Modern Russia is not just a captured state run by an authoritarian criminal mafia regime - it has also willingly become a true outlaw state, blatantly attacking the rule-based international order.

We should be doing everything to defeat Russia before it strikes militarily.
1/17 Putin’s Russia is a terrorist state whose menace eclipses any other rogue actor on the planet since the Second World War. Russia’s threats of unprovoked use of nuclear weapons endanger humanity.
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I'm sick to death of this. It is *revolting* beyond measure that the entire democratic world is not collectively pursuing Russia's demise. Total strategic defeat. NO NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENTS after "Russia's defeat on the battlefield" because it is total BULLSHIT.
1/23 Repelling Russian aggression on the battlefield and restoring Ukraine’s sovereignty over the whole territory within the internationally recognized borders as of 1991 is certainly the minimal condition for repairing international law broken by Moscow.
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We should chastise all who speak about "negotiations" with Russia "once Ukraine is in a position of strength". If Ukraine is in a position of strength, it needs to see that all the way through and DEFEAT Russia. TERMS OF DEFEAT should be imposed on Moscow. NO "win-wins". "But if Ukraine is in a position of strength, it can negotiate good terms!"

What "good terms" will Russia agree to? Changing its constitution re annexed Ukrainian territory? NO!
Negotiated settlement, by definition, means BOTH parties make concessions. Ukraine should make NONE.

“We can’t shoot down Russian missiles in Ukrainian airspace.”

Why not?

“Risks direct conflict with Russia.”

Actually, it DOESN’T as you wouldn’t be attacking Russia, only missiles that have no business being in UA skies.

“Hmm. It’s not our war.”

Iran’s attack on Israel is? “No, it isn’t. But we care about peace and security in our world.”

WHOSE “world” exactly? Not the world in which Ukraine exists. Last time I checked, we’re on the same planet.

“Oh, umm, we DO care about Ukrainian peace and security. That is why we don’t want to provoke Russia.”

In ‘91, the US reluctantly recognized Ukrainian independence from the USSR (a Russian imperial construct, led & controlled by Moscow)

In 1994, the US pressured UA to give up its nukes in exchange for assurances to protect UA territorial integrity against aggression, including RU In 2009, immediately after Russia illegally invaded Georgia in 2008, the US “reset” relations with Moscow. Part of GE remains occupied today.

In 2014, when RU invaded Ukraine, the US didn’t formally & officially declare RU as aggressor waging unlawful interstate war against UA.

It should be more than clear by now to all that the U.S. is not pursuing the policy of Russian military & political defeat. It was never the plan. It should ALSO be crystal clear that DC never intended for Kyiv to achieve even military battlefield victory in Ukraine.
1/10 The United States has never created the conditions for Ukraine to retake and liberate all Ukrainian territory, never mind resounding battlefield victory. They have created the conditions for ongoing Russian extermination of the Ukrainian nation and people.
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Residents of Oserdów, Poland, near the Ukrainian border, report loud noises resembling jet aircraft.

A Russian missile crossed into Polish airspace. And not for the first time. These missiles are carefully programmed. Russia is deliberately sending them into EU airspace. Russia is DELIBERATELY sending their missiles which are used to kill innocent civilians and destroy critical civilian infrastructure, through EU airspace. Moscow is making sure to travel through the EU on its way to committing terror and genocide in Ukraine.

There must be no illusion: sacrificing Ukraine will not buy time for the West to weaken Russia and prepare for confrontation. If we do not want to live in the dangerous and violent world of “might makes right,” there is no other option than Russian defeat.
1/5 Citizens of NATO countries may not have Russian bombs on their heads, but we should not mistake their absence for the illusion of peace – an illusion that can be shattered by Putin at any moment.
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Western governments are at a decisive moment in history. Do they take resolute action to finally stop Putin’s rogue regime, or do they stay under the optimistic assumption that limited containment will prevent direct military confrontation with Russia?
🧵 In order to answer this question, Western leaders need to be honest and straightforward with their nations about three key points:
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On the difference between Ukrainian and Russian culture:

When my son was born, we received an assortment of Ukrainian language children's books. Some were classics we knew well. But one book was totally alien to both my husband and me.

🧵 1/11 My husband and I both found the story to be absolutely awful, and completely out of character for Ukrainian children’s literature and Ukrainian folklore in general. It stuck out like a sore thumb.
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Our governments are failing us profoundly. Not only are they throwing Ukraine to the genocidal Russian wolves, but they are jeopardizing our national security. They are putting us at great risk.

It is a fact that Russia poses a direct threat to democracy and the rule of law. The upending of the democratic-led international security order is a stated Russian goal. Moscow, with Beijing, has made no secret that a primary goal is to destroy the current world order and replace it with one in their fascist, authoritarian, genocidal image.

If you are a Russian with privilege of voice in the world, use it for good, like concert pianist Evgeny Kissin has and does. Kissin is an outspoken critic of Putin AND Russia, using his fame and immense talent to support Ukraine. #BeLikeKissin
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Kissin provides an example of true understanding of what is wrong with modern day Russia, and how complete defeat of the Russian ideology of "ruscism" is essential for international peace and security. We should measure every liberal Russian against this position.
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An old Russian favourite, this is yet another unambiguously grave war crime by Moscow.

Under the Fourth Geneva Convention, states may not deport or transfer parts of their own civilian population into a territory they occupy.

https://twitter.com/Svidomi_En/status/1752320352540057725

Under the Statute of the International Criminal Court, “the transfer, directly or indirectly, by the Occupying Power of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies” constitutes a war crime in international armed conflicts.

Russia started waging its unprovoked, undeclared, illegal, and genocidal war of aggression against Ukraine in February 2014.

This triggered legal consequences not just for Russia, but also for Ukraine and the international community.
1/11 Ukraine received the legal right of individual self-defence which allows it to strike any target on Russian territory which doesn’t violate intl humanitarian law, and any target on any country helping RU wage its illegal aggression, be it Belarus, Iran, North Korea, or China
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There are some common themes emerging in commentary about the Morozov case. I'm troubled by a lot of it. One which upsets me a great deal is that we must recognize his "contributions" to the field of International Theory.

Now consider: He is accused of being a Russian SPY.
🧵 A Russian asset is not there to enrich the field of IR or political science, but to pollute it - even if his job was primarily intelligence gathering, and not as a propagandist proper. I mean, for fuck's sake, look at some of his work.

Reality check time:

Poland's economy has *benefited* tremendously in the last two years as a result of Russia's illegal, unprovoked, genocidal war of extermination of the Ukrainian nation and people, and the influx of Ukrainian refugees:

1/6🧵 In 2023, the export of goods by road transport to Ukraine from Poland in physical volume increased by 53% compared to the same period in 2022. Revenues of Polish exporters increased by 57% compared to 2022, and by 79% compared to the same period in 2021.
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Insightful interview with former Ukrainian Foreign Minister @Ogrysko.
He says THE fatal mistake the West made from the 90's which allowed Putin grow into a monster threatening the world, was the refusal to see Russia as an aggressive, criminal regime.🧵

Ohryzko made many direct and honest comments about his term as Ukraine's Former Minister in Yulia Tymoshenko's government in 2007-2009. Ohryzko said that Tymoshenko and then president Yushchenko had completely opposite views on Ukraine's future.

A Christmas wish list:

1. @JoeBiden publicly states that Ukraine is free to use western supplied weapons to strike all military targets in Russia - as is part of Ukraine's LEGAL right to self-defence against Russia's ILLEGAL war of aggression against it.
#StopProtectingRussia 2. A @NATO humanitarian mission in Ukraine to protect civilians, as well as critical civilian and nuclear infrastructure from Russian attack. There is broad support for such a mission - see the list of signatories on this international appeal:

actinukrainenow.org/#content

This doesn't cut it @TheTorontoSun. The EDITORIAL choice to publish hate propaganda which mocks victims of genocide, trades on antisemitic & antiUkrainian tropes, & incites hatred of Jews &Ukrainians alike for mythical "theft" of western $ was WILFUL.
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torontosun.com/opinion/sun-ap… @TheTorontoSun admits the cartoon -which received EDITORIAL APPROVAL- used anti-Semitic stereotypes & falsely portrayed Ukrainians as thieves.

The Sun says it was "hurtful" to "Canadians of Ukrainian origin" "Ukrainians" "Canadians of Jewish origin" & Jews

It was SO much more
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‼️Former senior Russian GRU officer, & ex Officer in Russian mercenary groups has fled to the Netherlands with the intention of testifying about Russian war crimes in Ukraine before the ICC. Salikov is not seeking immunity & is prepared to accept responsibility for his role.
1/8 Some of the crimes Salikov has testified to:
-Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014
-Orders came directly from the President's Office & Ministry of Defence
-Russia staged FAKE "referendum" in Donbas by force and falsified the "results" for the Kremlin
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Putin: We are not ending our illegal war against Ukraine until we achieve our goal of the total extermination of the Ukrainian nation and people.

US National Sec Advisor Sullivan: I think you're ready to end it.

Putin: Uh, I just said we go to the bitter end.

Sullivan: Nah
> Putin: I'm telling you we're going to keep destroying Ukraine. Genocide continues.

Sullivan: I think you're actually worried about your economy, and miss the 300,000 killed fighting in Ukraine (including forced Ukrainian conscripts) out of your population of 143.4 million.
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