https://twitter.com/IuliiaMendel/status/1678858087166357504?t=-ffnKHu5T-La_R-m2Axr8Q&s=19🤓
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This man is really something. Pandering to the tankies abroad constantly (Russians do not read his tweets without VPNs). He has taken the Zhirinovsky clown-role he has been given (this former so called liberal) and embraced it with a commendable gusto. Nothing he writes ever makes sense to an observer unless you assume he wakes up and downs a bottle of vodka before he starts writing. Threats he knows Russia cannot fulfill are constantly used, including nuclear war and mutual assured destruction.
https://twitter.com/MedvedevRussiaE/status/1679179991014162451
Large dose of salt. Ukraine recieved them today, claims it has not had time to distrubute them to the front, and it’s in Russia’s interest to report this for info war purposes. Not that it matters much really.
https://twitter.com/Archer83Able/status/1679483386870784005
https://twitter.com/Archer83Able/status/1679488108243582976
Hard not to agree:
find easier to use @threadreaderapp to condense these long-winded stories to one post.
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Sorry, never used it myself before, so when I post them, it’s because I scroll down the comments to see if someone else has done it. I can try to use the app at a later stage.
the app messages you a link…
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I am surprised that family of FSB and officers have not been evacuated prior to this, as Tokmak is getting hit almost every single day the past 14 days, and sometimes more than once and twice per day.
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1679515604632457218
https://twitter.com/Archer83Able/status/1679162924156190722
https://twitter.com/Jack_Mrgln/status/1677353642054098947
this was reported I think on Tuesday, that because of the guarantees of delivery they are using up the stock they had. I believe somewhere on the southern front they have already used this tactic. Reporting from Ukraine posted it on Jul 11 video.
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Yes, it’s true that they had some from previously, probably not yet depleted. It may refer to that of course. Makes sense but even so, a grain of salt is still needed imo.
You can have your nonsensically one sided view points, but do a bit of research before calling someone a liar.
Details on Minsk agreements:
Signed by Russia, Ukraine, OSCE and other parties. Two of the points include:
- Restoration of full control of the state border by the government of Ukraine
- Elections in Donetsk and Luhansk on terms to be agreed with their representatives.
Signed but never implemented by the OSCE.
Here’s the link for security guarantees that Putin wanted to reduce tensions before they took the decision of invading Ukraine.
Moscow said ignoring its interests would lead to a “military response” similar to the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.
These are facts by the way. Not opinion pieces posted by wannabe geopoliticos, or worse, agenda merchants.
He literally spelled it out for you, and you kicked him out. I can agree that his demands might have been outlandish, but thats why you negotiate. That is the whole purpose of diplomats and foreign ministers earning their money in governments. Who knows, you might even have managed to negotiate a deal favouring EU. But of course you don’t want to believe it, because it is hard to take outside perspectives. Can understand because I have been in a similar position myself.
It is also a fact that US had verbally promised the former USSR that NATO would never expand eastwards beyond Germany. You can find multiple videos about it on youtube, I can’t be arsed to link that. Gorbachev’s mistake was to not get it signed into an agreement.
Who is supplying most amount of arms to Ukraine? Who is pressurising European governments into doing the same? Its the US.
As to Sweden and Finland wanting to join NATO, the reason for this is because they don’t have large enough military to be able to deter Russia on their own! It is a perfectly reasonable response since you can’t build military strength in a day, or a year, or even ten years. They need some sort of security for possible future threat. But none of this would have been necessary (at least in the immediate future) if US was not pushing so hard to cross the Russian red line and want Ukraine joining NATO.
As I’ve linked earlier, Russia clearly mentioned what it intended to do if Ukraine was to join NATO.
But thats not enough is it?
What about the way the democratically elected, but pro-Russian president Yanukovych was ousted by armed rebels in 2014? And then the next government was suddenly pro-US (shock). So you hate radical Russian nationalists, but think Ukrainian radicals ousting governments is perfectly fine? Classic western double standards.
Ironically now they have rejected Ukraine’s entry into NATO. You can make of it what you want.
So, in brief mate, if you are interested in looking at things from a broader perspective, learn to diversify your sources, or you get so drowned in one particular agenda that you won’t know up from down.
Am I condoning Russian invasion? Absolutely not, I’m saying the opposite, that I believe de-escalation has to happen for Europe’s best interests. Its just that I believe Putin will talk, and this can be negotiated. Its fine if you want this war, and to see Russia destroyed, thats your opinion, but unlikely to happen.
Oh and as for this
No, I’m an Indian. We’ve been fighting wars with Pakistan, and Bangladesh, and China, and before that the British, and before that the Turks for a thousand years. Don’t even read Russian propaganda. But I definitely know how to weed out western propaganda, being subject to it all my life (even believed it for most of it).
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I will not lower myself to debate this further with one such as you. You do not have anywhere near my own knowledge of the subject. It is crystal clear to anyone with knowledge and intelligence who actually followed the events prior to invasion that the Security Guarantees were not in any way or form designed for any sort of negotiation (which I explained above, over your head and you are still disrespectful enough to repeat this absolute trash). If you do not even understand that, then you simply are too ignorant and close minded and brain washed for any sort of discourse.
Write whatever you want, use your freedom of speech as you want, but do not expect anyone with knowledge to respond to you when you write what you write.
Good bye.
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https://archive.ph/2023.07.12-225113/https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/un-chief-sends-putin-proposal-keep-black-sea-grain-deal-alive-2023-07-12/
UNITED NATIONS, July 12 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has proposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin that he extend a deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of grain from Ukraine in return for connecting a subsidiary of Russia’s agricultural bank to the SWIFT international payment system, sources told Reuters.
Russia has threatened to ditch the grain deal, which expires on Monday, because several demands to dispatch its own grain and fertilizer abroad have not been met. The last two ships traveling under the Black Sea agreement are currently loading cargoes at the Ukrainian port of Odesa ahead of the deadline.
Believe whatever you like, but no one with any interest in the topic hasn’t heard this ‘version’ you’re presenting here a gazillion times before. You’re not blowing any minds here. This includes countless very public discussions in media, definitely the case for where I live in ‘The West’. Because, you know, that is actually possible without ending up in some gulag.
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