toomas ilves, ex-verif @ilvestoomas@respublicae.eu
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66118007
Prigozhin here, Prigozhin there... perhaps we should call him Figarozhin?
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Austria, the NATO non-member with a fundamental understanding of and expertise on Russia as evidenced by former Foreign Minister Kniessl as well as the Golovatov case.
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OSINTdefender: Colonel Markus Reisner of the Austrian Armed Forces stated today that they currently believe that the 1st Phase of the Ukrainian Offensive has Failed due to Ukrainian Forces attempting to use NATO Military Tactics which do not work against Fortified and Heavily-Mined Russian… https://n.respublicae.eu/i/web/status/1676794731215421441 https://t.co/SpqTM6uipW
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Just because it was thanks to the tireless efforts of an Estonian journalist that this was was accomplished, this isn't just an Estonian issue.
It's about how CEE is lazily characterized -- "former Soviet", "former communist bloc" etc, especially in the US and German media 1/n
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toomas ilves, ex-verif: Thank you @marishellrand, who did the heavy lifting and work for such a long time to get this changed.
These things don’t change by themselves.
Aitäh Maris!
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Re The USSR died a third of a Century ago, some countries once occupied (like mine) have outstripped in GDP per capita, rule of law, low corruption, press freedom, educational achievement much of the EU and the US.
Yet this terminology persists.
It is obnoxious. 2/3
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Re I was born and grew up in the post-War West. 33 years after the end of WW2. Nobody but nobody in the media in 1978 wrote about "formerly Nazi Germany" in describing education, politics or economics in the Bundesrepublic.
France was never "formerly Nazi occupied Vichy". 3/3
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.@koutchoukalimar. Here's another sartorial and fashion idea.
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Helen Barrett: On Threads, catching up with Twitter mutuals. https://t.co/ADULe7Nxnu
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"Downfall: Rate Limit Exceeded"
Brilliant. https://n.respublicae.eu/KvotheTheArcane/status/1676795900306374656
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FriendlyKozak 🇺🇦: Downfall: Rate Limit Exceeded https://t.co/90GS2KTbTF
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Thank you @marishellrand, who did the heavy lifting and work for such a long time to get this changed.
These things don’t change by themselves.
Aitäh Maris!
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Maris Hellrand: Thank you, @AP and @DavidKeyton ! Better late than never. A great example for others to follow @AFP @Reuters @Bloomberg @ZDF @ARDde @BBCNews No more “former soviet republics“ https://t.co/BENNHRteHT
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Western security commitments ‘blur’ Ukraine Nato membership debate | Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/480e5064-cb87-45a9-8c1d-13aeb3e05130
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A Captured Russian Soldier’s Story: ‘They Just Sent Us to Die’ - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/05/world/europe/russia-ukraine-prisoner-interview.html
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And still they whine about visas to Europe.
“The Murdered Writer and the Stain of Our Unconsciousness.”
By @NTenzer
Read it. https://tenzerstrategics.substack.com/p/the-murdered-writer-and-the-stain
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Yes, do read https://n.respublicae.eu/doigemichele/status/1676349053217415168
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Michèle Doige: Please read @NTenzer's
moving tribute to Victoria Amelina "The murdered writer and the stain of our unconsciousness" .
His outstanding piece is also about "absolute crime" and about us "We are allowing the very crimes we are about to judge to be perpetrated day after day". https://n.respublicae.eu/NTenzer/status/1676330511784976386
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If you want to understand Russia, always read @peterpomeranzev
https://english.nv.ua/nation/peter-pomerantsev-on-trying-to-comprehend-russian-war-crimes-interview-50336575.html
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An important read:
Some actual evidence on the state of the war, by @PhillipsPOBrien https://open.substack.com/pub/phillipspobrien/p/some-actual-evidence-on-the-state?r=qn26&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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.@kajakallas keeps the Russian talk shows guessing.
🤣😂
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TheKremlinYap: The Russians are trying to guess what could be the outcome of the NATO summit for Ukraine https://t.co/NGJSytgshz
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A simple question for all NATO citizens:
If you were attacked by Russia, wouldn't you want to have Ukrainian troops -- the only ones ever to have successfully fought the Russians -- in the trench along side you?
You would, wouldn't you?
So tell that to your government.
Today.
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Western security commitments ‘blur’ Ukraine Nato membership debate https://www.ft.com/content/480e5064-cb87-45a9-8c1d-13aeb3e05130
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And for all the Finns saying "what about us!" in the replies.
People, you are already IN.
You would be in the trenches with the rest of us anyway.
Ukraine is the country that needs to be in.
It's not all about you. That's the point of NATO.
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toomas ilves, ex-verif: A simple question for all NATO citizens:
If you were attacked by Russia, wouldn't you want to have Ukrainian troops -- the only ones ever to have successfully fought the Russians -- in the trench along side you?
You would, wouldn't you?
So tell that to your government.
Today.
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