Russia's aggression in the center of Europe serves as a ram for Iran and China in breaking the world order. Defeating it in Ukraine is the priority for restoring deterrence elsewhere. And Ukraine's fight makes it optimal—the US must only supply the most potent weapons.

Those who think that Putin will stop after taking 🇺🇦,
do not understand him. He pursues ends that glorify him. Given the great-power ambition, those are to humiliate and undermine the US limited only by the actual strength of resistance.

An alternative to Putin's defeat in 🇺🇦 is clear. x.com/andreivkozyrev…

Vladimir Kara-Murza and Evgenia are Pride and Glory
of Russia, as was Alexei Navalny.

Putin-critic Vladimir Kara-Murza has concluded that sacrificing himself is the price he will have to pay to galvanize opposition to Russia’s president wsj.com/world/russia/t… via The Wall Street Journal

The upcoming military spending bill has a limited allocation for Ukraine.
This leaves only one realistic option: a strategy of providing weapons to Ukraine to regain its entire territory and sovereignty as soon as possible rather than taking an indefinite amount of time.

Ukraine's self-defense and retaliations against the aggressor signal the strength of the nation's spirit.
Refusal to support it is a sign of the weakness of will that threatens to destroy the US credibility, security and influence on the world stage.
x.com/andreivkozyrev…

Christian Nationalists Support putin? Do they understand he persecutes evangelicals and Catholics, bombs churches, and that his country has exorbitant rates of abortion and divorce and strict gun laws? Oh, and that he has murdered hundreds of thousands? news.northeastern.edu/2023/03/08/chr…

Excellent thread
It is stupid. The US
cannot exhaust R on the low level of weapons and sanction enforcement;
backchannel works for Putin's threats, US red lines;
P sees US self-deterring and restraining 🇺🇦 as an encouraging weakness.
x.com/andreivkozyrev…

Two years into the largest attack on a European country since World War II, European capitals are still struggling to respond decisively.
://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/29/opinion/moscow-attack-putin-ukraine.html?
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I've just read about the back channel blaming NATO's acceptance of Eastern European states and potentially 🇺🇦 as an understandable reason for Russian hostility, a key Putin's claim.
Alternatively, NATO could've left the region and now 🇺🇦 open to a 'negotiated solution.'

For Putin's regime, the US and NATO serve as scapegoats for his inability to achieve economic growth, a benign foreign environment, and even the security of Russia. It is a constant x.com/andreivkozyrev…

That's devil incarnate. On the same day, Putin put up a candle in memory of the terrorist attack victims and ordered another missile strike on Ukrainian cities, killing innocent civilians. The face of evil.

Putin's policy is opposite to Russian national security interests.
He wages war against 🇺🇦, a neighbor aspiring for democracy, a natural partner (geographic bridge) for joining the US and NATO against actual threats of terrorism and expansion.

Due to this tweet and many replies, I discovered an anti-America more than in Putin's propaganda. Amazing.

Политика Пу против интересов безопасности России. Он развязал войну против Украины, соседа стремящегося к демократии и естественного партнера (географического моста) для сотрудничества с США и НАТО против настоящих угроз терроризма и экспансии.

Putin's policy is opposite to Russian national security interests.
He wages war against 🇺🇦, a neighbor aspiring for democracy, a natural partner (geographic bridge) for joining the US and NATO against actual threats of terrorism and expansion.

Мое сердце сочувствует жертвам теракта в России и их семьям. Полицейское государство Путина лучше всего способно заставить замолчать оппозицию. Еще раз: остерегайтесь тех в Израиле, Америке и других странах, кто ожидает, что сильный человек станет гарантией безопасности.

My heart goes out to the victims of the terrorist act in Russia and their families.

Putin's police state is best able to silence the opposition.

Once again, beware those in Israel, America, and elsewhere who expect a strong man to guarantee security.

RU criminal authorities already framed aggression against Ukraine as “existential war started preemptively”. 🇺🇦 is depicted as major Western instrument to inflict defeat on RU. And RU security (as they assert) is incompatible with UA existence. Now these false flag acts…