Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @EasySimon: @Veritatem2021 Only if you want to include NATO's expansion in to the debate That is not why the conflict is concentrated i… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: 1/2 .@alfred_wickham, how does it feel to take part in a McCarthyite smear campaign? As my late brother believed in non-ex… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: 2/3 .@alfred_wickham Interestingly, the Iraq war fanatics tried the same techniques against the war's opponents.We were 'd… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @Iromg: Peter joins me @TalkTV tomorrow. Literally anything could happen — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

And all because I caught .@popovaprof in a factual error about the Kiev coup she says didn’t happen . That was when she started to dislike details, I think.. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Here is the grotesque and totalitarian propaganda flyer tweeted by @alfred_wickham, with its 1984 message that doubt about the war is treachery and the product of Kremlin propaganda. We are on the road to imposed thought, if people do not identify and resist this slime. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 Key quote :'The goal of Russian propaganda is not to render you 'pro-Putin' but to make you doubt sufficiently not to take an openly pro-Ukrainian stance',. So it embodies the appalling idea that doubt is a thought-crime, which places you in the enemy camp. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 Fascinating propaganda tweeted by .@Alfred_wickham. Needs deep analysis but one key message is that doubt itself about the war is a pro-enemy action. Neutrality or silence are blameworthy. As in 1984, the citizen must shout for victory,or be considered disloyal. Sinister. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@when_cats_away It is soft totalitarianism, cutesy and Norman Rockwellish, but with a simple McCarthyite message - dissent is treachery and independent minds are working for the foe. After the fear propaganda for Covid panic worked so well, this will probably work too. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/3 .@alfred_wickham. Every dubious government pursuing dubious policies seeks to portray dissent as treachery and to claim that sceptics are working for a wicked enemy. Vladimir Putin uses this exact technique in Russia, and you are using it here. Shame on you. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/3 .@alfred_wickham Interestingly, the Iraq war fanatics tried the same techniques against the war's opponents.We were 'defending a fascist dictator' if we opposed an illegal invasion.But in those days there were fewer gullible and ignorant people,and Twitter was in its infancy — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@alfred_wickham, how does it feel to take part in a McCarthyite smear campaign? As my late brother believed in non-existent WMD, and fervently and unswervingly supported the stupidest and most disastrous war in modern history, I wouldn't seek his approval. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @Jonathangosky: Wow! @ClarkeMicah — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@vasilina_orlova, please ask Ambassador Matlock, who I\m quoting, who used the phrase 'illegal coup'. I would not have bothered with the 'illegal', but I prefer to quote accurately. It's a bit of a quibble, isn't it? The point is that such a distinguished person says it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

This is simply false, @popovaprof. But you know that. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@diykitatony. If I were you, I would call you a Holocaust apologist for that stupid remark. As I am not you, I will merely say that it was a crude, indefensible and rather stupid thing to say. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@nickofnotrades. Of course there was Russian involvement, and EU involvement. But the key event, which in my view set Europe in course for war even more than NATO’s 2008 summit, was brought about by the USA. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @pastakudde: @DavidSacks Reminds me of the “the EU is a continuation of Germany by other means” talk by Peter Hitchens — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

See the Peter Hitchens blog .@phykell. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thoughts on blood donation, in today’s Mail on Sunday. https://t.co/mcyqUO8A8w — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Frommy article on blood donation in today’s Mail on Sunday. https://t.co/5vlo0EvsrD — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

From my Mail on Sunday column https://t.co/7O3zoyvFI1 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

From my Mail on Sunday column today https://t.co/wNe8lgoiWh — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Did I mention funding, @jimmy2times19? The most basic knowledge of Ukraine will allow you to realise that the 'Ukrainian people' were and remain deeply divided. I absolutely think the Russians were equally up to no good, and if they had succeeded in a putsch, I would say so. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Of *course* it does @ulvernielsen. Because the question of who actually wanted the war arises. I was disgusted and furious when I heard of the invasion. I am not wholly sure that everyone in the West felt the same way. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@jsherredadams. No, the Russian invasion is because Russia invaded, and Putin is to blame for this stupid, indefensible action. But it is absurd to pretend that there was no provocation, see Robert Kagan in Foreign Affairs. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

A fascinating point. This should have occurred to me . It is indeed interesting .@mfaithfull and I shall now look into it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

And yet, @jimmy2times19, the Russian invasion came eight long years after the putsch, and the huge events (largely ignored by those now obsessed with the subject) which followed it and were in my view caused by it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/3 .@Jimmy2times19 I care, because unless we learn the true history of events, we cannot make sense of them, or of anything else in the world. And the less informed we are about actions and their results, the less free we are to act and do good. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/3 @Jimmy2times19 ... both lead to death, misery, destruction, displacement etc. Both are morally wrong. My point is that provocation shouldn't be ignored. If it s, then people believe absurd things, such as that France started the 1870 war. — PolitiTweet.org