Negotiations have no magic. They do not generate good faith by themselves. For negotiations to succeed, Ukraine needs to be winning and Russia losing. That is where the focus should be. 10/10 Eurasia Center Atlantic Council Europe Center Michael McFaul John Herbst

Затягування Війни / Prolonging the War (animation)

A thread to correct this awful The New York Times opinion essay from Senator JD Vance, hopefully with some help from Michael McFaul Gen Michael Hayden John Sipher Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 Keir Giles Andrei Soldatov Mark Hertling Ben Hodges Phillips P. OBrien Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇦 Timothy Snyder 1/14
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It turns out this wasn't a joke. They really seem to genuinely believe that not being charged to work for them is an incentive.

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We tried it once. To hide overselves from history. 1939. Grave mistake.
Lessons learned. We 🇪🇪 #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 #UkraineWillWin

English courts busy administering the best justice money can buy. So proud.

Don't forget the 'it's all connected' arrows... The Crayzone not really hiding where they get their inspiration from any more for this piece on Klit Klarenberg's persecution mania.

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For those who weren’t around at the time, the Russian “constitutional crisis” involved tanks firing at the [Russian] White House. Let’s see if Jeff Hawn 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🌻 is right and if so, how far the US decides to go down that track.

Cope and seethe, Ukronazis. The Mighty Russian Shed is rolling your way.

Exhibit 397a: imperialist Simeon Boikov / “Aussie Cossack”, still busily pronouncing nonsense while holed up in the Russian consulate in Sydney, deleting tweets after his alter ego Aussie Nutsack hits the nail on the head.

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It’s hard to be sure but I think he means Aussie Nutsack, the soon-to-be-sued-within-an-inch-of-his-life Russian agent of influence who as part of his disruption strategy set the Australian media on innocent Benjamin Cohen as the perpetrator of the Sydney stabbing attack, not me.

This is the time of night when I scroll down Omon Insider ☒ timeline laughing my ass off at things I can never retweet lolololol

Such a breezy way of recommending that everyone get nukes

FM #Lavrov : If US wants to discuss troop deployments, there are things to talk about. Unlike US, #Russia deploys military forces only upon request from host countries. We fulfil agreements with them and abide by international law.

A lot of people are discounting this in the replies by dumping on The Sun, which is unfair. If Bryan Clark had laid out the exact same explanation of how the Kerch Bridge could be dropped but to another outlet, would you read it then?

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