toomas ilves, ex-verif @ilvestoomas@respublicae.eu
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I find myself in the odd position of agreeing with William Barr.
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https://nitter.cz/WSJ/status/1718659045706682530#m
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🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/IlvesToomas/status/1718661775724319153#m
[2023-10-29 16:11 UTC]
If there is one article on Ukraine to read this week, month, indeed since 2014, this is it.
Especially shameful is how today the US demonstrates no contrition or obligation.
Deceit, Dread, and Disbelief: The Story of How Ukraine Lost Its Nuclear Arsenal
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/deceit-dread-and-disbelief-story-how-ukraine-lost-its-nuclear-arsenal-207076
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/IlvesToomas/status/1718572790905733398#m
[2023-10-29 10:17 UTC]
The west appeased Putin once. They’ll do it again
Gift link.
Di read if you want to understand how Western Europe sold out Ukraine and how they purposefully ignored CEE.
Also why the next NATO GenSec cannot come from amongst them.
https://on.ft.com/3QC0OvG
via
https://nitter.cz/FinancialTimes
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/IlvesToomas/status/1718589064675234158#m
[2023-10-29 11:22 UTC]
Another smart piece from the premier thinker on strategy,
https://nitter.cz/LawDavF
Israel: Beyond Deterrence
https://open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/israel-beyond-deterrence?r=qn26&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/IlvesToomas/status/1718599631775355135#m
[2023-10-29 12:04 UTC]
Deceit, Dread, and Disbelief: The Story of How Ukraine Lost Its Nuclear Arsenal
Archival files reveal Washington’s error in cudgeling Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons despite the risk of a Russian invasion.
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/deceit-dread-and-disbelief-story-how-ukraine-lost-its-nuclear-arsenal-207076
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/IlvesToomas/status/1718325608776700008#m
[2023-10-28 17:55 UTC]
Read this.
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https://nitter.cz/andrewmichta/status/1718296883108474926#m
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🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/IlvesToomas/status/1718329124983349493#m
[2023-10-28 18:09 UTC]
I'm more than halfway.
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https://nitter.cz/minna_alander/status/1718267520799355207#m
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🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/IlvesToomas/status/1718323365268631637#m
[2023-10-28 17:46 UTC]
If you can't get your own country to meet a decade old obligation to spend 2% of GDP on defense, how as SecGen are you going to get the rest of NATO laggards to do so?
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/IlvesToomas/status/1718282082529562679#m
[2023-10-28 15:02 UTC]
One of the best front-line reporters in the Ukraine,
https://nitter.cz/dpatrikarakos
, is now on the front lines in Gaza
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https://nitter.cz/dpatrikarakos/status/1718279037020213314#m
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🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/IlvesToomas/status/1718294526094090291#m
[2023-10-28 15:51 UTC]
After 25 years since the first CEE members in NATO, isn't it time that someone from the region finally be named SecGen?
Especially as the CEE countries were dismissed as being wrong on Russia when it turned out they were the only ones to get it right?
"Oh they are too hawkish"
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https://nitter.cz/HenryJFoy/status/1718257445699514369#m
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🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/IlvesToomas/status/1718259063186731230#m
[2023-10-28 13:30 UTC]
Not only is it time for a SecGen from CEE,
https://nitter.cz/HenryJFoy
, but one from a country that meets its decade-old obligation to spend 2% of GDP on defence.
How could a SG from a country that STILL only spends 1.76% on defence exhort others to "do their share"?
https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/2023/7/pdf/230707-def-exp-2023-en.pdf
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https://nitter.cz/HenryJFoy/status/1718257445699514369#m
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🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/IlvesToomas/status/1718262275620954491#m
[2023-10-28 13:43 UTC]
Oh yes, I recall how, when Estonia was one of the few countries anywhere with a CERT and we experienced a massive cyber attack by Russia, one of the more *Besserwisser* allies in NATO told us we didn't know what we were talking about and that we were just being "russophobic".
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https://nitter.cz/EconomyInformal/status/1718225359160693164#m
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🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/IlvesToomas/status/1718230753245356193#m
[2023-10-28 11:38 UTC]
Estonia's Kallas belittles Orbán for Putin handshake
https://euobserver.com/world/157616
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/IlvesToomas/status/1717939648482213933#m
[2023-10-27 16:21 UTC]
Putin’s Useful Priests.
The Russian Orthodox Church and the Kremlin’s Hidden Influence Campaign in the West
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/putins-useful-priests-russia-church-influence-campaign?utm_medium=social
via
https://nitter.cz/ForeignAffairs
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/IlvesToomas/status/1717941216581464325#m
[2023-10-27 16:27 UTC]
A "Special Relationship": what the US has with the UK, Russia has with Hamas -- in their own words.
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https://nitter.cz/JuliaDavisNews/status/1717892002186998205#m
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🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/IlvesToomas/status/1717900069079241056#m
[2023-10-27 13:44 UTC]
The new Force Posture:
"Self-deterence" doesn't only work regarding Ukraine.
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https://nitter.cz/LucasFoxNews/status/1717615886981276071#m
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🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/IlvesToomas/status/1717647609857200423#m
[2023-10-26 21:01 UTC]
Inviting anyone from the Top Ten Rule of Law countries?
They might have some ideas.
https://x.com/EconomyInformal/status/1717188944931049651?s=20
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https://nitter.cz/chkbal/status/1717555472444571794#m
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🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/IlvesToomas/status/1717645353153863750#m
[2023-10-26 20:52 UTC]
Õlgmehikesed sütivad üsna kergesti. Pole vaja neid luua ja omistada eesti välispoliitika asjatundjaile. Arvata, et Eesti välispoliitika kujundajad on lollid, kes ei suuda eristada Ukraina praegusest võitlusest Venema tulekvikust on upsakas ja rumal. 1/2
https://epl.delfi.ee/artikkel/120242600/mati-heidmets-militaarne-infooaas-kas-me-sellist-eestit-tahamegi#_ftn2
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/IlvesToomas/status/1717544135840714915#m
[2023-10-26 14:10 UTC]
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From Estonia. Where Digital is Native. And come in at #2 in the world in internet freedom.
@toomas_ilves
Joined Apr 2022
