David Patrikarakos
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Writer. Books: ‘War in 140 Characters' & 'Nuclear Iran.' Writing my third. Foreign Correspondent, @UnHerd Special Correspondent, @DailyMail
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Incredible scenes. Riot police uniting with protestors against the regime.
#IranRevolution
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Wow. This is how
#Russia
🇷🇺 is trying to attract people to go and live there. And no. It’s not satire.
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#Russia
🇷🇺 has just fired Lt. General Berdnikov, its commander of the western military district. He’s been in post for 15 days.
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Astonishing scenes from
#Iran
. Protesters have burned down the house of Ruhollah Khomeini, the Islamic Republic’s founder.
The house has been a museum for the past 30 years. This is an attack in the essence of the republic itself.
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Taliban collapses with laughter as journalist asks if they would be willing to accept democratic governance that voted in female politicians - and then tells camera to stop filming. “It made me laugh” he says.
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If you don't get how vital the battle for
#Ukraine
is, let Sergei Lavrov explain:
"This is not about Ukraine at all, but the world order. The current crisis is a fateful, epoch-making moment in modern history. It reflects the battle over what the world order will look like".
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Confirmed now by the US President.
BIDEN: "I never really thought that I would see...have confirmed pictures of terrorists beheading children"
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Ukrainian soldiers singing the national anthem on liberated territory.
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Of all the conflicts I have engaged with or covered in my life, Ukraine is where I most clearly see the unambiguous resurgence of violent, expansionist fascism. Ukrainians are fighting for us all, remember that.
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THREAD: I’ve arrived in Dnipro to begin covering the battle for eastern
#Ukraine
. Dima has been fighting since early March.
“It’s like WWII but with modern technology. 2014 was a playground compared to this.”
* I have permission to tweet his photo & all comments.
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Biggest winner in Afghanistan? Pakistan's ISI. It helped build a nuclear arsenal in defiance of the international non-proliferation regime, supported & armed the Taliban, undermined the War on Terror, and did it all while pocketing billions of dollars of US taxpayer money.
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Today
#Ukraine
held an emergency session of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament). Despite Putin’s brutal attacks over 350 out of 425 MPs were present. They sang the national anthem. They refused to be cowed.
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We could have stopped him in Georgia.
We could have stopped him in Syria
We could have stopped him in Crimea
We could have stopped him in Eastern Ukraine.
But we did nothing. And here we are.
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Ukrainian soldiers 🇺🇦have been writing tributes to the Queen onto shells and rockets before firing them at Russian 🇷🇺forces.
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Has one man ever been so wrong about everything, all the time, for decades?
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Odesa security expert tells me: “Security is really tight atm as there's a real fear of infiltration by saboteurs. Last week the security services caught someone skulking around post-curfew. When then grabbed him, he screamed: "It's ok, it's ok, I'm just a drug dealer!"
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Look at those delighted crowds in the Luhansk 🇺🇦 oblast out celebrating their annexation to Russia 🇷🇺.
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In Tehran tonight.
“Down with the dictator"
"We don't want the Islamic Republic.”
#MahsaAmini
#Mahsa_Amini
#IranProtests
#IranProtests2022
#مهسا_امینی
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Afghan girls beg American soldiers at the airport to save them from what they know is coming.
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Amazing photo. Remember these people - & don't dare turn your eyes from them. Many of them may die fighting the kind of tyranny that threatens us all.
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In today's
@DailyMailUK
I go inside occupied Kherson. This is what
#Russia
🇷🇺 does in all the places it occupies.
Never forget. Never turn your back on
#Ukraine
🇺🇦.
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More women in
#Iran
🇮🇷 set fire to their headscarves tonight during the fifth night of protests in Iran over the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, following her arrest by morality police over the mandatory hijab law.
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Audio is put up on screen: A Hamas terrorist calls his father:
"Father, I killed 10 Jews! Check your WhatsApp! I sent you the photos! Father, I killed 10 Jews! I killed 10 Jews with my bare hands. check your WhatsApp. Father, be proud of me!"
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“Our greatest ally in this war is
#Russia
corruption & the nature of its army. The soldier in the field briefs his officer: ‘it’s not good but we’re holding’; next guy reports up: ‘we’re holding’; the next guy: ‘it’s going well! This is why Putin doesn’t know how bad things are.”
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"Chechen soldiers? Ha We call them TikTok soldiers. They're always filming. We found one who was wounded and trying not to fight but take a selfie."
"Their job is not to fight but to shoot Russian boy conscripts who don't want to fight. It's Soviet tactics.
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This footage will still be played in 100 years. It now joins images of the retreat from Saigon and the naked Vietnamese girl as one of the west’s most shameful moments in modern history.
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Sir Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad, calls Putin’s war on
#Ukraine
, “One of the most extraordinary military disasters of the modern era.”
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Time to kick Hungary out of the EU.
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Huge crowds in
#Iran
🇮🇷 chanting: "Khamenei is a murderer. His rule is illegitimate"
#IranProtests
#ایران
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Their tactics are insane. Chernobaivka has a small military airport. 17 times they've tried to take it. 17 times we've smashed them. Still they come.
Our soldiers ask: "Are they dumb?" No, just incapable of independent thought. They just follow orders – no matter how crazy."
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I'm reporting from
#Ukraine
(& so detailing Russia behaviour). I assume Russia trolls trying to take down my account as I've received a DM saying it's been reported multiple times for spam & threatening to remove my verified status.
@verified
&
@TwitterSupport
can you pls assist?
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“I didn’t believe the war would happen bc an invasion needs at least 2-1 numerical superiority. I looked on the borders at the army there & it was clear they didn’t have it. This is crazy.
Sometimes you play poker with a bad hand.
#Russia
is playing without any cards at all.”
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Mayor of
#Mykolayiv
: “In the beginning I’d get messages from Russians telling me to surrender or face the fate of
#Mariupol
. I told them: either go home and live or come here and die. Welcome to hell, motherfuckers.”
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As reports come in that
#Russia
has moved troops to the 🇫🇮Finnish border, the Finns post a video of them moving tractors there in response. Top trolling!
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The footage starts:
A truck with Hamas terrorists on board. They whoop and cheer. They fan into the street. Shooting at cars. They drag blood soaked corpses out of vehicles onto the street. A female body is thrown onto the road. “Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!” Is the repeated cry.
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"The NLAWs are the best: easy to use, lock, load and move; without them we wouldn’t be taking out so many Russian tanks.
On the subject of tanks: We’ve captured more than 100 enemy tanks. We have a joke in the
#ukraine
army: our biggest weapons supplier is Russia."
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“What has shocked me is the callousness of
#Russia
soldiers to their own men.”
He shows me a photo taken from a drone of soldiers eating lunch in a ruined house near several bodies lying in the dirt.
“They’re eating 20 meters from the decomposing bodies of their comrades.”
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Can you imagine if Jeremy Corbyn was Prime Minister now…?
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Now
#Russia
🇷🇺has struck a shopping mall in Kremenchuk.
Reports of many people stuck inside - screams heard coming from the smoke. Mayor says there are multiple casualties.
Yet another civilian target - yet another war crime.
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IDF Spoke: “this is a crime against humanity. They killed babies, old people, sick people…we won’t allow the world to forget who we are fighting.
Hamas wants dead Gazans. You don’t take human shields, you don’t burrow under hospitals otherwise.
This is Hamas not Palestinians.
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"They just drop the bodies of their friends into trenches. Sometimes they don’t even bother to cover them
We found a grave of 15 bodies a while back. They’d thrown bit of dirt on them but that it was it. They don't even respect to the lives of their own comrades. Incredible."
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“They use Soviet military tactics, which were out of date 30 years ago. But we study Afghanistan, & Israel. Things have changed!
#Russia
tries to press with Mass. Our strategy is simple: to destroy as many targets as possible. But we lack resources so must do it creatively.”
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“Give them the tools and they will finish the job.”
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“Look, you can always tell the difference between a partisan strike against a
#Russia
target & a Russian false flag. The former targets important infrastructure. They just bomb a civilian building or something. Would they ever target something valuable? Not in a million years.”
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IDF Spokesman: “why did they strap GoPros to themselves? Why do they call the family of who they murdered? Bc they are proud of what they did?
Rape - where is Islam?
Burn - where is Islam?
Behead - where is Islam?
[tbc he’s saying none of the above has anything to do w. Islam)
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Footage:
A man in his underpants & his two children, also in underpants run screaming. Hamas enter, they throw a grenade & kill the father. The take the 2 kids - covered with their father's blood - into a room.
"Daddy's dead," sreams one. "It's not a prank. He's really dead."
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"I know you British have a complicated relationship with your prime minister but here
@BorisJohnson
has become something of a national hero.
We knew from the beginning that Britain was a very ancient and important nation – and it is a country that stands by its word."
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Footage:
In another scene Hamas terrorists break into an office. An Israeli cowers under a desk. The terrorists ask him questions (about the Quran I am told), the terrified man shouts "Alluha Akbar!" & then they shoot him dead.
These are Daesh tactics - straight up.
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A Ukrainian grandmother searching for her abducted grandchildren died after being interrogated by the FSB for 14 hours.
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IDF Spokesman: “we want people to understand what we are fighting for. This is something else. Something has happened to
#israel
🇮🇱. This is a crime vs humanity. This is good v bad. Death v life. These will will do anything. [commot any crime]. And it’s nothing to do with Islam.
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Images are put up of the burned babies - so small you could cradle them in the crook of your arm. A journalist who is also a parent tells me the blanket it was swaddled in is given to babies that are either newborns or close to it.
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Footage: (Cont)
"I wish I was dead, I wish i was dead." screams the child.
Footage moves: a man in a football shirt lies on the ground covered in blood. He moans in pain. A Hamas terrorist picks up a hoe & starts hitting him over and over on the head, screaming "Alluha Akbar!"
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Wow.
BREAKING:
#Anonymous
hacks Russian state TV channels to broadcast the reality of what is happening in
#Ukraine
.
#OpRussia
#StandWithUkriane
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This is the exact moment a Russian rocket hits a Children’s playground in Kharkiv. Russia claims Ukrainian soldiers were hiding there. You can clearly see that is a lie.
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Delighted to write the Saturday Essay in today's
@DailyMailUK
. My message is simple: as news cycles move on, don't forget about Ukraine 🇺🇦. It's what Russia 🇷🇺 is counting on. Ukrainians are dying every day - to protect Europe from a rogue state. They still need our support.
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The footage moves to a rave. Partygoers run screaming. Men & women are dragged screaming out of cars. Bloodied corpses are thrown into the dirt & surrounded by Hamas cheering & whooping.
A terrified, handcuffed female hostage is dragged out of a truck amid a cheering crowds.
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There is a break. We come back to a briefing from Gen Edelstein from Gaza command. They came to kill & burn civilians. Not military personnel. Civilians.
I’ve been fighting Hamas for many years but I honestly never thought they’d be this violent.”
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One of the most extraordinary things I’ve seen in public diplomacy.
#Ukraine
🇺🇦 Ministry of Defence produces a video (that could also be a music video) thanking its “friend right till the end.” No state in the world rn does comms as well as Kyiv.
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Footage:
Hamas steak into streets & across a roundabout. [security failures here are monumental].
Hamas enter a kibbutz. A car pulls up and the driver leave left to speak to the checkpoint. A Hamas terror at emerges from the right & shoots him. Blood spatters the insides.
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I delve deep inside occupied Kherson to find out how the
#Ukrainian
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@unherd
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Hamas terrorists move through a kibbutz. One lowers his rifle & shoots what seems to be an elderly lady - but I stress the footage is not totally clear - she moans in pain.
Camera pans through corridors to track rivulets of blood. It's thick like a riverbed.
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Edelstein: "We do not find kids and then force them to go and ask their neighbours to come out, and then they come out we kill them."
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Edelstein: “we told civilians to evacuate northern Gaza. Yes. [we go in] and there are civilian casualties. But we are not looking for kids to kill. We are not looking to kill hostages bc they are not walking fast enough.”
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Footage:
GoPro footage from a Hamas fighter. His gin sticks pit in front of him like in a video game. He runs through a kibbutz. He sees a dog run eagerly toward him. He lowers the rifle and shots the dog - 2-3 shots - stone dead.
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Russian soldiers drive up to
#Ukraine
🇺🇦positions with a white flag tied to their tank and get out and surrender.
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This is Hadith Najafi, she came out to protest her right to be free. The regime shot and killed her. She was 23-years-old.
#MahsaAmini
#مهسا_امینی
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IDF now sending through footage. Take a look for yourself:
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A new mural on the side of a bombed-out home in the Syrian city of Binnish
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“Before the war I wasn’t a big fan of Zelensky. I thought he was a great guy but not right for politics. Now I support him 1000%.
The most important thing he did was stay in
#Ukraine
. It was vital the people saw that the first man in government did not flee. It raised morale.
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And the memes have started. "Click on the images that show Prigozhin".
Via
@TheAdamUre
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Taliban is actively hunting down Afghans who worked with coalition forces. They’re also setting up networks of informers and spies on the ground. This is a nightmare. US/UK etc need to speed up evacuations. Those on the ground need more resources immediately!
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Sirajuddin Haqqani is new Interior minister of the interim government of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. He's a literal terrorist that the FBI has a $5 million bounty out on.
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Delighted to make my debut for
@TheEconomist
, profiling Olesia Vorotnyk - the Ukrainian 🇺🇦 ballerina who swapped her ballet shoes for an AK-47 to defend her homeland.
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Another photo of my mum in pre-revolution Tehran. Look at all that female hair. Tut tut.
Iran was free once, it will be again.
#IranRevolution
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For 6 months I've been investigating the Russian PMC,
#Wagner
🇷🇺. Through a combination of the group's internal documents & sources on-the-ground, I have managed to piece together how this this gang of murderers operates & the web of dark money behind it.
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What a miserable, joyless approach to the game.
Nothing to do with showboating. Should have been booked for unsportsmanlike conduct and restarted with free kick to Forest
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WTF is wrong with DW?
"DW looks at the Geneva Conventions, to which both Russia and Ukraine are signatories. Targeting nuclear plants is not actually banned."
Well, that's ok then!
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“The Russians don’t understand that we live in a democracy. One man can’t decide for everyone. Even if I wanted to surrender, which I would not do. The people would never accept.”
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Many things strike me about this war, but chief among them is how regressive it is. How basic societal norms so easily unravel. As I wrote recently:
"Once more, Ukrainians are suffering for the colonialist delusions of a Russian despot....Everything about this war is atavistic."
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In my Saturday Essay I write:
You may not want war but war is here...You may not be interested in Moscow & Beijing & Tehran but they are very much interested in you. If we lose to Russia in Ukraine it's not just our allies, but ourselves we will betray.
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