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Jul 25, 2022 4 tweets 4 min read Read on X
Before Russia's invasion and since, Zelensky has abolished basic liberties: shuttered opposition media, outlawed parties, imprisoned dissidents.

As Ukraine demands money and arms from the West, they now want to export this repression to our countries with McCarthyite blacklists:
You can see the full Ukrainian blacklist, obtained by @unherd. Beyond the individuals listed above, officially maligned are @JeffDSachs, @RandPaul, former Brazil President @LulaOficial, Col. Douglas MacGregor, Caleb Maupin, Marine LePen and many others:

cpd.gov.ua/reports/%D1%81… ImageImageImageImage
It takes extreme audacity for Zelansky and his henchmen to go around the world demanding other nations send massive amounts of weapons and money to him, then try to suppress dissent in our countries by smearing journalists and citizens who question. My full statement to @unherd: Image
I'll be on Fox with @TuckerCarlson, 8:30 pm ET, about the Zelensky Govt's secret list of "Russian propagandists" -- i.e., people such as myself, @RandPaul, @TulsiGabbard, @LulaOficial and others who dared question their demands for endless war support:

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Mar 17
Believing the Israel/Gaza war began on Oct 7 is as ignorant as believing the Russia/Ukraine conflict started in February, 2022.

Israel has been blockading and bombing Gaza continuously for 2 decades.

Israel bombed Gaza 2 weeks before Oct 7, and shot 5 Gazans on the same day.
The 2.2 million Gazans have lived in a literal, not a metaphorical, prison for 2 decades.

In 2002, Israel destroyed its airport. Israel kills them if they try to leave by sea. The borders are shut - by Israel and the US-supported Egyptian dictator.

Who would tolerate this?
Gazan children are dying of starvation: the single worst and most painful way to die. There is no doubt about this.

Mass famine is inevitable. Blaming Hamas - as if they now govern Gaza - is an insult to your intelligence.

Israel explicitly vowed to block food from entering. Image
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Feb 24
Imagine how dumb Victoria Nuland thinks everyone is that she feels comfortable saying with a straight face: "We will do what we have always done, which is defend democracy & freedom around the world..."

As fraudulent as the Iraq War was, more lies were told in Feb. 2022.
Through 2022, these people assured us that the Russian economy was near collapse, the ruble would be dust, Russia was on the brink of running out of bullets, the world united against them.

It's hard to overstate how much the Russian economy is thriving:

As just one example: US/EU sanctions have been such a gigantic failure that even Morning Joe this week devoted 6 straight minutes -- purely using economic data -- to lamenting how vibrant Russia's economy is and how much stronger they are militarily:

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Feb 16
Just 3 weeks ago, a US citizen who was imprisoned by Ukraine for criticizing Zelensky died in prison at 55: few of our über-patriots cared.

They don't care when Israel guns down US citizens in the West Bank or Gaza.

Or when the US Govt destroys Assange for exposing its crimes.
Putin is an authoritarian. So are many of the regimes that the US Govt arms and funds, though far worse.

So is the US Govt itself, which imprisons and kills critics.

This isn't about genuine concern for dissent. It's just a weapon cynically deployed against US enemies.
If you're an American patriot of the kind you herald yourself as, you should care at least as much when a foreign regime kills a US citizen for dissenting, or when a US ally does, or when the US Govt does.

This is just cynical weaponizing of human rights against US enemies.
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Jan 28
I really wonder if any Democrat or liberal ever contemplates why it is that all the worst vintage neocons -- whom they were calling Nazis and bloodthirsty psychopaths just a decade ago -- have the exact same foreign policy as Dems, Biden and liberals now?
Just 15 years ago, liberals hated neocons like they hate Trump now. Jonah Goldberg was a particularly despised because this little coward said the US has to take a crappy little country and throw it against the wall every decade.

Now, they're the same:

Half if not more of the left-liberal bloggers that I used to most read before entering journalism now spread the Word of the worst neocons and Bush/Cheney operatives, even though none changed their views.

Then they accuse everyone who still hates neocons of having "changed."
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Jan 9
This is just like when Palantir announced it was setting aside 180 jobs for Jews only, and Ben Shapiro and Bari Weiss both applauded (Shapiro backtracked after his followers attacked him).

What happened to the vehement opposition to group-based benefits and privileges???
Absolutely bizarre how so many of these people spent years mocking and heaping scorn on any attempt by any minority group to claim oppression and the need for special protections.

Suddenly, they decided that one, and only one, group is sufficiently persecuted: American Jews.
Anyone who actually got persuaded that Bill Ackman is really interested in eliminating DEI and various censorship programs -- rather than *expanding* it to include and protect the groups and causes he most values -- is in for a big surprise.
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Jan 5
Joe Biden is so deeply and passionately devoted to the urgency of Democracy that he's doing everything possible to imprison his leading opponent, criminalize his movement, and (as federal courts found) censor the internet.

But his anti-democratic measures are to save Democracy.
You can take Democratic Party propagandists out of their job as White House speechwriter and give them a podcast, but you can never take the Democratic Party propaganda out of them.
I also can't wait for those now accusing Biden of supporting genocide to slowly shift in 6 months to decreeing that nothing is more vital than keeping the genocide supporter in power.

Nobody who believes this accusation would do that: it's the lesser of 2 genocides!
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