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Old Soviet joke. It's 1961. Elderly Ukrainian babushka is told the amazing news: 'The Russians have gone up into space!' She smiles hopefully. 'What - all of them?'
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@Abhyudaysarkar2
@MarkGaleotti
Kharkov is what the locals call it. It's a Russian speaking city. If you believe that Russian speakers are Russian - or 'vatniks' as you insultingly describe them - is to support Putin's world view. 40% of Ukrainians - including Zelensky - speak Russian as their first language.
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@McFaul
That is racist and appalling. We are not fighting for the right to be like Russia. You should know better - not all Russians support Putin. On the contrary, we should allow visa free travel for all young Russians to the free world.
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Unfortunate problem for this narrative on Georgia protests is that parliament was democratically elected - if it is ousted by a minority that does not agree that makes Georgia an undemocratic failed state and the protests a coup.
People of Georgia might finally have the courage to do what Ukraine did in 2013 by ousting the Russian barbarians from their government.
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@Tendar
Doubtless Kyiv air defence is doing a great job. But this video is not perhaps the best illustration of that as it ends with ... a major missile hit on Kyiv.
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Suspected Russian spies charged after major UK national security investigation - spent a decade living in Great Yarmouth. These guys really drew the short straw
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Quick note to conspiracy theorists going on about Moscow being full of cops and cameras. Crocus is, crucially, not in Moscow. Its just outside the ring road with easy access to every motorway. Checkpoints are inside the ring road not outside. That's why the attackers chose Crocus
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The stage is (literally) being set for the new show trials of Azov fighters in Mariupol. Is this the tragedy or the farce part of history's repetition?
Russia is reconstructing the Mariupol Chamber Philharmonic Hall and plans to use it for the trials of Azov Regiment fighters who surrendered after defending the Ukrainian city, reports said.
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Funeral in Kyiv of 25 year old Canadian volunteer Austin Bercier in the Mikhailovsky cathedral. Many of the mourners wounded, on crutches. Dignified and moving.
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@tassagency_en
Wow, yes! That would make total sense. Ukraine would violate the Chemical Weapons Convention in a totally verifiable way because they want to lose Western public support and NATO weaponry.
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Alas Kara Murza is painfully naive if he thinks that there is popular support for liberal democracy in Russia, sadly.
Vladimir Kara-Murza
@vkaramurza
: a peaceful Europe is only possible if post-Putin Russia is integrated into the EU
But I don’t think the EU has any appetite for it. Russian culture, as the war has shown, is very distinct from that of Europe 1/
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The Russians being shot in this video are all empty handed and not carrying weapons …
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@wallaceme
It's obviously not Lime Bike's business model. If you'd ever used one of these amazingly useful machines you would know that you literally have to photograph the bike upright and responsibly parked to end your session. Pictured is the work of hooligans.
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Re: reports of ‘Polish mercenaries’ in Kursk, and many other such previous reports of ‘Polish’ being spoken on the radio etc. The truth is that most Russians are unfamiliar with pure Ukrainian, having heard only Russianized surzhik. Not Poles but Ukrainians.
Russia was so humiliated by the Ukrainian army walking into its territory that it hired actors to claim that “Polish mercenaries” in American Bradleys did it, referring to them as killers and Nazis, obviously.
Russian propaganda always mentions Nazis. So boring and predictable🥱
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To everyone sharing this video of Olga Skabeeva talking about 284,000 obituaries - she was talking about UKRAINE not Russia. So this post is fundamentally dishonest - not a scales-fall-from-Russian-propagandist eyes moment at all. Beware fake news.
And now, suddenly, one of the leading propagandist of Putin’s 🇷🇺 war reveals that she is shocked - rightly so - by having found 284.000 obituaries on social media in 🇷🇺. There would be duplicates, but it’s still a very high figure.
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Serhii Plokhy in the Times Literary Supplement on my book Overreach: "Matthews presents the best current analysis of the countdown to war ... Based on the author’s intimate knowledge of Russia and its political life, this is the best available account."
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@rshereme
Yanukovych was democratically elected in 2010 with 48.95% of the vote compared with 45.47% for Tymoshenko. Election observers from the OSCE said there were no indications of serious fraud and described the vote as an "impressive display" of democracy
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Sorry I must have been the last person on Earth to realise just how dumb and ill informed Russell Brand is.
Did NATO’s expansion play a pivotal role in triggering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
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@johnsweeneyroar
Both Soviet and Chinese equipment is always date-stamped with month+year of manufacture (weirdly including clothing). Hence in this case this 7.62 Kalashnikov PK ammo produced in 1971 (or 1969, its not clear which figure is the date). So not a smoking gun for modern ammo transfer
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@JamesRWithers
As a journalist you will surely recognise that Russia being "on the brink" of defeat isn't news, it's speculation. When the reporting supports the thesis, it becomes news. Retaking Izyum will be major news indeed - but even that's not the same as a total Russian collapse.
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@SevaSamokhvalov
Fascinating argument but the shift is hardly tectonic - Levada's polls in March and October broadly showed a 50-50 split, with 15% of each radically pro and anti and 35% mildly so. 57% against is indeed an important shift but not a game changer - yet
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Young Japanese girl half his size throws Putin on the mat in 2000
Vladimir Putin gets tossed in Judo by a young girl during a 2000 trip to Japan
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Except that it was pretty clear that the Russians were not negotiating in good faith in early 2022 ... send Medinsky ffs as their front man to Minsk, then pathological liar Lavrov who just weeks before had sworn that there would be no invasion.
This is an incredibly damning piece of historical evidence:
This is Davyd Arakhamia, parliamentary leader of Zelensky's ''Servant of the People'' party. He led the Ukrainian delegation at peace talks with the Russians in Belarus and Türkiye in 2022, a few
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How about we leave collective punishment to Putin? Definition of a civilized country is judging people on actions not passports, race, religion or sexuality. Refusal to implement collective punishment is one of the things that makes us different from the enemies of freedom.
No civilized country should allow any Russian citizen to enter.
Cancel every residence permit. Cancel every visa. Accept no applications from any Russian under any circumstances.
Deport them all.
In 300 years maybe we can reconsider.
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With the brilliant
@DalrympleWill
and
@tweeter_anita
on their fascinating podcast Empire taking about Imperial Russia's colonisation of America
🚨 New episode 🚨
The Russian Conquest of America
In the 18th century, Vitus Bering travelled from Russia to America. He set in motion a chain of events that would lead to Russia owning Alaska and land as far south as California.
@DalrympleWill
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@tweeter_anita
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Trying to restore the “Russian world” by force, Putin has destroyed it. In May 2013, 80 per cent of Ukrainians said they had a positive general attitude to Russia. Last May, only 2 per cent of the Ukrainians gave that answer. Putin has done for Pushkin.
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Problem with starting talks now is that Putin has no incentive to compromise. As
@McFaul
points out, there is zero reason for the Kremlin to make any kind of deal until they know the results of the next US Presidential election. So another 15 months of stalemate, minimum.
So definitely starting to see strong signs of Ukraine fatigue again
Been kinda of saying this a while now: west has no war goal other than “Ukraine can’t lose”.
“Ukraine must win” is clearly NOT. A goal.
So wtf are we doing. End it now & start talks. That’s going to be ugly
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Prigozhin in an office looking ... political. Remarkably sober and fair assessment of the muddle that is Russian strategy and the strength and skill of Ukraine. He gets more dangerous the more rational he is.
Did Prigozhin switch sides or is he talking like this in preparation for the upcoming military coup?
My money is on the latter. I think all will be blamed on ‘happy grandpa’ and he will be forced out of the Kremlin shortly.
#Russia
#Prigozhin
#RussiaUkraineWar
#Ukraine
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@francis_scarr
Igor Korotchenko is indeed a Kremlin loyalist but he actually has a track record of being surprisingly frank about Russian military vulnerability. Worth listening to what he has to say - if he's worried, the Russian General Staff is worried.
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What nonsense - 'a rump Russia reduced to the area bounded by St. Petersburg, Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod would .. cease being a major geopolitical player and thus a threat to any of its neighbors.' 'Rump' = still be the largest and most populous country in Europe, with nukes.
Motyl: "It’s time to start taking the potential disintegration of Russia seriously."
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@McFaul
German politicians certainly were discussing precisely that in 1915. WW2 would have been avoided if they had succeeded in pushing through a peace deal then.
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@IsabelOakeshott
Umm - I count about half Union Jacks and half EU flags in that Last Night of the Proms crowd Isabel. EU membership is no more 'slavery' than membership of NATO.
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@MuKappa
You are claiming that Mikhail Khodorkovsky is a Russian 'imperialist' for pointing out that the Kremlin retained significant control of post-Soviet Central Asia? That's absurd. Why not just come out and say what you really believe: that there is no such thing as a good Russian?
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@MaxBlumenthal
Max do you understand Russian? Arestovych did /not/ say Dnipro tragedy was caused by a Ukrainian SAM but that the Russian missile was shot down in flight and destroyed the building where it fell.
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@arusbridger
actually as of February 2023 EU and UK e-passports work in the same gates. you are in the wrong queue. I go through every week.
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Awww ... Russia missing out on European heatwave which has sent gas consumption and prices plunging across the continent. Does the weather do karma?
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@ClarkeMicah
Peter you are gross misinformed. In the wake of the Maidan the US and EU bent over backwards to KEEP Yanukovych in power till Dec 14 elex. Instead, he fled and Petro Poroshenko was democratically elected in May. The unconstitutional part was Yanukovych's rapid departure.
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Nobody in this video is saying 'прикрывайте'. He's saying كويسين - kuisin in Palestinian Arabic, meaning good. You're welcome.
Anything is possible but you need some imagination to here прикрывайте here.
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My latest cover piece in The Spectator on the ugly reality of partition of Ukraine
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@McFaul
Or you change generals when you are about to launch a major counter offensive - which may be exactly what
#Russia
is about to do, using
#WagnerPMC
cannon fodder as a battering ram to concentrate Kyiv forces in the defence of Bahmut.
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Putin's MH17 blunder will cost Russia a trillion-dollars - The Economist
http://t.co/Ozs5jOlJIZ
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@alexstubb
@BernardKouchner
I would say you started out with two frozen conflicts ... the North Ossetian and Abkhaz people have agency too outside great power politics.
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Actually Zelensky did try to implement the Minsk Agreements and indeed did a deal with the L/DNR leadership in October 2019 to have a referendum on future status under OSCE auspices - but was prevented by nationalist backlash in Kyiv
IMO the reason for Zelensky’s maximalism is that anything short of full victory will warrant the question of why he chose to accept the battle rather than implement Minsk agreements. What was all the unimaginable sacrifice for?
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Journalist and historian
@owenmatth
tours the Arctic settlements created to facilitate Stalin’s gulag archipelago, a constellation of populated cities and towns still around decades after the collapse of the Soviet slave labor system |
@newlinesmag
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More Ukrainian trains ran on time on Jan 15th than British ones. Yes, you read that right.
#railway
#strikes
Don't want to be the most boring guy at the party, but yes, we had another best on-schedule day yesterday:
- 97% trains departed on time
- 96% trains arrived on time
Yes, we are obsessed with running on schedule.
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@nicholadrummond
Indeed - though in fact Prince Philip did not have any actual Greek blood. The Greek royal family were 100% German/Danish/British
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@OPolianichev
Suggest you check your facts. Vasily Vereshchagin's 1871 painting 'Apotheosis of War' was considered profoundly antiwar and banned from exhibition in Russia. Ironically dedicated "to all great conquerors, past, present and to come." The skulls are Russian.
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Cute:
@VladDavidzon
reports that this wife harassed some Russian diners at a Tbilisi hotel by reading war news out loud. If she was trying to prove that some Ukrainians can be as bigoted, racist and obnoxious as the worst Putin supporters, she succeeded. Well done.
Breaking news from Georgia: My Ukrainian wife glared at Russian couple across communal table from us at breakfast; took out phone and began to read war news out loud to me. Russian couple stood up and left after 3 minutes of listening to statistics of kindapped Ukrainian kids...
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Hilariously inept Russian propaganda purporting to be an AfD-sponsored anti-Ukraine aid film. Unfortunately the producers used pretty well-known Russian actors, plus they included the line "Heil Zelensky" which, to put it mildly, would never figure in an actual German ad ...
Russian Telegram channels spread what they say is German AfD party 'social advertising', mocking the govt support for Ukraine. The problem is that Russian professional film actors are filmed in it, like this guy, Igor Alexeev ()
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@Trollstoy88
Why is this presented as a gotcha moment? As Zelensky has said regularly in his broadcasts, Russian is a language of Ukraine too, spoken by 40% of its population as a 1st language and close to 100% as a 2nd. It doesn't being to Russia any more than English belongs to England
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Introducing my new YouTube show 'Cursed Questions' on the Zima Magazine channel - first interview with Alexei Venediktov has over 150,000 views and nearly 1000 comments. Take a look!
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@OzKaterji
@IlvesToomas
"I don’t care about the life of a Russian conscript as much as I do the life of a Ukrainian civilian" You do know that conscripts have no choice but to join the army, by definition, right? Maybe you mean Russian contract soldiers, who do have a choice.
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Doesn't seem a great way to build an army - what kind of fighters will press-ganged soldiers make. Serious problem for Ukraine
Forced mobilization in Dnipro in native region of Zelensky in Ukraine. Daily number of such videos of forced mobilization in different regions of Ukraine increased significantly after his new mobilization law came into effect two weeks ago. Those who want to fight to the last
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@BenjaminNorton
Unfortunately, the EU did not impose its model on Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Iraq. Evidently losing their touch.
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One year on: how will the Ukraine war end? My cover story this week for The Spectator via
@spectator
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Crocus terrorists trying to escape to Belarus makes more sense than escaping to Ukraine. There is only one working border post between Russia and Ukraine and it involves long interrogation. But Belarus border is open - its a unitary state, notionally.
Putin said the terrorists were trying to escape across Ukrainian border
However his words were denied by russian ambassador to Belarus Dmitry Krutoy. He stated, terrorists were trying to escape to Belarus. And the Belarusian special services prevented them from crossing border
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Time to stop listening to crazy old loons like Noam Chomsky and Seymour Hersh. It's embarrassing.
Noam Chomsky claims Jeremy Corbyn won an “enormous victory” in the 2017 election.
@MattChorley
challenges him on the facts of Corbyn’s leadership
Tune to from 10am 📻
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@ChrisO_wiki
Ah so targeting people because of their nationality is funny and cool? Judge people for what they do and say not for their race or nationality. That's the principle free Europeans fought and died for in the last century. This is racist and obnoxious.
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@TheNewDonbass
"A number of troubled issues"??? Guys, if you're going to the trouble to make fakes like this, at least try to make sure they are written in more or less grammatical English. Ask native speaker Graham Philips to help you out, he lives in Donetsk.
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Someone needs to explain to these people the difference between free Europe and totalitarian Russia is freedom of expression and the right to equal protection under the law. We don't prosecute people for saying things we disagree with - leave that to Putin. Don't be like Putin.
✊👀 The George Clooney Foundation will demand the arrest of Russian propagandists working in Europe!
❗️"We are focused on prosecuting the most obvious Russian propagandists, we are asking prosecutors to issue sealed arrest warrants", -Anna Neistat
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"Renowned American journalist Scott Ritter" ahahaha gave the game away there son
For the last two and a half years I have been reporting on the war in Ukraine. The threats against my life keep escalating. They can't really escalate any further without something happening...
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@InfoAgeStrategy
I have been to Crocus many times, most recently last year. Security theatre is everywhere in Moscow - metal detectors x-ray machines security guards. But its totally lackadaisical. The emergency exits were not 'all locked' though some were - but that's sloppiness not conspiracy
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@Trollstoy88
Hate to rain on your parade but I think there may be a reason to revise those Russian tank figures down somewhat.
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@pravda_eng
That's a pedestrian bridge in a park, and they missed it. NB - cost of single Russian cruise missile over $500,000. And they are running out
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"After war in
#ukraine
we should do same with Russians" - do you propose that NATO occupy Russia? How would you set about doing that? Presumably, by fighting a nuclear war first?
Denazification of Germans in 1945. British servicemen take Germans to cinema to show crimes of Hitler's Nazi regime. After war in
#ukraine
we should do same with Russians. Let them see the
#crimesagainsthumanity
Putin has committed in name of Russians.
#russianwarcrimes
🇺🇦 👇
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Ukraine Territorial Defence Forces take trolling to a hilarious new level ...
Our new CAPTCHA in Ukraine…
Prove that you’re not a robot:
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A 'peace plan' that has not the remotest chance of working is not a real peace plan is it? It's a set of unachievable demands that wastes time while young Ukrainians die.
Finally, somebody with the brain and the balls to tell the truth!
Recently, the President of Finland Alexander Stubb presented four conditions of a "Peace Plan" during an interview which Fox News.
1/n
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@michaeldweiss
I'm puzzled by this argument that Azov soldiers couldn't be wearing Russian-language badges. I interviewed lots of Azov, Dnipro and Right Sector guys and many were Russian speaking. And BTW many Ukrainian far right militants are Russophones from Kharkiv, Dnipro, Mariupol, Odesa
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"Putin celebrates Christmas night at the Annunciation Cathedral in the Kremlin" says press release. But there is daylight outside the window. Presumably priests did a fake Christmas service in the daytime? Putin strikingly small, alone, cornered, lying even about his churchgoing.
На сайте Кремля: "В Рождественскую ночь глава государства присутствовал на богослужении в Благовещенском соборе Московского Кремля".
Но, кажется, за окном не ночь? 🤔
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Amazingly brave guy, jailed for basic decency and good sense objection to the war. By no means are all Russians passive zombies
Dmitry Skurikhin, an entrepreneur from the Leningrad region, was sentenced to 1.5 years in prison for holding a poster "I'm sorry, Ukraine."
The court found Skurikhin guilty of "discrediting the army." This is a part of the speech he gave in court.
#Ukraine
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If anyone out there still harbours some lingering belief in
#SyHersh
's
#NordStreamBombing
story listen to this sad non-interview by
@MarkAmesExiled
with a poor wreck of a once great journalist. Rambling, full of elementary mistakes and frankly embarrassing.
🚨🚨EXCLUSIVE: Seymour Hersh discusses his latest scoop on Biden bombing the Nord Stream pipelines, on Radio
@TheWarNerd
🚨🚨
Free & Unlocked, courtesy of our subscribers
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My latest piece in The Spectator: China is playing the long game over peace in Ukraine via
@spectator
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Long extract from my new book Overreach in The Times magazine
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The latest in my series of Cursed Questions - interview with brilliant Russian economist Andrei Movchan. Takeaway: unfortunately Putin can afford to fight this war pretty much indefinitely.
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Really loved appearing on the Empire podcast this week about Imperial Russia's efforts to colonise America!
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“Overreach is a tour de force ... A must-read on the Russo-Ukrainian War and where it leaves Europe and the world" latest review in The Epoch Times
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"The reality is that the Times is becoming the publication through which America’s progressive elite talks to itself about an America that does not really exist." Essential reading on the death of non partisan journalism in the US
“Americans can shout about their lack of free speech all they want, but they will never be able to overcome their differences, and deal with any of their real problems, if they do not learn to listen to each other again,” writes James Bennet
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Weird story. US self-described "communist and antifascist" former soldier John McIntyre joins Ukrainian army then defects to Russia which he says was always his plan. He claims that ZSU had snipers stationed on riverbanks to prevent defections to Russia. Sounds like a nutjob.
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'By May Russian energy export revenues had dropped to $14.9 billion, less than half of what it had earned in the first month after the invasion' Sanctions are hurting via
@spectator
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This is brilliant - the 17th century French map which Putin cites as being evidence of non-existence of Ukraine literally says "Ukraine - Pays des Cossaques." Putin even mentions "Cossackia" as a political entity other than Russia. Putin is nuts.
Putin is literally staring at the words “Ukraine — Pays des Cossaques” across current Ukraine on this map from 1670.
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Dan Hannan in The Washington Examiner: "The first major book about the conflict, Overreach gives an eerie insight into the thinking of the men who made the war"
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Putin needs to change the cast of extras he uses in his photo shoots ... they are becoming almost as familiar to viewers as he is himself
Day 312 of my 3 day war. I will be remembered as great patron of Russian theatre who provided work for so many actors.
I remain a master strategist.
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My book Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin's war on Ukraine has been shortlisted for the UK's Parliamentary Book Awards
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Azerbaijan 'formally applies' to join BRICS, a group with no actual institutional existence whose leaders have never met.
This is a big deal for a lot of different reasons… 🇦🇿
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@HistoryHit
@thehistoryguy
Indeed puzzled from the "came from nothing" line. Buonaparte was of Tuscan and Genoese noble descent, the family lived in a palace and his father was Corsica's envoy to the court of Louis XVI.
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First episode of my new YouTube show Cursed Questions - an interview with Echo Moskvy editor Alexei Venediktov - just hit 200,000 views and over 1500 comments after five days. Check it out (you can switch on subtitles in right hand column).
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@info1Armenia
Ermenistan is just the Turkish word for Armenia, just as Yunanistan is the word for Greece. What else would you like a Turkish visitor to call it if he doesn't happen to speak Armenian? Are Greeks insulted when English visitors refer to their country as Greece not Hellas?
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amazingly this is not in fact a Monty Python sketch but a documentary
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White Fox, the third and final instalment of my Black Sun trilogy, named as one of the FT's Thrillers of the Year :))))
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Thanks to
@PeterStothard1
for your kind words about Overreach - 'a magnificent piece of writing by
@owenmatth
about the catastrophic invasion of Ukraine.'
Well met in
@Dauntbooks
Marylebone High Street tonight. Overreach is a magnificent piece of writing by
@owenmatth
about the catastrophic invasion of Ukraine. My Life of Crassus, who invaded his neighbour 2000 years ago, could have had the same title.
@yalepress
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@johnsweeneyroar
John - you know that the gas pipeline runs through Ukrainian territory to Slovakia and then Hungary, right? In other words, Ukraine could cut off that Russian gas if they wanted at any moment. However as you know Ukraine itself uses that Gazprom gas too.
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