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Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓 Profile picture
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Mar 20, 2022 • 35 tweets • 13 min read • Read on X
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🧵 Here you will find Maps 🗺️ to understand the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, I hope.
1. Languages spoken at Home
2. Ethnolinguistic Map
3. Map of Dialects
4. Percentage of People stating that Russian is their Mother Tongue (2001)
5. Support for Russian as an official state language
6. Proportion of users, who stated their mother tongue as Russian (blue) or as Ukrainian (red) in the social media network @vkontakte
7. Religious Divisions
8. Voting Map in 1994

Kuchma vs Kravchuk
9. 2004 Elections (First Round)
10. 2004 Elections (Second Round)

Yanukovych vs Yuschenko
11. 2004 Elections (Third Round)
12. 2006 Elections (Party of The Regions)
13. Parliamentary Elections of 2007
14. First round of Presidential elections of 2010

Legend

Blue/ Dark blue – Yanukovich

Red: Timoshenko
15. 2014 Elections - Turnout

34.76% refused to vote
16. Attitudes to United States Role in Crisis
17. Attitudes towards joining the EU
18. Summary So Far - A Divided Nation

Politically, Ethno-Linguistically,Socially

Conflict Becomes Inevitable

Ask Northern Ireland
19. Why the Division?

Eastern and Southern Ukraine (Light Green in Map) were former constituent parts of Russia that were added to the Ukrainian Soviet Republic by Soviet Communist Party leaders when Ukraine and Russia were two parts of the same country.
20. Crimea - 2 Referendums - Disputed

1994 Crimean referendum
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Crim…

2014 Crimean status referendum
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Crim…
21. Russian Point of View

22. A summary of the issues:

1. Crimea's referendum to leave Ukraine: how did we get here?

theguardian.com/world/2014/mar…

2. Crimea referendum: early results indicate 'landslide' for secession – as it happened

theguardian.com/world/2014/mar…
23. Since the disputed Crimean referendum, the Maidan Uprising in 2013 & the 2014 elections, US, CIA, UK and NATO decided to support Ukraine with military training & weapons, as discussed in another thread:



About 7 Tweets discussing mainly US training
24. Since 2014, The US has provided Ukraine with 1.6 billion $ worth of military aid. More will come.

See 12 Tweets here:

25. In Ukraine, the US Trains an Army in the West to Fight in the East (October 2017)

"For more than two years, some 300 American soldiers have been quietly helping train an enormous partner military in western Ukraine"

defenseone.com/threats/2017/1…
26. The proof is in the pudding is in the eating

President Volodymyr Zelensky announced today that the NSDC suspended all activities of 11 pro-Russian political parties while martial law is in place.

kyivindependent.com/uncategorized/…

and

pravda.com.ua/news/2022/03/2…
27. Mariupol?

Mariupol remains a Russian-speaking city

1% report regularly speaking Ukrainian at home

Lately, Western Media have reported on the plight of refugees from Mariupol being "forcibly sent to Russia"

reuters.com/world/europe/u…
28. Don't be surprised to see evidence of Mariupol Residents blaming the Ukrainian Government & in particular the Azov Battalion for their plight

Videos (of course from pro-Russian Accounts ;)





29. Compilation Thread of Interviews with Transcripts



Again a pro-Russian source so...who knows?
30. These reactions would be consistent with the views of Mariupol residents stated previously

Primary blame attribution for the Donbas war by people in Mariupol (percentages)

voxukraine.org/en/the-elephan…

Most blamed the Post-Maiden Ukrainian Government & the USA, not the Russians
31. Conclusions?

I leave that to your judgement based on the maps, statistics and data presented.
32. Funniest Reaction so far from @daniel_corcos

33. Don't be shooting the messenger now!

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🧵🗞️The International News

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Clang! Bar, far, scar, star.

Take the swarming headlines, shred them,

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No escape. The hour will no longer be ours.

Clang! Dome, home, foam, roam!
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Some insights into our DRASTIC investigation

1. What appears wasteful research to you in the present may be of great value to you or others in the future, if it is given the time to develop to its logical end.

Don’t judge the usefulness of your findings too quickly!
2. What appears wasteful or a dead end to you..

May be of immense value to somebody else!

Don’t judge the usefulness:

1. Of other people’s findings based only on your own assessment of them.

2. Of your own findings based only on your own current assessment of them either.
3. What appears wasteful and a dead end to you..

A. May be the raw stuff that new hypotheses and new research directions are born from.

B. Don’t judge the usefulness of your "investigations" until you have given them enough time to surprise you.
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🧵Holmes Studies "Lab Leak"🤔

1⃣ WIV

-Deliberate release of bioweapon
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-Lab accident during genetic engineering
-Lab accident during cell culture
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-Accidental infection that no one knew about
2⃣ WCDC

• Lab worker infected during field animal sampling
• Accident during experimental work
• Accident from exposure to infected waste
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• WCDC gave bat samples to the WIV
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•Engineered from RaTG13
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•Engineered from secret database of bat viruses
•Engineered at UNC & shipped to the WIV
•Engineered hybrid of bat & pangolin viruses🐵
•Synthetic infectious clone engineered in vitro
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🧵THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY!

1. GOOD NEWS

Thanks to @BumblebeeJoe I have 250 new followers!



Welcome aboard!

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This paper is so bad it is not even wrong!

Das ist nicht einmal falsch!

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(Possibly final..😉)

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DRASTIC and the investigative network that broke the Corona laboratory taboo

Must Read Interview!

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@gdemaneuf & @BillyBostickson

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@gdemaneuf (a data scientist & engineer)

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22. Biased Sampling distorts Geography!

They use a dataset skewed toward Yunnan & Laos (p. 16), leading to phylogeographic models that place SARS-CoV ancestors far from Wuhan & Guangdong (p. 12).

This sampling bias undermines the reliability of their geographic inferences.
23. Neglecting Alternative Hypotheses

No SARS-CoV-like viruses near emergence sites?

They completely overlook non-bat reservoirs, like civets or pangolins, which could explain local circulation (p. 15).

This omission weakens their claim of distant ancestor origins (p. 12).
24. Inconsistent Molecular Clock Rates

The paper misuses variable NRR-specific clock rates, which give inconsistent SARS-CoV ancestor dates (e.g., 1944–2014 for SARS-CoV-2, p. 9).

Without any validation of bat-specific rates, this approach has no rational grounding (p. 14).
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