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

A great idea. Much needed.
RT @JoergForbrig: Wanted: fresh policy minds and ideas from Central and Eastern Europe. You're from this region and under 35, have an interesting idea for policy research, and want to join @gmfus? Apply for our #ReThinkCEE Fellowship https://www.gmfus.org/rethinkcee-fellowship-call-applications-2023

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This, by @djrothkopf is an excellent *in media res* analysis of Joe Biden's foreign policy. I think most in northern and Central and Eastern Europe would agree with David Rothkopf, as will future historians of American foreign policy. Superb read.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bidens-midterm-foreign-policy-report-card?source=twitter&via=desktop

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https://www.delfi.ee/artikkel/120120996/suri-edgar-savisaar

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Lethal incompetence

Estonia, with the highest rate of IC hospitalizations has an ample supply of Paxlovid but @terviseamet dithers and won't release it to pharmacies.

Paxlovid has an 88% efficacy rate. That means 21 of the 23 patients to die 2 weeks ago would be alive today.
RT @MarkkuPeltonen: Covid-19, patients in intensive care in the Nordics and the Baltics, recent months. 29.12. (Finland not reporting during the holidays.) 1/2

Covid-19 potilaat tehohoidos…

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Wow, an upbeat column from the man who not only writes so well pointing out the crap I too am bothered by, but also finds all the other stuff I missed.

"Here at the end of the year, I am optimistic, which is a surprise even to me," @RadioFreeTom writes.

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/12/there-is-a-case-for-optimism-in-2023/672597/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

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Fantastic, genuine Must-Read, a term I rarely use.
RT @gregpmiller: The definitive reconstruction of the Ukrainian counteroffensive that shocked Putin and reshaped the war. Amazing work.
@ikhurshudyan @PaulSonne
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/29/ukraine-offensive-kharkiv-kherson-donetsk/

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Fascinating reporting of the kitchen side of the Kharkiv counter-offensive this fall. How it was planned, how it worked out in the field. Genuine must-read

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/29/ukraine-offensive-kharkiv-kherson-donetsk/

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Seem to be trying to fit them all in by NYE. Or to show that NYTimesPitchbot @DougJBalloon is a straight up legit site.
RT @kurtopsahl: Late contender for worst take of the year: NYT oped argues @signalapp is bad because users might not know it strongly protects comms from surveillance. I, for one, am a “witting” advocate user.
https://t.co/3JQ0gVTmOw

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Western countries do not have diplomatic relations with the terrorists Hezbollah, ISIS, Al Qaeda.

Why do we maintain diplomatic relations with a terrorist state that targets civilians from its own territory?

Why do we allow them to maintain embassies on our territory? 1/2
RT @BBCWorld: Russia fires 120 missiles at cities across Ukraine, officials say, in the biggest wave of strikes on the country for weeks

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64114784?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&at_link_origin=BBCWorld&at_campaign_type=owned&at_link_id=E2E84962-8749-11ED-9616-1EEE4744363C&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_link_type=web_link&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_ptr_name=twitter&at_medium=social&at_format=link

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Russian Oligarch’s Cousin Funneled Cash to N.Y. Politician https://www.thedailybeast.com/republican-george-devolder-santos-got-cash-from-andrew-intrater-cousin-of-russian-oligarch-viktor-vekselberg?source=twitter&via=desktop via @thedailybeast

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Russian Oligarch’s Cousin Funneled Cash to N.Y. Politician https://www.thedailybeast.com/republican-george-devolder-santos-got-cash-from-andrew-intrater-cousin-of-russian-oligarch-viktor-vekselberg?source=twitter&via=desktop via @thedailybeast

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.@DarthPutinKGB got his own personal Russian advent calendar from Patrushev.

Every time you open a window, a Russian oligarch falls out”

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Biden won’t speak freely near Secret Service and thinks agents lied about dog bite incident, book reveals | The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/biden-secret-service-major-dog-bite-b2252099.html

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Please do https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/us/politics/iran-drones-russia-ukraine.html

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108 years later.

Plus ça change...

Lemberg is the old German name for Lviv.

Trophies!!

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This is a very good thread, one that give me hope. Thank you.
RT @BotakozKassymb1: Qazaqs know that the world would care little if russia attacked and genocided us, and we still stand with Ukraine. We know that we would share the fate of Chechens, Georgians, Syrians. We still stand with Ukraine.

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The Incitatus of the Congress, the horse made a Roman Senator by Emperor Caligula to mock the body.

Trump’s GOP is America’s Caligula.
RT @danielsgoldman: .@santos4congress has now admitted that he’s a total fraud.

He didn’t graduate college, didn’t work on Wall Street, and isn’t Jewish — all of which he asserted in order to dupe the voters in Queens and Nassau.

Santos is not fit to be a member of Congress. He must resign.

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An absolutely stunning essay. Do read.
RT @peterpomeranzev: ‘’Independence’ is a sacred word for Ukraine. But what makes me happy is our dependence on each other. We are people with one nervous system”…for NY revisit this wonderful essay from Igor Pomerantsev in The Oxonian Review | Death is a Master from Russia https://oxonianreview.com/articles/death-is-a-master-from-russia?fbclid=IwAR39UVtNiPmbcCE_ItoLjefyaEMVUj4nWODFZs3LGGKWA6CrpvZeYXi7dZ0

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A warrant should be issued for her first. We know concretely who has committed a war crime by the Genocide convention article forbidding transfer of children. Do it now.
RT @russiandefpolic: Here's a war criminal -- Maria Lvova-Belova. Trying to take everything from Ukraine including its future, its children. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/24/ukraine-stolen-children-maria-lvova-belova/

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This, yes⤵️
RT @MacaesBruno: To me it always seemed neoliberal works as a kind of password by which club members communicate to each other they indeed belong to the same club

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