Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Can you not read, .@diykitepoche? Best not to engage in historical arguments until you have put this right. Synthetic phonics will always work. And when you *can* read, here are the documents you say don't exist: https://t.co/FIfHCYt5KP — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

One thing at a time :@percyvere22. Also, NATO is not any sort of empire. Its members do not in fact sacrifice sovereignty, despite the myth of Article 5, it brings no currency union, no abolition of borders, no supranational executives or toy parliaments. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@shaun_hutchings. That's understood. I am taking advantage of your moment of incomprehension to make a wider point about where identikit tweets come from, and how they come about. Some people naively think they just happen. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @TaylorColumnist: Me in today's @telegraph. Bravo specifically to @AllisonPearson, @toadmeister, @DanielJHannan @ClarkeMicah, @JuliaHB1… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @danelawdave And you also have no answer to my point that the EU, which has vastly expanded eastwards since 1989, is a new form of Richard von Kuehlmann's 1917 'limited sovereignty' plan to expand Germany's empire mainly at the expense of Russia. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 Well, we know about that @danelawdave. This presumably means you have no answer to my point that Russia's rulers voluntarily withdrew from vast territories in 1989-91(while China's Communists were murdering their people),in retun for Western guarantees https://t.co/FIfHCYc2IP — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I apologise all the time. @LeeLeerockall1 Why do you urge me not to ? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@diykitepoche Up to a point, though post-Stalin it was a good deal more multilingual etc. Did you ever travel in the old USSR? There *were* guarantees: https://t.co/FIfHCYc2IP — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@clemmowjoe. Really? The USA had the good sense to create a contiguous land empire, but the various purchases and conquests which expanded it beyond the original colonies, and indeed beyond the Civil War states, are plainly colonial. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@tractorbadger. How distressing. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@danelawdave. I am confused . Can you name the battles in which the USSR or Russia suffered military defeat in 1989-91? Or what expansion are you referring to? The USSR's expansion in 1944-45 was indeed very bloody, but was not a defeat. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@tractorbadger An anniversary is a yearly event, as anyone even crudely familiar with the Latin language can work out. so no. Also, the Ukraine war began in February 2014, so it does not have an anniversary in August, of any kind. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I cuiodn't care less about people commenting on my old tweets @shaun_hutchings. I don't even care much about the sudden appearance of multiple identikit responses to my tweets. But I do wish people wouldn't be so naive when they see these things. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: 'The idea that Russian dislike of Ukraine’s frontiers began with Vladimir Putin is simply not true. Two days after Ukraine… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: 'I used to wonder how educated human beings got us into the World War One disaster in 1914 Not any more. In the last 30… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: 'The world’s statesmen have grappled with the post-Soviet world with all the grace and artistry of clowns juggling with je… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: 'On June 9 1990, Margaret Thatcher briskly batted away a question about opening a British embassy in Kiev. This, she expla… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: 'Crimeans gathered almost 250,000 signatures which were technically enough to force a vote on their future. But they were… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: 1/2 'On August 1st 1991, US President George H.W. Bush delivered an oration which would later become known derisively (amo… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@danelawdave 2/2 But of course Italy and Japan were defeated and driven out of their conquests, as was Hitler. And you would probably argue that the EU is not an empire, or German-dominated, because people do that. So I came up with an unquestionable, major exception. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@danelawdave 1/2 I'm not offering a defence, simply pointing out that there has been significant imperial expansion since the 19th century (I could also have instanced Italy, Germany and Japan, and indeed the EU, the continuation of Germany by other means.... — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @danelawdave The expansion of Soviet rather than Russian power after 1941 (the Russian Empire lost significant territory after 1914-1918) was a response to attack. In return for what it thought were guarantees, Moscow then withdrew from vast areas of Europe and Asia. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 Really, @danelawdave? China seized Tibet in 1949 and will get Taiwan in our lifetimes, probably . In any case, the USA, the world's other main land empire, has highly defensible borders.... — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: @takin629 Do you think Russians don’t *know* about their past? Silly billy. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@takin629 Do you think Russians don’t *know* about their past? Silly billy. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@tinyasura . What are these ‘independent’ sources of which you speak? Police interests vary, but government always seeks to minimise crime and disorder. I make no phoney pretence at impartiality. Why do you feel the need to insult me? It only makes it easy for me to ignore you. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Actually @tinyasura, I have seldom seen an article which fails so totally to justify its headline. It merely illustrates how inconsistent and hard to read all such figures are. A *lot* of violent crime is intimidation which does not end up at A&E and is unnoticed by police. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

The Ukrainian Flag is the Covid Mask of 2022, .@DavidOw59644196 . It is the outward and visible sign of the person's presumed virtue. Facts and reason cannot penetrate the minds of those who display it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@danelawdave. Most expanding countries do. Try a similar historical comparison between the 13 Colonies at independence, and the USA now. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@tcourtnadge. Please see https://t.co/tvp9APZ7d6 — PolitiTweet.org