James Spackman

It’s all about connections!

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My threads:

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@bleymingus @MarkAgitprop Who is Ireland defending against when Irish open the door and give a big welcome for Russians to attack the west?

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@DAaronovitch Is it pro-Russia ragebait for the grammar police to sow the seeds of disunity and disharmony?

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@MarkAgitprop In return for the million-plus deaths caused by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, Ireland should continue to profit from exporting weapons-materials to Russia for the killing of Ukrainians.

According to Irish politicians.

https://t.co/43cq19rz29

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Russian refineries on the west coast of Ireland ‘should not face sanctions’ for flouting international treaties signed by Ireland.

…according to Irish politicians.

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@MichelleRa98270 @writejohnseiler @EdwardGLuce Because Mearsheimer lives in an ivory tower disconnected from reality.

His claims to be an ‘offensive realist’ expose his global imperialist ambitions for USA.

https://t.co/8rdHTEqvyL

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@bleymingus @MarkAgitprop Refugees are not immigrants.

You are making the argument Ireland is supportive of Russia’s aggressive imperialist wars.

Take your head out of your arse.

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@TonicDave Negativity attracts the same.

Instead of moaning, try saying something positive.

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@FPRI America’s founding vision was a fraud.

President Trump is a fraud… a bankrupt, a rapist and a war criminal.

It was a massive contradiction that the ‘world’s policeman’ refused to sign up to world courts (ICC-ICJ).

Now Trump is open about USA’s state criminality.

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Putin’s anti-imperialist campaigning is seeking to rebuild Moscow’s empire.

Putin is, however, only building more resentment and resistance to Kremlin diktats.

[Foreign Policy Research Institute @FPRI]

Despite Russia seeking to maintain influence across Central Asia, rhetoric about "reclaiming" former colonial territories has exacerbated tensions with the region. Read more in Bruce Pannier's report detailing the rift. https://t.co/lkVyAfGt7e

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@Matt_VickersMP What a load of crap.

You sound like you’re smart enough to be a bin man; all your words are rubbish.

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@CTMathewes Is this among Republican convention attendees?

Or did Grindr just add extra capacity for right-wing hooks ups?

https://t.co/YgqGAH2OXa

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@MichelleRa98270 @writejohnseiler @EdwardGLuce Mearsheimer has the profile of a pro-Russia voice. He is wrong on everything.

He gets confused between theory and fact, which makes his views very popular among disconnected and isolated people online.

https://t.co/7ixPnD57BE

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@EdwardGLuce @joshrogin Elsewhere he is slammed for confusing theory with fact.

https://t.co/7ixPnD57BE

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@EdwardGLuce @joshrogin Mearsheimer’s ‘logic’ was comprehensively dismantled by Chatham House alongside other Putin apologists.

https://t.co/QbIpHntwkP

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@Max_Aragorn @ChathamHouse Keep taking the pills.

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@Max_Aragorn @ChathamHouse I got it, you promote libertarian conspiracy theories.

Why not just be honest and say you’re a corporate anarchist spreading Kremlin disinfo?

Or did you give up any self-awareness when you became one of the sheep?

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@Max_Aragorn @ChathamHouse Instead of admitting you’re losing, maybe you could explain what you mean by ‘who created money in Ukraine’. That sounds more like a transliteration from Russian than a meaningful sentence in English: money is printed, not created. It sounds like disinfo.

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@Max_Aragorn @ChathamHouse That’s a meaningless word salad.

Are you a bot or just a millennial?

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Indeed, violence is universal in nature.

But the story of civilisation is a narrative tale of how humanity escaped being enslaved by the violence of our conditions.

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From the Irish civil war to EEC membership, Ireland was depressed and repressed.

Maybe they had it too easy with their claims of ‘neutrality’.

Rebels without a context are always susceptible to radicalisation against their true self-interest.

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Alternatively, Ireland quietly forgets the self-harm of half a century of self-government, and chooses to sit back in vanity and malice to avoid offering the benefit of their painful experiences of partition.

Passive-aggressive anti-imperialism as dirty payback?

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‘Russian embassies should be classified as military bases’ was something first said in the 1930s.

This article on the Russian embassy in Ireland shows why it still holds true.
https://t.co/lTx3PNyJWX

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However post-independence nationalist myths romanticise the benign nature of Irish geography and culture.

Taking a free ride on the generosity and hospitality of neighbours is about as Irish as it gets.

[Brigid Laffan @BrigidLaffan]

Ireland’s benign geographical position in 20thC allowed us to exist without security or defence strategy. For centuries before Independence successive waves of Irish nationalists looked for military support from gallant allies in Europe yet we debate Ukraines right to support