David Frum

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Ukraine's a country of 45 million spread across an area nearly the size of Texas. How many troops does it take for how many years to hold a now united and enraged population against their will? END — PolitiTweet.org

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Ukraine is a poor country, but it does have schools, clinics, pensions. Who pays for them under Russian occupation? Does Putin void them? Does he try to tax Ukraine? How? Does he pay for them out of Russian funds? What will Russians say? 10/x — PolitiTweet.org

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Putin struck some kind of deal with China to buy their acquiescence to his aggression versus Ukraine. If his war starts to go ill for him - and he needs more Chinese acquiescence - what will China ask next in return from him? 9/x — PolitiTweet.org

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If Russia does use terror tactics inside Ukraine, how does anybody restrain Ukrainian sympathizers from retaliating with reprisal terrorism inside Russia and against Russian targets worldwide? 8/x — PolitiTweet.org

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US and its allies have absorbed cyber attacks from Russia for years, mostly focusing on defense, not retaliation. What happens to backward Russia when adversaries with massively superior technology and financial resources go on cyberwar offense? 8/x — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @marcorubio: #Russia plans to encircle #Kyiv, force the legitimate govt of #Ukraine to flee & install “Vichy Ukranian”puppets Key to t… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AFP: #UPDATE The price of wheat smashed its previous record high in European trading as Russia invaded Ukraine, putting a question mark… — PolitiTweet.org

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Russian gas diverted from Europe can be sold to China over new-built pipelines. A counter is for western countries to void liquid natural gas contracts with China and divert to Europe. China buys a little more than 1/5 of the world's LNG — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SquawkCNBC: "Putin's visit to China just before this during which I'm sure Xi Jinping greenlighted this and this growing relationship a… — PolitiTweet.org

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Putin accuses Ukraine of neo-Nazism, but all the neo-Nazis on social media and cable TV are on Putin's side — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @marceldirsus: At this point Moscow is straight up saying Ukraine doesn't have a right to exist. They're not saying Ukraine can't join N… — PolitiTweet.org

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Russia about to commemorate 250th partition of Poland with a second round of carving up Ukraine https://t.co/FK2G9MMLce — PolitiTweet.org

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Polls suggest that Canadian public opinion is closely divided on Trudeau's emergency actions. He's got a small majority behind him for now - but probably only for now. Say what you will about *him.* But Canadian democracy and Canadian freedom remains secure, robust, and lively. — PolitiTweet.org

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Present Canadian opinion appears closely divided on Justin Trudeau's actions, with a slight but fragile (and likely temporary) tilt in his favor. Think what you will of Trudeau's actions. Canadian democracy and Canadian freedom remain secure, robust, and lively. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @b_judah: This is interesting: https://t.co/Syuz9yqimD — PolitiTweet.org

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Another way that Russia could put distance between itself and NATO would be by emancipating Kalingrad/Koningsberg, now wedged between Poland and Lithuania - a city that was German for a lot longer than any part of Ukraine was ruled from Moscow. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Andrew__Roth: For all media attention on evacuees and obvious political interest, there are a lot of police at basically every gatherin… — PolitiTweet.org

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5) Any act of government under emergency law is reviewable by courts under Canadian charter of rights. Also to to consider 6) The present emergency law was enacted by a Conservative government precisely to set limits to the emergency powers used by the elder Trudeau in 1970 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @marcbennetts1: Russian state TV now going all out on the evacuations and alleged threat to civilians in the Russian-backed separatist r… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AmbDanFried: @BH_Friedman @MiglioreJAM @RugeBoris The US has offered to negotiate limits on missiles, exercises, & other a/c measures.… — PolitiTweet.org

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What needs to come out of the experience of 2022 in Canada is a new clarity: sabotage of pipelines; armed closures of highways; occupations of railway these are not peaceful protest, even if nobody is actually killed. They are crimes, whatever the stated motive/justification — PolitiTweet.org

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If you're comparing Justin Trudeau to Adolph Hitler ... well congratulations to you on leading a life so safe, so pleasant, with such abundant meals and comfortable beds that you have lost even the ability to *imagine* what fear, persecution, suffering, and pain would feel like — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bruuklin1: @davidfrum Nantucket-style poverty — PolitiTweet.org

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The Hollywood producer who proposed, "Hear me out ... Baryshnikov and Hines together in a dance movie" ... earned all his cocaine. https://t.co/q6MerlYZxn — PolitiTweet.org

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A non-fan reminded me of this excellent tweet. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SamHarrisOrg: I really enjoyed this conversation. I hope you all find it useful (no paywall): @anneapplebaum @davidfrum @bartongellman… — PolitiTweet.org

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Air Canada to remove testing and masking requirements for fully vaccinated passengers. Vaccination is how we return to normal. Anti-vax blockaders are not fighting for anybody's freedom, they are prolonging everybody's misery. https://t.co/KuPuLATiQk — PolitiTweet.org

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Air Canada to remove testing requirements for fully vaccinated passengers. Vaccination is how we return to normal. Anti-vax blockaders are not fighting for anybody's freedom, they are prolonging everybody's misery. https://t.co/jDLqlUFp3Q — PolitiTweet.org

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Important semantic note. It's certainly a "truck" protest. Trucks that are being used as a weapon of economic warfare against the Canadian state. But it's not a "trucker" protest. 90% of Canadian truckers are vaccinated; few of the blockaders drive a truck for a living. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @anneapplebaum: Useful analogy thread https://t.co/8pCrjxvPH9 — PolitiTweet.org