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An excellent and necessary article from @StevenErlanger but still: NATO allies in Western Europe were criminally negligent ignoring that a traditional war of aggression was completely possible after Russia's attack on Ukraine iin 2014.
Instead, (1/2)
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/26/world/europe/nato-weapons-shortage-ukraine.html?smid=tw-share
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"The off-ramp in 1962 did not emerge out of U.S. statesmanship. It grew first from Russian fear, and then pragmatism."
RT @ForeignAffairs: Timothy Naftali discusses how Washington and Moscow found an offramp from a nuclear crisis in 1962—and why it will be more difficult for Putin to fall back and save face in Ukraine.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russian-federation/putin-fear-retreat-cuban-missile-crisis?utm_campaign=tw_daily_soc&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_posts
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You mean sanctioning.
RT @kamilkazani: I think that the USG should explore the possibility of incentivising German, Italian, Austrian, Swiss, Taiwanese, Korean and Spanish companies to shut down their machines on Russian military plants that produce Kh-101, Kalibr, Iskander and other cruise and ballistic missiles
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As a service for the illiterates among the newly-elected members?
RT @GOPLeader: On the very first day of the new Republican-led Congress, we will read every single word of the Constitution aloud from the floor of the House—something that hasn't been done in years.
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The Italian navy’s mine hunter used to focus on finding and defusing World War II mines and bombs. Its new mission: protecting gas pipelines. https://www.wsj.com/articles/europe-sabotage-gas-pipelines-mine-hunters-subs-11669389505?reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter via @WSJ
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Potemkin “mothers”.
We can be sure that as Kremlin functionaries, *none*/zero/zilch of these Larpettes have a son mobilized to serve in a Russian Army Speed Bump Unit, whose sole purpose is to slow down the liberation of Ukraine by the sons and daughters of Ukrainian parents.
RT @k_sonin: Speaking to "soldiers' mothers" today, Putin said that it is better that their sons died in the war, then if they would have died of vodka. Yes, he actually did. But do not wor…
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This correlates completely with maps depicting % of the population that was Lutheran.
Why?
Luther rebelled against the clergy interpreting the word of God. Only the Bible could provide that.*
To know the word of God, therefore, children had to learn to read.
*Too bad… 1/2
RT @vokiratas: @irgarner @KuldkeppMart It's not just thinking, it's that the situation is demonstrably opposite.
Russia lagged far behind in literacy - their writing skills were too low even…
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Russian authorities requiring school and university employees to register as United Russia party members — Meduza https://meduza.io/en/news/2022/11/25/russian-authorities-requiring-school-and-university-employees-to-register-as-united-russia-party-members?utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=share_twitter&utm_campaign=share via @meduzaproject
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Veel. Tuleb tuttav ette, eks. @keskajainimene
RT @RightWingWatch: Christian fascist Nick Fuentes lays out his vision for America where contraception, fornication, homosexuality, and pornography are illegal and women can't go to school, or vote, and are burned at the stake for being witches: "We want to go back to the Middle Ages."
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Tähelepanu @keskajainimene
RT @newrepublic: For a growing segment of the right-wing elite, constitutionalism, Enlightenment rationality, religious freedom and republicanism are out. European aristocracy, crusading holy orders and mysticism are in. https://newrepublic.com/article/169050/masters-vance-weird-right-republicans?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=EB_TNR&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1669137198-2
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In case you don't get the scale of what Russia is doing.
Horrific.
RT @1395Gual: @ilvestoomas SOS- Same Ole Sh1t..from Bundestag
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Yes, with Macron in the name of the EU, without consulting with members bordering Russia or Ukraine.
An idea shot down after CEE read about it in a @FT leak and Estonian PM @kajakallas was the one to stand up to the two of them at the @EUCouncil
Why doesn't CEE trust Germany?
RT @nexta_tv: Former German Chancellor Merkel said that the start of Russia's war against Ukraine was not a surprise
"It was not a surprise. The Minsk ag…
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Lügen haben kurze Beine.
RT @davidfrum: Germany says it must consult with NATO about sending Patriot batteries to defend Ukraine airspace.
NATO chief says, no, there's no need to consult, Germany is perfectly free to send the Patriots if it wishes.
Apparently, Germany doesn't wish it. https://t.co/0mF7lVPaqr
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They've tried this before as well.
RT @davidfrum: Germany says it must consult with NATO about sending Patriot batteries to defend Ukraine airspace.
NATO chief says, no, there's no need to consult, Germany is perfectly free to send the Patriots if it wishes.
Apparently, Germany doesn't wish it. https://t.co/0mF7lVPaqr
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The anti-satanist, anti-LGBT jihad of the Russian Orthodox Church continues in Ukraine with a Moscow Church priest found in bed with a choir boy.
RT @EreaAndrzej: Podczas nalotu SBU na Czerniowce, ukraiński oddział Rosyjskiej Cerkwi Prawosławnej, archimandryta Nikita został nakryty w łóżku z chórzystą.
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Do watch this.
RT @dwnews: There is a new Banksy mural in Ukraine: For some, it represents the hope of one day washing away "the dirt" of Russian occupation.
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The EU has a point on gas -- subsidizing your own products is what the US has come down on hard when others do it.
Whining about buying US ammunition when Europe itself underspent for 3 decades and no finds it does not have enough is just ridiculous.
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When it comes to this horrific, it's only actions not words that count:
With all the atrocities they have committed, those who today call everyone else nazis will have their grandchildren still treated as war criminal pariahs.
As for "culture" , 70 years after WW2, this 1/2
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