Thread by @bucktron2021

@lopatonok @ZelenskyyUa @TheOliverStone I watched "Revealing Ukraine" from beginning to end and and it was monumentally stupid. The nuclear montage at the end was particularly heavy-handed, and trying to tell the rest of the world we shouldn't care when Russia invades was absurdly tone deaf.

@lopatonok @ZelenskyyUa @TheOliverStone 1. It's ironic that #RevealingUkraine starts with @TheOliverStone worrying about his country's "extremely militaristic path" considering the extremely militaristic path that Putin has chosen in Ukraine.

@lopatonok @ZelenskyyUa @TheOliverStone 2. There is "no peace" and "control over parts of the territories has been lost" because Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014. #RevealingUkraine star Viktor Medvedchuk supported Russia's invasion.

@lopatonok @ZelenskyyUa @TheOliverStone 3. ...which is why Medvedchuk was sanctioned. He was a collaborator in the invasion of Ukraine and bears responsibility for the war that Russia started. #RevealingUkraine
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@lopatonok @ZelenskyyUa @TheOliverStone 4. Prior to Russia's 2014 invasion many Ukrainians _chose_ to live abroad. Russia's invasion displaced 12.8 million more Ukrainians including 5.1 million who fled the country. #RevealingUkraine
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@lopatonok @ZelenskyyUa @TheOliverStone 5. #RevealingUkraine keeps mentioning the "bloody war in Donbas" without mentioning that Russia started the bloody war in 2014 and was obliged to withdraw all Russian troops under Minsk II.

https://twitter.com/AlasdairMcc1/status/1585892985413455872

@lopatonok @ZelenskyyUa @TheOliverStone 6. Phobias are irrational. Ukraine's "radical hysterical Russophobes" were speaking truthfully and rationally about Putin's 2014 invasion and were vindicated by Putin's 2022 escalation. #RevealingUkraine

@lopatonok @ZelenskyyUa @TheOliverStone 7. Ukrainians, Russians, and British people must accommodate Urkainian, Russian, and English but they can also speak any additional languages that they like. #RevealingUkraine.

@lopatonok @ZelenskyyUa @TheOliverStone 8. According to OHCHR, Ukrainian protestors were killed by "commanders and servicemen of the Berkut special police regiment". Russian mercenaries also "took part in the events in Ukraine (Maidan)". #RevealingUkraine

https://twitter.com/bucktron2021/status/1571559528096796674

@lopatonok @ZelenskyyUa @TheOliverStone 9. Some Maidan protestors got amnesty. Others didn't. Ivan Bubenchik, a Maidan activist from Lviv, was convicted of killing two members of Ukraine’s riot police during 2014 Maidan. #RevealingUkraine
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@lopatonok @ZelenskyyUa @TheOliverStone 10. "Many Ukranians hate Russia so much" because Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 while denying involvement in the war they started. Russia's 2022 escalation internationalised and justified this hatred. #RevealingUkraine

@lopatonok @ZelenskyyUa @TheOliverStone 11. Since February 2022 anti-Russian propaganda has become *vindicated*. Today the majority of the *world* considers Russia to be the aggressor. #RevealingUkraine

@lopatonok @ZelenskyyUa @TheOliverStone 12. It's "easy" to think of Russia as the aggressor because Russia invaded Ukrainian cities in 2014. The Ukrainian army is bombing and shelling Ukrainian cities occupied by Russian Federation soldiers. #RevealingUkraine

@lopatonok @ZelenskyyUa @TheOliverStone 13. McCain was "directly involved" encouraging Ukraine to join the EU. It's fine. If Putin gives a speech promoting Russia that's also fine. What's not fine is rolling tanks into Donbas or Kyiv because Ukraine chose EU association. #RevealingUkraine
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@lopatonok @ZelenskyyUa @TheOliverStone 14. Ukraine's eagerness to join the EU and NATO is not "aggression". Putin's decision to invade Ukraine was Putin's choice. There was no "aggression against Russia" before Putin's 2014 invasion. #RevealingUkraine

@lopatonok @ZelenskyyUa @TheOliverStone 15. "Every Russian accusation is a confession." @TheOliverStone should been worrying that Russia would use Russia's already-hot 2014 war in Donbas to push Russia toward an even hotter 2022 war with Ukraine backed by the EU and NATO. #RevealingUkraine

@lopatonok @ZelenskyyUa @TheOliverStone 16. It's true that Ukraine fared poorly compared to Belarus and Russia. But Ukraine's EU neighbours are even more successful. Putin is trying to take Ukraine at gunpoint because Ukraine chose to follow Poland, Hungary, and Romania into the EU. #RevealingUkraine

@lopatonok @ZelenskyyUa @TheOliverStone 17. Hunter Biden got an appointment to Burisma because he's Biden's son, not because he is competent. Hunter resigned in April 2019. Not a reason for Putin to invade Ukraine. #RevealingUkraine
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@lopatonok @ZelenskyyUa @TheOliverStone 18. Ukraine is not a "US colony". Russia invaded Ukraine to make Ukraine a Russian colony. Medvedchuk was the most likely administrator of Putin's newest colony. #RevealingUkraine
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@lopatonok @ZelenskyyUa @TheOliverStone 19. Here's the speech Medvedchuk is talking about. "What to do and how to do it" was advice for avoiding the "cancer of corruption". It's a good speech. You should read it. #RevealingUkraine
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@lopatonok @ZelenskyyUa @TheOliverStone 20. Hoo boy. George Soros "figures into this" a mainstay of modern online antisemitism. #RevealingUkraine
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@lopatonok @ZelenskyyUa @TheOliverStone 21. Evidence of Russian interference is extensive and detailed. In some cases we know the names, units, and daily activity of the Russian agents who interfered. #RevealingUkraine
intelligence.senate.gov/publications/r…

@lopatonok @ZelenskyyUa @TheOliverStone 22. The US also interfered in Ukraine. Manafort helped Yanukovych beat Tymoshenko in 2004, then failed to register as a foreign agent but #RevealingUkraine doesn't want to get into the details for some reason.

@lopatonok @ZelenskyyUa @TheOliverStone 23. It's fine to visit foreign contries to investigate opponents if a candidate has significant dealings with those countries.
GRU hacked the DNC twice. Timed the release of documents to encourage Trump to lift sanctions in place for annexing Crimea. #RevealingUkraine

@lopatonok @ZelenskyyUa @TheOliverStone 23a. I get that plenty of Ukrainian nationalists didn't want Trump to win because Trump was seen as pro-Russian. But "Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022 to save the integrity of American elections" is going to be a difficult argument nonetheless.#RevealingUkraine

@lopatonok @ZelenskyyUa @TheOliverStone 24. If "any destabilization in Ukraine affects the interests of Russia" I've got some very bad news about what Putin has accomplished since February 2022. #RevealingUkraine

@lopatonok @ZelenskyyUa @TheOliverStone 25. Putin commands the Russian army. Russia "stirred up aggression against Russia right at Russia's border". Russia is to blame for what's happened. Russia's 2014 invasion of Ukraine and the 2022 escalation are Russia's fault. #RevealingUkraine

https://twitter.com/Euan_MacDonald/status/550961802516135936

@lopatonok @ZelenskyyUa @TheOliverStone 26. Russian tanks invaded Ukrainian cities. Russia is to blame, and now the world is united in sanctions against Russia. It matters who starts first. Russia started first. #RevealingUkraine

@lopatonok @ZelenskyyUa @TheOliverStone 27. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are NATO members on Russia's borders. These countries are not "hostile". Ukraine is not "hostile". Ukraine just wants Russia to leave it alone and let Ukraine make their own decisions. #RevealingUkraine

@lopatonok @ZelenskyyUa @TheOliverStone 28. "Every Russian accusation is a confession." Russia never managed to stage their "provocation". Russia invaded anyway, without even a pretext of justification. #RevealingUkraine
foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/14/rus…

@lopatonok @ZelenskyyUa @TheOliverStone 29. Here's the money shot. Tone-deaf as the rest of the film. Everyone in Ukraine is fighting for their survival against Russian aggression because Russia is seeking to erase Ukrainian the people, culture, and identity not just their President. #RevealingUkraine

@lopatonok @ZelenskyyUa @TheOliverStone 30. Medvedchuck was never "in favor of an independent Ukraine". Medvedchuck was paid generously to be Russia's quisling in Ukraine. "Ties with Russia" are impossible after Russia's 2014 invasion and 2022 escalation. #RevealingUkraine

@lopatonok @ZelenskyyUa @TheOliverStone 31. And that's the film. To be honest I'm disappointed that they didn't start talking about Nazis. Still no rationale for Russia invading Ukraine. #RevealingUkraine keeps talking about how Ukraine will make a provocation and Russia will be forced to invade. Eat shit @lopatonok.