This is almost word for word the crap they used to justify helping Assad carpet bomb Syrian rebels — only that included a thick conspiracy about how US took Saddam’s chem weapons to Georgia to manufacture gas for Syrian rebels so they could gas themselves for int’l sympathy /1
https://twitter.com/tadeuszgiczan/status/1473252813773975554
All of this was a pathetic mask of how the Kremlin aided Assad in using chemical weapons against his own people over and over again, and then they used propaganda and disinfo to spread false narratives about the nature of the war in Syria. /2
When the Kremlin wants to be provoked, they will conjure provocation. We need to stop not acting and do what is right — in this case, helping Ukraine fight and exact the highest cost possible on current/future Kremlin adventurism in Ukraine — for fear of “making it worse” /3
It’s already worse than we let ourselves admit. Ukrainians have paid the price. They are asking only to fight for their country, and defend their own territory from foreign incursion. We have a considerable debt to them for holding the line while we equivocate. /4
Do we want to put a number on the % of territory Ukraine should hand over to the Russians so we further West can “keep dialogue open” — for more energy blackmail, more influence campaigns in our societies, negotiations meant to avert consequences while they press ahead? /5
Of course not. It’s an absurdity. So let’s just see it for what it is. /6
See what the war has been & is still for Ukrainians. They fight the war Russia gave them everyday. 13000+ Ukrainian men & women have given their lives to live in a country that chooses its own future. Telling them not to make that choice—let Moscow be alone in saying that /7
https://twitter.com/olgatokariuk/status/1473193528679350272
Supporting the choice they have made — and fought for and bled for and paid for in revolution, in covert war, in overt war — is how we should understand our role in Ukraine. /8
Anything else is unworthy of what we believe ourselves to be, and the world we want to live in. /9
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