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Mar 24 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
March 24 statement by the Anti-War Committee of Russia on the need to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine. It's Ukrainian land, sea, and air. Putin is an invader. If Ukraine is a sovereign state, it has the right to ask for help and deserves it. facebook.com/GKKasparov/pos…
If you agree with Putin that Ukraine has no right to exist, that whoever gets there first has the right to its skies, to bomb its cities and children, say so. If you disagree, answer Ukraine's plea.
If you are worried that Putin is mad enough to do something even more terrible if he's losing in Ukraine, do you think he cares exactly how and why he is losing? Stop self-deterring and do not abandon Ukraine yet again.
Try something new and deter Putin, instead. Deter the pilots, captains, and commanders giving the orders to rain death on civilians. Ukraine is fighting like hell, give them the support they need and deserve to protect their skies, their cities, their people.

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Mar 26
Following his old formula, Putin planned to use force to gain territory & concessions and the West would rush to accommodate him with diplomacy. The only problem? Someone forgot to tell the Ukrainians. My new op-ed in the @NYDailyNews:
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Stopping the violence is the priority, but if it is done by rewarding a war criminal with territorial conquest and reducing sanctions, it will only be a pause in Putin’s war. Or wars, plural, more accurately. His wars will not truly end as long as Putin is in power.
Ukrainians deserve not just to survive, but to win. Do not repeat the mistakes of 2014 to allow Russia to continue to occupy Ukrainian territory, to let Putin claim victory and go back to holding fake negotiations in nice hotels while he rearms for his next assault.
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Mar 24
Plato is my friend, McFaul is my friend, but my dearer to me is the truth that Chubais was an architect of Russia's crony capitalism and a staunch defender of Putin's every crime. He's either saving his own skin, on a mission, or both.
Chubais was a godfather of the kleptocratic system that doomed Russia's nascent democracy. Then for decades he played a key role in whitewashing Putin's image abroad, insisting he was a man to do business with despite his burgeoning list of atrocities.
If Chubais isn't on every sanctions list already, he should be for his role in strengthening Putin's regime. He will be a defendant in the trials, not a witness. Whatever his reason for leaving now, it's not out of principle.
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Mar 22
I've been asked several times on shows "Should we put US/NATO pilots into possible combat with Russians?" My reply is, please finish the sentence. "... in order to stop the slaughter of innocents on the ground in Ukraine?" This isn't an academic exercise.
There are situations in which the answer is obviously yes. To defend the US from attack? Yes. To defend any NATO country? Supposedly yes. To prevent genocide? Apparently not.
Putin did not need any pretext to launch this invasion. He did not need any pretext to shell & bomb innocent civilians in Ukraine. He won't need an pretext to use nuclear weapons. What we do know is that Putin always escalates when he isn't stopped.
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Mar 21
Instead of newsreels from liberated concentration camps in 1945, we have drone footage and HD photos & interviews of innocents being bombed relentlessly with modern weapons. It's happening right now. Everyone knows.
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Mar 21
I was called a warmonger in 2014 when I said Putin would not stop with Crimea & E Ukraine. Now everyone admits that I was right, but wants to repeat the same mistake now. Letting Putin destroy Ukraine *increases* the threat of a greater conflict, including nuclear.
Putin is bombing hospitals, refuges, and retirement homes in Ukraine. But we are told that the free world must not act to help unless those hospitals, refuges, and retirement homes are inside specific lines on the map. Those lives matter. Those children matter.
This isn't about NATO. There's no treaty saying the US & other great powers of the free world are forbidden from defending Ukraine, which is dying to protect them. There is only fear, the same fear that kept them from acting in 2014 and led us here.
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Mar 19
Imagine how the Ukrainians feel about it! They don’t understand why the West is doing so little despite appeasing and funding their invader for eight years. They have little confidence the world will stay engaged as Putin’s war continues.
Finally sending arms is better than nothing, but does the West want to save the free world from tyranny or just be Amazon Prime for Lockheed? They encouraged this war by refusing to take risks to stop Putin in 2014. Now they’re doing it again.
Most of the arguments for letting Putin own Ukraine preemptively begin from “we must never engage Russian forces” and work backwards. Work forward from Ukraine being a sovereign nation you said you’d protect, fighting for values you claim to represent.
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