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THIS⬇️ And please Retweet.
RT @anneapplebaum: "One of the free world's greatest allies in the post-Soviet era lies dying as a political prisoner in his home country, having been deliberately poisoned."
Saakashvili does not deserve this slow death - time for US and European diplomacy to free him https://www.forbes.com/sites/melikkaylan/2023/01/18/to-avoid-handing-putin-another-victory-the-west-must-save-saakashvili-now/
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Yes, everyone will be absolutely floored and flabbergasted given the long road it’s been for the countries of CEE that actually had a genuine democratic past and tradition before Russian imperialism killed it.
But as Alexander Pope wrote, “Hope springs eternal”
RT @RomanianInSwe: ”Everyone will be surprised by how fast Russia will depart from Putin's legacy and how fast Russia will be able to build a sustainable, Eastern European-style democracy. I am sure as hel…
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An absolutely perfect analysis from @davidfrum
I especially urge all those who parrot the ignorant, and when it comes to Russia, simply wrong "All wars end in negotiations" nonsense, to read this. Twice. At least.
RT @davidfrum: Since 1991, post-Soviet Russia has fought two wars inside Chechnya. It has waged wars across internationally recognized borders against
Moldova
Georgia (twice)
and Ukraine (2014 and then again in 2022).
Russia intervened in the Syrian …
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I have a sense Lambrecht's resignation had far more to do with the impending publication of this long piece in Spiegel than any unfortunate New Years Eve video.
Do read.
https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/the-bad-news-bundeswehr-an-examination-of-the-truly-dire-state-of-germany-s-military-a-df92eaaf-e3f9-464d-99a3-ef0c27dcc797 via @derspiegel
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When @anapalacio says something is a must read, read it.
RT @anapalacio: A must read by @JeremyCliffe. And interesting comments by @bctallis;
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Wild!!!
RT @benjaminwittes: Ukrainian friends, let's get this trending.
This actually is the real FBI Washington Field Office. The more russians see it, the better.
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A sick, sick place. Especially the sledgehammer https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/01/19/arkhangelsk-student-war-critic-arrested/
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.@NickCohen4 being brilliant again. Do read his dissection of the kremlin’s pathetic recruitment campaign and what it says about Russia, “a poor country that thinks it’s a superpower” A++ https://nickcohen.substack.com/p/escape-your-worthless-life-join-putins?utm_medium=web
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Will be on @AliVelshi in a few minutes on the latest on Ukraine and tanks, I assume.
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The "mutual" is long gone. The damage would only be to Germany's trust toward those who no longer trust it.
RT @LianaFix: I still think it’s just a question of time until 🐆 arrive in 🇺🇦. I just hope that Poland & other allies will have the patience to wait. Going ahead without 🇩🇪’s approval as frustrating as it is, would do huge damage to mutual trust - perhaps more than Germany’s temporary refusal
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🤣🤡
RT @wartranslated: Residents of Belgorod started reinforcing their homes and shops with sandbags, since "Kyiv in 3 days" didn't work out. The "most effective civil security system in Russia" is printing on paper the numbers of flats where keys to the basement are.
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After the prevarications and multiple messages of just this week, it seem neither European security nor NATO credibility is at all of any concern for the Bundeskanzleramt.
Interesting after 🇩🇪made even poor EU members help bail out Greece, "out of solidarity"
RT @GresselGustav: 13/ This of course will fall on all our heads, not just Olaf's. But ... I can't change that now.
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The only thing you need to read today. Unfortunately.
https://news.yahoo.com/how-germanys-doctor-no-disrupted-allied-unity-on-tanks-for-ukraine-223212660.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr
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Beyond the killing in Ukraine, the Western response to the war (and aside from the first, Europe) itself has killed forever:
- the NPT
- ESDP
- CFSP
- “Strategic Autonomy”
- the Franco-German EU engine”
These are own goals, errors of omission, simply the result of inaction.
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This should be a much bigger story given how the Finnish foreign minister in 2014 managed to keep the already dubious Putin crony off the EU sanctions list.
Now the crony is another Prigozhin.
RT @pmakela1: Vantage Point North: Redut: Russian Mercenaries Controlled by a Finnish Citizen.
https://blog.vantagepointnorth.net/2023/01/redut-russian-mercenaries-controlled-by.html?spref=tw
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