Conservatives: “It hasn't happened to me so I don't care"
Liberals: “It shouldn't happen to anyone that's why I care" Mastodon: https://t.co/R6bnKDqG8P
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Nov 5, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
It’s not about the gas/oil. It’s deeper in the Russian (Putin’s) psyche. Putin would be another Stalin if he could be & Ukraine has long been a key piece of Russia/the Soviet Union. Losing it to the west would cut deep into Russian nationalism. And Putin blames much on Hillary
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Sep 27, 2019 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
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Everyone in the Western community wanted Shokin sacked,” Anders Aslund, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, told the Wall Street Journal. “The whole G-7, the IMF, the EBRD, everybody was united that Shokin must go, the spokesman for this was Joe Biden
@PolitixSean And this doozy of a thread
@PolitixSean For one thing, Ukrainian prosecutors and anti-corruption advocates who were pushing for an investigation into the dealings of Burisma and its owner, Mykola Zlochevskiy, said the probe had been dormant long before Biden leveled his demand. rferl.org/a/why-was-ukra…@PolitixSean "There was no pressure from anyone from the United States" to close the case against Zlochevskiy, Vitaliy Kasko, who was a deputy prosecutor-general under Shokin...told Bloomberg News in May. "It was shelved by Ukrainian prosecutors in 2014 and through 2015”
