toomas ilves, ex-verif @ilvestoomas@respublicae.eu
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Huh?
Navalny team big-wig calls on the West to help mass murdering thug and war criminal Prigozhin.
This does not help the "liberal" cause.
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Соболь Любовь: The USA, the EU, the UK and the entire civilized world! Tie China's hands!
Prigozhin is your counterpart now. I, Lyubov Sobol, am telling you this! And the Russian people.
China is not your partner, but we are, crazy Russia.
Fix the mistakes of the 90s, of the Crimea and of… https://n.respublicae.eu/i/web/status/1672668534348947457
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1673434439131463680
This indeed is the real question⬇️ https://n.respublicae.eu/20committee/status/1673341076600500225
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John Schindler: Asking whether the Wagner pseudo-coup was "real" or fake" reflects Western binary and linear thinking, which Chekists avoid. A better question, that one that anyone who knows Russian/Soviet (and especially KGB) history must ask, is: Were coup plotters read onto the full plan?
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1673346837833564168
In this brief period when Wagner is in disarray, wouldn't it be prudent and smart to go after them in Africa and Syria?
Just asking.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1673243078168125440
In what non-developing country, non banana republic would:
the president, prime minister, defense minister, chief of the military, the minister of the interior, the president's security council, security "organs"...
All remain silent for two days after an attempted coup?
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1673223239714107392
She says all the things CEE was brow-beaten, derided and "shamed" not to say.
These truths did not comport with the 30 years of Kumbaya we just lived through.
Silence was what allowed Merkel to do NS2 after Crimea and Obama to do nothing.
Three decades of delusion.
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Dénes Törteli 🇪🇺🇭🇺🇺🇦: Ukrainian deputy defence minister Hanna Maliar: "We should not repeat the mistakes of our enemies. They got involved in this losing war because they underestimated us and did not understand our mentality.
We have to fight them taking into account:
- that they have an advantage… https://n.respublicae.eu/i/web/status/1673030451768832000 https://t.co/hHDiOvYull
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1673226641596731392
AKA old Stock Footage.
Released for the first time since the mutiny.
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NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦: Russia released footage of Shoigu for the first time since the mutiny of Prigozhin. “Inspecting” something. https://t.co/nKJe2d9YvW
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1673230027092099073
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Alec Luhn: Putin “was nowhere to be found” yesterday when Kremlin officials were desperately trying to negotiate with Prigozhin, Meduza sources say.
Prigozhin demanded to talk to the highest level, so they had to turn to Lukashenko https://meduza.io/feature/2023/06/25/putina-ne-bylo-nigde
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1673023328016056327
The Coup Is Over, but Putin Is in Trouble - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/06/putin-russian-coup-over-prigozhin-wagner/674522/
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1673028762223489025
‘It was an emotional day’: calm returns to Moscow after Wagner stand-down https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/25/it-was-an-emotional-day-calm-returns-to-moscow-after-wagner-stand-down?CMP=share_btn_tw
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1673045165701836800
Many, indeed a clear and overwhelming majority of analyses here and elsewhere have concluded Putin lost too. Lost credibility, stature, authority with his Indecisiveness and absence.
This is all probably true.
Yet he still has tools that date at least back to Ivan Grozny: 1/2
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1673058388257775620
Re Terror, repressions, arbitrary arrests, all to induce learned helplessness in the population.
We wonder how people themselves taken to the Gulag can still idolize Stalin?
Terror works. PMCs may share the monopoly on violence. But Putin still holds the monopoly on state terror.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1673060735486705671
931 votes and it’s split 50-50. I’ve never seen an even split like this.
“A Twitter divided” 🤷♂️
RT @ilvestoomas: Who does whataboutism better?
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1668717451771617282
Estonia’s global arms buying spree seeks drastic combat gains https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2023/06/13/estonias-global-arms-buying-spree-seeks-drastic-combat-gains/
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1668690518618808350
Subsea cables: how the US is pushing China out of the internet’s plumbing https://ig.ft.com/subsea-cables/ via @FinancialTimes
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1668686835889872900
Time is running out!
Get your vote in before Trump is arraigned.
RT @ilvestoomas: Who does whataboutism better?
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1668686143636774928
Yesterday in Washington, the Russian Embassy on #RussiaDay2023
https://youtube.com/shorts/V3D4hIZvo-s?feature=share
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1668683156508033030
In case you missed it
RT @ilvestoomas: Who does whataboutism better?
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From Estonia. Where Digital is Native. And come in at #2 in the world in internet freedom.
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