Prigozhin’s insurrection was probably the last time I felt anything close to wonder or excitement reading the news. Like a final heartbreak, its anti-climatic resolution permanently soured me
I don't need historical shit to end this war and move to diplomacy. Because it's just a delay tactic. I read no less history books than Putin. And I learned a lot. I know more about his country than he knows about Ukraine. Simply because I have been to Russia – to many cities. And I knew a lot of people there. He has never been to Ukraine this many times. He was only in big cities. I went to small cities. From the northern part to the southern part. Everywhere. I know their mentality. That's why I don't want to lose time on all these things. It's about them. They decided to have such a system. The Russians decided to change themselves. The Russians decided that they needed a new Tsar. It's up to them.
But there is security. There is a big war waged against us. This is our lives. The only thing that I want to speak about with him is that I think that we need to resolve it in the most successful way. I mean to end this war quickly. That is why I want to speak only about such things.
If you're wondering how Vladimir Kara-Murza and Yulia Navalnaya reacted to today's savage Russian attack that left a third of Kyiv without power, they did not, because speaking out against it would be very much unpopular among their future Russian constituents.
Russia has no plans to invade:
Moldova.
Ok. But not Georgia
Ok but not Ukraine.
Ok, Just Crimea
Ok, just Crimea & part of Donetsk
Ok, Just Crimea & all of Donetsk
Ok, Just Crimea & all of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk & Zaporizhzhia
Ok, all of Ukraine
But Russia won't attack EU
We need to stop calling it a ‘peace plan,’ even with sarcastic quotes around it. Call it the US-Kremlin plan or similar.
‘US-Kremlin plan’ shames the US and makes it sound deeply unappealing to the broader US and European publics.
Is Wagner marching on Moscow again, or starting with St. Petersburg this time? Hard to tell.
From our side it looks like they’ve already annexed the Russian border guards.
Who knows… @mfa_russia?
A decade of Russian active measures and war crimes, the enlistment of scores of Western dupes and agents of influence to vilify the Syrian revolution and its supporters. And now this, as if Putin simply changed the channel. Meanwhile, Bashar plays Halo and Asma undergoes chemo just miles from where this is taking place. Nothing is true and everything is possible.