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Mar 1 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
That building is an Azov base and the strike appears to have been aimed at deterring civilian recruitment (see flyer)

Reposting and clarifying because there are civilians in the area, but the strike was aimed at a *military* target because Azov has used this location for a while ImageImageImageImage
Again, pointing this out because the misinformation shared by misinformation experts is designed to escalate the conflict and get more people involved

Here's more information on the building and a link to the article I cited hromadske.ua/posts/my-namah… ImageImageImage
Even Wikipedia notes that Azov uses this building, it's one of the first things under the group's history section Image
Longer screenshots of the translated article

It took me a just few minutes to figure out the connection between the building and Azov ImageImage
To be clear: I am not excusing any civilian casualties, I'm noting that the media narrative is "women and children are being indiscriminately targeted" rather than, this is a building used by one of Ukraine's militant groups

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Mar 3
Tucker hit virtue signaling Republicans and Democrats who care more about Ukraine than the American national interest:

"Virtually every lawmaker in the room last night from both parties arrived wearing some version of the Ukrainian flag." 1/
"House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy came with both a Ukrainian themed pocket square and a Ukrainian flag lapel pin. That's about as Ukrainian as you can get. Even the president of Ukraine doesn’t do that very often."

lmao nobody tell Jonah Goldberg and David French

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"What McCarthy conspicuously didn’t do was don an American flag. Because within the context of last night, the American flag was literally irrelevant. Lots of our leaders feel that way all of a sudden."

The message: nationalism is OK for everyone except Americans 3/
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Mar 2
You will never see these losers talk about American nationalism they way they do about Ukrainian nationalism Image
Nothing like Lucianne Goldberg's son and some librarian telling you outright that only foreign nationalism is acceptable while also calling into question your patriotism for putting American interests first
This is actually typical with National Review types

Recall that Rich Lowry cashed in on the Trump moment by writing a book in praise of nationalism, only to denounce the movement later as being guilty for January 6

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Mar 2
This would make sense in a war of extermination--which this isn't.

Russia has repeatedly asked civilians not to fight and taken POWs.

Zelensky has responded by positioning defenses in densely populated civilian areas and now his commanders are endorsing war crimes. Image
Yes, Russia is also guilty of civilian casualties--no, the Ukrainian military is not innocent of this. Anyone pushing this simplistic line is either lying to you or extremely naive
Both Russia and Ukraine have a history of brutality toward each other, which is why Russian's more restrained approach (so far) has been so unusual, and why Ukrainian ruthlessness is unsurprising

All this is only a surprise if you've never heard of the Donbas war Image
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Mar 2
In 2014, the Obama administration backed a color revolution that toppled a Russia-neutral Ukrainian government and selected a rabidly anti-Russian one to take its place. It has been called the "Facebook Revolution" because of the role the media and social media played Image
NGOs played a huge role in this too, like they have in other color revolutions. But Ukraine was arguably the first that brought to bear the full force of digital journalism and social media. Another term used is "The Journalist's Uprising" en.ejo.ch/media-politics…
What's interesting now about this is that NGOs, social media, and media are being used in a similar way to shape public opinion about the war with the ultimate goal of getting other countries involved. Blue checks/journalists are even getting angry at people calling out misinfo
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Mar 2
Zelensky is exacerbating the danger to civilians by arming criminals, prohibiting men from leaving with their families, and telling civilians to fight Russians who don't want to fight them.

If you wanted to get civilians killed for pro-war Western media, then this is how.
If you want to get civilians killed, tell them to throw Molotov cocktails at vehicles that cannot even be damaged by Molotov cocktails -- which is what Zelensky's government is telling people to do.
Russians are trying to mitigate civilian casualties. Even Kadyrov has begged civilians to stay out of the fight.

But by arming them as Zelensky has done, they risk becoming unlawful combatants, which means they may not even be afforded basic protections like POWs.
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Feb 28
Ukraine's strategy actually seems to be maximizing civilian casualties by organizing around civilians and civilian infrastructure so that the US and NATO will get directly involved
Fortunately, not many civilians seem to have been killed yet and Russians have so far left infrastructure untouched. People mostly still seem to have water, electricity, etc
People will balk at what I am saying, but we are actually familiar with this strategy, it's just typically employed by Middle East insurgents rather than Europeans
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