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An enlightening thread from @MarkGaleotti
RT @MarkGaleotti: Remember Igor Mangushev, the Russian merc who brandished a skull he said had belonged to one of the Azovstal defenders? He's just been shot in the head. So what?
A short thread on some wider dynamics in the Prigozhin empire 1/
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1622117479890780160
.@StevenErlanger once again nails it. When push came to shove, decades of rhetoric turned out to be just that and “strategic autonomy” reverted to simple dependency, indecision and wishful thinking. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/04/world/europe/europe-defense-ukraine-war.html
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1622114594226405378
Loodetavasti ka meil
RT @TheEconomist: The political story of the EU in the last two decades has been how populists have gatecrashed a cushy centrist cartel. But election results in the Czech Republic show a new chapter might be beginning https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/02/02/at-last-populism-in-europe-is-losing-its-mojo?utm_medium=social-media.content.np&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=editorial-social&utm_content=discovery.content
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1622104052329848834
Thread:
RT @davidfrum: Paradox. When Russia invades a neighbor-smashes cities, kills tens of thousands- your social media and mine fill with voices from far left and far right warning against over-reaction and escalation. Russia is a nuclear power, they remind us, and so nobody should resist. BUT ...
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1621893105174695938
🤣No running lackey dogs??
RT @mfa_russia: #Opinion by Maria Zakharova:
💬 Washington and its NATO puppets are currently using their neoliberal strategy against Russia, while it was McFaul and the like who promoted this very approach all these years.
🔗 https://t.me/MFARussia/14723
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1621892831848632323
Russian Defense Minister has his own N.B. *private* military company, PMC "Patriot", which he has also deployed to Ukraine.
How does this work? Can we imagine SecDef Austin or Wallace with his own PMC?
Can someone who understands the Russian military (@MarkGaleotti?) explain?
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1621882246683664386
American aid worker Pete Reed killed in Ukraine while helping civilians under fire, groups say - CBS News https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pete-reed-american-aid-worker-killed-in-ukraine/
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1621825208792260608
I went viral in Germany for a meme about Scholzing – but the chancellor’s hesitancy over Ukraine is no joke | Timothy Garton Ash | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/03/germany-olaf-scholz-twitter-ukraine
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1621800522188554240
1 year, 11 months and 6 days after the Wall was breached, to be exact.
RT @ulrichspeck: There is a precedent for a very quick EU accession: the former GDR became member of the bloc in 1990 with German unification.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1621797786642432001
‘A lunar landscape with residents who hate us’ Russian military source tells Novaya Gazeta that Moscow is gearing up for a new offensive — Meduza https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/02/03/a-lunar-landscape-with-residents-who-hate-us
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1621787308021129217
A thread to read from someone who really *does* know. (Unlike those counseling the West to understand Russia and to cave.)
RT @andreivkozyrev: Putin, like I, was a part of the Soviet foreign policy bureaucracy - the KGB (Foreign ministry). He knows that after the Cuban missile crisis, the Kremlin dropped the illusory doctrine of winning a nuclear war.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1621599350592872448
Ukraine’s Coming Electricity Crisis: How to Protect the Grid from Russian Attacks https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/ukraine-coming-electricity-crisis-protect-grid-from-russian-attacks
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1621595116686262272
"If the man who still symbolizes Georgia’s old aspirations to join the liberal democratic world succumbs to a Soviet-style prison death, then those aspirations will die along with him," @anneapplebaum writes: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/mikheil-saakashvili-georgia-president-democracy-russia/672931/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1621507925788467203
Estonian weekly @eestiekspress uncovers payments from Kremlin to European politicians.
RT @OCCRP: BREAKING: Leaked emails reveal that a Kremlin-linked lobbying group offered payments to several European politicians to promote pro-Russia policies.
Legitimizing the annexation of Crimea being chief among them.
Here’s what we found👇
#KremlinConnection
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1621506429709590530
Breaking! More dirty Kremlin deals with European politicians. @edwardlucas @michaeldweiss
RT @OCCRP: BREAKING: Leaked emails reveal that a Kremlin-linked lobbying group offered payments to several European politicians to promote pro-Russia policies.
Legitimizing the annexation of Crimea being chief among them.
Here’s what we found👇
#KremlinConnection
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1621505892851273730
EKRE teeb vene välismisteeriumile Eesti-vastast propagandat.
Tubli. Mille eest te päästate meid?
RT @mfa_russia: Is this the face of Europe circa 2023?
📍 Estonia, Tartu, February 2
📸 Sille Annuk
Ring any bell?
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1621499340647976963
On the hunt for Vladimir Putin’s ex-wife and her Ironman husband https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-sanctions-lyudmila-ocheretnaya-vladimir-putin-ex-wife-artur-ocheretny/
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1621470762296131584
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