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This is always a problem until several iterations of transparency international surveys show real progress.
We used to hear about corruption in my country all the time. Now we have lower corruption than most of the EU, including those who used to smugly lecture us.
RT @MaxBoot: Ironically, Ukrainian attempts to root out corruption only serve to elevate the issue in the West—and provide further fodder for Republican critics of U.S. aid. In fact, US and EU official…
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1. Won't happen.
2. No one outside Russia has any interest if it does.
3. Worry about your own wannabe warlords salivating over resource-rich areas they will rush to claim for themselves.
It's gonna be Somalia, C.A.R. and D.R.C cubed and no one will want any of it. Wagneria.
RT @maxseddon: Putin is ranting about what he says is a western plot to break Russia up into bits “so they can lord it over those bits and control them. I don’t know if the Russian people w…
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Nope, we really don't care.
RT @maxseddon: Putin is ranting about what he says is a western plot to break Russia up into bits “so they can lord it over those bits and control them. I don’t know if the Russian people will remain as an ethnicity if that happens. You will have Muscovites, Uralians, and others.”
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The rest of the world does, however.
We see the "peaceful might" of Russia every day in the murder and rapes it commits in Ukraine and has visited upon its neighbors throughout the centuries, Dima.
RT @mfa_russia: 💬 #Opinion by @MedvedevRussiaE:
Western countries and their satellites represent only 15% of the world population. The peaceful might of our great country and the high standing of its partners are the key to preserving the world’s future.
🔗 https://t…
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Brutal (same word in both English and German)
RT @POLITICOEurope: COMMENTARY: A year ago, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was keen to prove that Berlin understood the error of its ways.
Yet Scholz’s rhetoric is completely divorced from reality.
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-zeitenwende-defense-spending-nato-gdp-target-scholz-ukraine-war-russia/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social
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Nietzsche's *ressentiment* or resentment thesis as the basis of an entire culture, according to Russian sociologist Grigori Yudin (though he does not mention Nietzsche).
And perhaps why MAGA loves Putin as well.
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/02/25/russia-ends-nowhere-they-say
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Herem: osa riike otsustas mullu jaanuaris ignoreerida, et sõda tuleb
https://www.err.ee/1608897830/herem-osa-riike-otsustas-mullu-jaanuaris-ignoreerida-et-soda-tuleb #ERR
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The EU should fast-track negotiations for Ukraine's membership https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/eu-should-fast-track-negotiations-ukraines-membership?utm_source=twitter via @PIIE
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Slava Ukraini: A Republican vote to defund Ukraine would come at their own peril https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/24/2154012/-Slava-Ukraina-A-Republican-vote-to-defund-Ukraine-would-come-at-their-own-peril
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Former EU Trade Commissioner @MalmstromEU knows what she is talking about. Do read:
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Great ad for westerners to study at MGIMO
RT @ClintEhrlich: I'll put my reputation on the line: There is now zero chance that Russia suddenly invades Ukraine.
It doesn't mean the crisis is over – far from it – but the "sudden invasion" scenario is off the table.
Here's why. 🧵
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Vene okupatsiooni Ukrainas pooldaja ja Riigikogu kandidaat Aivo Peterson oma sõpradega
RT @marishellrand: @ronaldliive #koos
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Grotesque atrocities committed by Russia
RT @Lyla_lilas: Exhumation completed in #Izyum.
194 male bodies
215 female bodies
(22 military bodies)
5 baby bodies
11 - unidentified
Many bodies have hands tied and/or limbs missing, head and chest injuries, genitals missing, stab wounds, ropes around the neck, bullet wounds.
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I remember the lectures we used to get on democracy from the countries listed in the tweet following this first tweet. 🤷
RT @EconomyInformal: World Press Freedom Index 2022
Top 10 Countries
Norway🇳🇴🥇
Denmark🇩🇰🥈
Sweden🇸🇪🥉
Estonia🇪🇪
Finland🇫🇮
Ireland🇮🇪
Portugal🇵🇹
Costa Rica🇨🇷
Lithuania🇱🇹
Liechtenstein🇱🇮
@RSF_en
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Time to start leaving the battlefield.
1917 all over again.
Just go home. En masse.
RT @wartranslated: 3. Russian mobilised man talks about the relentless friendly fire from tanks, guns, and artillery. He believes the life of mobilised soldiers is worthless as they're not provided with any equipment.
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No one will bother.
Prigozhin, Kadyrov and tens of other mafia war lord PMCs, however, will rampage to gather up resource-rich territories and livable cities.
The poor areas will have to fend for themselves. They will stream abroad in massive waves of economic emigration.
RT @SamRamani2: Vladimir Putin predicts that the West will try to dismember Russia
Constituent states, like Moscow and Urals, will then be reintegrated into the Western community
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