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Mar 8 11 tweets 2 min read
"Not sure how to take this. Because I'm a total and utter waste of space".
Fascists in Ukraine!

Fascists in Ukraine led by Jewish President whose family fought the Nazis!

Fascists in Ukraine with 1 far-right MP out of 250!

Fascists in Ukraine when every other party is completely mainstream!

Fascists in Ukraine as Russia bombs Holocaust memorials!
You stupid, thick as mince imbecile.

Here's a newsflash. When another country invades and annexes your country's territory, a few members of an army are usually radicalised.
Here's another newsflash. When that country has a whole history of being invaded and subjugated by its massive nuclear-armed neighbour, and is therefore continually insecure and under threat, some members of its army won't think too kindly of said neighbour.
In 2006, Palestinians voted for Hamas. An evil terrorist organisation. So I assume that makes Palestinians 'fascists' then?

No? So shut the fuck up you pathetic Putin propagandist and try understanding the realities of war.
Russia has armed, funded and killed scores and scores of Ukrainians since 2014. A handful of troops responded with the image above.

Yes. And? THAT is all you've got?!

Fuck me. The IRA slaughtered countless innocent civilians, but I bet you didn't think *they* were fascist.
And by the way. That image above, plus a leaked conversation with the US State Department spokesperson, is literally ALL these idiots have.

And these idiots think it explains everything!

Which is why they're absolute fucking idiots whose idiocy Putin must rejoice at.
As to why the Battalion waved that insignia in particular: go and learn some damn history and ask yourself which insignia would most enrage the Russian Army, their enemy.

It's very like how Bandera remains a national hero to many Ukrainians. Which ISN'T because they're Nazis.
The England football team has its share - a minority, thankfully - of fascist supporters.

So let's denounce the whole of England and pray for its destruction.

"Not sure how to take this". Give me strength.
There are, incidentally, leftist echo chambers on Facebook where shit like the above is shared all the time, and treated like it's the final word.

By a bunch of goons who wouldn't understand critical thinking if it slapped them round the face.
Apologies to others - but certainly not to Mitch - for that little outburst, and my language.

Some things bring out my 'bleeding fist liberal' side. This is one of them.

In short: long live tolerance. And total fucking disdain.

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THREAD: Laurie Penny v Julie Bindel and JK Rowling. Or to put it another way: Laurie Penny against the world.

The usual disclaimer applies before I start. I'm a man. This isn't my fight or my struggle. I'm just a bloke commenting on the internet.
I'm also not here to make Penny's suffering worse or something. I wish them well. I wish all fully paid-up members of the human race well.

Laurie says they're taking time off Twitter in any case. I do appeal for no pile-ons against anyone resulting from this thread.
I also have no doubt whatsoever about the very real trauma Penny has been through during her life. I'm not here to minimise that in any way either.

But that trauma is not some get-out clause for writing an objectively awful book.
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In April 2016, two months before Brexit, 7 months before Trump won, and weeks after Crimea's annexation, The Atlantic published a huge profile of and interview with Barack Obama: focusing on his foreign policy.

It is quite massively informative.

theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
Re-reading it now, one little section really jumped out at me.

"Obama’s theory here is simple: Ukraine is a core Russian interest but not an American one, so Russia will always be able to maintain escalatory dominance there".
“The fact is that Ukraine, which is a non-NATO country, is going to be vulnerable to military domination by Russia no matter what we do".

(Me again): You can sum up Obama's approach to foreign policy in four words.

"Don't do stupid stuff".
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Other than the UK's monstrous indulgence of oligarchs (remember that Lebedev owns The Independent and Evening Standard, so take anything they report with a pinch of salt), the West is at the limits of what it can do now.

As today's events have confirmed regarding energy supplies
Ukraine needs weapons, it needs planes and helicopters, it needs massive, ongoing financial and humanitarian aid, it needs worldwide resistance to Putin.

But there are no more sanctions we can implement without massively sanctioning ourselves and creating misery for our people.
How quickly we (especially Germany and Eastern Europe) can get from A - horrendous dependence on Russian gas and oil - to B, dependence on others, to C, green energy, is paramount here.

It can't be done overnight or anything like it.
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That's the tragedy of Syria in which intervening against Assad would've meant intervening on al-Qaeda/Daesh's side. Oooh, GREAT IDEA.

The tragedy of Syria in which there were no substantive democratic or just secular anti-Assad forces we could support.
The tragedy of Syria with no aims, no exit strategy, and where Assad's defeat would've left a terrifying power vacuum filled in all likelihood by terrorists bent on all our destruction.
It is quite extraordinary how after Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan, people think the US President can just wave a magic wand.

Quite extraordinary how people think winning a war and bringing peace is like buying a damn Mars bar.

The actual source of our weakness? Iraq.
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In 2016, I so nearly wrote an article which was sitting in my head and would've been the best piece I've ever written. Story of my life. 😭

It was right before the referendum. Its thesis was: no matter who wins, everything is screwed. Forever. The ultimate counsel of despair.
- If Remain win, everything is screwed because the country is split down the middle, the EU is crap - look at how it's treated Greece! - the boil won't be lanced and politicians will act like it's business as usual
- If Leave win based on a pack of lies, half the country will never forgive those responsible. Traitors. Criminals.

Swathes of the other half will wake up to how what's being promised is impossible, and never trust democratic politics again.
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The investigation into his death lasted so long, it closed only last year: inconclusively. Murder and suicide were both considered possibilities.
Meanwhile, President Edvard Benes - President from 1935 to 1938, President-in-Exile from 1938 to 1945, President from 1945 to 1948 - was vilified by Soviet and Communist media following the coup.
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