Look at this Twitter thread!!

[cilla4progress]

Link to tweet

?t=wRPjYLABWQ33eNdn1EHcGw&s=19

[BigmanPigman]

1. Another miscalculation by Putin.

I wonder if he has long haul Covid.

[TheBlackAdder]

13. It's almost as if people don't like armed invasions & occupation by foreign forces in their country.

[Deuxcents]

2. How can we help them..

There must be some precedent...why hasn’t Ukraine asked for help?

[blogslug]

3. I'm not sure what you mean?

That first TFG impeachment was about him withholding the $400,000,000 in Ukraine aid that congress voted to give the country.

As for right now? This is what Zelenskyy said earlier today:

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has turned down the offer by the US government to evacuate the country as invading Russian forces closed in on Kyiv, according to Associated Press. After the US asked the Ukrainian president to leave his country, an upbeat Zelenskiy said, “The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride,” reported AP citing a senior American intelligence official familiar with direct knowledge of the conversation...

I'm pretty sure the man is asking for help, just not help to flee his country.

[Cha]

4. Aww Good to Know! Rt TY!

💙

[Cha]

5. Saw this on the thread .. hadn't seen it before..

Link to tweet

💙

[riversedge]

9. I heard about it on the evening news last night.. Also said they need to move FAST. I think

they said it was a 4,000 readiness force--but not all will go. multinational in scoop--navy, land air.

[Cha]

11. Mahalo, rivers!

💙

[Rhiannon12866]

6. Twitter reply:

Link to tweet

[mnmoderatedem]

7. Odd how so many ordinary Ukrainians can stand up to tyranny

and so many congressional republicans will not

[crickets]

18. 👆👆

[SleeplessinSoCal]

8. Putin and tfg are spokespeople for "Liars R Us"

Maybe the fever will break here at home and entrenched liars/conspiracy peddlers can be labeled "Putin-talkers".

[betsuni]

10. K&R

[Hortensis]

12. This Foreign Affairs article discusses how several decades of Soviet aggressions

consistently forced the development of various forms of resistance in many nations. It of course was a key factor in the formation of NATO and, later, that most former USSR breakaway states joined NATO, bringing its current total to 30. But a lot of other examples.

Putin Is Repeating the USSR’s Mistakes: The Wrong Lessons of History
By James Hershberg
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/ukraine/2022-02-24/putin-repeating-ussrs-mistakes

[crickets]

19. Good article - thanks!

Needed a non-paywall link to read the whole thing, hope you don't mind me dropping the link:

https://archive.ph/KBB6Q

[Hortensis]

20. Nope, thanks for all. Don't know why I got it. I may have a newsletter

subscription that helps.

[UCmeNdc]

14. K&R

[Ohio Joe]

15. K & R - nt

[brer cat]

16. K&R

[peggysue2]

17. Reading through Scherba's twitter feed

Particularly the excerpt from his book. He sounds a lot like Garry Kasparov in terms of dealing with Putin and Putin's aims. Not a man you can finesse or negotiate with bc he has only one gear: Russian superiority and hatred of democracies everywhere.

Whatever the case, in this war and this moment, Putin is losing the PR war around the world. No one is buying the propaganda other than right-wing admirers.

As for Ukraine? The country and her people have astonished the world with their bravery and resolve.

Also interesting that he says you can forget any 'peace talks' with Putin. Again, one gear: he'll demand total capitulation.

[Skittles]

21. America needs to learn this lesson

MAGAts need to put DEMOCRACY FIRST