Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Many, especially on the right, are saying stupid or even reprehensible things about Ukraine. But don't let your anger at them distract you from the real story -- the tragedy that is raining down on democratic Ukraine and its citizens. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @EmmaMAshford: This. I'm only retweeting folks I know and trust. — PolitiTweet.org

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(continued) "S.S. men outfitted in Polish uniforms were to do the shooting, and drugged concentration camp inmates were left dying as 'casualties.'" The principal faked provocation was an ersatz attack on a German radio station. (2/2) — PolitiTweet.org

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From "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" about the eve of the Nazi invasion of Poland: "Good propaganda, to be effective, as Hitler and Goebbels had learned from experience, needs more than words. It needs deeds, however much they may have been fabricated." (1/2) — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesWetzler9 But it doesn’t look like Bragg even pushed. He could have raised the white flag if he didn’t have it when the grand jury expired in April. And he apparently hasn’t done anything in a month. — PolitiTweet.org

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Pretty breathtaking. How about this for a Bragg campaign slogan, “I will let farebeaters and Donald Trump go free.” — PolitiTweet.org

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@opinion_joe Note that I said “normal times” though the 2008 economic collapse is sort of looking good in hindsight since no one wore masks and Ukraine wasn’t on the cusp of war. — PolitiTweet.org

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@tabithia201 No. We are complaining about buzz words. — PolitiTweet.org

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Maybe the only upside to a foreign policy crisis is that you get to hear the niche word "tranche" about 73 times a day. When in normal times does anyone use the word "tranche"? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @newrepublic: A severe clampdown on Russian visits to London might have almost as much power as strong economic sanctions. Because with… — PolitiTweet.org

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Please read this lovely remembrance. The brave and stalwart Sophie Scholl deserves no less 79 years after she was executed by the Nazis. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JillDLawrence: .@MrWalterShapiro asks the important questions on #Ukraine: Given European demands for energy, can Western unity last? A… — PolitiTweet.org

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@davesmith3 We will soon. The slowdown by Senate Republicans of approval for ambassadors to key countries is shameful. — PolitiTweet.org

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From my piece: "No country has more power to shape Russian behavior than Great Britain since they have got Putin’s cronies where they live—or, more precisely, where they want to live." — PolitiTweet.org

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From my @newrepublic piece on Ukraine and sanctions: "No country has more power to shape Russian behavior than Great Britain since they have got Putin’s cronies where they live—or, more precisely, where they want to live." https://t.co/UaeRAgDsxH — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a glorious story -- and a tribute to talent and determination beyond imagining. On a very difficult day with Ukraine, you will be thrilled that you read it. And I'm not normally a sucker for uplift. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jcrsaltman Damn. Nothing like wartime to lead me to drop a word. — PolitiTweet.org

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Putin claims that the rain in Ukraine falls on his terrain. — PolitiTweet.org

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I will give the award to the Times of London for the most chilling online headline since the arrival of Covid: "Putin sends tanks into Ukraine." https://t.co/hoqkA7t91R — PolitiTweet.org

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Perfect lede from @JillDLawrence contrasting Ukraine with the Canadian truckers: "There’s nothing like a real crisis to expose the folly of one that’s fake, especially when they both claim the same fundamental right is at risk." https://t.co/XgqyjMjSx2 — PolitiTweet.org

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This seems like an afternoon to resurrect Sir Edward Grey's line from 1914: "The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our time." — PolitiTweet.org

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I know the world is teetering on the brink of war and the pandemic is still disrupting normal life, but can I nonetheless offer an earnest plea to never use the grating words "thought leader." Sign me: Angry Thought Follower. — PolitiTweet.org

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Like The Villages in every political story about Florida, the Park Slope Food Coop is an equally predictable entry in all stories about leftwing New York. So it was reassuring that the Coop got another cameo on Page One of today's Times print edition: https://t.co/xIRPOEWCkA — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @_DrFrusci: Whether it has been fostering the unity of NATO or playing mind games with Putin by announcing his schemes and dreams in adv… — PolitiTweet.org

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Reminds me of Greta Garbo talking about Stalin’s purges in “Ninotchka”: “We are creating fewer but better Russians.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Short version: The Catholic Church has two millennia of practice, but major league baseball is making one hell of a dramatic charge over the last few decades. — PolitiTweet.org

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Memo to God: I know you are particularly busy right now, but the Divine Plan called for Putin to get Covid — and not the Queen. You confused your “P’s” and “Q’s.” — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mbk_center: "I think that there has been a kind of Russian problem for many centuries – that Russia doesn't exactly know where it begin… — PolitiTweet.org

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Warren wins this hands down. All in 60 seconds. As someone (not me) tweeted at the time about her takedown, “I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Quinnipiac poll has more Republicans opposed to moving U.S. troops to reinforce NATO allies like Poland and Romania than supported the move. Trump hatred of NATO runs deep. — PolitiTweet.org