Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes @colster101. It has been a while. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@mostcavana. Yanukovych was not ‘pro-Russian’ . Putin was infuriated by his negotiations of the Gas/Sevastopol deal. Yanukovych was non-aligned. The west was not prepared to accept that. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@danielanadj . You miss my point. Asylum seekers by definition are looking for asylum from whatever threatens them .As soon as they arrive in a safe country,they have that. No neighbour of this country, or countries through which this country can be reached, is unsafe. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@Danielanadj — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@daniejanadj please give your source. I think you may be mixing up asylum with temporary leave to remain. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Well, @edwardlucas, perhaps your own opinions may have influenced your experience. As I say, I seek objective evidence. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Shortly hope to join .@iromg Mike Graham on .@talktv and .@talkradio to discuss the unrelenting crisis. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

But there *are*NATO troops in Estonia, about as far from St Petersburg as London is from Coventry. And they conduct some pretty spectacular live-firing exercises. I d suggest you read the book . — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@hitesh_punja — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@garside_geoff — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

But 2/2 @gardide_geoff, you are right about one thing. I believe NATO should have been wound up when it achieved its aim in 1991. Its continued existence and unwise expansion has, as I have predicted for more than ten years, led to needless war. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@garside_geoff Absurd bilge. I *rejoiced* at the fall of the Soviet Empire,which I witnessed at first hand and reported on at the time ( before you were born?) . In fact my loathing of Soviet power was highly unfashionable in the 1980s. Now I see a great opportunity squandered. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@pictureladyjan What a coincidence . I am l tired beyond measure by the readiness of people to accept crude propaganda without even attempting to examine the issue. But, as I have never apologised for an atrocity in my life, why are you telling me this? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Mhitesh_punja. Georgia started the 2008 war. See the EU’s Tagliavini report. Probably hoping to get fast-track NATO membership. It does help if you know stuff. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

So what? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@pictureladyjan — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I do wish people would stop pretending that Ukraine is some sort of liberal democracy: Zelensky declares war on enemy within the Ukrainian Orthodox Church https://t.co/VQTc7qdxHm — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Imagine the ( justified) outcry if Putin sent soldiers and secret police to raid and search churches and monasteries: Zelensky declares war on enemy within the Ukrainian Orthodox Church https://t.co/VQTc7qdxHm — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@picurekadyjan . Ukraine existed quite unmolested for many years, until the USA started to use it as a battering-ram against Russia. See what happens to, say, Mexico, if it seeks to join an anti-American military alliance. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@nottseconmist . Tell me, have you *heard* of the NATO summit in Bucharest in 2008? Do please look it up. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@mikeaaronhall explain, using facts and logic, why my position is ‘ nonsense’ . I bet you wouldn’t even know where to start, let alone be capable of it. Of course I am ‘allowed’ . Should I be grateful for your permission? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@uapdavid. Man hears official opinion on TV. Man believes it. Man angrily dismisses any attempt at dissent. Thank heaven Hitler and Stalin never had TV. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Alkenajan1 . That’s a stretch . Suez was undoubtedly as you say. But the US had no colonial interest in Vietnam or Iraq. The western-backed putsch in Kiev is, by contrast, in a long tradition of meddling in Ukraine to weaken Russia, going back to the days of the Habsburgs. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@badsmellz . There was a putsch( ask Ambassador Jack Matlock) . Nuland and Pyatt were involved in choosing the post-putsch government (undisputed recordings show this) . But I agree that the CIA, an organisation mainly devoted to promoting ballet, could not have been involved. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@hughdellar . This is shameful bilge. My concern is for my own country and people. The slandering of dissent as treason is a habit of despots, including of course V.Putin. Since you use Putin’s own methods, how can you pretend to be opposed to him? It is you who aid tyranny. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @bocephus7 . Also the other actions I name were all camouflaged as legitimate by pretexts now known to be such (‘ intervention’ between Israel and Egypt, the Gulf of Tonkin ‘attack’ and ‘WMD’) . In time, most will begin to grasp that this war’s real nature was also disguised. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 @bocephus7. No. But what they do ignore is Western complicity in a comparable crime,the armed and bloody overthrow of Ukraine’s elected, legitimate non—aligned President. This was the beginning of bloody violence in Ukraine. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @rwatson1955: This week's portion of good sense and wisdom from @ClarkeMicah https://t.co/gHtj3a6vzY — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @DavidTBTaylor: @JeffBarnettUSA @ClarkeMicah People have been warning about the negative side of NATO expansion since 1997 at least, bef… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @symmo1969: @ConnyMor @VonPyotr @ClarkeMicah There's no harm in questioning the narrative, indeed, it is an essential thing to do — PolitiTweet.org