Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @Marys_Miles: @the_mekon @valdore420 @ClarkeMicah @walkley @guywalters @SimonMcDonaldUK @SarahMacFCDO @bneeditor @DeborahBronnert @warst… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thank you @kynohy. I’d say this technique dates back to the overthrow of Marcos in the Philippines. But greatly improved during the widely-misunderstood Yugoslav crisis. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

From the distant days when The Guardian was a sceptical, independent newspaper. How to seize control of someone else’s country and be applauded for it : Ian Traynor: US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev https://t.co/66DGlF4JZg — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

How sweetly old-fashioned — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @witty_original: @alanjpearson @ClarkeMicah For the record: https://t.co/ZDEXTYPuoK — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@alanjpearson I am pointing out that one of Russia’s fiercest critics and enemies recognises that Russia was provoked. It’s very simple. But you are now boring me, and wasting my time - and so you must go. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@alanjpearson . Don’t you understand quote marks or read well. These are clearly the words of Robert Kagan, a supporter of the Russian policy, who has of course condemned the invasion, as have I. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Childish — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

no, @redpaddys11, but I may have said that this course if action was impossible because it would unbalance the EU — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@alanjpearson cannot answer. Goodbye, Mr Pearson. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@tomdiserens. I should say the past 300 years show many instances of Russian power rising and falling, but only one of a peaceful surrender of control over vast swaths of Europe and Asia, not imposed by military defeat, combined with a genuine attempt at democracy. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @PEPForum: From 1959 and 1967, private school admissions to Oxbridge went down 17%, as grammar schools emerged as a state-funded rival… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @notapianokey: @NowContactEarth @ClarkeMicah Good lord, Nuland was bragging about spending 5 billion since 1991. The butterfly effect of… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@nowcontactearth — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

A couple of spooks!? The US had spent millions on ‘civil society’ recruitment, over many years. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

In what way @nowcontactearth Yanukovych do the ‘exact opposite’ of his promises? We *know* the US was involved,through the Nuland tapes.Matlock’s opinion is valuable too;Plus the USA has done this before - and crucially immediately accepted and worked closely with the putschists. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@alanjpearson . Where does the article suggest that? Please quote the passage. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@alanjpearson. For the third and last time, who has suggested that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is justified, when and where? I have not. Your assertion that you 'don't need to know anything about Ukraine' is astonishing. Are you not ashamed to say such a thing? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@oakely_dokely . If you engage with this sad person, you will be making a rod for your own back. He/she is incapable of rational argument and driven by some weird animus. Just in case you have not realised. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 Coincidence theory in action again. Though Yanukovych's overthrow was unconstitutional, not according to law and violent, law-governed western democracies, supposedly guardians of rectitude, accepted the new Kiev govt, did not call it a 'regime' etc.Why? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 Coincidence strikes again. Just 15 days after this amazing leak,showing direct US involvement in the choice of a new cabinet in Kiev, Ukraine's President was overthrown. https://t.co/S7G5eV6jvd — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ricardus_13. There is no excuse. Nobody disputes that Yanukovych was properly elected. His opponents should have sought to remove him in upcomng elections. Why did they prefer violent and lawless methods? Could it be they were not confdnet of winning at the ballot box? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@freedom4us. It is a key document of the crisis and should be easy to find and known to everyone. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@neanorscared. Do you mean, 'What was the pretext for it?' Ask the putschists, who rejected an offer of early elections and immediate reforms, why they preferred force to law and democracy. Then ask the western democracies why they endorsed the lawless outcome. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Another Lest We Forget, when President Zelensky bravely sought to keep his election promise of seeking peace, look what happened: https://t.co/gpFrnEbauL — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/3 @johnpauljonesin. Not sure what Yanukovych's flight proves. He was in fear for his life and reasonably fled for safety. Have you ever been in fear for your life? (I have, as it happens. It greatly concentrates the mind). — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/3 @johnpauljonesin. I am also interested by your account of the sniper shootings. On what is it based? You do know that there is a lot of, er, debate about this, don't you?... — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@johnpauljonesin. I think Victoria Nuland's leaked telephone discussion of the composition of a post-Yanukovych Ukrainian cabinet fairly persuasive, along with her presence among the demonstrators. Jack Matlock, an experienced US diplomat in the region,m is in no doubt. — PolitiTweet.org

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Thank you .@johnmellis. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@jprnyct. Ms Thunberg believes tht the threat to the planet is global in nature and caused globally, so she cannot logically limit her protests to any one place. Her fame and standing would protect her from the Chinese regime, whereas an ordinary citizen would be in danger. — PolitiTweet.org