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RT @DougSaunders: Re Putin’s claims of “Denazifying” Ukraine. The country has four extreme-right parties that might be called neo-Nazi. Thr… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ChristopherJM: Border Guard Service of Ukraine shares video of Russian forces invading from Crimea. https://t.co/XdMpZztlFq — PolitiTweet.org

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there are people tonight posting their Wordle scores on here like normal and you know what good for them. let them have this, nobody force them to read the room — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NathanTankus: Kind of surreal to have just finished Zubok's book on the collapse of the Soviet Union,where he talks at length about the… — PolitiTweet.org

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like i said earlier, biggest question will be whether the vote is 14-1 or, more likely IMO, 12-2-1 with India and China abstaining — PolitiTweet.org

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Man I wish this was a “haha everyone makes stressed out jokes” crisis and not a “haunted look while obsessively refreshing feed” crisis — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @maxseddon: Ukraine's defense ministry says it shot down 5 Russian planes and 1 helicopter. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @PaulSonne: Eastern European members of NATO are invoking Article 4, which means urgent consultations on military plans for the alliance. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jchaltiwanger: Former US ambassador to Ukraine: — PolitiTweet.org

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@KatzOnEarth @LanceBorbon_ @p_orchard I really have no idea. It would mean that (if China abstains) Chapt VII binding resolutions could pass, including multilateral sanctions on Russia and other enforcement — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @benpauker: not very cool — PolitiTweet.org

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@KatzOnEarth @LanceBorbon_ @p_orchard It would be for the SC seat but that would also theoretically imply that Russia has to re-apply for membership the same way all the other successor states did? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NatashaBertrand: .@mchancecnn reports now that Ukraine’s border forces near Belarus say they have come under attack by Russian AND Bela… — PolitiTweet.org

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@jeidelarsen @mclean_marsha @markos Nope it’s Russia. Next month the presidency rotates to the UAE — PolitiTweet.org

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@fmkaplan Did that pass via resolution? As far as I recall it was literally just a letter to the Secretariat from Yeltsin saying “okay here’s the plan” — PolitiTweet.org

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From 1961 - 1971, the US made sure the question of the China seat at the UNGA was an “important question” that required a two-thirds vote. It’s possible that Russia try a similar tactic, but will they have support for raising the bar in the first place? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ — PolitiTweet.org

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Do I think it would work? Hell if I know but it’s fascinating and will be wild to see how it develops. Especially since it took IIRC ten years for the PRC’s supporters to overcome US opposition and procedural delays in the UNGA. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @anjalikdayal: @DenisonBe right here, with a whole host of good/considered replies: https://t.co/ZtLl3NKGxS — PolitiTweet.org

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@transscribe https://t.co/u66Qy5oHFh — PolitiTweet.org

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@KatzOnEarth I mean normally yeah!! But this is a twist of an idea that I hadn’t considered until Ukraine laid it out and @p_orchard tagged me into a tweet thread. It would theoretically circumvent the council and would be a real mindfuck — PolitiTweet.org

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So that could (maybe??) be Ukraine’s goal? To have the UNGA pass a resolution declaring that either the USSR’s seat is empty or that some other state should be the -real- successor to the Soviet’s — PolitiTweet.org

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So as @p_orchard noted the only other example of a member joining outside the usual method was when the PRC took over China’s seat from the Nationalist government in Taiwan. They did so via a UNGA resolution, which the US was uh not happy about — PolitiTweet.org

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The UN Charter was never amended after the USSR broke up. It still references the Soviet Union as one of the permanent members of the UN Security Council. The Russian Federation just ascended to that seat after 1991. https://t.co/aNOeo9Ee1i — PolitiTweet.org

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And here’s his demand for the documents that show that the Russian Federation was welcomed to the body by the UNSC and General Assembly. Those documents don’t exist as he noted because the UN legal counsel made the call https://t.co/lKlZFs1rd0 — PolitiTweet.org

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Here’s the ambassador citing the part of the charter that deals with admission of members during his speech at the UN Security Council earlier tonight https://t.co/vnPTkQ4NbY — PolitiTweet.org

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So something interesting that could be developing at the UN: Ukraine appears to be laying the groundwork to challenge whether the Russian Federation is the legitimate successor to the USSR’s seat and veto on the Security Council — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @p_orchard: This would then get into the territory of the "Uniting for Peace" process. But as @HayesBrown had argued back when it was be… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @p_orchard: Then the UNSC could pass the matter to the UNGA- such referrals have generally been seen as a procedural matter which can’t… — PolitiTweet.org

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A moment. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @juliaioffe: Remember when Putin and the Belarusian government said those live-fire tests of cruise and ballistic missile were just exer… — PolitiTweet.org