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Feb 1 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
🤔Putin blamed the US for trying to goad #Russia into armed conflict over #Ukraine, but said he "hoped for more dialogue" - even as his invasion force of Russian troops remains amassed on Ukraine's border - The New York Times nytimes.com/live/2022/02/0…
Putin's laughably absurd line: that the US is using #Ukraine as an excuse for #sanctions on #Russia to "contain its development." There wouldn't be sanctions had Putin not stolen parts of Ukraine. He's held a bullet to Ukr since & now uses it to demand NATO exit 1/2 of Europe!😒
So this is interesting: Putin says if #Ukraine joins NATO, then @NATO could launch a war against #Russia to recapture #Crimea. Maybe don't capture another country's territory in the first place, and then you won't be paranoid about the legitimate owner-sovereign recapturing it?🤷🏻‍♀️
Here’s paranoid Putin today, standing a mile from Orban.

“Paranoia strikes deep. Into your life it will creep. It starts when you’re always afraid. Step outta line, the men come and take you away”– Buffalo Springfield

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Feb 1
So it was Flynn who spawned the idea (with Waldron) to seize voting machines. And not only by the military, but by DHS, a 2nd draft executive order directed. It's unclear if DHS was a backup or if the coup plotters thought the military & DHS would share coup responsibilities😬
>>> Flynn personally reached out to at least one senior defense official in mid-December attempting to enlist their help with his cause (to seize voting machines)

Could the “senior defense official” be Flynn’s brother Charles??
So Trump had a direct role in the plot to seize voting machines. He directed Giuliani to call DHS's Cuccinelli AFTER the Pentagon rejected the idea. AND after Barr at DOJ rejected it.

That makes THREE fed depts Trump pressed to conspire with him in this part of the coup.
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Jan 30
😂This was awesome! @nbcsnl did a parody of Russian disinformation about #Russia’s troops threatening #Ukraine, showing how inane, ridiculous & unbelievable Russian propaganda is. @Mediaite has the video below. I’ll do a quick thread with screen shots of some of the memes.
🤣SNL parody of desperately dumb Russian disinformation:

Ukrainian Border Encroaching on Russian Troops

Russian Forces Surrounding Ukraine Just to Give It Big Hug

Ukrainian President Horny for Drama, Wants War

Neil Young To Remove Music from Spotify Unless Ukraine Surrenders
More @nbcsnl parodies of Russian disinformation

😅American CDC Strongly Recommends Russia Invade Ukraine

😜A hundred thousand troops are standing by to talk to you

😎I don’t always get invaded. But when I do, I prefer Russia

😂Why I Gotta Be Ukrainian When Russia 2 Feet Away
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Paula Chertok🗽 Profile picture
Jan 26
#Russia Steps Up Propaganda War Amid Tensions With #Ukraine

“The disinformation campaign includes [false] claims that NATO and Ukrainian forces are preparing to attack Russian speakers in Ukraine” (😬same lies Putin used to seize Crimea and Donbas 2014) nytimes.com/2022/01/25/us/…
Why it’s called Hybrid War: Alongside its military buildup, #Russia ramps up its #propaganda against #Ukraine, pumping out #disinformation painting Russia as victim, Ukrainians as Nazis committing genocide against Russians, and US as overlords plotting a chemical weapons attack🙄
“Much of the propaganda is aimed at a domestic audience in Russia and at pro-Moscow Ukrainians… If Russia does invade Ukraine…it wants to make sure it has the support of Russian speakers in the country as its tanks and artillery roll across fields or knock down houses.”😨😒
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Jan 24
💥Biden Weighs Deploying Several Thousand US Troops—As Well As Warships & Aircraft—To NATO Allies In Eastern Europe and Baltics, a less restrained response amid mounting fears of a #Russian incursion into #Ukraine - The New York Times nytimes.com/2022/01/23/us/…
NYT: Senior Pentagon officials presented Biden several options that would shift US military assets to Eastern Europe. "options include sending 1,000 to 5,000 troops to Eastern European countries, with the potential to increase that number tenfold if things deteriorate." #Ukraine
Biden weighs buildup as Russia escalated menacing Ukraine—100k troops on border + in Belarus

Blinken: US is building up defense, bldg up deterrence. NATO will continue to be reinforced in a significant way if Russia commits renewed acts of aggression. All of that is on the table
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Jan 22
#BREAKING UK govt says the Kremlin was developing plans to install a pro-#Russia leader in #Ukraine — and had already chosen a potential candidate — as Putin weighs whether to order the Russian forces amassed on Ukraine’s border to attack. via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2022/01/22/wor…
UK: Russian planners were considering installing former member of Ukrainian Parliament Yevgeniy Murayev as leader of a pro-Kremlin puppet govt in Kyiv. He was a member of #Russia-backed Party of Regions—the party of corrupt Yanukovych who fled #Ukraine after Euromaidan protests.
#Russia’s planned coup in #Ukraine involves installing 5 men—Murayev & 4 others from the pro-Russia Yanukovych days. All worked w/ Paul Manafort, Trump campaign manager & adviser to the disgraced Yanukovych who fled to Russia in 2014. US sanctioned 1 last week—Vladimir Sivkovich.
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Jan 22
Lol @StateDept’s factsheet exposing #Russia’s propaganda tactics was so good, the Kremlin responds w/ silly finger quotes and whataboutism🙄

But saying US did it too doesn’t refute & kinda confirms Fact 4: Russia is using disinformation to create a pretext for war in #Ukraine.
#Russia doesn’t even try refuting Fact 1: Russia invaded #Ukraine in 2014, occupied Crimea. Instead it’s the same old propaganda denying Ukraine CHOSE #democracy: US/NATO backed a fascist coup & forced poor Russia to invade. That’s the Kremlin MO: Lie, Blame, You made me do it.🙄
Does #Russia even know what debunking means?? Apparently, just putting “Fact” in quotes is good enough for the Kremlin.

Even if it were true (it’s not) that sending weapons to #Ukraine fuels war in Donbas, how does that debunk Fact 3—that 100,000 Russian troops threaten Ukraine?
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