toomas ilves, ex-verif @ilvestoomas@respublicae.eu

Russians Know the Reality of War, and Many of Them Still Support Putin.

"It's not the Russians, it's Putin"
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/opinion/russia-putin-war.html?smid=tw-share

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Midagi on väga naljakas selles, et USA vasakäärmuslike poliitikute seisukohad Vene-Ukraina sõja teemal* ja Eesti paremäärmuslaste erakonna seisukohad ühtivad täielikult.🤷‍♂️

*nüüd nende poolt avalikult tagasivõetud ja tunnistatud ämber

#Hobuserauapoliitika

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Thread by @Knoks on Thread Reader App https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1585745384877350913.html

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How are the 20 out of 27 EU countries below the "Former Soviet Republic Estonia" ranked?
RT @EconomyInformal: Rule of Law Index 2022

Top 10 Countries

Denmark🇩🇰🥇
Norway🇳🇴🥈
Finland🇫🇮🥉
Sweden🇸🇪
Netherlands🇳🇱
Germany🇩🇪
New Zealand🇳🇿
Luxembourg🇱🇺
Estonia🇪🇪
Ireland🇮🇪

@TheWJP

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RT @indik: @ilvestoomas I call it autokurat for a reason.

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The toilet deficit has been solved!!!
RT @maria_drutska: “In principle, we do not need anything, we are self-sufficient”,- putin.

Waiting for happy pictures of being self-sufficient while driving Ladas.

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A question for older techies

In the 90s the EE government allowed only PCs not Macs.

Whenever I wrote the word "co-operation" on word, it would come out "Cupertino" (Apple HQ).

I asked the IT dept. They couldn't answer. Was it Msoft trolling Apple or vice versa or me? 1/2

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In other words, McCarthy too has “withdrawn” his statement. It was unvetted and he is his own staffer
RT @MZanona: NEW: McCarthy told defense hawks his comments about Ukraine aid were taken out of context. And group of Rs strategizing how to deal w/ GOP skeptics by leaning on Trump-era nat sec officials. w/⁦@jeremyherb⁩ ⁦@kylieatwood⁩ ⁦@KatieBoLillis⁩ https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/26/politics/kevin-mccarthy-house-gop-ukraine-fund…

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Absolutely spot on analysis. The one senior German official in the past 20 years who understood Russia while everyone else was Wandel durch Handel-ing. Danke sehr
RT @QuandtStefan: Wie funktioniert Putins #Russland? Dankeschön für eine glasklare Analyse von Bundespräsident #Gauck.

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Key to understanding the west. It gnaws at the small souls of tankies and Russian bots, none of whom actually want to live in Russia https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/26/democracies-advantages-dictatorships-putin-xi/

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More and more collectively schizo and delusional by the day.
RT @MoscowTimes: #OpEd In an already fragmented society, Russians are increasingly finding themselves defined by their own response to the war in Ukraine, argues Jeremy Morris. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/10/26/this-war-has-further-divided-russias-fragmented-society-a79116

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Russian officers call retreating mobilized soldiers "Roadkill".
RT @meduza_en: Stories continue to emerge about Russia’s poor treatment of its own conscripts. General Alexander Lapin, named by Putin a Hero of Russia, allegedly held a pistol to one commander’s head, while a colonel called retreating soldiers “roadkill.” https://meduza.io/en/news/2022/10/26/general-alexander-lapin-personally-threatened-retreating-conscripts-with-a-pi…

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Mercenary chief vented to Putin over Ukraine war bungling https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/10/25/putin-insider-prigozhin-blasts-russian-generals-ukraine/

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What!?!?
RT @VeerleNouwens: Dutch news reporting that the Dutch MFA has confirmed the apparent existence of two illegal Chinese police stations in NL - one in Rotterdam and one in Amsterdam - that have been in operation since 2018. https://www.nu.nl/binnenland/6232130/china-heeft-illegale-politiebureaus-in-nederland-ministerie-wil-in-actie-komen.html

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🤣😅😂😆😝 This is actually quite funny. And ridiculous. "I'm not a racist, I just sound that way"...
along with all their bizarre Bardakistani loser delusions of greatness. 🤷‍♂️
RT @JuliaDavisNews: Meanwhile in Russia: one state TV panelist ruins the host's pompous announcement that Russia's war against Ukraine is becoming "the people's war" when he foams at the mouth about circulating proposals to draft "bums and deadbeats." There's …

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Thread
RT @russiandefpolic: Another report of mobiki (423 MRR this time) left in the field with nothing except the prospect of getting waxed.... Their logistics likely to get even worse, their combat effectiveness practically zero.

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Another important @WarintheFuture thread from Gen. Mick Ryan,
RT @WarintheFuture: The winter months approach in #Ukraine. It will have an impact on the war, but it won’t shut down the war as some have theorised. A thread on the likely impact of winter on the war in #Ukraine. 1/25 🧵

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Of course the lecture. So on brand. How be a cultural/national stereotype, with zero self-awareness. Bingo.
RT @feminaprinceps: Komplett unpassend, wie Esken Menyk hier zum Abschied vors Schienbein tritt, nach allem was Deutschland und die SPD sich in den letzten Jahren in Sachen Russland und Ukraine so geleistet haben

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Targeting civilians is a war crime. Each and every one of these must go to The Hague. A thread.
RT @EliotHiggins: The missile programmers are part of the Russian Armed Forces’ vast Main Computation Centre of the General Staff (GVC), and working with @the_ins_ru and @derspiegel we’ve identified the 33 military engineers involved with cruise missile attacks in Ukraine. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2022/10/24/the-remo…

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Targeting civilians is a war crime. Each and every one of them must go to the Hague.
RT @EliotHiggins: Ever wonder how Russian cruise missiles find their way into Ukrainian playgrounds, power stations, and apartment buildings? Well thanks to @bellingcat’s @christogrozev wonder no more. It’s time to meet the team behind the targeting of Russian missiles on civilian infrastructure.

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