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David Frum @davidfrum
RT @AP: An @AP and @frontlinepbs investigation tracked more than three dozen ships to reveal a Russian operation to smuggle stolen Ukrainia… — PolitiTweet.org
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RT @costareports: Former House speaker and former Georgia GOP congressman Newt Gingrich spoke with Herschel Walker this morning. Gingrich t… — PolitiTweet.org
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RT @PhD_Frog: Excellent thread here about Russia's nuclear threats that ties into my own musings from a couple days ago about the power of… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @WorldJewishCong: Wishing everyone a safe and meaningful fast this #YomKippur. Through all the difficulties of the past years, we are… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @mpotkins: An export terminal on the West Coast providing access to global markets would be a game-changer for Canadian producers who ha… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
@thetimes All this assumes that 1) Russian nukes work as advertised. What if he detonates - and the damn thing malfunctions? And it assumes 2) that nobody in chain of command gets queasy and mutinies or assassinates him. Putin must consider those risks too. — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
@thetimes And all this is assuming that 1) Russian nuclear bombs work as advertised? What if he detonates - and the damn thing malfunctions, like everything else in his dysfunctional military? And it assumes 2) that nobody in chain of command gets queasy and mutinies or assassinates him. — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
@thetimes As you think it through, the best option seems to be what might be called Option Zero: keep threatening, but never actually do. The threat, as multiplied by Putin-friendly influencers, might deliver diplomatic results for Putin. Actual use seems deeply dangerous to himself. — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
@thetimes How does India feel about this Russian attempt to intimidate stronger adversaries by mass slaughter of civilians? If such a trick works for Russia, what lessons will Pakistan draw? What does China think? Putin will have proven himself a universal menace, with unknown consequences — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
@thetimes So up the ladder of escalation we climb: a nuclear attack on Ukrainian civilians, maybe upon a central heating station in a city, to join nuclear mass death with freezing hardship afterward. This terrifies indeed - but it still does not answer the what next question. EG .. — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
@thetimes Does Ukraine say, "Oh this is one atrocity too many for us, we surrender now?" I don't think so. More likely, Western allies now open all military and financial spigots - and maybe enter the war themselves. Option 3 outrages and mobilizes. It does not end the war on Putin terms. — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
@thetimes Options 1 and 2 combine odium with uselessness. So, what about Option 3: target some Ukrainian military assets? Russians are not good at hitting mobile assets, so likely something fixed: a military hospital, say. Now Putin has started a nuclear war against Ukraine. What next? — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
@thetimes Option 1 is not a smart move. It incurs horrific moral odium for Putin while also communicating weakness and fear. So, Option 2: detonate on sparsely inhabited Ukrainian land? That option offers the same negatives as 1, but with even MORE odium - and fiercer Ukrainian resolve — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
@thetimes Option 1 Detonate in the upper air or in Black Sea Option 1 reminds us that Russia has weapons. But we knew that. It also communicates that a) Russia is losing and needs rescue by Western diplomacy from its loss; b) that Putin still feels inhibitions about outright nuclear use — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
@thetimes Upon reading and talking with people more expert than myself, however, it really does seem that a nuclear weapon is more politically powerful BEFORE it is used than afterward. The thought of it is very scary. But if ever fired, what has Putin accomplished for himself? — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
@thetimes ... that speculation seems secondary to thinking about the issues raised by the report itself. Putin regime has a long and bad habit of making nuclear threats. The latest threat has been issued via Elon Musk, either out of his own brain or - more likely -after talks w Russians. — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
A lot of discussion about the report in @TheTimes about reports of Russia moving nuclear weapons toward Ukraine. We can speculate about source of the story - doesn't seem to be British MOD - and motives, but ... https://t.co/Yf4IReaXIT — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @IAPonomarenko: Good lord, Russian front is apparently collapsing in the south. I just can’t keep up with reports on newly-liberated tow… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
If you haven't yet, I hope you will read my colleague @helenlewis on the scapegoating at the Guggenheim. It's a close-up lesson on what is going wrong at cultural institutions, and not only in the US https://t.co/Xwy4vzqaVO — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @acoyne: Trudeau to take stand at inquiry into Freedom Convoy | CTV News https://t.co/wW7YF69c8U — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
It never happened, and also everybody knew it and was cool with it. — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
The outrageous defamatory lie is also old news that should surprise nobody — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
The most interesting thing about that Elon Musk trial balloon is the reveal that Russian sources of the proposal feel in danger of losing Crimea on the battlefield — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @KyivIndependent: ⚡️AP: Russia stole at least $530 million worth of Ukrainian grain. The AP and PBS used satellite imagery and marine… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @Ram_Guha: I’ll be giving a series of public lectures at Yale University between 6th and 13th October. Details below. https://t.co/kaM8C… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @NAChristakis: “How did a simple offer, over a single painting, lead to such a spectacular destruction of someone’s life and career? The… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @peterlattman: Having an unproductive morning because I couldn’t stop reading this @helenlewis story on the imbroglio at the Guggenheim… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Goodbye, beloved friend https://t.co/edXi8b8s6i — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @axios: Ukraine's first lady says war has left "hundreds of children" dead and 900 schools damaged https://t.co/ATxl0ZMKVT — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @JamilSmith: “He has given up on any delusions that what he says or does will change people’s minds. What he hasn’t given up on is his a… — PolitiTweet.org
