An elaboration on Peter Dickinson's article for the @AtlanticCouncil: People around the world - not the least #Israelis - will now better understand why some "civilized" states did not help Jews in the 1930s and 1940s as much as they could & should have./1 atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainea…
@AtlanticCouncil#Israel has today its own reasons to largely watch rather than substantially help prevent an almost live-streamed #genocide. Countries had eight decades ago their own reasons not to "overreact" to a looming #Holocaust that was still in the fog, at that time. /2
@AtlanticCouncil#Morality does not necessarily create behavioral imperatives even in the face of the possible suffering of millions -- as #Jews can now vividly learn from the behavior of their own state. /END
Victories in #Moldova, #Chechnia, Georgia, #Crimea, Syria, and the Donbas did not satisfy Russia. They triggered appetite for more victories. If #Russia is provided with another victory, this will not bring peace but merely provide time to prepare for achieving more victories. /2
#Odesa, #Pavlodar, #Belarus, #Narva.... - you name it. Aggression works, both internationally and domestically. Obtained lands confirm the utility of aggression. Peace is necessary to prepare the next victory. Concessions feed aggressiveness & will not satisfy the appetite. /END
Perhaps, the best strategy to help #Ukrainians now is to improve the transportation infrastructure between #Ukraine and the #EU. Many individuals, initiatives, and organizations ready to help and to take the risk will use new trains and roads to flexibly do what is necessary. /1
One could imagine direct high speed @Ukrzaliznytsia trains from @rzeszow_airport & other EU airports near Ukraine's western border to Kyiv or even further east, and with direct flights to these airports from Berlin, Brussels, London, Paris, Stockholm, New York, Toronto, etc. /2
A strategy to enable Ukrainians to better help themselves as well as to ease the activities of thousands of governmental and non-governmental pro-Ukrainian structures can have cumulative & spill over effects going beyond what one can currently imagine./END
...which, in Resolution No. ES-11/1 dated 2 March 2022, as adopted by majority vote (141 votes for, 5 against, 35 abstentions, 12 absent) deplores in the strongest terms the #aggression by the #RussianFederation against #Ukraine.../2
...and demands its complete and unconditional withdrawal from the territory of Ukraine. Most members strongly condemned the war in Ukraine and stressed it is causing immense human suffering and exacerbating existing facilities in the global economy.../3
Zutreffende Beobachtung. Es war insbesondere seit 2014 skandalös, was und wer alles in den Medien als legitim zum Thema Ukrainekrieg präsentiert wurde. Teils wurde der Bock zum Gärtner gemacht und es der kriegstreibenden Partei erlaubt, öffentlich sein Opfer zu diskreditieren. /1
Repräsentanten russischer Staatsorgane und -medien wurde über Monate allwöchentlich eine Bühne in öffentlich-rechtlichen sowie privaten deutschen Medien geboten, um ihre explizite Ukrainverleumdung und implizite Kriegshetze (teils GEZ-gebührenfinanziert) zu verbreiten. /2
Nicht genug, dass deutsche Medien damt eine imperialistische Propagandakampagne zur Vorbereitung, Rechtfertigung und Begleitung von notdürftig verschleierten militärischen Überfällen, verschiedenen Gebietsannexionen und Staatsterror gegen ukrainische Zivilisten unterstützten. /3
THREAD: An intriguing appointment 1. Russia's new commander of the so-called special military operation in #Ukraine, #SergeySurovikin, led at Moscow in August 1991 a military unit bloodily defending a #Soviet imperialist usurpation to preserve the empire. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Su…
Are the #Ukrainians really THAT good? - A thread:
1./ This is the second time that #Ukraine's security services have, according to the #Kremlin's narrative, performed a miracle:
2./ On 20 August, they exploded a bomb killing Daria Dugina in the Odintsovsky District where Putin's residence Novo-Ogariovo is located. On 8 October, they blew up a truck loaded with explosives on the Kerch Strait Bridge, one of the world's most well-protected infrastructures.
3./ After almost a quarter of a century under Putin's reign, the FSB was, according to this story, not able to prevent either of these two daring Ukrainian actions, at a time when Russia wages a war of annihilation against Ukraine.