@Kasparov63 Gary, YOU WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG AND YOU ARE RIGHT NOW. I believe @jensstoltenberg@NATO & @POTUS are preparing a crushing response. But they cannot fight in Ukraine under NATO’s vital peace-banner to support Zelenskiy’ government unless Ukraine becomes part @NATO .
@Kasparov63@jensstoltenberg@NATO@POTUS That being said given that #Putin invaded Ukraine in order to prevent it from joining NATO, what have we NOW got to loose by making it part of NATO? That in itself is NOT an act of violent aggression, DESPITE WHAT USSR and Russia would have us believe since the end of WW2
@Kasparov63@jensstoltenberg@NATO@POTUS Same is true for countries all along Russia’s borders that wish to join NATO and have wanted to for SO long. Instead of holding back for fear of aggression, as that Russian agression has already occurred why not support freedom to self-determination of these countries NOW?
@Kasparov63@jensstoltenberg@NATO@POTUS Indeed, there is yet another meaning we can attribute to @AVindman beautiful sentence “Here [INTERNATIONAL] Right [ie LAW] Matters”. As far as I understand we would not be acting illegally in this but WE WOULD THEN BE ABLE TO ACTUALLY AND LEGALLY SAVE UKRAINE FROM PUTIN’S GRIP.
@Kasparov63@jensstoltenberg@NATO@POTUS@AVindman So Gary I agree with you that if we don’t want to watch shamefully while Putin ransacks Ukraine completely in next few days/weeks despite all the aid we send (and knowing he could press the nuclear button at ANY time towards them and simply just flatten it).
@Kasparov63@jensstoltenberg@NATO@POTUS@AVindman If current peace talks don’t yield near immediate results, our next step can only be enlargement of @NATO (I assume the prudent @jensstoltenberg already has that paperwork ready for all countries mentioned?!). It is legal, timely (overdue !), simple and not directly aggressive.
@Kasparov63@jensstoltenberg@NATO@POTUS@AVindman BUT IT WILL DIRECTLY THREATEN #PUTIN WITH THE FULL MIGHT OF THE WESTERN FREEDOM ALLIANCE. If doesn’t then immediately sign a cease-fire with @ZelenskyyUa, WE CAN AT LEAST LEGALLY HELP UKRAINE DIRECTLY. Like you Gary, I don’t think we now have any other ethical choice left.
Complete agree. This won’t be over when there’s a cease-fire in Ukraine. World has changed profoundly in the 2 yr-Covid pandemic, the Trump era & perhaps to a greater extent geopolitically even in just this last week. WE NOW ALL FULLY RE-APPRECIATE WHAT WE COULD SO EASILY LOOSE.
This re-appreciation means NONE OF US will be able to torelate thought of a Bond- movie-level-vilain-turned-basket-case, after a deranged aggression against Ukraine, could remain in any position of power & especially nuclear power. This won’t now be over until #Putin is gone.
You & @HillaryClinton are rightly hoping his so badly mistreated people or his own junta, respectively, will bring him down. I think History has shown how profound Russian social inertia really is (they’ve put up with Stalin and Putin for literally decades!).
GREAT WATCH! US makes #Nebenzya read his own expulsion notice from UN & that of 11 of his colleagues = retaliation for #Putin diabolically declaring war on Ukraine at the very moment that at UNSC his ambassador #Nebenzya was chairing a meeting on Ukraine! voanews.com/a/6464142.html
NB: villainous #Nebenzya lies until his end: journalists ask him if he knows who is on the list & what they’re are being kicked out for & he replies that he does not! #Nebenzya , treacherous arsehole: GAME OVER! We don’t forgive. we don’t forget. You should have expected US! 😆😁
PS: #Nebenzya also lies in hia replies about the reason for the expulsions which US has clearly indicated is SPYING. Finally, he has the nerve to claim that this step that US has taken is in contradiction to the Host Country agreement of the UN & to the Geneva Convention rights.
Ok, so above is a truly boring legal document but here the fun bit (initially from @RFERL website): The announcement came as Russia's mission in Geneva announced that Lavrov @mfa_russia , who had been scheduled travel to the Swiss city on 1/3 to address UN Human Rights Council
had been forced to cancel his trip due to the sanctions imposed by EU countries! 😁😆😂🤣😉 So with his foreign minister effectively now on a ‘no fly’ list and his UN ambassador Nebenzia effectively personna non grata in NY because of his demonically bad behaviour there on 23/2…
There is pretty some awful stuff here: “Bloc officials quickly played down the likelihood of any such move for a number of reasons, including the fact that no such fast-track procedure exists.”
AND type of totally empty and unless language too from German Foreign Minister @ABaerbock who said joining the 27-nation group is not something that can be done in a couple of months but Ukraine is part of the "house of Europe" in which it is welcome.
Dear president @ZelenskyyUa I would like to assemble here for you the elements of an argument which IMHO ought to carry much historical & geopolitical weight with coincidentally all now francophone senior European leaders for convincing them to make you part of Europe ASAP…
Apologies @ZelenskyyUa , I got “a bit distracted” by those nukes #VladimirPutin is brandishing about recklessly … Luckily, even these do not scare you it seems!! So let me start spinning my tale again from where I left off. But, because I am sure you have zero time to waste….
I will give you the punchline or “take-home message” first. The keys IMHO is whispering into their ears & subliminally reminding their minds of just these few words: “L’Europe de l’Atlantique à l’Oural”. Should you not have heard these magic words before, here’s their history: