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

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RT @michaeldweiss: "Russian diplomats’ role in the West is reduced to a monotonous repetition of propaganda lies. Russian ambassadors, finding themselves in an information blackout, are regularly forced to improvise at international meetings."

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1623336389918990337

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RT @michaeldweiss: "Confusion and bewilderment ensued, with no one having prepared any talking points in advance. Some decided to switch sides, but the vast majority succumbed to mental resignation and then acceptance, which in some cases turned into angry outbursts of patriotism."

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1623336300739796996

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RT @michaeldweiss: "At least as much as the international community, Russian diplomats were also kept in the dark about Putin’s plans to attack Ukraine. According to our information, they found out about it on the morning of 24 February through the media."

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1623336166173843461

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/06/world/europe/ukraine-russia-offensive.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1623320915776790532

"Sable-rattling"
RT @hwag_ucmc: 🥴Here is your daily dose of Russian cringe: the widows of the so-called DPR soldiers killed in the war against Ukraine are now receiving fur coats as compensation. 21 coats were sent from Moscow to the widows in occupied Donetsk, the Russian department of RFE/RL reports. /1

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1623290184040062976

Brilliant, from @jcbehrends:
https://neweasterneurope.eu/2022/12/08/after-ostpolitik-perspectives-for-future-relations-between-moscow-and-berlin/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1623281436265443330

Ukraine releases video appearing to show Russian troops beating own wounded officer https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/07/ukraine-releases-video-appearing-to-show-russian-troops-beating-own-wounded-officer?CMP=share_btn_tw

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1623276942156877826

Fresh off the presses!

The most eagerly awaited intelligence report in Europe (mainly because it's the only one that ever says anything).

The Estonian Foreign Intelligence Annual for 2023.

https://raport.valisluureamet.ee/2023/en/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1623253841197125633

I read all of them in high school more than 50 years ago and I never became a commie. Indeed several of them are the best possible innoculation *against* becoming a commie, which is why the commies banned them.
RT @kangaroos991: Who’s read ANY of these books?

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1623253142862282753

Money, power, turf: German government fights over security strategy https://www.politico.eu/article/money-power-competencies-german-government-fights-over-security-strategy/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1623245429797187584

An important article on a little considered aspect of European security https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/what-would-happen-if-sweden-and-finland-split-up-their-nato-bids/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1623239234667552768

What would happen if Sweden and Finland split up their NATO bids? https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/what-would-happen-if-sweden-and-finland-split-up-their-nato-bids/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1623238582524674049

Chechnya population 1.4 million. Not in NATO

Poland population 37.7 million. In NATO.

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RT @Fernand46357857: Top Putin Ally Ramzan Kadyrov Says He ‘Will Not Hide’ Intention to Invade Poland Anymore https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-putin-ally-ramzan-kadyrov-says-he-will-not-hide-intention-to-invade-poland-anymore

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1623198328316887040

What Are the Kremlin’s Hopes for Its War Against Ukraine? https://jamestown.org/program/what-are-the-kremlins-hopes-for-its-war-against-ukraine/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1623040941094277159

A good new idea for a change.

from ⁦@AVindman⁩ https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/02/vindman-leads-new-push-to-send-military-contractors-to-ukraine-00081016

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1623000008600563727

https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/88957?utm_source=rssemail&utm_medium=email&mkt_tok=ODEzLVhZVS00MjIAAAGJyrxX6VgrgXqkG0KrLFc1JwBbvBzN57LK7sImIlBRIMsfKttWCTSWIWd77C-JCCf6JAkESIl4lasUM8dL39r6u3fcJKMff-aEsD7G1Ic

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1622939715803422721

The second year of Russia’s war: Scenarios for the Ukraine conflict in 2023:

Smart, if somewhat depressing, from @GresselGustav

https://ecfr.eu/article/the-second-year-of-russias-war-scenarios-for-the-ukraine-conflict-in-2023/ via @ecfr

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1622929951321214976

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64536926

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1622915823697379328

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-russia-decade-of-the-spy/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1622914000357842944

Europe’s decade of the spy https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-russia-decade-of-the-spy/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1622913559330955266