Glenn Greenwald

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President Obama, in 2016, on Russia, Ukraine and the US. He was being pressed by the neoconservative editor of @TheAtlantic, @JeffreyGoldberg, on why he refused to "stand up to Putin" by arming Ukraine. Here's what Obama said. Well worth reading. This was after Crimea annexation: https://t.co/mxzPg7I1Uf — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @spectatorindex: BREAKING: Ukraine's president says anyone who wants to help defend Ukraine can go to the country and will be given arms — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BuzzPatterson: @AdamKinzinger Sitting congressman encourages USAF/USN pilots to shoot down Russian aircraft. Going to war with nuclear… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @guardian: Denounce Putin or lose your job: Russian conductor Valery Gergiev given public ultimatum https://t.co/SA4j6OhDWn — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @meaganmday: I think it's scary that the slightest provision of geopolitical context in a statement that is unequivocally condemnatory o… — PolitiTweet.org

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@HuggyBlair This is what Burns wrote. Do you need help with any of the words? https://t.co/LZhYjylawG — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidmweissman If the Republican Party is a white nationalist fascist movement bent on overthrowing American democracy permanently and replacing it with a white supremacist dictatorship, shouldn't you care that the popularity of Biden and the Democrats are in free fall? Seems immoral not to. — PolitiTweet.org

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If you want to say that someone is a "pro-Putin" Russia apologist for believing NATO expansion to Russia's borders has been genuinely threatening to most Russians, then you have to say Biden chose a traitor to run the CIA. Here's William Burns' warning to the Bush WH in 2008: https://t.co/xn7PwdJZDC — PolitiTweet.org

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Again, one of the most baffling aspects of current discourse -- a sign of how dissent is demonized -- is the claim that it's a new "pro-Putin" talking point to say NATO expansion is threatening to all Russians. This thread shows: this view has long been mainstream in the West👇 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @samhusseini: Virtually every contemporary disaster has at its root an Orwellian Clinton photo op. https://t.co/URqju9MPua — PolitiTweet.org

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Meanwhile: — PolitiTweet.org

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@theReal52172707 @TheSpyTheState He's describing the US goal in the 1980s. Re-read the sentence. — PolitiTweet.org

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@allinforitnow https://t.co/4ZJsKOgC9T — PolitiTweet.org

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@JoshuaKessler1 LOL - I've heard this every year since I started in 2005, from many different directions, and things seem to go quite well. — PolitiTweet.org

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@xavkoenig https://t.co/8Aze8x3oub — PolitiTweet.org

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Writing this week in the LA Times, @TheSpyTheState -- historian of U.S. intelligence and professor in the Department of Intelligence and Security Studies at the Citadel -- urged the CIA to be honest about *its real goals* in Ukraine. Please read:👇 https://t.co/ggtWZgM83T https://t.co/smMYbc9waw — PolitiTweet.org

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Hillary is inadvertently acknowledging the real US objective: not to protect Ukraine but sacrifice it by turning it into another Afghanistan or Syria: to prolong fighting and thus drain Russia. She forget to mention the outcome of US funding of the Afghan insurgency in the 80s. — PolitiTweet.org

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Millions and millions of Americans now commenting on and shaping public opinion about the war in Ukraine didn't live through 9/11 and the aftermath as engaged adults. They thus have no idea that the same people from then are using the same tactics now: https://t.co/P42cpoqccQ — PolitiTweet.org

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He's now regarded in many media sectors and establishment liberal politics as the Conscience of the Nation. One key benefit of constantly locating new Hitlers (from Trump to Putin) is that it erases all prior sins, bestows elites with total absolution: https://t.co/YfprrC6MnU — PolitiTweet.org

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Everyone "now has a decision to make: Either you are with us or you are with the" Russians. https://t.co/msd4LJEXZ1 — PolitiTweet.org

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Frum's career was built on smearing those who disagree with him as being traitors and on the Enemy's side. From Bush's "you're with us or with the terrorists" speech to Frum's 2003 article "Unpatriotic Conservatives" (about Iraq War opponents), it's his specialty. Won't stop now. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Chriss_m If you think it's appropriate or noble to care less about war victims because they don't look like you or because they have different cultural norms, I disagree quite vehemently. Either way, it's important to understand what accounts for the mass reaction here. — PolitiTweet.org

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There is much debate, divergence and dissent about the war in major countries around the world. But in the US: virtually none. Both parties tried pretending at first that the other had radically different views, but now acknowledge that they all agree on the key questions. — PolitiTweet.org

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I agree completely with Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) and Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA): it's hard to remember a time when there has been more bipartisan consensus and unity on a major issue than the war in Ukraine: not just on the easy question of condemning Russia but also the US role: — PolitiTweet.org

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The examples are now too numerous to count of mainstream Western journalists and government officials coming right out and saying that this war is more horrific than the standard war because the people being killed are "civilized Europeans," not whatever the opposite is. — PolitiTweet.org

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If you don't find the comments of this British General highly alarming, it means rationality is not one of the factors driving you. He's right, though, that many in the West care so much about Ukraine because, unlike most war victims, they're "people who look and live like us." — PolitiTweet.org

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@rjcalico Good luck! Happy to help with the ticket if you need it. https://t.co/0o7Ksx4JNl — PolitiTweet.org

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Second NBC/MSNBC personality today, after @RichardEngel, to casually suggest that the US and NATO should brush off the risk of global nuclear annihilation to go militarily confront Russia directly over . . . Ukraine. — PolitiTweet.org

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@CorvelloEduardo @SF_Moro @RubensNunesMBL I've said this many times before, and he never has. Do you ever wonder why? — PolitiTweet.org

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@DiegoOsorio21 No, that's not my view. But since you think it is, can you point to anywhere in all my writings, speeches and interviews about Brazil where I said this or even hinted it? — PolitiTweet.org