A reckoning on Germany’s Russia policy is long overdue https://www.ft.com/content/afd6428c-9391-4f93-be85-bc9da9dab23b
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1638237552707530754
Xi Jinping-Vladimir Putin talks highlight Russia’s role as ‘junior partner’ to China https://www.ft.com/content/73d50de6-53c8-4bf6-adf9-8cf108f82ca1
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1638226786247909378
The UN, the Criminal and International Law, by @NTenzer https://open.substack.com/pub/tenzerstrategics/p/the-un-the-criminal-and-international?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1638129640131776512
Mar 21: Kremlin determined to continue the war despite fearing defeat, Estonian intelligence says, by @MoniqueCamarra https://open.substack.com/pub/camarra/p/mar-21-kremlin-determined-to-continue?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1638119934088585216
And he thinks it's really funny (tweeting ROFL) that this is the case.
And what happens to a journalist who writes about it:
RT @MaZaborowski: How Elon Musk's tweets unleashed a wave of hate https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64989720
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1638119349268492289
An important piece on what lies ahead for Europe, by @andrewmichta https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-china-policy-shape-transatlantic-relations-united-states/
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1638084463975333888
A thread to read
RT @MacaesBruno: My interview with former Chinese defence official, Senior Colonel Zhou Bo. Prepare to dig deep into China’s thinking and strategy on Ukraine and, I think, to be surprised… @time
https://time.com/6264512/insiders-perspective-on-chinas-strategy-in-ukraine/
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1637922230104387592
"Whence cometh this alarum and the noise?" on Shakespeare's birthday.
RT @ForbesTech: Every Phone In The U.K. Will Sound An Alarm On April 23 https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2023/03/20/every-phone-in-the-uk-will-sound-an-alarm-on-april-23/?utm_campaign=forbes&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=Carrie
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1637762454393331712
For much of Russia's history it's been a vassal of Eastern power.
Even national hero Alexander Nevsky defeated the Germans as vassal to the Great Khan of the Golden Horde.
It took centuries to get free from the East.
It took Vladimir Putin just a year to bring back the "yoke"
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1637759013772247040
My crystal ball: One day the real one finally will be arrested but he'll claim he's just a double.
RT @Gerashchenko_en: Which one do you think is the real one?
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1637751947284340737
Spring has sprung, the grass is ris,
I wonder where the boidies is
The boid is on the wing,
But that’s absoid
From what I hoid
The wing is on the boid!
-- attributed to Ogden Nash and to ee cummings but generally thought to be anonymous.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1637749737104261120
He's safe. Korsakoff's Syndrome from chronic alcoholism is not a war crime.
RT @hwag_ucmc: "Alas, gentlemen, everyone walks under God and rockets. It is quite possible to imagine the targeted use of a hypersonic carrier from a Russian ship in the North Sea on the Hague courthouse. You can't intercept it, alas... So judges, carefully look into the sky," Medvedev wrote.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1637748249766273024
Ja kuidas on kütuse hinnad Eestis?
RT @ZiadMDaoud: The global banking stress has sent oil below its Jan-2022 level
Price is at $70 now
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1637747328554500096
You said it, not I.
Now deal with it.
RT @NikaMelkozerova: In Russia journalists started a flashmob "Everyone of us is Putin", supporting Kremlin's main killer and against #ICC warrant. Still Putin's war?
https://www.unian.net/russianworld/v-rf-nachalsya-fleshmob-v-podderzhku-obizhennogo-gaagoy-putina-musputinetoya-12185253.html
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1637737183376293890
Does this make them Opedophiles?
RT @thorstenbenner: Op-eds without limits.
Xi and Putin pen commentaries ahead of Xi's visit to Moscow.
Putin in People's Daily
https://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/70743
Xi in RIA Novosti
https://xhnewsapi.xinhuaxmt.com/share/news_pc?id=803075047178240&showType=3019&utdId=0&version=3.1.3
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1637735794180759552
This may not be the message you want to send.
What ever happened to, "it's Putin, not the Russian people?"
(So give us Schengen visas!!!!)
RT @NikaMelkozerova: In Russia journalists started a flashmob "Everyone of us is Putin", supporting Kremlin's main killer and against #ICC warrant. Still Putin's war?
https://www.unian.net/russianworld/v-rf-nachalsya-fleshmob-v-podderzhku-obizhennogo-gaagoy-putina-musputinetoya-12185253.html
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1637734562636656640
Multiculturalism at work.
RT @mindyisser: genuinely made me LOL
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1637554591679102979
‘Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich’ — Russian conscripts decry ‘criminal orders’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/19/russia-conscripts-videos-putin-war/
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1637542592991703040
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