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Jan 20 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Why is Russian occupation always referred to only as "illegal annexation"? It was a war!
Russia invaded Crimea, occupied it and then annexed it. The so called referendum shouldn't even be mentioned. Anybody can print a papper with 99% written on it.
Not calling what Russia did in Crimea a war is like saying a rape is not a rape just because the girl didn't fight back when she had a gun to hear head.
What Ukraine did in Crimea was to avoid a bloodbath, nothing else. It wasn't like Ukraine somehow wanted to give Crimea away. I believe redline-reset in Washington was the one that advised Ukraine not to resist.
Russia has gotten away with so much the last 30 years. Please look back at Russia's history since 1991. It's stooped in blood, human rights crimes, corruption, state terror and more.
Now it's gone as far as Yeltsin is hailed as some kind of nice democrat. He launched the war in Chechnya, he shot up the parliament, he presided over the launch of the second war in Chechnya.

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Jan 23
The devotion to Russia among European leftists and its impact on security have to be addressed in Europe. While the far-right, for good reasons, is ostracized the far-left has managed to cling to influence. Their devotion to Russia remains a problem.
First, a note to Americans. The European left is far more left than the American. Many European leftists had a serious devotion to the USSR during the Cold War, they really believed in it. Often the left also took orders from Moscow.
For those too young to remember: Watch The Baader Meinhof Komplex. The first part of the movie portraits the ideology fairly well. Almost none of the leftists took to terror though, that should be stressed.
imdb.com/title/tt076543…
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Jan 17
German FM @ABaerbock's response that "we will not help you defend your country because of our history" must be one of the dumbest things ever said. Germany's history already killed millions of Ukrainians, and now even more should die because of Germany's history.
@ABaerbock The selfishness and arrogance from the German governments side is brutal. How dare they block arms sales to Ukraine? How dare they encourage Russias war against Ukraine? Baerbock should be sent for a tour to the victims families and explain to them why their children died.
The German government has basically had "Make Russia Great Again" as the lead foreign policy objective the last 30 years.
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Jan 16
From Moscow I know what to expect.
It's Berlin that worries me. Why is it so hard for German leaders to stand untied against war and brutal human rights violations? I don't mean some token gesture but real action. Something that has effect.
No other government in Europe has had more potential influence over Russia than the German one. But in my opinion that influence has not been used for good but rather the opposite, it has been used to protect Russia and give it freedom of maneuver.
I follow many German political and security analysts here and I see how many of them are becoming more and more frustrated by the German governments position towards Russia. The analysts wants a harder stand, it's clear to me.
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Jan 16
I just learnt that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited the GDR in 1984 and met with the Communist Party leadership. One wonders on what grounds the communists agreed to such a meeting? Maybe they saw "potential" in Scholz?
Then Scholz visited the GDR again in 1987. One can assume such visits weren't allowed unless they supposedly gave results for the communists. The "peace" movement from the time was an instrument from Moscow to reduce the will to fight in the west.
Then I looked at Merkel's background when she grew up in the GDR. Apparently she had the backing of the local communist party for an "unprecedented" initiative. What person gets "unprecedented" backing in a communist dictatorship?
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Jan 15
A large drone, that could fly despite heavy winds, was seen flying above the nuclear reactor Ringhals outside Varberg in Sweden Friday night. Police searched the area on foot and with helicopter but the drone escaped.
svd.se/okand-stor-dro…
At the same time as the drone was reported above Ringhals similar reports came in from the nuclear power plants in Forsmark and Oskarshamn. Police responded with helicopters but it could not be established drones had actually flown there.
Meanwhile the Swedish Armed Forces has launched a campaign to encourage citizens to report any "unusual activities at land or sea".
Via @Russianmindset
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Dec 26, 2021
Why Schröder's and Merkel's generation of German leaders enabled the rise of Putin's Russia is one for the psychiatrists to sort out.
What is beyond question is that their actions might have fatally undermined Europe's security.
That mistakes made in the 30s were repeated is obvious. One can only hope that future leaders will not make the same mistakes again. Never feed an aggressor with resources, never offer it political and diplomatic support and protection, never let it get away with war.
And how many other European leaders are crawling for the Kremlin fascists? How many former leaders are now working for it? How did this continent become so corrupt?
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