David Frum

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RT @anneapplebaum: For those who asked: My book 'Red Famine' is back in stock, on Amazon and everywhere else. It offers background to the c… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ChristopherJM: Zelensky says 3 people, including young girl, killed in Mariupol maternity ward bombing; 17 patients & staff injured. He… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mark_dow: Oil is still dying. Price goes up, price goes down. Cycles, bubbles, pandemics, wars, etc. We can argue about pace and slop… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @lrozen: 🧵 https://t.co/HIshjHGsjj — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ScottMStedman: WHOA. London just dropped the hammer on the oligarchs. Roman Abramovich, Oleg Deripaska, Igor Sechin, Andrey Kostin, Ale… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RobinBrooksIIF: We forecast annual average growth in 2022 of -15% for Russia. This growth rate compares the average level of GDP in 202… — PolitiTweet.org

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Like you, I'll follow the diplomatic news breathlessly, eager for signs of progress. But I fear with deep gloom that by the time Putin recognizes he needs an exit - the exits will be closed and locked. END — PolitiTweet.org

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Diplomats will commit time and ingenuity to devising formulas to meet Putin's ego needs. And all the while, that ego will devour human lives, Russian and Ukrainian - leaving devastation and waste behind. 8/x — PolitiTweet.org

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But the shifts required to restore peace are not "subtle." The shifts required are big. They will be experienced by ordinary Russians as crushingly disappointing - and by Putin as intensely personally humiliating. So the shifts will likely be postponed until too late. 7/x — PolitiTweet.org

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So many people yearn for the hope offered by the headline below. https://t.co/sEWex8tIJ1. https://t.co/dYpjmdMShW — PolitiTweet.org

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The deal Putin could hope to get today would be way worse than the status quo before he invaded Ukraine. The deals available to him in the future will be worse than the deal he might get today. And with each passing day, Russia's situation deteriorates further. 5/x — PolitiTweet.org

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But what can that offsetting something be, that was worth burning 25 years of Russian development in 10 days? Putin already had Crimea, already had his bits of eastern Ukraine. And now he's going to be negotiating from a position of worsening weakness. 4/x — PolitiTweet.org

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But Putin can't just call quits. If he quits now, he quits in defeat and humiliation. That cannot end well for him. So he will seek to negotiate something - anything! - that can be presented as a victory to compensate Russia for the economic ruin that Putin blundered into. 3/x — PolitiTweet.org

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Putin laid waste to the Russian economy in support of a failed war of aggression against neighboring Ukraine. Russia has lost thousands of soldiers, wrecked masses of equipment, committed massively publicly war crimes - without achieving any of its military objectives. 2/x — PolitiTweet.org

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No Russian leader since Tsar Nicholas II has done his country so much harm, so fast, as Vladimir Putin. He has isolated Russia from world trade, made the ruble worthless, destroyed 25 years of economic gains in a a week. 1/x — PolitiTweet.org

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As everybody knew, and most especially those Americans who used their platforms to publicize pro-Putin lies. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AFP: VIDEO: Children's hospital in Ukraine hit in air strike. Police in Ukraine have released images showing devastation at a children… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @demianbulwa: We have confirmed that Tatiana Perebeinis, a Silicon Valley tech worker, was the Ukrainian mom lying dead on the street wi… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Alex_Panetta: / Now here are one, two, three surveys showing a consistent result: A staggeringly high percentage of Republicans willing… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Alex_Panetta: Republican voters are massively, massively siding with Ukraine vs Russia in this conflict according to polls contrary the… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AFP: Fury at attack on Ukraine children's hospital. International leaders and Ukraine accuse Russia of attacking a children's hospital… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @PowerUSAID: I'm enormously sad to share the death of Valeriia "Lera" Maksetska—proud Ukrainian, beloved @USAID implementing partner & b… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SykesCharlie: Wut is happening here? https://t.co/NoOVYtxdEW — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @anders_aslund: I greatly appreciate that the US government is letting out more of its intelligence in real time than ever. It has turne… — PolitiTweet.org

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Anniversary of a perfect moment of discovered joy — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @stuartpstevens: If there was a sane center-right party in America, it would consider @monacharen one of its most articulate & honest vo… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @GBHNews: "The initial Russian war plan has gone completely to hell," said @RadioFreeTom Russia had planned to sweep through Ukraine i… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @olex_scherba: This is Yulia Zdanovska. She was 21. One of Europe’s best young mathematicians, a winner of European Math Olympics in 201… — PolitiTweet.org

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Republican elected officials are way better on Ukraine and US security than the right-wing blab-o-sphere — PolitiTweet.org

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Are such lies invented in Moscow and then amplified by Putin's friends in the United States? Or - given the lameness of Moscow and the ingenuity of Putin's American friends - is it possibly the other way around? Invented *here* and then amplified *there*? — PolitiTweet.org