Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Also checked a couple of bookshops for any sign of the book being displayed. Not a trace. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Well, .@Mark05822657 this is what happens to countries which allow foreign powers to overthrow their elected governments ad replace them with their own choices (see V.Nuland's phone call to Geoffrey Pyatt allocating posts in Ukraine's Cabinet) . No agency. Used. Not my fault. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@arviddannevang Er, nearly. It’s quite a famous episode, actually. You should look it up There are a few books about it. Even a movie. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Of course not @1evildoctor. Canada has more sense than to seek to join a Chinese-backed military alliance. In fact its defence forces mainly exist to persuade the USA that its northern approaches are safe. Do try to think. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@jeffbarnettusa. May I suggest that you take a brief course in European history? The two crises are as similar, and as meaningfully comparable, as peanut butter and ice hockey. If you wish to deal with reality as it arises, it is a good idea to know what happened before. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

In the great democracies, public and official opinion was deeply divided over Suez, Vietnam and Iraq. Now, in the even more serious Ukraine crisis, whose outcome could be nuclear annihilation, a deadly unanimity rules in the West. Here's an antidote: https://t.co/suGTXqlKkA — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Please read this: 'How the West Brought War to Ukraine' by Benjamin Abelow https://t.co/UfjBlGMiBx — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I would like to hear an answer to this, actually. Has anyone heard one? The words I quote arre from Ms Fulani's interview on Thursdaty morning with Mishal Hussein on BBC Radio 4's 'Today' programme. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Read it .@keiron1973 . You'll discover that the invasion of Ukraine need never have happened, and that nobody would have lost if a more intelligent policy had been adopted by the USA since 1997. But perhaps you prefer war and myths to peace and truth, in which case don't read it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@davecameroon. This amazing 1997 essay by Rodric Braithwaite,UK Ambassador to Moscow in the Gorbachev era and hugely knowledgeable abt Russia, was written before the GWU documents revealed beyond doubt that the West *had* promised not to expand NATO: https://t.co/p1MZFFxKoy — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @DefendAssange: Peter Hitchens advocates for Julian Assange to be one of this years Today programme Christmas guest editors The Multi-… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Just read the book, @john73704930. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@DimagogVo The dreary sound of one mind closing. A sort of squishy thud, followed by a long sigh, as of methane escaping slowly from a small aperture — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 [email protected] specifically says that Putin had alternatives to his stupid invasion. Stop imagining that opponents of the West's Ukraine policy are trying to justify crime. Intelligent patriots and democrats might have *good* reasons to oppose NATO expansion etc. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

In the light of this, I feel the need to state that I have never been on holiday with Alexander de Piffle 'Boris' Johnson. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

'For almost 200 years, starting with the framing of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823, the United States has asserted security claims over virtually the whole Western hemisphere. Any foreign power that places military forces near U.S. territory knows it is crossing a red line.' — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Another even quicker way of obtaining and reading Benjamin Abelow's 'How the West Brought War to Ukraine' a forensic and terse demolition of conventional wisdom on the Ukraine crisis. Please read it and pass on: https://t.co/UfjBlGMiBx — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thank you .@grotplato. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@dcbrit2003 My pleasure. I hope you find it useful. It sets out, with great simplicity and force, the serious pro-Western, pro-freedom argument against the current rash and aggressive US policy towards Russia. I have to say parts of it made me tremble a bit for our safety. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@edwardlucas. The Warsaw Pact has not existed for 30 years. How many NATO states put NATO membership to any kind of democratic vote? What might the influence of armament industry lobbyists (who spent millions on getting the US senate to support NATO expansion) have been? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@Mr1viewpoint. It is comical to call the 1,000-mile 30-year eastward expansion up to Russia's borders by NATO (in defiance of its own promises) 'Russian expansion'.You might also be surprised to learn who tore up two of the major missile treaties between Moscow & Washington. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@mr1viewpoint It is precisely this false parallel which Benjamin Abelow examines and rebuts in his book 'How the West Brought War to Ukraine'. Canada and Mexico would have a great deal to fear from the USA if they had not long ago learned what not to do. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I do not know , .@edwardlucas. I have not met or spoken to or corresponded with him. It is a terse, highly-concentrated book about the conduct of US Foreign Policy, mainly quoting US diplomats, military persons and think tankers. Why not get it and read it? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@gspier. This could be because, at least since the Peace of Brest-Litovsk, modern Ukraine has been the creation of, or the instrument of, great powers, who have repeatedly used it for their own purposes, as now. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

The August 26 2020 entry from Matt Hancock’s astoundingly self-effacing, modest and doubt-filled diaries of the Great Panic, published in today’s Mail on Sunday for your delight: https://t.co/DJuOS4iE6y — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Ask the neighbours of the USA the same question .@Matthew77720569 . Why is this simple point, that *all* nations object (often violently) to hostile military alliances on their borders, & it is not an exclusively Russian concern, so hard to get across ?????????????????????????. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@shaun_hutchings. Several Ukrainian police officers were killed by the western-backed armed mob which overthrew Ukraine's legitimate president in 2014 . This is indisputable. If it is the killing that concerns you, then the first blood was shed by the putschists. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

After much reflection in this very odd incident, I think this may be the most pressing question that remains unanswered. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@narcistasca What a poverty-stricken response. Every authority quoted in the book is American.Many are distinguished servants of the free west. I suspect you are afraid of thinking,and use this formula to close, lock and bar your mind. Do so if you must, but don't be proud of it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

If Ms Fulani asked herself (as she says she did) : ‘How do I handle this situation kindly and carefully?’ and if she thinks (as she says she does) ‘In my culture we respect people that are elders.’ then why publicly denounce an 83-year-old woman? https://t.co/frxoWn14s0 — PolitiTweet.org