help themselves. https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/french-police-seek-russian-consulate-employee-over-bike-thefts/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1600126837803229184

🤣😂😝🤡
RT @EllaJakobson: @BessyLo @ilvestoomas Yes, washing machines AND bicycles (Google search "Russian consulate bicycles") https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/french-police-seek-russian-consulate-employee-over-bike-thefts/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1600126427617120261

Tools will be tools
RT @KyivPost: ⚡️ Hungary continues to block EU’s aid package for Ukraine worth €18 billion.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1600123552463671296

"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

Opinion | Ukrainian Women Fight for Their Own Liberation - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/03/opinion/ukraine-women.html

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1599915827276439553

NATO prepares for cyber war - POLITICO https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/03/nato-future-cyber-war-00072060

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1599859161654824993

🤣😂😝🤡
RT @sankuperis: Poor Russia might be attacked by Estonia with population of *checks notes* very threatening 1.3 million

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1599844077024878592

Alas, this will *nothing* to change their arrogant and dismissive view of Eastern Europeans. Nothing.
RT @PolskiWariacik: @ilvestoomas @EstonianWorld 12 Germany 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1599827688948387844

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

Index: Estonia the fifth least corrupt country in the world https://estonianworld.com/business/index-estonia-the-fifth-least-corrupt-country-in-the-world/ via @estonianworld

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1599824912923103233

Ukraine war: Germans struggle with influx of Ukrainian refugees - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63792498

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1599820446186225664