toomas ilves, ex-verif @ilvestoomas@respublicae.eu
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JFC Ukraine is pulverized every day. Half the country today is without electricity and water. And these people are "already concerned" about some strikes inside Russia?
Observing with interest, I'm sure. "Just don't do anything to poor Russia!"
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Biden official told members of Congress that Ukraine has ability to retake Crimea https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/biden-official-told-congress-ukraine-can-retake-crimea-rcna61755 via @nbcnews
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yes, it's revolting
RT @Fatassinari: Generally don’t like to go ad personam, but stuff like this just flies in the face of all decency. Why can’t we extend to EU citizens on Putin’s payroll the same assets freeze applying to Russian olygarchs. @MaduroPoiares even made a mini-legal analysis here on its feasibility.
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Yes, it's despicable
RT @Fatassinari: Generally don’t like to go ad personam, but stuff like this just flies in the face of all decency. Why can’t we extend to EU citizens on Putin’s payroll the same assets freeze applying to Russian olygarchs. @MaduroPoiares even made a mini-legal analysis here on its feasibility.
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“There are these billboards with ‘heroes of the special operation’ all over Moscow, but people are still eating fresh oysters”
With so many imprisoned collaborators and war criminals the only place for the civilized world to put them all is...
Siberia.
https://www.ft.com/content/fe5fe0ed-e5d4-474e-bb5a-10c9657285d2
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At best, these enablers are the Russian equivalent of Albert Speer. Like him, they should get 20 years in prison.
How many Ukrainians were killed, raped, or tortured because these greedy moral midgets kept the regime's economy going? Albert Speers indeed
https://www.ft.com/content/fe5fe0ed-e5d4-474e-bb5a-10c9657285d2
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Good thread from @davidfrum
RT @davidfrum: Good-faith content moderation raises vexing difficulties. What should a private company not governed by the First Amendment do about those who dump materials hacked by foreign intelligence agencies? Or those who spread dangerous medical disinformation? No easy answers. 1/x
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Hardly the most important take-away from this report -- unnecessary proscriptive editorializing that detracts from what is otherwise a useful, unbiased report, @ecfr.
Sad to see.
RT @ecfr: Europeans should re-examine the support they give to Russians fleeing the regime – emigrés represent an important connection to Russian society, which will be valuable whoever occupies the Kremlin.
Read @KadriLiik's power audit. @ECFRWiderEurope
https://ecfr.eu/publication/the-old-is-dying-and-the-new-cannot-be-born-a-power-audit-of-eu-russia-relations/
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I just 😍 @JuliaDavisNews and you should too as she chronicles the daily descent of Russia into completely delusional madness and/or possibly alcoholic dementia.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/kremlin-state-tv-stars-flip-out-as-russians-admit-putins-war-in-ukraine-is-aimless?source=twitter&via=desktop via @thedailybeast
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This is what we want from the EU when it deals with social media. Not a nanny but a defender of freedom of expression, especially regarding public information.
👏👏👏@VeraJourova
RT @VeraJourova: News about arbitrary suspension of journalists on Twitter is worrying. EU’s Digital Services Act requires respect of media freedom and fundamental rights. This is reinforced under our #MediaFreedomAct. @elonmusk should be aware of that. There are red lines. And sanctions, …
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So my neighbor here deep in the Estonian woulds told me an ilves (i.e. a lynx) had killed two of her sheep.
I refuse collective responsibility. это был не я
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We know “Westsplaining” all too well, and how we wouldn't be"viable"
Today, on level of digitization to PISA scores to rule of law, press freedom to freedom of the internet indices, Estonia outranks all the "viable" Westsplainers. Try to be better. 🤷♂️😝
https://newrepublic.com/article/169481/russia-ukraine-colonies-future-westsplaining
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Russia’s Colonized Populations Can Do Without All the “Westsplaining” https://newrepublic.com/article/169481/russia-ukraine-colonies-future-westsplaining Follow @newrepublic
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Dear followers:
Given the following and the massive astroturfing by Russian trolls to de-platform Ukrainian voices, I suggest following me on Mastodon as well.
I will remain here as long as possible but since it's no longer reliable, do set up your own mastodon account as well.
RT @ilvestoomas: Huh? https://t.co/8Kj0xHrYDK
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Twitter Suspends Journalists’ Accounts, Some of Whom Wrote About Musk - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/15/technology/twitter-suspends-journalist-accounts-elon-musk.html
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A naïve question. Is it “escalation” of the war against Ukraine if say the US decides to “take out” the Iranian factories producing Shahed drones?
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Winter is Coming: The Baltics and The Russia-Ukraine War https://www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/publications/reports/Baltics.aspx
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The Orlan Complex: Tracking the Supply Chains of Russia’s Most Successful UAV https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/special-resources/orlan-complex-tracking-supply-chains-russias-most-successful-uav
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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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