Timothy David Curp

[Timothy David Curp @CurpDavid]

Note - this was in October, 2022...

[brainsturbator @brainsturbator]

Wild opener from WSJ.

[Timothy David Curp @CurpDavid]

This is I/6 2.0, with the willing collaboration of the press -until that was no longer possible.

[Timothy David Curp @CurpDavid]

@KassyDillon Poor man- how will he cope with Pres. Harris' keen mind-
"So, Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia, Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine.."
Fear her, Vlad.

[Timothy David Curp @CurpDavid]

@captainkudzu I'm not a MAGA Republican, but I am rather interested in finding out whether or not Biden is able to run anything... how much of the Presidency has his unelected staff been running for who knows how long?

[Timothy David Curp @CurpDavid]

Poor man- how will he cope with Pres. Harris' keen mind?
"So, Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia, Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine.."
Fear her, Donald.

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

Trump still pretending to be running against Biden tells you everything about how he is reacting to running against Harris.

[Timothy David Curp @CurpDavid]

@PhillipsPOBrien Poor man- how will he cope with Pres. Harris' keen mind-
"So, Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia, Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine.."
Fear her, Donald.

[Timothy David Curp @CurpDavid]

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[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

When it comes to Ukraine, Joe Biden made a lot of mistakes. 

The most painful thing about that is that so many of those mistakes could have been easily avoided if Biden had people in his team who genuinely understood what Putin’s Russia was and how things worked with the Kremlin mafia. 

Heaven knows, and we know it too, that the Biden administration, along with other Western leaders, spent way too much time in vain trying to talk Putin out of invading Ukraine.

We all remember those endless, humiliating summits, diplomatic powwows, meetings, calls, and conversations behind closed doors that resulted in nothing in the winter of 2021-22— nothing but Putin and his cronies openly jesting at their frantic attempts and spitting at their faces. 

The decision to invade and devour Ukraine had been made a long time ago. Putin’s TV propaganda within Russia was only using those pictures to send a message to the domestic audience: Look, the American president is now seeking Putin’s attention and is reasoning with Russia, but who is he in the face of the inevitable?

(Yes, the galaxy brains who keep saying that Biden “never tried diplomacy with Russia” are either fucking utterly dumb, or extraordinarily shameless, or just never actually followed the developments at all).

I think it would be honest and true to say that the U.S. administration in the days of February 2022 was ready to accept the option of Ukraine going down, establishing a national government in exile somewhere in Poland, and gradually coming to terms with “new territorial realities in Europe.” 

They decided to go the easiest way and take as little action as possible, assume as little responsibility as possible, and make decisions as free from risk as possible. Moreover, the administration appeared to be very, very reluctant to change its course due to new circumstances and opportunities. 

That was one of the Biden administration’s key mistakes regarding Ukraine, which, in a certain way, has affected Biden today’s electoral chances.  

A very unexpected and catastrophic Russian defeat at Kyiv (which essentially spelled the failure of Putin’s “special military operation”) in 2022 should have destroyed a lot of long-ingrained illusions.

And it shouldn’t have taken months of Ukrainian begging to start providing Ukraine with artillery to stand against Russian “walls of fire,” destroying everything on their way in Donbas.

It shouldn’t have taken months of Ukrainian begging to provide Ukraine with a handful of HIMARS systems that effectively derailed Russian offensive campaigns in the summer of 2022 and precipitated the liberation of Kherson in November 2022.

It shouldn’t have taken months and years of Ukrainian begging to provide Ukraine with PATRIOT missile defense systems, which not only did not lead to “World War III” but instead demonstrated the greatest results in the type’s entire operational history and set a number of milestones in defending the Ukrainian capital from Russian missiles and saving lives. 

It shouldn’t have taken months and years of Ukrainian begging to give the green light to provide Ukraine with armored vehicles, particularly M2 Bradleys, which demonstrated extraordinary results in Ukrainian hands. The same goes with tanks, particularly a handful of M1 Abrams, which unblocked the scarce deliveries of Leopard tanks from European nations. 

It shouldn’t have taken years of Ukrainian begging to get long-outdated ATACMS missiles that not only did not trigger “a major escalation” but effectively wiped out Russian military airfields and sophisticated air defense systems used against Ukraine.

And, of course, it shouldn’t have taken years to finally admit the fact that the policy of not allowing Ukraine to use American weapons to strike Russia's military infrastructure in Russian territory is deeply absurd and ineffective; it only provides the aggressor with a safe haven for escalating its offensive operations and terror bombing campaigns in Ukraine and only encourages to move on unpunished. 

This list can be continued for a long time.

The problem is that way too much authority was given to people who graduated from the most elite universities and read all of Kissinger — but never had the experience of fighting back to street thugs and discouraging them from harassing someone with a good old punch in the face. 

Amid endless “escalation management” and heeding Russia’s “nuclear threats,” way too much time was given to Putin to recover from the initial stress of the failure in Ukraine, to restructure production and economy, to adapt to sanctions, to find allies in Iran and North Korea, and reshape Russia into a totalitarian state obsessed with exterminating a neighboring country.

This is what our military has had to deal with for more than a decade since Russia invaded Ukraine for the first time in 2014.

Even in the final months before the resignation from the presidential race, the Biden administration was still placing way too much hope on trying to reason with Putin or trying to motivate Putin to get reasonable to strike a fair deal on Ukraine via the tactics of slow bites. So, after two years of war, Putin is still not ready to talk serious business and leave Ukraine alone? Okay, we let Ukraine use ATACMS, but only in Crimea and not against Russian territory. 

Many months later, Putin is still defiant as always? Okay, let’s let Ukrainians strike targets in Russian territory, but only within 100 miles of the Ukrainian border and no ATACMS. 

And this drags on, and on, and on. And failure to realize that the moment when Putin says “Okay, now I’m ready to leave Ukraine alone” would never come unless Putin is forced to stop and calm down was among Biden biggest mistakes. 

Yet — even though so many mistakes were made, every Ukrainian should remember that we owe a lot to the old man. 

Even though there have been a lot of incompetent Putin appeasers whispering things in his ear, without his faith and without his decisions — even though many of them were half-hearted, terribly belated, and questionable — there wouldn’t be the Ukraine as we know it now.

Half of us would have been rotting in mass graves with Russian bullets in our foreheads and with our heads tied behind our backs.

For this, we will always be thankful as we should. 

But there were critical, terrible mistakes that prevented Joe Biden from having a large geopolitical victory right now. 

I really, really hope that whoever replaces the old man in the Oval Office will be smart enough to draw conclusions.

[Timothy David Curp @CurpDavid]

@d_foubert Sorry, I don't have a taste for obscene humor...

[Timothy David Curp @CurpDavid]

@randal_ali @mmpiatkowski Of course, but why deprive oneself of life's joys?

[Timothy David Curp @CurpDavid]

@captainkudzu I am not a Biden fan - but I think allowing Kamala to speak at length will more than do the trick for bucking up Republicans...

[Timothy David Curp @CurpDavid]

Unfortunately, UKR finds itself in the situation of FR in 1917 during WWI - may want peace, but the peace they want essentially requires a UKR military victory.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Fresh poll:

44% of Ukrainians believe the time has come to begin official peace negotiations with Russia

35% don’t think so.

At the same time, 83% would oppose Ukraine’s hypothetical withdrawal from Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia, which is what Putin wants as his prerequisite for (nothing but) “ceasefire” and the beginning of talks.

Moreover, 84% oppose the idea of ceding these territories to the aggressor, which is again Putin’s demand.

77% oppose lifting all international sanctions on Russia.

58% oppose enshrining Ukraine’s “neutral, non-nuclear status” in the country’s constitution as demanded by Putin.

In other words, there are little illusions about Putin’s “peace proposals” in Ukraine.

Ukrainians want peace as no one else out there.

But Russia will use a short pause in the war to regroup and recoup its losses and to disarm Ukraine and strip it of Western defense aid as part of a “peace deal” — only to attack again soon in a much better shape.

And Russia needs Ukraine to stay out of NATO not because NATO is somehow an “existential threat” to the world’s largest nuclear power - but because it needs Ukraine defenseless, unprotected, and vulnerable to next phases of the Russian invasion.

There are ways out:

1. Providing Ukraine with stable, constantly expanding defense assistance based on long-term, strategic, and large-scale growth of the West’s defense production and investment.

2. Not giving the fascist Russia a chance to catch its breath amid its increasingly problematic large losses in hostilities; not buying the tempting sweet talk from the world’s No. 1 liar and the author of the largest European war of aggression since Adolf Hitler.

3. Dropping the failed and compromised policy of trying to please the Kremlin by not admitting Ukraine to NATO since the mid-2000s.

Keeping Ukraine out of history’s most successful defense alliance despite an obvious Russian threat not only failed to prevent a major European war but also made it guaranteed and inevitable as Putin had no barriers on his way to trying to take Kyiv.

It’s time to finally put one’s head out of the sand and think over the question why not a single Russian bomb is falling on Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, or Warsaw, and why entire cities are razed to the ground in “neutral” non-NATO Ukraine right now.

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[Timothy David Curp @CurpDavid]

@IAPonomarenko Unfortunately, UKR finds itself in the situation of FR in 1917 during WWI - may want peace, but the peace they want essentially requires a UKR military victory.

[Timothy David Curp @CurpDavid]

@vasilina_orlova Yes - and the appeals need to focus on real US national interests (many of us feel the moral force of the argument - but that won't be enough). Ultimately what I hope will matter is that Putin is a vassal of Xi - and even Trump realizes CN is a threat.

[Timothy David Curp @CurpDavid]

Agreed.

[Lesia Dubenko 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇮🇱 @LesiaLVD]

I think what we’re seeing now is the result of lack of will and courage. From the outset the west showed no courage. The embassies fled Kyiv, so did NATO. Then silly talk of offensive vs. Defensive weapons, then slow-walking weapons to Ukraine, giving the bare minimum to survive while sitting on nukes and stockpiles, then came Biden with his statement that he doesn’t support Nato-easation of Ukraine. This all looks insanely weak if you come to think of it. There are two shooting wars in the world, and the west just does nothing. Is Europe really ramping up its military production? Look at Russia for God’s sake. It has ramped up everything and is chilling together with North Korea and China. An American I went on a date with recently said that he’s sure that China will invade Taiwan already this year, adding “mark my words”. And you know what? I actually believe him because nobody feels or looks scared. Do you feel scared of the west who replaces the perennially concerned Stoltenberg with another westie-boy Rutte? C’mon. It’s ridiculous. The war will spread and we all know it cause there’s no feeling of fear coming from the adversaries. Only from us

[Timothy David Curp @CurpDavid]

@JeffFisch Agreed... as Tolstoy's Kutuzov kept repeating in War and Peace - patience and time... W started out talking about the need for a "humble foreign policy." I trust reality - esp. the reality of Xi and Putin's interests/hatred of the West, eventually to get through.

[Timothy David Curp @CurpDavid]

@KenGardner11 @HumphreyBohun Reality is a harsh mistress... when he starts reading real intel and realizes just how close CN is to RU he might learn... I remember how W wanted to start out with a more "humble foreign policy"...

And yes - this is me whistling past the grave yard.

[Timothy David Curp @CurpDavid]

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[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

You can keep cheering on the worst medical scandal since lobotomies, keep refusing to believe the Cass Review conclusions, keep shrieking 'bigot' rather than engage with facts, but don't expect sympathy when this ship finally sinks. You chose not to get off while you still could.

[Timothy David Curp @CurpDavid]

Boże mój...

[Damin Toell @damintoell]

Oh, wow, would you look at that

[Timothy David Curp @CurpDavid]

Another example of a politician who perfectly embodied sangfroid...

[Russ 김치 더줘 Emerson ♿ #DeSantis2028 @RussEmerson]

Absolute legend.

[Timothy David Curp @CurpDavid]

@TheOmniLiberal @Lauren_Southern In other words - my political enemies being murdered is OK with me. So tell me about your anxieties concerning Project 2025, "Destiny"?