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

It was the West's Original Sin of 1991, especially the US's and Germany's.

The experience of Milosevic's genocidal Serbia showed already in the early 1990s where Russia could go if the West persisted in conflating the end of communist ownership with liberal democracy.
RT @POLITICOEurope: OPINION: The West made a grave mistake when it assumed the collapse of Soviet communism meant the end of Russian imperialism.
https://www.politico.eu/article/opinion-russia-benefits-disintegration/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=Twitter

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1613494111750725639

The benefits of Russia’s coming disintegration https://www.politico.eu/article/opinion-russia-benefits-disintegration/

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What kind of bizarre -- and I do mean BIZARRE -- logic is this??? How does the government explain this?
RT @sentdefender: The German Government has stated that they will not allow Poland and/or Finland to send Leopard 2 Main Battle Tanks to Ukraine unless the United States is also willing to provide Ukraine with M1 Abrams MBTs.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1613490543467630592

Please add these people to the list of people to be tried for promotion of genocide.

First, however, @eu_eeas, sanction them.
RT @francis_scarr: In many countries, daytime TV consists of anodyne cookery or travel shows

Meanwhile in Russia, they’re discussing whether Ukrainians can be "re-educated" or need to be "eliminated"

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1613488396747284480

Thread:
RT @ChrisO_wiki: 1/ The independent Russian media outlet 'We can explain' has published accounts from convicts recruited to fight for the Wagner mercenary group. The convicts – who were captured by the Ukrainians, likely at Soledar – have described extraordinarily brutal experiences. ⬇️

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You’d think she’d at least carry something made in the USA, not Austria. Made in America not good enough? 😁
RT @laurenboebert: Let me tell you why I WILL carry my Glock to Congress.

Government does NOT get to tell me or my constituents how we are allowed to keep our families safe.

I promise to always stand strong for our 2nd Amendment rights.

https://t.co/E75tYpdN4B

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We’ve lost another one of the greats.

RIP Jeff Beck, you made my youth so much richer and better.
RT @jeffbeckmusic: On behalf of his family, it is with deep and profound sadness that we share the news of Jeff Beck’s passing. After suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis, he peacefully passed away yesterday. His family ask for privacy while they process this tremendous loss.

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TikTok brigade🤣😝👍🏻
RT @Seveerity: Unconfirmed report that Zamida Chalayev one of the main commanders of kadyrovs tiktok brigade has been captured by Ukrainian forces.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1613304615151214594

Rather interesting thread on Surovikin’s firing today
RT @MassDara: Today Shoygu and Gerasimov demoted Surovikin, and put Gerasimov in charge of the operation in Ukraine, demoting their most competent senior commander and replacing him with an incompetent one. This is a story that has it all: infighting, power struggles, jealousy /1

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🤣🤣🤣
RT @CallaWalsh: All of you Western chauvinists are going to rot in hell for dancing on the graves of the 27 million Soviets who sacrificed their lives so that you don't have to live under Nazi occupation today

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"intricacies". It was an invasion. "intricacies, like 5-D chess.
RT @igor_alexandrov: I would like to apologize to Ukraine and all Ukrainians. When I made these comments nearly 10 years ago, I was young and did not understand the intricacies of the situation. I based my opinions on the government propaganda.

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Great piece on the adult children of EU and US-hating Russian politicians frolicking in... the US and the EU as well as other wonderful tourist destinations.

And do so on daddy's ill-gotten corrupt monies

https://theins.ru/korrupciya/258406

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1613218374594752513

Russia claimed its first significant success in Ukraine since July, seizing most of the eastern town of Soledar https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-claims-success-in-ukraines-soledar-its-first-advance-in-months-11673429457?st=pbt5ytjul07gzyz&reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter via @WSJ

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1613212124603453440

Retweet this widely please, especially whenever you see Russian "Art" on Ukrainian suffering.
RT @yewleea: Here is for the masses. #Ukraine is not russian art inspiration. This is not the help we are asking for. If we get hurt from something that’s done to “help” us … then who benefits from this …?

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1613175353157255168

Ah yes, the well-bred British aristocracy, like the thousand-year English lawn.
RT @jamesdgreig: Prince Harry is often caricatured as a dim-witted Hooray Henry. But his new memoir reveals a more sensitive, even rather bookish side

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1613168203999371264

Wait for 10 years and there will tens of thousands of erstwhile rapists and murderers. who want visas to the EU pleading youth in 2022. "But I was young and didn't understand the intricacies of the situation"
RT @porizna: ви подивіться на ці apologies. МОЛОДИЙ ВІН БУВ, коли поливав нашу країну та революцію лайном, підтримував війну та їздив на окуповані території, ще й переписувався з Холмоговорим блять. ото я дурна в молодості волонтерити та ходити по акціям боро…

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1613060938931871744

A must read/corrective to @ft's wishful piece on China distancing itself from Russia, by one of the smartest Russian observers of China, @AlexGabuev.

If Russia's digging itself ever-deeper into a hole of China-dependence, why wouldn't Xi give him shovels? While winking to Europe
RT @AlexGabuev: 🧵🇨🇳🇷🇺
Does China distance itself from Russia because of war against Ukraine? A terrific @FT piece helps to understand how Beijing wants its policy towards Moscow to be see…

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1613059253052358656

Putin’s Secret ‘Squadron’ of Executioners Exposed for Killing Own Men https://news.yahoo.com/putin-secret-squadron-executioners-exposed-171357488.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr via @YahooNews

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1612953285832445952

Russians Fear They’ll Soon Be Starving ‘Like North Koreans’ https://www.thedailybeast.com/russians-fear-theyll-soon-be-starving-like-north-koreans?source=twitter&via=desktop via @thedailybeast

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1612892302493552649

Solovyov is getting nervous.

The Day of the Oprichnik looms.

Putin will be gone but Russia will remain.

There will be no "Marshall Plan"
https://www.ft.com/content/d66c61e8-8511-459a-9116-70703ff2471f

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