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good thread from @DrRadchenko
RT @DrRadchenko: The Xi-Putin summit has ended and it's time to take a quick look at where we stand. At the start of the summit I mentioned that, much as Mao during his meeting with Stalin in 1949, Putin wanted something that "looked good but also tasted delicious." The results are disappointing.
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Thread ⬇️
RT @andrewmichta: 🧵I am taking part in yet another conference on defense planning and strategy, and of course the conversation defaults to #Ukraine. And again, I hear how this war will go for many years. I even heard about a "forever-war" (sic!). So let me get a couple things straight. 1/5
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Former French presidents Chirac and Sarkozy were indicted. Nothing “banana republic”.
Banana republic is to make ignorant statements as an official
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Why did it end early?
RT @ianbremmer: “take care, dear friend”
and just like that, the putin-xi summit comes to a close
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I wonder who has paid to promote this article
RT @UkrainianExpat: Despite its EU candidate status
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Devastating, from the brilliant @ConStelz
https://www.ft.com/content/afd6428c-9391-4f93-be85-bc9da9dab23b
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A reckoning on Germany’s Russia policy is long overdue https://www.ft.com/content/afd6428c-9391-4f93-be85-bc9da9dab23b
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Xi Jinping-Vladimir Putin talks highlight Russia’s role as ‘junior partner’ to China https://www.ft.com/content/73d50de6-53c8-4bf6-adf9-8cf108f82ca1
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The UN, the Criminal and International Law, by @NTenzer https://open.substack.com/pub/tenzerstrategics/p/the-un-the-criminal-and-international?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Mar 21: Kremlin determined to continue the war despite fearing defeat, Estonian intelligence says, by @MoniqueCamarra https://open.substack.com/pub/camarra/p/mar-21-kremlin-determined-to-continue?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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And he thinks it's really funny (tweeting ROFL) that this is the case.
And what happens to a journalist who writes about it:
RT @MaZaborowski: How Elon Musk's tweets unleashed a wave of hate https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64989720
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An important piece on what lies ahead for Europe, by @andrewmichta https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-china-policy-shape-transatlantic-relations-united-states/
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A thread to read
RT @MacaesBruno: My interview with former Chinese defence official, Senior Colonel Zhou Bo. Prepare to dig deep into China’s thinking and strategy on Ukraine and, I think, to be surprised… @time
https://time.com/6264512/insiders-perspective-on-chinas-strategy-in-ukraine/
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"Whence cometh this alarum and the noise?" on Shakespeare's birthday.
RT @ForbesTech: Every Phone In The U.K. Will Sound An Alarm On April 23 https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2023/03/20/every-phone-in-the-uk-will-sound-an-alarm-on-april-23/?utm_campaign=forbes&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=Carrie
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For much of Russia's history it's been a vassal of Eastern power.
Even national hero Alexander Nevsky defeated the Germans as vassal to the Great Khan of the Golden Horde.
It took centuries to get free from the East.
It took Vladimir Putin just a year to bring back the "yoke"
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My crystal ball: One day the real one finally will be arrested but he'll claim he's just a double.
RT @Gerashchenko_en: Which one do you think is the real one?
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Spring has sprung, the grass is ris,
I wonder where the boidies is
The boid is on the wing,
But that’s absoid
From what I hoid
The wing is on the boid!
-- attributed to Ogden Nash and to ee cummings but generally thought to be anonymous.
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