Scraps of Moscow

[Scraps of Moscow @scrapsofmoscow]

not soon, but already

[MOIRA GALLAGA @moiragallaga]

@LianaFix @ForeignPolicy @CFR_org "Soon, Europeans will have to confront an entirely new burden-sharing question: What must they offer Ukraine for its help shielding Europe from Russia?"

[Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs]

Direct engagement between Europe and the Kremlin “will not end the Russian-European standoff,” but it could “help the two sides manage risk right now—and thus avert a catastrophic conflict,” writes @AlexGabuev.
https://t.co/EHFj3wncoL

[МВД ПМР @mvdpmr]

Необычная находка в Рыбнице

Жители многоэтажки на Степной улице 6 июля услышали шуршание в неработающем мусоропроводе. Вызвали сотрудников АСП.

[Phil Klay @PhilKlay]

“In our national beginnings, all redolent with Edenic promises, was the word democratic, and since we vowed in a war rite of blood and sacrifice to keep its commandments, we act in the name of a word made sacred.“

—Ralph Ellison, The Little Man at Chehaw Station

[Scraps of Moscow @scrapsofmoscow]

“MAY come to think” 😂🤣😂 laughing while crying at @wsj ‘s naïveté / willful blindness. Message from reality: “foreigners” aren’t ponying up half a billion without some assurances up front. #kleptocracy

[Marc Polymeropoulos @Mpolymer]

Brutal from @WSJ Ed Board. “Foreigners may come to think they can buy American goodwill or favors if they cut the Trumps in on the action. Americans, and especially his supporters, deserve better from this or any President.” https://t.co/ROyBfzaLM0

[Scraps of Moscow @scrapsofmoscow]

Americans are showing themselves to be more tolerant of kleptocracy and less resilient in the face of government abuses than, for example, Ukrainians and Iranians. #freedom250?

[David Mohr @DavidMohr5]

@peterbakernyt @benprotess @anfuller @yaffebellany Looking from abroad almost as shocking as the 1.4 billion is the lack of reaction from American citizenry. In any other democratic countries people would be on the streets in large numbers for days on end protesting

[Scraps of Moscow @scrapsofmoscow]

what was that they used to say about the Biden crime family?

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Trump has monetized the presidency far more than any before him, reaping a stunning windfall in his first year back in the White House, including about $1.4 billion from his family’s cryptocurrency businesses. @benprotess @anfuller @yaffebellany https://t.co/TJXjnWKmF4

[Scraps of Moscow @scrapsofmoscow]

“remember that time when France flirted with us to show their independence from the US?”

yeah bro, it really was SIXTY years ago. kinda like continuing to hang a big part of your national identity on a war that ended over eighty years ago.

[МИД России 🇷🇺 @MID_RF]

6️⃣0️⃣ лет назад завершился госвизит в Советский Союз президента Франции генерала Шарля де Голля.

Поездка лидера Пятой республики в нашу страну стала наглядным подтверждением самостоятельного и прагматичного курса Парижа в отношениях с Москвой.

https://t.co/sHRn7uot6N

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

My hometown of Chicopee, MA went from 200 Poles in 1885 to 9000 in 1914, in a city of 28,000, or 32 percent of the city in 30 years. (The joke is they thought the sign said "Chicago" and got off the train.)

I guess we should have sent the filthy Papist kapusta-eaters home.

[Maria Popova 🇨🇦 @PopovaProf]

The thinking is that faced w increased costs from Ukraine's campaign, Putin will either compromise or escalate. But his remarks today suggested he'll do neither-- costs mount but he insists Ru can still win. This will be his undoing. He'll miss when he has to fold to save himself

[Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem]

“If you love me, said body, / turn and exist.”

— Anne Stevenson

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This poem appeared in Poems 1955-2005 by Anne Stevenson, published by Bloodaxe Books, 2005. Shared here with deep gratitude.

[Scraps of Moscow @scrapsofmoscow]

corruptionmaxxing continues apace

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

The US Government has become a bank from which the Trumps can write unlimited checks to themselves.

https://t.co/Ew9FIJELA3

[Jill Tucker @jilltucker]

If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7

[Журнал DOXA 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @doxa_journal]

Чем тревожнее настоящее, тем сильнее тянет в прошлое: туда, где первый айфон, ранний Tumblr и Дима Билан на Евровидении.

Почему мы застряли в тоске о прошлом? Правда ли оно было хорошим? И как ностальгия может помочь изменить наше настоящее?

https://t.co/JM1QiIti1w

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Vances comment is a tragic indictment of his administration. Amazing to me that’s not obvious to him.

[WarTranslated @wartranslated]

US Secretary of State Rubio: There was no agreement between the US and Russia in Alaska - there was only a proposal made regarding Ukraine in Alaska. It was never an agreement.

[IntelliNews @bneintellinews]

Moldovan oligarch Ilan Shor funded by Russian Abramovich, key to Kremlin's sanctions-evasion network: Moldovan fugitive oligarch Ilan Shor has become one of the Kremlin's most important unofficial operatives in Moldova’s domestic… https://t.co/YD7pRbtHkF Follow for news

[Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem]

“Longing, we say, because desire is full / of endless distances.”

— Robert Hass

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This poem appeared in Praise by Robert Hass, published by Ecco Press, 1979. Shared here with deep gratitude.

[Dr. Liana Fix @LianaFix]

Here is my new @FT Op-Ed (in print tomorrow) - I argue that NATO is ending in the worst possible way: both sides have begun developing their respective “stab in the back” myths - Greenland and Iran - and those are already hardening into history. @CFR_org 👉https://t.co/oMagCoae1O

[Gideon Rachman @gideonrachman]

Never forgave Zelensky for standing up to him in Kyiv and refusing to sign away Ukraine’s mineral rights. According to our correspondent who saw Bessent, immediately afterwards, he was trembling after meeting Zelensky