Ron Ri

[Rina Lu🇷🇺 @rinalu_]

Russia was months away from complete disintegration. Four, maybe five separate states. That's what Nikolai Patrushev, Putin's successor as head of the FSB, remembers from the turn of the century.

When Putin took the helm in 2000, he immediately began stitching the country back together - restoring the authority of the state and reviving a nation that had been weakened in both body and spirit.

That’s why the West hates Putin.

[Ron Ri @Ron_Ri_1]

@IAPonomarenko There have been attacks in New York, Washington DC and London?

[Ron Ri @Ron_Ri_1]

@BowesChay I do see a couple of things that are obviously fake.

[Ron Ri @Ron_Ri_1]

@imetatronink Yes. And here's more EAAC derangement from Colby: Five years ago he argued that the Govt needs to get the public to "buy into" the idea that war with another great power (he meant China) may "go...nuclear." (C-SPAN machine translation below is a mess but one can get the gist).👇

[Aleksander 🇵🇱🇷🇺 @dhulqarnayn786]

I'm Polish and I stand with Russia 🇷🇺 against the global elite.

PASS IT ON.

[Ron Ri @Ron_Ri_1]

@AngelicaOung 👍 Hope that can work out for you.
Incidentally, best photo of you ever. A keeper.

[Ron Ri @Ron_Ri_1]

@tomgordonLD Indeed, not harmless -- your descent into utterly deranged bigotry, hypocrisy and authoritarianism, that is. Is Britain free? Does it encompass a free society? Then how about letting parents decide.

[Ron Ri @Ron_Ri_1]

@AngelicaOung Yes. Those unfamiliar may wish to check out 'Kicking Away the Ladder : Development Strategy in Historical Perspective' by the fine, leftist economist Ha-Joon Chang (now at SOAS).

[Ron Ri @Ron_Ri_1]

@BrianMcDonaldIE How long until Pompeo, Bolton, etc., go on Fox News to warn us of the “Russian terrorist threat” and to advocate for increased military aid to Ukraine?

[Ron Ri @Ron_Ri_1]

@BowesChay Almost opposite, I'd say.

[Ron Ri @Ron_Ri_1]

@lin_yishan @FudanUniversity I'm also a little suspicious. Only 1,190 Followers?

[Holly Hall @HollyHa91116783]

It really is just mindblowing how the national security minister of Israel CAN say these things and you do not hear a peep from the West. BenGvir is one person whose words are always intended quite literally.

Again, what is so maddening is that the West buys into this absolute fucking inversion of history/ reality/ truth by Israel.

Hezbollah is NOT a terrorist group. Hezbollah is a resistance group. Hezbollah came into being as a RESPONSE to Israeli aggression, Israeli invasion, Israeli terror. Hezbollah formed in order to protect Lebanon and the Lebanese people, from external aggression etc.

Israel always uses the same sort of sleight of hand, omitting that vital piece of information. Israel would not be fighting Hezbollah, if they were not invading a supposedly sovereign country.

In Gvir's mind, of course one grieving Israeli mother, is equivalent to 1000 grieving Lebanese mothers. I'm amazed he capped it at a 1,000, because it is hardly a secret that non-Jews are seen as cattle, worthless scum to be eradicated as and when Israel decides.

They have been doing to Lebanon, exactly what they did to Gaza. There are areas where not even a tree remains standing.

And they have been ALLOWED to do this without any protest from the West, from MSM, from even their own fucking prime minister. Thousands upon thousands of families displaced, homes turned to rubble, women & children murdered, entire families wiped out. This is no defensive war. This is another bid for the colonial style take over of a sovereign nation.

Israel is a rogue nation, with a leadership that would happily watch the rest of the world starve and burn, to achieve its objectives. It's population is now so radicalised that there is no daylight between the views of a man like Gvir and the majority of Israelis. A population, moreover, that still genuinely believes it is the victim of a hostile, antisemitic world.

How the fuck do you reason with people like that? Their sense of entitlement means that they cannot see that any and all aggression Israel has faced since its inception, has been a RESPONSE to Israeli brutality, Israeli theft, Israeli aggression, Israeli sadism.

Israel must be stopped. Zionism is an evil that must be eradicated. It is simply brutal, murderous, colonialism by a different name. Please Iran, do what must be done. Please

[Ron Ri @Ron_Ri_1]

@AndyBxxx @TheEconomist @grok Thanks for this, Andy.
Indeed, very enlightening. The rag is even (far) worse than I thought!

[Ron Ri @Ron_Ri_1]

@BrianMcDonaldIE Because: "Democracy!"

[Ron Ri @Ron_Ri_1]

@ConciousLabRat Your recent posts on Russia are superb and I couldn't agree more. Is it not incredible/depressing, though, that so many fall for Western propaganda, seemingly unable to engage in elemental critical analysis, which involves putting events into historical context.

[Ron Ri @Ron_Ri_1]

@BrianJBerletic @MatNuclear In a series of fine, short op-eds published roughly 15 years ago, Chomsky (yes, that Chomsky) deftly explains how it is the US that has been torturing, immiserating, and murdering Iran/Iranians for decades, the US propaganda system projecting onto Tehran the empire's own crimes.

[Ron Ri @Ron_Ri_1]

@OlgaBazova Yes, always unfortunate, but it’s really a mind-boggling figure. Two? In a large scale counterattack against NATO-Ukraine? Just compare this to how Ukraine’s chief colonial master, the US, routinely wages war.

[Ron Ri @Ron_Ri_1]

Hard to put into words how fatuous these comments are, wholly unrelated to fact. Applebaum starts with a specious conclusion that feels good to her side then works backwards. The result is a little propaganda performance in support of US-led Western aggression and hegemony.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

APPLEBAUM: The war in Ukraine is really fault line between democratic and autocratic worlds. Russians are trying to destroy Ukraine as a nation, they want it to disappear.

As an empire, they want Ukraine to be their colony. And they understood perfectly well that by invading Ukraine, they were defying this liberal world order.

They were defying the rules of post-war Europe, because in post-war Europe decision was made after 1945: we are not going to invade each other anymore, we are not going to have wars.

Instead, we are going to decide everything by diplomacy, and borders will not be changed by force. And Russians understood they were breaking that norm when they invaded Ukraine.

They also invaded Ukraine because Ukrainians were using that powerful democratic language we take for granted. Putin said, “If they can do it in Ukraine, then people could do it in Russia. So, I need to crush this Ukrainian democracy movement.”

[Ron Ri @Ron_Ri_1]

@Ding_Li_2019 @5xyxh ChatGPT says some of the claims are likely false. Several Americans were seen at the banquet enjoying the different delicacies: beef, fish, chicken, etc. It's doubtful Trump sat there the whole time and never touched a thing.

[Ron Ri @Ron_Ri_1]

@SenatorSlotkin Hi, Sen. Slotkin. Please watch the following:
https://t.co/uHCtoYt4FA
Then stop lying. Let us Americans be able to choose from among the world's best cars, safest cars, most environmentally friendly cars, and most affordable cars.