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Feb 26 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Marcy Wheeler would like you to wrongly believe that journalist and political prisoner Julian Assange, not US/NATO, fostered geopolitical conditions that led to Russia's attack on Ukraine. It's a pretty vile accusation to spread as Assange's health deteriorates in Belmarsh.
How sick do you have to be to see a message of support for Ukrainians from a jailed journalist's partner and think, you know, I should further a decade-plus campaign of public mobbing instead of allowing this expression of solidarity to stand?
Yahoo! News reporters, including Michael Isikoff, who covered the Trump-Russia allegations extensively, revealed in 2020 that the CIA couldn't find proof Assange or WikiLeaks worked for Russian government.
news.yahoo.com/kidnapping-ass…
For the record, Assange published US State Embassy cables in 2010 that detailed how Russia functioned as a "mafia state." Numerous cables reflect the corruption of the Russian government, as described by US diplomats and remain on WikiLeaks site—an inconvenient fact.
The vile smear against Assange from Marcy Wheeler, available to anyone conducting a search of Twitter through their web browser of choice

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Feb 27
British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, echoing prior statement from the US State Department, opposed ceasefire talks, when asked about efforts between Ukraine and Russian delegations to find a location for negotiations. ImageImage
Rather than focusing on securing a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is spending her time encouraging Britons to go fight Russia in Ukraine.

No word on whether Britons may go fight Saudi Arabia in Yemen, if they so choose. ImageImage
Meanwhile, it would appear there may have been a breakthrough when it comes to ceasefire talks between Ukraine and Russia.

Associated Press confirms delegations will meet at an unspecified time and location on the Belarusian border. Image
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Feb 26
UPDATE: At about 6pm ET on 25 February, I shared thread on reports that Zelenskyy and Putin might meet in Minsk to negotiate ceasefire. However, US State Department signaled their opposition.

I'll cover what happened since and how ceasefire talks became unlikely (for now).
According to @AFP, Zelenskyy at one point addressed Putin: "Fighting is going on all over Ukraine. Let's sit down at the negotiating table to stop the deaths of people."

Zelenskyy opposed talks in Minsk and instead reportedly suggested Warsaw for negotiations. Image
Widely reported were Russian government claims that the offensive was paused. Russian military were told not to engage Ukrainian soldiers. But it is difficult to tell if any media outlet in any country ever independently verified the claims, which Ukraine disputed. Image
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Feb 25
US State Department has come out in opposition to Zelenskyy and Putin meeting to discuss potential ceasefire. (!)

"Now we see Moscow suggesting that diplomacy take place at the barrel of a gun, or as Moscow’s rockets, mortars, artillery target the Ukrainian people."
Cities, including the Kiev capital, are under assault. US news media are reporting that Zelenskyy may face threat of assassination. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Ukrainians have fled. Talking with Putin could save Zelenskyy's life and stop the destruction in Ukraine.
US/NATO transformed Ukraine into proxy state and target for Russian assault, and yet their forces aren't parachuting in to push back Russian forces either. An insurgency could challenge Russia's troops, but it would take months if not longer for Ukrainians to prevail.
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Feb 24
What's terrifying is no officials in US govt or any EU govt will give Russian President Vladimir Putin a meaningful incentive to back off his military objectives. In fact, US hasn't allowed for diplomacy for weeks. All they did was keep crying, "Russia is going to invade" (1/5)
The repeated claims that Russia would invade on certain dates which came and went were supposedly to deter Putin. But they didn't deter anything. Instead, those alerts fueled escalation by US, NATO, Ukraine, and Russian military forces. (2/5)
If invasion was inevitable before tonight, it is cause starting in December (at least) foreign policy advisers and military generals in US government went down a road that guaranteed eventual Russian response. And US media played right into it, spreading every intel claim.
(3/5)
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Feb 20
US Secretary of State Blinken says Russia carried out several "false flag operations" over weekend. To my knowledge, and after scanning US media, no false flag operations by either Ukraine or Russian-backed forces have been verified. Zero headlines confirming "false flag."
US officials like Blinken have staked credibility of US intelligence agencies, and their own credibility, on predicting Russia plans accurately. All the explosions, shelling, evacuations, etc, must confirm their theories of the future or else they look unreliable to world.
Russia apparently won't withdraw troops near Ukraine border that were deployed for drills. They see violence in eastern Ukraine as troubling and fear incursions into Russia. And whatever happened last couple nights is hard to discern fully since numerous OSCE observers evacuated
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Feb 18
President Joe Biden says Russia President Putin is going to invade Ukraine. Reporter asks, "What reason do you have to believe he's considering that option at all?" Biden replies, "We have significant intelligence capability." Again, no evidence. Just trust us.
Biden says "Russia has falsely asserted" shelling of Ukrainian kindergarten was carried out by Ukraine forces. Russia tried to create "false justification" for invasion. But school was in Ukraine-controlled territory, not Russia-controlled territory in eastern Ukraine.
What Biden is saying would make sense if a school in territory controlled by Russia-backed separatists was shelled by their forces, and then blamed on Ukraine. Then US-NATO could say that's ludicrous and argue Russia was creating a pretext for troubling escalation.
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