Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Where has Putin stated this aim? Please give textual reference and exact quotation @drfrogdog — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@peteinsq. Not totally that simple There were many years of negotiations abt how the handover would take place. The Chinese made promises of continued liberty which they have since broken, as we knew they would. And we have done nothing to enforce them. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@afruicandian. Nothing I've ever said,written or thought justifies this slur. But your whole life & the peace and prosperity which preceded it for decades rested on a dishonourable appeasement of Joseph Stalin at Yalta by FDR & Winston Churchill:Life's not as simple as you think. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Abuse https://t.co/LMyRhCB7Mu — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I should say it was thickly-veiled , @josephhay192. In fact, so thickly veiled that it is invisible. Which is no big surprise, since it does not exist. I view the invasion as not merely wrong and barbaric, but also as one of the stupidest acts of foreign policy I have ever seen. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @twose_brian: @timpinney @ClarkeMicah For Ukraine, read Yemen. Plus Saudi Arabia sponsers Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism around t… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@tigerstolly. Munich is not the only historical event that ever happened. Halifax *wanted* war in 1939, hence the Polish guarantee. He then discovered that we were totally unprepared for the war he had helped to start, panicked and argued for capitulation. I see no parallel. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@barnes_farnes. Can you set out the working of your logic? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Abuse — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@mrchairmanuk Just as it is easy to call for unending war when it is not your home being destroyed and your friends and relatives being turned into corpses, refugees and paupers. Long-distance jingoism is a foolish posture. The price that has been paid is already very high. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@EddieHe80211171 When peace is eventually made, after thousands more have died and many more homes have been destroyed and millions have suffered needless poverty, and the terms are worse than we could have got now, you will call its negotiators 'statesmen'. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@jay_beecher 'Kiev' is *not* the Russian version of its name . It is the name by which that ciuty has been known in the English-speaking world for many years, recently altered by propagandists . A country where dissent is shocking is a country in trouble. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @jacksohillyer. History is not an incessant re-run of Munich in 1938. Appeasement happens all the time and is generally popular. We appeased China by giving it Hong Kong, bound and gagged. Churchill appeased Stalin at Yalta. Blair appeased the Provisional IRA in 1998. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 @jacksohillyr Germany never had any territorial designs on this country, as it happens.But had our crazy insistence on continuing the 1914 war led to defeat (as it so very nearly did in Spring 1918) no doubt we should have been occupied by German troops. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@eghonsalters. 'Appeasement' is a term for negotiations whose outcome you don't like. Churchill and FDR appeased Stalin, the USA incessantly pressures Israel to appease the Arab world. The UK (also under US pressure) appeases the Provisional IRA. Everyone appeases China. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

As is usual with @johnsweeneyliar, none of this is true. But I like the plug for his book. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @bananakiev Would you have called Zelensky a 'Putin apologist' in the days when he tried to negotiate a peace settlement with Moscow? And how many other people must suffer death, loss, exile and penury so that you can beat your chest in that manly fashion? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 Please quote the passage of Putin apologism, @bananakiev. You will in fact find none,. Abusing people who say things you do not like is not an argument. How are the people of Ukraine benefiting from the blocking of Zelensky's peace initiatives by Poroshenko & the Banderites? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

There are equally unlovely people on the Ukrainian side, as I have pointed out at length. This is not Gandalf versus the Orcs. If anyone is in charge on either side, such people can and will be be marginalised. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@grahamteessider. Putin has already *been* stopped, mainly by the limitations of his much over-rated armed forces. In time the rest of the myths and fancies of the supposed 'new cold war' will go the same way. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@martinjudge10. Peace talks , where there has been no victory, do not involve giving your opponent everything he wants. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/3 From Huxley's 1947 foreword to "Brave New World' "...Bolshevism, Fascism, inflation, depression, Hitler, the Second World War, the ruin of Europe and all but universal famine." — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/3 From Huxley's 1947 foreword to 'Brave New World ' : "..., as most of the wars of the eighteenth century had been, the editor of that once conservative journal refused to print it. The nationalistic radicals had their way, with the consequences that we all know --..." — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/3 . Aldous Huxley's Foreword to the 1947 edition of 'Brave New World': "The last conservative statesman was the fifth Marquess of Lansdowne; and when he wrote a letter to the 'The Times', suggesting that the First World War should be concluded with a compromise..." — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

My column in The Mail on Sunday today. https://t.co/UK46kkrdu0 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @lancashirelad33: @ClarkeMicah @mailplus True some argued for a ceasefire negotiation as early as Sept 1914 but were overruled by louder… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Then you must live in a very odd place. The almost universal answer to the question on reading teaching is ‘a mixture of methods’ . @welshbridgeofi1 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

When did you last see me on BBC Question Time? (I was on regularly for 23 years, then not) @yonblackbird — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@welshbridgeofi1. Perhaps *your* reading needs some help. You seem to have missed the words ‘ used exclusively and systematically’ . This is not what happens , and you know it. Yes, my information is ‘anecdotal’. Is there anything else available? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@seryadarling . It is so. There were real possibilities for peace *if* the USA had wanted it. Ukrainians voted for Zelensky because * they wanted peace and he promised it. But Poroshenko and the Banderites put a stop to that, and here we are. — PolitiTweet.org