1. Show me agreements signed by the parties. 2. Gorby was ousted. 3. Soviet Union collapsed. 4. Yeltsin was promised Nothing… 5. Poland, Czecho, et al begged to join NATO as they know who the Russians. I was there in the meetings. 6. Stop repeating the Kremlin talking points.
As someone who lost his grandfather, a newspaper editor, to Stalinist purges, which included “enemy of the people” victim designation, it is deeply disturbing to see this language coming from the US President.
@DrJillStein
When a medical doctor and a mom, supports murder and rape of children, and caging babies in chicken pens, this is all I need to know about you.
@amanpour
Did you ask him why Lebanon/Hezbollah didn't comply with UNSC Resolution 1701 for 18 years? Why they were rocketing Israel murdering Druze children playing soccer? Why Hezbollah was still south of the Litani? Do you need help writing questions?
@anders_aslund
Putin achieved what none could before: rearmament for Germany and Japan and abandonment the 320 year westernization project started by Peter the Great. Russia has left, closed the door and turned off the light. From now on, it’s darkness.
@kenklippenstein
Said the man who supervised US drones blowing up wedding and schools, killing hundreds of civilians. The civilian/combattant target ratio in Operation Grim Pager was like 0.001/1 — the best/lowest ever.
@DVATW
1. Show me agreements signed by the parties. 2. Gorby was ousted. 3. Soviet Union collapsed. 4. Yeltsin was promised Nothing… 5. Poland, Czecho, et al begged to join NATO as they know who the Russians. I was there in the meetings. 6. Stop repeating the Kremlin talking points.
History, geography, national security 101. USSR ethnically cleansed Crimea from its historic inhabitants: Tatars, Greeks, Armenians, Italians, even some Germans. And the Nazis murdered all Jews. So it wasn’t “Russian” - it was multi-ethnic before 1941. And yes, I was born there.
@BowesChay
Israel is exercising a classic military operation of self defense. 1,200 people were murdered, including many children. The anchor is shilling for Hamas. Did the Allies supply electricity to the Third Reich and Empire of Japan? No, we bombed their power stations. Did the US
The Russian supply sergeant tells the newly mobilized they need to buy their own mats, sleeping bags, tourniquets, tampons (!) & hygienic pads to stop bleeding in case of firearms wounds. Anything that is not weapons. Unbelievable! Can’t imagine what does it do fo the morale.
@shadihamid
Your thoughts — while I am in a bomb shelter because of the Iranian theocratic dictatorship’s massive missile attack —, and during a large-scale terror attack in Jaffa/Yafo, — are particularly vacuous.
@KenRoth
Jordan is a Hashemite monarchy which uses the indigenous Bedouin population to keep Palestinian Muslim
Brotherhood (Hamas) in check. You either don’t know that or deliberately ignore it. Which one is it?
@MarsinRA
Were Israelis “equal human beings deserving of respect” on October 7, 2023? There was a cease-fire then.
Have you denounced Hamas atrocities and Hezbollah’s 11 month campaign of rocket fire and intentional depopulation of 10% of Israeli territory and deliberate children
@AP
@DonaldJTrumpJr
UN has no right to dictate to the US which capital to recognize. Moreover, the hideous track record of the UN in the African peace keeping ops, supporting Hamas terrorists in Gaza, etc, totally undermines this institutions’s right to tell us anything. The veto was right!
Said the woman who did more than anyone to maximize German strategic dependence on Russian gas and kill German nuke reactors. And she was once admired as a great leader of the West. I will not take it to its logical conclusion.
@FRHoffmann1
NATO leadership, and especially the constituent nation state leaderships are too disunited to make the needed fast decision making to ramp up military production and build out the industrial base. The U.S. leadership is weak. The concern is that under Trump II it may vanish.
@andrewmichta
1/2 Not different than What they did against Poland in the 1830s, 1860s, & 1920. 2.What they did against Circassians & Chechens, & recently against Georgia, & 3. Against Khoresm, Khiva and Boukhara is not different at all. 4. What they did against Finland in 1939-1940. SSDD
@EinatWilf
The total cost of the tunnels is $billions. Qatari, Iranian, Turkish and international assistance money. Coulda shoulda would have gone to poor Palestinians. But they elected and are supporting the leadership that brought it upon them. So… if Hamas is not dislodged, billions
@HillelNeuer
How the people of Iran can win? Engage/Split off top political leaders. Encourage defections. Mobilize masses. Document atrocities & announce it. Promise amnesty police/Army generals if defect now. Disrupt Gov comms. Capture/control internet nodes. Set up press office. Victory!
@InfoAgeStrategy
Ukr GDP is one of e lowest in Europe, way behind Russia. Millions of Ukr guest workers in Russia b4 2014 & b4 2022. However, the UA freedoms and the EU trajectory were a concern. The 🔑 is the desire 2 rebuild a Slavic Orthodox imperial core: UKR+BEL adding 50 MLN ppl to Russia
A significant step by the Government of the Netherlands, allowing the creation of the International Register of Damages. Now the Hague will register all the damage that Russia has caused to Ukraine.
Russia must pay reparations and compensate the financial losses of our state.
Показовий і важливий крок Уряду Нідерландів, який дозволив створити Міжнародний реєстр збитків. Тепер у Гаазі будуть реєструвати всю шк��ду, яку росія заподіяла Україні.
росія має сплатити репарації і компенсувати фінансові втрати нашої держави.
@Frances_Coppola
@AGHamilton29
@MarcGoldwein
Read the statement. It’s in ENGLISH. THE “family” held hostages in their apartment. They were neutralized in the rescue. They are terrorists. That’s what happens with terrorists. Others came out worn RPGs and Kalashnikkvs to shoot at the rescue forces. They got shot at back.
@anders_aslund
Let’s not forget that by killing its own nuclear infrastructure, Europe, and specifically Germany, have created massive demand for nat gas. As EU fought shale E&P as well, they are now hungry to suck on RU gas, burn coal and even lignite. The dumbest energy policy I ever saw.
@KevinRothrock
I saw people writing about Russia “decommissioning” T-54 whe in fact they are shipping them to the front lines. Who writes and edits this stuff these days?!
@anders_aslund
Let’s start with the fact that these were anti-Jewish pogroms, with the calls of “Kill the Jews” and “Jews Out” or “Juden Raus” in another European language (1933-1945). The organizers capitalized on Islamist Jew-hatred typical throughout Europe and the Middle East. An
@tashecon
They talked to Hitler all right. When did France capitulate after fighting Hitler in earnest for six weeks or less despite strength parity? Ukraine lasted much longer than they did.
@DrKevorkO
@simonmontefiore
What part of studying Marx do you find relevant to today’s socio-economic challenges? Where is he truly relevant? How do you put his social policy prescription in the context of Lenin,Stalin, Mao, the Kim crime family rule, Pol Pot, and Cuba’s impoverished communist experiment of
@JonathanACBrown
Yaffo has tens of thousands of Arabs, Muslims and Christians, living there prosperously. While you are spreading propaganda and misinformation, and poisoning your students’ minds. And NO, there is NO “apartheid” in Israel.
@ABarbashin
Think about it as an immune reaction. The % of Russian migrants in the west who support the regime is high. The security threat may be there. The dislike of Russians in Eastern Europe is tremendous. And this is a signal to those who don’t like the status quo: ACT to change it.
@carlbildt
As someone who lost his grandfather, a newspaper editor, to Stalinist purges, which included “enemy of the people” victim designation, it is deeply disturbing to see this language coming from the US President.
Now they will be arrested, fired, or forced to emigrate. The West should provide political asylum to Russian dissidents and regime opponents as we did in the 1980s. That contributed to delegitimization of the Soviet regime an exposing the truth abt USSR
@MirovichMedia
Платонов - гениальный русский писатель. Самый-самый в 20-м, страшном веке. А сына его сталин посадил в лагерь, где он подхватил туберкулез и умеет вскорости после выхода из лагеря. Потом за ним ушел и сам писатель. Одно из миллионов преступлений чудовищного Молоха.
@Octoberready
@YasMohammedxx
Please read up on treatment of the Jews and other civilians by Nazis in the Holocaust. More than 10 times bigger than Rwanda, tragically.
#Sanctions
have a track record of failure against autocratic regimes. But if
#history
is anything to go by, economic hardship and heavy war losses have led to revolutions in
#Russia
. Sanctioning energy would be a severe blow to
#Putin
.
Read more:
@pdsutter
Yep. Destruction must end. Destruction of Israeli towns like Nahariya and Kiryat She’mona and many villages. 10% of Israeli territory was depopulated, with hundred thousand Israel turned into IDP’s, including Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Druze. Do you care about them? Have you
@simonmontefiore
The problem is they are poisoning the feeble young minds in the academia, and dominate the media. “Jihad of the pen” or “ideological warfare”. And btw, the Far Right Jew-haters aren’t much better.
@SecBlinken
@IntlCrimCourt
Thank you Mr. Secretary. If justice is not applied equitably, it’s not justice. In the case of ICC/Israel, it vengeance and persecution.
The sanctions levied against members of Iran’s Morality Police and Revolutionary Guard Corps are a good start, but not enough. The West must do more! Read my latest for
@Forbes
@aliShihabi
@gnuseibeh
What do you negotiate with the “from
the river to the sea” crowd who rapes your young and murders your elderly, who executes parents in front of the children and steals and locks the children up as hostages?
The people who want to proclaim a Nazi crisis in the US because of Kanye West also tend to passionately support providing unlimited military "aid" to foreign fighters who display "literal Nazi" insignia. Their proclamations are 100% politically contingent and should be discarded
Reportedly, a RUS occupation official in UKR's Kherson Region has declared that the city will apply to Putin to directly join Russia, without a referendum or the creation of a client state. Clearly, RUS has decided to drop all pretense & pursue direct annexation of UKR territory.
I witness this discussion about European free-loading on U.S. security umbrella for at least 10 years. It’s like talking to a wall. What needs to happen for Germany & France to wake up? So far only Poland and Finland are paying attention. Tomorrow may be too late.
🧵As the
#UkraineWar
is about to enter its third year, and the war between
#Israel
and
#Hamas
escalates, it's possible that the campaign waged by the axis of dictatorships against democracies may soon expand even further and undermine other critical regional power balances. 1/6
@RepCori
Hamas HAD a permanent ceasefire until October 7, which they repeatedly broke. Then came a horrible, genocidal Hamas attack. Have you denounced the murderers? Rapists? Did you call for hostages the to be released? Did you denounce the murderers and rapists of Americans and
@anders_aslund
Unprecedented value destruction by Xi: Ali Baba, TenCent etc. Major Chinese entrepreneurs arrested, left the country, humiliated, firms closed. We saw this in the Great Leap Forward and the GCR. Harvest of sorrow, that they will mow and have nobody to blame but the themselves.
@ChristosPorios
@ronawang
@BillAckman
@MIT
Where do you see “doxxing” here? Go check the meaning of the word. Was the student’s name or address published? Did he do it in a private setting? The student was out of line disrupting the educational process. Should have been thrown out of class.
@v_j_freeman
In intention, at any rate, the English intelligentsia are Europeanized.
They take their cookery from Paris and their opinions from Moscow. In the
general patriotism of the country they form a sort of island of dissident
thought. England is perhaps the only great country
Must read. The enormity of evil. The earth shattering atrocity. What would ANY responsible elected government would do? Also note the popular support and glee by Gazans at the mass murder of women and children.
🧵
I just witnessed ~45 minutes of footage of the October 7th terrorist attack at the
@AtlanticCouncil
courtesy of
@IsraelinUSA
along with colleagues from think tanks across the ideological spectrum. What I saw was worse than I’ve ever seen.
Pure evil.
***Trigger Warning***
@VladDavidzon
The callousness of many Russians in this war is shocking. They care >> about not being able to shop in Paris, a bank account being suspended, or a credit card canned – rather than Ukrainian children being killed & raped , & elderly frozen to death, & brutally bombing Ukr cities.
Very important point about the dangers of negotiations during & Post-conflict.
The Russian policy making elites commission to utter destruction of Ukraine and re-constituting of the Russian empire one ethnic exclusionary and religious lines is utterly implacable. Be forewarned!
"The Ukraine war is at a point where fighting and negotiating must complement one another. It’s not “either/or.” Wrong is the belief that a lull in fighting would be good for negotiations. Creative diplomacy works better when it’s backed by an enhanced force position."
@lexfridman
@m7mdkurd
Thank you for exposing the hatred and the lies coming from the extremist & terrorism supporter like Al-Kurd. You allowed the propagandist to rant on and on and you failed to challenge him. Question: if the Third Reich was still around, would you interview Dr Joseph Goebbels
Before the Russian invasion of 2014, the majority of Ukrainians were against NATO membership. I was doing research looking at public opinion poll data. 7 years of Russian aggression & pressure totally flipped public opinion, and now >62% of Ukrainians support membership in NATO.
Russian MFA spox complains "Western handlers" pulling
#Ukraine
into
#NATO
.
Reality is
#Russia
is pushing Ukraine toward NATO. Nothing has done more to drive Ukraine away from Russia than Kremlin's policy of past 7 years (seizure of Crimea, war in Donbas, 13,000+ dead, etc.)
Ukraine's counter-offensive has been panned as a failure
The truth is more complex
Some thoughts on the successes and failures of Ukraine's counter-offensive /1
My latest in Forbes. It will take time, effort, and a lot of money, but the West will decouple from the Rosatom nuclear supply chain. A great Putin victory? I don’t think so.
For Russia & China it’s not about Ukraine. It’s about making RU the hegemon in Europe, making CN the hegemon in Asia, and together bringing post-WW2 US predominance to the end. It’s about shifting the balance of power in Eastern Hemi & establishing China’s hegemony. This is WW3.