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.@KoriSchake being brilliant again. Do read please.
Freedom isn't free, as the current fight in Ukraine shows and as Central and Eastern Europe knows all too well.
RT @AEIfdp: "The arc of history only bends towards justice when people of goodwill grab hold of it and wrench it in the direction of justice."
@KoriSchake on the worldwide fight for freedoms and the prices people pay in @EngelsbergIdeas ⬇️ https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-price-of-freedom/
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jfc, I read it for the first time half a century ago. oh my oh my.
RT @PynchonInPublic: To celebrate Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow turning 50 I visited the Imperial War Museum to see the V2 rocket. It is cut away to show the fuel tanks and engine itself. I didn't realise how big it was until up close. #gravitysrainbow #ElephantandCastle #SouthLondon
@I_W_M
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Everyone just read this. Then tell us about trading land for peace. It's just consigning people to their deaths in the most horrific ways.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/russia-ukraine-war-potemkin-occupation-murder-torture/672841/
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In 2014 I gave a speech in Estonia on how Russia was doing in Ukraine what they did in Estonia in 1940. The Finnish foreign minister of all people weighed in to say I knew nothing of my own country's history.
Someone translate this into Finnish for Erkki
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Any review that begins by positively citing Glen Greenwald as an authoritative critic of Robert Kagan will turn out exactly as this one does.
RT @newrepublic: No American foreign policy school has crashed from the heights of influence as hard and quickly as neoconservatism did in the mid-2000s. https://newrepublic.com/article/170213/robert-kagan-interventionisms-big-reboot?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=EB_TNR&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1676389035-14
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And stay tuned for the next massive German air travel melt-down Friday when all major German airports go on strike.
RT @dwnews: German airline @lufthansa said a company-wide system fault was disrupting systems for check-in and boarding, leading to passengers and aircraft staff being stranded at @Airport_FRA. https://www.dw.com/en/lufthansa-system-failure-causes-massive-travel-chaos/a-64705780
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Russia’s war in Ukraine will cause a sharp slowdown in economic growth across Eastern Europe this year, says the EBRD https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-war-to-take-sharp-economic-toll-in-eastern-europe-715b5470?st=gzrit1t5knuwwqf&reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter via @WSJ
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For years, the US has required that Visa Waiver countries issue e-Passports to their citizens who want to enter the US. Yet in all this time, CBP hadn't actually deployed the software to execute these validity checks.
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Short thread Western analysts of Russian behaviour need to absorb.
RT @andrewmichta: 🧵I’m increasingly convinced that #Putin and “Putinism” have been made possible by the accumulation of resentments across the Russian society. #Putinism has emerged from Russians’ inability to accept that they lost the Cold War because the Soviet Union could no longer compete 1/
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Igor Girkin on the potential of a large-scale Russian offensive • WarTranslated https://wartranslated.com/igor-girkin-on-the-potential-of-a-large-scale-russian-offensive/
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Absolute must listen discussion with historian @anneapplebaum on the war in Ukrainian and what Russian occupation means. https://podcasts.apple.com/ee/podcast/conversations-with-bill-kristol/id925428680?i=1000599789872
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RT and make this go viral @JuliaDavisNews but not you @DarthPutinKGB
RT @francis_scarr: Some truly first-rate designs for Russia's pro-war billboards from @ilya_shepelin
Here is Vladimir Solovyov's son Daniil saying "I'm liberating this land from fascism" and "Glory to Russia's heroes!"
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Gotta love the Russian army
RT @maria_avdv: Izyum forest. 447 bodies were found here. Five months later, DNA identification is still ongoing.
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Jesse’s
RT @kaimarkaru: Eesti järgmine tervise- ja tööminister.
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By the end of the year there should be something *at least* as good as what @twitter once was before it was turned into utter garbage for an ego trip.
RT @verge: Elon Musk says Twitter should be ready for new CEO by end of year https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/15/23600692/elon-musk-stepping-down-twitter-ceo-end-of-2023?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
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Russia placed thousands of Ukrainian children in camps where they’re subjected to propaganda and forcible adoption by Russian families, a US government-backed report from Yale found https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-14/russia-put-6-000-ukrainian-kids-in-re-education-camps-yale-study-finds?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=twitter via @bpolitics
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He continues to think (as he also thought in that abomination he co-wrote with Derrida in 2003) of East Europeans as "primitives".
It's almost as if it's an updated left-wing version of Kipling's "The White Man's Burden". We poor "half-wild, half-children".
RT @AWerberger: Habermas meinte 1990, die friedlichen Revolutionen holten die Osteuropäer in die Gegenwart Westeuropas. Er glaubt weiter an die Avantgarde des Westens bei Entscheidungen. Den Preis für westlic…
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RT @ulrichspeck: Der Großintellektuelle seiner Generation, Jürgen Habermas, kommentiert das Kriegsgeschehen. https://www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/artikel/kultur/juergen-habermas-ukraine-sz-verhandlungen-e159105/?reduced=true
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From Estonia. Where Digital is Native. And come in at #2 in the world in internet freedom.
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