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Dec 7 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Most discussions of #Russia’s attack on #Ukraine are about one’s position within the #RussianUkrainianWar. Yet, the real question is: What stance do you take towards the #annihilation and #intimidation campaign of an army against millions of civilians? /1
defenseone.com/technology/202…
How best formulate "interests," "strategy" & "tactics" in the face of undisguised mass murder? What is "wise" & "unwise" to do vis-à-vis state terror? How calibrate your reaction when heavy weapons daily target infrastructure that keeps pensioners, patients & children alive? /2
What position and action does a European take regarding not so much a European war, but a state's daily, purposeful & demonstrative use, in Europe, of large cannons, missiles, bombers and warships to explode the homes and life support systems of families during winter time? /END
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Dec 2
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
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Nov 24
Many Western observers assuming that #Ukraine can & should exchange land for peace underestimate neo-Soviet utilitarianism. #Russian leaders engage in #aggressions because they generate victories that are popular with many #Russians. /1
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#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
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Nov 19
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
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Nov 18
#G20Indonesia2022 summit declaration on #Russia's war against #Ukraine: "We reiterated our national positions as expressed in other fora, including the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly,.../1
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...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
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Oct 17
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
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Oct 15
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…
2. His harshness (#Russian: #surovost') saved, however, neither the 1991 coup nor the #USSR. Rather, it hastened the #Soviet #collapse that year. Chances are that #Surovikin may now accomplish the same bloody trick for #Putin's #neoimperial project and the #RussianFederation.
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