Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

You’d need to demonstrate that by showing that I had ignored a demonstrable fact. Your turn .@hamiltonrobbed. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @Beatkoine: @HansNiesund @ross_bellamy @CFL68 @ClarkeMicah Sure. A "revolution" is what you call a coup when you agree with the mob. Alm… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Exactly — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Very likely. .@d_w_k This is one of the many reasons why Putin’s invasion was stupid as well as evil But it is not the point under discussion. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Congratulations @popovaprof — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@hilary_barth. Only God is eternal. But do you have any idea what the current border between Russia and Ukraine is based on? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I hope to join .@iromg Mike Graham on .@talktv and .@TalkRadio today at soon after 11.30 AM , following the Chancellor’s statement. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@nataliaantonova. The picture you display here is blasphemous. Not that you care, but I just thought it important to point this out. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@ross_bellamy . Can you not tell the difference between 328, the votes obtained for his removal, and 338, the number required by law? The numbers seem strikingly different to me. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

You haven’t read your own stuff — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

‘It is not clear that the hasty February 22 vote upholds constitutional guidelines’ says the article to which *you* .@ross_bellamy link. Actually it is clear that it fell short of the needed figure. Give it up. It was a putsch. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Quite — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @Beatkoine: @ross_bellamy @CFL68 @ClarkeMicah Engage in good faith or don't engage at all. The quorum wasn't reached. They sought anothe… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Quite — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@seanmolloyIR Exactly. Wars are caused by human vanity and the refusal to recognise that there are limits to what can be obtained and held by force. And you can never be sure who will win, or lose. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Alfred_wickham, alas, the CIA does not generally issue details of such things - though there are documents from their 1953 putsch in Teheran, which might give you a clue as to how putsches are done. TV and the web are of course more important now. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@alfred_wickham . Do you know who Stepan Bandera was? Or Roman Shuikeyvich? Look them up, then wonder why they have streets and sports stadiums named after them. It’s a undoubted problem, not necessarily measurable in votes. Even the BBC covered it before this year. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Alfred_wickham what a prize twit you are. Since 2014 large parts of Ukraine have been cut off from the capital. And in general these are not parts inhabited by keen Ukrainian nationalists. Also the main opposition party has, for various reasons, vanished. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

There are a couple, ‘Short breaks in Mordor’ and ‘Unconventional Wisdom’, available only through Amazon .@billboethius https://t.co/AZVUEUScFJ — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@alfred_wickham Unanimous?! Who told you that? They couldn’t even get enough votes to meet the constitutional requirements. Do some reading, sweetie. You really haven’t a clue. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Alfred_wickham. Maybe so, but they had a lot of help from!the Ukrainian state, especially through language laws which made monoglot Russian-speakers into 2nd class citizens. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@cfl68 nope. He offered early elections in a deal he signed with 3 opposition leaders. When the mob shouted them down the opposition leaders gave in to that mob. The mob were afraid they’d lose any election. Yanukovych fled because he feared for his life, as you would have done. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@alfred_wickham . That’s all you can say, isn’t it, the same old defamatory lie? You don’t understand the issue, you know nothing of the history. But you have learned how to smear. Good luck in your career. In today’s world your skills will take you far. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @RupertPitt1: @WilliamClouston @ClarkeMicah I bought the Mail today an excellent article by Peter Hitchens👏 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@tannadice94. You might also note that Ukraine in 2014 was a very divided country and the demonstrators did not represent the united popular will. That is why Yanukovych offered early elections, and why the mob preferred a violent putsch . They weren’t sure they’d win. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2,That’s dashed nice of you .@tannadice94,, given that the streets of Kiev in early 2014 were seething with EU and US politicians openly siding with the demonstrators ( good luck to any foreign pols trying the same trick in the U.S., Britain or France) … — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No longer, .@neil_abrams ? You never did understand the nature and origins of this conflict. You’re just an ill-informed, sanctimonious warmonger who has found a violent, macho cause he can applaud from a safe distance. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ Menshevik, it is in any case a stupid and dishonest expression to use about opponents of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, such as I am. This was my point. It still is. In 1968 it was(as usual) the moralising left that supported wars of choice. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Menshevik I am not sure why it is funny. I was ( from 1968 to 1975) in a Trotskyist group which condemned all Soviet invasions and contained no tankies . I was five in 1956, and can just remember Suez, but not Hungary. You must be quite old to be so authoritative. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

If you say so, .@menshevik . I first heard it in the 1970s, but I suppose you must be older than me. It doesn’t sound like the way my acquaintances among 1950s ex-communists spoke (either the Stalinists or the ones who quit after Slansky) They were more formal and more serious. — PolitiTweet.org