What many publications and "russia experts" won't dare communicate to their audience, is that this isn't just a view held by kooky russian professors and political analysts on russian talk shows, but a common view among russians themselves, and it isn't a new view either. 1/19
During the Holodomor, as moscow ruthlessly stole the last bits of grain from millions of starving Ukrainians, it publicly denounced "nationalist elements in Ukraine" for "sabotaging the harvest to discredit the Marxist cause" with sadistic audacity. 2/19
Jun 17, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
While it may seem too mundane to be worthy of concern for many, there is a genuinely good set of reasons that the regular use of phrases such as "putin's war" raise a flag, they betrays an unwillingness to recognize the scope of a problem.🧵 1/10
It is in fact the case, that had putin not decided to start this exact specific war, then this exact specific war wouldn't have happened. He is after all, the man who is the head of the russian state. 2/10
Mar 15, 2023 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
There are a number of reasons that the entire ordeal at the Oscars cuts so deep for Ukrainians today and they aren't some petty vanity or merely some emotional discomfort. 🧵 1/17
The ordeal itself, is deeply reminiscent of the terms Ukraine has routinely been subjected to, as a result of the games the West and russia play amongst themselves, which ultimately result in Ukrainian casualties. 2/17
Jan 9, 2023 • 33 tweets • 6 min read
The global understanding of Ukrainian history is one of the difficulties that Ukrainians face (as do many other nations that were/are trapped within the prison of nations), moscow is diligent in controlling the understanding around our history, especially abroad. 🧵 1/33
Walter Duranty is a prominent example of how russia gets to interpret, mould, control and disseminate their narratives about the peoples who live within or around it. 2/33
Dec 29, 2022 • 9 tweets • 1 min read
There's talk about removing the genocidal russian state from the UNSC and it's curious to me that people bring up certain "pragmatic" considerations in opposition. 🧵1/
I'd also like to enter a pragmatic consideration, in the form of a thought experiment. Suppose you have a toaster, that can't toast toast. 2/
Dec 8, 2022 • 25 tweets • 5 min read
Several complementary pillars, of the russian phenomenon, continuously recreate the kind of societal dysfunction, that gives us its genocidal tendencies, its intolerance, its corruption, its imperialism and much more. One among them, is that russia has a dishonour culture. 🧵1/
The corrosive effect of russia's dishonour culture can't be overstated. Its presence is felt in literature, history, government and individual alike. It's a culture saturated with a cynical value which all by itself, renders it functionally unfixable in any simple sense. 2/
Oct 22, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
In the event that russia's genocidal actions are at all rewarded, with territorial concessions, with prestige or forgiveness, or anything else for that matter, understand that you are demonstrating, in their understanding, that their efforts are vindicated.
Some naively believed (and some continue to believe) that the loss of tens of thousands of soldiers, will dissuade their behaviour in the future. Many of these people were of course, shocked, by the blatant disregard for human life, that the russian state has demonstrated.
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