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Sep 23, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. This is far more likely, writes @bartongellman, than anyone yet realizes theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
"Legal teams on both sides are planning for simultaneous litigation, on the scale of Florida during the 2000 election, in multiple battleground states."
"With Trump we must also ask: What might a ruthless incumbent do that has never been tried before?"
"According to sources in the Republican Party at the state and national levels, the Trump campaign is discussing contingency plans to bypass election results and appoint loyal electors in battleground states where Republicans hold the legislative majority."

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Mar 28
Czech intelligence services have uncovered a Russian influence operation, based in Prague, designed to influence elections across Europe. They have placed sanctions on "Voice of Europe," a website that promoted far-right politicians and parties.

denikn.cz/1388000/odhale…
Voice of Europe was a heavy promoter of Viktor Orban and Orban's own influence operations
Here's a Reuters article in English on the subject. Also sanctioned are Viktor Medvedchuk, a pro-Russian Ukrainian, friend of Putin and funder of this operation and others. (Ukrainians arrested him at the beginning of the war and then traded him for POWs) reuters.com/world/europe/c…
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Mar 14
The US now squarely facing the security threat posed by Hungary.
US ambassador notes that HU foreign minister made 6 trips to Russia since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; Orban met Putin in China.
"Hungary’s allies are warning Hungary"
theguardian.com/us-news/2024/m…
"The choice to issue, on a daily basis, dangerously unhinged anti-American messaging is a policy choice, and it risks changing Hungary’s relationship with America,” he said
“We can neither understand nor accept the prime minister identifying the United States as a ‘top adversary’ of our ally Hungary. Or his assertion that the United States government is trying to overthrow the Hungarian government – literally, to ‘defeat’ him.”
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Mar 11
Americans don't seem to realize that Trump's policy - "Let Russia Win" - is slowly becoming America's policy. For more than 6 months, at his bidding, a minority in the House has blocked aid to Ukraine.
Depriving Ukraine of weapons means that Russia can occupy Ukraine, set up concentration camps, carry out mass murders and deport children to Russia, which is what they have done on all of the occupied territory. It also means Russia can prepare to invade other countries.
Here is an account of what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine: torture, random violence, mass theft

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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Mar 7
Russian occupiers torture and pressure the tiny number of Ukrainian employees still working in Zaporizhzhia at the largest nuclear plant in Europe. This is a catastrophe waiting to happen, and Russia bears full responsibility. From @ngumenyuk
theatlantic.com/international/…
The plant is severely understaffed, writes @ngumenyuk: "Whereas 11,000 employees once ran the facility, only about 3,000 people were working there as of last month. These employees are pulling longer shifts with fewer days off."
@ngumenyuk One employee said "she was beaten and tortured, and that the men attached electrical cables to her ears: “‘I don’t know anything, I don’t know anything!’ I screamed."
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Mar 3
In 1994, the president of newly independent Estonia made a famous speech calling for NATO expansion: Balts, Poles and and others were already being bullied by Russia. The US at first refused, then agreed to expand NATO - but without moving weapons or men to the East.
The speech, by Lennart Meri, made in Hamburg, is quoted here. Putin, then the deputy mayor of St Petersburg, walked out of the room in anger. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
At that time, and later, Russia threatened and bullied Estonia, launched cyber attacks at the Estonian govt; made repeated military and other threats to Poland, other Baltic states, other central Europeans...
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Mar 3
Oleg Orlov has been sentenced to prison for condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and for calling Russia a fascist state. Read his remarkable courtroom speech:
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
At the end, he addressed the judge and the court officials:
"I am speaking to you, your honor, and the others accusing me: Are you yourselves not afraid? Are you not afraid to watch what our country is becoming, our country that you, too, probably love?"
"Are you not afraid that not only you, but also your children and, God forbid, your grandchildren, will have to live in this absurdity, this dystopia?"
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