@Kuperman2020 Your new article is deeply flawed. Please consider these corrections. 1. This conflict started in 2013. Yanukovych was elected by russian-speaking Ukrainians promising to sign a trade agreement with the EU. Russia imposed Budapest-breaking trade restrictions to break the deal.
@Kuperman2020 2. The "Ukrainian right-wing militants who started the violence in 2014" were Yanukovych's right-wing "Titushky" militants who started beating journalists in May 2013. kp.ua/summary/394666…
@Kuperman2020 3. Yanukovych's "decision" to pursue Russian rather than European cooperation was coerced by trade restrictions and threats of war. Sergei Glazyev threatened Russia would void the border treaty, start "separatists movements", and intervene to protect them.
Let's turn a critical eye to all the things Tucker Carlson alludes to. Putin is bad. Tucker's list shows why. 🧵 1. Putin murders his political opponents. His dictatorship is supported sham elections. Putin hasn't defeated a serious opponent in decades.
2. Ukraine banned the Ukrainian Orthodox Church for collaborating with soldiers invade Ukraine. The Orthodox Church of Ukraine teaches the same religion without reporting to Moscow and operates normally. unherd.com/2022/12/the-uk… x.com/JayinKyiv/stat…
3. No language is banned in Ukraine. russian was removed as a state language. Ukrainians can speak russian if they want. They can't demand government services in russian. Crimeans are punished for speaking Ukrainian.
Not breaking news. Common knowledge: Russia's economy is _really_ fucked and it's all because of Putin's disastrous war.🧵
1. Every month the "market rate" for new russian recruits rises exponentially. Cheap, gullible soldiers are already dead. Remaining men understand how few of them will return alive to spend their money.
2. Unemployment is very, very low. No free labour means companies have to poach other companies' workers by promising higher wages. It's a bidding contest for workers. Higher wages are good, right? tradingeconomics.com/russia/unemplo…
"Victoria Nuland and Geoffery Pyatt planned regime change" is 100% russian propaganda. 🧵
Late January: Maidan protests began late November after russia forced Yanukovych out of the EU Association Agreement. Yanukovych was looking for a compromise... reuters.com/article/world/…
26 January: Yanukovych publicly suggested Arseniy Yatsenyuk could become PM. Yatsenyuk didn't want to work with Yanukovych and publicly refused the offer. web.archive.org/web/2014020217…
28 January: Yanukovych already had a prime minister. Mykola Azarov didn't appreciate the public humiliation and resigned, leaving Ukraine with no prime minister. reuters.com/article/world/…
On 25 June 2024 @Bloomberg reported a unanimous European Court of Human Rights ruling that Russia committed 16 violations in #Crimea of the European Convention on Human Rights. Bloomberg skeptics should read the court's decision. 🧵
1. ECHR judges found russia was responsible for human rights abuses because abuses were repeatedly committed and officially tolerated, even after the case was filed. hudoc.echr.coe.int/%7B%22language…
2. ECHR judges unanimously found russia denied Crimeans the right to fair trial due to "the application of russian law" throughout Crimea by courts not considered "established by law". hudoc.echr.coe.int/%7B%22language…
The dumbest people on Twitter say "NATO" justifies russia's 2014 invasion & 2022 escalation. A multidimensionally, fractally wrong argument.🧵 1. Putin spent the 2000s declaring Ukraine a sovereign state with the inherent right to join or leave military alliances including NATO.
2. In late 2010 @MedvedevRussiaE and Yanukovych signed the Astana Declaration, recognising all countries including Ukraine had the right to choose or change their security arrangements, including treaties of alliance. osce.org/mc/74985 osce.org/mc/87214
3. In 1990 US secretary James Baker suggested that Final Settlement discussions "could" achieve an outcome where NATO would not expand "one inch to the East", but they "did not have German agreement". Baker's proffer was never negotiated or finalised. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on…