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2 Apr, 6 tweets, 3 min read
#Ukraine: Russian-backed separatist of the Donetsk People's Republic (DNR) have announced military conscription for citizens born 1994 - 2003. This comes at a time of drastically increased fighting on the frontlines in the Donbas. Not looking good.
In response, Biden has reaffirmed his "unwavering support" for #Ukraine. This is becoming very precarious again.
Artillery incoming and outgoing. Clashes have been ramping up all night.
#Belarus has apparently deployed troops to its border with #Ukraine.
You can follow this Telegram channel for updates on the fighting. It might not all be accurate or as recent as it's said to be, so be aware. Don't knee-jerk post. t.me/doklad_razvedki
Here's one from the separatist perspective. t.me/marochkolive

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Watching breakfast tv news in the UK this morning felt very odd. It was full pelt jingoism for Captain Moore (who is in my opinion a hero, don’t get me wrong). There wasn’t a word about how appallingly our government has handled the pandemic, nothing about the cruel..
...irony that Moore should have to raise £30million for an NHS the Tories have systematically been trying to gut, only to die of covid. It was non-stop uncritical thinking and thinly veiled praise of what is a catastrophic mishandling of the covid pandemic by inept leadership.
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27 Jan
Spent a week reporting in #Karabakh / #Artsakh, covering it from the Armenian side (Azerbaijan refuses entry to independent journalists: rsf.org/en/azerbaijan).

Some thoughts on the frontlines...

My first impressions were just how desperately sad and eerie it is out there.
Brave young men are stationed at vulnerable outposts often with inadequate equipment. They received little training before being drafted. They have done and will do everything they can to keep fighting, but I don’t think the government has done enough for them to be honest.
On one of the frontlines in Martuni (which was roughly 2km away from an Azeri outpost, that’s on higher ground no less) the soldiers had equipment mostly donated to them via the Armenian diaspora. Some weren’t even issued boots by the government.
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I’ve been reading up on the #Nashville suicide bomber Anthony Warner. Possibly wrong here, but I think this could be kinda “post-ideological militancy” more than the 5G theory. Kind of like the 2018 Austin bomber, kind of like Sky King, kind of like Killdozer even...
What I’ve been half-heartedly calling “post-ideological militancy” is roughly pointless physical violence as a desperate response to an age of pointless abstract violence.

There does not need to be a political ideology or a crime feud behind urban guerrilla violence anymore.
Examples...

The 2018 Austin #Texas bomber, Mark Anthony Conditt, killed two people and injured several others in a series of parcel bombs. Why? This is what he said himself: “I am doing this simply because I want to watch the world burn.”

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