Bakhti Nishanov
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From a friend in Russia: “It’s an absolute mess here. People are panicking. Things I didn’t know could collapse are collapsing. But this is nothing compared to what’s happening in Ukraine to Ukrainians. That’s why I’m going to an anti-war protest tomorrow.”
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This pro-Navalny protest in Yakutsk in the negative 50C absolutely blows my mind
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Kazakhstan is sending 82 tons of medical supplies to Ukraine. One of the closest Russian allies sending supplies to Ukraine. More than supplies, a very clear signal Kazakhstan is not on board with what Moscow is doing. Big deal and massive thank you.
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Two Chechen battalions have joined Ukrainians in defending Kyiv. Putin is not the only one who has Chechens on his side.
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Uzbekistan’s foreign minister said it won’t recognize the so called LNR and DNR, fully supports Ukraine’s sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity. Also that Uzbekistan will provide a humanitarian aid to Ukraine. This is massive.
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This photo has gone viral but I don’t think many who have seen this photo realize he sat like this for 15 minutes of his meeting with Shoigu. His back didn’t move once and he held the desk all the time.
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“Russia wants us to support them but we don’t recognize Crimea, or Donbas. Yes, we are in a union with Russia but it doesn’t apply to this situation. We won’t help Russia avoid US and EU sanctions.” - Deputy chair of the presidential administration in Kazakhstan. This is huge.
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1. Ukraine is not escalating, Ukraine is trying to survive
2. The burden to deescalate is not on Ukraine, it’s on the invading country.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk
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Tell me how this is different from ISIS
🤡Patriarch Kirill urged not to be afraid of death amid mobilization
"Go bravely to fulfill your military duty.And remember that if you die for your country, you will be with God in his kingdom, glory and eternal life"
Maybe Kirill will refuse an armored Mercedes and security?
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An powerful message from the former president of Mongolia
@elbegdorj
blasting Russia for using ethnic minorities as cannon fodder, says no dictatorship lasts forever. I don’t know if any Mongolian leader (former or present) of this stature has ever criticized Russia so harshly.
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Everything I’ve seen on this mobilization so far points to Yakutia, Saha, Buryatia, Dagestan, Chechnya being mobilized in disproportionately large numbers. If this bears out, no question this is a systematic effort to deploy Russia’s ethnic minorities as cannon fodder.
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Alhamdulillah, McDonald’s has introduced a green shake to celebrate Ramadan. They even named is a shamrock shake, a play on the Arabic shams (light) and raq (elegant, pretty) — an elegant light. A truly wonderful thing.
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I’ve been trying to avoid posting images of the destruction in Ukraine but this obliteration of Mariupol by the Russian troops needs to be out there. 90% of the city is gone. Duda said it looks like Warsaw in 1944 and it does.
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I get absurdity is very much deliberate in this war but it’s still insane how the Russian narrative shifted from “we are fighting the nazis” to “we are defending ourselves from Anglo-Saxon transgender satanists hellbent on making us drug addicts”
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Temirlan Rakumov, a boxer from Kazakhstan, in his victory speech: “I would like to support Ukraine…Innocent people are dying.. I would like to support no war, only peace. Putin, he is a killer.” What an absolute legend.
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Kazakhs set up a second Yurt of Invincibility in Ukraine, this time in Kyiv. The first in Bucha provoked a furious response from Russia, so they decided to put up a second one. It’s a place for Ukrainians rest and warm up, drink some tea, charge their phones. H/T UkraineNow
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“Ukraine can’t really be an EU member because of the governance standards”.
Folks, EU has Hungary as a member.
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CNN reporting the Russians troops destroyed 80% of Mariupol’s housing structures. 350k people hiding in shelters; 50-200 airstrikes a day. Absolute monsters. Also, the city is largely Russian-speaking. In case anyone still believes this is about protecting Russian speakers.
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What a story: last week, Lithuanian citizens crowdfunded $6m to buy a Turkish drone for Ukraine. They signed an agreement yesterday. A few hours ago, the Bayraktar manufacturer announced they will give the drone for free, said the money should be used for humanitarian aid.
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The tension between Russia and Kazakhstan has now become a quiet yet easily observable conflict. Kazakhstan has been vocal in its support for Ukraine and president Tokayev told Putin to his face Kazakhstan won’t recognize the puppet states of DNR and LNR. Now Russia halted
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Apparently a kangaroo attacked the gates of the Russian embassy in Australia. I guess now we know where kangaroos stand on the war.
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A confectionery producer in Kazakhstan dropped a new ad for their chocolate bar called “Kazakhstan”. In it, what looks like a Russian draft dodger walks over to Kazakhstan and is handed a chocolate bar. He asks what it is and is told, “It’s the taste of freedom.” Absolute fire.
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The only reason the Russian empire didn’t have a colony in Africa was because they tried and failed (in Djibouti). To be clear, Russia did have colonies all across Eurasia and N. America. It was a colonial power that never admitted its past, let alone reconcile with it.
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This is an encapsulation of the tables turned in the Kazakhstan-Russia relations: President of Kazakhstan pulls a power move and opens his speech to the visiting Russian delegation headed by Putin speaking Kazakh. You can see the bewilderment and confusion among the delegation
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A fruit seller in Odessa left his stall with a sign saying he went to volunteer with the Ukrainian army, that this is full self-service now, and people who don’t have money can take the produce for free. You can’t defeat a people like this. Mind you, the sign is in Russian
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Almost a month in, it’s incredible people still talking about Ukraine’s aspirations on NATO as the reason for this brutal, merciless war. This is not about NATO, nazis, or discrimination against Russian-speakers. This is about Putin wanting to see Ukraine as a vassal. That’s it.
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My God, folks. Ukraine is not "escalating"; Ukraine is trying to survive.
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Surreal: a Ukrainian drives up to Russian invading soldiers, asks, did you break down, they respond, he says, maybe I could tow you back to Russia. They laugh. Then he tells them, Kyiv’s fine, many of your guys’ve surrendered. Drives off to only run into another broken down tank
Multiple videos on social media of Russian military out of fuel, food and stuck on highways
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“Russia will now have no choice but to escalate”
What are they going to do? Start a genocidal war against their peaceful neighbor?
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Look at this bus of the newly-mobilized in Russia. All ethnic Tuvans. There is only 250k Tuvans in Russia, so even losing a handful is an irreparable damage to the people. Whether you think it’s deliberate or not, Russia’s war in Ukraine is killing off Russia’s minorities
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Tell me again how Putin is a defender of Christianity. This is what the Russian troops did in the Brovary district
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Rahmon’s full speech is even more striking: for almost 10 mins he, frustrated and emotional, says “we respect Russia but want to be respected, too”, complains about the mistreatment of Tajiks in Russia, says Russia is only interested in oil and gas in the region. Extraordinary
President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon to Vladimir Putin: "I ask you not to treat the Central Asian countries as if it is the former Soviet Union. Every country has it's own problems, traditions..."
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A Jewish Rabbi speaking at a Muslim Jummah prayer hosted at a Christian church is how love wins
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Putin today said "The most important thing is Russia has never been a colonizer".
Ahem my guy
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Oh my. Look at the prime minister of Armenia Pashinyan going out of his way to stand as far as possible from Putin. And Putin knows it, too. Insult to the injury, this is at the gathering of the supposedly Russia-led security bloc.
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The gentleman in the middle is the Chief Mufti of Ukraine Sheikh Said Ismagilov. He had joined the defense forces of Ukraine. Ukrainians of all faiths are united in defending their motherland.
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50 bucks says the Russian officers who staged this were told to make sure to have some sims (as in a sim-card) in the photos and they misunderstood and added the Sims 3 videogame
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The Russian propaganda is having an epic meltdown over Turkey’s eventual support for Sweden and Finland’s NATO bids. That’s how you know you’ve done the right thing.
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Boris Johnson says Macron should stop calling Moscow, should call Kyiv instead. Hard to disagree.
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Ukraine will donate up to 50000 tons of wheat to Somalia and Ethiopia to support effort to fight hunger there. What an absolute legend.
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In Buryatia, college students literally taken away from their classes to be conscripted and sent to war. Insane.
Студент Бурятского государственного университета в Улан-Удэ рассказал The Village, что сегодня утром на пары в вуз пришли росгвардейцы и военная полиция и «забирают студентов прямо с пар»
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A visual to rebuff any “but Russia hasn’t been a colonial power” argument
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that was looking at setting up a common currency, including with Russia. Largely symbolic at this point but if confirmed, a very pointed move. One of the outcomes of this war will be a more confident and muscular Kazakhstan.
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shipments of Kazakh crude to Europe through a pipeline that goes over Russia. Instead of placating, Kazakhstan said it’s committed to energy security in Europe and that it will look for alternative shipment methods. Kazakhstan is also reportedly pulling out of a CIS committee
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I’d not shared a single image from the Kremlin’s barbaric war against Ukraine but this is so heartbreaking that I’m hoping it may reach some who are still on the fence and two-siding this.
Ukrainian kids are hiding underground from Russian air raids. Credit: Telegram u_now
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@ChineseEmbinUS
"hey, hey, btw, we also jail and disappear Uyghur men but on the flip side, they don't have to worry about what to cook for dinner anymore"
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Just a reminder, Crimea is Ukraine, temporarily and illegally occupied by Russia
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Russia arresting an Orthodox priest for saying he will serve a memorial service to Navalny, an Orthodox Christian himself, is a reminder Putin’s Russia isn’t a bastion of Christian traditions, merely cosplays one
H/T Sota
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Seriously, why do people keep asking about off ramps for Putin. This war is his choice, he can get off any time.
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Morocco sent 20 T-72 tanks to Ukraine. First African country to do so. The first batch is reportedly already in Ukraine. Massive win for Ukraine for practical but also symbolic reasons. Morocco, you are absolute legends.
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This is absolutely massive: both Armenia and Kazakhstan voted in favor of a UN resolution calling Russia the aggressor. The significance can’t be overstated: both countries are technically in military and economic alliances with Russia
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This SCO meeting has been a disaster for Putin: got openly chided by Modi, had to publicly explain himself to Xi, was kept waiting in front of cameras (a power move he’d pull on other leaders) by Japarov, Erdogan and Modi. Everyone smelled blood and treated him accordingly
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Kyrgyzstan and Armenia, members of the Russia-led customs union, have refused to receive customs fees in bilateral trade in Russian rubles. They want to be paid in US dollars. Whatever influence Russia had gained over the last thirty years is crumbling (not fast enough but still)
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Look at what these war criminals did in Borodyanka, Kyiv oblast
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A handful of folks have asked why this is notable. After all, a Kazakh president speaking Kazakh shouldn't be surprising. And that's precisely the point: while it shouldn't be a surprise, the Russian delegation fully expected him to speak Russian. Normally that's what's happens:
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The photos MFA Russia used for their "dirty bomb in Ukraine" claims are actually from 2010 and made by the Slovenian Radioactive Waste Management Authority.
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Russia left the Soviet Union on Dec 12, 91. Kazakhstan, the last to leave, left on Dec 16. Which means for 4 days Kazakhstan WAS the Soviet Union. (USSR was formally dissolved on Dec 26). So then shouldn't Kazakhstan be the successor state to USSR and entitled to the UNSC seat?
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This is incredibly strong, unequivocal and importantly, directly from the presidential administration. Kazakhstan is truly blazing a new trail here.
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You know why ICC went after Putin specifically for abducting Ukrainian children? Because there is a very high threshold for proving war crimes but Putin made prosecutors’ job easy by bragging about abducting Ukrainian kids and then putting it up on his official website
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Ukrainian armed forced said ~3k Russian troops were killed in the first two days of the invasion. For comparison, Russia lost 6k troops in the two YEARS of the first Chechen war. Putin’s war is devastating for Ukraine but he’s also responsible for massive losses of Russian lives
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Everyone's entitled to their opinion on what's happening in Kazakhstan. My only polite request is whatever your POV, don't deny Kazakhs their agency. Not everything is about geopolitics, not everything is about foreign interference. Sometimes people just want to feed their kids.
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In 1904, Leo Tolstoy wrote an anti-war essay on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War: “Again war. Again sufferings, necessary to nobody; utterly uncalled for; again fraud, again the universal stupefaction and brutalization of men.” Would have been arrested in today’s Russia for that
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There is a whole cadre of folks worrying about what president Zelenskyy is wearing (or rather not wearing). A suit and tie is not an indication of respect or respectability. Putin wears a suit and tie all the time, still is a mass murderer, dictator and pariah
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An incredibly powerful address by President Zelenskyy to ethnic minorities in Russia. “You shouldn’t have to die in this shameful Russian war.” Calls for resistance and in a brilliant touch, reminds that Imam Shamil, the legendary leader of the Caucasus resistance lived in Kyiv
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Wow, wow. The statue to Kazakhstan’s first president and until a few hours ago head of the Security Council Nazarbayev is seemingly down in Almaty region.
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Remember the Quran burnings in Sweden? Now Finnish media reporting their security services have proof it was a Russian operation. There were links between the organizer of the first one and Russian media but no smoking gun. Seems they found it now. Called it back then.
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A buddy, whose mom is in Russia, tells me she told him she is starting to suspect what the Russian government is telling Russians about Ukraine “may not be entirely true because it can’t be that the whole world hates Russia and supports Nazis”. Finally.
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Timati, a Russian rapper and massive putin supporter, finds himself in Tashkent, Uzbekistan — very far from Ukraine — amidst the mobilization for which he would be a prime candidate.
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Kazakhs feeding Russians running away from the mobilization. I also saw small groups of Uzbek volunteers helping newly arrived Russians with housing. I just want to make sure no one forgets this next time they see an apartment ad in Russia advertising for “Slavic people only”
На железнодорожном вокзале Уральска (Казахстан) волонтеры кормят беженцев из РФ, помогают с бесплатным ночлегом и недорогим такси в соседние города, где есть жилье. По словам очевидцев, отношение к приехавшим очень теплое — RTVI
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A few very basic facts about Kazakhstan:
- It's the size of Western Europe
- It has GDP per capita just shy of 10k
- While it's Not Free per
@freedomhouse
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- It's multiethnic, multi-culture country
- Has NOTHING to do with Borat
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He is a president during the time of war. Unlike other leaders who never served in the military but cosplay soldiers, he has enough respect for those in the uniform to be parading in an actual military uniform. What he wears demonstrates solidarity with all Ukrainians
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Forcibly transferring children out of a group is an internationally recognized form of genocide. She is arguing we should not do anything about a genocide.
JC:"They're stealing Ukrainian children. 500 just yesterday were shipped to Russia. & this is why we should be supporting them. We cannot allow this kind of evil to go unchecked...Don't you agree with me on that?"
BG: "I'm sorry, I don't. And here's why."
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Some people seem to be more concerned with defending dead Russian writers than live Ukrainian civilians
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Oh my God. It appears the Kyiv city council decided to revoke its decision from the year 1147 to found Moscow. Absolutely brilliant.
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Russian foreign minister is upset Kyrgyzstan, a sovereign nation, has adopted a law requiring government officials learn Kyrgyz. “We have warned them not to do it.” More than 30 years in, these Kremlin dinosaurs can’t unlearn their chauvinistic colonialist ways
Лавров прокомментировал закон, который должен обязать госслужащих Кыргызстана работать только на кыргызском языке.
Уже слишком...😡
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Russian media now accusing Kazakhstan of “russophobia” and “ukrainization”, whatever that is supposed to mean. Not suggesting Russia will attack Kazakhstan but worth pointing out this is exactly how they built up their narrative about “Nazi Ukraine”
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May I suggest that this person who is apparently from India try to rent an apartment in Moscow
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Wow. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew said the Russian Church “shared responsibility for the conflict in Ukraine” and that the Church has become “instrument for the [Russian government’s]strategic objectives”. This is what moral leadership looks like.
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This is big. Google removed the voting app after Russian authorities threatened their individual staff (not just Google as a legal entity) and mysterious armed men camped out in their offices. This is not pressuring, this is state sanctioned terrorizing
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The Ukrainian foreign minister just confirmed the Russians hit Babiy Yar. So Putin is liberating Russian-speakers by bombing them in Kharkiv and denazifying Ukraine by bombing a site of remembrance of 100000 Jewish lives lost to Nazis.
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It has come to my attention that Scarlett Johansson bears an uncanny resemblance to Lenin's wife Nadejda Krupskaya and I can't unsee it now
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In Samarkand, Uzbekistan farmers brought a bunch of sheep to the mayor’s office to protest his decision to reduce grazing lands.
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Because many are asking — Kazakh and Russian are absolutely not mutually intelligible. They are in two completely different families of languages.
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For all the Kremlin talk of “Hate against Russian speakers!”, in most videos of Ukrainians fighting the Russian invaders, Ukrainian troops are speaking Russian. This was never about the Russian language or “protecting Russians”. Just imperial ambitions of a tyrant
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Ukrainians, including his fiercest critics, are rallying around President Zelensky. I don’t think I’ve seen this level of unity and resolve in Ukraine ever before.
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A big shift in Turkey’s rhetoric about the Russian invasion of Ukraine: Turkey is now calling it a war. That grants it ability to restrict movement of Russian non-Black Sea vessels through the straits. NATO should explicitly state we are standing by Turkey, its NATO ally.
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In Dagestan, people have blocked roads in protest of the mobilization. Dagestan has already lost a disproportionately large number of its male population in the war.
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Japan kicked out 8 Russian diplomats. The remarkable thing about this is that they are doing this specifically because of the Russian war in Ukraine. This may be the only time I’ve seen a government is mentioning Russian propaganda as one of the reasons for expulsion. Superb.
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In a free election in Ukraine, not a single far-right party made it into the parliament; the country has a Jewish president and for some time was the only country outside of Israel that had a Jewish president AND prime minister. To be clear, just like any country, Ukraine
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These photos from the now-liberated Irpin in Kyiv Oblast. Look at what the occupiers have done in one month. Savages.
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This is mind boggling. As parts of the country are being mobilized en masse, some folks in Moscow thought today would be a good day to do a mass dance to try to break a world record for public waltz dancing.
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Zelensky to Putin:
“What do you want from us? Leave our lands. If you don’t want to leave, sit down with me to talk. I’m available. I’m your neighbor, talk to me. What are you afraid of? We don’t threaten anyone, we are not terrorists.”
Ukraine couldn’t have had a better leader
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I will not share the images from the Russian attack on Kharkiv tonight but all I can say it looks apocalyptic. I am not even exaggerating. Kharkiv is the second largest city in Ukraine. Everyone responsible are war criminals.
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It appears a massive crowd is moving toward downtown Almaty in Kazakhstan. Please correct me if I am wrong but this seems unprecedented for Almaty.
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Putin’s statement on the nukes is the biggest sign yet the Russian invasion of Ukraine is going really badly.
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