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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦: Just had a German journalist explain to me that if #Ukraine had *joined* (!) #NATO yesterday then today we would all be at war with #Russia. 🤦♂️
They understood nothing.
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This is true. A few years later, before 3B enlargement, so was I. Ask the people at state and the NSC at the time.
When you worry about Russian aggression and the security of your nation, you have to be. Otherwise you will be ignored or run over roughshod.
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Michael Weiss: A friend and former diplomat reminded me today that if this White House thinks Zelensky is pushy, they should have seen Walesa and Havel with Clinton in the 90s when Poland and the Czech Republic felt their window for NATO membership was closing…
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Former President Proves Russia is Pursuing Modern-Day Fascism – Byline Times https://bylinetimes.com/2023/04/11/former-president-proves-russia-is-pursuing-modern-day-fascism/
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@Shteyngart explains to all of you who still think Russia is a normal country.
WTF is happening in Russia? - by Gary Shteyngart https://garyshteyngart.substack.com/p/wtf-is-happening-in-russia?utm_medium=email
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https://n.respublicae.eu/PhilipinDC/status/1678854026585161728?s=20
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Philip Crowther: Your little #Luxembourg anecdote from the NATO summit here in Vilnius. The photos from the arrival of FM Asselborn and PM Bettel shows a big red skull on the plane used by peaceful little Luxembourg.
It turns out they chartered a plane also used by the band @depechemode on tour. https://t.co/VgBCEb6K7Q
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But according to the Russian opposition, NATO isn't taking into account Russians' fee-fees. https://n.respublicae.eu/BrennanRapport/status/1679158259201232896
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Andy Brennan: @JuliaDavisNews “I am looking at different pieces of a mosaic trying to fit them together.”
“We are their main enemy.”
- Vladimir Solovyov
It’s not difficult to understand. The free people of the world will not submit to Russian domination. https://t.co/FZVzFUeF4H
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A wise thread, an outtake from the late Milan Kundera's essay, "The Tragedy of Central Europe", 1984 https://n.respublicae.eu/maksymeristavi/status/1679072354415067137
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вареничок.еріставі 🇺🇦🏳️🌈: "In November 1956, the director of the Hungarian News Agency, shortly before his office was flattened by artillery fire, sent a telex to the entire world with a desperate message announcing that the Russian attack against Budapest had begun."
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The "Underton Window" again... https://n.respublicae.eu/terischultz/status/1679042974221565953
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Teri Schultz: US Nat'l Security Advisor Jake Sullivan maintains the #NATOSummit decision on/delaying Ukrainian membership is a "positive signal."
We'll hear from President Zelenskyy soon as he speaks publicly with Sec Gen Stoltenberg at 11:35 CET. https://t.co/Kd1fm6xh81
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The NATO Communique and Ukraine: Too Clever by Half, by @PhillipsPOBrien https://open.substack.com/pub/phillipspobrien/p/the-nato-communique-and-ukraine-too?r=qn26&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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This, by military expert @PhillipsPOBrien, is what the communique should have said.
https://open.substack.com/pub/phillipspobrien/p/the-nato-communique-and-ukraine-too?r=qn26&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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That's overdoing it. The glue of Art 5 is if it fails for anyone, the whole edifice collapses. Has nothing to do with Eastern Europe. If it fails for one, it fails for all. https://n.respublicae.eu/SpaghettiKozak/status/1678838964508143617
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SK Media🇺🇦: Absolutely this. The message russia gets is that an attack on Estonia or Latvia is likely to get the same "Why die for (obscure EE territory" whining, which could lead to Article V being ignored. https://n.respublicae.eu/mhmck/status/1678811038764892163
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It's back to nuking us... https://n.respublicae.eu/Gerashchenko_en/status/1678662934266892289
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Anton Gerashchenko: Russian propagandist Skabeyeva muses about nuclear and world war. She hopes to "control" that the war reaches even countries across the ocean. https://t.co/eh06Hrwkjs
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The 2020s version of the "Radical Chic" lampooned by Tom Wolfe in his eponymous essay 50 years ago.
Feted in Hollywood and Cannes, silent on Ukraine, jet-set cosplaying dissidents and the offended victims of a grassroots anti-trolling movement.
It really doesn't wash. At all. https://n.respublicae.eu/XSovietNews/status/1678723286480433155
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XSovietNews 🇺🇦: Leonid Volkov, Yulia Navalnaya and other Navalny associates arrive in Vilnius to lobby at the NATO summit to say that Russians are victims more than Ukrainians. https://n.respublicae.eu/sasha_sotnik/status/1678722885244813313
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Bucharest Redux. Rather wimpy, I'd say. But VVP is happy. https://n.respublicae.eu/HenryJFoy/status/1678788774166183937
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Henry Foy: And here it is. Nato's new statement, 15 years on from 2008, on Ukraine's membership ambitions.
"We will be in a position to extend an invitation to Ukraine to join the Alliance when Allies agree and conditions are met."
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/official_texts_217320.htm https://t.co/E9wPqgL2tn
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.@CER_IanBond nails the NATO final statement on NATO membership for Ukraine. https://n.respublicae.eu/CER_IanBond/status/1678715205600018432
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Ian Bond: A perfect summary. "We are more united than ever in our disagreement; we have spoken decisively in favour of indecision". https://n.respublicae.eu/DavidCadier/status/1678713087405219840
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Re Bonus tweet to the above:
In 2000, to mark the 300th anniversary of Karl XII's victory over Russia in Narva, the Swedish Lion was returned to his rightful place in that Estonian city.
https://www.visitestonia.com/en/monument-swedish-lion
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In Ukraine I saw a brave but ravaged land in limbo. It needs a future – it needs Nato | Timothy Garton Ash https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/11/president-biden-nato-summit-ukraine?CMP=share_btn_tw
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If you needed any additional proof for @brianlambie’s observation, @mfa_russia tweeted this just yesterday:
https://n.respublicae.eu/mfa_russia/status/1678506372210515974?s=46&t=P6bh7N_g0GWaN4mEo_JuMA
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Brian Lambie: More evidence that many Russians are still living in the 1700’s. Their proudest achievements relate to invasion, murder and theft, in an endless conflict of empires. They cannot imagine a world where Russia is a decent, peaceful, prosperous and cooperative neighbour.
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@BrennpunktUA 🇩🇪🇺🇦: #Scholz will wieder mit #Putin sprechen
Plötner hat in den vergangenen Wochen dafür geworben, wieder in einen engeren Dialog #Moskau zu kommen. Ein beschlossener #NATO Beitritt der Ukraine unmittelbar nach Einstellung der Kampfhandlungen könne den angestrebten Dialog erschweren
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