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https://twitter.com/IISS_org/status/1507423825402675240Most of this exit not forced by sanctions compliance but response to public opinion. A private sector boycott now amplifies state sanctions. Previously, companies complied (sometimes minimally) with, while lobbying against, sanctions. So this is new. But… /2
https://twitter.com/ulrichspeck/status/13062670169705922562. Russia now "will view Germany as being controlled by the United States". Eh? Germany far more vocal abt Navalny than US.
https://twitter.com/IISS_org/status/13007640957471662081. Putin wants to stop, not manage, change by keeping Lukashenko in power. And, like him, rejects Co-Ordinating Council as legitimate —and thus any meaningful dialogue. /2
https://twitter.com/IISS_org/status/1297964144113651712“Lukashenko has made preparations for a fresh and more severe crackdown. He has ruled out anything but confrontation. On 22 August he set an ultimatum.”
https://twitter.com/martinkettle/status/1286550996047597568“Russia wishes to be treated as a great power”. The Russia report goes far beyond this relatively benign view of Russian policy. And merely being a great power does not entail the destructive spectrum of actions the report charts /2
https://twitter.com/vincecable/status/1253020673573871617Then perhaps talk abt how “pragmatic” NEP was only grudgingly adapted after horrors of war communism, incl. massacre of Kronstadt sailors, once devout Bolsheviks, for daring to reject it. C. 2,000 executed or sent to labour en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronstadt…