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

Russian Supreme Court Exempts Soldiers Fighting in Ukraine from Criminal Prosecution https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/07/26/russian-supreme-court-exempts-soldiers-fighting-in-ukraine-from-criminal-prosecution-a81968

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1684117944173723648

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/far-from-the-front-line-putins-commanders-are-in-chaos-075rlrczl

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1683082211707297793

Well it is the UN after all. Did you expect anything else?
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Denis Zakharov: So UN is concerned about a person who:
- Was a combatant during the invasion in 2014
- Publicaly refused to wear press vests
- Traveled inside Russian military vehicles all the time
- Was an open nationalist with his "nazbol" Instagram handle
How is this about cluster munitions? https://t.co/I9UK21Nozu
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1683083459877584900

Wasn't this how the Catholic church ended up with Martin Luther and Protestantism 500 years ago?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/16/vatican-indulgences-pope-francis-tweets?CMP=share_btn_tw

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‘Price of Blood’ Soars as Russia’s Draftees Evade Service https://cepa.org/article/price-of-blood-soars-as-russias-draftees-evade-service/

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As always, this from @LawDavF, is very good, insightful and worth reading
https://open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/china-and-russia-the-weight-of-history?r=qn26&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=email

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1683098998331121665

Re Ok, no lion anymore. City-slickers can't the difference between a wild boar and a lion.
https://n.respublicae.eu/brianklaas/status/1682397104105222144?s=20
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Brian Klaas: Okay then https://t.co/x4VMpIirVA
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And not just, as the @nytimes writes, "a nationalist critic".
Their headline writers are really losing it. He' s a convicted war criminal, responsible for 298 deaths in the downing of MH17.
Then again this morning they led with "People are passionate about their water bottles"
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Olga Tokariuk: Igor Strelkov/Girkin, arrested today in Moscow, is not some sort of an opposition leader. He is a former Russian security services colonel who admitted to leading Ru proxy forces' invasion of Ukraine in 2014. He's a convicted in absentia war criminal for shooting down MH17 flight
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I think the @nytimes needs to talk to its headling writing staff
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Жирондіст: Adolf Hitler, an Austrian War Veteran, Aspiring Painter, Life-Long Vegetarian and Anti-Tobacco Campaigner, Commits Suicide in Berlin, Germany at the Age of 56 - New York Times
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They are so sick. All that "culture", with no effect whatsoever.
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Save Ukraine: "If we don't learn the 🇷🇺 anthem, they will send us to the basement, where they interrogate and beat you if you say something wrong." Such horrors were experienced by Nastya (16) in occupied Henichesk. We managed to bring the girl home before the Russians sent her to an orphanage https://t.co/YVBFoKFNk5
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No, they are not.
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The New York Times: People are passionate about their water bottles. Share your favorite in the comments.⁠ 💧
⁠@Wirecutter reviewers tested more than 100 over the years, and have eight favorites. https://nyti.ms/3K1JSeo
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So Russia will deliver him now to the ICC in the Hague for his role shooting down MH17, killing 298 civilians?
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max seddon: Girkin called for Putin’s downfall this week. “The country cannot survive another six years of this cowardly low-life in power,” he wrote on his Telegram channel.
Girkin’s wife announced his detention on the same channel on Friday.
https://www.ft.com/content/ac38478b-6e14-406f-8ee4-e13967333720
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Yo Berlin! Tallinn has real wildcats in our restaurants, not zoo escapees.
https://www.ohtuleht.ee/1089017/videod-ettevaatust-tallinnas-kalamajas-luusib-ilves-pealtnagija-ta-jooksis-mitu-korda-vastu-maja-seina

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1682395566267854852

Ehh, so what?
Let's make sure no American Yale economist can work as an expert on competition for the EU.
That'll make us a leader for sure.
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R James Breiding: And in 20 years, we in Europe will ask ourselves why, as now, there are so few leading companies focused on sectors generating most value creation.
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1681943363006656513

As the EU obsesses about privacy (as they kinda understand it), other times about competition, forgetting about security and in general being clueless on issues of data integrity...
This is happening.
Maybe hire some folks who know security and digital
https://www.ft.com/content/919c778e-55ba-4bfc-af39-aa110fdb3810

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1681945278876733441

Why, unless you're an idiot or a moral pygmy, you should never, ever buy Ben &amp; Jerry ice cream.
https://www.politico.eu/article/ben-cohen-ukraine-war-russia-blames-america-ben-and-jerrys/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=alert&amp;utm_campaign=Scoop%21%20Why%20Ben%20from%20Ben%20%26amp%3B%20Jerry%27s%20blames%20America%20for%20war%20in%20Ukraine

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1681954763573690368

This. Absolutely THIS.
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Anne Applebaum: We already know that the UN is no longer able to keep the peace. If it isn't capable of creating a convoy to protect the export of Ukrainian grain, then it's time to shut the whole institution down.
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1681912940692140032

But won't allow Germany to ship weapons with Swiss-made components to Ukraine... because, in the unforgettable words of Swiss president Berzet, "Swiss weapons must not be used in wars"🤔
Time for the EU to take another look at this entitled country, its banks and privileges. Now

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1681928360304295936

A brilliant take down of the US administration's infanitilization of Ukraine and its fight with Russia, by @PhillipsPOBrien https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/ukraine-war-us-aid-nato/674747/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=share

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1681736778963722241

And if they attack a grain ship from a NATO country?
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Amichai Stein: #BREAKING: From July 20, Russia says ships traveling through the Black Sea to Ukraine will be considered "carriers of military cargo"
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