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IR & Security Analyst, Senior Lecturer in IR & Security Studies MGU 2012-14, LSE postgrad, Climate Change, US Navy vet-Nuclear Engineering marksleboda @gmail .com

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This is #theGreatDecoupling between the West and Russia. Economic linkages will be cut down to only energy and a few other commodities & chemicals that Europe is dependent on Russia for. The West controls and has weaponized their entire economy in their war to break Russia. 1/-
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Yes - this is China getting archenemies Saudi & Iran to shake hands & restore relations. And just like that China suddenly became THE diplomatic superpower and elder stateman in the world... And US Hegemony in the ME, based on the tripod of the US-Saudi-Israel vs Iran falls apart
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But I thought you liked seeing bridges blown up?
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Illia Ponomarenko ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
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The Bridge of Glass in the very heart of Kyiv
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Russia, despite an overwhelming military advantage, is intentionally fighting with one hand tied behind their back in this intervention & limiting use of its most powerful weapons systems. Because the Russian military is not only trying to minimize civilian casualties, but 1/2
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Remember the glee and joy with which Western "journalists" are reporting on social media the likely terrorist suicide bombing that destroyed Russian civil infrastructure and killed Russian civilians. Mark and remember it well.
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Yesterday the USA tried to assassinate the head of the Donetsk Peoples Republic - Denis Pushilin. A HIMARS strike directly hit the regional administration building of Donetsk city, the "city hall", where the offices of the head of the DPR are located. Luckily enough he 1/2
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I can affirm that Gonzalo Lira @GonzaloLira1968 wanted by the Kiev Putsch regime for the crime of criticizing it (aka as "free speech"), tried to escape the West-backed Kiev Putsch regime across the Ukrainian border into Hungary where he intended to request political asylum. 1/2
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When the I๐Ÿฆ˜C announced an investigation into US war crimes - the US sanctioned the "court", prosecutor, judges, their freaking families, AND threatened to arrest them as well. All investigations & charges were dropped. Should Russia follow precedent?
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Russia is losing ~250,000 pro-Western liberals fleeing the country, the vast majority of whom have never served and are not now being called up, but fear being mobilized in the future. But Russia is gaining up to 8 million new citizens, most of who actually want to be Russian.
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Unconfirmed - it is now being discussed that Kiev regime Generals Zaluzhny & Syrsky were badly wounded in a Russian missle strike on an "AFU" HQ near Pavlograd in early May. Haven't been seen since. Currently in a coma & may be called to his beloved Bandera in Banderhalla soon.
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^ 2/2 minimize casualties among the Ukrainian military as well. Russia's opponent here is not the Ukrainian people or military per se, but the US-backed Putsch regime that seized power in 2014 and the Banderites that make up its vanguard and brownshirts.
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According to the latest US govt-orchestrated bullsh*t๐Ÿ’ฉ THIS is the yacht that the alleged "pro-Ukrainian group" used to place thousands of pounds worth of explosives on 4 Nordstream pipelines 280 ft deep on the Baltic Sea floor. How stupid do they think we are?
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^ I can further affirm that @GonzaloLira1968 was stopped on the Ukrainian side of the border from crossing and has since disappeared, now for more than 24 hours. That is the last that anyone has heard from him.
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Many Russian military analysts conclude that the West-backed Kiev Putsch regime's continued maritime drone attacks even after Russian strikes destroyed Ukrainian ports on the Danube in Reni & Izmail, is that they are being constructed & launched out of NATO territory in Romania.
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^ Hence the Russian military's repeated pauses and entreaties to Ukrainian conscripts to lay down their arms, don't die for this US-backed Putsch regime that has ruined the country, and you will be treated with respect and sent home.
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Those who know, know.
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2 years
NATO training ground and weapons transfer station in Lvov is no more
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Rob Lee
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Photos from the Yavoriv training area in Lviv that was targeted by Russian missiles today.
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Finland has now stolen hundreds of Russian national art treasures which were on loan from the Hermitage and Tretyakov Gallery. A new low.
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Sputnik
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#URGENT | Russia summons Finnish envoy to protest against seizure of art from Russian museums #SputnikUrgent
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The attempted assassination of Dugin which instead resulted in the killing of his daughter, was part of the increasingly demented propaganda & infowar of a desperate & crumbling US proxy Putsch regime in Kiev in lieu of success on the battlefield of which it is incapable 1/
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From close sources involved: Chinese companies are already scrambling eager to serve as middlemen to circumvent Western sanctions & acquire the imports Russian businesses need. Even more eager to provide import substitution themselves, from scratch if necessary. #DragonBear ๐Ÿฒ๐Ÿป
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While Ukrainian & Polish racist propoganda mocks Russia's armed forces as an "Asian" or "Mongol" horde, Russia takes strength from its multiethnic & multiconfessional nature. Servicemen from Yakutia speaking the Yakut language are used for secure military radio communications
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If they are just innocent biological research facilities why on Earth is neocon arch-villain Victoria Nuland so concerned that they might fall into Russia's hands?
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โšก๏ธThe US is working with Ukraine to prevent biological research facilities from falling into the hands of Russians โ€” Nuland
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One escalation step closer to WW3 today. The West by de facto putting Kaliningrad under seige is goading Russia to roll into the Baltics.
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Samuel Ramani
2 years
BREAKING: Lithuania announces that its goods transit ban to Kaliningrad will take effect today
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Says the country that invaded & occupied Afghanistan for 20 years and still has military occupation forces in Syria, Iraq and Serbia.
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2 years
'Once Russians are in your house, sometimes it is very difficult to get them to leave' - Blinken on Kazakhstan
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Are American intelligence operatives overseeing Ukrainian SBU terrorizing Orthodox Churches in Ukraine?
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CyanEyed
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Ukrainian woman wants to know why there's an American with the SBU unit that's terrorizing her church.
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The United States of Banderastan
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Reports and apparently released supporting documentation that Russian hackers have penetrated the database of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine and completely erased their mobilization/forced conscription servers and the backups. Unconfirmed yet but fascinating...
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Over the next 10 days the Kiev regime is going to throw everything they have in reserve, some 70% of offensive force, at Russian defensive lines, in multiple axes at once. Zelenskiy has to show some "return on investment" to his NATO masters for big NATO Summit on July 11th 1/-
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RIP Daria Platonova Dugina
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Chatter from Russian Intel that West-backed Kiev Putsch Regime forces to target Zapoozhye Nuclear Power Plant cooling/spent fuel storage in coming days/hours with missle strikes, possibly packed with depleted uranium & other radioactive material.โ˜ข๏ธ 1/2
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I've been asked to pass on by @Tom_Fowdy that for those who would like to download them that @RT_com & @SputnikInt apps are still available at @Huawei 's app AppGallery. You don't need to own a Huawei phone to sign up and use these. Just an Android. Thanks Huawei. ๐Ÿฒ๐Ÿป #DragonBear
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My take: the West-backed Kiev Putsch regime's war on "collaborators" in #Ukraine
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After days of Russian missile & drone strikes targeting Kiev's air defenses, air fields, and Western arms caches, this morning NATO and its proxy Putsch regime in Kiev bravely targeted a number of old residential buildings full of pensioners in Moscow's outskirts.
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Chomsky's alternative "options" were what the Russian govt tried to do for eight long bloody years of civil conflict in Ukraine to no results, while the deathtoll in Donbass climbed ever higher, Banderization metastisized & the de facto military NATOization of Ukraine deepened
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Aaron Matรฉ
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Noam Chomsky on the options that Russia could have pursued over Ukraine and NATO, rather than launching what he calls a "criminal invasion" that was "a very welcome gift to Washington" -- and possibly "Washingtonโ€™s goal all along":
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The harsh reality of morality means that one by one you are forced to watch your heroes die, while you must carry on with life, without them in the world to help you bear it.
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Since you initiated an existential economic war against Russia, your contracts are invalid. You can pay for your energy in rubles or gold, or you can go without heat and power.
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#German chancellor Olaf #Scholz noted that #Germany will not pay for gas and oil in rubles. "There are rigid contracts everywhere, in which the currencies with which payment is made are part of the contract", said Scholz.
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Anyone who tries to claim, like @CNN & @nytimes , that @Acosta didn't forcibly check down this intern's arm when she tried to take the microphone back during his extended harangue, is straight up, lying #fakenews . Hint: THEY won't show the video where you can see for yourself
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#CNN says Sarah Sanders lied and #Acosta never "placed hands" on the White House intern
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Why did @elonmusk @TwitterSupport suspend African-American journalist & radio host @GarlandNixon on the pretext of his obvious bitterly critical irony and satire of Biden admin policy towards the Palestinians as "hate"? Duped by or willing tool of NAFO bots?
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6/- The Golden Age of the Global Internet is also now over resulting not from Russia closing itself off, but by censorship and exclusion by Western and the social media platforms and the internet fixtures they control - because they don't trust their own people to hear alternate
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Once again it appears that the US/NATO have found Saddam's WMDs
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Samuel Ramani
2 years
BREAKING: NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg warns that Russia could use chemical weapons in Ukraine
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Palestinians have the right to self-defense, to resist the decades-long brutal and repressive occupation of their country and the Israeli/US policy of gradually ethnic cleansing of them from their own land. A genocide carried out by Isreal with US arms, funding, and support.
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This ignominious, unprovoked, and barbaric attack on Israel must be met with world condemnation and unequivocal support for the Jewish stateโ€™s right to self-defense. We must provide Israel with whatever it needs to defend itself โ€” now. As President, Iโ€™ll make sure that our policyโ€ฆ
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Khan's real crime that he is being punished and excised from politics for - being anti-US-led Western Global Hegemony.
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Fiorella Isabel
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BREAKING Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has been arrested at his residence after a court sentenced him to 3 years in prison on charges of fraud. Heโ€™s also been banned from political activity for 5 years.
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Why isn't Victor Orban already kicking this US regime change op out of Hungary on its ass?
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Samantha Power
1 year
During my trip to Budapest, I spoke with Hungarians about @USAID โ€™s new support for locally-driven initiatives to support civil society, & independent media, and how we can work together on key challenges to democracy and securing respect for the rights and dignity of all people.
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The Real Politick: Russophobia is not just the last socially acceptable form of racism and ethnic-hatred, it is actually promoted as public policy by Western governments, perhaps nowhere as obviously as in Latvia.
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A US war criminal has died today without ever facing justice for her heinous and abominable crimes
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4 years
Allied forces? It was the Soviet Red Army. Alone.
@BernieSanders
Bernie Sanders
4 years
On this day 75 years ago, Allied forces liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, the scene of the most horrific mass atrocity and genocide in history. Today we must remember the lessons of those dark days and acknowledge the danger of letting hate and anti-Semitism fester.
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A Russian military retreat from Kherson will be an enormous political cost to Putin, ends any foreseeable future move on Nikolaev and Odessa, and puts the Crimean Canal and defense of Crimea itself in question.
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It is well-past time to start digitally identifying, publically outing, and holding "antifa" anarchists responsible for their violence
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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Lynne Patton
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If you have to hide your identity with a mask, you are not there to be peaceful. ๐Ÿšซ #AntifaTerrorists #BostonFreeSpeechRally #ArrestOnSight
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^ 3/- But once the dust has settled and new domestic and import substitution formed - Russia will at least be economically & financially independent from the West. They will never again be able to weaponize their economic hegemony to coerce, blackmail, or wage war on Russia.
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^2/3 Luckily enough he was not there at the time. We know from Biden admin officials in the Western MSM that every single Kiev Putsch regime HIMARS strike is targeted and so receives the green light from the US.
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Every single one of these sadistic West-backed Maidan Putsch regime NeoNazis who posted video of themselves torturing & likely killing Russian POWs are dead men walking. #Ukraine
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Video shows NATO member Turkey's troops executing female POWs
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Thread๐Ÿงต May disturb some viewers who don't want to admit the reality of the US-backed Putsch regime in Ukraine and it's state-supported Banderite brownshirts
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Kiev regime Presidential advisor openly calls for mass genocide and ethnic cleansing in Crimea โ€˜Everything Russianโ€™ must be eradicated in Crimea โ€“ Zelensky aide
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"International ๐Ÿฆ˜ Court" not recognized by Russia, Ukraine, the US, China and others issues headline-generating propaganda as part of the information war, while conveniently ignoring the West-backed Putsch regime in Kiev repressing & mass murdering its own people for 9 years.
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Bojan Pancevski
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ICC judges issue arrest warrants against Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova | International Criminal Court
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I'm your Huckleberry. I emigrated to Russia & voted for Putin. My wife is Crimean & we have family all over east Ukraine. The Banderite Putsch regime in Kiev, US Global Hegemony & their syncophants are cancer & evil & must be stopped. Stick to pregnant orgies & defiling altars
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I suggest Aaron to move to Russia and try living under Putin's rule if he loves him so much. It's fucking amazing to see the Western intellectuals writing off our lives, blood, fight and suffering - us who oppose Putin in Russia and those who heroically fight him in Ukraine -โ€ฆ
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Now this is what neocolonialism looks like - Ukraine after the openly West-backed Maidan Putsch in 2014
@KanekoaTheGreat
KanekoaTheGreat
1 year
In 2016, Victoria Nuland told Congress that US advisors serve in 12 Ukrainian ministries, US-trained police operate in 18 Ukrainian cities, the US Treasury helped close 60 Ukrainian banks while protecting depositors, and the US spent $266 million on training Ukrainian soldiers.
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Excellent idea. It follows that Americans and British etc visiting the Rest of the world should be charged fees for the devastation that their govts inflicted on Iraq, Afghanistan, Serbia, Syria, Haiti and Libya. @mcfaul
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Michael McFaul
2 years
If the majority of Russians support Putins invasion of Ukraine, are they really innocent bystanders in this war? Are they entitled to vacations in Europe? At a minimum, they should pay for Ukrainian reconstruction for that privilege. Add a โ‚ฌ100 fee to every visa to Europe.
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Ironically this is the very same language that the Nazi regime in Germany once used to speak of the Jewish people in Europe, who would go on to colonize Palestine.
@Glenn_Diesen
Glenn Diesen
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Terrifying language from Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Gallant: - "I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed... We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordinglyโ€.
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Quite incredible to see a Brit call a country whose govt was overthrown in a violent & unconstitutional openly foreign-backed Putsch, where all opposition parties representing east Ukrns have been banned and all critical media shut down - "sovereign & democratic". @piersmorgan
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Piers Morgan
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Quite incredible to see an American conservative side with a Russian dictator over a democratic sovereign country he illegally invaded, and believe Ukraineโ€™s run by Nazis when their president is Jewish and lost relatives in the Holocaust. As I said last night, youโ€™re bonkers.
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Mark Sleboda
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We dont illegally invade, occupy & construct military bases in Syria...they just naturally "emerge" from desert sand like an oasis spring..
@daxe
David Axe
7 years
Satellites Reveal U.S. Military Bases Emerging in the Desert
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2 years
Evidently some compromising video of the puppet leader of the US-backed Putsch regime in Kiev has been leaked and they are trying to get ahead of it
@SamRamani2
Samuel Ramani
2 years
The Ukrainian Rada warns that Russia is preparing to circulate a Deep Fake video of Zelensky disparaging Ukrainian cities including Mariupol This pre-emptive warning should hopefully prevent some people on the far-left and far-right in the West from latching onto this
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The now rabid political censorship of the US state-affiliated social media platform @Twitter claimed a new victim - @RWApodcast , as the narrative management of #Ukraine gets increasingly desperate. @TwitterSupport
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If you read Western media, Putin secretly controls 1. US GOP 2. UK Labour 3. #Brexit campaign 4. German SPD 5 Greek left 6. French right
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I suspect that much like with the Abrams & Leopards, that the Pentagon has only agreed to part with a "small batch" of ATACMS to Kiev mainly to pressure Germany to deliver their Taurus cruise missile. 1/2
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Thread: Russia fires back in the global semiconductor trade war. No semiconductor purchases for us? Ok - no semiconductor production for you. ..
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Mark Sleboda
8 months
^3/3 The last head of the DPR - Alexander Zakharchenko and many many other political leaders of the Donbass have been assassinated by the West-backed Kiev Putsch regime as well.
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There is a very real possibility that Biden will resort to using nuclear weapons out of desperation on Russian forces in Ukraine, if the US-backed Kiev Putsch regime looks set to fall
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Russia would not even exist today as one country if it did not have an (unused) nuclear deterrent. On the other hand about 200k Japanese civilians in Hiroshima & Nagasaki would have at least had the chance to live happy, safe, prosperous lives if the US had not developed them.
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Pavel Podvig
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Russia would have been so much happier, safer, and more prosperous country had it not had nuclear weapons...
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^ 4/- The same weaponized economic war too will also soon be turned on China and the Rest of the world's holdouts from US-led Western Hegemony. The Unipolar world will truly be over, but the Multipolar world will be stillborn by US attempts to hang on to their hegemony.
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Nicki Haley at the #UNSC in an homage performance nod to American classics. The resemblance is uncanny
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5/- Instead US/Western pressure will directly result in the formation of an anti-Western bloc led by China and Russia for survival and independence. Neutrality will be difficult to maintain. A new Bipolar world is coming into being, just decades after the last ended.
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With Budanov's Bad Body Double's absurd claims that Russia has mined the Zaporozhe Nuclear Power plant, the Kiev regime's Plan B which I have long forecast is now more obvious than ever: 1/-
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US tries to block Russia from buying semiconductors on the global market, Russia will make sure it's much harder and more expensive for anyone to make them
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CNN International
2 years
After grappling with pandemic-fueled supply bottlenecks, chipmakers are facing a new headache: Russia, one of the world's biggest suppliers of gases used to make semiconductors, has started to limit exports
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^ 2/- Political, social and cultural linkages will also be severed to a high degree. Weaning Russia off this dependence will be hard and immiserating. But with Chinese and some other Eurasian support, Russia may just weather it. The entire global economy will suffer as well.
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13/-The great Realist IR scholar Mearsheimer foresaw all of this. As did Kissinger, George Kennan US Ambassador John Matlock and many others. They tried to warn what the consequences of the US trying to geopolitically flip Ukraine would be, but to no avail
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In the past week alone the Biden regime in the US has resorted to publically threatening sovereign India, China & South Africa, all rising BRICS powers, over their bi-lateral relations with Russia. The Hegemon's iron grip is failin...
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Mark Sleboda
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The leader of #AlQaeda in #Syria would like to complain about the govt of #Syria and their ally #Russia liberating #Idlib from his grip and @hxhassan would like to uncritically give him a platform for it.๐Ÿ˜ #terrorism
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Hassan I. Hassan
4 years
Russiaโ€™s relentless and vicious campaign in NW Syria, where millions of civilians and IDPs live and could be forced to flee en mass, continues. The leader of the force that dominates that area has a new speech. A new & dangerous chapter is looming. Details in following tweets:
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Mark Sleboda
4 years
Because they are Russian citizens, are opposed to #AlQaeda and regime change by the other foreign-backed #31FlavorsofJihad in #Syria , actually know what the word "genocide" means, and are rightly disgusted by the vile apologists of headchopping, suicide bombing Wahhabists.
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Hassan I. Hassan
4 years
How did Russia manage to win over โ€œacademicsโ€ to cheer and legitimize its genoicide in Syria? It must be a combination of ignorance & repugnance.
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Mark Sleboda
2 years
US economic warfare on Russia aims to exclude it from the global semiconductor market. Only problem: Russia & Ukraine produce most of the materials (neon & palladium) needed globally to manufacture semiconductors. Check.โ™Ÿ๏ธ
@Reuters
Reuters
2 years
EXCLUSIVE Russia's attack on Ukraine halts half of world's neon output for chips
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Mark Sleboda
2 years
7/- perspectives and narratives and judge on their own. The world's internet will now break down into regional spheres with limited connectivity. It will be a new, much smaller, less connected, more localized and divisive world.
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Mark Sleboda
2 years
Today THIS matters more than any Victory Day Parade in Moscow. These east Ukrainians suffered through 8 years under the West-backed Maidan Putsch regime's Azov NeoNazi jackboot and now at last have their own victory. #Mariupol
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Mark Sleboda
2 years
10/- Ultimately the cause was the US-led West trying to maintain and extend their Hegemony, while they can and Russia resisting it. NATO expansion east in waves. US meddling and hybrid warfare to bring into power pro-Western/anti-Russian govts in formerly neutral, unaligned,
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Mark Sleboda
2 years
When Westerners are so locked up in their Exceptionalism that they convince themselves despite not speaking Russian or Ukrainian that they know more about what is "really" happening there than Russians do, many w friends & family in Ukraine, and 5 million Ukrns residing in Russia
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Mark Sleboda
2 years
The world we live in today: I have to have 2 browsers open all the time, one with a VPN to a Western state to avoid Russian censorship & the other a normal browser from my location in Russia to avoid Western censorship - in order to have access to info from all sides on #Ukraine
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Mark Sleboda
2 years
16/- For Russia the only path forward, the goal to survive is, must be - separation, autarky (self-sufficiency), and independence from US-led Western Hegemony.
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Mark Sleboda
2 years
The fake news from Western MSM never stops. Dugin has never met or spoken to Putin. To the contrary he was fired from MGU and his non-existent influence actively further minimized from 2014 on because of his strident views on the Putsch in Ukraine.
@cnni
CNN International
2 years
Darya Dugina, the daughter of influential Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin, was reportedly killed on Saturday when the car she was traveling in exploded in the Moscow region, the Russian state news agency TASS has reported.
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Mark Sleboda
1 year
These were the smart ones.
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Hung
1 year
A group of Ukrainian soldiers - trained at a British military base last summer - surrendered just 20 minutes after encountering Russian forces near Svyatogorsk in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic. โ€œGrow troops for 3 years, use troops for 20 minutesโ€ great.
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Mark Sleboda
2 years
The US-backed Kiev regime is planning to destroy the Kakhovka dam and flood Kherson in conjunction with their offensive, making resupply difficult for Russian forces and trapping civilians in the city.
@rybar_en
rybar_en
2 years
Map of flooding in Kherson region if the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam broke
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Mark Sleboda
2 years
I guess the US-backed Putsch regime has just finished "cleansing" Izyum of "collaborators"
@AFP
AFP News Agency
2 years
#BREAKING Mass grave found in Ukraine town retaken from Russia: Zelensky
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Mark Sleboda
2 years
I remember well when Russia destabilized the world by illegally bombing, invading & militarily occupying Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Haiti, Libya, Syria, assisted the Saudi invasion & genocide on Yemen, & openly supported a violent & unconstitional Putsch in Ukraine. Oh wait...๐Ÿค”
@BBCSteveR
Steve Rosenberg
2 years
Russia puts 100,000 troops near Ukraineโ€™s border, holds war games in Belarus, naval exercises. But who โ€“ acc'ding to Russian TV - is endangering world peace? The West: โ€œThe competence of Western governments is fallingโ€ฆincompetence is putting the world at risk of destruction.โ€
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Mark Sleboda
2 years
INSANE US-backed Maidan Putsch regime in Kiev summarily executes its OWN peace negotiator sent to negotiate with Russia for "treason" on the street
@alxgraef
Alexander Graef
2 years
Unexpected development: Denis Kireyev, reportedly shot by Ukrainian intelligence SBU during arrest. Kireyev, suspected of treason, had been a member of the #Ukrainian delegation at the first round of talks with #Russian in Belarus.
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Mark Sleboda
2 years
West punishes #Bangladesh for not voting in line with it at the UNGA resolution on the conflict in #Ukraine - by withholding life-saving COVID19 vaccines
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Mark Sleboda
2 years
9/- Global distribution networks will be disrupted & chaos result for months. Because Russia & Ukraine are primary sources of so many of the world's commodities - energy & food costs around the world will skyrocket. In the First world prices will go up, in the Third - starvation.
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Mark Sleboda
2 years
All these petty bloody & destructive crimes do is leave the Kremlin no room for anything less than complete regime change in Kiev, bringing their own brand of Banderite justice home to the Putsch leadership in Kiev, and all those in the West found to be involved as well.
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Rob Lee
2 years
The Crimean bridge.
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Mark Sleboda
9 months
THIS simpering condescension & hubris is why they hate the West
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S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y
9 months
In this video from 2017, French President Macron behaved inappropriately with the President of Burkina Faso, after which the latter left the hall. After that, Macron said: "He went to fix the air conditioner?".
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Mark Sleboda
2 years
Red herring argument. Russians aren't saying Zelenskiy is a Nazi. They are reporting the fact that his regime has literal state-armed & funded unequivocal NeoNazi deathsquads sent to kill & repress their own people for 8 years: Azov, Right Sector, C14 etc 1/2 @SamRamani2
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Samuel Ramani
2 years
When Russians call Zelensky a Nazi, they are not just trivializing the exceptionality of the Holocaust, they are also cheapening the sacrifice of the millions of their compatriots who died fighting real Nazism.
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Mark Sleboda
4 years
The International Community must come together to intervene in this political crisis in the US, put UN Peacekeepers on America's streets to separate potentially warring gangs of armed militants, restore law & constitutional order & ensure a new truly free & fair election is held.
@NPR
NPR
4 years
BREAKING: President Trump has falsely claimed that he has won the 2020 election. That is wrong. Millions of votes are still being counted in key states.
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Mark Sleboda
2 years
I think she is largely correct, actually. Russians have not subscribed to the EU's post-modern liberal nihilism & want no part of it. Let's face it - the EU in this day & age, defines what Europe & Europeaness is. And Russia should avoid that brave new Europe like the plague
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Mark Sleboda
2 years
^ 3/- never met or spoken to Putin. It doesn't matter that his unique ideas had zero influence in the Kremlin and little to none in the rest of Russian society. In doesn't matter that to the contrary the Kremlin got Dugin fired from Moscow State University and banned him from
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