“The past has invaded the present. Russia’s military aggression has burst over Ukraine like a storm cloud gathered from a different, darker time. It is raining terror and destruction on a country that has seen tank columns like the one Vladimir Putin has ordered to Kyiv before…”
https://twitter.com/rafaelbehr/status/1498723181229654020
“.. but not in the last seven decades.
The Kremlin claims to be landing surgical strikes. The reality for civilians on the ground is butchery. Until this happened, the western imagination struggled to process the idea that Putin would go through with it.”
The Kremlin claims to be landing surgical strikes. The reality for civilians on the ground is butchery. Until this happened, the western imagination struggled to process the idea that Putin would go through with it.”
“His cynical disregard for human life was never doubted, but his callousness was thought to include rational self-interest.”
One helluva article from @rafaelbehr
One helluva article from @rafaelbehr
..”When targets of Kremlin atrocity call out to “Europe” for help, they are appealing not to a geographical space but an idea. They are talking about security in the rule of law and democracy – the antithesis of Putinism. They mean the European project.” 
“If Britain is to be an ally to Ukraine, it must learn to speak the language of European solidarity that Brexit despises and denies.”
100%
100%
“In 2016 Johnson told a referendum rally that the EU partnership agreement with Ukraine had ‘caused real trouble’ and things in Ukraine ‘went wrong’ because ‘all the EU can do in this question is cause confusion’.
Putin, a supporter of Brexit, agreed.”
Putin, a supporter of Brexit, agreed.”
He goes into a room with one opinion but has another in his back pocket.
He won’t want that opinion remembered.
But remembered it should be.
I don’t suppose he believed it. But it served HIM and his wants at the time. Who cares the costs to all of us?
He won’t want that opinion remembered.
But remembered it should be.
I don’t suppose he believed it. But it served HIM and his wants at the time. Who cares the costs to all of us?
H/t @Turloughc for the reminder about what Johnson was doing (& who he was mixing with just a few weeks before he made that comment about Ukraine)
https://twitter.com/Turloughc/status/1498803650545823750
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