Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Edwardprice. I have always thought the invasion stupid as well as wicked. I don’t see how it could possibly strengthen Russia’s position, or end the problem of NATO Expansion. Rather the reverse. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @Zeusislord7: @MavkaSlavka Peter Hitchens is shameful. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

A report of last night’s Ukraine debate: Is now the time to make peace in Ukraine? https://t.co/rZeRqu3Ffd via @spectator — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @LesPatriotes78: "La gauche morale ne pense pas seulement qu'elle a raison, elle pense que ce sont des gens meilleurs. Elle se place sys… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@SamSykes737 Dash it, I had forgotten that the *only* event that ever happened in history was the Munich crisis of 1938. No other events serve as any other sort of guide to action in the present. Silly me, yeah. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@suastusa Thucydides’s first law of international relations: “They that have odds of power exact as much as they can, and the weak yield to such conditions as they can get.” — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@suastusa I should have thought that Ireland's relations with Britain were greatly altered first by the alliance between Irish Nationalism and the USA, and later by Ireland's alliance with the EU. Thucydides' first law of international relations always applies... — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@edwardprice . 'Impotent to intervene'? The USA? The EU? They did nothing *but* intervene. And their interventions strengthened the most militant wing of Ukrainian nationalism, a force which has resisted peaceful compromise for years. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: .@jimmyhsands Not really. He liked Trotsky quite a bit, and there’s a tyrant for you. In any case, you don’t show your dis… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Kind of you .@stamford_sir — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @IrreverendPod: Massive 100th episode this week with @ClarkeMicah off truth bombs aplenty. Also merchandise, Rod Dreher live event info… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No .@isaacclay. I know almost nothing about them. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@jimmyhsands Not really. He liked Trotsky quite a bit, and there’s a tyrant for you. In any case, you don’t show your disapproval of tyrants very effectively by killing innocent people and invading their countries. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

What of it .@contrahitch99? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Obviously I mean ‘try this on someone who *is* a Bible literalist’ .@mikeambleside. Whoops. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Sassoon was marvellous. He hated lies. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @Kulambq: @ClarkeMicah @BrendanQuantock I cannot rid my mind of Siegried Sassoon's haunting last stanza from the poem 'Suicide in the Tr… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@mikeambleside. Yes, I *believe* in God. Feel free to disagree. I don’t mind. Proponents of ‘addiction’ claim to know it exists, and are enraged if challenged. If my late brother was somuch smarter than I, why did he support the Iraq War which I opposed? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Tonight: Live Debate: Now is the Time to Make Peace in Ukraine https://t.co/7eONonD1f2 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@mikeambleside. Try this on someone who is not a Bible literalist. I have many times explained that the Bible is a library of history, myth, poetry and prophecy. You need to read it with great care. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@urbanspaceman20. Only in passing. I think my book ‘ The Rage Against God’ touches on the subject — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@callsign_santa. It isn't a matter of who was 'in office' as the Ukrainian government is weak. The ethnic nationalists, by deploying effective armed militias and a strong street presence, have obtained considerable influence (destroying Zelsnkyls peace initiative for a start) — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.Ownikki. You have not heard of the Minsk agreements? If the western powers had pursued them, and Ukrainian politics had not been skewed by the excessive power of ultra-nationalists, all this misery could have been avoided. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@atticusfinch104 You're unlikely to see much of that, though Churchill did go into the trenches and I believe Asquith lost a son in the war. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Here I am interviewed by three vicars on a number of subjects https://t.co/PTjRV96QJ7 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@charmagh6 Most of the belligerents had Parliamentary governments, France was a republic. I have many times said that church support for WWI killed Christianity in Europe. But I am talking about the difficulties of ending the war, not about the ease of starting it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@ThingsISayAndDo People always like to pretend that options they don't want are impossible (as in 'There is No Alternative'). Margaret Thatcher used to claim this about her disastrous economic policies. But there was. There are more than two ways out of this, — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@ThingsISayAndDo Even Robert Kagan concedes the invasion was provoked, but no, if I were suggesting that, I would have suggested it. I'm not. A compromise not involving territorial transfer was available for years, and is still available. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Text of my Roger Scruton Lecture is available here https://t.co/jUz1auKqxk .@jeffjfyke . — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Text of my Roger Scruton lecture is available here .@jeffjfyke — PolitiTweet.org