Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@mfaithfull Anybody who recalled government rubbish about '45 minutes' and 'WMD' in the Iraq crisis, or phoney claims of humanitarian motives in the attack on Libya was bound to question claims from the same or similar sources a year ago. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

'According to the President, the Ukrainian side believes that a broad escalation on the part of Russia will not happen. February 22 2022 - Volodymyr Zelenskyy — Official website of the President of Ukraine: https://t.co/ttUzZZMyE3 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@WatkinsCB65 About what was I 'wrong'( apart from about how to spell my name, which you seem to know better than I do)? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@gaudd, Where and (more crucially) *when* did Zelensky say he knew? He showed absolutely no sign of knowing when he said all these things: https://t.co/sMaZEefVeG — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: .@alanflood7 What else could Russia have done? It could not have been so stupid and barbaric as to invade. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Warmongers will say *anything* rather than admit the blazing truth, that Zelensky was not convinced, a year ago, that an invasion was coming. Their ingenuity is amazing, and just demonstrates the power of politically-driven credulity over facts and reason. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Good heavens , @bstewart , yeah, you are right. And there I was, all this time, imagining that I was Presidnet of Ukraine. Thanks for straightening me out. Actually, those who write where many read & speak where many listen,have responsibilities of their own.The tongue is a fire. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

On a planet far, far away, a long, long time ago.... — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Over the next few days I shall be repeatedly attacked for having had the nerve to *question* intelligence claims of an impending Russian invasion of Ukraine a year ago. As it is my job to question, I can't see how ths was wrong. But I was also not alone in having doubts. See: — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Signed copies of my new book (and most of my other books) may be ordered from Blackwell’s bookshop in Oxford 01865 792792 , overseas +44 1865 792 792 . https://t.co/svej1kSzde — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

You ask the question about the wrong country, [email protected] USA's Russia hawks hugely strengthened Putin and the hard nationalists when they extended NATO eastwards, when they revoked the intermediate missile and ABM treaties, & when they invited Ukraine to join NATO in 2008. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@alanflood7 What else could Russia have done? It could not have been so stupid and barbaric as to invade. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

October 2019. Saint Zelensky sought peace with Russia, as he had promised to in his election campaign. His defeated opponent and Ukraine's ultra-nationalists (let's be polite here about them and their methods) opposed him. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@watkinscb65. Zelensky's greatest obstacles in seeking peace (which he bravely did, in accordance with his election pledge), were his defeated rival Poroshenko and the Banderite ultra-nationalists, who denounced his peace proposals as 'capitulation' and torpedoed them. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@seanallardphoto. I note with interest that you ceased to respond to me when the going got tough. But btw, how do *you* know what the 'Ukrainian authorities' were 'well aware of' ? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: @MattA_NW Lovely Circular thinking : Saint Zelensky doubted the claims of an approaching invasion, But only Putin apologis… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@mfaithfull Really? I just called up your twitter homepage on my mobile phone, and read your recent tweets and replies. I am 71, and often baffled by electronics, but this was very easy. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @kynohy: @ClarkeMicah @MattA_NW 'Zelenskyy urged Ukrainians not to panic. 'The decision by U.S., Britain, Australia, Germany & Canada t… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thank you, @domicanz5. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@seb_leurqueur . He went considerably further than thta, saying that, if Western powers had any firm evidence of an impending invasion, he had yet to see it. See https://t.co/sMaZEefVeG — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Straw man .@Seb_Leurqueur . He did not' say they were false' How could he or anyone know the mind of Putin? Like me, he *doubted* them. Read the facts: https://t.co/sMaZEefVeG — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@MattA_NW Lovely Circular thinking : Saint Zelensky doubted the claims of an approaching invasion, But only Putin apologists doubted that. And Saint Zelensky is not one of those Therefore he could not have said what he actually said, or, if he did, I *know* he didn't mean it. Pah — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Can we please get this retweeted a bit? People who now claim they *knew* things a year ago which they didn't in fact know should be reminded that President Zelensky was prominent among those unsure that Russia would invade. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@seanallardphoto. Why don’t you go and bother this guy instead? Look what he was saying a year ago. https://t.co/JNxcd77HUM — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@seanallardphoto. What of it? It is a series of perfectly reasonable*questions*. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

False .@pieops. I have not misled anybody, and you cannot show that I have done so. I have now asked you twice to go away. I wouldn't dream of trying to dictate 'that reality' of yours,as it plainly has little relation to actual reality. But please return to it, & leave me alone. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@pieops What you said was (in repsonse to incontrovertible evidence that Zelensky, like me, doubted reports that Russia was about to invade): 'No Peter, Zelenskyy, unlike you, was concerned about other people'. The rest followed. But you must say goodbye now, as you're boring me. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@DominicanZ5 , you asked for this and I sent it to you. You might say 'thank you'. https://t.co/sMaZEefVeG — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Think what you like .@matta_nw, the evidence is clear: https://t.co/sMaZEefVeG — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

That's a good way of avoiding the fact that you have bene shown to be wrong, .@pieops. Whenever I show people to be wrong they start moaning about quote tweeting. It's incredibly easy to follow if you try. Go to my homepage and click on tweets and replies. I have misled nobody. — PolitiTweet.org