Robert Howard 🌻
@rlh
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For decades German intellectuals lectured the world about "moral duty", "historic responsibility", "Never Again",... and in 2022, when "moral duty", "historic responsibility", "Never Again", were acutely needed they were like: "Nope, we're super cool with russia doing genocide."
The most surprising thing for me in 2022 was that Italian fascists are more ethical, honest, clear eyed, realistic, and empathic than German intellectuals.
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I’ve mentioned it before, @HBO did an absolutely chilling movie on the Wansee Conference entitled “Conspiracy” & released in 2001, where senior Nazi figures discussed practical implementation of this. No film better encapsulates the phrase “banality of evil.”
On this day in 1941, Hitler directs his top officials to draw up plans for the extermination of all Jews in Europe. Joseph Goebbels, who is present for the meeting, records the details in his diary: "The Führer has decided to make a clean sweep."
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“Our future is not with great medical care but rather with saving lives” “Our future is not with great schools and teachers but rather with students.” It is exhausting, the purposeful false binaries created that misdiagnose and mis-remedy on the daily
“Republicans: Our Future Is Not With Free Markets. It's With the Working Class.” @Chris_Griz’s latest for @NewsweekOpinion.
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“what do we, as a culture, have to do to kill QR code menus”? Um, just walk out the door? Or do people not understand the most basic tenets of free market capitalism?
"Is this the future you want? Staring at your phone, ignoring your companions, while your pasta surges to 200 percent of its normal price?"
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Strange behaviour of Germany during the war in Ukraine might make more sense if we consider that German and Russian economies are surprisingly compatible
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1/7 Dear leaders, As May 9 approaches and Russia suffers new humiliations on the battlefield, things will only get worse. Collateral damage is never a factor for Russians, but now it is increasingly becoming a goal in itself. @NATO
@EU_Commission
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Watch. Now.
Without additional weaponry, this war will become an endless bloodbath, spreading misery, suffering, and destruction. Mariupol, Bucha, Kramatorsk – the list will be continued. Nobody will stop Russia except Ukraine with Heavy Weapons. #ArmUkraineNow
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Without additional weaponry, this war will become an endless bloodbath, spreading misery, suffering, and destruction. Mariupol, Bucha, Kramatorsk – the list will be continued. Nobody will stop Russia except Ukraine with Heavy Weapons. #ArmUkraineNow
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Darkly echoes what an SBU officer in Bucha told us about ‘filtration activities’ carried out by Russian forces. Selecting who will live and who will die, usually by a shot to the head, often after torture.
Thirteen mobile crematoriums in #Mariupol. Ukrainian intelligence reports that the Russian leadership has ordered its military to destroy evidence of their war crimes. All potential witnesses are sent to what intelligence calls “filtration camps.” Witnesses disappear there.
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Imagine giving birth in sieged Mariupol, under constant bombardment. Imagine singing to your newborn like this in a bomb shelter. Imagine escaping the blockaded city with him in your arms, risking your life at every single step. Ukrainians don’t have to imagine. This is our life.
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Yesterday, RIA Novosti published a lengthy piece titled "What Russia should do with Ukraine", which explains in detail what Russia understands by denazification. It's truly horrific: 1/6
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Instead of hoping for an impossible deal in the short term, the best way to shorten the war and save lives in the long run is to speed up support for Ukraine to continue causing these extreme loss rates on the Russian army.
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Every serious media outlet in the West tomorrow morning needs to ask what Scholz, Macron, Orban and Biden et al. have to say about the Bucha massacre. And what they are going to do about it. @nytimes @washingtonpost @faznet @lemondefr @hsfi @SvD
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