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ColinC
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March 27, 2022
What should NATO do (re: Ukraine)?
March 26, 2022
"defence is not escalation."
https://twitter.com/chipmanj/status/1507431043015614469?s=20&t=sXe8tPdUVfLDfAsJTPXPRw
March 26, 2022
Poland protests in support of Ukraine:
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1507694575418281990?s=20&t=pc4NpO7RcstTUkVq6bGrjw
March 25, 2022
Anastasiia Lapatina
@lapatina_
Ukrainians in #Mariupol are DYING FROM HUNGER, the government says. Russia is attacking all humanitarian convoys that try to enter the sieged city. People are starving. This is a deliberate destruction of Ukrainians as a nation. They are killing us, starving us, deporting us
From a Ukrainian re: Mariupol
https://twitter.com/lapatina_/status/1507096211974762502?s=20&t=Tao09rdfI9QP4OxQIj88KQAnastasiia Lapatina
@lapatina_
Ukrainians in #Mariupol are DYING FROM HUNGER, the government says. Russia is attacking all humanitarian convoys that try to enter the sieged city. People are starving. This is a deliberate destruction of Ukrainians as a nation. They are killing us, starving us, deporting us
March 25, 2022
Mariupol: city council calls for help as residents die of starvation
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1507143265933484035?s=20&t=fylpNrkYOHrss42A58PNiA
March 24, 2022
If this is how NATO treats their NATO partners when they get invaded
I wonder if other NATO partners (non members) are reconsidering their affiliation.
Ukraine is a NATO partner, but not a member:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/28/nato-cant-send-troops-ukraine-here-is-what-it-will-probably-do-instead/
On edit: "reconsider" does not necessarily mean dissolving partnership but perhaps also considering increased priority in a mutual defense perspective.
Examples of partners having reconsidered their afilliations are Sweden and Finland: Both have requested full membership into NATO.
March 24, 2022
🇺🇦Paula Chertok🗽🇺🇦
@PaulaChertok
🔥🔥Zelensky to NATO: Ukraine asks for just 1% of your planes & tanks. So we dont lose so many people. So we can unblock our cities where thousands are starving and dying. We just want to survive. Like any nation, we have a right to survive, a right to life.
Olga Tokariuk
@olgatokariuk
President Zelensky to NATO: we asked for fighter jets, you have thousands of them, but haven't got any. You have 20,000 tanks - we need just 1% of them. We need them defend our country. We just want to live, to survive. I believe it's everyone's right.
Meanwhile:
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1507020631812026370?s=20&t=NK7fjW-g5s1yTuceekJNiw
The Kyiv Independent
@KyivIndependent
⚡️ CNN: US still opposed to providing fighter jets to Ukraine.
A senior U.S. official told CNN that the countrys position has not changed on the matter.
You have thousands of fighter jets, but we have not been given one yet, President Zelensky in his video address to NATO.
8:44 AM · Mar 24, 2022
Zelenskyy: Ukraine asks for just 1% of your planes...so we can unblock our cities
https://twitter.com/PaulaChertok/status/1507034609933901842?s=20&t=NK7fjW-g5s1yTuceekJNiw🇺🇦Paula Chertok🗽🇺🇦
@PaulaChertok
🔥🔥Zelensky to NATO: Ukraine asks for just 1% of your planes & tanks. So we dont lose so many people. So we can unblock our cities where thousands are starving and dying. We just want to survive. Like any nation, we have a right to survive, a right to life.
Olga Tokariuk
@olgatokariuk
President Zelensky to NATO: we asked for fighter jets, you have thousands of them, but haven't got any. You have 20,000 tanks - we need just 1% of them. We need them defend our country. We just want to live, to survive. I believe it's everyone's right.
Meanwhile:
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1507020631812026370?s=20&t=NK7fjW-g5s1yTuceekJNiw
The Kyiv Independent
@KyivIndependent
⚡️ CNN: US still opposed to providing fighter jets to Ukraine.
A senior U.S. official told CNN that the countrys position has not changed on the matter.
You have thousands of fighter jets, but we have not been given one yet, President Zelensky in his video address to NATO.
8:44 AM · Mar 24, 2022
March 23, 2022
The Kyiv Independent
@KyivIndependent
⚡️Bucha City Council: Ukraine's military surround the towns of Bucha, Irpin and Hostomel near Kyiv.
It means that the Russian troops north-west of Kyiv are now encircled.
4:58 AM · Mar 23, 2022
Ukraine military surrounds Russian forces...
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1506601245573849095?s=20&t=eh-tswfayvgXy4vgbWpefwThe Kyiv Independent
@KyivIndependent
⚡️Bucha City Council: Ukraine's military surround the towns of Bucha, Irpin and Hostomel near Kyiv.
It means that the Russian troops north-west of Kyiv are now encircled.
4:58 AM · Mar 23, 2022
March 23, 2022
olexander scherba🇺🇦
@olex_scherba
Nuclear deterrence is similar to the game of poker. Kinda important not to blink. With their we wont fight in Ukraine no matter what assurances & constant phone calls to Putin, the West is blinking non-stop.
Keep calm & #standwithukraine!
12:27 AM · Mar 23, 2022
"nuclear deterrence is [like] poker..."
https://twitter.com/olex_scherba/status/1506533101870227462?s=20&t=59Aqp2ucNmLn3AU_lwmXswolexander scherba🇺🇦
@olex_scherba
Nuclear deterrence is similar to the game of poker. Kinda important not to blink. With their we wont fight in Ukraine no matter what assurances & constant phone calls to Putin, the West is blinking non-stop.
Keep calm & #standwithukraine!
12:27 AM · Mar 23, 2022
March 23, 2022
The U.S. and its allies wont fight Russias invasion of Europe in Ukraine because of the risk of WWIII. But then they claim, incongruously, that theyll defend a NATO country where the risk is as great.
"The US and it's allies won't fight Russia's invasion of Europe in Ukraine because..."
https://twitter.com/mhmck/status/1506439856431456256?s=20&t=MAbLGCcEPp2dYaBbKMtcegThe U.S. and its allies wont fight Russias invasion of Europe in Ukraine because of the risk of WWIII. But then they claim, incongruously, that theyll defend a NATO country where the risk is as great.
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