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RT @lindakinstler: Spent part of the fall interviewing Belarusians who had fled to Kyiv thinking they would be safe and free. Now they figh… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ProfSaunders: And see also @tanishafazal's piece in @monkeycageblog yesterday on the norm against territorial conquest and why its fate… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ProfSaunders: As Russia likely ramps up the severity of its attacks, international law can seem pointless. But @anjalikdayal explains i… — PolitiTweet.org

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.@SCRtweets in that document notes that of the 10 emergency special sessions so far, all of those called by the GA have been on issues that the US, UK, and France struggle with, while 5/7 of the UNSC referrals came after a Soviet veto https://t.co/6AbCO6fYiG — PolitiTweet.org

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The last time an Emergency Session was convened it was in 1997, at the request of the GA after the US vetoed two resolutions on “The Question of Palestine.” The last time the UNSC invoked one was in 1982 on the Middle East. (ht @SCRtweets) https://t.co/SnX5pKhwIj — PolitiTweet.org

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Wow. It would be only the 11th time since 1950 that the UNSC has bumped an agenda item over to the UNGA like this — and it’s a procedural move that can’t be vetoed — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jbillinson: One of the posts was him literally holding up a note saying his account wasn’t hacked! https://t.co/z8crfei4yS — PolitiTweet.org

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@tomperriello @nytimes I think it’s a victim of their “no hyphens” rule — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @HayesBrown: I was reminded the other night about this 2019 piece I wrote about how wild it was that Zelensky was leading in the race fo… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @timkmak: In the area of Ukraine where we are, the military has asked residents to keep their lights off at night so that Russian jets d… — PolitiTweet.org

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Things the U.N. Charter’s drafters filed under “things we would prefer not to think about thank you”: - interstate wars where a P-5 member is the aggressor and not interested in peaceful resolutions of the conflict — PolitiTweet.org

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The U.N. Security Council has been most effective in dealing with: - intrastate wars (where no P-5 member has a proxy) - interstate wars between middle powers where no P-5 member has a proxy - interstate wars between middle powers where P-5 members are mad at their proxies — PolitiTweet.org

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@thejb_stan They’ve had their ups and downs and worries that Turkey was moving away from the West and towards Moscow. Remember the s-400 sale? But no sign of that really here — PolitiTweet.org

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Erdogan and Putin’s mercurial relationship is one thing. For the Azeris to offer up themselves as mediators too is another. Russia has so very few countries willing to fully back them in this effort. — PolitiTweet.org

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That neither Ankara nor Baku is seen as being totally in Moscow’s camp? Also fascinating!! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @FabrizioRomano: Official statement by Roman Abramovich 🔵⤵️ #CFC “I am today giving trustees of Chelsea’s charitable Foundation the ste… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @VeraMBergen: Major reversal for Germany, from Chancellor Scholz: “The Russian attack marks a turning point. It is our duty to do our be… — PolitiTweet.org

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Yes, he’s gotten the US on the back foot in a lot of ways, as a former KGB officer is wont to do. (2016, Syria, general anti-democracy efforts) And Moscow and Beijing are tight rn. But as far as making Eastern Europe realize that Russia is their BFF, not the EU? Not great. — PolitiTweet.org

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Putin after the last decade, probably: https://t.co/vv3pNvwQbL — PolitiTweet.org

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So the timeline goes: - 2013: Russia tries to pry Ukraine’s away from EU, leading to Yanukovych’s downfall - 2014: Russia annexes Crimea to deter Ukraine from going towards the EU - 2022: Ukrainians welcomed into EU to flee invasion as former Warsaw Pact rebukes Russia https://t.co/aEZRDrhQK0 — PolitiTweet.org

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For someone dead set on making sure Ukraine depends on the east and not the west, Putin sure has been successful at making sure Ukraine and the EU forge closer ties — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CramonMigration: A lot of this will depend on the length of the war. Looking at the South American response to the Venezuelan crisis, s… — PolitiTweet.org

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For all the imperialist dreams, Russian nationalism and reclaiming of former glory Putin’s sought to inspire, his rallying cry for invading Ukraine isn’t “because we are great and deserve it” — it’s “because They want to hurt us and you need to be scared” — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @timkmak: Behind the scenes look at the mobile NPR recording studio in Ukraine… as you can tell by the ending, it can be disorienting ht… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @KevinMKruse: So she says she doesn’t agree with white nationalists, she just thinks white nationalists would really like her America Fi… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SominiSengupta: Who is seeking to profit? ⁦@HirokoTabuchi⁩ explains https://t.co/l4Xk1ANN5U — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @sarahkendzior: @HayesBrown Yes. Related thread/podcast on that theme: https://t.co/DXjMhr9zkQ — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @meganpaasch: @HayesBrown An old article from 2015, but I'm sure this is still going on. https://t.co/8UvdCL2mwK — PolitiTweet.org

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Both in terms of how this moment is clearly affecting this soldier in a way an Iraqi woman scolding an American might not and the difficulties that Putin may have in maintaining this effort if it comes down to close-quarters fighting — PolitiTweet.org

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@whatsforlynch Right?? Like…Iraqi women scolding US forces didn’t have that going for them — PolitiTweet.org