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Saakashvili, ex-president of Georgia: The Ankara agreement gives Ukraine a Patriot license, but bureaucracy and production setup will take months.

Ukrainian Patriots will not appear before next year, Ukrainska Pravda. 1/ Image
Saakashvili: Putin trapped himself. If he agrees to a ceasefire, Russia becomes a North Korea and a satellite of China.

While Putin remains in power, there will be no ceasefire; the war will sharply escalate. 2/
Saakashvili: Without protection from ballistic missiles, Kyiv must be ready to become London during World War II: mass destruction of infrastructure, buildings and even the government quarter.

Human lives must be saved first. 3/
Saakashvili: Ukraine must urgently build shelters. Metro stations and existing shelters are not enough. Every resident of Kyiv and other cities must have a place in a shelter.

Gas stations may also be destroyed, so cities need mobile fuel stations. 4/
Saakashvili: Energy must be fully decentralized — heat and electricity. Government institutions must shift to dispersed and remote work. Military production should move abroad.

Ukraine must expand its long-range weapons and strike Russia’s most sensitive points. 5X
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More from @Mylovanov

Jul 10
Browder: Putin started a war because he stole so much money that he became afraid of his own people.

The easiest way to stop people turning against you is to create a foreign enemy. That is Machiavelli 101. 1/
Browder: If Putin used a nuclear weapon, he still would not win the war.

Ukraine is too large and too dispersed. China and the Global South would step away, and Putin would become a fully defined war criminal. 2/
Browder: This war is more likely to end like Korea than with a peace agreement.

Ukraine will keep making the war more painful for Russia until both sides stop attacking each other across a fortified front line. Nobody will negotiate peace. 3X
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Jul 10
Browder: Ukrainians were never Russia's enemy.

The Kremlin manufactured that enemy. It called Ukrainians Nazis and fascists and accused them of things they never did. Crimea then sent Putin's approval ratings through the roof. 1/
Browder: Putin has been stealing since his days in the St. Petersburg mayor's office.

Putin and about a thousand people around him stole one trillion dollars from the Russian state before the war. 2X
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Jul 10
McFaul: Trump used to tell Zelenskyy: You don't have the cards. Zelenskyy answered: This is not a game, this is a war.

Now Trump sees that Zelenskyy has cards. The balance of power is changing, and that is why he may be more willing to help Ukraine. 1/
McFaul: The West's biggest mistake was worrying too much about what Putin thought.

That started long before the full-scale invasion. It was a mistake at the Bucharest NATO summit, during the war against Georgia and in the response that followed. 2/
McFaul: We failed to help democratic institutions take root in Russia after the Soviet Union collapsed. I supported that effort. We failed. I personally feel responsibility for that failure. 3/
Read 6 tweets
Jul 10
The billionaires who got rich under Putin are starting to get nervous.

Andrey Melnichenko, Russia’s biggest industrialist, says the war is breaking Russia's economy — and if nothing changes, the country ends up broke, isolated, or run by China, The Economist. 1/ Image
Melnichenko is not anti-Putin opposition. He is an insider whose factories supported the war economy. Like most oligarchs, he lived by Putin’s rules: make money, but keep out of politics.

He speaks now because tycoons can no longer ignore the rot. 2/
The Ukraine war has come home to Russia.

Ukrainian attacks on energy infrastructure brought fuel queues and fistfights at filling stations. Drone strikes isolate Crimea. Forced military enlistment feeds resentment. Influencers’ war complaints go viral. 3/
Read 8 tweets
Jul 10
Putin is pretending he is crazy and will never stop.

He is a rational player. At some point he will stop. But first, Russia must feel five to ten times more pain than it does now, I told the WSJ. 1/ Image
Ukraine struck Russia's largest refinery in Omsk, more than 1,500 miles from Ukrainian-controlled territory.

Russia left Omsk without air defence because it considered the refinery out of Ukraine's reach. Ukrainian drones hit its crude distillation unit. 2/
Moscow banned diesel exports after the Omsk strike. Ukraine has struck every major refinery in European Russia this year.

Gasoline production has fallen by at least 25%, triggering shortages, rationing and long queues. 3/
Read 9 tweets
Jul 9
NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Transformation Vandier: Patriot production is limited — the US can't supply the Gulf, Pacific, and Europe at once.

We need more from all sources. Ukrainians are already building their own ABM system. 1/
Vandier: NATO acquires massive deep precision strike ammunition. Expensive weapons hit hardened targets.

Cheap mass-produced ammo saturates the front. Any massive troop gathering sits under a strike umbrella. That's deterrence by denial.

2/
Vandier: Aegis Ashore is efficient against specific ballistic missiles. Turkey, Italy, France, MBDA all ramp up ABM programs.

Ballistic missiles are expensive — numbers favor us. Israel proves the system works. I'm confident we can fight this battle.

3X
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