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Director @orbisBIofficial | Former British Crown Servant | Intelligence Professional | Russia Specialist |

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Christopher Steele
5 months
I'm delighted to announce the publication of my first book, UNREDACTED: RUSSIA, TRUMP AND THE FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY, by @MarinerBooks in America on October 8th, 2024. Pre-order now:
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As a matter of priority, we need to know the full details of Johnson’s relationship with the Lebedevs and especially what transpired at the meeting with Aleksandr Lebedev in Italy in 2018. This is an issue of real national security importance and a thread that must now be pulled.
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Nigel Farage’s remarks to the BBC, that NATO and the EU provoked the Ukraine war, are disgraceful. Russia signed the 1994 Budapest Memo guaranteeing Ukrainian territorial integrity and NATO is a purely defensive alliance. Putin bears sole responsibility for the over 500,000 dead.
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In 35 years of observing HMG’s Russia policy, I’ve never seen anything as shocking as HMT’s reported granting of a special licence allowing sanctioned Russian war criminal Prigozhin to sue investigator Eliot Higgins for libel in London. Parliament must investigate this urgently.
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Igor Danchenko’s unmasking and indictment is one of the most disgraceful episodes in US judicial history. Igor, a valuable FBI source on Russia, was thrown under the bus for partisan political gain. Imo the only beneficiaries from Barr and Durham’s actions are Putin and the FSB.
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The UK’s new Labour government needs to dust off the ISC’s 2020 Russia Report classified annex with a view to sanitising and publishing it. The British people should know why Boris Johnson suppressed the report and just how far Putin and his cronies have corrupted our democracy.
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Earlier this year, when he lost his English High Court case against us, the judge ordered Donald Trump to pay Orbis an initial £300k in costs. Trump, who claims to respect the UK, has now been in breach of this order for two months and faces enforcement if he travels here again.
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The US media’s repeated references to the Trump-Russia ‘Dossier’ as ‘discredited’ are sloppy journalism. Despite a blow torch of politically-motivated criticism, the main tenets of it, including on collusion, have held up well. And few, if any, of the details have been disproven.
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On Brexit we had clear indications Russia did try to intervene, including with clandestine funding, to influence the vote.We shared this info with Parliament’s ISC for their Russia report. Although I doubt it was enough to swing the vote, it has never been properly investigated.
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The British media and political class have started normalising Trump and his isolationist running mate J.D. Vance, thinking they might win in November. In reality this ticket poses a profound threat to our security, economy and Rule of Law. I hope we are planning accordingly.
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Trump's latest claim, that all the civil cases he's embroiled in are part of a political conspiracy, is complete hogwash. He initiated a suit against us in London last year, lost, had his appeal request rejected and costs awarded against him. Four months on, he has yet to pay up.
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The Russian Embassy in London tonight. A very fitting memorial to Aleksei Naval’niy.
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Johnson’s letter to Parliament about his Lebedev meeting in Italy in 2018 lacks any credibility. Do he and his advisors think we’re idiots? We want straight answers to simple questions. With whom did he travel there? What did he discuss with AL? And where is the detailed record?.
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Due to our obsessive focus on the US election, we’ve taken our eye off the ball in Ukraine where Putin is escalating his illegal war with the help of North Korean and Iranian allies. Why are Western governments saying so little and doing even less about this? We must up our game.
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As Johnson leaves office we mustn’t let him get away without answering key security questions about his relations with the Lebedevs, especially on the 2018 meeting in Italy. Who did he travel there with, what did he discuss with Aleksandr and is there a detailed account of this?.
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Viktor Orban, an autocratic ally of Putin and enemy of Ukraine must not be indulged any longer. He has put Hungary, a minnow within NATO and the EU, on the wrong side of history. The large Member States should give him an ultimatum. Join us in opposing tyranny or face expulsion.
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Sadly last week demonstrated the ‘Russia problem’ isn’t just with Trump but has metastasised throughout the Republican Party. No one hates the US more than Putin and yet, despite this,Trump’s congressional allies seem determined to block further aid to Ukraine at all costs. Why?.
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The concerns we raised in 2016, about Trump and his campaign’s curious support for and subservience to Putin’s Russia, are now in plain sight. Were Trump re-elected, he would end aid to Ukraine and suspend NATO mutual defence commitments, thus creating a era of strategic chaos.
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The killing of Dugina in Russia’s looking increasingly like the 1999 Moscow apartment bombings. If so, it’s a false flag op by an FSB faction, blamed on Putin’s enemies and designed to whip up nationalist fervour in support of military escalation (in Chechnya then, Ukraine now).
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Russia under Putin has become a terrorist state. Western governments must treat it as such. And the Russian people have to start accepting some responsibility for all this. Hiding out abroad to avoid the draft or remaining passive and compliant at home simply doesn’t cut it.
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Pope Francis has apparently congratulated Putin on his ‘election’ victory. When did the Catholic Church become apologists for indicted war criminals waging aggressive war, joining the likes of Kim Jong-un, Xi and Khamenei? It’s high time decent Catholics spoke out against this.
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The Durham report’s failure to redact the names of alleged Russian sources is reprehensible. Some are based in Russia, others co-operated with the USG. Putin’s regime is renowned for brutal retribution. But Durham still threw them to the wolves to propagate his partisan theories.
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One day the truth and extent of Londongrad, pace the ISC Russia Report, will become clear. How Russian money, under the ultimate control of Putin’s regime, corrupted the British Establishment and undermined our democracy. But sadly this government has no interest in exposing it.
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Very sad to say it, but this is surely the death knell of the UN as a serious international peace-keeping organisation. The Secretary General welcoming a sanctioned Russian war criminal, Lavrov, with a handshake and a photo op. A new low.
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Why didn’t UK join the EU ban on insurance cover for ships exporting Russian oil? As a result the EU has now softened its ban, letting Putin etc off the hook. Russian oil’s also being moved between tankers just offshore UK,to dodge sanctions. HMG needs to get a grip on all this.
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So with former FBI source Smirnov’s US indictment, for peddling Kremlin disinformation about Joe Biden, the real Russia ‘hoax’ turns out to have been attempts by MAGA Republicans to impeach the president based on it. The only question now is if this was witting collusion or not.
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It’s curious but instructive to watch Republican senator Lindsey Graham twisting and turning to gruntle Trump, the biggest threat to western security in our lifetime. Previously a hawk on Russia, Graham has now voted against further aid to Kyiv, thus enabling Putin. Disgraceful.
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As it becomes clear Russia trained and equipped Hamas to foment instability in the ME and distract attention from Ukraine, Media Attention Deficit Disorder(MADD) is helping Putin to fulfil his aims. Our press needs to refocus on this other war which is entering a critical phase.
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The questions US politicians and all of us should be asking Netanyahu concern his lack of support for Ukraine (a threatened democracy with an elected Jewish leader) and his odd relationship with Putin. Russia is allied with Israel’s sworn enemy, Iran. It makes no sense at all.
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The hypocrisy and hubris of Senator Lindsey Graham know no bounds. When a protege of John McCain, Graham was a strong Russia hawk. Now he’s trying to gruntle Trump/MAGA, Graham voted against aid to Kyiv but still showed up there telling Zelensky how to run the war. Breathtaking.
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After becoming president in 2000, Putin was invited to the G8, represented Russia at D-Day remembrance and hosted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace. He’s now an indicted war criminal, absent BRICS summits and welcomed only by Kim Jong-un. Rarely has a world leader fallen so far.
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The BBC should not be giving Russian ‘ambassador’ Kelin the opportunity to lie shamelessly about the Ukraine war and threaten us on national TV. The British ambassador in Moscow would never be allowed such a platform. It’s time we stopped giving oxygen to Putin’s lying machine.
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Given Reform UK’s apparent election surge, our media must start asking Nigel Farage difficult questions. Such as on his admiration of Putin, his blaming the EU for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and his support for Trump, despite him being in breach of an English High Court order.
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The list of Republican senators still voting against the Ukraine aid package is very revealing. Shockingly, it includes Intelligence Committee Vice Chair, Rubio. The Kremlin’s influence in American conservative politics is clearly growing, despite Putin’s ever-worsening conduct.
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The Ukrainian counter-offensive in Kharkiv/Kherson has so far exceeded all expectations. If the ragbag Russian army of indisciplined drunks and thieves is routed, as now seems possible, it will be the end for Putin. Despite his propaganda machine, he can’t survive defeat in war.
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For anyone considering the wisdom of negotiating with Moscow to end the Ukraine war, you should take another look at the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, signed by Russia. A more flagrant breach of a legally-binding international agreement by a nation state would be hard to imagine.
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Trump’s favoured Ukraine ‘peace’ deal apparently involves ceding Crimea and the Donbas to Moscow. This would be a triumph for Putin and disastrous for European security. Within 5 years Russia would have regrouped and rearmed and we, NATO, would find ourselves at war with them.
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After Russia’s mass missile attack today on Ukrainian civilian targets in revenge for Kyiv’s strike on a Russian naval ship, we shouldn’t be in any doubt. This war will not end until either Putin destroys Ukraine or he’s toppled or defeated on the battlefield. It’s that simple.
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It’s depressingly predictable watching the anti-Ukraine, pro-Putin faction in the US Republican Party at work. Both in congress and among presidential hopefuls there’s a growing isolationist demand to reduce or cut off aid to Kyiv. These people want to hand victory to Putin. Why?.
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Lindsey Graham is rightly under critical scrutiny again.The supposed Russia hawk and ex-McCain protege put partisan politics above Western security interests in helping unmask top FBI Russia source, Igor Danchenko.Graham needs to be held to account for such unscrupulous conduct.
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And to correct the Danchenko trial record, we were not offered $1 million by the FBI to ‘prove up’ our Trump-Russia reporting. Rather, we were told there were substantial funds to resettle sources in the US if they were prepared to testify in public. Understandably they were not.
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CBS’s report that Russia’s GRU military intelligence is likely responsible for US officials suffering from ‘Havana Syndrome’ is great work and highly significant. It suggests Putin’s thugs have been waging war on us since 2014. If true, a suitably strong response is now required.
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What kind of political fantasy world does Boris Johnson inhabit? After meeting Trump yesterday, Johnson declared him a reliable ally of Ukraine. But in reality Trump hates Ukraine and has picked as his running mate J.D. Vance, the most vocal opponent of aid to Kyiv in congress.
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The deployment of Western militaries to intercept Iranian missiles and drones aimed at Israel stands in stark contrast to our diminishing support for Ukraine which is suffering from a chronic shortage of air defence weaponry. We clearly can and simply must do better than this.
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Ukraine needs western financial and military aid now, without further delay. Pro-Putin MAGA Republicans are blocking this in congress. The best way to get round them is to approve release of the circa $300 billion of Russian assets frozen at the start of the war. It must be done.
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And according to CBS, the mastermind of the Havana Syndrome op is Russian Security Council deputy head, Averyanov. He even recruited his own son into the operation. Averyanov also ran the Skripal op in Salisbury and likely Prigozhin’s plane crash. One fine day justice awaits him.
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HMG must move quickly to outlaw donations to UK political parties from foreign nationals, under whatever guise or loophole. And make transparent and strictly limit the amount any person/entity can gift. We mustn’t allow political oligarchy to take hold here, as it has in the US.
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At last, after numerous evaded parliamentary questions, the truth of Johnson’s unofficial meeting with Lebedev in Italy in 2018 is out. Unprecedented in my experience, reckless and a clear threat to national security. Where was the Security Service in all this for Heaven’s sake?.
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Boris Johnson finally admits meeting ex-KGB agent Alexander Lebedev while Foreign Secretary, at height of Skripal poisoning crisis without officials or security. He went directly from NATO summit on Russia & Salisbury. Serious national security Qs. How was this allowed to happen?
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And however you voted on Brexit, you have to ask why not? It’s a matter of national security. And anyone who thinks the NCA or Electoral Commission are capable of getting to the bottom of Russian interference, doesn’t know those institutions. It’s the job of the Security Service.
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When asked in Parliament yesterday Liz Truss, who’s taken a laudably hard line on Putin’s war, didn’t seem to know there’s a group of unsanctioned former KGB officers, like Kudimov and Lebedev, still doing business here despite having worked against our country. Why on earth not?.
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I’m curious why, despite the fact that I deliberately don’t follow Elon Musk on X, I still get bombarded by his ridiculous posts and propaganda, as well as those of other Trump/MAGA supporters like Collin Rugg. Perhaps someone could enlighten me. So much for freedom of choice!.
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Re-Amnesty’s recent Ukraine report, I can’t believe an organisation I’ve supported all my adult life could criticise Kyiv’s forces for protecting their civilians from Russian atrocities. And fail to blame Putin’s regime entirely for the dire HR situation in Ukraine. Disgraceful.
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How predictable that just as Ukraine has halted Moscow’s latest offensive thanks to renewed US aid, Trump and his advisers are threatening to cut-off future assistance unless Kyiv agrees to ‘peace negotiations’ which would reward Putin by formalising Russia’s territorial gains.
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It’s great the US House has voted through the $61 billion Ukraine aid package. Hopefully a turning point in the war that represents a big defeat for Trump, his Republican acolytes and Putin’s regime. But we must beware of Moscow launching a new offensive before the aid impacts.
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British politicians are mistaken to think intelligence liaison with the US could continue as usual if Trump were re-elected. Trump doesn’t accept the IC’s view of the Russian threat and could use the power to declassify intelligence, including ours, if it furthered his interests.
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The reaction of MAGA Republicans like Jim Jordan to the Smirnov case has been to demand we should be indicted likewise for our 2016 Trump Dossier. But multiple court cases and US investigations since have proved we simply told the truth and did our duty by reporting in our intel.
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Finally, we must consider making it illegal for any Western company to do business in Russia, for as long as this war lasts. If we shy away from preparing such tough measures, Putin will be able to regroup and re-arm, with Moldova, Georgia and the Baltics in his gunsights next.
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So Orbis has defeated Trump again in court, this time in London in a spurious data protection case. Trump has become what he hates the most, a loser. The British Parliament must legislate now to stop this kind of ‘lawfare’ undermining our democracy and infecting our legal system.
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The success of extreme Right wing Geert Wilders in the Dutch election is a warning that populist, xenophobic authoritarianism still has political legs in Europe. Wilders is pro-Putin, despite the Russians having shot down MH17 in 2014 killing 198 Dutch citizens. Such a disgrace.
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Justin Webb, in The Times on 3 Jan, is wrong about FBI, Kash Patel and the ‘Steele Dossier’. Patel wrote the misleading, discredited ‘Nunes Memo’ and as the Senate Intel Committee report later set out, there was clear evidence of collusion between Trump’s team and Russia in 2016.
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Remembering the sacrifice of our war dead today, we should recognise there will be no peace in Europe for the next generation unless Putin is soundly defeated in Ukraine. The West is simply not giving Kyiv enough military or financial aid to achieve this. We must do much more.
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Additionally the Kremlin continues brazenly to interfere in the US presidential campaign, to get Trump elected and thus Putin off the hook in Ukraine. It is time for President Biden and colleagues to step up to the plate. Expose Putin’s meddling and ensure his defeat in the war.
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Our government is right to commit heavy armour and advanced weapon systems to Ukraine, even if it temporarily denudes our own capabilities. This is a generational struggle for democracy and territorial integrity and Russia is our only conceivable conventional adversary in Europe.
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The Kherson retreat is arguably Russia’s greatest military humiliation since WW2. Putin’s hopes that a cold European winter and Republican victory in the US mid-terms would rescue him have faded. Putin’s doomed so let’s not mistakenly let him off the hook by negotiating with him.
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It’s bizarre that the White House seems to be losing its nerve on approving Kyiv’s use of Western missiles to strike legitimate military targets inside Russia. Putin’s the one escalating this war, by procuring Iranian and North Korean missiles, and we can’t allow him to prevail.
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We shouldn’t be letting Ukraine slip off the news and the political agenda. This is a critical point in the war and we should be hitting Putin’s Russia where it really hurts. So we need a Russian tourist visa ban now and effective oil sanctions,as there’ve been none such to date.
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Right now it is vital to understand one key point. Putin’s regime is not interested in negotiations or peace in Ukraine. Like Hitler before him, the only ways to stop Putin are to defeat him on the battlefield or collapse the Russian economy through sanctions, or preferably both.
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Furthermore, Durham and Jordan yesterday stated as facts things that are not right. Dolan was not a ‘major source’ for the ‘Dossier’; Danchenko was not a Russian asset (but rather the opposite); and the decision to take our Trump-Russia reporting to the FBI in 2016 was mine.
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President Zelensky is truly inspiring. No current world leader has so exceeded the original expectations of them. Courageous, civilised and modest, he’s manned the trenches of democracy against tyranny with real skill. His country will prevail and his legacy will be churchillian.
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Finally, our 2016 Trump-Russia reporting has not been ‘discredited’. In fact its main tenets continue to hold up well and almost no detail has been disproven, including through numerous court cases. It’s high time serious American journalism put the record straight on this. 4/4.
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The Washington Post’s failure to endorse VP Harris makes a mockery of its great journalistic traditions. Democracy is dying all right, and WaPo’s owners are complicit in this. They have no problem with a convicted criminal and Putin apologist becoming US president? Astonishing.
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The reason we need a Russian visitor visa ban now’s that too many ordinary Russians’re burying their heads in the sand and pretending Putin’s corrupt regime and imperialist war have nothing to do with them. Sadly they do and we must leverage them into more actively opposing both.
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Serial litigator Donald Trump has lost another case. Florida’s Judge Middlebrooks awarded $1 million in damages to Orbis and other defendants. His ruling says we were ‘needlessly harmed, dishonestly to advance a political narrative’ and that the case ‘undermines the rule of law’.
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Assad’s demise in Syria is a huge blow to Putin personally and Russia strategically. Its manner, with the regime collapsing overnight like a pack of cards, must have sent shivers through the Kremlin. It gives us hope the same could happen in Russia, and sooner than people think.
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As we enjoy Christmas, sharing the Festive season with loved ones, we should spare a thought for Ukrainian soldiers in their freezing trenches. The future of democracy in Europe depends on their victory. We must redouble our support for them in 2023. Their defeat is unthinkable.
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Finally, and for the record, I can state categorically that neither Oleg Deripaska, nor any Kremlin proxy, funded our 2016 Trump-Russia investigation; knew of its existence; or provided any of the intelligence included in our reporting.
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The rise of Marine Le Pen’s RN party in France is a serous concern. Her makeover of its odious FN predecessor is skin deep. The same far Right politicians were exposed taking a secret €9 million Russian loan and Le Pen herself has endorsed Putin’s illegal occupation of Crimea.
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It is a mark of Putin’s deepening autocracy and the odd passivity of Russia’s people, that he can consign 300k young men to the meat grinder of an unjust, failing war in Ukraine without any serious public dissent or protest. This would not be the case in any other major country.
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So, at long last, the partisan Durham investigation is over. His mandate was based on the false premise of a Deep State conspiracy fabricating links between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia. Durham wasted 4 years trying to prove this but inevitably, stubborn facts got in his way.
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@LindseyGrahamSC @realDonaldTrump A view doubtless shared by Vladimir Putin!.
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The main point about the Moscow terrorist attack is that it shows the complete incompetence of the FSB. If they had spent less time amassing corrupt wealth and more combatting the real threat to Russia, Islamic extremism not Ukraine, 137 of their compatriots would still be alive.
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To understand why Russia sanctions have proved less effective than hoped, simply take this graph of Italian exports to underdeveloped Kyrgyzstan which have increased geometrically of late. It’s high time we got serious and threatened secondary sanctions on the entities involved.
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There are reports China’s Xi has come to Europe with an Ukraine ‘peace’ plan, possibly approved by some Western govts. But if any such plan includes ceding the occupied provinces to Moscow it must be rejected as this would represent a victory for Putin. Sadly Kyiv must fight on.
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All that makes this a very dangerous moment in the Ukraine war as Russia counter-attacks in Donbas and prepares to target Kyiv’s energy infrastructure again this winter. Ukraine is a generational struggle for European civilisation and must remain our top foreign policy priority.
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The IOC’s decision to allow Russian athletes to compete in the Paris 2024 games is morally and otherwise corrupt. Putin’s Russia has violated every founding principle of the Olympic movement and is illegally occupying another member state’s territory. We must work to reverse it.
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@Gerashchenko_en This dangerous nonsense from the Pope on ending the Ukraine war is at best naive given Putin is intent on destroying the country and will not stop till he has done so, or at worst reflects the reportedly large amounts of corrupt Kremlin money being laundered through the Vatican.
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The problem for Trump, Tucker Carlson and all far Right MAGA Republicans lauding Putin as a strongman Christian nationalist is that the Ukraine war has exposed him as just another corrupt and deluded despot. They are in the wrong trench of History and really should stop digging.
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Elon Musk knows as much about Russia, diplomacy or intelligence work as I do about the internal workings of an electric vehicle- very little. He should read my forthcoming book ‘Unredacted’, published in the US on 8th October, or stay in his own lane.
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The fake Russian “Steele Dossier” scam was next-level election interference.
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Christopher Steele
10 months
Why did it take a, failed, Iranian drone attack on Israel for the USG and UK govt seriously to target Tehran’s relevant military enterprises for sanctions, when Ukraine has suffered these strikes for many months? Real double standards here and damaging to our reputation in Kyiv.
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Christopher Steele
3 years
Whilst I applaud the British Government’s wholescale support for brave #Ukraine, they really must get on with implementing the recommendations of the ISC’s 2020 Russia Report, something they have prevaricated over for years.
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Christopher Steele
8 months
@atrupar Trump letting his guard slip and showing his true colours once again. The same old pro-Russian and anti-Ukrainian nonsense, hardly even disguised. And with the vast majority of congressional Republicans in thrall to him, this will be music to Putin’s ears.
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Christopher Steele
2 years
Given Putin’s barbarism in Ukraine and Russia’s gross violation of international laws and norms, why do we still have full diplomatic relations with Moscow? It achieves nothing and offers faux respectability. Time to consider downgrading them and sending ‘ambassador’ Kelin home.
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Christopher Steele
2 years
The Met Police and BAFTA’s decision to exclude Bellingcat lead investigator, Christo Grozev and his family from Sunday’s award ceremony on ‘public security’ grounds is shameful. It’s not the first time the entertainment industry has buckled to Putin’s regime and must be reversed.
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Christopher Steele
2 years
Our reporting in 2016 was objective and not politically motivated. The allegation in Durham that our intelligence was Kremlin disinformation is also without foundation, unless you believe Putin wanted to damage Trump to assist a Clinton victory. 2/4.
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Christopher Steele
1 year
There is growing evidence the West’s capacity to supply Ukraine with the quantity and range of weaponry, especially munitions, it needs for a battlefield breakthrough is under great strain.This is a generation-defining conflict and Putin must be defeated. We need to up our game.
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Christopher Steele
10 months
Instead of talking vaguely about supporting Ukraine, seemingly as a lesser priority than Israel, Mr Sunak should be lobbying the US congress to approve renewed aid and buying up air defence systems on the open market to supply to Kyiv without delay. Short of this, Ukraine burns.
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Christopher Steele
6 months
Although I greatly respect Kara-Murza and other democracy activists, their argument that ordinary Russians shouldn’t be hit by Ukraine sanctions is flawed. Sadly they have been largely passive to date and if they want sanctions lifted, need to rise up against Putin’s illegal war.
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Christopher Steele
2 years
John Durham’s long-awaited report merely repeats the allegations he failed to prosecute in court. It reveals further an investigation driven by a partisan conspiracy theory to which he bent unclear testimony. It also contains various factual errors. 1/4.
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Christopher Steele
1 year
Estonia’s Kaja Kallas is one of the wisest and bravest political leaders of our time. Unlike Trump, Putin and their shills, she understands just how precious our freedom and democracy are. For Moscow to put her on their ‘wanted’ list proves Russia is no longer a serious country.
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Christopher Steele
2 years
And going forward, what guarantee do we have that Johnson’s conduct in the private sector will conform with Cabinet Office rules on security and potential conflicts of interest. Who and what would prevent him, for example, actually working for the likes of the Lebedevs in future?.
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Christopher Steele
3 months
But great news from Moldova where pro-democracy and pro-European President Sandu has just been re-elected, this despite extensive Russian attempts to interfere and corrupt the vote. Now is Moldova’s chance to become part of our democratic family. The EU and NATO must embrace it.
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