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@Kasparov63
Jan 2, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
🎯 Inconstancy is deadly. It also further exposes the futility of defense-only support. A nation cannot long survive under constant barrages even if they shoot down 90%. They have to be able to go on offense, to destroy the launchers, to raise the costs for Russia.
Allowing Putin to murder Ukrainian civilians daily for "as long as it takes" is unacceptable. If its allies want to war to end, Ukraine must be armed to win. If this doesn’t happen, Putin believes he can wait out Western aid.
How pathetic it is that after two years of Putin's all-out war on Ukraine, EU & US support wavers more than China, Iran, and North Korea's for Russia. The free world has every advantage except will. Economic & military might to crush Russia in Ukraine 10 times over and it sits.
The cost will be far higher when NATO is involved directly. And why wouldn’t Putin do it, after its most powerful member states keep backing down now? Remember, the risk isn’t if Russia can win, it's if Putin thinks the West won’t fight. Same for Taiwan.
NATO is a piece of paper in the end, and without the collective will to fight, its defense promises are worthless. When Russia increases hybrid warfare against Poland and Latvia, will the US and Germany rush to their aid or find more excuses? What does Putin see now?
The Republicans are blocking Ukraine aid so they can say Biden wasted billions if things get worse. The White House can refute that cynical ploy by using executive power to do what is right for American interests by seizing Russian assets and arming Ukraine to win now.

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Nov 21
To paraphrase a great Ukrainian patriot, "Russian peace plan, go f*** yourself!"
Do not fall for the desired Kremlin/Trump narrative of Ukraine "rejecting peace". The plan was a surrender document that would have crippled Ukrainian sovereignty, which is what they’ve given so much blood to defend since the Maidan Revolution exactly 12 years ago today.
No one wants the war to end more than the Ukrainian people and President Zelenskyy. No one. But they are not willing to betray the memory of their thousands of dead—the brave soldiers and innocent civilians—by rewarding Russia and weakening themselves for the next attack.
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Nov 17
I just met a remarkable man whose caring and courage have produced a must-see film, "Mr Nobody Against Putin". Pavel "Pasha" Talankin documented two years of everyday life in the small town of Karabash, where he worked at a school. Plain, horrific reality of Putin's Russia. Image
Even for me and my wife, no strangers to the depravations of the USSR and Putin's dictatorship, what Russia has now become down to the brainwashing of children was shocking to see. A history teacher idolizing Beria & Abakumov as former students return from Ukraine in body bags.
"Mr Nobody Against Putin" is definitive proof of why Western leaders still talking about negotiating peace with Putin are fools at best. This isn't my Soviet paranoia or saber-rattling. This is the raw truth of Russia, a country twisted into a nightmare for perpetual war.
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Nov 2
No personal experience. As with Trump's authoritarianism, and the antisemitism rising on left and right, Marxism and its stalking horse democratic socialism spreads easily among those too young and/or ignorant of their history. The moral clarity of the Cold War is long gone.
The Soviet Union was evil. We knew it and Americans knew it. Engagement has blurred the lines with profitable moral relativism. We get our iPhones from a Communist dictatorship using slave labor and call it progress. Our energy purchases fund feudal monarchies and Russian wars.
Instead of listening to people who have lived through the fall of democracy, or the delusions of socialism, many want to live through it themselves, like diseases they have no immunity to. Unfortunately, the learning process can be very destructive.
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Nov 2
Like any successful mafia boss, Putin's axis of dictatorship is based on loyalty and the use of force. Free world powers sit complacently atop their towers of weapons and wealth, sending concerns and press releases. Russia, Iran, Cuba et al send troops, missiles, and jets.
Of course, that loyalty can come to an abrupt end at any moment, as happened to Assad in Syria a year ago. No honor among terrorists and thugs. Ukraine's valiant resistance has weakened Russia's ability to support its allies and proxies.
Even so, the West quavers and self-deters, which perpetuates the cycle of violence from small threats and conflicts to larger ones. Russia and other authoritarians and terrorists see no reason not to use violence early and often. Deterrence saves lives, appeasement loses them.
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Oct 8
No one could watch Bondi‘s performance, and that’s what it was, of stonewalling and trolling and think that she’s part of an administration that believes they will ever leave power or be held accountable.
This isn’t the typical lack of foresight of having procedural changes come back to bite you. This is a group so invested in shattering the institutions of American governance and in personal enrichment that there can be no way back.
Trump and Miller are openly talking about arresting opposing elected officials. They are attacking so-called corrupt judges, a term they use for anyone who disagrees with them in order to debase the word, which of course applies only to their own monumental looting campaign.
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Oct 5
Yes. As I wrote in February, everything is an emergency. And if there isn't one yet, it will be created asap.
In our marches in Russia, we were adamant to avoid any sign of violence. Not one broken window, because we knew it’s what the regime wanted. They lined the streets with riot police, outnumbering us 10 to 1. But in the end, it didn’t matter. They simply criminalized all protest.
New "anti-extremism" laws passed, and peaceful protesting became a criminal charge with prison time, not a civil one with a fine. Judges were intimidated and any that didn’t automatically sentence protesters were soon removed. Opposition leaders were jailed, exiled, or murdered.
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