I wish I didn't have to revisit this but some people seem to believe it is important so here I am again.
The point of contention seems to be: Did Ukraine give up their nuclear arsenal, when and if so what did they get in exchange. The short answer is NO and nothing.
1/ I'll get to the least important document, the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 in a bit. But for now let's revisit the day that sealed that deal: the 24th of December 1991 when the Russian Federation formally notified the United Nations that it would continue the USSR’s membership.
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People like to paint Poland as the sheep being the victim of big bad wolves German and Soviet in 1939. Poland re-emerged as a sovereign state at the conclusion of WWI. A century prior, it had been an expansionist power at war with Russia, Prussia and Austria and lost.
1/ For the next 123 years, Polish territories were partitioned btw the three empires. When WWI broke out, some 2 million Poles were conscripted into the three armies, at times fighting each other. The defeat of Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire combined with the
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🧵This is Pekka Kallioniemi, the Finn behind the #vatniksoup series, something in between the Myrotvorets and english tabloids.
Pekka is a postdoctorate fellow at Tampere University, Finland whose specialty includes ... social media, propaganda and disinformation (sic) Pekka has created +/- 200 🧵 on people he associates with Russia who are
- professional journalists guilty of providing balance on the conflict
- "pro-Russian" accounts whose only sin is to be tired of the Russophobia/ Western hegemony
- Peace activists (stop the bloodshed)

How many monuments must be erected to Nazi murderers, streets named after them and days of remembrance before @IAPonomarenko admits that the Nazi gangrene is deeper than tattoos and insignia?
In Kalush a street named after Dmytro Paliyiv of the Nazi Waffen SS «Galizia» #Ukraine Kyiv City Council named street after antisemitic editor of Nazi n/paper «Volyn» in Rivne - Ulas Samchuk. Samchuk wrote many articles justifying murders and calling to kill Jews. N/paper published 318 anti-Jewish pieces while 25k Jews in Rivne were killed, incl. 6k Jewish children

Hello, great-grandfather Vasily!

We are again on the eve of the Victory Day. And I want to ask your forgiveness. Forgive us for failing, forgetting about your exploits and war heroes. In the eternal disputes we have lost the main thing – our history. After all, you defended Moscow, froze in the Belarusian swamps, liberated Prague. And now they say that it was in vain. That your victory was an occupation, that Leningrad could have bn surrendered, that I should pity the Nazis, and that the Victory Parade is a victory psychosis.

Born in the former Soviet Union, I am asked - I can't keep quiet either - about the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Unsurprisingly 99% of people repeat mass media talking points ad nauseam, which renders the conversation predictable and annoying.
Something that struck me though (1 Is how little they know abt either country. Ask anyone when Ukraine was an independent state prior to 1991 and ...🥴
Never 😮
Ask them how minorities in Ukraine
About Donbas
Every time they repeat "Yes but Putin ... imperialist ... genocidal maniac blah blah"
They know nothing.

🧵 We’re going to hear a lot more about the fighters of the Ukraine’s’ foreign legion as they are killed, taken prisoners, or going back home disillusioned. One of the central questions is should they be considered UAF or mercenaries?
(1 I am not a lawyer, but I am interested in their motives, which should inform us of their status. They come from 52 countries including the US, the UK, the EU, Georgia as far as Afghanistan numbering btw 20,000 & 30,000.
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