Brief history of escalation
🔴 2008: russia threatens Georgia, the world’s response is muted. Russia escalates
🔴 2014: russia invades Crimea, gets a slap on the wrist; invades Donbas, downs #MH17
🔴 2015: Nord Stream 2 is green-lighted. Russia exports corruption
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🔴 2021: putin declares his intentions with a genocide manifesto, World buries head in the sand. Russia kills Minsk process, begins energy blackmail
🔴 2022: russia amasses troops at the border, sabre-rattles its nukes, no major response. Russia launches full scale invasion
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Brief history of deescalation
🔵 Free World sands javelins and stingers. Ukraine repels attack on Kyiv. Deescalates the war
🔵 US sends HIMARS, Ukraine liberates Izyum, Kherson.
🔵 Free World sends air defense kit, Ukraine intercepts Ruscist missiles, saves lives
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🔵 Free World recognizes that putin will not stop until he is stopped; and finally learns that the fear of provoking russia PROVOKES russia.
🔵 Free World refuses to be cowed by russia, decides to send tanks. TAKES A GIANT LEAP TOWARDS DEESCALATION 👏👏👏👏👏
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📆As we enter year 2023 and #RussiaIsCollapsing in front of our eyes, I wanted to share a Recommended 📚 Reading List on one theme: why we should welcome the final fall of the Ruscist Empire, no fear it.
1️⃣ The Russian Empire Must Die by @anneapplebaum 1/5 theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
2️⃣ Don’t Be Afraid of a Russian Collapse. By @KristiRaik for @ForeignPolicy
A definitive Ukrainian victory "could one day open up a truly peaceful, post-imperial era in Russia’s relations with its neighbors." 2/5 foreignpolicy.com/2022/12/08/ukr…
3️⃣ Russia must stop being an empire if it is wishes to prosper as a nation. By @TarasKuzio for @ACEurasia
"Russia [in its imperial form] will remain a source of global instability & a threat to 🇪🇺 security while failing to achieve its own potential" 3/5 atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainea…
If the Ruscist Federation is ready for truce, they can just leave. If there were no invading Ruscists — who rape, kill, and torture — there would’ve been no fire to cease
How did we get here? A brief history of Ruscism
🔵 482 Kyiv founded
🔵 879 Rus' -medieval polity centred in Kyiv- formed
🔴 1147 Moscow founded
🔴 1240-1480 Mongols rule Moskovy for 240 years
🔴 1500 – 1700 Moskovy expands eastward, subjugates and occupies local polities 1/3
🔴 1721 Moskovy steals the name Rus' & proclaims itself the Russian Empire
🔴 1922 Empire rebrands as USSR
🔴 1932 Russia commits genocide of Ukrainians - Holodomor
🔴 1939 Soviet Empire forms an alliance with Nazi 🇩🇪 to partition 🇵🇱 (Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact), triggering WWII 2/3
🔴 1989 Soviet empire lose the war in Afghanistan
🔴 1991 USSR collapses
🔴 2008 Russia invades Georgia
🔴 2014 Russian imperial conquest of Ukraine returns (Crimea, Donbas)
🔴 2022 Russia outs itself as fascist and becomes a Ruscist Federation
🔴 2023 Ruscism must be defeated!
🧵 a short thread
The only known cure for state-level #fascism is a resounding defeat in war.
The Third Reich was hellbent on holocaust 80 years ago, and today the Ruscist Federation is prosecuting a genocidal war on Ukraine 1/4 nytimes.com/2022/05/19/opi… via @TimothyDSnyder
the Feb 24 attack by the russian empire is as shocking as it is predictable, because that’s what it has tried with Holodomor when Stalin deliberately starved millions of Ukrainians to death. Same evil empire, albeit under a different banner ☭ 2/4
Why is this happening again and again? Because, unlike Germany, which had an opportunity to atone and face the truth of collective responsibility, russia is stuck. The people of russia desperately need to see Ruscist ideas defeated, and rascist war-crimes exposed! 3/4
Russia is a fascist state, it is killing Ukrainians for being Ukrainian. When an occupying power “evacuates” civilians via filtration camps, this is known as genocide.
Do not #standwithputin, use clear language theguardian.com/world/live/202…