mark dickinson

former diplomat

[Daniel Fried @AmbDanFried]

Ukraine’s international borders - you know, the ones before Russian invasions - were recognized in a formal Russia-Ukraine Treaty signed by President Putin and ratified by the Russian Duma.

[Greg Bagwell @gregbagwell]

An important moment as America explores a future more sympathetic relationship with Russia. This US soldier appears to be a member of NATO’s Allied Rapid Reaction Corps HQ. Russia is an active enemy of the West, it doesn’t want European security. @jaredkushner @SteveWitkoff

[Carl Bildt @carlbildt]

Many remember the December 2021 🇷🇺 proposals on European security rolling back NATO. I also remember previous 🇷🇺 attempts to revise agreed European security order by deleting everything in Helsinki agreement and Paris charter concerning democracy and human rights.

Their fear at the time wasn’t Nato - it was the fear of color revolutions bringing demands for democracy even closer to Moscow itself. That was their real security fear.

Their repeated attempt at revisions didn’t fly with us other Europeans - needless to say.

[Rasmus Jarlov @RasmusJarlov]

In Denmark, we dont have a problem with paying for European security and freedom against fascism. But I think we do have a problem with those of you making excuses and not doing your part.

[mark dickinson @Anglosomething]

@Shannon79053723 @broadwaybabyto Maybe. Or just for silence. I'm not sure why we are arguing about a man who is so appalling - but I'm not 100% sure he's a criminal.

[mark dickinson @Anglosomething]

@Shannon79053723 @broadwaybabyto I think there is a grey area here. Powerful men like to think their power makes them attractive. And although I do not for a moment doubt that Giuffre and others were groomed and victims, they could also have been dismissed (with an element of truth) as "gold-diggers".

[mark dickinson @Anglosomething]

@EC2man A jury decided he did commit it (while acquitting him on other counts). His own lawyer put forward as an argument for mitigation that "his total ignoring" of the absence of consent was "short and temporary".

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

Norway has just bought 500.000 drones to be donated to Ukraine. That’s a real ally.

Slava Ukraini!🇳🇴🇺🇦

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Putin sent GRU assassins into the meeting with Kushner, Witkoff, Budanov and the rest of the Ukrainian delegation.

These are the new allies of the White House, while only 3% of the US electorate supports Russia.

[Jessica Berlin @berlin_bridge]

No Jared. The question Europeans are asking the most is, are you really that stupid, or do you just think we are?

[MAKS 26 🇺🇦👀 @Maks_NAFO_FELLA]

🇺🇸🇬🇧 41-year-old U.S. Army soldier was arrested in the UK on November 10 on suspicion of espionage linked to Russia.

The soldier was detained near Gloucester in a joint UK-U.S. counterintelligence investigation involving the FBI.

[mark dickinson @Anglosomething]

@Petrit @EU_Commission @eu_eeas The higher end of this expenditure is, by the way, twice the highest estimate of total KLA income/expenditure during its existence.

And we thought (with reason) that the KLA was disorganised. It did better than this kangaroo court!

[Petrit Selimi @Petrit]

For a court that has spent somewhere between 500 and 1000 million € of European taxpayers money, tweeting that in 8 YEARS your outreach efforts consisted of 41 reels in social media, and direct contact with 4000 people is obscenely bad. Pathetic even. @EU_Commission @eu_eeas

[mark dickinson @Anglosomething]

@JackWor94775747 @AMCA_gremlin @vigneshr4m Tell that, when you die, to my two uncles who served in the Garhwal Rifles, a regiment which won 3 VCs in the World Wars. One of my uncles was beheaded by the Japanese. I think they will not agree with you.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

🎯 But no one working with Russia from the Trump White House actually believes this. This concessions and engagement in good faith theory was sincere under Obama & Biden. Stupid and disastrous, but sincere. Trump makes concessions to Russia not to end the war, but to make money.

[mark dickinson @Anglosomething]

@AnInnes3 Interesting, but surely the blood-feud dynamics are more complicated than that? If someone had no family, or if you could kill the whole family, then this would be logical. But if he had brothers or children who were duty-bound to avenge him?

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Taps the sign. It’s all so stupid. Russia should have no say in Ukrainian or European security structures any more than a local burglar should have a say in your home security system. Every concession makes more Russian aggression more likely and more likely to succeed.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Sikorski: Ukrainians seem to have hit a data center of Russia's Finance Ministry.

Anything on the surface, in Poland too, can be hit by drones and missiles.

Ukraine builds drones and cruise missiles without US parts. It cannot be forced to surrender. 0/

[Oz Katerji @OzKaterji]

A lot of the people who pretend to be against the Russian invasion of Ukraine let the mask slip the moment they see pro-Ukraine politicians saying they want to see Ukrainian soldiers kill Russian soldiers, as if they are being introduced to the concept of war for the first time.