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James Meek @_jamesmeek

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John Foreman CBE @John_ForemanCBE

14 hours ago

'Europe doesn't want to fight Russia over Ukraine; that's the fundamental problem', Foreman summarised, predicting that 'there won't be enough troops to deter Russia, and there's no commitment to punish Russia if they break the ceasefire.' Europe can help, but the outcome will…

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Xavier Colás @xaviercolas

14 hours ago

'Europe doesn't want to fight Russia over Ukraine; that's the fundamental problem', Foreman summarised, predicting that 'there won't be enough troops to deter Russia, and there's no commitment to punish Russia if they break the ceasefire.' Europe can help, but the outcome will…

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James Meek @_jamesmeek

a month ago

This lays out the wickedness of the Israeli government's actions very plainly. theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

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James Meek @_jamesmeek

3 months ago

For the record: Ukraine's extraordinarily generous, self-sacrificing peace offer to Russia, reported today by Reuters. In a nutshell: frozen conflict, frozen assets reuters.com/world/europe/u…

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James Meek @_jamesmeek

6 months ago

Francis Farrell makes a crucial point - ‘ceding territory’ Russia has already captured is a whole different world from pressuring Ukraine to give up land it has successfully defended. We still don’t know which one the new, pro-Putin America will go for, although I can guess

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Francis Farrell @francisjfarrell

6 months ago

Francis Farrell makes a crucial point - ‘ceding territory’ Russia has already captured is a whole different world from pressuring Ukraine to give up land it has successfully defended. We still don’t know which one the new, pro-Putin America will go for, although I can guess

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Tatarigami_UA @Tatarigami_UA

6 months ago

As hurtful as it sounds, the United States is siding with Russia by demanding Ukrainian resources and threatening with action for refusal to comply. We are being robbed by the world's two largest nuclear powers. Welcome back to the 21st-century Molotov-Ribbentrop reality

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James Meek @_jamesmeek

7 months ago

1.377 million Ukrainian soldiers, airmen and seafarers died fighting the Nazis within the Soviet armed forces in World War Two. The equivalent Russian figure, from a population three times the size, was 5.76 million.

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Ostap Yarysh @OstapYarysh

7 months ago

1.377 million Ukrainian soldiers, airmen and seafarers died fighting the Nazis within the Soviet armed forces in World War Two. The equivalent Russian figure, from a population three times the size, was 5.76 million.

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Сіль 🇺🇦 @solonko1648

8 months ago

On August 28, 1991, four days after the declaration of Ukraine's independence, Yeltsin's ally Rutskoy (Vice President of the russian federation) arrived in Kyiv with threats of a forcible revision of the borders. He demanded that the decision made a few days before be abandoned.…

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James Meek @_jamesmeek

8 months ago

I see huge avoidance of the dubious relationship between voters progressive on concept issues (gender, race, Palestine, asylum, climate) and voters progressive on economic issues (housing, health care, jobs, pay, transport, education) tinyurl.com/muaj6d96

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James Meek @_jamesmeek

8 months ago

I honestly don’t know, will Tesla sell more units in the UK by branding it the Tommy Robinson car? Maybe it’s sound marketing. ‘Drive to your next lynching in a Tesla.’ Could that work? Glad I don’t have to make the call.

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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog

9 months ago

"Putin has already lost the war" is not a useful narrative in this stage of the war. While it's true that Russia has suffered significant loses, larger than any after WWII, that its economy has been set on the wrong path and that it doesn't occupy major Ukrainian population…

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James Meek @_jamesmeek

10 months ago

I went to Kharkiv, Ukraine, and wrote about it for the London Review of Books lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

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Tatarigami_UA @Tatarigami_UA

11 months ago

I'll say what many might think but hesitate to voice: Ukraine is currently losing the war, and the trend is negative unless drastic measures are taken. Debates over what constitutes loss or victory can be had, and yes, Ukraine’s survival so far is a big win. But even if Russia…

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James Meek @_jamesmeek

11 months ago

In the logic of Tooze's article, Russia's invasion of Ukraine is not a radical overturning of the status quo ante, whereas the west's half-hearted attempts to help Ukraine restore the lines of 2022 is? It's an unusual use of the expression 'status quo.'

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Aditya Chakrabortty @chakrabortty

11 months ago

In the logic of Tooze's article, Russia's invasion of Ukraine is not a radical overturning of the status quo ante, whereas the west's half-hearted attempts to help Ukraine restore the lines of 2022 is? It's an unusual use of the expression 'status quo.'

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vanya ✙ @eurovanya

12 months ago

trump plan to end ukraine war:

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