They are motivated by a fear and a hope. The fear is that we'll accelerate the timetable of expansion; the hope is that Moscow can drive a wedge between us and our West European Allies, who are grousing a bit about "pressure" from Washington to expand the Alliance.
In the West, food and rent prices are up, but some how they come up with money to fund war.
Yea, covid...are you still wearing a mask?
Bullet and bomb producers are making fat cash.
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You asked for evidence that the US orchestrated NATO expansion.
lol, the CIA under Obama overthrew the Ukrainian government and installed a money landuring scheme.
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Right - did I say somewhere that the US does not have and has not had the goal of expanding NATO?
Why would that be a proper goal when the world is relatively stable?
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Lmao Looks like Russian military equipment is already starting to makes its way to ebay. Probably gonna be allot more of this stuff showing up shipped from Poland pic.twitter.com/xYsorss3rB
I don't know what (if any) impact this will have on Putin and I have a feeling this is going to end badly for this retired Colonel, but it was a pretty remarkable tirade.
Extraordinary exchange on Russian state TV’s top talk show about Ukraine. Military analyst & retired colonel Mikhail Khodarenok tells anchor Olga Skabeyeva “the situation for us will clearly get worse…we’re in total geopolitical isolation…the situation is not normal.” pic.twitter.com/ExMwVDszsk
I’ve seen this story going around but I’m not sure how accurate it is given it’s western reporting on russian bloggers, but it suggests the loss of almost 500 troops and 80 vehicles in a failed river crossing has broken through Putin’s media control.
I don't know what (if any) impact this will have on Putin and I have a feeling this is going to end badly for this retired Colonel, but it was a pretty remarkable tirade.
Extraordinary exchange on Russian state TV’s top talk show about Ukraine. Military analyst & retired colonel Mikhail Khodarenok tells anchor Olga Skabeyeva “the situation for us will clearly get worse…we’re in total geopolitical isolation…the situation is not normal.” pic.twitter.com/ExMwVDszsk
THREAD Let's start a long thread about how Russian book market prepared Russians for a full-scale war against Ukraine, NATO, the West, and promoted stalinism and nazism, and how this was ignored by the West. Keep seat belts fasten, you will see a lot of nasty things here. pic.twitter.com/iPgl4OTU7C
Enjoy Russian dream. "Comrade Hitler. Execute Churchill!" Description: "Popadanets gets into Adolf Hitler' body. Will he manage to execute Churchill for war crimes, create an alliance with the USSR? Will comrades Hitler and Stalin defeat the US and get a nuke before the US?" /20 pic.twitter.com/QzYfuPfaCD
Back when I was a sociology student at Kyiv-Mohyla, I was stupidly, shamelessly enamoured with the collective western Left. I dreamed of a day when Ukrainian academia would have widespread and popular discussions about colonialism, privilege, and all of the -isms. I read essays
Great signs in Kazakhstan with Pres. Tokayev: 1. decided to uphold Western sanctions against. 2. In front of Putin, Tokayev said won’t recognize DNR/LNR. 3. Yesterday spoke Kazakh, not Russian, in meeting with Azeri President. 4. Now flags supporting in Karaganda pic.twitter.com/YYySEJu8lI
The chairman of the board of Lukoil, Russia’s biggest privately held oil producer and one of the few Russian companies to criticize the invasion of Ukraine, has died after falling out of a hospital window, Interfax reports https://t.co/wM9r1KAkQn
I'm grateful to #Ukraine, because: - I've been writing about #Russia'n colonialism and its consequences for 20 years. I define myself as post-colonial author. But when I said that aloud, Western journalists very seldom understood what I meant: (1/x)
Western European powers are founded in colonialism and imperialism and to this day manipulate or invade anywhere the people won’t bow to Wall Street or other centres of capital.
It’s easy to be blind to it when we are it.
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