Thread by @Iyervval

Meet Anne. She’s “principal staff writer” at the public toilet called The Atlantic, but doesn’t know the difference between propaganda & history. Kinda like how she believes US claims of “upholding rules based order” while being the most egregious violator in the last 30 years

https://twitter.com/anneapplebaum/status/1495848754599055364

.of course Anne Applebum like most of her ilk (another example below) are extremely adept at mangling what others say, subtly manipulating speech to make it sound absurd. For example here’s “modern Ukraine” & who added what to it & when.

https://twitter.com/christopherjm/status/1495834834559807490?s=21

Notice the contradiction between what Putin said & what Einstein here editorialises it to the exact opposite. Mind you since you can see both in the same tweet, (🔴 the spin 🔵 what Putin said) you understand exactly how blatant the bullshitting is.

Also please remember this was “Ukraine” in 1654 at the beginning of the Russo-Polish war & Peryaslavl Council & treaty of Andrusovo. Essentially there was no “Ukraine” - what you call Ukraine today was ENTIRELY created by the Tsars & CommiTsars of Moscow. This doesn’t mean that

Modern Ukraine doesn’t or shouldn’t have sovereignty over its territory, or that Russian actions aren’t blatantly illegal. But spare me the “historical revisionism” + “Kievan Rus” bullshit. Ok?

Btw here’s a map of Kievan Rus overlaid on modern boundaries - remember it was called KIEVAN RUS - not KIEVAN UKRAINE. U-Krai-na (borderland or separated region) was used as a general description of the southern part of this area because it was a frontier against the tatars.

An area called malorossiya (litte Russia) by the poles. At this point you had the Zaporohian Sich - Cossacks - wild brutal beasts, who had to be wild given what they’re dealing with (Mongols & Turks). This tiny area (not Kiev) is the kernel of modern Ukrainian identity. The

breaking of the Rus identity into 3 (Russian, Belarusian & Ukrainian) is attributed to mongol rule and the externalisation of both wealth & control, breaking substance (but not entirely salience which was based on religion).