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Feb 26, 2022, 5 tweets

HOW TO ANSWER KREMLIN SHILLS

I- Ukraine & Russia are the same people.

Answer 1: Assuming it's true (it's not), do Swiss Germans need to join Germany ? Austrians ? Shd the US invade Canada ?

Answer 2: The argument was used by Imperial Russia to subjugate Poland. & All Slavs.

II- "It's a NATO/EU aggression against Russia".

Answ 1: Ukranians are free to decide. For some reason they prefer democracy & freedom to autocracy.
Polls show a majority want to be part of EU, protected by NATO (now explainable).

Answ 2: How many want to move to Cuba ?

III- You can detect a Kremlin shill (or useful idiot) with the argument that the Ukranian regime is "Nazi" or that the 2014 revolution was a Western "coup".

(You can't both say that Ukranians Nationalists are Nazi racists & Ukr and Russ are same pple).

IV- Putin just PROVED to the Ukranians that they need to join #NATO.

Not a very smart move.

V- FALSE EQUIVALENCE

Finally Kremlin's artists & useful idiots try to indoctrinate you by comparing NATO to Russia, an elementary fallacy.
NATO is an organization for democratic states w/voluntary membership. Russia's group, as you can see, has a different mechanism for joining.

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