Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: But I don’t @proudlondon. So now what are you going to say? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: @rhhasdall. My main concern is to begin discussion in this country as to whether we have a national interest in prolonging… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: 2 @thesylvrewolfe . I do not justify Russia’s invasion and have condemned it from the start. But, like the US anti-Russia… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@rhhassall — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@rowan_m72 A Defence of Whataboutery. What about the Belhaj Case? What about Erdogan's Turkey? https://t.co/IlwBY9Pnlz — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@rowan_m72 ‘whataboutism’ was in fact first employed as a form of moral argument by Jesus Christ, and it’s good enough for Him it is good enough for me. Which facts and truth do I seek to avoid? I have answered every rational challenge to me here, and several irrational ones too. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@rhhasdall. My main concern is to begin discussion in this country as to whether we have a national interest in prolonging and sustaining a Russian-American war in Ukraine. My own view is that we do not, but we do have strong reasons to support a peace initiative. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2 @thesylvrewolfe . I do not justify Russia’s invasion and have condemned it from the start. But, like the US anti-Russia hawk Robert Kagan, I reckon there was a measure of provocation. If you disagree, take it up with him. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@thesylvrewolfe . Facts: Yanukovych’s election was not disputed. He did not seek to take Ukraine into a military alliance.There have been post-putsch elections, but they have excluded much of the population, and the main opposition party has been eliminated. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

But I don’t @proudlondon. So now what are you going to say? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@volchonokk_1 I would add that the US government did *not* view the selection of Ukraine’s government as an internal affair. Victoria Nuland actually picked Ukraine’s post-putsch Cabinet. It’s on YouTube, in case you forgot. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@volchonokk_1 And do you know? That’s just one of many reasons I haven’t offered it as a justification for Russian invasion.Another is that I think (and have stated from the start) that the invasion’s barbaric,lawless & stupid. So I have no wish to justify it. Want to try again? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Timewaster. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

The USA backed a violent putsch which overthrew Ukraine’s lawfully elected ( and non-aligned) government, and replaced it with an unconstitutional pro-NATO regime. Call me old-fashioned, but I regard that as an act of aggression. So would you, if Russia did the same. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@selmathe2nd . So you believed in WMD and supported the Iraq invasion? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Peaceful! They were armed and killed several police officers, as the UN reported at the time.. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@shdfella Ukraine is not an ally of this country, and we have no particular interest there. We can barely defend our own territorial integrity, and a few years ago actually surrendered to a terrorist murder gang. I tire of our great power illusions. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

My opponents demonstrate their thoughtful nature, once again — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Which assertion, @oxocubes99? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I have no idols, sweetie. I am a Protestant Christian and worship only God. Do you know any real history? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Actually when FDR and Churchill appeased the murderous and authoritarian Stalin in 1945, none of this happened. Appeasement secured 50 years of prosperity and peace in Western Europe, and Stalin’s regime eventually fell, mainly because it could not match that prosperity. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@johnthecab. If I see someone injured I can call an ambulance. I cannot prescribe the treatment or perform the operation. I do not know why you think this is a clever question. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Putin’s invasion was irrational. He gambled on military strength when any serious inquiry would have found it to be illusory. And he greatly strengthened Ukrainian patriotism and nationhood. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@selmathe2nd Please explain what you intend by this . — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@dmitryopines I don’t know. Do the Americans *want* Ukraine to have Rostov? I had no idea. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@suastusa Britain went to war in 1939 to protect the independence of Poland. It ended the war agreeing that Poland should be ruled by Stalin. Poles could not even take part in the 1946 London Victory parade. That’s a compromise, if you like. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@suastusa Why are *all* wars equated with WW2?Why do all war leaders think they are Churchill and that their opponents are Hitler? No modern war is remotely like WW2. Perhaps this is the only history anyone knows, now? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Which words of mine do you interpret to@mean that, @dmitryopines? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I have in fact called for a compromise, which of course requires *mutual* concessions. — PolitiTweet.org