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Feb 25 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
On Thursday, Germany invaded Ukraine. So did the Netherlands, Italy, France, UK and every other country that has funded Putin’s war machine for the past decade. Now they must help save Ukraine from the monster they helped create. My op-ed: nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-ope…
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Defending Ukrainian lives is the defense of Western values. America used to care about such things, I recall from my life in the Soviet Union that Putin misses so much. It’s time to do what is needed and to do what is right. It’s time to fight. nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-ope…
NATO nations should have been arming Ukraine to the teeth to prevent this. Instead they held nice talks & ate nice dinners and bought Russian gas while Putin prepared this invasion. Now the greatest military coalition in history is just watching Ukrainians die at their door.
There are no more Churchills in the halls of power, just salesmen and bureaucrats, hoping to shuffle papers and avoid meaningful decisions until they leave office. Ukraine has exposed them all, cowering before a thug like Putin. Never again? Today. Right now.

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Feb 27
I will repeat that Putin does not care at all what happens to Russia or Russians and he never has. He thinks about staying in power today and tomorrow. That's it. You can never say a dictator has miscalculated as long as he's still the dictator.
Now that Putin's original plan to take Kyiv quickly, assuming the UKR military would collapse & Zelensky would flee, has failed, he will lift all restrictions on destruction in the capital in order to take it all costs.
Obviously they weren't avoiding civilian casualties before, but weren't seeking them. Now no more precision, just destruction and terror. Putin doesn't care "how it looks" to the world or to Ukrainians or to Russians if they cannot make him pay.
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Feb 24
W Bush sent his statement, where is Obama's? Not only does he bear substantial responsibility for this catastrophe for blundering with Putin and in Syria, but he would also have influence in the Biden admin.
To "both sides" this, is Lindsey Graham really saying this wouldn't happen with Trump in office?! If so, only because Putin would let Trump destroy NATO for him, as Trump said he would do in his 2nd term! The GOP doesn't need a spin doctor, it's needs a psychiatrist.
Obama did release this statement just now, thanks to those who let me know. The good: noting the need for sacrifice in this fight. The bad: only mentioning sanctions, not the arms that Ukraine desperately needs asap.
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Feb 24
Ok, after years of warnings were ignored and hearing "Garry, you were right!" all damn day today, I'll repeat what I said in 2014: Stop telling me I was right and listen to what I'm saying now. My recommendations follow: 1/5
-Support Ukraine militarily, immediately, everything but boots on the ground. All weapons, intel, cyber.
-Bankrupt Putin's war machine. Freeze & seize Russia's finances & those of him and his gang.
-Kick Russia out of every intl & financial institution. PACE, Interpol, etc 2/5
-Recall all ambassadors from Russia. There is no point in talking. The new unified message is "stop or be isolated completely".
-Ban all elements of Putin's global propaganda machine. Turn them off, shut them down, send them home. Stop helping the dictator spread lies & hate.
3/5
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Feb 24
Putin's Achilles heel is that he and his mafia keep their money, assets, and families in the free world they say they despise. This helped them spread corruption, but it also gives tremendous leverage--if we're finally willing to use it.
While sanctions & asset seizures and the rest are still vital to isolate Putin's rogue regime, they won't save Ukraine now. 10 years ago yes, in 2014 and maybe even a month ago. But now more direct support of Ukraine is needed urgently.
Letting Putin crush Ukraine and murder thousands of innocents in a European war of conquest will redefine the world order. So would stopping him. We choose by action or inaction which world we want to live in.
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Feb 21
And so it begins. They will carry the goalposts all the way to Warsaw before standing up to Putin.
What is preventing the US from launching its "overwhelming" sanctions now, other than cowardice and corruption? What do they need from Putin? To store Iranian uranium as part of the deal? What?
As I always feel obliged to do when Putin violates another agreement or norm, I ask to hear from his many appeasers through the years, as he turned Russia into a police state, murdered & jailed my colleagues, and makes war.
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Feb 21
Putin's forces on Ukrainian soil is, and always has been, an invasion. But watch how Western leaders try to weasel out of their promises by saying it's anything else. Remember they called Crimea "an unauthorized landing".
We can call Putin's invaders "peacekeepers" if he calls the billions in assets to be seized from him and his cronies "charitable donations".
We need a children's textbook for the media:
WRONG: "President Putin to send peacekeepers to breakaway regions of Ukraine."
RIGHT: "Russian dictator formally announces annexation of additional Ukrainian territories after 8 years of military occupation."
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