Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 @Jimmy2times19 I am not making it a moral equivalent. I'm not sure what scale decides which is worse, a foreign power violently overthrowing a legitimate government for its own ends, or a foreign power invading a country for its own ends.... — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @bz2: @schofeld You can safely ignore anything Peter Hitchens says. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@diykitatony. Are you,in general,all right? Your tone here is of a person consumed with irrational fury. I shall of course die,who knows when, as shall we all. But I think your intention was to distress me, and really not very pleasant. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 @diykitatony A weird recantation. Mr Friedman's actual words here https://t.co/9OhZ3xPWU2 'The neat part is that they didn’t make it up. I did say it.' And here's the interview. https://t.co/yCJnnyBLNo — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/3 The key fact (quite clear from Richard Sakwa's account in 'Frontline Ukraine) is that the mob didn't want a peaceful deal with early elections in which they could have removed Yanukovych through the ballot box. My guess is that they were far from sure they would win any vote. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/3 It was only *after* the mob threw out the deal that Yanukovych, fearing for his life, fled (as anyone in his position would have done. The mob then did *not* follow the Ukrainian constitution, and lawlessly removed him from office. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 This version that Yanukovych 'fled *after* we (the UIS) had brokered a deal' is very slippery language. Deal was brokered by 3 EU foreign ministers,not the US. Ukrainian opposition leaders Klitschko,Tyagnybok,Yatsenyuk, dumped the deal after the mob leaders rejected it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@britaingrates. Indeed I am a 'popular uprising denier' . As a former revolutionary, I know only too well how hard it is to organise,feed & maintain a spontaneous demonstration, especially one lasting weeks. Do you even know how to pitch a tent on asphalt roads or paving stones? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I now see that dachshund expert @alexnazaryan cannot distinguish between the indefinite article ('a') and the definite article ('the'). This was such a basic part of my education that I wrongly assumed everyone else had benefited from it too. Obviously not. Sad. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@ukjiminlondon. I'd be happy to have a reasoned debate, but the approach by Mr Abrams @neil_abrams , and his general dismissive attitude towards anything that doesn't suit the Slava Ukraini view, suggests to me that it would drown in (his) bile. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

From you, Alex, sweetie, that is a compliment @alexnazaryan . I mean, a dachshund expert. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

It is there now @kynohy — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thank you @EricBla06432741 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I'll sort it out, @mrccrispy321 thanks for reminding me. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/2 .@benoit_cambron AS for your jibe, I would rely on evidence for such a claim. Do you have any? Do you know anything about Iran? Isn't it time you accused me of being an Ayatollah apologist and an appeaser? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@benoit_cambron When I was still able to go to Iran, I concluded that many of the people of that country loathe their regime, but that the one thing that would reunite regime and people would be a western attack of some kind. https://t.co/AoxHwQBct7. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@benoit_cambron, you silly boy. The US-backed (and UK-backed) coup in Iran happened in 1953 https://t.co/lZymKz9vaR. Everything that has happened there since has been a consequence of that dire mistake, of greed and arrogance. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@stuartdowell. An interesting claim. Can you provide examples? Generally people are a bit ashamed of these things. There's *still* (after nearly 70 years) a PR effort to pretend the anti-Mossadeq putsch was really just international social work. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes @cainmri. The western world is still paying a heavy price for the 1953 Anglo-American putsch against Mossadeq in Iran. Likewise, the 1973 Chile coup d'etat. Once you break the rules, they stay broken. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@rufc2022. That is beyond doubt . The association agreement was a major effort to de-neutralise Ukraine and align it with EU-NATO. But Sikorski, Steinmeier and Fabius made a serious effort, on behalf of the EU, to get a peaceful deal. The mob *preferred* violence to elections. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: You mean @johnobrennan2 that you disagree with me. Academics these days! If the professors are like this, what will their… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: You’re engaging in hostile unresponsive sniping, not debating, @popovaprof. You can’t conceive it possible that there is a… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: .@neil_abrams. I know when he was there. CIA directors are not given to many such visits and they are not publicised when… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: 1/2 .@neil_abrams, a teenage ‘expert’ , doesn’t even know that ‘tankie’ is a 1970s Eurocommunist term used to describe Bre… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: 2/2 .@neil_abrams . I have said none of these things. But what kind of closed mind cannot discern American involvement in… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: @michael22602194. A closed mind, and a lack of good manners, can lead to this rather cheap sort of thing. You disagree wit… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: My Royal scoop in today’s Mail on Sunday. https://t.co/Vp6krlIheY — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: The unique politics, economics and morality of blood donation. My article in The Mail on Sunday. https://t.co/mHup9vTpdN — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: My Mail on Sunday column today https://t.co/PjCnmiHpLt — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: 1/2 [email protected] have done in the past. It's simple. Yanukovych was the legitimate president. He was removed by lawle… — PolitiTweet.org