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May 23 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
🔥There you have it—from an insider. Putin's war in Ukraine isn't about restoring Soviet or Russian glory. That's all instrumental to KLEPTOCRACY.

I don't know who's more grandiose—Putin w/ his propaganda or the West so eager to believe ideology drives Russia's murderous regime.
#Russian diplomat Bondarev resigns over #Ukraine, says the war is ONLY about #Putin's #kleptocracy staying in power:

"Those who conceived this war want only one thing—to remain in power forever, live in…palaces, sail on yachts…, enjoying unlimited power and complete impunity."
Talking about Putin's war as an ideological mission for Soviet or Russian glory makes for a good story. But it's not true. Worse, it feeds Putin's propaganda myths.

Let's stop using Russia's self-serving framing. Putin's war on Ukraine is genocide w/ ONE aim—kleptocratic power.
Kleptocracy is both the reason for Putin's war & for its failures. Kleptocracy degrades everything.

🇷🇺Diplomat Boris Bondarev's resignation letter slams MFA Lavrov's degradation from educated professional to warmongering liar & hater, serving the interests of a few—kleptocrats.
Hope @NATO pays attention to this part >> Russia's UN diplomat who resigned today makes quite clear that Putin's aggressive & criminal war on Ukraine is "in fact against the entire Western world."

Putin is at war with all of us, yet we make Ukrainian do all the fighting & dying.
@NATO 💔Ukraine is paying a staggering price to resist Russia. 100 soldiers die every day fighting Putin's war—on the entire West—as Bondarev says.

100 dead a day to keep Putin's corruption, kleptocracy & zombie propaganda from eroding our democracy, rule of law & critical free press.
@NATO #Russia's paying an even higher price for its war on #Ukraine & the democratic West. As day 90 approaches, Russia has lost nearly 30,000 troops—about 333 every day—over 3x Ukraine's losses.

Putin wanted lifetime power. He got lifetime revulsion that's undermined his own power.🤷🏻‍♀️

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May 12
💥Russian general who oversaw atrocities in Syria led cluster bomb attacks on civilians in Ukraine. CNN identified 11 Smerch rocket strikes on residential #Kharkiv🇺🇦 launched by rocket artillery brigade led by Col.Gen Alexander ZHURAVLYOV in Belgorod🇷🇺—war crimes under int'l law.
CNN traced 11 Smerch rocket attacks on #Kharkiv on Feb. 27-28 to #Russia's 79th Rocket Artillery Brigade. Based in Belgorod, the brigade reports to Western Military District led by Zhuravlyov—the only officer with the authority to order Smerch launches in his district. #WarCrimes
After Zhuravlyov took command in eastern Aleppo in 2016, Russia's military rapidly ramped up its attacks on rebel-held territory using brutal tactics & munitions that defined Russia's intervention in Syria & now Ukraine: besiege, starve, bombard, grind into submission.
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May 1
🤨Lavrov: We don't demand Zelensky surrender, just release civilians & end resistance. Our aim isn't regime change—that's US specialty. We only want ppl in eastern Ukraine not to be threatened by Kyiv's military & its Nazis. And we don't want Ukraine to threaten Russian security.
Oh, there's more >> Lavrov Compares Ukraine's Zelensky to Hitler, Who Also 'Had Jewish Blood'

For a regime founded and sustained by insane propaganda, Putin's Russia is so bad at it.

haaretz.com/world-news/eur…
I don't know who needs to hear this but Russia has zero right to demand anything from Ukraine, an independent country w/ a democratically elected govt.

Also, I look forward to hearing Lavrov's despicable anti-Semitic "Jews are the real Nazis" propaganda at his war crimes trial.
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Apr 28
💥Pres. Biden Requests $33 Billion in Aid For #Ukraine🇺🇦
🔹$20.4B in #military assistance
🔹$8.5B in #economic help
🔹$3B in #humanitarian assistance
🔹$500M in domestic #food production assistance
@NATO allies will do their share to help Ukraine defend against aggressor #Russia ImageImage
⚡️Biden: "As long as the assaults and atrocities continue, we're going to continue" helping #Ukraine defend itself from Russian aggression.

Biden says $33B supplemental funding will use Defense Production Act to expand US production & preserve materials disrupted by Putin's war. Image
Biden: Russia can't blackmail or intimidate their way out of sanctions. We will not allow them to use their oil & gas to avoid consequences of their aggression. We're working with other nations to help support our European allies w/ gas blackmail of their energy needs. Image
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Apr 27
🚨‼️#Bucha🇺🇦 mayor confirms Russians had kill lists to hunt down & kill politicians, activists & Donbas war veterans. "I saw these lists… they knew in advance who they were after & their addresses," Mayor Fedoruk said, adding Russians knew that officials lived in #Kyiv suburbs.
THREAD re #Russia's "Kill Lists" in #Ukraine, first reported by @ak_mack @RobbieGramer & @JackDetsch on eve of Feb. invasion. Confirmed by @nytimes, @washingtonpost & now by #Bucha mayor. This is kleptocrat Putin using war to kill his critics—journalists, activists & politicians.
@ak_mack @RobbieGramer @JackDetsch @nytimes @washingtonpost Russia's kill lists are of a piece w/ Putin's mafia state terrorism that began w/ apt bombings, continued w/ pretexts for war in xUSSR, dotted in between w/ assassinations & hit squads. That's why Bellingcat's Grozev called @navalny poisoning a "prequel" to Ukraine invasion.
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Apr 22
❗️Incredible report from @edlavaCNN. Russian soldiers rounded up villagers at gunpoint into a school basement. 350 ppl forced to live in such horrific conditions, 12 elderly died. Russians held them there for a month—as human shields—knowing Ukrainians wouldn't attack the school.
Sofia took @CNN into the school basement where she was held hostage for a month by Russian soldiers with 350 other Ukrainian villagers. Conditions were so cramped, air so stifling, breathing was hard. She said the Russians told her point blank that they were taken there to die.
Olena says Russian soldiers threw grenades into her windows & defecated on her floor. She was locked in the school basement too. She pleaded w/ the Russians to let her 1-year-old infant out of the stifling basement for fresh air. They refused, saying "Let her die, we don't care."
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Apr 14
Trump just can’t condemn Putin. Even now, as the murderer is awash in Ukrainian blood. Fox gave Trump another opportunity y’day to say Putin is evil. But Trump went off on NATO & the EU instead. His allegiance to Putin never changes. If his GOP gets back in power, we’re doomed.
Great piece by @jonathanchait. But I'd go further: Given Trump's continued allegiance to Putin, and the Republican Party's allegiance to Trump, there's no question that Ukraine and the rest of the free world would be in grave danger with the GOP in power.
nymag.com/intelligencer/…
@jonathanchait Read this too >> How Trump & Putin Have Been Allies Against Ukraine, wherein @jonathanchait outlines how Trump has long supported—regularly & consistently— delegitimizing the now besieged country. And with the support of a controlling faction of the GOP. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
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