Thread by @JBelcourt73

Now into a second day of Russian strikes designed to cripple Ukraine's civilian population heading into winter. This is not revenge for the Kerch Strait bridge, this is state sponsored terrorism by a dictator who has failed to fill the shoes of his heroes like Hitler and Peter

The Great. He has now moved from Ukraine will be part of the Russian Empire again to if I can't have it no one can. He seeks to de-energize the entire country and also make the countries soviet era district heating system using centralized thermal plants inoperable. Its a slow

attempted murder attempt to kill as many people and depopulate a city much as a nuke would but without the mushroom clouds and fall out... Well there will be fall out he is trying to force Ukraine to move enmass. We are now watching one of the most important races in human

history. How fast can Ukraine get these thermal plants back online and protected from further strikes on one side and cold death on the other. The civilians who don't flee to Europe are the prize. He may also be trying to force NATO and the West to freeze the conflict. My thesis

is as follows: create so much outrage in Western nations over the barbarity that NATO intervenes and declares a no-fly zone effectively freezing the conflict where the lines are. He assuems NATO would force the Ukrainians to stop advancing and he could claim he would have won

but for NATO (which he is already claiming anyway) but, "hey look at least we got Melitipol and Kherson and a big honking NPP". If this is what he wants, then the West needs to use an asymmetric approach to its response to both arm Ukraine and safeguard her civilians. Here are

the options. They are not mutually exclusive 1. Do as we are sending arms but little else. Maybe with increased air defense systems. 2. Take over air defense duties at X distance from the front lines. Tell Russia to bring it if she wants too but not a no-fly zone. 3. Have well

known politicians and leading voice start talking publicly about the Laws of Armed Conflict (LOAC) in particular about distinction and proportionality how that relates to what is and is not a military target and why dams and thermal plants are protected sites but the Kerch bridge

wasn't but that if Russia is not going to follow the LOAC then Ukraine must be given the weapons to respond in kind (ATACMS). Winter is even colder in Russia. Let it be known that anymore hostage taking on a national scale will be met in kind. 4. Declare Russia a state sponsor of

terrorism and kick in all the secondary sanctions against anyone trading with her. Make it clear to Russia's enablers like India and China that its time to choose your markets, no more playing both sides. 5. PNG all Russian diplomats except for 1 ambassador and 1 secretary per

embassy and tell Russia to designate a non-involved 3rd party to handle her affairs in the west. 6. Designate the Z symbol, Russian/Soviet flags and Russian imperial/ Soviet iconography as symbols of hate and certain words as hate speech. 7. Have the allied powers re-convene the

Nuremburg tribunal to issue an advisory opinion on A: is Wagner an illegal criminal enterprise B: do Russian actions amount to crimes against peace and a war of aggression. Why Nuremburg... because it's an allied powers institution with serious gravitas that Russia can't veto.

Talk openly about a Polish-Ukrainian- American alliance specifically and exclusively to aid any of the three if invaded by Belarus specifically. Give Lukashenko more reasons to drag his feet. 9. In countries that have the mechanism, begin civil forfeiture proceedings against

oligarch wealth and designate half the seized funds for restitution to Ukraine proper and the other half in a general fund subject to private lawsuits brought by victims of Russian aggression. 10. Make it clear that we will not negotiate with any Russian government that has Putin

or one of his leading cronies like Lavrov or Medvedev at its head. I really hope that @JohnBoozman, @SenTomCotton, and @RepFrenchHill see this essay. Putin is trying to escalate to deescalate to get out of the war but not out of Ukraine. As recent videos show, the horror that is

#GenocideOfUkrainians continues unabated because #RussiaIsATerroristState. It's time to go around his gimmicks, see through his stratagems and take the gloves off even if we don't quite hit him with the iron fists they cover. We must also redouble our charitable efforts.

#WinterIsComing and now we need to not only support the Ukrainian army and some civilians, but now its going to be most civilians depending on us to step up and carry them through the nightmare. So pick your charities and give. My favorite is @MriyaAid but I have also given to

@georgian_legion and @U24_gov_ua but there are a lot too choose from and there is endless need thanks to Russian #warcrimes. Of course we all know what is going on is evil and the past two days exceptionally so even for #Russia so the trolls, bots and apologists are going to be

out of force. Some like @mtracey are still stuck on bridge while completely ignoring what the attacks on thermal plants mean for civilians. Then he has the gall to claim he's not a Russian asset at least de facto ir not de jure. He is not alone in spreading hate and dis-info and

#NAFO is ratioing them as fast as we find them but some of the dumber ones keep coming back (or maybe they are paid too). One place where you won't hear the BS is on @MriyaReport you should give them a follow and listen in as often as you can. Its basically a masterclass on all

relating to Ukraine. The number of SME's who have given the equivalent of #TED talks and then done Q&A with us there is huge and unique among any and all forms of media.

Remember, #UkraineWillWin and until Ukraine wins of Ukraine's terms: Slava Ukraini! #NATO #Arkansas #genocide @mfa_russia <--- still losing and hopefully with all your embassy's closed soon. You are not a civilized nation but the deformed echo of ancient barbarism.