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Mar 23 • 37 tweets • 22 min read
Thread: 23 March 2022: Day 28 of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine
#Poland is throwing out nearly fifty #Russian spies operating under diplomatic cover at the Embassy
"The evidence of Putin's chosen path was never concealed"
There he goes ... That Roman Abramovich was ever able to gain the place he did in British public life is standing disgrace, and there's absolutely no excuse for it. It was never hidden what he was.
#pt: Not sure #Turkey wants to enter a new round of #US sanctions-dodging by becoming a refuge for #Russian oligarchs. The obvious aim is to stop the economic free-fall, but could end up being a cure worse than the disease.
Positive signs from #Cambodia
Confirmation that the West thought #Ukraine would fold quickly after the #Russian invasion. Now playing catch-up.
#Russia's oligarchs continue moving through #Israel
Another senior #Russian officer down
#pt: And another
#Russia does seem to be struggling with its inventory, which is not exactly news. But there are signs the problem is of a depth that might yet threaten the enterprise, especially because of all the trouble they're going to have replenishing
Significant in itself that #Algeria is looking for an alternative to #Russia in weapons supply, and something with much broader implications. Something to watch.
Perhaps moving to a closing of the circle: #Vietnam joining the sanctions against #Russia
Time for #France and #Germany to step up
Koreans in #Ukraine are part of the resistance activities against #Russia's occupation
Very grim
#Ukraine distinctly displeased with the role #Hungary is playing in all of this, and reasonably so. Budapest has refused to get serious about #Russia.
One of #Putin's advisers, Anatoly Chubais, has resigned in protest at the invasion of #Ukraine
Evidence of #Ukraine using IEDs against #Russia's vehicles
Reflecting #Japan taking a leading, public role in the coalition against #Russia, the President of #Ukraine spoke to the National Diet
Much better messaging from #NATO
New tranche of #US weapons on the way to #Ukraine
Further reinforcements for #NATO's flanks
#Putin has even managed to bring #Turkey and #France to an understanding bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
#Russia: police in Moscow were called on a resident in Moscow because they had a garland in the form of a #Ukraine flag.
#Russian General Mikhail Mizintsev reprimanding forces for their lack of war crimes
#Russia using the full array of methods from the old days
"40,000 #Russian troops have been killed, wounded, taken prisoner, or are missing in #Ukraine, said a senior military official from [#NATO] ... based on information provided by Ukrainian authorities and information obtained from Russia" wsj.com/livecoverage/r…
#China has insisted #Russia is as an "important member" of the G20 and must participate after the #US suggested excluding Moscow over the invasion of #Ukraine

- @AFP
#Germany supplying to #Ukraine
#Sweden getting better
#Mexico's President taking a pro-#Russia line over the invasion of #Ukraine
#Britain to provide further support for #Ukraine's defence
#Ukraine making advances around the capital
Apparently, #Russia is not that keen to talk
#Russia driven back miles from #Ukraine's capital
An insane demand, surely not intended to be accepted

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Mar 22
This has been a depressing aspect of this war. Small, in the grand scheme, sure, but notable and lasting: there are a number of people now who one admired or at least found interesting before this war that have to be written off as terminally unreliable.
There are different streams of the "anti-woke" failure over #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine, with the wilful contrarians who just cannot stand consensus on one side, and the ideologists who hate the liberal West and thus either by conviction or default admire Putin on the other.
Some of the "anti-woke" lunacy over Ukraine has revealed certain people to be quite stupid, but simple stupidity would produce "takes" all over the map and these reliably go in one direction - namely, anti-Ukraine and/or pro-Russia. Kremlin agitprop was pushing at an open door.
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From Putin's July 2021 essay: "I said that Russians and Ukrainians were one people—a single whole. These words were not driven by some short-term considerations or prompted by the current political context. It is what I have said on numerous occasions and what I firmly believe."
More from Putin's July 2021 essay: "These territories were referred to as 'Malorossia' (Little Russia). The name 'Ukraine' was used more often in the meaning of the Old Russian word 'okraina' (periphery) ... , referring to various border territories ... "
"... And the word 'Ukrainian', judging by archival documents, originally referred to frontier guards who protected the external borders."
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Mar 22
Thread: 22 March 2022: Day 27 of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine
#Russia continues to hold Brittney Griner, an #American professional basketball player, hostage. Ms. Griner was "arrested" on fabricated charges on Feb. 17, clearly intended as leverage during the invasion of #Ukraine, which began exactly a week later.
At least five #Russian Generals have been killed in #Ukraine because Moscow has no choice but to have them at the front: the communications are not working, and morale/discipline are deeply troubled; without Generals on the spot, things would fall apart. foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/21/rus…
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#Syria's nominal ruler #Iran/#Russia dependent), Bashar al-Asad, was greeted in the #UAE on 18 March 2022, in Dubai by its emir, Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum. This is Asad's first visit to an Arab state since the uprising began, exactly eleven years ago. reuters.com/world/middle-e…
The @DXBMediaOffice released pictures of the visit by #Syria's tyrant, Bashsr al-Asad, to the #UAE, including this one [from left to right]: Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad; Asad; Dubai's ruler, Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum; and Dubai's Crown Prince, Hamdan ("Fazza").
#Syria's tyrant, Bashar al-Asad, met #UAE's de facto overall ruler, Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan (#MBZ) [left], and "was also photographed with the owner of Manchester City Football Club, Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan" [right]. bbc.in/36rbiJA
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Catherine Shakdam, a French-British journalist who wrote numerous articles for the website of #Iran's Supreme Leader, is of Jewish ancestry (which they didn't know) and wrote an article for The @TimesofIsrael, led her being accused of being an #Israeli spy iranintl.com/en/202203136114
#pt: Catherine Shakdam, a Jewish French-British journalist who was a propagandist for #Iran, says she "realize[d] ... there was a ... great hypocrisy" in the regime, and in combination with its call "for genocide of an entire people", it turned her against the theocracy.
Catherine Shakdam, who converted to Khomeinist Islam, about five years ago reconnected with her Jewish roots, but continued working for #Iran's media and interacting with the regime's senior officials, until she "came out" in November 2021. timesofisrael.com/im-no-mossad-s…
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Nobody - not one single person on this earth - knows with any accuracy what the state of #Russian public opinion is about #Putin's war on #Ukraine, so arguments and commentary that blame for this on the Russian people are analytical junk, as well as morally suspect.
There's no reason to deny there *is* support for Putin's war in Russia: some of it positive/ideological (pan-Slavists, Orthodox believers, regime loyalists), some of it "negative", from people who cannot support the killing of Russian soldiers and/or the nation being defeated.
Note, however, there are severe penalties in #Russia for the expression of dissent against this war, and *even so* there have been mass demonstrations across the whole country, with thousands of people arrested, and open elite dissatisfaction even on the main propaganda channel.
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