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Author ‘Memory Makers: The Politics of the Past in Russia’ & ‘Russia’s War’ 📚 | Research Fellow @warstudies & @kcl_cgs | Senior Associate @CSIS |
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When people ask me what I am doing in Kharkiv all the time 😇
🧵 My NY resolution was to help 🇺🇦more. With UA friends in Kraken & the Ukraine Security Cooperation Centre, I set up Free Ukraine Fund
It is a consortium of small private UA weapons, drones, EW, dual use software & ammo manufacturers that deliver to the front.
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Easily the second most incredible man I have ever met*. So incredibly Ukrainian: gallant, funny, brave and heroic.
It was my deepest honour that he found time to talk to me, since he does have rather a lot on his plate.
*after my husband, naturally.
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Several people have put it to me that surely, once lots of young Russian men start coming back in body bags, Russians will turn against the war. I am not so convinced. Let me explain why:
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Artist Andrei Gupsa merged images of Mariupol, Bucha, Chernihiv and other 🇺🇦 cities before & after Russian attacks
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Lots of people believe the Kremlin propaganda because it is easier and more preferable to admitting or accepting you are the bad guys. Now, imagine accepting your son died in a pointless war and that he was part of a genocidal campaign?
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Russia last night:
❌ defend its own citizens from a terrorist attack
✅ bomb a sanatorium for sick children in Kharkiv
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Today on Russia’s First Channel, reporters allege British mercenaries are defending Ukrainian positions in Luhansk.
Their proof? This volume of Shakespeare’s works (well-known personal fave of all English assassins)
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So instead you become even more attached to the myths and propaganda of brave Russian heroes fighting Nazis. Bc you want your son to have died for something epic, not for nothing, or even worse as part of your country’s genocidal campaign against an innocent people
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It’d be hard to face reality even with support. So in an atmosphere where the government is terrorising even mild opposition, ppl are unlikely to resist the comfort of lies+myth.
Which is why I think young Russian boys in body bags will harden rather than change 🇷🇺 opinions.
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It is much easier and nicer to accept this loss as a sacrifice, in the name of an epic civilisational fight against fascism, that it is your part in defeating a new Hitler, than to accept everything you ever worked for disappeared because of the sick fantasies of an ex-KGB agent
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I am obsessed with Victory Day salads (‘for men’). I think it is a combination of sincere effort and inappropriateness as a means of commemoration/celebration
Some selected pictures:
1/ Standard ‘Tank’ Salad
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Russia has attacked 700+ hospitals & healthcare in Ukraine
Just imagine crawling so far into a Putin fetish you deny that he & his ghouls bomb baby intensive care units
Photo of Kherson baby unit, Sep 23: Aleksandr Ratushniak, Reuters
Just imagine the headlines if Putin had bombed a hospital in Kharkiv killing 500 people, many of them kids, and then blamed it on the Ukrainians... Nothing makes Vlad happier than watching the West's touching attempts to overtake his callous cynicism...
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It is natural, anyone would try to resist believing that, especially when the entirety of the state is offering you a much more consolatory version and when you can’t really do anything about the situation so avenging your son or acknowledging your anger is pointless & dangerous
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Good god.
Anyone who says ‘if women were in charge we wouldn’t have war’ needs to watch this video from the ladies of LNR
So much going on: nurses uniforms, Zs, bad singing, war, tricolours, flags, skimpy outfits. Weirdest song since Такого как Путин (which was a tune tbf)
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Today on Russian Z channels they are sharing and celebrating a video of Russian fighters beating up and raping a young female Ukrainian soldier. They are sharing it to millions of subscribers. Немає слов. Слова не існують.
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This is yet another way for the Kremlin, Putin, to make ordinary Russians complicit. They become invested in the lies and in the continuation of this horrific war. Until victory at whatever price and in whatever guise so long as it justifies the loss.
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Sickening. A British professor at Oxford hosts the Russian Ambassador at her house, while policemen protect Kelin from righteous anger at his crimes
How is this ok? How morally vacuous must you be to life in U.K., safely, and host genocidal liars?
Facilitator
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On a much less profound or emotional level, this same process will happen to many sectors and groups of people in Russia. For example, those who will lose their life savings and business or lifestyle due to the war and sanctions
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and further. Onwards to victory. Even though she admits not really understanding what the war is about.
I have a son and at first this horrified me but then it started to make a weird, tragic and terrible sense.
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There are lots of stories of Russians refusing to believe the truth about Ukraine from their relatives, or even their own POW sons. The story below is abt a mum whose son died in 🇺🇦. She responds to his death by arguing that sth went wrong but this means Russia must fight harder
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I wrote on Russia’s continued kidnapping of Ukrainian children. It is a difficult read and it was difficult to write.
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Starting an ongoing🧵 on ‘Who do Russians say they are fighting in Ukraine to justify/distract from their ineptitude, cowardice and cruelty?’
1) Nazis
Already a bit tired. Luckily, Russian propagandists are always ready to freshen up their material
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Okay, two options:
1) Stop sending all the young men to die in Ukraine
2) Discourage girls from studying at university
Obviously let’s go with option 2
Russian Senator Margarita Pavlova says the country should stop encouraging girls to get higher education in order to solve its demographic crisis: “This search for oneself drags on for many years, and as a result, reproductive function is lost.”
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This week I have given public talks across 🇺🇦 plus my usual hanging out with soldiers in Kharkiv
Ukrainians often ask me ‘Why doesn’t the West…’ questions that I don’t have answers to. I will share common qs below 🧵
Ukrainian followers, please add more
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Russia: kidnapping Ukrainian orphans, making them Russian citizens so nobody can find them
Guy in the audience: aren’t you forgetting about NATO expansion though hmmm?
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Kharkiv doesn’t need our prayers. It doesn’t need our sympathies. It doesn’t need promises to rebuild.
It needs F16s. Ideally today.
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I think that anyone who hasn’t experienced Russian occupiers doing this to their children’s schools should have the humility to listen to people who have lived under occupation rather than mouth off about why they need to capitulate
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The collapse of Russian state has gone from being dismissed as unimaginable to sth everyone can, & has, imagined. That alone will have serious consequences and cannot be undone.
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Weird that all these anti-war protestors come out on the same night there is a call for mobilisation
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We are going to hear a lot of disinformation today about new RU offensive in Kharkiv region. I only know three things:
1) they don’t have the men to take Kharkiv
2) nobody in Kharkiv is panicking
3) Russia is to blame but so is Western complacency to Ukrainian deaths
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Today 🇷🇺 Ministry of Culture published a list of ‘priority themes’ that filmmakers who want funding should use in their work. The list follows 🧵
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Two years.
War reveals who people truly are. We know who Ukrainians are now. Heroes.
But, my fellow Westerners, it is much less clear who we really are. Heroes need friends, now more than ever.
When will this war end is a question for us and our leaders, not Ukrainians.
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Russian efforts to destroy Ukraine can hardly be overstated
But, now and over the last 8.5 years, it is often the small things that reveal the depth of the Kremlin’s and its many supporters’ hatred towards Ukraine
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What bothers me about this argument is it’s dishonest prematurity
Nobody is saying we have to isolate all Russians/Russia forever - just while they are massacring and continue to justify massacring Ukrainians.
Really not hard unless you are totally amoral or подкуплен/bought
Gerhard Schroder sticks to the party line:
"A country like Russia cannot be isolated in the long term, either politically or economically. German industry needs the raw materials that Russia has"
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Such images are in Ukraine, right now. In Avdiivka, nr Kupiansk, Kreminna
You are 💯 correct on selectivity of West moral posturing but it’s callous to use Ukraine’s devastation to make the point. Esp when West ignored 🇷🇺 war on 🇺🇦 for 8 y & won’t provide what’s needed even now
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A city of 1 million without light & water.
This isn’t what ‘Ukraine has already won’ looks like, this is what Western complacency looks like.
The less we defend Ukraine, the worse this will get.
Kharkiv electricity facilities hit by 15 ballistic missiles from Russia, plunging the city into total blackout. Water supply disrupted, no city transportation. Now more than ever, people of Ukraine urgently need your voices of support.
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These letters from
@meduzaproject
readers who broadly back 🇷🇺 war on Ukraine are a *must* read
Fascinating several entered the ‘loyal neutrals’ group from being passive opponents
It tells you more than random clips from Solovyov ever will
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This is totally unacceptable & sadly an ongoing issue.
It is same teacher who marked us ‘wrong’ in undergrad Rus grammar for writing в Украине (ie for not writing ‘in THE Ukraine’)
I hate to criticise a uni that did so much for me, but
@UniofOxford
needs to get a grip on 1/
until today, the last time i saw a St George's ribbon in person was a month ago on the floor outside an abandoned torture chamber used by r*ssian troops in Kharkivs'ka Oblast. today I saw a r*ssian lecturer at Oxford proudly sporting one as she went about her teaching.
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I’ve been v critical of UK politicians’ links to 🇷🇺 elites & starting to feel same about 🇬🇧 academia, when professors & teachers at our best unis buy flats in Crimea (since 2014), attend 🇷🇺 conferences w Medinsky’s chums (post 24/02), & teach Rus in St George Ribbons (post 24/02)
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@NicoleGrajewski
There is no higher compliment to your dress sense than one of that clique criticising your outfit. Kind of jealous.
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What happens when a country stares too long in narcissism’s historical mirror? It enters a looking glass world, possessed by the history it suppressed
That is the story of Russia’s last decade, as told in my book: Memory Makers: The Politics of the Past in Putin’s Russia 1/
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‘It is disappointing’: Lev Gudkov, head of Levada Centre, on Russian society’s enduring pro-war consensus, the ritualisation of the war, & many Russians’ lack of compassion for Ukrainian victims. Stark results, bracing analysis, depressing read
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The many faces of those killed by Russia in the Ukrainian village of Hroza.
Hroza is now its fourth day of burials for the 53 dead civilians.
Photos: KharkivLife Telegram channel
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I see Meduza getting some flack for this, imo, brave decision.
1) these views are only of war-supporting readers & don’t represent Meduza readers or all liberal Russians
2) it is important to post this bc it gives us insight into some reasons even anti-Putin 🇷🇺 agrees w war
These letters from
@meduzaproject
readers who broadly back 🇷🇺 war on Ukraine are a *must* read
Fascinating several entered the ‘loyal neutrals’ group from being passive opponents
It tells you more than random clips from Solovyov ever will
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Wow, I better go and tell everyone here in Kharkiv they are all breaking this non-existent ban
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🚨 📖 Publication Day for Russia’s War 📖
The title has 2 meanings:
- it’s not just ‘Putin’s War’
- many Russians are watching a v different war
Informed by ~10 yrs research on this topic, it probes why so many Russians give backing to war on 🇺🇦, to a war that began in 2014
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High politics version of drunk man shouting in bored woman’s ear at nightclub
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This is such a terrifying piece, especially the longer Russian version. The English one is terrifying enough though.
It was genuinely scary to cull through the docs leaked from Russia’s Education Ministry. They force deported Ukrainian kids into an indoctrination course — and carry out surveillance on those who’re not instilled with “Russian identity” quickly enough. 🧵
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When you care so much about securing peace for Ukrainians that you forget to invite any Ukrainians.
The moment is now to inaugurate a new, multi-national, grassroots movement to advocate for the end to the current war in Ukraine. RSVP:
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The world should hear this. And read ‘The Torture Camp on Paradise Street’ by Stanislav Aseyev, held in a Donetsk equivalent of the Nova Kakhovka torture camp from 2015-2017.
"I saw there hacksaws, chainsaws, axes, machetes. Everything was covered in blood." Military medic Yuriy Armash about terror in russian torture camps.
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An interactive map of the kidnapped Ukrainian children. It shows the sites in Russia where some of the deported children are sent. Makes it so much more tangible and so much more horrifying
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2/ Red Star Tank Salad
Can you imagine the amount of mayonnaise that goes into this!?
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1) Why does the West care about the ‘cancelling’ of Dostoevsky but not about the killing of Ukrainian writers on the front, the burning of our books in the occupied territories, the bans on Ukrainian language, the looting of our museums?
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‘Don’t be frightened: speak Russian’
These posters in newly occupied 🇺🇦 territories reflect long-standing (untrue) 🇷🇺 propaganda that Ukrainians are banned from speaking Russian
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Oh, who set Ukraine on fire though?
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The Germans get a lot of stick on here for not supporting Ukraine enough.
But when I speak to Ukrainian officials, advisers etc in real life they are always *much* angrier with the French
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I want Ukraine to win. So do many of my followers
Let’s act
My friends at USCC have been helping to arm 🇺🇦 for 10 yrs. Now, we’re launching a new project: raising funds to go directly to Ukrainian producers of drones, ammo, EW
Please read & donate 👇
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“Russia is here *forever*”
Everything was forever until it was no more
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Turns out being able to kidnap children, rape women & bomb civilians from afar isn’t a sign of strength.
After last night’s (likely IS) attacks, we all see how vulnerable Moscow is, how useless FSB is at its counter-terrorism remit, how inept Ru first responders are.
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Putin in a crisis:
1) disappears for a bit
2) deflects criticism
3) blames external forces (oft the West)
4) folds it back into his ‘Russia is under attack but I am a strong leader’ narrative
5) proceeds to lash out at someone weaker to show how strong he is
2 general & persistent points about Russia & terrorist attacks - a short 🧵:
1) Putin routinely blames outsiders (esp the US) for terrorist attacks caused by internal problems. 1/6
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5/ Woohoo Kremlin, Fireworks and Day of Commemorating Horrific War and Mass Death Salad
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A coup in Moscow is very unlikely - Prigozhin has no elite base. He’s an outsider. & ultimately Putin sides w elites
BUT Prigozhin is an outlet for anti-elite frustration over Russia’s failures in this war. That anger will still need a figurehead even if they deal w Prigozhin
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4) What is ‘de-escalation’ about? Why doesn’t the West understand you have to stand up to bullies?
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Russians have killed (at least) 361 children in Ukraine
I can’t imagine the pain of losing a child, I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, even Dugin. But Dugin has wished this, on Ukrainians, *many* times, a stance his daughter supported. So let’s hold our tears for the real innocents
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As an addendum to this: what does it even matter if Russians are all secretly against the war? We can’t know what ppl secretly think. & it is evident Russians won’t do anything to stop the war. So from an analytical & policymaking pov who cares, it makes no dif either way
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Rest in peace, Vovan
Vovan, the central figure in our
@BBC
film 'Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods' has been killed alongside 5 comrades in a Russian tank attack. A kind, genuine soul who cared deeply for his men. Rarely seen without a smile. He leaves behind a wife & two sons. Rest in peace Vovan.
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My latest piece for
@ForeignPolicy
on Russia’s systematic and strategic approach to destroying Ukrainian identity and culture in the occupied territories
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5) Why does the West continue to do business and trade with Russia?
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A house outside Kharkiv
Destroyed like all its neighbours. But on this house, the residents had written (in Russian) ‘People & children live here’ & ‘Children’ on the gate
They are dead now. Their house had the most bullet holes. Locals say Russians deliberately targeted it
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I’ll let the guys up around Kupiansk know. Everyone will be delighted that it was only a simulation and that all of their dead friends will come back to life and all of their injuries will presumably go
Peak Western condescension: it isn’t real for me, so it isn’t really real
My latest for the
@NewStatesman
:
A counter-offensive launched without sufficient numbers or air support shouldn't be seen as a serious military effort, but as an effort to manage political expectations in Western capitals, remote from the front-line.
In short, a simulation.
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The distinction between Russian death & Ukrainian life:
1) What the Russians did to the Derhachi cultural centre (near Kharkiv)
2) What the Ukrainians then built in basement of that bombed out centre so children can be happy & play
Greetings from hero-city Kharkiv 🇺🇦
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Unfortunately, I couldn’t find my favourite salad: ‘the mass grave salad’. Dr James Rann featured it in a great article on Russian salads but the link doesn’t work now.
So instead, here’s a St George’s Ribbon ‘Victory Day’ sushi roll
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🇷🇺 media & Telegram sharing photos of hit and celebrating. As you see from images below, thousands even celebrating the hit near the playground. Difficult to comprehend.
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8) Why doesn’t the West listen to Ukrainians? Why aren’t we on panels? Why are there only Russians on panels about the war? Why are Russians allowed to speak for us?
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Is this that sign that Putin is looking to negotiate?
Russia is undergoing a total moral catastrophe & Ukraine is paying the price. While we navel-gaze & look for castles in the sky, S-300 rockets cut through Ukraine’s
A maternity ward, educational facilities, a shopping mall, multi-story residential buildings and private homes, a commercial storage, and a parking lot. Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, and other cities.
Today, Russia used nearly every type of weapon in its
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How is Budanov dead AGAIN? Still trying to process his last two deaths.
Next time he dies, he should space it out a bit, we need more in-between time to grieve
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2) Why does the West listen to the Russian opposition? Russians are destroying Ukraine & none of them do anything to stop it.
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3) Why does the West ignore the resistance in the occupied territories?
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6) Why doesn’t the West want Ukraine to win? Why doesn’t it give us what we need to win?
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As before (MH17, gas attacks in Syria, etc), Russia reacted to condemnation of Bucha slaughter by
1) spreading lots of alternative takes to distract &sow doubt then after some time passed
2) pushing a counter narrative coherent w their broader line (here: denazification)1/2
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7) Why doesn’t the West understand that this won’t stop with the conquest of Ukraine?
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Not especially surprised at the UCU motion & smug ‘I don’t give a toss’ attitude towards Ukrainians. I let my membership lapse after getting fed up of Jo Grady on RT. Feel sorry for all the good members bc god knows we need a decent union for British academics
See
@DrJoGrady
tell
@RTUKnews
what we need to see from the government after the A-level fiasco below👇🏽
#AlevelResults
#alevels2020
#ALevelProtests
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A lot of people today have been sharing the NYT piece on some Ukrainian soldiers’ use of Nazi insignia but I think
@IAPonomarenko
’s piece on this topic for
@KyivIndependent
was a much more contextualised, yet still very honest, overview & argument
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I don’t really understand the fuss around Nord Stream: are they trying to work out how to give the medals to? Because whoever blew it up deserves one. Shouldn’t have been built.
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Do Russians support the war? Well, any answer here requires some guesswork but I worry there is currently an overemphasis on trying to prove that most Russians don’t support the war, even though there isn’t much evidence for this assertion
Thread 🧵
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Legitimately worried for Medinsky’s well-being. I really want to interview him before he dies from lethal combo of mythomania and Putin’s speeches
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Johnson going won’t mean less support for 🇺🇦 bc
1) Britons support 🇺🇦
2) Tories want to look strong on defence/can use war to justify no new elections (that risk majority)
3) Starmer’s Labour is pro-Ukraine & keen to show it after Corbyn (cf 2014 Maidan, Skripals)
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The Russian ‘negotiations’ delegation sent to Minsk is headed by Vladimir Medinsky!!
Medinsky is Putin’s presidential aide on qs of history and memory. If you think Putin’s view of history is mad, Medinsky’s is next level
This is not a serious offer to negotiate
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Many Ukrainians can’t even watch what should be their own Eurovision because the Russians are bombing their cities
Meanwhile, this
#Eurovision
night Ukraine is under another Russian missile attack. Reminder that the reason why 🇺🇦 could not host this event is because 🇷🇺 continues to invade and the people of 🇺🇦 live in continuing danger.
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Watching this video is like what (I imagine…) reading my PhD on acid and having a bad trip would feel like. But somehow it is real. The sheer horror of this.
Russian state TV has aired a report from the ruins of Maryinka likening the town’s "liberation" to the taking of the Reichstag in 1945
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Nobody will understand Russia’s war on Ukraine - nor how to end it properly - if they start from February 2022 without understanding that it began in 2014. And how it began.
Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014 when they took Donbas and Crimea. Now they’ve finally officially admitted this fact.
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7) Absolutely loads of foreign mercenaries that Ukraine has trapped. Bc mercenaries are famously naïve. This silly British one even left his Russian copy of Shakespeare behind 👇
Today on Russia’s First Channel, reporters allege British mercenaries are defending Ukrainian positions in Luhansk.
Their proof? This volume of Shakespeare’s works (well-known personal fave of all English assassins)
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@KevinRothrock
@VladDavidzon
He wasn’t a volunteer soldier, he was a member of the Ukrainian armed forces and I don’t think we should share videos of POWs. If I had been captured and forced to sing the Russian anthem under duress, I would find it quite humiliating and wouldn’t want people to share it widely
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