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

Very sharp
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Anton Gerashchenko: Anders Nielsen, a military analyst at the Royal Danish Defense College, posted a brief analysis of the current state and prospects of the Ukrainian counteroffensive:
◾️The Ukrainian offensive is not going as fast as many had hoped. It may even not be going as fast as the… https://n.respublicae.eu/i/web/status/1680612265039413248
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1680654196599660547

Do toilets too while you're add it.
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Anton Gerashchenko: Putin has said Russian experts should look inside the Western equipment and weapons seized in Ukraine and reverse engineer them - that is, recreate an exact copy based on a model. He stated this in an interview with the Russia-1 propaganda TV channel.
Putin said Russian weapons… https://n.respublicae.eu/i/web/status/1680624159913570304 https://t.co/Ei89IbXyov
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1680660343012327426

Arvate ikka, et avalik-õiguslik ERR ei ole oma uudiste osakonna juhtude isiklike kiiksude küüsis+
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Vetikas: https://t.co/th77djMnTl
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1680559015913242624

Another spot-on piece by @yarotrof on the reversal of traditional roles by the US and Europe on security.
Now it's the US that is engaged in cautious self-deterrence not the Europeans
https://www.wsj.com/articles/changing-places-europeans-grow-more-assertive-on-ukraine-as-washington-shows-caution-e4b83acf?st=g3drp9v60st5m5t

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1680565338696458241

Or the mass rapes, tortures, extra-judicial killings by the Russians?
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XSovietNews 🇺🇦: Elon wants the best outcome for "the people". Have you ever seen him condemn a Russian bombing?
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1680541693030825986

Actually it's exactly the right way to do it without fear of CEE countries he has called "hawks" and "war mongers"
It's why CEE killed the egotistical idea of Macron and Merkel along speaking to Putin in 2021
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Ulrich Speck: What went wrong with Russia? Macron in his Globsec speech: "We have not engaged Russia in a security dialogue for ourselves. Basically, we delegated this dialogue to NATO, which was probably not the best way to achieve it."
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1680542674367967233

Auditioning for a remake of Tod Brownings classic 1932 movie "Freaks" apparently.
Or is this some gopnik-vatnik collagen injection-produced vision of the male ideal?
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🇺🇦 ✙ Oksii ✙ 🇺🇦: Am I the only one do not understand why russian bloggers are sooooo 🤯 https://t.co/VAoTfJSQzu
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1680546949827633153

Another great piece from @fromTGA aka Timothy Garton Ash
https://timothygartonash.substack.com/p/in-kyiv?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1680549135785639938

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66169914?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&amp;at_medium=social&amp;at_bbc_team=editorial&amp;at_ptr_name=twitter&amp;at_link_type=web_link&amp;at_campaign=Social_Flow&amp;at_link_id=C511A3A4-2369-11EE-AB00-4FA65B3BE886&amp;at_link_origin=BBCWorld&amp;at_campaign_type=owned&amp;at_format=link

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1680482229896585217

Yeah, let's take outlier Austria, then cherry-pick a little in Germany and then generalize across all of Europe.
@POLITICOEurope
https://www.politico.eu/article/europes-growing-abortion-nightmare/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1680492325343051777

Yeah, let's use Chinese phones* instead. Those will be secure.
*Russia is not capable of producing its own mobile phones.
https://www.ft.com/content/6567e7f2-c5fb-4da4-bd95-bf7ceef54038

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1680503762505400326

“but after Col. Safonov was removed after he murdered someone he took over “
What a great army you got there.
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Unknown: @MassDara Also note The CO of 27th Motor Rifle Brigade Colonel Yaroslav Gladkikh was also removed....previously he was raved about by multiple figures as being one of the best regiment commander (423rd Yampolsky) but after Col. Safonov was removed after he murdered someone he took over 27
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1680318837227388929

Thread. Read it.
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Mattia Nelles: If you read one long-read this weekend, read this harrowing and well researched @APNews article about how Russia is fast expanding its repressive apparatus, well known from the Donbas and Crimea, to all recently annexed 🇺🇦 territories. Small 🪡
https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-prisons-civilians-torture-detainees-88b4abf2efbf383272eed9378be13c72
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1680288009923559426

We are now in the "being dumb and uneducated makes you a real American" phase of Republicanism.
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Republican Accountability: Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I cannot comprehend why our funding bill for the Department of Defense for the United States of America has money funding a war in Ukraine, a country that most people can't find on a map." https://t.co/B8Rttijy9z
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1680291810965323778

This country is hopeless. But this is good for the rest of us.
https://theins.ru/news/263459

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1680293164379144192

Yeah, sure.
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Robert Muis: @JuliaDavisNews https://www.jpost.com/international/internationalrussia-ukraine-war/article-750163
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1680301490143997954

They want to fertilize Poland and Lithuania? 🤣
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Nuno Felix: What a brilliant plan… known in Warsaw as “Minsk in 48 hrs”
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1680305370521108482

How to Break a Country https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/15/opinion/russian-speakers-ukraine-putin.html?smid=tw-share

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1680255389227532288

We already went through this after 1991. Moreover, few historians still push Keynes' thesis that Versailles created the Nazis.
Besides, they already *are* genocidal racists.
So no.
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Alexandra Prokopenko: It is important to contemplate the development of Russia’s domestic and foreign policies once the war is over. Mitigating “Versailles risk” will be a central concern for all.
powerful piece by @B_Eichengreen @ProSyn https://prosyn.org/PfpJs8P
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1680259290630696962

Russia: From convict to hero via Ukraine? https://p.dw.com/p/4Tqsp?maca=en-Twitter-sharing

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1680185745544212482