Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

. @thinkingslow1 I note that @johnsweeneyliar was also always in the front rank of those screaming abuse at me when I opposed the Covid panic. The man has no judgement. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Why? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@hoochii2hoochii . I mean exactly what I say. Great powers use nationalism in smaller countries to pursue their conflicts with other great powers. The German-speaking Empires of Europe used Ukrainian nationalism against Russia. Now the USA, bizarrely, is taking the same path. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Not sure of your point @kerihighbridge. I hate war, regard Putin as a sinister tyrant and condemn the invasion. Try to realise that people can have legitimate opinions different from yours, and can have good motives for expressing them. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@elijahlieberma2 A rare lapse by ‘First Things’ into following the official line. You can get this sort of stuff in HuffPost. Reminds me of when I had to stop writing for ‘First Things’ when they wanted me to alter an article on the covid panic. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: @johnsweeneyliar I suppose that, as a liar, you would be shocked by this simple statement of fact. But why draw attention… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@peterbentley34. No, I do not and did not. You made that up. There was beyond doubt support for the putsch amongst the Banderite ultra-right and the far-out nationalists. But so what? Democracies change governments by voting. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Worth recalling. JFK, for all his faults, had seen war and was a political adult. How many modern leaders are grown-ups?? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@sallywilts. Actually ‘appeasement’ is a rude name fur diplomatic concessions the speaker does not like. Churchill and FDR appeased Stalin at Yalta, far more than Chamberlain appeased Hitler at Munich. But their action is excused by conventional opinion. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@sallyWilts The first violent breach of Ukraine’s national sovereignty was the 2014 putsch, backed by the USA, which overthrew Ukraine’s lawfully elected government and replaced it with a nationalist regime. Morally equivalent to an invasion. Did you protest? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@wilko1882. The essential work on the Spanish War is Hugh Thomas’s history. Orwell’s ‘ Homage to Catalonia’ reveals the shameful oppression of non-Communists on the Republican side . ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls, is a fine fictional depiction of the cruelty and passion of the war. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@johnsweeneyliar I suppose that, as a liar, you would be shocked by this simple statement of fact. But why draw attention to your problem with the truth? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@dianedehan. How very typical of our times. The crucial facts of the German-backed putsch against Russia’s first democracy are unknown to you. Yet you pontificate on the region. Like pontificating about the USA and never having heard of Jefferson. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @jprnyct: "just over 54% of injured drivers had drugs or alcohol in their systems, with tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), an active ingredient… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: @dianedehan. The Russian vote for the constituent assembly in 1917 was at the time the largest democratic election in hist… — PolitiTweet.org

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.@markpensarn — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

For those who missed ( or wish to revisit) my Monday broadcast with Mike Graham, here it is.. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@dianedehan. The Russian vote for the constituent assembly in 1917 was at the time the largest democratic election in history. Without repeated ‘Western’ interference Russia had every chance of becoming a civil society. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Dianedehan Most ‘western’ engagement with Ukraine has been to use Ukrainian nationalism as a weapon against Russia. - especially since Brest-Litovsk in 1918. Not sure what you mean about Merkel. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Some surprising history - including Margaret Thatcher's objection to Ukrainian nationalism, and George Bush senior's too. A plea for civilised debate, rather than McCarthyite intolerance, on the Ukraine issue:https://t.co/y2bOeYTZ1J — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@hallvardholte. This article quotes from the archives of the time. People do forget this era. https://t.co/y2bOeYTZ1J — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes, .@kynohy England at its best is one of the most beautiful places on earth. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

It is 'weird' @fatt_sam. The incarnation is an astonishing proposition which transforms the nature of the universe. But in this small, ungrand picture it is touchingly depicted. The face of a very young Mary as she realises whose mother she is, is astonishing. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@dianedehan Few realise how utterly unexpected the explosion of nationalism in the former Soviet Empire was in the West and the East. Thatcher and Bush senior both opposed a Ukrainian breakaway from Moscow in 1990. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 @DianeDeHan As western Russia experts warned would happen at the time, the Putin state was created by America's increasing contempt for Russia, the needless expansion of NATO and Washington's ripping up of nuclear missile treaties. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@achirpyvern. Very glad you've bought it. Thanks. I'm afraid the Blackwell's ordering system is the only practicable way of doing signings. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@gcmarxist. You are quite correct and I was mistaken. I regret the error and will try not to make it again — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I agree .@adamshame3. It is heartbreaking to see the former editor of the 'Spectator', an intelligent magazine, promoting this dim dogma as if he had never used his wits in his life. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@chapperdavey. Thank you for both buying and reading it. I'm afraid accuarcy about the modern age is generally dispiriting. If you seek for good news you are asking to be lied to. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

The miserable true story of NATO's foolish eastward expansion, its sordid, stupid origins and bad outcomes: https://t.co/uQpbkVU17Z — PolitiTweet.org