Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@popovaprof. I am neither committed nor uncommitted to 'Russian Imperialism'. I just recognise the existence of that country and regard it as folloy to ignore it. . — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @popovaprof. I have not 'manipulated your tweets. Anyone is free to examine them. You made a silly mistake about who the signatories were to the Yanukovych document, and then tried to blot it out with squid ink. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 Yes @popovaprof. Just as Professor Richard Sakwa, did a thorough examination of the matter in his book 'Frontline Ukraine' . I'd go with Sakwa, honestly. A putsch is the violent and lawless overthrow of a legitimate government. 2014 passes on all counts. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No, @mappin900 I am told SpecSavers are both good and cheap. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Powerful reasoning there @chrise1805. Bet you got a first at one of them universities. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@PopovaProf Your exact words, after I challenged your account of the 2014 putsch with various facts were ‘I see no point in debating these details’ . It is two hours ago, so I suppose you *might* have forgotten. Even so . — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

How is that so @popovaprof? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Kittyhawk00 Except that I condemn the invasion as lawless barbaric and stupid , and condemn Putin as a sinister tyrant. So you are wrong. No doubt you lack the courage to apologise, but do try to learn to check your facts, and think before opening your big mouth. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@popovaprof — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@alexkokcgarov . Since the 2014 putsch, Ukraine has had no proper opposition party. Its government closes down TV stations it does not like..You know how bad corruption is. Imperfect may be putting it mildly.. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

The man ran for his life, @alexkokcharov, just as you would have done in the same circs. He was the elected president, and he was lawlessly removed by a foreign-backed, violent mob. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@k_sonin. That is odd. I could have sworn there had been war in Ukraine since long before Putin invaded, a war the west did almost nothing to end, while also arming Ukraine. Which it has been doing, oh so pacifically, since 1991. But far more since the 2014 Kiev putsch. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@edwardlucas. I talk to all kinds of people but I am afraid, after nearly 50 years in journalism, I do not always believe everything they say. A failing, no doubt. Can you connect me with these executives? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

'The only good thing is that once the Tories have gone, millions will realise the truth – that they have no friends at Westminster, and if they want to change this they must build a new party and make it win.' https://t.co/v9pdFX2Dmy via @mailplus — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

'You can say you are going to stimulate our economy back to health, but you might as well try to turn a hobbling pensioner into an Olympic athlete by giving him a handful of amphetamines, an electric shock and a can of Red Bull.' https://t.co/v9pdFXkMAG via @mailplus — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

'There is nothing left for the ambitious politician but stunts, gimmicks and silly initiatives that come to nothing.' https://t.co/v9pdFX2Dmy via @mailplus — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

'Yes, Liz Truss is perhaps the most woefully unconvincing Prime Minister we have ever seen, but it is unfair to concentrate on her. Sir Anthony Blair is at least as dim, but is a better actor and had much better handlers.' https://t.co/v9pdFXkMAG via @mailplus — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

'The Tories must surely have run out of nice old ladies in the shires by now. I suspect its membership lists mainly contain metrosexual free-market fanatics, swivel-headed drug legalisers and teenagers in think tanks.' https://t.co/v9pdFXkMAG via @mailplus — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

'THE Tory Party is like a knight dying in his armour. Looked at casually from a distance, it still appears formidable and important. Seen close to, it is obviously done for, gasping for breath inside its visor' https://t.co/v9pdFX2Dmy via @mailplus — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Preview of my column in The Mail on Sunday tomorrow: Truss bought her opinions on eBay... the Tories have now run out of gimmicks https://t.co/v9pdFXkMAG via @mailplus — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@curpdavid. It is an old, sad truth, expressed by Thucydides long ago: 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

Fascinating exchange with .@popovaprof, in which this academic confesses to being uninterested in details (well, at least details offered by me of the violent foreign-backed putsch which overthrew Ukraine's legitimate government in 2014) . — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@vbboynt Wasn't Hobson's choice that you had no choice? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: So 30 years of NATO expansion, the Wolfowitz doctrine and the violent lawless overthrow of Ukraine's legitimate government… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@samuelpisani84, I would rather say of .@popovaprof that she has, so far, been oddly resistant to acquiring any new information on the subject. She also mistakes her opinion for a fact. Universities these days! — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 [email protected] this simple quiz.Was Yanukovych legitimately in power? (yes). 2. Was he constitutionally removed? (no) 3.Was violence used by those who overthrew him? (yes).Did his opponents receive support from foreign powers? (yes) Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck... — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@popovaprof 1/2 Groupthink is influential but not always right. Majorities don't settle questions of fact. I do not seek to justify anyone's military action, or think Ukraine is anyone's vassal. But I do dislike propaganda and the suppression of debate. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@popovaprof. 1/2 Groupthink is influential but not always right. Majorities don't settle questions of fact. I do not seek to justify anyone's military action, or think Ukraine is anyone's vassal. But I do dislike propaganda and the suppression of debate. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@popovaprof Another interpretation, Professor, is that the USA backed the violent overthrow of Ukraine's legitimate elected head of state, after a domestic political development in Ukraine that the USA didn't like, so brining lawless violence into the region. Acceptable? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@popovaprof 1/2 So you are that wondrous thing, a Professor of Political Science who's not interested in political details. Is that only when you are losing the argument, or all the time? And what is the *point* of professors if they aren't interested in details? — PolitiTweet.org