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Jan 23 5 tweets 2 min read
Instead of threatening Ukraine, Putin could be committing resources to bring indoor plumbing to the 20% of Russians who still lack it. themoscowtimes.com/2019/04/02/ind…
"Out of 37 upper-middle and high-income countries studied, the highest drop in life expectancy was observed in Russia," reports a medical journal. Instead of threatening Ukraine, Putin could be committing resources to Russian public health. rferl.org/a/russia-covid…
Partial and temporary social benefits paid to mothers seem to have had some success raising Russia's low birth rate. Instead of threatening Ukraine, Putin could commit resources to enlarge those benefits and make them permanent bbc.com/news/world-eur…
Purchasing power of the ruble is sliding in face of likely Western sanctions. Instead of threatening Ukraine, Putin could commit resources to raising Russian living standards. themoscowtimes.com/2022/01/13/rus…
Russian doctors, dissidents, and other figures keep falling out of windows. Instead of threatening Ukraine, Putin could commit resources to window safety. cnn.com/2020/05/04/eur…

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Jan 21
One sure way for Russia to dissuade its immediate neighbors from joining NATO would be for Russia to cease threatening, attacking, and occupying its immediate neighbors.
As is, Russia is like an abuser threatening that he will keep abusing until his victims promise never to seek a court order to stop the abuse.
"I only hit you because you keep complaining about me hitting you."
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Jan 20
Fifteen men participated in the Wannsee conference. What befell them? 1/x
The chair and leader of the conference, Reinhard Heydrich, was assassinated by Czech partisans in 1942 - leading to the terrible Nazi reprisal war crime of the Lidice massacre. 2/x
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Jan 19
Irredentism traces back to an Italian word meaning "unredeemed" - places and territories coveted by Italian nationalists even after they assembled their state in the 1850s and 1860s. 1/x
Irredentism is now used to describe the ambition of governments to hack off and annex pieces of neighboring territory - as the Hungarian far right wants to do not only to Ukraine, but also to Romania and other neighbors. 2/x
Read 18 tweets
Jan 19
The Hungarian far right also has irredentist claims on Ukrainian territory. With Russia threatening to invade Ukraine, Carlson is going to visit the only leaders in Europe who would like to see Ukraine carved up.
More on Hungarian irredentism vs Ukraine globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/06/01/202…
The Ukrainian territory coveted by the Hungarian far right
Read 4 tweets
Jan 19
One deterrent that might actually daunt the Kremlin: threat to expel sons and daughters of Russian kleptocrats from posh English schools and universities theguardian.com/education/2016…
Instead of stopping ordinary Russians from eating, expel top Russians from Eton.
Follow up with forensic audit of ownership of every empty house in Mayfair and Kensington.
Read 11 tweets
Jan 16
Right-wing Twitter aghast that Australia applies the same public-health rules to rich and famous athletes as to everyone else. Pretty much communism, apparently.
First they enforced the public health laws against world-famous athletes, and I said nothing, because I was not a world-famous athlete ...
Then they enforced immigration laws even against Eastern European "models" with influential boyfriends, and I said said nothing because I was not an Eastern European model ...
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