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@PurcellGregory
Gregory Purcell
2 years
@wonderingBit @RicFlairsUncle @PopBusterZ @Grand_design0 @JordanSchachtel The move on Kiev is a diversion and a faint in my opinion Russia will not try to take that city, it will encircle the Ukrainian military deployed against the separatists.
@PurcellGregory
Gregory Purcell
2 years
@AngieSkys Let me rephrase this, there might be 1000 Russian VDV at Anotov airport and they are diverting 10's of thousands of Ukrainian troops in their direction. Main axis of Russian attack is linking up the troops at Kharkiv and the troops at Metropol.
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@RjmMarques @officejjsmart @MelnykAndrij @elonmusk And Ukraine is a self righteous beggar nations who thinks they can demand anything. You can object all you like.
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@PurcellGregory
Gregory Purcell
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@RealScottRitter Third problem: given the political climate in Kiev, Zaluzhny is in no position to promise anything.
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@ByrneHobart Jewish nerdy computer guy saves the day with the help of his African American taxi driver.
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@MarkDice @Hasbro why are not red potatoes given a voice
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@RealPepeEscobar I was hoping they would rename those 847 restaurants Don Mac in solidarity with the ones in Donbass.
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@RichardHanania Looking @ MalcolmNance Twitter feed it is safe to say he spent the whole of his first day in country tweeting re-tweeting and replying to tweets.
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@PStyle0ne1 This is Russians remembering their forefathers who defeated fascist Germany in WWII.
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2 years
@NRO No, economically he is very much a socialist but culturally he is a traditionalist (why many on the right like him) Lenin's version of Communism embraced the same woke version of "social justice warriors" we see from the modern left in the west. Putin is no Leninist.
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@PurcellGregory
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2 years
@blackintheempir They lost more than one city yesterday they lost three. Getting approximately 8000 troops out of Lysychnsk is now impossible the only open road is now covered by artillery fire
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Gregory Purcell
9 months
The so called "Rules Based Order" is sleepwalking into its own demise.
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Arnaud Bertrand
9 months
The FT quotes EU officials saying “we may be about to see massive ethnic cleansing” and "we’ll pay a heavy price in the global south [for supporting it]". This is insane. They're predicting a "massive ethnic cleansing": why on earth is it so hard to, at
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@OwenJones84 "Russia's kleptocratic, irredentist gangster regime" I don't think you grasp the depth of the misinformation surrounding the 10 year war in Ukraine.
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2 years
@OwenLaw76 @NeilPHauer If the pro-Ukraine side was more truthful they would be doing better and would have pulled out of this cauldron a month ago.
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3 years
@eikonos @nytimes all the lockdown measures has been great for Wallstreet and horrible for small business. Remote learning created a need for millions of laptops and other equipment.
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@KellyScaletta The last 10 years of history in Ukraine would have been radically different if they were a well armed society, the government we installed in 2014 would not have lasted long.
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@goatmuscle @KimDotcom Then why does Ukraine need so much equipment from the west ?
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1 year
@MOMCastTrevor @EventHorizon05 @dylanlhoyle @CensoredMen No this is what happens when you dehumanize the enemy.
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2 years
@aroh_gerald @Reuters Any report which starts with "Ukraine says" is likely a lie. Russia is in control of the NPP and Ukraine is the one doing the shelling
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Gregory Purcell
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@_rob_p_ @jbhenchman @willjennings80 @Reevellp After Macron met with Putin at the long table a few days later Brazil's president met with Putin at this short table.
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1 year
@Corwin_Labour Why would I want to be ignorant of what Russia is actually saying ?
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1 year
@ThePollLady What this really means is NATO will have no idea where Russia is keeping it's nuclear arsenal. It is a big place.
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1 year
@nytimes Antony Blinken also said a cease fire agreement is unacceptable. I had thought that was for Ukraine to decide?
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3 years
@KatieDaviscourt @AOC no she is not guilty of stolen valor it's stolen victimhood
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2 years
@Mac_Fhionn @NeilPHauer Not really, Ukraine has a whole lot less artillery than Russia does, nor can Ukraine call in air strike and Russia can. And Russia has tanks.
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@PurcellGregory
Gregory Purcell
1 year
@nytimes European countries which wrecked their economies in support of Ukraine are going have some political upheaval when Ukraine loses the war.
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@PurcellGregory
Gregory Purcell
2 years
@FlynDutchman466 @Parabellum2021 @quibbler if you ever find yourself in a gun fight without a gun acting like the bearded dude in a completely non threatening non caring manor is a very good idea
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Gregory Purcell
2 years
@vonderburchard Well it was the truth, if Germany cuts itself off from Russian gas there will be uprising across all of Europe over the price of energy and heat.
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1 year
@371_doom @greentexts_bot Yes I sympathize with the Ukrainian who want no part of your proxy war with Russia
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@PurcellGregory
Gregory Purcell
7 months
@GeromanAT Schrödinger's Russia, a paradox, of quantum superposition. Russia is both on the verge of total collapse and also about to overrun all of Europe, both are true until we open the box.
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@PurcellGregory
Gregory Purcell
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@RealScottRitter I would presume Gerasimov would coordinate everything he says with Putin, whereas Zaluzhny and Zelensky appear to be at odds with one another on just about everything.
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@PurcellGregory
Gregory Purcell
3 years
@MotherJones Mother Jones has become a neocon propaganda outlet.
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10 months
@Trollstoy88 As a former anti-tank man I can say that was a perfect hit directly hitting the turret ring. No tank survives that.
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@PurcellGregory
Gregory Purcell
2 years
@ArmchairW The day I realized how warfare in the 21st century had changed dramatically. April 16, 2018 Syria - Pentagon Hides Attack Failure - 70+ Cruise Missiles Shot Down The U.S. military seems to hide that its attack on Syria last Saturday largely failed....
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@PurcellGregory
Gregory Purcell
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@jeffbercovici @DavidSacks Yes the paper decides how to frame the debate by choosing which opinions are acceptable to print. This opinion would have been unacceptable to print a few months ago, even though it has been true for over a year.
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@ArmchairW How does this happen, when I was in the USMC they made me paint rocks white for some stupid 1950's esthetic.
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@PurcellGregory
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@RonPaul This will be very bad for struggling Americans and catastrophic for many poorer nations.
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2 years
@bungarsargon This is a class issue, putting on a mask when I pop into a store is nothing. For the waitress in Chicago who needs to wear it all day as she serves the mask-less, be the vaxx police for the city, and has no idea if her kids schools will be open week to week it is different.
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@PurcellGregory
Gregory Purcell
2 years
@LiberalNewbie @jacksonhinklle Gloves came off tonight no more polite war. The electrical grid is duel use military and civilian, USA normally bombs the electrical grid the opening day of any war.
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@PurcellGregory
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2 years
@maryj59 @mtracey Ukraine is a pipeline masquerading as a country. This war (for the US) is about control of Russian gas supplies to Europe.
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@PurcellGregory
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9 months
@stillgray She is correct a two hour commute to and from work turns an eight hour work day into a twelve hour work day which is a very hard schedule.
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@PurcellGregory
Gregory Purcell
3 years
@mattyglesias no you are in a bubble and the NYT is trying to cover their asses for ignoring this story for almost a year
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3 years
@strxwmxn @mtracey is that why we placed an embargo on them, which is causing shortages, to "support the people" ?
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1 year
@ThuleanGamer @greentexts_bot Why are you not on the front line, this is more your war than that Ukrainian guy who wants no part of your war.
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2 years
@Scatrone @MarQs__ @markmackinnon There was no agreement other than we will accept your surrender.
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@PurcellGregory
Gregory Purcell
3 years
@Cernovich It was good reporting, I had no idea of his personal politics from his original tweets, he has no idea how bad this looks
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5 months
@Trollstoy88 Whatever the amount is that North Korea has sent, no one in the west has the capacity to know, these numbers are just made up.
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@PurcellGregory
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2 years
@DWPscumbags @colonelhomsi Well Russia is saving them from a devastating famine by promising to send them as much grain as they need to feed their people. Also they are glad their civil war is over.
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Muhammad Jalal
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Young leader and Peace Ambassador of Afghanistan, Anas Haqqani @AnasHaqqani313 at today’s cricket 🏏 match in Kabul cricket stadium 🏟. #AfghansSupportTaliban
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@Cernovich Yes, and I am a politically homeless former old school Democrat.
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@LindseySnell
Lindsey Snell
2 years
Latvia's Justice Minister proposed law to revoke citizenship of anyone who "supports Russian war crimes". Currently, posting a pro-Russian opinion online is punishable by 5 years in prison. (Note: when Latvians joined ISIS, no lawmakers proposed revoking their citizenship.)
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2 years
@CNN So Ukraine will lose far more then thy would have had they accepted Putin's demands before the war, and this whole thing was for nothing.
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Gregory Purcell
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@ShoahUkraine Did you know Yale has a school devoted to teaching people how to bring about regime change in their nation which is only open to select foreigners. Alexi Navalny was part of the class of 2010
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@PurcellGregory
Gregory Purcell
3 years
@angrybklynmom 2015 I started to realize the forces we were backing in Syria and Ukraine were not the good guys, and the destruction of Libya was a massive war crime.
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@PurcellGregory
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@Kokotxas1 @CraigMurrayOrg I don't think this provocation will dictate what Russia is going to do. Russia hasn't said a thing about Nordstream 1 & 2, The Silence is deafening.
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@PurcellGregory
Gregory Purcell
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@ShayWoulahan Paying women to be a surrogate birthing unit should be abolished.
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Gregory Purcell
3 years
@AGoldsmithEsq @DrJenGunter Ritualistically showing off how virtuous you are doesn't make you a good person. Jesus said don't be the guy showing off how loudly he can pray to God on the street corner or in the Synagogue, when you pray to God do so in secret in the closet where only he can hear you.
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Gregory Purcell
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@simpatico771 Farmers and hillbillies know. A John Deer 4x4 Gator may be light weight but it is worth its weight in gold. It will not get stuck in the worst mud.
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@ArtCandee @libsoftiktok In the Chicago Public school system... not a chance.
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Gregory Purcell
2 years
@astroehlein The obsession with using Ukrainian over Russian phrasing would be funny if it was not the underlying cause of this war.
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@PurcellGregory
Gregory Purcell
2 years
@_VerbaNonActa @Cernovich This doesn't really hurt Russia, but Europe is going to freeze this winter.
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Gregory Purcell
1 year
@BlackRedGuard1 The big question: is Ukraine a sovereign state or a colony of Washington DC ?
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2 months
@pb06pilot @aussiecossack Russian do smile when they mean it, but no fake smiles.
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@9Kostas2 @Levi_godman Ukraine is mad at Russia's accomplishments, that bridge is a big one.
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3 years
@ggreenwald As a professional animal handler I just can't read that. And I can't believe she wrote about something so shameful.
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Gregory Purcell
2 years
@Maestro4Maestro @SecBlinken Taking down the electrical grid is what the USA does on the opening day of all its wars these past 30 years.
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@PurcellGregory
Gregory Purcell
2 years
@Andrew_S_Bowen I find these Ukrainian claim a bit hard to believe. Seems more likely that in Severodonetsk it was Ukraine which committed most of their reserves to a piece of real estate where they are on the wrong side of a river and still surrounded on three sides.
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Gregory Purcell
2 years
@InUAOfficial The photo was taken in 2013 (or maybe earlier) for the cover of a Spanish book.
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@LvivTyler Ukraine is a pipeline pretending to be a county.
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2 years
@navyhato Corporate rebranding in Russia.
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@ArmchairW An interesting thing I learned driving a taxi cab in Chicago-land is there was no place I could not go, be it Argon National Laboratories or backstage at a big rock concert. Security just waves you through, one of our drivers accidentally got onto the runways at O'Hare airport
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@PurcellGregory
Gregory Purcell
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@KwameA007 @BBCNews @RT_com Can not say I am surprised, I remember massive protests at the start of the Iraq war which got absolutely zero media coverage. unless one window got smashed they would cover that one window and call the antiwar protest dangerous rioters & extremists.
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Gregory Purcell
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@yqxo @joshua_landis A lot has changed since 1991 Ukraine use to be the richest Republic in the USSR the Soviet's powerhouse in industry, shipbuilding, aerospace technology, and much more.
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Gregory Purcell
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@dilemmv @lobo_despierto @KamalaHarris @VP Injecting USA styled identity politics is not going help, the people getting targeted by death squads are the people advocating for land reform, workers unions, and cleaning up industrial pollution.
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Gregory Purcell
1 year
@angelsforlove @JamesPhillips00 Zelensky is desperate because he know the war is lost without direct NATO intervention and he will say anything.
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Gregory Purcell
2 years
@Independent Russia had this war won before it began.
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@PurcellGregory
Gregory Purcell
2 years
@baxter_daniel @Mac_Fhionn @NeilPHauer Military reality is Russia also has UAV targeted artillery the supply route to Severodonetsk is under Russian artillery fire the reports from this area indicate Russia has far more artillery. As a veteran I am appalled any soldier in any army would be ordered to make this attack
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@PurcellGregory
Gregory Purcell
3 years
@haywarmi @ggreenwald I tuned into NPR yesterday their focus was why this is all Russia's fault and what can we do to stop them... Basically everything short of fighting a war w/ Russia with our own troops.
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@PurcellGregory
Gregory Purcell
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@Steve_Sailer The Post's story is only significant because it indicates the Biden administration is throwing Ukraine under the bus. How can Germany continue to support Ukraine when we tell them it was Ukraine who blew up Germany's energy infrastructure.
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@PurcellGregory
Gregory Purcell
2 years
@blackintheempir Yes but winning is expensive.
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2 years
Vladimir Zelensky told the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, that Kiev needs $7 billion a month to pay salaries
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@maphumanintent @RealCynicalFox The amount of firepower Iranian backed militias in Iraq can dish out, is nothing compared to the amount of firepower Iran itself can dish out. If we hit them directly they will hit back at US military bases through out the region and also at Israel.
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@McFaul Why not cede Gaza to Egypt it was part of Egypt 1948–1967.
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@dimadagnir @Felipe_FFL @RWApodcast The separatist forces are fighting with much older equipment.
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@angelsforlove @JamesPhillips00 It is not a matter of if but rather when, and Putin is not a madman, Russia does not want to invade Poland.
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Gregory Purcell
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@aaronjmate the Russian oligarchs based in the west and with strong ties to neoliberalism have always been the biggest opponents of Putin. Mikhail Friedman and Alfa Bank are allies of the Clintons
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@PurcellGregory
Gregory Purcell
2 years
@witte_sergei Elon did not donate them, the US government payed for those satellite phones
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@KitKlarenberg Same thing happened with the war in Syria, when events on the ground can not be shoehorned into the establishment narrative that war vanished from the news cycle
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@reaganbush84fan @BertWooster1 @DanCrenshawTX Ukraine is losing the same way our Afghan government lost to the Taliban.
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@AshWilliam1992 @zerosum24 I bet the infantry is half a block behind and now they know which building to assault.
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Gregory Purcell
3 years
@eikonos @nytimes Public schools was one of the few socialist institutions in America, and now I am watching self proclaimed leftist dismantle it. The rich can afford privet schools or privet lessons and the poor have not been able to send their kids to school.
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@PurcellGregory
Gregory Purcell
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@braxton_mccoy Two giant screw ups. 1) Alec Baldwin failed to check the weapon he picked up to know for himself if it was loaded. 2) The Armour was not allowed to be on the set because of Covid 3)Alec Baldwin failed to check the weapon's load himself before pointing it at people
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Gregory Purcell
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@ianbremmer I don't see how this can be called "disinformation"
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1 year
@toadmeister People who convinced themselves Ukraine has been winning are in for a rude awakening.
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@mirandabencomo @RWMaloneMD There are two parties which had zero motive to do this Russia and Germany
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@ZackNewsMan hasn't #9 news gotten enough people shot already.
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@JohnPaceWrites @missy_ryan @DanLamothe Ukraine should have consider this before the war started.
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@anneapplebaum I think you are correct, Putin is not going to negotiate, the Kremlin will set terms which Kiev and Washington DC find unacceptable, and the Kremlin will continue the war.
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@vicktop55 wow, that statement is a big move on the geopolitical chessboard.
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Gregory Purcell
4 years
@sirhottest George W. Bush is everything I use to hate about Republicans now he is a Democrat.
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@bruce_mcgonigal Ever consider that what Putin and Russia have been saying about Ukraine since 2014 might be true ?
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