Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@chipping_mr , I thought it a good way of restoring civility, the essential basis for debate. I could have muted or blocked him, or been rude back. The teacher from who you take your name was not above such facetious tricks. Remember the Lex Canuleia? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@ekb1027 What if they don't *have* agency? You heard Victoria Nuland in 2014 deciding who would be in the post-putsch Kiev government, itself brought to power by US action. 73% of Ukrainians (in the post-putsch rump of the country) voted for Zelensky because he promised peace. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I don't . Ukrainian language law does that. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@roosefella. Not exactly. Poroshenko and the Banderites mounted a mass campaign against Zelensky's Autumn 2019 peace plan. Zelensky was personally insulted by Azov battalion types when he sought military support. Since then he's really had no power. Who's paying attention? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@mpmclaughlin. My last visit was some time ago, about ten years, ( I have more or less stopped reporting from abroad after many years of doing so) but when I lived in Moscow I used to go there quite a bit. I have never described myself as an expert. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@SlavaUk25499984 You are mistaken. I have visited Ukraine several times and even took holidays in Crimea when I lived in Moscow. I do not think the thing you claim I think, nor have I said it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@SlavaUk25499984 I have never referred to myself as an expert. I have some knowledge of Ukraine. I do not share your opinions. I can remain civil, even so. You might do the same. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@petelake5. Of course not. I wrote years ago about the casualties caused by Ukrainian forces in the Don Basin,https://t.co/lykUkLif9N and have mentioned this problem since. Zelensky, you will recall, began reditably as a peace candidate and won his majority on that basis in 2019. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Are you @ekb1027? I find a lot of my critics are a little over-emotional, but actual derangement is rare. Can I help in any way to calm you down? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@tomthescribe It's an opinion article, not reportage. If you use a search engine, (not Google) you will be able to find a substantial and rather prophetic article I wrote after a 2012 visit to Ukraine, in which I quote several Ukrainians. You won't like what they say. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Ukrainians voted for peace (Zelensky got 73% of the vote when he stood on a peace programme). He was prevented from purusing that policy and the USA, which could have achieved peace through Minsk-2, made no effort to do so. This is a war between Russia and America. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

....which his useless armed forces could not in fact attempt, let alone achieve . @Tim80233928 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I am aware of it @hectopbaturyn. Do you have a more profound point? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@roosefella Then explain how Volodymyr Zelensky, elected by a landslide(he won 73% of the vote) on a programme of bringing peace,was unable to pursue that policy and now finds himself in the midst of a wholly preventable war which is chewing up his country and killing his people. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@blendello. Ukraine has been in alliance with the USA since 1991, when it began to accept US military aid. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@sugarbushvinyl. I know a bit. What was your point? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

If the USA decides it wants peace, there will be peace. If not, not. It is a fantasy to imagine that Ukraine controls the direction of this war. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@digitalfantazia. I think you will find that I have done as much reporting from far-off placs as most journalists, and more than many. 'Armchair generals' are surely those who seek, and enjoy war. I wish it to end. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

In a free country, our participation in a major foreign war - with all it shiuge consequences for us - needs to be discussed. This will not be achieved by responding to dissent with insults and abuse. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @TalkTV: Columnist Peter Hitchens has said a long war in Ukraine will bring nothing but "death, poverty and ruin" and it's time for peac… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

'This is a war between Russia and the USA in which Ukraine is used as a battering ram and a boxing ring' — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@Kodjo61 What you are doing here is joining an intolerant mob and yelling at dissent. One day it may dawn on you what that makes you. Soon, I trust. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@eugah How do you know? Opinions and loyalties differ greatly among different Ukarinians. Are you aware of this , now long ago/ https://t.co/lykUkLif9N — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Some things you may not have realised about the Ukraine crisis https://t.co/CA1Y1wfUOe — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thus showing that you do not in fact *know* any history, @ohrwurm — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@fenitgirl. Don't be silly . 'Kiev' is the *English* name of the city. The Russian spelling would be in Cyrillics. You don't call Paris 'Paree' or Rome 'Roma' or Vienna 'Wien'. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Well, I suppsoe your unpleasant presumption that I am not *allowed* to hold a difefrent view from the majority, including you, might help me along @sheliveth, together with a bit of knowledge of the circs. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

By the time this is over even Professor Ferguson will turn out to have been against 'Lockdown'. Grant Shapps: I did my own research to help block Christmas Covid lockdown https://t.co/4lfJhGwKWT — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I think the extension of an anti-Russian military alliance hundreds of miles eastwards is a bit more solid than a few words. But I am careful what I say @Rustysan190 . — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@sipeachem. I don't follow. The first stage of this war was fought in Syria using different proxies.The USA doesn't intervene in Chechnya as it's part of Russia. In Georgia,Saakashvili's crazy decision to *start* a war with Russia (see https://t.co/79MAyn2pqx) embarrassed the USA — PolitiTweet.org