Ukraine, Russia, and the West

https://twitter.com/loucharbon/status/1498030309253787660

Well, it’s a bit of a coincidence that he gets ordered to prep the nukes and is gone the same day, no?

Maybe he was just like “nahh, Vlad, bruh, this shit gettin’ too deep for me, I’m gonna chip”

https://twitter.com/EBHarrington/status/1496954399675252736

https://twitter.com/RussiaUN/status/1498063818198552584

Checking in on Russia’s take

https://twitter.com/AlexandruC4/status/1498064638533066752

https://twitter.com/miladvisor/status/1498059343408902146

That’s a lot of territory to take in 3 days.

Seems like Russia is arguing that Ukraine was no angel

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https://twitter.com/DAlperovitch/status/1498064490637795334

Exit, pursued by a bear.

Shakespeare (The Winter’s Tale)-> Columbo (Ep “Murder, Smoke and Shadows”)-> Paddington (Putin’s Ukrainian Misadventure)

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https://twitter.com/GresselGustav/status/1498005320102203395

https://twitter.com/GresselGustav/status/1498005328402825222

Another thread. I’m just reading as many of these as I can and trying to triangulate stuff they all seem to agree on.

This seems suicidal

https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1498036866511159307?s=21

their victory plan wasn’t to take control of the west part of ukraine, it was bumrush the capital force them to agree to surrender/take out the gov’t and take some of the east/south

they’re behind those plans of course

“High alert” is non-sense. Putin changed the alertness from defcon4 (lowest in Russia) to defcon3.

putin has no way to win except falttening the entire city with bombs and then walking through a hundred thousand corpses. his ground troops are dogshit.

https://twitter.com/anneapplebaum/status/1497962000239923202

if they were kicked out of swift then they have to do something with the run on the bank

foreigners ain’t throwing $ in right now anyway

And Poland 2010 (admittedly not negotiations but commemorating Soviet massacre of Polish intelligentsia/military) as believed by huge majority of Poles as well as their governing party

Do you get a jury trial in Spain? My advice and IANAL is to request a jury trial. Also, thoughts on how one would sneak into a Spanish jury pool?

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I’m going to be really annoyed if I spend humanity’s last days dieting.

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So let’s just say Putin has completely lost it and decides to nuke Kyiv. What’s the play then?