To be fair, Emmanuel Macron doesn't legitimize Putin's war of extermination. Elsewhere, he says no peace should include recognition of a status quo imposed by force.
But in saying this—'Russian power has been nourished by the resentment & humiliation born of the breakup...
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V good Nicolas Tenzer🧵- nails the key mistake #Macron makes. The end of the Soviet Union was only a humiliation if you are an imperialist Xenophobe - or a communist.
What came after gave no more grounds for ‘humiliation’ than 🇩🇪after WW2. 🇷🇺 made its fate by interacting as it does.

Pro-Kremlin military blogger Semyon Pegov hailed Russia’s annexation of Ukrainian territories on Red Square three weeks ago & is now being patched up after the detonation of an anti-personnel mine near Donetsk. He doesn’t waste the chance to ask people to subscribe to his channel

Glory to our Defenders!🇺🇦

Big war crime denial lineup at the Web Summit this year, eh?

RT fired Krasovsky because they’re once again attempting to deceive and manipulate with the feelings of those in the West, who rush to give “another* chance” to the Kremlin without any reasonable basis.

* lost the track of the given chances.

Disgusting. Russian propagandists inciting genocide of Ukrainians should be prosecuted

I couldn't count the number of times when people who never saw 'Russia Today' persuaded me that it's just the RU version of BBC or CNN. Or that banning these hateful, warmongering, Goebbelsian war criminals is somehow the same as the Kremlin's censorship of free media

Weapon of Retribution.
It’s our land!

So we should call an immediate ceasefire and hand territory over to these people, and then let them murder children and rape their grandmothers

There are a lot, really A LOT more Russians in Germany than Iranians. How come we don't see a 100K demonstration in Berlin protesting Putin's war?

Instead we see them harassing Ukrainians who fled to Germany from the atrocities and war crimes of the Russian army.

Russians schemed to send U.S. military technology to Russian defense sector, Justice Department says nbcnews.com/news/russians-…

The Legion marches on and we are hungry!

16 wagner vatniks destroyed.

We will avenge with thunder! You better run while you still can.

Since the invasion of Ukraine, Telegram has emerged as a significant information battlefield where pro-Kremlin actors spread disinformation and propaganda. In Russia, *9 of the 10* most popular political Telegram channels spread Kremlin pro-war narratives.
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This is Metropolitan Ioann of Belgorod blessing mobilised Russian troops ahead of their departure to Ukraine

I hope for their sake that they're unaware of him also blessing the Kursk submarine in 1995... t.me/sotaproject/48…

40 missiles and 16 Shahed drones launched by Russia into Ukraine just in the last 24 hours, 🇺🇦 armed forces report. These attacks mostly targeted power stations, with a goal to deprive Ukrainians of electricity and heating. 📷: a damaged energy infrastructure site in Rivne

One more interesting tidbit in the Hu Jintao affair today: The man helping up Hu is Kong Shaoxun (孔绍逊), the deputy director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee. His boss is Ding Xuexiang, widely expected to be on the next Standing Committee.