All the disillusionment & rage many are expressing today about US policy toward Ukraine and Russia is the result of DENIAL of what DC has consistently and clearly conveyed by every policy and action since 2014. People needed to fight for better instead of swallowing shit.
1/4 I cannot express how much resistance and outright REFUSAL to accept ugly facts about US policy @RomanSohn and I encountered, with people preferring to ignore reality, and to fall for the fantasy lies fed to them by dishonest politicians, diplomats, analysts, and journalists.
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If NATO nations cared about national and collective security as they proclaim to, we would be helping Ukraine defeat Russia militarily and politically, not insisting it isn’t a NATO nation so we have no obligation to help as if it were. We endanger Ukraine & ourselves otherwise. If you care about your national security, you don’t obscenely deny the fact of Russian missiles and drones violating your airspace on their way to destroy Ukrainian civilian infrastructure and kill Ukrainians, YOU SHOOT THEM DOWN.

So much confirmed in Polish General Andrzejczak's statement:

1. Rather than helping Ukraine defeat Russia today, Poland is prepared to allow Russia to defeat and occupy Ukraine - right to Lviv - and THEN fight Moscow when it militarily attacks a NATO nation.
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https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1844774323795697748

2. They are hoarding weapons for "when Russia attacks" instead of helping Ukraine defeat Russia today to ensure that Moscow cannot militarily attack a NATO nation tomorrow.
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There is an overlooked and ill-understood fact of what Russian victory in Ukraine means: a bigger Russia, with more people to use to wage future wars.

More territory + more people = more powerful Russia. A more powerful Russia poses an even larger threat than it does today.
1/8 Every proposal that sees Russia continuing to occupy even some Ukrainian territory is not only a proposal of sacrifice of Ukrainian land and people, but a proposal to strengthen Russia.
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The "West German model" for NATO membership for Ukraine DE FACTO means
-partitioning Ukraine to reward Putin with the spoils of war and genocide
-coercing Ukraine to (minimally) make territorial concessions to Russia, with other potential concessions on the table as well
1/7 -UA does NOT emerge victorious, but occupied by Russia which will continue to wage war
-saving Putin's throne in Russia by giving him a victory - at least 30% of Ukraine's territory - he can claim to Russians
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Russian crimes in Ukraine meet the test for genocide in spades. There is no question that Moscow's war is genocidal. It is abundantly clear.

So why do we not see this FACT universally recognized?
1/5 There is a group - to which the United States belongs - which does not want to accept the moral and legal obligations the fact of Russian genocide triggers. No genocide, no specific obligations. No crime, no penalty. Deny reality. Easy peasy.
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We need to paint an honest picture about reality.

On the current trajectory, the Western vision for Ukraine's "victory" will at best lead to a nation plagued by debt, with a totally decimated economy, with no infrastructure, no hospitals or schools. No health or education.
🧵1/ There will be no children and no youth to speak of. It will be a nation of elderly with no one to care for them. A nation of amputees, with adults and children having suffered traumatic injuries from the front lines or missiles on their beds.
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The White House says "there are more effective ways to hold Russia accountable for its actions than designating them as a StateSponsor of Terrorism," citing "downside effects" as reason for not doing so
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The US is protecting US companies which continue to do business in RU🧵 If the US were to designate Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism - something @RomanSohn, @HopkoHanna, and I have been calling for publicly for years (see quoted tweet from 2020) - then American companies would have to leave Russia.
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https://x.com/GicAriana/status/1309526463960494080

Powerful and truly outstanding piece by @calxandr calling for full and robust support to help Ukraine in its legal right to self defence to defeat fascist Russia.

I urge all to read this piece. I support and endorse each and every word.

theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl… While I could quote tweet the entire article, I will highlight only some of the points which are rarely made by people of Mr Alexander’s status and are, tragically, not part of main stream discussion, as they ought to be.

Great research by @Textyorgua_Eng proves with hard core data what has been denied by many - that there's been a massive campaign in the US to turn public opinion from an originally positive attitude to supporting Ukraine toward anti-Ukrainian sentiments.

texty.org.ua/projects/11261…
The research clearly identifies who the main driving forces of that campaign anti-Ukraine have been.

Public support for Ukraine in the US didn't just dwindle because people got "fatigued from war". It was intentionally driven down by those pursuing their own malicious agenda.

“Russia wants to destroy us. Our only hope of remaining whole and at peace, especially after agreeing to denuclearize, is to be part of NATO. PLEASE accept us into the defensive alliance.”

“Okay. Sounds good. One day it shall be. But not now.”

“When?”

“Some day.” “What about a Membership Action Plan?”

“Not now.”

“When?”

“We don’t want to antagonize Russia.”

“We don’t want to be invaded.”

“Don’t worry.”

“Russia has invaded us. Avoiding ‘provoking’ them didn’t work. Please help us!”

“Sorry, can’t.”

“WHY NOT?”

“You’re not a member.”

Sweden & Finland were given NATO membership in recognition of the threat Russia poses to the 2 nations. They were brought under NATO's protective defensive umbrella. Ukraine & Georgia were not given the same protection before RU invaded despite pleas due to the RU threat. WHY?🧵 In 2008, at the NATO Summit in Bucharest, NATO declared that both Georgia and Ukraine would one day receive the NATO membership they should, but were not provided with the action plan to do so.
WHY? 🧵

We need an international “Justice Coalition” for Russian genocide against Ukrainians.

From the *very* onset of Russia’s illegal war of aggression against Ukraine *in 2014*, its criminal actions went beyond a war of territorial conquest, and pursued a GENOCIDAL objective.
1/22 Russian political & military leadership, &ordinary Russians in uniform & without them, have been committing deliberate, organized, systemic, and conscious actions, directed by the Russian state, to exterminate Ukrainians as a group with a shared collective national identity.
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For anyone talking about Ukraine reaching a "negotiated settlement" of any kind, at any point in time, with Russia should recall that in Izyum, the genocidal Muscovite barbarians cut off the genitals of a BOY before EXECUTING him. His tortured body was exhumed from a mass grave. For anyone talking about Ukraine reaching a "negotiated settlement" of any kind, at any point in time, with Russia should recall that in Bucha, the genocidal Muscovite barbarians gang raped a SEVEN YEAR OLD girl before executing her.

https://x.com/GicAriana/status/1603254817186611200

Ukrainian "victory" cannot be limited to the existence of some portion of Ukraine maintaining its sovereignty and statehood. A rump state is NOT victory. "As long as a piece of you exists" shouldn't be tolerated as a definition of victory because it nothing other than loss. Ukrainian "victory" cannot be the mere state of partial existence. Ukrainian "victory" cannot be defined by Russia not realizing its full genocidal goals to completely exterminate the Ukrainian nation and people. Any degree of genocidal success is not to be tolerated or accepted.

Consider: Moscow of the USSR implemented this genocidal policy in Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, etc. Many of today's citizens of former Soviet captured nations are nothing other than Russian squatters who forcibly changed the national identities of these occupied nations.

https://twitter.com/olex_scherba/status/1782318517561315749

During the Soviet Union, ethnic Russians were sent to forcibly shape the identities of the occupied nations in Russia's image. Those who opposed the Russification of their nations - from language to culture - were criticized as being "ethno-nationalist" "extremists" and so on.

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.