@Biz_Ukraine_Mag
This makes absolutely no sense.
#Estonia
is entitled to bar Russians, but the attempt to dress it in broad moralistic garb is unacceptable. If it applied generally, no refugees from tyranny would ever be allowed to seek asylum. So disappointingly unserious coming from Estonia
@igorsushko
@GiorgiaMeloni
Extraordinary. Extraordinary.
The woman who has been maligned for being ‘direct heir’ to Fascism has now risen to the level of Dolores Ibárruri’s 1930s riposte to fascists and their allies, ¡No Pasarán!
Giorgia Meloni’s words will reverberate and inspire for generations to come
@igorsushko
Can anyone begin to digest this?
Russia’s Air Force is bombing the Voronezh-Moscow road.
Can you say it again? And again? And again?
Will they hold victory parades in years to come to mark the great victory? A new Borodino? A second Bagration?
@Gerashchenko_en
Russia's outright cruelty and Ukraine's pain break one's heart. Easy for us to advise Ukrainians to stiffen their lips. But they do not need it.
Such degrees of voluntary courage (as opposed to that enforced by a police state) haven't been seen in Europe since the Nazi Blitz
@NOELreports
The name ‘
#Fico
’ should join ‘
#Quisling
’ as a historical term depicting betrayal and selling out; Trojan Horse if there has ever been one.
Russia’s war on Ukraine has served to reveal how unreliable is the participation of
#Slovakia
,
#Hungary
, possibly more in
#NATO
. Their
@Gerashchenko_en
The notion of Nazi Ukraine goes back to the 1970s, well under Soviet rule.
The Communist apparatchiks were terrified of Hard Rock music which they associated with the rise of ‘Nazism’ among Ukrainian youth.
KGB had a special task force to trace and fight the musical ‘Nazis.’
@oleksiireznikov
@RobertaMetsola
@EP_President
That utterly absurd self-righteousness of advocating peace by disarming the victims of aggression leaves one so exasperated — and reminds one of the line of friendly neutrality taken by communists worldwide toward Hitler during the 20 months of Nazi Germany/Soviet Russia alliance
@Gerashchenko_en
Genocide is now a matter of open chat in the Russian elite.
Himmler used to shoo-shoo the SS top brass when they discussed extermination of Jews.
In Putin’s Russia, however, nuclear holocaust and biological warfare are discussed casually and pragmatically, with a shrug.
It’s
@Tendar
A good reason, isn’t it, for this Dubai-on-the-North-Sea to step in and triple its aid to Ukraine, especially now that Trumpists openly undermine the future of US aid.
Norwegians need remind themselves that Norway’s gain is Ukraine’s deadly loss. Shifted from the Arctic and the
@ishaantharoor
@ragipsoylu
You did notice, didn’t you, through the thickness of your hot air, that Europeans took in eight million Ukrainian refugees.
That Arabs would be expected to accommodate their fellow Arabs temporarily shouldn’t be difficult to understand.
You’d recall India took in upward of nine
@DannyArcher313
@OlgaNYC1211
@MedvedevRussiaE
I mean the guy who has announced his intention to curtail the Internet, denying it to
#Ukraine
’s military; and revealed his support for Putin’s war aims and contention that Ukraine’s borders were expanded illegitimately by Khrushchev in 1954. Look it up
Russians’ obscene glee in wake of Hamas slaughter of Israelis is reflected in TV banter by military &intelligence experts; the very experts who have been struggling to defend the reputation of Russia’s own humiliated military in Ukraine. “IDF has become a TikTok army,” one gloats
Rustem Klupov, a veteran of military intelligence, tells Vladimir Solovyov that Hamas achieved successes because of its great organization and demeans the IDF as "a TikTok army." Klupov says that neither Israel or Hamas are the good guys in this scenario.
@NikaMelkozerova
@OstapYarysh
A
#Ukrainian
-
#CrimeanTatar
alliance gained
#Ukraine
’s freedom in the 17th century.
It began in earnest exactly 375 years ago, April 1648. Cossacks joined with a mighty Tatar army to drive the Poles out.
(Unfortunately they got the Russians. May that be undone once and for all)
@Gerashchenko_en
Chillingly reminiscent of Stalin’s attempt to entice Jews to migrate to Birobidzhan, on the Chinese border.
Equally reminiscent of the Czarist regime settling Molokans and other sectaries on the Persian border and in the Far East.
They needed people to fill the
No amount of studio-generated light in a Moscow cabaret could dispel the darkness into which
#Russia
has sunk.
Marking a new year in the presence of media celebrities, a paranoid elite sings,
‘Beyond the rough wall, there is a prickly darkness.’
Self-made darkness, that is
Take a peek at the grotesquely jolly way Russia welcomed the New Year, while it's genocidal invasion of Ukraine is in full swing. Of course, the main New Year's eve show in the country featured the Kremlin's favorite propagandists and various stooges.
@chenweihua
@BarackObama
I love it when pions of the largest police state on earth lecture on human rights.
How many Hong Kongers have you arrested lately, Comrade Chen? How many free thoughts have you censored? How many economic offenders have you executed? How many non-Han cultures have you expunged?
@gtconway3d
That’s very simple: “Trump Lost; Democracy Resuscitated.” According to The New Oxford, it’s “informal greeting used by exhausted Americans in lieu of Merry Christmas.”
@NatalkaKyiv
I can think of no reasons for siding by Ukraine at its time of peril better pronounced, more humanely conveyed, more genuinely expressed than the ones you have stated here.
This is primarily a war of a people over its God-given right to regain the sense of normalcy; to run a
@Gerashchenko_en
I find only one compelling reason for EU and NATO to keep him in: if he were kicked out, Russian army would be invited to use Hungary as a launching pad against West Ukraine. No joke here
Shocking: Jewish thugs go on the rampage in East
#Jerusalem
, attack
#Armenians
for two consecutive nights, riot by the patriarchate, attempt a pogrom in a restaurant. Armenians have lived in the city since antiquity. As bigotry rises, how safe is the city for its
#minorities
?
BREAKING: The Armenian restaurant Taboon Wine Bar in Jerusalem was just attacked this evening by Israeli extremists.
This follows several similar attacks and acts of aggression against the Armenian community in the Armenian quarter of Jerusalem.
#Mossad
agent who orchestrated the death of President
#Raisi
is exposed on
#Russia
|n television by the Uber-commentator, Vladimir
#Solovyov
.
The agent’s name is Eli Copter.
Which is how
#Israel
|is, in denial of their language consonants, pronounce the word ‘
#helicopter
.’
Meanwhile in Russia: in his zeal to blame the U.S. and Israel for the Iranian president's helicopter crash, state TV host Vladimir Solovyov totally fell for a joke blaming Mossad agent "Eli Copter."
@NOELreports
The nearly insurmountable challenge: to hold a beleaguered nation together at a time of tremendous pain and looming darkness; to keep it socially cohesive; to retain and nurture its spirit.
Russia’s clear goal is to bring about the unraveling of Ukrainian society; to drive
@Gerashchenko_en
There’s a single addressee there: Donald Trump whose staunchest ally Lindsey Graham has become since 2017.
He knows nothing would move Trump to supporting Ukraine but ‘the bottom line.’
Freedom, democracy, humanity, decency do not matter to him; distinct material benefit would
@Gerashchenko_en
Everyone lets him down. He has trusted humanity and this is how humanity rewards him. Poor Little Father, not since Nikolai Romanov has a Russian autocrat been so unjustly tormented. Holy Pravoslavy weeps for him
@Gerashchenko_en
Most exasperating is that
#Russia
’s own cities remain out of reach.
Imagine Hitler’s Blitz of London raging unpunished, without a single bomb being dropped on Germany
If only common Russians felt some of the pain inflicted on
#Ukraine
, might they not view the war differently?
@naktstaurenis
@silktify
@nexta_tv
Not quite. He tells her to pull herself together, not to worry, he’s in captivity in Belarus, then corrected himself. Said everything was OK. Finally reminded her to share the video, spread the word. “We lived peacefully before our president messed things up,” he said.
@MSF
I hope you’ll have it in you to respond to the photos, just released by Israel, of your dead colleague in Islamic Jihad fatigue.
This is too serious not be commented on. It’s either the Israeli lie to their teeth or you have been duped and may continue to be duped by jihadists
#خاص صور تفند مزاعم منظمة #أطباء_بلا_حدود
@msf_arabic
:،معالج طبيعي في النهار ومخرب في الجهاد في الليل
🔻المدعو فادي جهاد محمد الوادية الذي تم القضاء عليه أمس والذي كان يعمل معالجًا طبيعيًا لدى منظمة "أطباء بلا حدود" عمل مخربًا بارزًا ضمن المنظومة الصاروخية التابعة للجهاد
@Gerashchenko_en
More aptly, the parallels are Warsaw’s fall to Hitler in 1939, then Paris in 1940. Or imagine a nuclear-armed Hitler winning Stalingrad
@DefenceU
Sofia stands for Ukraine, facing the cruelty of predatory, hateful, morally hollow Russia.
Sofia stands for the youth of a reborn nation, tormented, bleeding, defying the odds, unbowed.
May Sofia’s face light the dark tunnel ahead, may her death give life.
May Ukraine live.
@Gerashchenko_en
What an Unholy alliance, stretched from the south of the Red Sea where the Houthi thugs, answerable to Tehran and heavily armed by it, roam Yemen and its coastal water; to the dungeons of Gaza where Israeli toddlers are held as Hamas version of crypto-currency; to Mount Lebanon,
@nexta_tv
Signor Mussolini, I presume.
As France’s defeat grew likely in 1940 UK foreign secretary Lord Halifax sought Mussolini’s mediation in obtaining Hitler’s terms for peace, namely capitulation.
Very good response from the Italian ambassador, Halifax informed the war cabinet.
A
@Prune602
@JuliaDavisNews
Even in the realm of
#Solovyov
’s pathologies, this has crossed a line I would have assumed, God knows why, even he would not dare cross.
What’s next? Kristallnacht for Russia’s
#Jews
?
Russia’s thorough defeat and the dissolution of its empire becomes a matter of acute necessity
@McFaul
He not merely courted him.
#Netanyahu
actually ran on a
#Putin
ticket in 2019.
Here's a huge election poster plastered on
#Likud
HQs in downtown Tel Aviv.
It reads, in Hebrew, “Another League,” equating Netanyahu's statesmanlike credentials with those of his pygmy opponents
@MFAestonia
How important and worth circulating this photo is: even after the
#Holocaust
,
#Russia
used unflinchingly
#Nazi
methods to deport whole populations to the proverbial East by way of sealed cattle cars. So it did during WWII with the small Caucasus/Crimea nations. Habit of
#Genocide
‘What kind of
#Islam
?’
Hamid’s eight young children were orphaned when their mother, a pious Muslim citizen of
#Israel
, was gunned down by
#Hamas
on October 7. His &their life has been shattered
He ponders about religion and evil while continuing to teach the Quran to his young
A must-watch. Hamid Abu Ar'ar lost his wife, Fatma, when Hamas terrorists shot her during the October 7 massacres. He's an Israeli Arab, and he speaks here about the courageous decision he made during the gunfire, holding his baby boy. Share this.
@Horizon_lately
@Tendar
Is
#Prigozhin
following the 1919 Volunteer Army manual? So far so Denikin (see Wiki map.)
How close might he get to Moscow? Will he make it to Oryol?
@clashreport
No doubt. Meaning what? That the time has come for the blood feud to enter a new cycle, this time Azeris cleansing Armenians?
And then what? In thirty years Armenians cleansing Azeris?
And what of Baku and Sumgait? Half a million Armenians cleansed from Azerbaijan around 1990;
@sunsoakhigh
@sfmcguire79
“Raise, raise, raise, raise the flag of the revolution.”
‘Thawra’ is Arabic for revolution. A key word for the vanguard of America’s campuses.
Note how they don’t bother translating it. Arabic is the Lingua Franca of revolution nowadays the way Russian was a hundred years ago
@JuliaDavisNews
Where people are imprisoned for calling the war ‘war’, blueprints for mass extermination are aired nightly on Russian TV
Let them rehearse the words “not guilty in the sense of the indictment” (Nuremberg , 1946.) They might need them soon, when Justice is finally meted out
@NiallHarbison
You have redefined ‘redemption,’ Niall, almost in a religious sense.
Street dogs the world over, the oldest and the most tormented, whisper your name in prayer and hope.
We live through the worst times in memory. Few are the rays of lights. You provide a shining one
@visegrad24
@BillAckman
Your point is well taken, and this is an important speech. But accuracy is of the essence. This speech was delivered in 2018. Check it out
@NOELreports
Poor Armenia. Cursed with the worst political geography of any country in the universe. Other than the Ayatollahs and Putin it has no one else remotely deserving the designation ‘friend.’ And that’s not much
@Michael_Wgd
We hear it now from both the Northwest and the Northeast of the
#Caucasus
.
#Daghestan
's (
#Dagestan
) chief rabbi warns that 400 families of
#MountainJews
, that ancient community going back many centuries, are at risk.
The flames in
#Nalchik
and the deportation call emanating
@NOELreports
A graduate of the Erdogan school for diplomatic blackmailing.
The two least appropriate partners in an alliance formed to defend Western democracy against the Huns.
What does one do when it turns out that the Huns pull the strings within that very alliance
@NatalkaKyiv
Quite clearly Russia has never been in a better position. Instead of men beating women, men dig trenches and get buried in them in a foreign land.
What a refining experience it must be for Ms Simonyan to look at and relish
@jeremycorbyn
@m7mdkurd
Did anyone notice the elegance of his wording? “The killings of October 7th.”
Who died? By whom? Where?
Not for the man who could have become prime minister to say, not even for the sake of appearance.
Oh, Jeremy, how much you are missed by your friends on Hezbollah planet
The extraordinary look of all newspapers in Australia today, regardless of political inclinations, in protest against systematic campaign by the political establishment to restrict
#PressFreedoms
. Another indication how thorough the retreat of
#LiberalDemocracy
worldwide is.
@AdamKinzinger
@JuliaDavisNews
@HouseGOP
@SpeakerJohnson
Now we are free to surmise what would have happened to the notion of Western collective security, from 1940 on, if a Trump had been at the helm:
No FDR LendLease to Britain, no Truman rescue of Turkey &Greece in ‘47, no Berlin airlift in ‘48, no NATO in ‘49. The abyss is lurking
@NOELreports
The cynicism. Then the Senate refuse to debate it and the Republicans play an anti-Israel, perhaps antisemitism card against ‘Woke Democrats.’
Imagine a President Trump in 1940. No aid to Britain. Imagine Trump in 1949. No NATO. Finally he would correct American history mistakes
@JuliaDavisNews
Hysterical! Eli Copter! I hear Israel roaring in laughter (a great rarity these days.)
But here is the scoop: we know who the Mossad agent really is. His Hebrew name is actually Ze’ev Zamir, conveniently rendered into Russian, literally, as Vladimir Solovyov.
He is the nephew
@christian_west
@Tendar
No doubt. But under the circumstances, with US aid being virtually halted, maximum generosity is called for. The revelation from the defense chief serves to show how useful Ukraine’s resistance is to the Nordic nations, hence no ceiling is high enough
@Ms_Sam29
@igorsushko
@GiorgiaMeloni
By all means. I didn’t mean to suggest she hadn’t deserved the criticism leveled at her. I was as terrified as anyone when she rose to power, hence my sense of relief, at least on foreign policy. Thanks for your correction
@visegrad24
That should make Erdogan most happy. Now, at last, Sweden is welcomed in NATO for tolerating the _right_ terrorists, the ones Erdogan has supported all along
@TheStudyofWar
Typical Nazi ploy, used extensively by the Wehrmacht, then WaffenSS, nowhere more extensively than on the Eastern Front
Hitler hated the idea but relented given the need to replenish the ranks
Not the only thought on Hitler’s mind that ends up inspiring the Nazi in the Kremlin
@JimmySecUK
Moscow salivates, no doubt, over the memories of June 1940, when it dragged independent Estonia’s president, Konstantin Päts, out of office, banished him to the Urals, eventually arrested him and held him in psychiatric asylums till death, 15 years later
@ProfKFranke
Contextualizing. Would love for you to pronounce the verb with the self importance it projects.
Let’s start contextualizing. Let’s contextualize your contextualization.
But what am I saying, you have the exclusive scholarly authority to determine where and when
@NiallHarbison
That’s going to be quite a climate zone switch for him. If he’s lucky he’ll endure snow blizzards in May. Talk to him about snow, Niall.
@ragipsoylu
That’s absolutely appalling, evocative of anti-Turkish terror in the 1970s and 1980s which targeted Turkish diplomats for elimination and maiming.
The Armenian diaspora is anguished and frustrated — but woe to the Armenian nation if it vents steam by violence.
This
@Gerashchenko_en
Metternich used to say, allegedly, that Asia begins east of Vienna’s Landstrasse. Now it appears that, courtesy Robert Fico, Europe ends west of Bratislava
@PeterHamby
I think the torrent of embarrassing nonsense emanating from him on this, coupled with that layer of authoritativeness, should instill some doubt in our hearts about his broader perception of reality
The general's wife seeks “revenge for the widows’ tears.” Goodness
Everything that is wrong, rotten and indecent about
#Russia
comes to the fore on the morrow of the
#Makiivka
disaster: self pity, hate, moral evasion, loss of nerves, escape from reality
@Gerashchenko_en
Would you please explain: are we to understand that frontline units of
#Ukraine
’s army are essentially self-funding? If so, should we not be very worried?
May Ukraine live and thrive
@ragipsoylu
If memory serves, he said the same in 2003 over participation in the US invasion of Iraq: I’m fine with it but let parliament (where his party had two thirds of the seats) decide.
Lo and behold, parliament voted it down. Nice show.
Might it recur?
@BalochKhan3
@Sachin_Taxman
@Cold_Peace_
Objectively, of course,
#Pakistan
is a remarkable success story, a beacon to the world: corrupt, misgoverned, pauperized, terrorized, a beggar at the doorstep of nations and financial institutions, practicing hate. But it’s successful because it helped thugs into power in
#Kabul
@Gerashchenko_en
In America this would be a George Floyd moment. In Russia it would be a moment on a bus in a provincial town, next!
No repentance, please, we are Russians
@Gerashchenko_en
Shouldn’t the Hungarian opposition establish an Anti-Kossuth Prize and award it to the brightest of the Orban team for humiliating the nation and betraying its allies? True, a very long line might form
@victoriaslog
One tries to imagine what
#Russia
might outlaw, ban and excommunicate if it seized
#Ukraine
or large parts of it
#Ethnocide
would begin in earnest, on par with how the
#Nazis
treated
#Poland
A reminder to
#GOP
Congressmen not to hold Ukraine hostage to the Mexico border crisis
@igorsushko
Wow. I am shocked.
For two years I have been writing (in Hebrew) of the choice Israel faces in Ukraine, having to side with the free; time and again exasperating evasiveness was the official response.
Finally, if only under duress and while suffering increasing diplomatic
@BidenHQ
How can you deny that he is an accomplished history buff. No one knows the Revolutionary Wars better than he, though if he had been given command he would have seized the British Air Force, even before being sworn in, by unleashing his space force from very distant planets
@JuliaDavisNews
@cepa
In blaming the Anglo-Saxons do they establish a line of culpability going to King Alfred of Wessex?
If so, do they point out he was challenged by the Vikings, the Slavs’ ancestors?
The battle which was joined in the ninth century is still raging, but this time no compromises
@IuliiaMendel
@annanemtsova
More evidence of the pathology of infatuation with Putin, shared by far-left and far-right, in Europe and in America.
Ben Cohen is of course far-left, or better, self-righteous far-left.
Puzzling and disturbing but not entirely unprecedented.
Communists the world over took a
@Jairam_Ramesh
One is stunned, though perhaps one shouldn’t be, by Modi’s complete lack of humility. He could have pretended to be a statesman, he could have called for healing divisions. But being what he is, Modi’s default choice is sarcasm and condescension. One feels so sad for India
@OPolianichev
Well, we do know, empirically, that work liberates (sounds slightly better in German.)
And while we are at that, let’s repeal Alexander II’s emancipation of serfs.
And let’s reconscript Jewish boys for 25 years.
And let’s redeport the Tatars.
May a dark Russia reign supreme
@OPolianichev
Thank you. Most compelling. There is an urgent need to avail evidence of Russia’s historic colonial exploitation throughout its empire and the way it is linked to its current attempt at recreating that very empire
@stuarthazeldine
@Rodri43456890
@MedvedevRussiaE
I think this goes well beyond Goebbels. This is a draft for a Russian Mein Kampf. This is Hitleresque. In fact, some historians theorize that Hitler drew his virulent antisemitism from Russian nationalists who went into exile after the Revolution. The genocidal virus is back
This is breathtaking. The self-professed
#Hindu
nationalists under
#NarendraModi
pull the ground from underneath the Indian ethos. Parliamentary speaker lionizes
#caste
supremacy. Devastating. What is happening to you,
#Bharat
? And how long will you let it go on?
@Gerashchenko_en
Russian quest for a new empire assumes cartoonish proportions. Other would-be empires dress themselves in progressive garbs (China, Iran and Turkey come to mind). Russians could care less about pretensions. Their Russia is Pobedonostsev’s, Aleksander IIl’s, dark as dark could be
@AblotiaLucas
One day, hopefully sooner rather than later, Georgians would treat you as their alibi: the voice that did not fall silent when so many voices did
Courage doesn’t come naturally to humans. Only a handful are truly endowed. You appear to be one. Thankyou, Lucas, you inspire us all
Unspeakably touching and shocking: a small group of residents kneel and pray in downtown
#Kharkiv
, Eastern
#Ukraine
, live on
@CNN
. Ukraine's second largest city is just 20 miles away from the border
#Putin
has abolished