Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@BenjaminNorton That's utter fucking bullshit. You're just inventing fiction because your religion teaches virtuous political ideas can only reside on the left, never the right. So you make up facts to obscure that anti-war sentiment for *the war now* is on the Right. https://t.co/pHGynaejEh — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Grimeandreason The tweet talked about liberals. But tell me who the leading leftist political figures in the US are - name them - so we can see what they have to say about Ukraine and the $40b escalation the Squad just approved. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@JasonPates I've been writing about Ukraine and Russia for many years. That I don't agree with your tendentious description of Russia's role in Eastern Ukraine isn't tantamount to ignorance. Did the US "invade" Pakistan when it militarily entered without the consent of the government? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Starting now, live, with Q-and-A: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

I'm sorry this traditionally left-wing view on war is now heard overwhelmingly instead in anti-interventionist GOP camps and on Fox News, almost never in mainstream liberal outlets or from Dem politicians (*all* of whom just voted for Biden's $40b escalation), but it's a fact: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@MikeDevo Overt racist, admirer of Hitler, bloodthirsty warmonger, advocate of putting LGBTs in camps, authoritarian censor -- you're one fabulous piece of work, MikeDevo. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

For the @GetCallin podcast I co-host with @qaomene -- today at 4:30 pm ET -- we'll discuss Congress' approval of $40b more for the war in Ukraine and the Squad's support for it. Plus: what is known about the fatal shooting of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh: https://t.co/R6P7a4cSNN — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Also, the ostensible purpose of NATO was to protect Western Europe against a country that no longer exists. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

If you remember the NATO bombing of Libya then it means you're a Kremlin agent. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

This is an insightful and worthwhile analysis by @DouthatNYT of the motivating ideology of @ElonMusk for wanting to buy Twitter, as well as like-minded early Silicon Valley pioneers: https://t.co/KiIG3jba2y — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@hellphish89 There's a monstrous and devastating war in Yemen - much older than the one in Ukraine - and several other brutal ones in African, including in Ethiopia. Can you show me where you advocated sending $57 billion and counting in weapons to protect those victims? Do you? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@RaniaKhalek @BTnewsroom @EugenePuryear @BrianBeckerDC @TheSocProgram I most definitely do not count you among the "Bernie/AOC left."🤣 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

It is astonishing that not one member of the Squad has bothered to explain their remarkable and obviously consequential vote in favor of Biden's massive escalation in Ukraine, with $40b to Raytheon and CIA. But it's understandable: very few of their followers are complaining. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@BMarchetich @BenBurgis @waldenpod @getcallin You should definitely join if you want. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@TomCruise_69 @BenBurgis @BMarchetich @qaomene Ben knows who Callin works because he's on it. They have transcripts that make locating any discussion very easy. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@BenBurgis @BMarchetich @waldenpod @getcallin I'm always happy to talk to you, though I'm honestly not sure what we're arguing about. Maybe talking will clarify that. Let's schedule something. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

And it can never be repeated enough that the steadfastly held, oft-repeated view of Barack Obama was that Ukraine is and always would be of vital interest to Russia, but would never be a vital interest to the US, worth risking conflict with Moscow. 2016: https://t.co/x6KoUmWhU4 https://t.co/6wpFUOCKbt — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Please read what current CIA Director William Burns warned in a 2008 memo to Condoleezza Rice: it was dangerous and reckless to expand NATO to the east. This was the standard bipartisan view of foreign policy officials: quite prescient, as it turned out: https://t.co/xKzcn4yksm https://t.co/9aE8duRixW — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Just a reminder that - while it's now depicted as some new pro-Kremlin invention of RT - the view that NATO expansion is provocative and threatening to Moscow was the conventional view in DC foreign policy circles for years. The current CIA Director wrote a memo on this in 2008: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @SohrabAhmari: Here are three men of the (new) right opposing a ruinous conflict with China. https://t.co/KPC7z22tnG — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@BenBurgis @BMarchetich Please listen to the podcast episode I just pointed to you where my co-host, @qaomene -- who self-identifies as a pan-African Marxist -- criticized me for referring to the Bernie/AOC faction as "the left." His arguments are, I would have thought, ones you've heard before. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@BenBurgis @BMarchetich Yes, when the politicians who are clearly the only viable representative of the left in Congress cast such a consequential vote, utterly contrary to everything they claimed to believe, I'd think it warrants some commentary from a left-wing magazine that has long championed them. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@BenBurgis @BMarchetich What do you believe you're arguing about? Like what claim do you think you're contesting with all this? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@BenBurgis @BMarchetich I'm not saying it's a litmus test. But it's a pretty mother fucking gigantic deal that the Squad just voted to escalate what is easily the most dangerous war in which the US has been involved for decades with $40b more. The silence in some quarters seems deafening to me. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@BenBurgis @BMarchetich There is a group (the one you're naming) that largely sees itself as sharing the same political space as AOC/Ilhan/Cori-Bush and then there's another group that believes they are far too captive to the Dem Party and too liberal to be the "left." You must be aware of this fact? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Michael_Youhana @BMarchetich I know. I've highlighted DSA's statement about Ukraine. I'm asking whether there is vocal and unflinching criticism of the Squad for having voted to send $40b more to Raytheon, Lockheed and CIA for the war in Ukraine? Why do you think they haven't explained their vote to anyone? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@BenBurgis @BMarchetich There's a left which -- unlike Bernie/AOC/Squad and magazines like Current Affairs -- refuses to pledge loyalty or support to Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Obama and the Dem Party. I don't want to speak for them, but it seems that's why they see themselves as "the real left." — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@BenBurgis @BMarchetich Do you regard yourself and Current Affairs or even Jacobin as meaningfully more to the left than AOC or Ilhan Omar or Cori Bush? I haven't seen any substantial claims of that sort. Have there been articles criticizing the Squad for this vote? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@BMarchetich Also, have there been articles criticizing the Squad for their vote? I know I wrote one and produced a video report about it. I've recommended leftists who have done it in the thread to which you responded. But which magazines have done this? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@BenBurgis @BMarchetich I'm talking about the people who came to define their politics as support for Bernie/AOC and opposition to the establishment wing of the Dem Party through them. Most people I know who say they're "real leftists" believe they are just liberals. https://t.co/6vMDnt6796 — PolitiTweet.org