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Mar 2 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
So, do I have this straight? The best known oligarch in Britain & billionaire owner of Chelsea FC who tried to sue investigative journalist @CatherineBelton for writing about his close relationship with Vladimir Putin..he *still* hasn’t been sanctioned?
Unbelievable. Even for Britain. Boris Johnson, who says he’s doing everything humanly possible in this unprecedented crisis, has given him a head start to let him liquidate his assets first?

theguardian.com/world/2022/mar…
Could Johnson be an even bigger hypocrite? Yes. The man who suppressed the Russia report, is rolling in Russian cash & has failed to sanction Abramovich is using Putin’s invasion of Ukraine to put out jingoistic films portraying himself as hero of the hour
I don't know of any publicly documented relationship between Johnson - ex-mayor of London - & Abramovich - who owns one of London's biggest football clubs - but the oligarch carve-out the British govt has created allowing them to sell their assets, stinks
theguardian.com/football/2022/…

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Mar 4
March 4 (Reuters) - The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, the largest of its kind in Europe, was on fire early on Friday after an attack by Russian troops, the mayor of the nearby town of Energodar said
It’s still being fired on. And a fire appears to have broken out. This is pretty horrifying but it’s a livecam of the nuclear plant:

Appeal for ceasefire from Ukrainian foreign minister:
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Mar 3
NEW: Boris Johnson awards Gavin Williamson a knighthood.

Why *now*? In middle of Russian crisis?

He was appointed defence secretary in Nov 2017 at exact moment, FBI revealed its Trump-Russia investigation began in London.

Is this relevant?
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Williamson was appointed Sec for Defence on Nov 2 2017. Days after FBI revealed it was investigating suspected Russian assets/agents operating in London. Some of these had met Foreign Office officials. These including Johnson, then Foreign Secretary
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 theguardian.com/politics/2017/…
Joseph Mifsud, the Maltese professor, was just one of these. Johnson denied meeting him until a photo emerged. Mifsud subsequently vanished without trace.

Days later, Theresa May made her landmark speech: "Russia we know what what you are doing"
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Feb 28
Interviewer: ‘There are people who are saying we’re on the brink of a World War III.’

Hill: ‘We’re already in it. We have been for some time.’

Superb but terrifying piece by pre-eminent Russia expert, Fiona Hill

Also: yes, he will use nukes

politico.com/news/magazine/…
Why wouldn’t he use nukes, she argues. He’s already used polonium. He’s already used novichok. Why wouldn’t he reach back into his arsenal of extreme weird inhumane banned weaponry? ImageImage
Hill is such a sober, rational, careful figure. Anyone who saw her evidence to Congress knows how impressive she is. She’s saying the world has to get its shit together & act collectively now because this is 1939. He is Hitler. And he’s not going to stop at Ukraine ImageImage
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Feb 27
Ok. Deep breath.

I think we may look back on this as the first Great Information War. Except we're already 8 years in.

The first Great Information War began in 2014. The invasion of Ukraine is the latest front. And the idea it doesn't already involve us is fiction, a lie.
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It was Putin's fury at the removal of President Yankovych in Feb 2014 that kicked everything off. Information operations were first crucial step in invasion of Crimea & Donbass. A deliberate attempt to warp reality to confuse both Ukrainians & the world.
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This was not new. The Soviets had practiced "dezinformatsiya" for years. But what was new in 2014 was technology. Social media. It was a transformative moment. "Hybrid warfare" on steroids: a golden Willy Wonka ticket to manipulate hearts & minds. Almost completely invisibly.
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Feb 26
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?
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Feb 25
At the time, my trial felt extreme & brutal & terrifying. My career, reputation, livelihood on line. One day on from Russia invading Ukraine, it feels like mad surreal dream. Did a pro-Putin apologist really get to put me on trial at high court for reporting on his Russian links?
It’s a test case for the public interest defence & it’ll (further) fuck journalism in this country & what we can safely report. But it’s so utterly utterly absurd that it came to this, that I can’t bring myself to care any more what happens to me.
Amazing & honestly fascinating that not a single mainstream outlet other than @guardian covered it. Fresh evidence of Banks’s links to Russia & UK govt’s complicity in covering them up came out in trial & went entirely unreported.
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