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10 Jan, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Shocker: Putin Sets No Deadline For Withdrawal of Russian Troops From #Kazakhstan - raising the specter of #Russia’s forces staying indefinitely in yet another former Soviet country
nyti.ms/3f8MJ5g
#Kazakhstan says order is restored and foreign forces will "probably" be gone in a week.

"But Russia has a record of sending 'peacekeepers' who do not leave. Troops it sent three decades ago to the breakaway region of Moldova and the Abkhazia region of Georgia remain there."
Never missing a propaganda opportunity, Putin likened #Kazakhstan protests to #Ukraine, spewing familiar Russian lies blaming the West for fomenting "color revolutions"—his term for democracy movements—by "well-controlled militants…apparently trained in terrorist camps abroad"🙄
#Kazakhstan arrested over 5800 people. Helluva lot of "terrorist training camps abroad" for that many "terrorists."

Absurd, but esp. as talks re #Ukraine are happening, Putin's propaganda projects his strength in #Russia's 'sphere,' always under siege by enemies & democracy.

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8 Jan
Disappointing CNN re Ted Cruz groveling. It’s not that Tucker Carlson was right & Cruz used “terrorism” many times. It’s that GOP said terrorist early on b/c their initial #propaganda was that Pelosi allowed a terrorist attack on Capitol. GOP was literally blaming Dems for #Jan6.
@FWhitfield Ted Cruz-Tucker Carlson exchange is about the evolution of GOP #propaganda—lies—about #Jan6. GOP acknowledged terrorism but blamed it on antifa, then Dems/Pelosi. After the gaslighting & whataboutism failed, they began rewriting the facts, erasing history. That's #fascism, folks.
@FWhitfield Blaming Ds failed so Rs began rewriting #Jan6, fed by Fox propagandists. Tucker Carlson explains the propaganda, shoving it down Ted's throat: "By no definition was it a terrorist attack. That's a lie…Why do u use that word? You're playing into the other side's characterization"
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2 Jan
Reporters still processing #January6 terrorist attack; open up about trauma, PTSD, flashbacks

-It was worse than it looked on TV
-Some Capitol Police are still out with injuries
-We didn't realize how bad it was at time
-Series of small miracles prevented even worse disaster
🔥Frum: Trumpism Is Becoming Fascism. Those minimizing January 6 justify violence to overthrow democracy. We used to say "This is not normal." Truth is, THIS IS NOW NORMAL. Citizen involvement is the solution. Not just voting, but not accepting lies as legitimate in politics.🎯💥
@davidfrum @brianstelter This stmt of Frum's is key: Don't accept lies as legitimate. Lies are the heart of Trumpism. They must not only be debunked as pieces of disinformation. GOP lies must be viewed as illegitimate political strategy. That's where pro-democracy media must do its part against fascism.
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Paula Chertok🗽 Profile picture
28 Dec 21
🚨#Russia Orders Liquidation of #Memorial—revered human rights NGO formed by Soviet dissidents to chronicle political repression

Memorial was a symbol of Russia’s post-USSR democratization. It’s shuttering is a symbol Putin’s power needs Soviet repression nytimes.com/2021/12/28/wor…
#Russia banning #Memorial is Putin admitting he’s a repressive Soviet autocrat erasing memory & history. Prosecutors said Memorial misinterpreted history—“creating a false image of the USSR as a terrorist state” & criticized the state. Putin is the state. And Puti fears criticism
🇷🇺#Memorial: “Our country needs an honest and conscientious reflection on the Soviet past.…The entire Russian society needs to remember the tragedies of the past. And not only Russian: the memory of state terror unites all the former Soviet republics.” @MemorialMoscow #Russia
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Paula Chertok🗽 Profile picture
11 Dec 21
🔥Retired US Army colonel who circulated coup plot PowerPoint (proposing Trump declare a national security emergency & seize ballots) said he visited White House after election, spoke w/ Meadows 8-10x, & briefed several members of Congress on eve of #Jan6. washingtonpost.com/investigations…
The retired colonel election denier was Philip Waldron. He worked with Trump’s outside lawyers, including Giuliani, and on the “team” that “briefed” GOP members of Congress on the coup outlined in the PowerPoint. Waldron contributed to the “foreign interference” part of the plot.
Ret.Col.Waldron was brought in when the plotters turned to an election hacking plot. As the “cybersecurity consultant,” Waldron gave Meadows a list of IP addresses, servers & data to investigate “using the powers of the world’s greatest national security intelligence apparatus”😳
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7 Dec 21
"Things we didn't do in 2014, we are prepared to do now."—NSA @JakeSullivan46 on today's Biden-Putin video call about #Ukraine, and #Russia's massive military buildup on its border.
NSA Sullivan: Russian gas isn't flow through Nord Stream 2. If Vladimir Putin wants to see gas flow through that pipeline, he may not want to risk it by invading Ukraine. Biden spoke with European allies after the call with #Russia's Putin, and they are "in lockstep" on #Ukraine.
Besides stiff economic #sanctions, Sullivan said US would provide more defensive material to Ukraine & would fortify @NATO’s eastern flank allies with additional capabilities, if #Russia were to further invade #Ukraine.
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5 Dec 21
Some motivations behind Putin’s sphere-of-influence demand in #Ukraine:
😭Soviet Trauma: Hurt national psyche
😤Great Power status: Lost, Want
😬Origin Story: #Russia’s history begins in Kyiv
🤭Identity: Russian “greats”- Ukrainian
🇺🇦Democracy: if works next door,🥾corrupt Putin
"There are tactical reasons for threatening an invasion, but the real cause may lie in the Kremlin’s fixation with righting what it sees as a historical injustice."

Good read. #Ukraine, colonized by #Russia, has a better historical injustice argument IMHO
nytimes.com/2021/12/05/wor…
I've always found Putin's "one people" argument incoherent in an abusive husband kind of way: Ukrainians & Russians are one people, have shared history, language & culture. Therefore, #Russia will invade #Ukraine, kill more "brothers & sisters", proving Russia really cares??🤔
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