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@carolecadwalla
Feb 26, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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This might have blown my mind more than anything else today. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov is wearing what appears to be Prada combat boots.
This is the full fascism propaganda film they put out. But given chechens’ rep as fearsome killers, I hope Ukrainians will take heart from fact there’s no way Kadyrov will want to get those £1,250 boots dirty

Lol. The Pravda combat boot. Who wore it better?
Omg. There’s a whole series of these to be done. Who wore it better? The Chechen warlord? Or Kendall Jenner?
I do hope these images will find their way to people holed up in Ukraine. The best thing is that according to Vogue, the Prada boots feared Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov is wearing are ‘every cool girl’s favorite boot’
I am sorry to inform you that the Butcher of Chechenya has a TiKTok account. He has an Instagram account (of course). The content is spellbindingly banal. But the complicity of the tech platforms is sickening. Moral equivalence your way out of this one @nickclegg
I went back to the Butcher of Chechenya’s TikTok account this morning to rip the piss out of his fashion choices some more but this video is new & just posted & apppears to show location of Chechen troops inside #Ukraine. Please get this out to #OSINTUkraine to geolocate fast

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NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure.

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Compare & contrast. This is Trump’s demand for Greenland. And this is Hitler’s for the Sudetenland.

There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same.

And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment.
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I’m back to mocking up my own headlines for my newsletter because the press - esp here in the UK - is failing to meet the moment.

We’re now trapped between Russia in the east. And the US in the west. Two hostile states openly seeking to crush us.

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The sentencing hearing of Nathan Gill has begun.

Follow @thenerve_news for updates throughout the day.
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NEW: The entire BBC news cycle is an abject lesson in the disaster economics of information.

This isn’t just a news story. It’s a teachable example of real-time information collapse. We can’t fix that but we can & must save the BBC.
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This is what happens when justified grievance, bad faith actors & Silicon Valley companies converge: erosion of trust in all institutions.
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There are sound reasons to criticise BBC. We’re all pissed off with it over something! But our valid critiques are being weaponised by the enemies of democracy.

The BBC is a crucial firewall in a moment of unprecedented danger. Why do you think Russia is joining in?!
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NEW: Russian interference case heads to Europe's 'Supreme Court'.

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As Gill pleads guilty to taking Russian bribes, why is UK government *still* refusing to investigate Russian interference??
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have spent years on this. The MPs are persevering even tho they've now left parliament. And whole subject couldn't be more urgent or more timely 🙏
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NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago.

So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?

Pls read part 2 of @thenerve_news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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But the UK police knew all this since at least 2022, the same year they fled to Belarus.

So what gives??
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