Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @Marys_Miles: @Radioheed1 @ClarkeMicah @phoenixdruid "Utter nonsense"? Are you saying 🇺🇸 was an honest broker in Feb 2014? You think the… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@digitalfantazia. Yanukovych was lawfully elected under the Ukrainian constitution, and the vote was generally accepted as fair. As you know. He was removed by a violent putsch and by procedures which did not follow the constitution. As you know. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

They do! What of it? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@blazercupboard . This point cannot be made too often. Also pre-2014 Rada was fairly evenly balanced. After 2014, the Party of Regions was driven out of existence and a major strand of Ukrainian opinion lost a parliamentary voice. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: Why precisely is it too late for negotiation, @craigmilloyuk? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@gazbar1980 . Just like FDR and Churchill, then , who hugely appeased Stalin at Yalta in 1945. In your view they lacked courage, which is an interesting claim. But what do you think they should have done instead? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@fre3dsilva Metaphors can be helpful sometimes. This is not one of them. In fact U.K. householders can get into deep trouble if they resist burglars with force. But who broke violently into Ukraine? I’d date this from the US-backed putsch against the Legit govt in February 2014. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@neekeelee011 , the violent US-backed putsch against Ukraine’s legitimate elected government, in Kiev in February 2014, was the first bloodshed. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Why precisely is it too late for negotiation, @craigmilloyuk? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@radioheed1. I seek to open a debate in this country over whether we wish to be embroiled in a major foreign war. Do you really think I can craft a diplomatic compromise on Twitter? If I call an ambulance for an injured man, am I obliged to choose the sort of surgery he gets? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@stuartpstevens . Walter Duranty lied, a fact you have recently discovered and I have known for decades. Rather than tutting, and slandering me, ask yourself if there is any possibility that there might be a different view from yours. It’s the basis of reasoned debate. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@danbrilliantv’Appeasement’is just a rude word for diplomacy you don’t like. As you are a mob joiner,rather than an independent thinker, I suspect you’d have been part of the huge mob which cheered Neville Chamberlain in 1938. Churchill and FDR appeased Stalin, vastly, at Yalta. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @zoepaulanet . From 1991 to 2008 , Russo-Ukrainian relations were stable. Then along came George W.Bush. ( remember him, the greatest genius in diplomacy since Talleyrand). — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 No, you don’t. @zoepaulanet. Many people had the same problem with those countries. Yet interventionist war, accompanied by ignorance, has a way of making things worse rather than better. — PolitiTweet.org

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That’s just abuse. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

To what, @abogdashin? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

This us what I am trying to stop @sfionor. Atrocities flourish in war. Civilised men try not to start wars, and when they do come, they try to end them on reasonable terms. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Why is that @radioheed1? Surely Ukraine is an enlightened free, law-governed democracy where dissent is welcome and free speech protected? Isn’t it? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@loogunda Don’t you recall Victoria Nuland actually choosing the new pro-NATO Ukrainian cabinet after the US-backed putsch in 2014 which overthrew the legitimate, non-aligned government ? It is on YouTube. No secret. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@djnicholl .Your knowledge of these events is sketchy and one-sided. You would do better to research the matter than to explode in abusive rage when you encounter somebody who knows more than you do. You have a trained mind. Please use it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@steve12172675 . No. My view is that its history as a great power has been decidedly mixed. The Iran putsch in 1953, the daft Vietnam intervention and of course the failed adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan come to mind. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@zoepaulanet Will that be like the ‘peace’ the USA achieved in Iraq (Baghdad is a battlefield this morning)? Or the desolation achieved in Syria by the vast CIA operation there? Or will it be like Afghanistan, abandoned in ruins After 20 years of stupidity? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@Real__robbo I have, in a long life, in which I have been fortunate to have had personal experience of major events, changed my mind-because I could no longer reconcile my opinions with the facts. I should have thought that was creditable rather than wicked or shallow. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@narkymarkmarkb Oh, but it is.That is why nobody describes the appeasement of Stalin by FDR and Churchill at Yalta as appeasement. When Israel is pressured to give ‘land for peace’ this is also not so described.Nor is the surrender to the violent gangsters of the IRA.But it is. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/3 @legalbeagle1978 People should also grasp that, ghastly and increasingly irrational as Putin is, he is unlikely to be replaced by somebody better. And he might be replaced by chaos - in a country with nuclear weapons. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/3 @legalbeagle1978. Most western nations, by recognising Kosovo, have accepted that the borders of Europe are not immovable. I see little advantage for Ukraine in insisting on ruling people who don’t want to be ruled by it. And no advantage for Europe in goading Russia. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 @legalbeagle1978. How could I predict the exact shape of any compromise? Churchill and FDR gave the whole of Eastern Europe to Stalin at Yalta, and you’ve grown up, uncomplaining, in the resulting peace. I would not go anything like so far.. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@william_tompson . ‘What ye know, the same do I know also. I am not inferior into you’ . I don’t think you should use the Bible to tell people not to disagree with you. It is not what it is for. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I rather had the impression that the American-backed putsch in Kiev, following the legitimate Ukrainian government’s withdrawal from theEU Association agreement, was the trigger for violence. There are differing interpretations, @phoenixdruid — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@stuartpstevens. You’ll have to tell me which words, precisely, you object to. I can see nothing which justifies what you say. — PolitiTweet.org