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RT @AtlanticCouncil: Russia’s latest foreign policy document reveals Moscow's imperial ambitions beyond Ukraine, writes @andrewmichta.
Putin, he explains, wants Russia to contend against the West not just in terms of military power but also in the realm of ideology. ⬇️
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/putins-eurasian-fixation-reveals-ambitions-beyond-ukraine/
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My friend @benjaminwittes, kicked off @twitter for no good reason, on the @BulwarkOnline podcast, together with host extraordinaire @SykesCharlie, remind us what civilized, analytical and intellectual discussion between liberals and conservatives once used to be.
RT @SykesCharlie: Folks, with the Proud Boys verdicts, the E. Jean Carroll trial, the Georgia probe, and the latest Clarence Thomas story, today's "Trump Trials" podcast is going to be *lit.*
@BulwarkOn…
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He’s a classic “lone drinker” @NTenzer, already besotted to the point of late Korsakoff syndrome, aka “wet brain” among medical doctors specializing in treating chronic alcoholics.
RT @NTenzer: Mr. Medvedev, The Hague is waiting for you.
Alcohol is not an excuse.
No one will have impunity.
Meanwhile, you are an idiot: the trick lacks subtlety. https://t.co/V8ze54Gyzo
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What a boss you had @SimonOstrovsky!
RT @SimonOstrovsky: Making Private Eye makes it all seem worthwhile, somehow https://t.co/gcdHpKW7O6
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Russian behaving badly at an international conference, rips down Ukrainian flag.
But not for long.
What is the matter with these people?
And then they wonder why we don’t want them in Europe.
They do not know how to behave.
RT @GlasnostGone: Replay of Russia's full-scale invasion of #Ukraine. Starts well... then Russia in full humiliating retreat... https://t.co/Lh1KsroSYY
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This is bad and does serious damage to Georgia’s reputation in Europe and the US
RT @EtoBuziashvili: Meta took down Georgian FB network associated with the Georgian Government’s Department of Strategic Communications for coordinated inauthentic behavior.
It should be highlighted that the StratCom dept was supported both financially & with capacity-building by the West. 1/7
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Disgusting war criminals
RT @TheStudyofWar: #Russian Occupation Update:
Russian occupation authorities continue to announce medical examinations of #Ukrainian children, likely in connection with the ongoing deportation of Ukrainian children to #Russia under the guise of rehabilitation. 1/2
https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-may-3-2023 https://t.co/j1aXEjjfO4
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Cool, though now that the Guardian has published this, how long will it be available?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/03/finnish-newspaper-hides-news-reports-for-russians-in-online-game?CMP=share_btn_tw
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Poland is setting an example for all of Europe as it goes on an arms-buying spree to deter Vladimir Putin. https://www.wsj.com/articles/poland-weapons-nato-vladimir-putin-russia-ukraine-3c26615e?st=2ew7btcgrugx531&reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter via @WSJOpinion
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Millegipärast vaikib arvamus *täielikult* RSF-i poolt ära toodud ühe põhiprobleemi osas: meedia kontsentratsioon, ehk eesti meedia muutmine oligopoliks.
Ei tea miks, @postimees? Ega see aus ole süüdistada teisi jättes seda mainimata.
https://arvamus.postimees.ee/7767141/juhtkiri-eesti-ajakirjandusvabadus-kukkus-kolinal
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Someone entered my name in ChatGPT, which said I was the first woman president of Estonia, elected in 2009.
I am not a woman. I was elected in 2006 and 2011.
It is now accurate, but I am permanently ruined, finding it impossible to trust its answers.
RT @nytimes: Ensuring that chatbots aren’t serving false information to users has become one of the most important and tricky tasks in the tech industry. https://t.co/yVWLQmcXXk
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Who could ever imagine?
RT @RFERL: After being recruited from prisons to fight in the war in Ukraine, some mercenaries from the private Wagner Group are accused of having committed violent crimes in Russia, including murder. Report by @CurrentTimeTv and Timofei Rozhanskiy https://www.rferl.org/a/wagner-mercenaries-violent-crimes-russia-ukraine/32392588.html
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Another step in the re-militarization of Europe thanks to Putin’s hare-brained invasion.
Gotta hand it to him, he’s done more for NATO since the Soviet 1948 putches in Eastern Europe led UK Foreign minister Ernest Bevan to propose its creation to president Truman.
RT @CorporalFrisk: Norwegian defence committee proposal include going from one brigade (currently under construction) to two standing mechanised brigades in the north and a reserve brigade in the south…
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Yes, Stefan Meister is right German CI worked very discreetly:
"When he worked with German spy agencies in 2000, he [Stefan Meister] recalled, they did not have a single Russian speaker on staff.
This was Schröder's time, yes?
RT @meistefan1: My quotes in NYT on why Germany expelled Russian spies and why Germany is still not ready for the Russian hybrid war: Discreetly, Berlin Confronts Russian Spies Hiding in Plain Sight https://t.co/FFUJQ5sg5Q
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More and more interesting by the day. McCarthy's deal with Tucker Carlson.
https://newrepublic.com/post/172381/kevin-mccarthy-secret-deal-tucker-carlson-house-speaker
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Hello Forbes
RT @MarkGaleotti: Obviously the Kremlin drone story is still very much a breaking one, but people should really stop talking about this as an attempted assassination attempts against Putin. That's just playing to Kremlin talking points 1/
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Spike in Russian combat deaths fuels fears of worse carnage to come https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/02/russia-ukraine-combat-deaths/
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Good points. Please consider:
RT @sumlenny: THREAD I think the “Kremlin UAV attack” is a false flag. Here is why:
1) Several videos in high quality and color appeared, from CCTV cameras. All CCTV cams around Kremlin are under full Kremlin control. Nobody may leak them without permission. The Kremlin wants us to see it. /1
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