The minority factor in Russian army is vastly underrated when discussing the course of Ukrainian war. Firstly, ethnic minorities are not so much a minority there. Judging from the casualty lists, minorities are wildly overrepresented on the battlefields as the cannon fodder🧵
On this day in 1965, Sir Winston Churchill died.
Thanks to his leadership, Britain alone turned the tide against Nazi Germany.
Our freedoms and the freedoms of those in Europe are owed to him.
#Russia’s ice hockey team donned #SovietUnion uniforms today for #ChannelOneCup. Despite the #USSR collapsing 30 years ago.
They lost, against Finland. So much symbolism in this.
Ukraine is a Western democracy and the quintessential European nation.
Over a millennium ago, Kyiv was the shining city on the hill when most of Europe was still in the Dark Ages. Ukraine’s Viche system of direct democracy is older than the Althing in Iceland.
@ChristopherJM@IntelCrab Ukraine is a make-believe concept that has seen life only because of bolsheviks in 1917 and traitors in 1991. Enjoy supporting daily artillery strikes landing on civillian population and infrastructure you sad fascist fucks. P.S. it’s Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk and Kharkov
It triggered an important discussion about the controversial Minsk accords and the ~8-year war in Ukraine more broadly. Today I’ve been catching up on some excellent and thought provoking threads by very smart people on this matter. What follows is sort of a thread of threads.
There’s rightly been a lot of concern about and attention paid to the Russian military build-up around Ukraine, and a lot of takes — some good, some not so good, some provocative — including ~that~ Politico op-ed that says the US should shove Minsk down Kyiv’s throat...
Может быть, история про то, что "Спутник" это, якобы, украденная AstraZeneca — это такая последняя надежда Кремля хоть как-то подстегнуть проваленную вакцинацию? Мол, не верите вы "путинскому шмурдяку" — так он, на самом деле, не путинский, а импортный, и, стало быть, хороший...