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Feb 13 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
For essential background on what may be abt to happen in Ukraine, please watch "Winter On Fire" (Netflix), a documentary abt Ukrainians' overthrow of the corrupt, pro-Putin Yanukovych regime in 2014, rising out of the resistance movement in Maidan (Kyiv). Timely, and very moving.
In response to a tweet yesterday asking if Poland was ready to cope with a possible deluge of Ukrainian refugees, I said there would be no such deluge. Ukrainians will stay and fight. "This is who they are." See if you don't agree after watching 'Winter On Fire.'
For those who do see 'Winter On Fire,' which concludes with surveillance video of President Yanukovych fleeing the country by helicopter at 4.00 a.m., please remember that Yanukovych was Paul Manafort's *main client and source of income* for 10 years.
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Team Trump was on the *losing* side in Ukraine in 2014. Their attempt at a come back during the Trump presidency cost Amb. Marie Yovanovitch her job, and underpinned Impeachment 1.0. This was *all* Putin-inspired and, in fact, a precursor to what's happening now in Ukraine.

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I take the liberty, as an outsider, to comment that (i) there's a big disparity in the quality of Muezzin's around Istanbul, and (ii) I happen to live 100 meters from the loudspeaker of one of the worst. He blasts Azan into my bedroom at 6.00 a.m., and he's bad at it.
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We got a light dusting of snow last night on our hilltop in Istanbul and the day came up bright and sunny. An early stroll round Bebek produced this pictures.
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Something that’s becoming evident in the current Turkish financial crisis is that since, say, the major financial crisis of 2001, which wiped out 10% of GDP, GDP has more than tripled. Image
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