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Konstantin Kisin

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Apr 27

Mindblowing conversation with an old friend in Ukraine. He was always pro-Russian to the point that when I spoke to him on the day of the invasion he said "Finally - everything is happening as it should".

His house is in an area that was close to being occupied in the early...

...phase of the war.

Called him today for the first time since:

- "I pray every day for our brave Ukrainian warriors (воины)"
- "Everyone is united - the people believe in victory"
- "My (pro-Russian) Church is splitting off from Moscow"

- "People will not forgive the Russians for what they've done here. This wound will not heal for generations"

I was totally gobsmacked. He is the most stubborn person I've ever met (coming from me!) and he is a different man after 2 months of the war. 🤯🤯🤯

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Konstantin Kisin

@KonstantinKisin

Apr 8

This is an article from Belarus which proudly confirms that Russia deployed Tochka-U missiles in Belarus as part of the manoeuvres immediately before the invasion.

This will come in handy in the next few hours as Putin apologists will shortly be claiming Russia doesn't use them.

Full article:

belta.by/photonews/view…

As you can see from Twitter's own insert, the article is from a state-affiliated (i.e. 100% controlled) outlet in Belarus. They were proudly showing off the missile only a few weeks ago. Now they're claiming they don't use them 🤣

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Konstantin Kisin

@KonstantinKisin

Mar 2

I'm getting a lot of calls from friends and others who say they don't see a way out of this situation in Ukraine. There are ways out and to see them, you first need to understand this from the perspective of the people involved. [Thread]

Let’s start with Russia.

Russian state TV (not RT/Sputnik, but the stuff people IN Russia are watching) has been shouting for weeks that:

1. The rationale for the "special operation" is to protect Russian civilians who are being genocided in Eastern Ukraine.

2. The Ukrainian leaders are all Nazis who were planning to attack Russia.
3. NATO countries are belligerent and threatening towards Russia.

There is no way to back down from this.

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Konstantin Kisin

@KonstantinKisin

Feb 26

There is a narrative emerging about people like me who predicted the Russian invasion and the broader geopolitical reordering we are now seeing.

It claims that we didn't know what was coming, we're just using this as an opportunity to mock and criticise the things we always hated like wokeness, the re-racialisation of society etc.

Sadly, this is not true.

I have been predicting all of this for years - see below the preface I wrote for my upcoming book more than a year ago. Friends advised me against opening the book with this as it was "melodramatic". I was wrong to heed their advice:

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Konstantin Kisin

@KonstantinKisin

Feb 25

There is an extremely dangerous "Putin is irrational" narrative developing in the West that I would strongly urge people to resist.

This is a fundamental misunderstanding. He may or may not be irrational, but his actions so far are entirely rational. Failure to grasp this is...

...the result of the fact that Western elites believe that everyone elsewhere operates on the same moral framework.

The Western moral framework is that our leaders may be corrupt and evil, but they at least have to *pretend* to be motivated by peace and humanitarianism.

The completely unjustified and immoral wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Libya were justified with (highly questionable but) explicitly humanitarian concerns. The idea that the leader of a Western nation would justify invading a neighbour based on a historical claim to...

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Konstantin Kisin

@KonstantinKisin

Feb 22

The "Why You Were Wrong About Ukraine and Will Be Again" Megathread

“There will be no invasion,” they said. “Putin is just sabre-rattling,” they told you. “It’s just Biden trying to escalate the situation so he can look good by defusing it,” they explained.

Anti-establishment voices on both Left and Right - voices of reason - urged us to be careful. They argued, often convincingly, that Russia must not be provoked, that concessions must be made to secure peace.
And you believed them.

You believed them for the same reasons I would have believed them.
You believed them because the establishment voices keep lying to you.

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