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Sr civil servant fr dir @RevueLeBanquet chair @CERAP_Paris Guest Prof @PSIASciencesPo non-res. sr fellow @cepa Last book: Notre Guerre #geostrategy #humanrights

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Nicolas Tenzer
4 months
#NotreGuerre est en librairie aujourd'hui. Quelques éléments de présentation. Vous pouvez aussi le trouver sur ce site indépendant de libraires et, si vous êtes loin, d'autres sites en ligne comme ou 1/11 🧵
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First Putin came for the Chechens & I didn't speak out—because I was not a Chechen. Then Putin came for the Syrians & I didn't speak out—I was not a Syrian. Then Putin came for the Ukrainians, & I didn't speak out... Then Putin came for me—& there was no one left to speak for me.
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Nicolas Tenzer
10 months
The Allies must give #Ukraine all the means (notably long-range missiles) to strike the Russian naval base at #Sevastopol in occupied Crimea. This is where the missiles that hit #Odessa originated. Any 🇷🇺 military center is not only a legitimate target, but also a necessary one.
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1 year
Left: the Kremlin, Russia, after an alleged drone attack. Right: Dnipro, Ukraine, after a real Russian terrorist attack.
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Superb. After elections rigged by the pro-Kremlin Vucic, the Serbian people take to the streets en masse to demand freedom, rule of law, end to corruption and a European future. No, it's not Western manipulation, as Vucic & Moscow proclaim, just a taste for freedom. Like Maidan.
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Ivana Stradner
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Serbia is protesting against Vucic’s authoritarian regime
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Not yet confirmed, but possible that #Ukraine will obtain French #Mirage2000D , for which Ukrainian pilots have already been trained. I hope this will be soon. It's high time allied countries delivered fighters. Decisive to strike Russia in the depth.
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As those of you who have been following me for some time know, April 30 is a special day for me. On that day in 1945, the #Ravensbr ück concentration camp was liberated. My mother, Martha Tenzer, a resistance fighter in Belgium who had been arrested by the Gestapo in 1943,... 1/8
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Nicolas Tenzer
10 months
It's time for the democratic leaders to understand that the fate of the world depends on the radical defeat of #Russia , beyond all historical differences, for reasons quite similar to those which made the destiny of the post-1945 world depend on the surrender of Hitler's Germany.
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Diplomacy and blah blah blah. No, Mr. @antonioguterres , you have to learn not to shake hands with criminals against humanity. Diplomacy never works with terrorist states. Would you have shaken hands with Al-Qaeda, ISIS or Hamas leaders? International law matters. So does dignity.
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. @Bundeskanzler 's refusal not to deliver #Taurus to #Ukraine has resulted in thousands more Ukrainian deaths. We have to put bluntly. More and more pressure in🇩🇪 on him to stop his murderous stubbornness. Taurus are decisive in striking the enemy in depth.
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Gen. Petreaus says what I and others have been stating for over a year. Staying halfway, delivering weapons in dribs and drabs, uttering "as long as it takes", evoking "negotiations on Ukraine's terms" are guilt before history. OUR war aim must be clear: to defeat Russia. Period.
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NEXTA
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In our military doctrine, to break through the kind of defenses we see in southern #Ukraine , you need an air advantage, and much more. We did not provide that to the Ukrainians," former CIA chief Gen. David Petraeus said in an interview with the BBC The military criticized the…
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My mother, who joined the armed Resistance against Nazism at the age of 20 & was deported to Ravensbruck, used to say to me: "We knew we were fighting absolute evil". Today, in their struggle against Putin's regime, Ukrainians are fighting absolute evil & the embodiment of crime.
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10 months
It's high time the Allies got serious, for the sake of Ukraine & the South, and enforced law of the sea. Ships from @NATO countries, incl. Turkey, France, UK, US, must escort vessels leaving Ukrainian ports. If attacked, these countries could trigger art. 5. Let's stop dithering.
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський
10 months
Today's 🇷🇺 terrorists' attack on Odesa proves that their target is not only 🇺🇦, and not only the lives of our people. About a million tons of food is stored in the ports that were attacked today. This is the volume that should have been delivered to consumer countries in Africa…
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If we had wanted to, we democracies could have already defeated #Russia in #Ukraine . We could have saved tens of thousands of lives. An inconvenient truth, no doubt, but a truth. Deal with it. Period.
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Nicolas Tenzer
7 months
Never forget that Russia's total defeat in Ukraine and elsewhere is and remains the absolute priority. Much of the rest ultimately depends on this. Period.
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5 months
I say it again, with gravity and weighing my words. The governments who haven't sent enough weapons to Ukraine—tanks, long-range missiles, fighter jets—have an eminent responsibility for the death of every Ukrainian. Those who block them have deaths on their consciences. Period.
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1 year
I am tired of seeing some people saying that the choice is between a long war and negotiation. I think that they have understood neither what is at stake nor what our strategy should realistically be (nor the nature of the Russian regime and of this war itself). 1/2
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Nicolas Tenzer
2 years
When my mother entered the Resistance against Nazis in 1940 -she was 20-, she had the absolute conviction she was fighting against absolute evil. It must be entirely defeated. The civilized world is facing the same reality now: Putin's regime must be defeated for our common sake.
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8 months
My regular reminder that there could be no negotiation, peace deal and compromise with #Russia . When a state perpetrates such systematic crimes against humanity, it should be fully defeated, and all the instigators and executioners brought to court. There is no middle way.
@RabbiUkraine
Chief Rabbi Of Ukraine Moshe Azman
8 months
today's arrival of a Russian rocket in the center of the town of Konstantinovka. Pharmacy, kiosks, shops... It is already known about 16 dead and many injured. I pray for the speedy recovery of the wounded!!!
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Nicolas Tenzer
8 months
". @TimothydSnyder believes most people in the West are well aware 🇷🇺 is committing genocide in Ukraine, but says many remain deeply reluctant to say so as this would oblige them to intervene more decisively while also explaining their earlier inaction." 1
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Nicolas Tenzer
10 months
A new petition, also signed by very prominent persons: we must provide longer range, ATACMs missiles, to #Ukraine . Of course, I've signed. High time to be strategically consistent and to save Ukrainian lifes. Time is of the essence. via @ChangeFrance
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2 months
I'm back. My fourth trip to #Ukraine since February 24, 2022. Where the future of Europe and the free world will be decided.
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This is the second time in the past 4 days that the @nytimes has published a completely staggering piece (I had already highlighted the first) suggesting negotiations with Russia and an abandonment of Ukrainian territories. This is extremely problematic for this newspaper...
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1 year
Mr. Medvedev, The Hague is waiting for you. Alcohol is not an excuse. No one will have impunity. Meanwhile, you are an idiot: the trick lacks subtlety.
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2 years
Let's repeat it with the utmost force: the massive #warcrimes of Putin's army in #Mariupol and #Bucha carry an absolute duty for the Western powers: to act so that the Ukrainian forces quickly regain full control of the whole #Ukraine . Not to do so is to accept new massacres.
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2 months
Once and for all, there's no presidential election in Russia. Putin is not its legitimate president, but a petty criminal wanted by 124 polices around the world after his indictment for war crimes by ICC. The democratic leaders should not recognize this mocked election results.
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This is exactly what we need to do: target Russia's military, logistics and energy infrastructures. It also shows the technological prowess of the Ukrainians. The Allies must, I repeat, help Ukraine to strike Russian soil. This is legal under Art. 51 of the UN Charter.
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Glasnost Gone
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A lot of Russian oil getting burnt today. Russian state media report a fire tore through Ryazan oil refinery (1st pic), Russia’s third-largest, on Friday. Also, a #Ukraine drone started a huge fire in oil storage tanks in the town of Klintsy in Russia’s Bryansk region (2nd pic).…
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7 months
As was sadly expected, we have (at least) two Russian Trojan horses in the European Union: Orban's Hungary and Fico's Slovakia. It's high time the EU's democracies took a radical stand. We cannot allow EU members to support a criminal power. .
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Nicolas Tenzer
5 years
Ose dire la présidente d'un parti qui a reçu un prêt d'une banque russe et qui est allée au Kremlin quémander le soutien du chef d'un État qui commet des crimes de guerre, envahit un pays voisin, viole le droit international et cherche à déstabiliser l'Europe et la France.
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2 months
ISIS is a terrorist organization and must be defeated. Russia is a terrorist state and must be defeated. For the same reasons. And let's not forget the facts: Putin's Russia has killed more civilians in Chechnya, Syria, Ukraine... than ISIS, Al-Qaeda and Hamas combined. Period.
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2 years
This image basically encapsulates what is happening in #Ukraine today and what we must do. The only way to end the #Russia 's war against Ukraine is to step up massively, decisively & swiftly the delivery of weapons to Kyiv in order to expel the Russian troops from Ukrainian soil.
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10 months
The comparison haunts me. @BarackObama by not enforcing red lines in #Syria refused to save hundreds of 1000s of Syrians. @POTUS may have protected #Ukraine from the worst, but not giving all the weapons it needs costs tens of 1000s of lives. In both cases, strategic failure too.
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7 months
A constant reminder — some still refuse to see it — that the systematic bombing of hospitals, medical facilities and rescue workers is a common and well-documented Russian practice. A systematic Russian war crime relentlessly at work for 23 years in Chechnya, Syria and Ukraine.
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Oriannalyla 🇺🇦
7 months
The Russians hit the Berislav hospital again😔
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4 months
As in #Ukraine , Russia is still committing massive crimes against humanity in #Syria . We must defeat and bring down Russia in these countries, and everywhere else in the world where it commits endless abuses. For good. Without Russia, the world will be a safer, more humane place.
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Samer Daboul
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Bombing Idlib Russia celebrates the New Year by bombing and killing civilians in idlib Syria.
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1 year
The litmus test for the US and the EU is now, not tomorrow: either we provide #Ukraine with all the military means to swiftly defeat #Russia , or we will be held guilty before history and humanity. We cannot remain halfway neither morally nor—maybe more importantly—strategically.
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2 years
Je ne pensais pas m'exprimer sur ces élections. Mais je crois le danger suffisamment fort pour le devoir. Que penser d'un pays - le mien - qui semble prêt à accorder presque 50% de votes à l'extrême droite ? Nos valeurs & notre sûreté nationale sont en jeu. Il faut battre Le Pen.
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If confirmed, it's a major scandal, and @antonioguterres will have to resign. This is tantamount to submitting to blackmail by Russia's criminal power and giving them what they want. Incidental note: the system for selecting UN SGs leads to the appointment of weak personalities.
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Bill Browder
8 months
Guterres’ secret letter to Lavrov – on relieving sanctions. UN Secretary-General António Guterres has offered Russia sanctions relief in exchange for the Kremlin rejoining the grain deal.
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Yes, we must prevent a long war to avoid tens of thousands of additional Ukrainian victims and the perpetuation of an existential threat to #Ukraine and its people. But there is a solution for this, and only one: give all weapons and military support to Kyiv. Period. 2/2
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8 months
Please, read this. "Dozens of children have been gunned down with small arms at close range. The murders were perpetrated by different Russian units in different regions of Ukraine... (with) "the same purpose – to induce terror." #Russia must be crushed.
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Every time I see these images, either directly when I'm in Ukraine, or from further away, not only does my throat knot up, but I'm seized with an unspeakable anger. How many deaths could we, the Allies, have prevented if we had given more weapons and, better still, intervened?
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський
5 months
Lviv. The Field of Mars. We will never forget our heroes who fought for freedom and defended Ukraine! We remember the price of our freedom and independence. Eternal glory to all who stood up for our state!
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When will we understand that these Ukrainians killed by the Russians are our brothers and sisters? That they are Europeans and our close friends—and first & foremost human beings. That the guilt for letting them be murdered will weigh on our leaders' consciences forever—and ours.
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Emmanuelle Chaze
3 months
🇺🇦 In Kyiv, the Wall of Remembrance of the Fallen for Ukraine is full. It is full of so many lives lost. Thousands of lives. The world lost them as much as Ukraine did, and is poorer for it.
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This is indeed a disgraceful move. It has a terrible cost in terms of Ukrainian lives and is a major disastrous strategic sin. The US could — and should — provide at least 200 or 300 ATCMS without depleting its stock. Russia must be fully defeated: let's stop dithering.
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Phillips P. OBrien
6 months
It’s now been almost 40 days since ATACMS were first used by Ukraine (October 16). Where are the follow up attacks? It’s pretty clear that the Biden Administration is giving only very small numbers and making Ukraine wait. This is disastrous. Gives Russia plenty of time to adjust
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Nicolas Tenzer
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In Germany, they had (notably) Schröder. In Italy, they had (notably) Berlusconi and Salvini. In the US, they had (notably) Trump. In France, we had (notably) Sarkozy. #PutinVersteher
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Daniel Foubert
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Former 🇫🇷 intelligence official: —In 2018 frmr 🇫🇷 President Sarkozy has probably received €300K to make a conference in 🇷🇺where he flattered Putin —In 2019 Tracfin revealed that Sarkozy had signed a consulting contract with a 🇷🇺 firm for €3 mln!
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Massive Russian disinformation campaign targeting Germany on X through fake accounts. It also exists in France and elsewhere in Europe and the US. It's high time we took the threat seriously, but above all acted without restraint. Let's go all-out! #OurWar
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remained — and in our conscience it's up to us to keep it alive —: the camp, hence the death machine. The French poet René Char wrote of the Resistance: “Our heritage is not preceded by any testament”. This absent testament is ours to write. 8/8
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Feb. 27, 2015 Boris #Nemtsov was murdered in front of the Kremlin towers. He had denounced the occupation of Crimea begun on Feb. 27, 2014 & invasion of Donbass. Heir to Anna Politkovskaya, he had investigated Putin's crimes in #Chechnya . He died for telling the truth #InMemoriam
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I couldn't agree more with @general_ben "The failure lies with the West not Ukraine. The West has failed strategically by not committing to Ukraine's success & not delivering crucial capabilities in a timely manner." Ukraine will win if we get serious. 1/2
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My heartfelt thanks to the trainees of the last graduating class of Belgian diplomats for naming their class after her. A tribute that touched me more than I can say May her legacy be an inspiration in our current dark times! @BelgiumMFA @RaoulDelcorde 4/8
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4 months
The two main leaders of Europe and the free world united. 🇺🇦🇪🇪🇪🇺
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Kaja Kallas
4 months
Welcome, dear friend @ZelenskyyUA in #Estonia . Stay tuned for our joint press conference:
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Mom always told me — I quoted this phrase in my latest book #NotreGuerre #OurWar — that she and her companions had one certainty: they were fighting absolute evil, with which there can be no compromise. It wasn't a question of hope, which was intimate, but of duty. 5/8
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Après le meurtre de @navalny par le régime russe, le minimum, côté français, serait de fermer et de saisir le prétendu centre culturel orthodoxe russe Quai Branly, d'expulser l'ancien ambassadeur Orlov et de réduire de manière drastique les effectifs de l'ambassade 🇷🇺 en France.
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To repeat it again, we democracies must have one overriding war aim: Russia's defeat. This is the decisive war. It must be total in Ukraine, but also in Syria, in African countries under its yoke, in Belarus, Georgia... Any weakness would herald even more appalling days ahead.
@KareemRifai
Kareem Rifai 🌐
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Russia and Assad just dropped white phosphorus on residential neighborhoods in Idlib. The international community is nowhere to be found of course, because it's Syria.
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This is impressive. The largest crowd ever in #Georgia is taking to the street to claim that freedom and the path to Europe are not negotiable. Russia must have no say about Georgia's future. They must go. Same fight in Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus, Syria: Moscow must be defeated.
@revishvilig
Giorgi Revishvili
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Tbilisi, Georgia right now. An ocean of people are protesting “the Russian law” on foreign agents. Long live free 🇬🇪!
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Absolute indignity of the Arab countries, which host the worst criminal against humanity (along with Putin & Bashir) of the 21st century. The West no longer even protests. Assad is responsible for a million deaths. He murdered thousands of Palestinians in Yarmuk & in his prisons.
@FARED_ALHOR
Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول
6 months
The dictator Bashar al-Assad will head to Saudi Arabia today to participate in the emergency Arab summit that discusses the situation in Gaza. Yes, the war criminal Bashar al-Assad, who bombs and kills Syrians daily. Bashar al-Assad is a war criminal and serial killer.
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Je conçois que certains se sentent frustrés de ne pas avoir le sentiment d'avoir le choix. Mais nous ne savons que trop comment le fascisme procède et ce qu'il amène, à l'intérieur et à l'extérieur. Barrer la route à Le Pen n'est pas une option, mais un devoir absolu.
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There's something rotten in the Republic of Austria. The exemptions for sanctions on Russia within the European Union are unacceptable. This money is being used for Moscow's genocidal war against Ukraine, which has claimed over 100,000 Ukrainian victims.
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Nicolas Tenzer
5 months
To the idiots/bastards who claim that we'll have to negotiate with Russia, we need to remind them of this. Any victory, even a half-victory (or half-defeat) for Russia will mean more torture, summary executions, deportations. Those who support this would be accomplices to crimes.
@OlenaHalushka
Olena Halushka
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If russia loses the war, they'll return home. If Ukraine loses the war, the scale of genocide, atrocities, murders and tortures here would be unseen since WW2--multiply Bucha by thousands of times. Yet so many people in the West consciously choose to advocate for russia
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Nicolas Tenzer
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A message to the press: Never spread Kremlin's or Russian MFA/MoD communiques. We must not care about what Russia says; on the contrary let's care about the facts. If an information is not checked, do not mention it. Think about the benefit Moscow could enjoy if you mention it.
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Morally, pro-Russian propagandists in democracies are bastards because they refuse to acknowledge the Kremlin's massive crimes, or incite them. Politically, they are enemies of their own country, as they pose a threat to its security. As such, they must be brought to justice.
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Nicolas Tenzer
7 months
Hamas terrorist attacks on the Israeli people are exploited by Moscow to divert attention from its daily crimes of genocide & against humanity in Ukraine. We must keep our attention alert on all fronts, and speed up our arms deliveries to Kyiv. Same strategy of terror everywhere.
@United24media
UNITED24 Media
7 months
❗ Russia continues its daily terror of Kherson. Tonight Russians shelled Kherson region with artillery and MLRS. Eleven Kherson residents were injured, including a 27-year-old woman and her 9-month-old daughter, who were hospitalized.
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Nicolas Tenzer
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Superbe billet de @SophiaAram et quelle chute ! "Qu’est-ce qu’on a bien pu rater pour passer de Mandela à Drouet ? De Havel à Nicolle ? De Pallach à Pavlensky ? Et maintenant de Badinter à Branco ? Parce que ça visiblement, on en est tous responsables."
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I address my warm wishes first and foremost to the Ukrainian people. May 2024 bring us victory and the defeat of our enemy. My thoughts are with the families of the victims & those fighting at the front. We owe them everything. Winter won't last forever. Mariupol will live again.
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Nicolas Tenzer
2 years
Humanity will never forget the hundreds of thousands of victims caused by Putin's regime and Russians. No leader should ever write them off and dismiss them as if they were on the edge of history. Just like those of Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao and the world's great criminals.
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Dear Mr. Secretary: Yes, but we Alllies are no match for the Ukrainian people. We had the military means to totally defeat Russia and push it back, and—this must come first in our thoughts —to avoid the deaths of tens of thousands of Ukrainians. We didn't. The inconvenient truth.
@SecBlinken
Secretary Antony Blinken
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Ukrainians have done what no one thought was possible: stood toe to toe with one of the biggest militaries, conceded no territory, and they pushed Russia’s navy back in the Black Sea and opened a corridor to allow them to export grain and other products to the world.
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Nicolas Tenzer
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I feel the sound of defeatism in some minds. It's a well-known recipe of Russian propaganda. I'm less worried about it affecting public opinion than certain governments' souls, which is the priority of said propaganda. This is our war and we have to win it—by any possible means.
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Nicolas Tenzer
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President @ZelenskyyUa is a (the) world leader who has an universalist idea of freedom and is committed to the security of his country and the free world. He has made Ukraine gaining in legitimacy and honor day after day. He is a strategic thinker. In comparison, Bibi... Well...
@NTarnopolsky
Noga Tarnopolsky נגה טרנופולסקי نوغا ترنوبولسكي
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💥Ukrainian President Zelensky has asked to pay a visit of solidarity to Israel, reports @BarakRavid . What a humiliation for Netanyahu, who has ignored all invitations to visit Kiyv.
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Nicolas Tenzer
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I say it again in the most solemn way possible. If any political leader were to undertake, any re-engagement with Putin's criminal regime, the seeking of concessions, the easing of sanctions and a return to business as usual, we would have to oppose it in the most determined way.
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We've said it 100 times, the responsibility before history of Western leaders for not stopping Assad's and Putin's criminal frenzy in #Syria is immense. The war crimes in Syria foreshadowed those committed by Russia in #Ukraine . Not to have considered them is an unforgivable sin.
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where she spent long months convalescing, she weighed 30 kg and was suffering from numerous illnesses (typhus, turberculosis...). She survived. After the war, she was one of the first women to enter the Belgian diplomatic service (closed to women before the war). 3/8
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Nicolas Tenzer
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The US Ambassador fled #Afghanistan . The French Ambassador and his team are sill in #Kabul , working hard to save people. It is a principle that the captain is always the last to leave the sinking ship. My warmest tribute to @david_martinon for his courage and commitment.
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David Martinon
3 years
The French Embassy is relocated and at work @KabulAirport #Afghanistan
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Nicolas Tenzer
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Some wishes for 2024 - Ukraine's total victory & Russia's radical defeat; - freedom for Syria & overthrow of Assad; - peace in Israel/Palestine; - the defeat of the far right in the EU & US; - freedom for Iran; - intelligence, resolve, commitment to action for democratic leaders.
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Nicolas Tenzer
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This is the harshest, rawest, most direct post I've likely ever read. I'm afraid, in reality, it's also the truest.
@StasOlenchenko
Stas Olenchenko 🇺🇦
29 days
This night Ukrainians got a clear view of what we truly mean for the US. We’re not allies, never have been. We’re an inconvenience. An aberration in their view of geopolitics. A problem that just won’t solve itself. We’ll keep resisting no matter what, but this really hurt.
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Nicolas Tenzer
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The demand for freedom, justice & dignity will never stop. Admiration for the Georgian people. Let's be clear: Russia will keep the Georgian government under its thumb until it's defeated in 🇺🇦. To win in Ukraine is also to win freedom in Georgia, Belarus, Syria and elsewhere.
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Francis Fukuyama
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Renewed demonstrations in Tbilisi against the Russian NGO law.
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Nicolas Tenzer
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It bears repeating: the only way to put an end to Putin's eternal war is to defeat Russia radically, first in Ukraine, then elsewhere. As long as this regime exists, there is no hope of peace. There can be no lasting peace through illusory containment, but through total rollback.
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Garry Kasparov
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🎯 The Putin regime doesn’t need or want land. It needs and wants war. Only military defeat will change Russia's behavior. If it doesn’t happen in Ukraine, it will happen further west at far greater cost. Ukraine winning is the only way to save us from more war.
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I'm afraid I've the answer to this question—and I've been pondering it for over a year now. The reality is that most of the Allies, at first the US, don't want Ukraine to win, don't want to save lives and have agreed to sacrifice tens of thousands of them. A guilt before history.
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Robin Niblett
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US, UK, French airforces shoot down Iranian missiles & drones targeting Israel. Without having to hit Iran. Why don’t we shoot down Russian drones and missiles penetrating Ukraine’s sovereign territory?
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Nicolas Tenzer
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On the left, the only acceptable future. On the right, the future promised by Russia. If we, democracies, don't fight to total victory, let there be no doubt about who will win. There is no middle ground. #OurWar
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Nicolas Tenzer
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Everyone should talk about the relentless crimes against humanity perpetrated by a terrorist state: russia. it has stepped in its attacks on Ukraine and wants to erase the beautiful city of Avdiivka as it did in Mariupol, Bakhmut,... High time to go all-out to defeat Moscow.
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WarTranslated (Dmitri)
7 months
Russian forces deploying white phosphorus munitions against Ukrainian positions in Avdiivka, Donetsk Oblast, during their offensive.
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was “celebrating” her 25th birthday there. She would have turned 104 today. She had joined the Resistance at the age of 20, and was Jewish. Fortunately, her false papers concealed her origin. When she was liberated and handed over to the Red Cross of Sweden,... 2/8
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Nicolas Tenzer
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These words never cease to resonate with me. She continued to fight after the war. I could also mention her life as a free woman, her lack of marriage (as it was forbidden for female diplomats at the time), her love of art, and especially music, ... 6/8
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Nicolas Tenzer
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If he doesn't change his decision, then let's change the Chancellor. Up to the German people — and more immediately his coalition's partners. @Bundeskanzler
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Hans von der Burchard
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Olaf Scholz sticks to his “Nein” on Taurus for Ukraine, despite the U.S. now delivering long-range ATACMS missiles as part of its $61 billion package: “My decision will not change.” Deutsch: “Was das Waffensystem betrifft, wird sich meine Entscheidung nicht ändern.“
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Nicolas Tenzer
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The non-delivery of fighter jets and long-range missiles to #Ukraine , and the unwillingness to put down #Russia , not only is a matter of moral guilt and constitutes a strategic nonsense, but is also a flagrant disregard for international law. Inaction is betrayal. #Kramatorsk
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Nicolas Tenzer
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From the former president of Mongolia, this is the best and most subtle response to Putin's Russia's borderless and unrestrained imperialism. Remember, too, that history offers no legitimacy; international law does.
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Mongol Tsakhia ELBEGDORJ
3 months
After Putin’s talk. I found Mongolian historic map. Don’t worry. We are a peaceful and free nation🌏
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Tous ces gens qui disent " je ne suis pas pro-Pourine", mais qui plaident pour une "solution" qui est exactement celle que le Kremlin souhaite et qui visent à provoquer dans l'opinion les effets qui rencontrent ses attentes sont, à mon sens, les plus indécents.
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Nicolas Tenzer
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Every day, this guy sinks further and further into ignominy. Mr. @LulaOficial , you should consider the crimes against humanity committed by Putin. More than 100,000 Ukrainians murdered by #Russia , does that mean nothing to you? Otherwise, start by respecting international law.
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NEXTA
8 months
#Brazilian President Lula da Silva said that #Putin will not be arrested if he comes to #Brazil for the #G20 summit in 2024. Brazil has signed the Rome Statute, which requires the extradition of those arrested by the International Criminal Court.
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Nicolas Tenzer
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Since the beginning of the all-out war waged by Russia against Ukraine, I've named it a war of extermination. Here we are! Russians are mining children's toys & books in order to exterminate them. This surpasses any level of imaginable cruelty. #genocide
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her persistence in discovering new things, her curiosity and generosity, but also her intransigence towards collaborators and weak minds. I'll talk more about this another time. Even in the absolute love of life, the laughter that was hers, the love she lavished, one thing... 7/8
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Nicolas Tenzer
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All this sums up Bibi's absolute indignity: refusing to allow President @ZelenskyyUa to visit Israel and, in the meantime, taking a call from his buddy Putin, a criminal wanted by 124 police forces in the world, who has helped the Hamas terrorist group and is an ally of Iran...
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Taras Mishchenko
7 months
Zelenskyy wanted to visit Israel as a sign of support, but the Israeli government refused to approve the visit. This is even though Zelenskyy was one of the first to call Netanyahu and call on world leaders to visit Israel to show support.
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Nicolas Tenzer
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We must alert to the fate of @vkaramurza , the most inspiring voice of all those who opposed Putin's totalitarian regime since the beginning. Vladimir was sentenced to 25 years in prison in a fabricated trial for denouncing the regime's crimes in Ukraine & elsewhere #freeKaramurza
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U.S. Ambassador to the OSCE
3 months
This past week, Vladimir Kara-Murza @vkaramurza  was moved to solitary confinement in a harsh penal colony for the "crime" of not standing on command. This reflects the pattern of repression within Russia that silences those who dare speak the truth about the Kremlin's war of…
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Nicolas Tenzer
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Perfect op-ed from former French president @fhollande "The gas contract with Russia must be broken. Europe can decide on the principle. There will be a price to pay. The price of dishonor would be the greatest. The price of impotence would be the highest."
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Nicolas Tenzer
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Parmi les victimes de ce meurtre antisémite, Rose Malinger, assassinée à l'âge de 97 ans. Elle avait survécu à la #Shoah . Elle est tombée hier sous les coups de l'assassin, 73 ans après. Cette seule pensée est insupportable Les pages noires de l'histoire sont notre présent.
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Nicolas Tenzer
6 years
Merci, chère Simone, de rappeler leur nom. Aucune victime ne doit sombrer dans l'anonymat. Chacune avait une histoire, des passions, des êtres qu'elles aimaient et qui les aimaient. Il faudra écrire et dire ce que fut leur vie, à jamais unique & singulière. #Pittsburgh #inmyheart
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On this #InternationalWomenDay , let's pay special tribute to the 43,000 Ukrainian women serving in #Ukraine 's armed forces as soldiers, doctors, caregivers, rescuers... We owe them everything, not least our own freedom.
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Nicolas Tenzer
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I won't share, out of respect, the video shot by Russian war criminals of the cold-blooded murder of this Ukrainian POW, a hero who refused to bow down. This vile murder, after so many others, dictates to all civilized people one goal: #Russia must be totally defeated for good.
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Nicolas Tenzer
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Today, as every year on April 30, I commemorate the liberation of the #Ravensbr ück concentration camp—78 yrs ago. On that day, my mother, who was there, was "celebrating" her 25th birthday. I pay tribute to her today. On that day, Hitler killed himself in his bunker. #Thread 1/13
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Nicolas Tenzer
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Lenin died on January 21, 1924, 100 years ago. No room for nostalgia! He was a criminal. He founded the system of dictatorship and repression that Stalin turned into a totalitarian regime—and Putin after the fall of Communism. The Soviet system was intrinsically an abomination.
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Nicolas Tenzer
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OTD Oct. 7, 2006, Anna Politkovskaya was murdered by the Kremlin mafia, as a birthday present to the Cuppola boss. She had told all about Putin's crimes and regime. Western leaders looked the other way. They could have prevented what we are witnessing today. Forever their guilt.
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Nicolas Tenzer
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Right stance of Ukraine and the Baltic States: the presence of war criminal Lavrov at the @OSCE meeting is intolerable. The other member countries must leave the room and must not meet him. Either Russia must be expelled or @OSCE dissolved or founded anew.
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Deeply sorry to hear that. @KajaKallas would have been the best possible candidate for this position. She has always been extremely lucid about the Russian threat. The fact that some opposed her appointment speaks volumes, alas, about their present blindness and lack of resolve.
@rshereme
Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇦
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Sad to see Estonian PM Kaja Kallas withdrawing her candidacy for becoming the next NATO Secretary General. Apparently, she is viewed as “too hawkish on russia.” Maybe she is so hawkish because she knows exactly what kind of threat russia poses to the whole world. 1/n
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Nicolas Tenzer
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Bien sûr, j'ai signé. Notre engagement pour la victoire totale de l'Ukraine, mais aussi la défaite radicale de la Russie doit être plein et entier, sans aucune restriction. Cela va déterminer l'avenir du XXIe siècle. Des #Mirage2000 pour l'Ukraine !
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Nicolas Tenzer
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Cette une de @libe demain est extraordinaire et nécessaire. Les dirigeants du monde entier doivent mettre en place les plus fortes sanctions pour arrêter le régime criminel de l' #Iran , assassin de son propre peuple et des peuples voisins. #WomenLifeFreedom #StopTheExecutions
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Nicolas Tenzer
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This is indeed sheer misunderstanding of the very principle of deterrence. And could someone explain why downing Russian missiles will increase the risk of a larger scale war? Just the contrary actually. High time to stop de-escalating.
@jurgen_nauditt
Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦
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😡“We will not help Ukraine shoot down drones, as was the case in Israel, due to the risk of escalation and large-scale war in Europe” British Foreign Minister David Cameron announced this on the British radio station LBC. putin is 1000x better as a poker player than you. I'm…
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