"Maybe this May will be the last of the bad months, before things start to get better." The trailer for May Flowers, a feature-length doc by me & @patrick_pittman (collectively @nomediaco) of a dilated moment, not so long ago, that our bodies are already beginning to forget?
@themikewest@TheLincoln whether you call it great power politics or imperialism im not sure the distinction really matters to its victims really does it?
@TheLincoln omg nor is there mention Putin’s aggressions pre-2008 (when he was supposedly triggered by Nato) - 2007 crippling cyber attack on Estonia, sundry meddling in Ukrainian politics including 2004-5, never mind 2006 Politkovskaya assassination largely bc her reporting in Chechnya
How is the war in Ukraine going? Today they confirmed the death of Russian General Major Suhovetsky. He's unsurprisingly a paratrooper. So let's discuss the role of paratroopers in Russian military doctrine. That'll shed a light on the course of this war and why Russia lost it🧵
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Russian military is bombing hospitals in Ukraine, health minister Viktor Liashko said. "This is a violation of Geneva convention, a shameful and cowardly act. Such actions by the occupiers put civilian lives in danger and contradict principles of international humanitarian law'
Re Putin’s claims of “Denazifying” Ukraine. The country has four extreme-right parties that might be called neo-Nazi. Three of them have zero seats in the national legislature. The fourth has one of the 450 seats. Together they get 2% of the popular vote, less than in Russia
Based on research into declassified Soviet archives historians later conclude that the attack on Mainila was a false flag operation carried out by the Soviet NKVD. In 1994 President Boris Yeltsin acknowledges the Winter War as a Soviet act of aggression. 3/3
Four days later, 27 divisions of the Red Army and more than 600,000 soldiers invade Finland, breaking its non-aggression pact with its neighbour and commencing the Winter War. 2/3
November 26, 1939 - USSR foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov accuses Finnish forces of firing artillery at the border town of Mainila, killing four Red Army soldiers. The Finnish government denies responsibility. 1/3