Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Neville Chamberlain in 1938 was deeply admired by the mob. Now today's mob knows he was wrong thanks to 80 years of hindsight, But could they spot a similar error now? No. The mob is almost always wrong. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I now see that this @tomsoufiburridge chap, who has such strong opinions about Ukraine, is an impartial reporter for ABC. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

University Challenge begins again today: Your starter for ten 'What *is* the NED? , major source of funding for the people's independent crusading underdog organisation Bellingcat? ' — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: @eliothiggins. So rude. I preferred your 2018 answer 'NED, OSF, Adessium, PAX for Peace covers half our funding, the othe… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@wal_cain Except that Walty baby , @walt_cain nuclear weapons are, in normal circumstances, unusable because they lead to the destruction of the power which uses them. And you will have noticed, over the years, that he USA has them too . — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Mobs are almost always wrong. The same sort of people who moronically compare me to Neville Chamberlain now are *exactly* the types who would have cheered him in 1938. Fashionable opinion and conventional wisdom are the opposite of thought. https://t.co/THxbjVzUwQ — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@Just1luca. How rude. You mean, you agreed with him, and you disagree with me. It's a free country. Now, let us discuss *your* smartness for a moment . Did you agree with *him* that the (Olympically dumb) Iraq war was a good idea? Or did you agree with me that it was a bad idea? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yeah @treevessmyth. It is baffling, isn't it? Why would *anyone* think the Russian Army had a limited capacity? It sweeps all before it, yeah. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@eliothiggins. So rude. I preferred your 2018 answer 'NED, OSF, Adessium, PAX for Peace covers half our funding, the other half comes from workshops we hold only a regular basis for paying participants.'. Remind me, what is the NED and where does its money come from? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

What @eliothiggins said about Bellingcat's funding in 2018. What is the NED, anyone? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

. @revengad I'm sick enough of the one-sided bilge I see on Western TV without watching one-sided Kremlin propaganda bilge as well. One thing we *know* from this war is that the Russian military is weak and incompetent. In which case why the fear-mongering about it? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Odd that Ukraine hawks gloat over the exposure of the weakness and incompetence of Russian armed forces yet *simultaneously* continue to pretend that Russia is a major military threat to its neighbours. 'One or the other. Not both' . As Bertie Wooster said to Roderick Spode. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Well, I don't see any Russian planes over Berlin, @mr_andrew_fox. the point here is that @leander_cox draws huge conclusions form stuff painted on helicopters, yet draws *none* from the really big news - the exposure of the serious weakness of Russian armed forces. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Quite so. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Oh, @tsoufiburridge and I have spent some time there. I used to go on holiday in Crimea when I lived in Moscow, on top of the other visits to Kiev, Sevastopol, Donetsk etc. I just found, heard and saw things you didn't. Don't presume things. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@leander_cox. One thing evident to me before this horror got under way, and evident to all now is the limited capacity of the Russian Army. I'm fascinated by the way the 'Putin wants to take over the world' lobby simultaneously gloat over this, and act as if it isn't true. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Of course it's complex. @leander_cox . Britain's air force celebrates Royal Weddings by flying carefulluy-preserved WW2 bombers overhead. But you can't really deduce a desire to re-bomb Hamburg from that. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Then @leander_cox what are the direct quotations you rely upon for this interpretation? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/4 *still* there @tsoufiburridge? And then when Zelensky gets elected on a 73% landslide on a programme of peace, lo, Poroshenko and the Banderites (backbone of the 2014 putsch) sabotage his deal. And the US utterly fails to enforce Minsk-2. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

4/4 @tsoufiburridge then I nearly forgot the thing that *really* embarrasses your lot. Robert Kagan (Nuland's hawkish hubby) writes in 'Foreign Affairs' https://t.co/Z0PwDb2DEm that yes, Russia was provoked into this war. By whom? Go on, guess. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I see from this tweet that Eliot Higgins, who is so scared of engagement with me that he blocks me, and whose Lapcat organisation was forced to apologise to me over the Douma affair, is at it again. Who finances Lapcat exactly, Eliot? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

4/4 @tsoufiburridge then I nearly forgot the thing that *realy* embarrasses your lot. Robert Kagan (Nuland's hawkish hubby) writes in 'Foreign Affairs' https://t.co/ykDvkKDMLJ that yes, Russia was provoked into this war. By whom? Go on, guess. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/4 *still* there @tsoufuburridge? And then when Zelensky gets elected on a 73% landslide on a programme of peace, lo, Poroshenko and the Banderites (backbone of the 2014 putsch) sabotage his deal. And the US utterly fails to enforce Minsk-2. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/3 Still there @tsoufiburridge? Then we have the tapes of Victoria Nuland, https://t.co/zEzOGnVygL discussing with US Kiev ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt the composition of the new Ukrainian cabinet (as if it's for her to choose it). — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/3 @tsoufiburridge OK, cleverclogs. Let's go. the former US ambassador to Moscow Jack Matlock (who shold know) says that the 2014 putsch which overthrew Ukraine's legitimate non-aligned government and replaced it with a pro-NATO regime was backed by the USA. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@hectopbaturyn. Oh. That must have been why he believed there were WMD in Iraq ( as I dumbly did not) , and supported The Bush-Blair war ( as I dumbly did not). Funny old world, eh, when people think that supportng the stupidest war in modern history is a sign of being smart. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@leander_cox. Yes. I am aware of the speech. Lost of people have seen western interpretations of it, by ;New Cold War' media. but have you read it? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@mikewatso. People in that part of the world have (in most cases) had more than enough war, and hate it. I am unsurprised, and encouraged by what you say. I really can't grasp wht it is supposed to be pro-Ukrainian to support more killing, for longer, in that country. https://t.co/ImVCiRmcgH — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @ekb1027. The Budapest memorandum is not a treaty, and Britain is a weak, indebted country which can barely hold itself together. Ukrainians are not especially free. Their government is horribly corrupt,and it closes down opposition media. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 @ekb1027 I learned to think at York,not to follow any crowd. Perhaps it's changed since then.Most Ukrainians *might* tell me that. Unlike you, I'm not in a position to know. But others might not.The nature of the country is that it contains several different constituencies. — PolitiTweet.org