@jolyonralph @DutaRazvan75@MrKovalenko Crazy borders create crazy problems. Some negotiation on these issues at the collapse of the USSR may, might, maybe, have resolved some of these issues. But hey, even Crimea voted for independence.
After two months of war it has become very clear that the western Far Left don’t even have the language to discuss Ukraine. “Pro-war”, “escalation”, “NATO imperialism”, it’s all just waffle copy-pasted from previous geopolitical crises. A movement utterly divorced from reality.
Amen, and reminds me of something a Georgian friend posted: "if you've never been afraid of Russia invading your country, you don't get to whine about NATO expansion" https://t.co/mLGCSG2kY4
@lapatina_ This is the most fucked up intercepted phone call I've heard so far. What kind of human garbage wants their partner to commit sexual violence...
Some poor Bellingcat volounteer having to look at dozens of mutilated bodies and write treatises on exsanguination because BigDickPepe437 is uncritically sharing a Russian MoD infographic about how the blood isn't clotted enough and also jet fuel can't melt steal beams.
@irgarner I've come to understand this and build my own definitions around it by watching Russian foreign policy for years, but this is an amazing insight that really builds on what I learnt from observation. Thank you!!
“Provocation” is to Russia today as “Providence” was to Tolstoy’s Napoleonic Russia: the inexplicable driving force shaping Russia’s national history. No humans necessary.
From Georgia to Syria to Bucha, the biggest enemy of Russia is the mysterious and all-powerful провокация
провокация invaded Georgia in 2008
провокация used chemical weapons in Syria
провокация shot civilians in Bucha
@bfry1981@MarkHertling Watch this presentation / lecture by a recently retired Finnish Intel agent who is now a professor talk about the Russian mindset and why it doesn't make sense to us. Sadly, he shows why this is unlikely to happen and why democracy is also unlikely there.
https://t.co/FYqEPFaSdW