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‘Yes, He Would’: Fiona Hill on Putin and Nukes politi.co/3400f9r via @politico
Fiona Hill: “There’s lots of danger ahead, she warned. Putin is increasingly operating emotionally and likely to use all the weapons at his disposal, including nuclear ones.”
Completely wrong.

2/“Putin is acting emotionally” is her whacked irrational theory likely fueled by her own emotion. It’s impossible for her to know that. The entire Western narrative is unmoored from reality, which is that Putin’s endgame is a neutral Ukraine, and the last thing he’ll do is

3/trigger Article 5 or launch a nuke. Her remarks in my view just shred all her credibility. Putin’s an ultra-rational chess player who thinks 8-9 moves ahead, and a black belt in Judo, and has proactively taken action to wrest the security guarantee he’s asked NATO to address

4/ever since his 2007 Munich Speech out of an ever-expanding NATO’s refusal to provide such. NATO’s missiles in Ukraine are as unthinkable to Putin as Russian missiles in Cuba were to JFK.
ALL. PUTIN. IS. DOING. IS. PREEMPTIVELY. ENSURING. A. UKRAINIAN. MISSILE. CRISIS. NEVER.

5/HAPPENING. Hill probably believes that Putin’s mother dropped him when he was a baby, which somehow explains everything. We’ll probably see more hypersonics taking out weapons & foreign fighters and Ukraine suffering a “death by a thousand cuts”. The insane part is this: The

6/disconnect from reality Hill & most media & analysts exhibit is the oxygen that breathes life into their illusion that Putin is a madman bent on rebuilding the Russian Empire. No, he’s not & in fact he’s even said the Russian Federation has accepted 1992 and has consolidated

7/itself to the new reality. But reality is the last thing someone like Hill wants to accept b/c it shoots down her theory (which generates income for people like her who write books pushing their theories). They believe after Ukraine the Baltics are next, then Romania & Hungary.

8/They want to draw a comparison b/t Putin & Hitler but here’s the irony: Western Ukrainians, led by Stephan Bandera, were GERMAN COLLABORATORS in WW2 who saw the Nazis as their liberators from the Russians. They committed atrocities - war crimes - against

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9/Poles, Jews & Russians. The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) emulated the Nazis and its descendants are Azov Battalion, which sports Swastikas, Right Sector & other Neo-Nazi nationalist groups who see Ukrainians as a pure race. This is

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10/the truth about Ukraine’s history, past and present. Truth naturally is the enemy of propaganda. Putin’s denazification operation is aimed precisely at these extreme right Neo-Nazi groups whom Putin says has hijacked the Ukrainian people. Azov Battalion

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11/is based in Mariupol. Why do you think the fighting is so intense there? The media, news anchors & analysts have absolutely no understanding of what Putin is doing and freely proffer speculation clothed as journalism. Rational analysis & logical reasoning gave flown the coop.

12/So all Putin wants is for Ukraine to agree to the six conditions in this terms of cease-fire 👇. It’s real simple. He doesn’t want to absorb Ukraine b/c he doesn’t want NATO on his borders. He’s not going to attack other countries or launch nukes.

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13/By forcing the issue of Ukraine’s neutrality Putin is fortifying Russia’s national security against NATO. It’s just between Russia and Ukraine.
It’s like Liam Neeson in Taken saying: “It was all personal to me.” Russia-Ukraine relations are personal

14/to Vladimir Putin. I’d see any sharp freshman student would understand these things. Fiona Hill is living in a bubble of non-reality constructing castles in the air that have no bearing down here in the real world.

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