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Mar 23 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
North Korea last month blamed the Ukraine crisis on the "hegemonic policy" and "high-handedness" of the United States and the West.
reuters.com/world/russia-n…
[A correct view. US & NATO pushed Putin too far. Ukraine is Russia’s ‘Cuban missile crisis’.]
2/Plus the DPRK has always had an affinity for Russian culture since its socialist ideology was originally cut from the same cloth as the Soviet Union’s.
3/For the same reasons the US could never allow Russian missiles in Cuba, Russia could never allow NATO missiles in Ukraine. The 2008 Bucharest summit put Ukraine on a track to NATO membership. Putin has risked war to nip this existential threat
4/to the Russian Federation in the bud. Why isn’t the news reporting on this underlying cause of Russia’s “special military operation”. Oh yeah, b/c “Putin is a madman bent on rebuilding the Russian Empire” is the script they’ve been given.

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Mar 25
Russia threatens ‘universal nuclear war’ if NATO peacekeepers enter Ukraine
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All NATO has to do is annul Ukraine's application for membership. That or roll the dice & hope the world doesn't end in nuclear holocaust. This is bigger than Ukraine.
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Are you all incompetent dunces to not take seriously Putin's security concerns about the ever-eastward expanding NATO going back to 2007? B/c you ignored the Russian Federation's perceived existential threat to its sovereignty (Ukraine is Russia's
'Cuban Missile Crisis') Putin believed he had to force Ukraine into neutrality by this "special military operation", esp. if he thought Russia & Ukraine going to war over Crimea was an inevitability. He said that if Ukraine tries to take Crimea back by military actions and is a
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Mar 23
The straw that broke the camel’s back and pushed Putin too far 👇:
Ukraine–NATO relations
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine%E…
“At the June 2021 Brussels Summit, NATO leaders reiterated the decision taken at the 2008 Bucharest Summit that Ukraine would become a member of the Alliance with the
2/“Membership Action Plan (MAP) as an integral part of the process and Ukraine's right to determine its future and foreign policy, of course without outside interference. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg also stressed that Russia will not be able to veto Ukraine's
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Zelensky is now caught b/t Scylla and Charybdis, b/t a Russian invasion bent on making Ukraine neutral and NATO’s welcoming Ukraine’s
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In terms of pricing, an EV is equivalent to an entry-level luxury car. 
cnbc.com/amp/2021/12/29…
2/“The average transaction price for an electric vehicle (EV) is $56,437, according to Kelley Blue Book — roughly $10,000 higher than the overall industry average of $46,329 that includes gas and EVs. In terms of pricing, an EV is equivalent to an entry-level luxury car.”
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Mar 22
‘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
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Mar 21
Germany agrees gas deal with Qatar to help end dependency on Russia theguardian.com/world/2022/mar…
“Germany has agreed a contract with Qatar for the supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG) that will help the European country wean itself off its dependency on Russian energy.”
Would be nice if the US could sell LNG to Germany & other countries. Energy security & trade however occupies a low rung on the Biden Admin priorities ladder. At the top: Green New Deal to mitigate the “imminent & existential threat” of climate change.
I mean C’mon, Man. We have to get our priorities straight. Why tap our own vast oil deposits when we can just depend on buying it from Maduro, OPEC & other countries? And if the price goes up, it’s not our fault, it’s “the price of freedom”. And this
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Mar 21
A day in the life of the “Ukraine good, Russia bad” two-dimensional world the Neanderthal West is living in: Azov Battalion just executed its own Ukrainian citizens in buses heading out along the humanitarian corridors Russia opened up.
2/Ah yes, the “good guys” whom Brits are leaving home to fight alongside with against the “evil Russians”:
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What’s unclear is where Zelensky stands on Azov Battalion. He has to be aware of the killing. Does he
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