Dewitt Bourchier

Male, Anglo, Politically Heterodox, inveterate if critical Russophile, pro-Civilisation, loves his wine, video games, movies, and cardio exercises

[Dewitt Bourchier @BourchierDewitt]

Congratulations Putin. You have fulfilled all the grotesque stereotypes of Russians, made it so that Russia's security needs will never be taken seriously again, and their descendants will have to live with the shame you have brought. Resign.

[Dewitt Bourchier @BourchierDewitt]

@RWApodcast It was as they said to keep the Kremlin off balance, exploiting the fact that the Russian government has initiated an unquestionably illegal war of aggression and leveraging off that to make accusations of the Russians planning and doing the worst to put pressure on Russia.

[Mark Ames @MarkAmesExiled]

By this logic, Vietnam is the way it is today because the US conducted such a tidy, just, massacre-free war that just happened to leave 3 million Vietnamese dead.

Also, Brezhnev was Ukrainian.

[Mark Ames @MarkAmesExiled]

One of many loathsome consequences of Putin’s invasion is how it’s affected domestic discourse—all of Washington’s war crimes & lies of the past 20 years wiped away in a gloating avalanche of virtuous exceptionalism vs Russia. When it should’ve sparked painful self-reflection.

[Dewitt Bourchier @BourchierDewitt]

@RWApodcast God help the men and women having to fight those battles.

[Dewitt Bourchier @BourchierDewitt]

As Kiev was the sight of Babi Yar ... well it does mesh with what McFaul, Aslund and others have been saying - and along with Putin's use of Nazism in UKR as an excuse it chills me deeply - WWII is no longer something sacred, and its worst crime is now political football.

[maksym eristavi. @maksymeristavi]

my 92yo grandma also says don’t compare today’s russian crimes to nazi occupation of ukraine. because it is worse. whatever nazis done to her village during 2-year occupation doesn’t even come close to barbarity of russians in the last 40 days

[Dewitt Bourchier @BourchierDewitt]

@Kadjit10 @AfpFactuel @GerardAraud Faute d'investigation impartielle - il n'y a pas des faits. Il y a des accusations. Avec une situation telle grave que celle de Boutcha, nous avons besoin d'un investigation impartielle et internationale.

[Dewitt Bourchier @BourchierDewitt]

@Z_Irina_V Your proof?

[Tortoise @tortoise]

"To feel horror in the face of atrocity is mere reflex. What we owe the fallen of Bucha – and elsewhere – is honest answers."

[Dewitt Bourchier @BourchierDewitt]

@EsbenKnudsen @russophiliac It has been reaching this level since 2014 in both countries. I remember Yuliya Timoshenko says the Donbas rebels needed to be killed with nuclear weapons and the glee with which Ukrainians cheered their army pulverising their own people with airstrikes and artillery.

[Dewitt Bourchier @BourchierDewitt]

I cannot wait to go back to complaining about how **** Brexit is. And yes Brexit gets worse for the UK everyday.

[Ben Friedman @BH_Friedman]

"For some in NATO, it’s better for the Ukrainians to keep fighting, and dying, than to achieve a peace that comes too early." At least the Post is reporting on this sentiment, which prominent people assured me doesn't exist when I recently criticized it.
https://t.co/Vtz57HOX5s

[Dewitt Bourchier @BourchierDewitt]

@FPRI_Orbis @Suzie_Loftus @scharap Unfortunately - that was not the gambit. The gambit was Russia would just do whatever we told it to do and have them smile and say 'yes, yes' to whatever. That was a catastrophic miscalculation.

[Dewitt Bourchier @BourchierDewitt]

@GeromanAT Globalists? Using anti-semitic tropes?

[Dewitt Bourchier @BourchierDewitt]

@zxb07487268 @GeromanAT No need for flashing before your eyes - we've seen it already in this war. The Russians and their stupidity in the first week of the war and the Ukrainians holding positions in Volnovakha and just getting torn up by every kind of ordinance. It's all too real.

[Dewitt Bourchier @BourchierDewitt]

@NickCohen4 Given that much of Putin's Russian nationalism comes from Solzhenitsyn - I really would not quote Solzhenitsyn. It is men like him - and our veneration of them for being anti-Soviet - that is causing our world to sink further and further into mire.

[Dewitt Bourchier @BourchierDewitt]

@zxb07487268 @GeromanAT It depends how they employ it. The evidence is that they have gotten better and more cautious. And most of any army is infantry.

[Dewitt Bourchier @BourchierDewitt]

@resistancelines Mark Ames provides nuance. Given what most of his posts are like he is not supporting the Russian invasion one little bit. It does not mean we have to pretend the Ukrainian government is not utterly odious or that we ourselves are without considerable sin.

[Dewitt Bourchier @BourchierDewitt]

@GeromanAT Oh stop it. He's paying tribute to his old boss and showing himself to be gracious.

[Dewitt Bourchier @BourchierDewitt]

@GeromanAT That's not what is going to happen. He's just dreaming because the RU invasion is going very badly for RU.