Julia Ioffe

Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe

RT @InsidePolitics: Putin’s war: Will sanctions and global condemnation have any impact on Russia’s next steps? @SangerNYT tells @abbydphil… — PolitiTweet.org

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Absolutely. And the Kremlin threatening to put anyone in jail for 20 years for aiding "the enemy" is not helping things. — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidrlurie I think staying put when you're the president of a country under attack is very different than being an average citizen in a brutal authoritarian police state that started a war you would never want in a million years in your name — PolitiTweet.org

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@franklinleonard It's almost like people remember colonialist wrongs for a long time! — PolitiTweet.org

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BTW, expect to see a massive exodus...from Russia. Anyone with means and a passport is trying to get out right now. Many urban, educated Russians are horrified and terrified, and they know that it won't just face economic hardship at home but political repression, too. — PolitiTweet.org

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🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪 forever — PolitiTweet.org

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They end by yelling, "Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes! Putin is a dickhead!" — PolitiTweet.org

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"We refuse to supply your ship. Russian ship, go fuck yourself!" the deputy captain says, invoking the last words of the Ukrainians on Snake Island. "Fucking occupants," says his colleague." "What happens if we run out of fuel?" says Russian ship. "Use your oars!" — PolitiTweet.org

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"They're scared of their own people." — PolitiTweet.org

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The height of American privilege—and mercantilism. There is nothing more important than comfort, no principle more worthwhile than money, nothing you can’t—and shouldn’t—turn a profit on. — PolitiTweet.org

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If another person congratulates me on how “this” is so great for my career and my follower count, I will well and truly lose it. — PolitiTweet.org

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Another city that knows all about Russian invasion: Prague. — PolitiTweet.org

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This whole thread is a master class on how not to do journalism, especially about this war. People, read a book. Even if it's just one. — PolitiTweet.org

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“Nigerian-American friend texts, ‘People writing “NO TO IMPERIALISM!” outside the Russian Embassy in London fucking England is the height of irony to me.’” — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @aishagani: I am once again asking you to read a book — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @shaunwalker7: The hope that someone around him might stop Putin is made somewhat more forlorn by the fact that almost nobody has been a… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @InsidePolitics: A new Cold War? President Biden is one of the few leaders left in Washington who helped fight the first one. @jeffzelen… — PolitiTweet.org

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Nemtsov had been considered a potential successor to Boris Yeltsin and the "what ifs," the fantasizing about how different Russia could have been with a President Nemtsov instead of a President Putin went on for all of Putin's reign. Putin never forgave that. — PolitiTweet.org

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Seven years ago today, Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was assassinated right outside the Kremlin. In 2014, he led the protests—thousands strong—against Putin's invasion of Ukraine. It's not a coincidence that Putin did this when Nemtsov is dead and Navalny is in jail. https://t.co/iheSCMjzjO — PolitiTweet.org

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@ichbinilya @MiriamElder Right. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ichbinilya @MiriamElder For whom? For Navalny? For Crimean Tatars? For that British woman who picked up a bottle of what she thought was Nina Ricci perfume and sprayed her face with it? For the tens of thousands of people who fled the Donbas? For Nemtsov? For Memorial? — PolitiTweet.org

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Also, come on, read even one history book about how violent and war torn Europe always was until very, very, very recently. This propensity to see the present as history, as "the way it has always been" is incredible to me. — PolitiTweet.org

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Colonialist, white, European-centric journalism, exhibit: 2,398,523 (Also, hi, remember the war in the former Yugoslavia? The unrest in Ireland? That was all in the 1990s, not that long ago.) — PolitiTweet.org

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But it's not a response to SWIFT. It's a response to the fact that his troops aren't winning the war and Ukrainian troops are being armed by NATO. — PolitiTweet.org

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Like I said, this isn't about the Ukraine. It's about us, the United States. — PolitiTweet.org

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When Americans say Putin is “irrational,” what they mean is, “he doesn’t think like us.” Putin is perfectly rational inside his own system of priorities, incentives, etc. — PolitiTweet.org

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Like I said earlier this week, it feels like this is Putin trying to both reenact WWII glory and to finish the unfinished business of the Cold War: getting back at America and the West. — PolitiTweet.org

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Jesus Christ on a stick — PolitiTweet.org

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Like this: — PolitiTweet.org

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This one’s going to hurt — PolitiTweet.org