Edward Lucas @edwardlucas Twitter profile

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Edward Lucas

4 months

This is election year and we're fundraising for a historic victory in Cities of London and Westminster! If you are eligible (UK citizen, or business paying taxes here) please go to

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Edward Lucas

@edwardlucas

2 years

thread 1/13 Putin's risk appetite is far greater than we realised. We are deluding ourselves (I was too complacent and thought he wouldn't go this far) So forget the stirring talk about Western unity and a revived spirit of purpose in NATO.

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13/13 And finally: Apologise to Ukrainians, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks (and Russians) for ignoring their warnings over so many years.

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Thread: 1/5 Putin has done a classic bait and switch: frightened us with one thing so that we accept another. The further dismemberment of Ukraine, and an avowed Russian military presence there: in effect, two more Crimeas.

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6/13 --. Remove RT and other Russian propaganda organs from the airwaves in all countries that have regulated broadcast media.

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10/13 -- The US to announce that foreign politicians and senior officials who sit on Russian boards or act as consultants to Russian companies must resign at once, or be blacklisted from visiting the United States. Other countries to follow suit.

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5/13 -- Withdraw all Western (NATO, EU, OECD) ambassadors from Moscow and send their Russian counterparts home. -- Close all Russian consulates, trade missions. We need barebones embassies, nothing more.

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@edwardlucas

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11/13 -- Any law firm, bank, accountancy firm, consulting outfit or other professional service firm that does business with a sanctioned Russian entity must cut ties at once or face similar penalties.

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@edwardlucas

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9/13 -- Delist these companies from the exchanges in London, Frankfurt, New York and other western financial centers. Stop trading their debt, bonds and other financial instruments

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@edwardlucas

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8/13 -- And on their spouses, siblings, offspring, parents and other associates. -- Announce a sweeping program of asset freezes on these individuals, and on companies linked to the Kremlin or owned (even in part) by Kremlin cronies.

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@edwardlucas

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7/13 -- visa bans on all government ministers, on all members of the Duma and Federation Council, all governors and office-holders in Russia’s regions, on all officials in the “power ministries” and security agencies, and on the 35 individuals named in Alexei Navalny’s list.

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@edwardlucas

2 years

Today’s Mail on Sunday

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@edwardlucas

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3/13 For the West, this may be (yet another) wake-up call. For Ukraine, it is a death-knell.We will have years (decades, probably) to mull the combination of naivete, complacency, arrogance, ignorance and — most of all — greed that brought us to this catastrophe.

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@edwardlucas

2 years

2/13 Warm words and high spirits do not bring the dead back to life. As you read this, Ukrainians are huddling in bomb shelters, dodging bullets, and seeing their dreams of a free, prosperous, law-governed independent country destroyed.

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@edwardlucas

2 years

4/5 We need a huge, narrative-shifting, decisive reaction right now: EU/NATO accession path for UA clarified, big financial/military aid, expulsion of Russian ambassadors, cancel NS2, sweeping visa bans/asset freezes, delisting of Rosneft etc from London stock exchange

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@edwardlucas

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12/13Announce snap military exercises in the Baltic Sea and Black Sea regions.

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@edwardlucas

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5/5 If we don't do that, we will be back here again in days/weeks/months and in a far worse position. And don't forget, Ukrainians pay in blood and bereavement for our naïveté, greed and cowardice.

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@edwardlucas

2 years

4/13 But the biggest question is what to do right now. Sanctions are not a magic bullet. But here is a ten-point to-do list for action by the end of the week. (lots of other things too, but this for immediate action)

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@edwardlucas

2 years

Thread 1/11 Too little, too late Londongrad just took a direct hit. Or did it? Look at the measures that the government has announced. Here’s a quick guide

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@edwardlucas

3 years

Just imagine how frightened he was. And what he’s going through now

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@edwardlucas

2 years

I'm compiling a visa blacklist of American, British and EU-based "enablers" — bankers, lawyers, accountants, fixers and gofers — who have helped Putin's murderous regime loot Russia and launder reputations and fortunes. DM me suggestions. #nofly

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@edwardlucas

2 years

I would so hate to be the person who brings the morning military update to Putin

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Edward Lucas

@edwardlucas

11 months

I am asking @Cenckiewicz @michalrachon @SamPereira_ and @MiAdamczyk to remove my interview clips from the online version of the tendentious "Reset" film. I was misled about its editorial angle. I also want a public assurance that no clips will be used in the rest of the series.

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@edwardlucas

2 years

I reluctantly conclude that we should ban Russian tourists

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Edward Lucas

@edwardlucas

2 years

do please share this with anyone who thinks "Russia would never attack NATO"

Julia Davis

@JuliaDavisNews

2 years

Andrey Gurulyov, State Duma deputy, former deputy commander of Russia's southern military district, discussed how to best attack the West, while also purging internal opposition & hunting them down abroad. Fellow propagandist warned I would use those quotes, but he kept talking.

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@edwardlucas

3 years

never a dull moment here in south-west London

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@edwardlucas

2 years

2/5 We should have started sanctions months ago (years, really). Instead we have waited for a "trigger" event. Putin just has to calibrate his behaviour to be complicated (Donetsk Shmonetsk -- who's heard of these places anyway)? and sub-threshold.

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Edward Lucas

@edwardlucas

11 months

I am horrified to see my views and name being used as “evidence” in Polish domestic political attacks on @sikorskiradek and others. This is without my consent or knowledge.

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@edwardlucas

2 years

3/5 Putin calculates (probably correctly) that the West will huff and puff but no more. if so, he walks away with a geopolitical trophy at minimal cost. (and don't forget other gains, ie Belarus). He's also exposed weakwilledness and disunity, and Ukraine's loneliness.

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Edward Lucas

@edwardlucas

4 years

Estonia had its first digital cabinet meeting in 2000. Encrypted, with digital signatures. 20 years later UK catches up with 1st meeting. it uses hackable, unencrypted @zoom_us and no remote digital signing. But hey, #easterneurope

Matti Maasikas

@MattiMaasikas

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In 2000.

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Edward Lucas

@edwardlucas

11 months

Proszę @Cenckiewicz @michalrachon @SamPereira_ i @MiAdamczyk o usunięcie moich wywiadów z internetowej wersji tendencyjnego filmu "Reset". Nie popieram jego redakcyjnego punktu widzenia. Chcę publicznego zapewnienia, że w pozostałej części serii nie zostaną użyte żadne klipy.

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Edward Lucas

@edwardlucas

3 months

Konstantin Päts was born on this day 150 years ago. He died in 1956, incarcerated in Soviet penal psychiatric hospitals because he "persistently claimed to be president of Estonia". Which he was.

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@edwardlucas

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@michalrachon @Cenckiewicz żeby było całkiem jasne. cofam wszelkie zgody, wyraźne lub dorozumiane, na translację moich słów i wizerunku w Państwa programie. Zgłosiliście się do mnie, abym wziął udział w programie o stosunkach „Europy Zachodniej z Rosją” w okresie poprzedzającym wojnę z Ukrainą.

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@edwardlucas

2 years

It's not just Putin

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@nexta_tv

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Andrei Sidorov from the #Moscow State University: "I am not sure that #Ukraine , like many other small states, should retain its #sovereignty after our special operation. In today's world, sovereignty is based, whether we like it or not, on force".

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@edwardlucas

4 years

This is Lithuania’s President temporarily filling in as leader of the free world

Gitanas Nausėda

@GitanasNauseda

4 years

Three decades ago, Lithuanians lined up in a human chain together with their Latvian and Estonian brothers. The Baltic Way sent the message of Freedom. Today Belarusians are sending their message to the world: they want to be free.

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Edward Lucas

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Sweden launches 'Psychological Defence Agency' to counter propaganda from Russia, China and Iran. Somebody gets it …

Sweden launches 'Psychological Defence Agency' to counter propaganda from Russia, China and Iran

The new agency is tasked with countering disinformation and boosting the population's resilience in the face of possible influence operation

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Edward Lucas

@edwardlucas

2 years

Liz Truss's visit to Moscow (thread 1/12). I'm delighted by the government's words but infuriated by the lack of real deeds. Britain's (for now largely symbolic) military presence in the Baltics and Poland disguises a failure to deal with the real problem: Russian money in London

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Edward Lucas

@edwardlucas

4 months

Everything Ukraine is going through now is part of Lithuania’s collective memory

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Edward Lucas

@edwardlucas

4 years

If every one of my followers buys a bottle of #Australian wine for a week for the next year that will be 3.8m bottles. Let’s start now and show the Chinese party-state that the free world will not be bullied. And please retweet. #freedomwine

Richard McGregor

@mcgregorrichard

4 years

China is about to wipe out, with the stroke of a pen, Australia's biggest export markets for wine, lobster and a few other commodities, against WTO rules and a bi-lateral FTA. Seems like it should be a bigger deal, and not just in Australia....

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@edwardlucas

2 years

please explain why Soviet flags are welcome at your demonstrations. They represent the darkest years in history for the Ukrainians (and Russians, actually, and pretty much everyone except chekists )

Stop the War

@STWuk

2 years

Just setting off in #London ! #PeaceInUkraine

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2 years

All the western leaders visiting Munich should make their next stop Kyiv.

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Edward Lucas

@edwardlucas

2 years

This is a sizzler. Please read it. Then read it again. Searing insights. Deep analysis. Highly alarming. (Ps I particularly liked the “New Cold War” bit. )

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1 year

It’s the anniversary of the Tartu Peace Treaty today. Soviet Russia promised to respect Estonian sovereignty and borders, for ever. Jaan Soots and Victor Mutt from the Estonian delegation both died in Soviet captivity two decades later.

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Edward Lucas

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2 months

A few thoughts on Germany.

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Edward Lucas

@edwardlucas

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For my Polish readers: Znam @radeksikorski osobiście od lat 80-tych. Można się nie zgadzać z jego stanowiskiem politycznym - to normalne w demokracji. Twierdzenie, że jest „rosyjskim agentem” jest równie absurdalne, co godne pogardy.

Poland compares German-Russian pipeline to Nazi-Soviet pact

The Polish defence minister has compared a planned German-Russian gas pipeline to the 1939 Hitler-Stalin deal partitioning Poland, with EU energy commissioner Andris Piebalgs also criticising the gas...

euobserver.com

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Why, Oh Why, Didn’t We Listen to the Eastern Europeans? - I wrote this in 2014. It’s aged quite well

Why, Oh Why, Didn’t We Listen to the Eastern Europeans?

They told us this could happen.

www.politico.com

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Edward Lucas

@edwardlucas

2 months

don't call it an election. Call it a "special electoral operation"

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@edwardlucas

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Jeśli jestem wystarczająco wiarygodny, aby udzielić wywiadu dla tego programu, prawdopodobnie jestem wystarczająco wiarygodny, aby złożyć skargę w tej sprawie

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@KuczynskiG @ppalka @Billbrowder @edwardlucas I to jest wiarygodny ekspert do opowiadania o tym, o czym opowiada? No, nie wiem...

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Edward Lucas

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Honoured to be speaking today at the Ukraine rally in Trafalgar Square

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Today’s Ukraine demo in Whitehall

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11/11 verdict – sounds nice but won’t work. Britain’s economic/financial regulation/supervision/prosecution arrangements are chronically underfunded, demoralised, fragmented, useless. Changing this will require lots of money over a long period of time, not a new blob on a chart.

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5/11 Asset Freezes on 100 new entities and individuals – including all manufacturers that support war machine. Verdict -- Nice, but needs to be 5000 not 100, and to include family members

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9/11 Reform of Companies House and Property Register in next session of parliament Verdict: disgracefully slow

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West must prepare for a splintering Russia.

The Times & The Sunday Times

News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

www.thetimes.co.uk

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@edwardlucas

4 months

Big crowd here outside presidential palace to welcome ⁦ @ZelenskyyUa ⁩ — Lithuanian defence minister ⁦ @a_anusauskas ⁩ doing the warm-up

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@edwardlucas

2 years

and of course he may actually launch air raids on Kyiv within hours. The main point to remember is that Putin has the initiative. It's like a game of tennis where one player always serves.

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@edwardlucas

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Lithuania's foreign minister is a doughty champion for freedom in a neighbouring country. Why is a country of 3m people in a precarious geographic location so brave, and so many bigger and safer countries are not?

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Ukrainians bought us time. We are not using it wisely. Where’s the sense of urgency? I’m in Latvia today where people understand completely what’s at stake. If Ukraine breaks, the Baltics are next.

Franz-Stefan Gady

@HoansSolo

2 years

The 🇺🇦 mayor of Kramatorsk: “Let me give you my professional opinion as mayor: if we don’t get heavy weapons in two or three weeks, we’re fucked.”

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Why is it that Russians and HongKongers are so brave in their struggle to gain freedom and we are so weak in defending what we have?

Dr Alina Polyakova

@apolyakova

5 years

Chilling scenes from brutal arrests of protesters in Moscow. When I was there for a few short days this spring, the tension of unrest could be felt beneath Moscow’s beautiful facade. Continue to be inspired by the brave Russians on the streets.

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If you understand Russian watch the amazingly brave Mrs Navalny and be grateful for your own freedom

Кира Ярмыш

@Kira_Yarmysh

4 years

Только что немецких врачей вывезли из больницы. Я и Иван Жданов пытались остановить машину, но нас силой оттаскивали сотрудники в штатском. Заявление Юли

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@edwardlucas

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shocking treatment of Ukrainian @Maria_Kherson by pro-Russian mob in Prague. Can we do some facial recognition and find out who these people are?

Maria

@Maria_Kherson

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Тут до мене домагаються збуджені фанати комунізму і раши на проросійському мітингу в Празі, наче я якась яскрава червона зіронька. #Ukraine ️ #khersonisukraine #українка #мітинг

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More than 2 million people have signed the @Justice4Ukr petition calling for a Special international Tribunal to prosecute Russia’s crime of aggression. I encourage you all to add your name and share it with #SpecialTribunalNow . A 🧵 on why this matters.

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@edwardlucas

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8/11 New UWO (Unexplained Wealth Orders) before Easter Verdict: these are potentially useful but why is it taking so long ? And a lot of Kremlin cronies have perfectly good explanations for their wealth eg "I run an oil company"

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6/11 Ban on Aeroflot Verdict – so what – Russians can fly with Lufthansa or even British Airways

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@edwardlucas

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A lot of the people who derided this book as “scaremongering” etc in 2008 have been in touch lately to apologise. But not all of them.

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@peterfrankopan

2 years

Re-reading this brilliant book by @edwardlucas - almost 15 years old. And spot on about pretty much everything.

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this is so important. We need these protests in a dozen cities , then scores, then a hundred — and Putin is toast

Alex Kokcharov

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In #Novosibirsk , #Russia , local residents are marching in #protest of the Russian invasion of #Ukraine :

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@edwardlucas

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People who think problems with Russia are new have not been paying attention. Here's my regular reminder of the great Lennart Meri's speech in Hamburg in 1994 Thank goodness the Baltic states got into NATO when they did.

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@edwardlucas

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@john_sipher @natvogel @GrayConnolly “If you want the Russians to take something seriously give to the Germans and tell them it’s a secret” — I was told this in Bonn in 1986 by an exasperated NATO ally. I’m not sure much has changed.

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3/11 Russian private companies will be banned from raising funds, taking loans on London financial markets. Verdict – annoying for them, not so much for the Kremlin. If Putin cared about Russian economy he would not be fighting a war

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Kissinger told me in Potsdam in 1996 that the Baltics should never join Nato. In London in 2007 he told me he’d always been in favour. In 2021 he told me russia would regret attacking Ukraine

Dan "the Legal Juggernaut" Kaszeta 🇱🇹 🇺🇦

@DanKaszeta

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In 1988, at an event at my univ, Henry Kissinger told me I was hopeless naive for wanting to see the Baltic states re-achieve their independence. He told me that the Soviet Union was an enduring phenomenon that would likely never go away and that I should give up on Lithuania.

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This is decolonisation in action

Daily Romania

@daily_romania

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"Speak Romanian." Moldovan anti-corruption official Veronica Drăgălin rejects Russian speaking journalist for not asking her question in the official language of the country, Romanian. "I can't help you, I don't speak Russian." 🇷🇴🇲🇩

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Edward Lucas

@edwardlucas

6 years

Brilliant. Sad. Please read

Washington Is Turning Into Moscow

What upsets the Putin regime isn’t research into its military strength, but anything exploring its illicit finances. Something similar might now be said of the White House.

www.theatlantic.com

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@edwardlucas

8 years

Brilliant!

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@edwardlucas

3 years

I’m delighted to lead the @LibDems campaign to win Cities of London and Westminster at the next general election. Thanks to the local party for choosing me and to colleagues at HQ for their support.

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Please read this. I agree with every word

4 Things Western Democracies Need to Understand to Stop Hostile Kremlin Meddling

Vladimir Putin kills and bullies to earn respect

observer.com

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@edwardlucas

2 years

If you are called "stop the war" surely you should be campaigning against Russia's war against Ukraine? It's been going on since 2014. Ukraine didn't attack Russia.

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@edwardlucas

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2/11 One of the most influential Russian banks, VTB, faces a full asset freeze in the UK. Russian banks can no longer use sterling, or the British financial system, to make payments. Verdict: this will inconvenience Russian bankers. They will find ways round it.

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@edwardlucas

2 years

The hotline for foreign volunteers wishing to help Ukraine is now running. The number to call is +380442370002 , and press ' 2 ' for English. It works.

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4 months

brilliant thread. We should have listened to the Lithuanians (not least to Gabrielius's grandad) 30 years ago.

Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹

@GLandsbergis

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For nearly 25 years we have been kicking can down the road, trying to contain Putin's imperialism with dialogue and diplomacy while he continues to ignore borders and flatten cities. 🧵👇

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@edwardlucas

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I worked with @HJoyceGender at the @TheEconomist for years. We shared an office. Read her book — like it or loathe it — before you criticise it. And if you call her an antisemite you show know nothing about her, or about antisemitism, but you reveal a lot about yourself.

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@edwardlucas

1 year

Putin’s nightmare. Huge turnout this evening for #magnitsky awards with @Billbrowder and @CatherineBelton and many others

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1 year

Like Heinrich Heine, I have sleepless nights from thinking about Germany. He wrote a poem. I wrote this

Why Germany Has Learned the Wrong Lessons From History

On Russia and Ukraine, Germans remain wedded to historical and geopolitical delusions.

foreignpolicy.com

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@edwardlucas

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4/11 New (unspecified) sanctions on Belarus Verdict: feel-good. We have been sanctioning Belarus for years. Lukashenko listens to Putin, not to us

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@edwardlucas

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7/11 Export bans of all dual use items to Russian including high end tech, electronics, telecoms and aerospace – Verdict – Good, but are we ready for Russian countermeasures?

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@edwardlucas

2 years

For anyone thinking that Ukraine would benefit from "finlandisation" here are a few quick correctives. 1) Finland did not enjoy or consent to being "finlandized" -- it was the result of Soviet military pressure.

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Edward Lucas

@edwardlucas

3 years

Here’s a good idea. All EU/Nato countries to tell Belarus ambassadors to pack bags and go within 24 hours.

Tomáš Czernin

@TomasCzernin

3 years

Očekával bych, @JakubKulhanek , že panu velvyslanci Běloruska sdělíte, že má 24 hodin na to, aby si sbalil kufry. Ostrý protest je totalitní moci jen pro smích.

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Edward Lucas

@edwardlucas

3 years

this is huge -- @anne_mariebrady is one of the world's top China-watchers. This is what Twitter's just done. And you can't search for her either. (see below, also) A perfect example of how the CCP exerts its control over our political systems.

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@edwardlucas

11 months

If Ukrainian intelligence is behind this it's a masterstroke -- Zero cost/risk, massive impact. 1) dupe Prigozhin into believing he has insider backing in Moscow. 2) when he's set off, pull the rug. Wagner neutralised. Kremlin humiliated.

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@edwardlucas

2 years

After so many years dealing with these issues it’s rare to find a new voice with which I so wholly agree

Thomas van Linge

@ThomasVLinge

2 years

If you're gonna listen to any speech about #Ukraine 🇺🇦, let it be this one. The Kenya ambassador to the UNSC perfectly explains how people across Africa understand Ukraine, and what the Kremlin's acts of aggression mean in our post-colonial world.

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@edwardlucas

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I thought Ukraine would liberate Kherson by Christmas. This is six weeks early. A huge lump of blame is now fizzing round the Kremlin like ball lightning, ready to frazzle whomever it lands on.

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Edward Lucas

@edwardlucas

2 years

Finland’s Nato bid — good news all round. Russia has only itself to blame

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Edward Lucas

@edwardlucas

7 years

For the record: I like Russia. It’s the murderous thieving Kremlin goons who are the real “Russophobes” — they hate & fear their own people

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Edward Lucas

@edwardlucas

2 years

10/11 New kleptocracy cell in National Crime Agency to target sanctions evasion and corrupt Russian assets hidden in the UK.

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Edward Lucas

@edwardlucas

4 years

the latest issue of @standpointmag has a terrific piece by @benedictrogers on the shameful way the Vatican has let down Catholics in China

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Edward Lucas

@edwardlucas

3 years

I’m about to talk on @talkRADIO about #navalny . Crack down on the Western enablers of the corruption he exposes. Freeze and seize assets. Tell everyone involved in his persecution they are not welcome in the West. Families too.

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Edward Lucas

@edwardlucas

5 years

Failure to publish the ISC report on Russian influence in Britain is a sign of how serious that influence is. If it wasn’t embarrassed, Downing Street would publish.

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Edward Lucas

@edwardlucas

2 years

and their spouses, siblings, offspring, in-laws and parents

Michael McFaul

@McFaul

2 years

I talked a senior Ukrainian official about sanctions. They believe 6,000 Russian officials and oligarchs should still be sanctioned. West has more work to do.

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Edward Lucas

@edwardlucas

1 year

Govt expert blacklist is positively Soviet — my column today

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