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Today during the new phase of #UkraineRussiaWar, I'll talk about why Nordic, Eastern Europeans and Central Asians want #Russia to be disintegrated, and how pro-Russian supporters seek to undermine these narratives. Thread. 🧵 
The map of Russia is very big. Including the Kaliningrad exclave, Russia borders 13 countries on land and one country at the sea. However, Tsarist and Soviet conquests also led to Russia having some sort of influence beyond the border.
Being an inland empire, Russia expanded via land, a different compared to typical Western maritime empires. And Russia has, for a long time, treated its colonies in a brutal, repressive manner.
#Population control In the 1950s and 1960s, much of the attention of eugenicists was focused on the new political interest in planetary population control. A new vocabulary anchored by the prospect of a “population bomb” (the title of Paul Ehrlich’s bestselling 1968 (1/18)
book) emerged as it became clear that the technologies of World War II had improved both life expectancy and in some instances infant mortality. The advent of antibiotics and pesticides, nutritional gains derived from food rationing and more ef f i cient agriculture, (2/18)
and success in minimizing debilitating diseases had added some 15 million to the Earth’s population each year of the war, a striking contrast to the devastating ef f ects of World War I.
That the most signif i cant growth in population was in Asia and Africa amplif i (3/18)
That the most signif i cant growth in population was in Asia and Africa amplif i (3/18)
1. Some rambling thoughts that occur to me as I ponder the #UkraineCrisis: A Geopolitical Tweet Thread of Uncertain Proportions.
I really fail to understand the number of people I see actually defending #Russia re: #Ukraine.
I really fail to understand the number of people I see actually defending #Russia re: #Ukraine.
2. #Russia has security concerns. I agree. History and geography necessitates they are going to be wary of being attacked, particularly across the North European Plain.
3. But if you want to keep your neighbors out of a rival alliance, invading, seizing territories, ignoring security guarantees previously given, interfering with their internal affairs, and massing hundreds of thousands of troops on their borders doesn't seem like the best method
Missed #OTD for the past week or so. A selected few ... <Thread>
15 August 1920: #Poland halts the advancing #Soviet army at Warsaw, the "Miracle on the Vistula". Had the Soviets broken through, they would have captured Germany, where a Red rising had only just been defeated, and with its people and resources Communized all of Europe.
19 August:
43 BC: Octavian forces the Senate to make him a Consul
1953: Iran's lawless Prime Minister Mossadeq is deposed a counter-coup assisted by SIS and CIA
1991: KGB-led coup attempt in the Soviet Union begins
2010: Last combat troops leave Iraq after seven years
43 BC: Octavian forces the Senate to make him a Consul
1953: Iran's lawless Prime Minister Mossadeq is deposed a counter-coup assisted by SIS and CIA
1991: KGB-led coup attempt in the Soviet Union begins
2010: Last combat troops leave Iraq after seven years
I am watching a BBC-2 documentary on #Reinhard #Heydrich the #SS Soldier, who tortured many across Eastern Europe, especially, enslaved the innocent people of #Czechoslovakia during the second world war.
Let history not allow such men to exist again!
Let history not allow such men to exist again!
And, let me add that when I meet #Germans today and see the difference from what I have been told about them by my grandparents, compared to how they have evolved during the postwar years, the transformation is truly remarkable.
The same can be said about the #Japanese people.
The same can be said about the #Japanese people.
Germans and Japanese have learned from their past mistakes!
I hope other warring nations and tribes will follow in their footsteps.
No nation can survive in longevity if its economy falters, politics remains in disarray, and the society crumbles under conflicting narratives.
I hope other warring nations and tribes will follow in their footsteps.
No nation can survive in longevity if its economy falters, politics remains in disarray, and the society crumbles under conflicting narratives.
The Administration that claims it defends women, youth, minorities & liberals and fights fascism and fundamentalism is the one that threw women, youth, minorities & liberals in poor #Afghanistan to the #Jihadi fascists.
Unforgivable
Unforgivable
Thinking of the scared and fleeing women of #Afghanistan.
Unlike men, they cannot hide from the #Taliban, they cannot camouflage.
They are trapped under the #Jihadists.
Unlike men, they cannot hide from the #Taliban, they cannot camouflage.
They are trapped under the #Jihadists.
How #Czechoslovakia spied on Donald and Ivana #Trump during the Cold War, seeking access to 'highest echelons of US power' - my exclusive report with @RESPEKT_CZ, featuring new archive docs and previously unknown secret agents theguardian.com/us-news/2018/o…
Here's news story on how Prague's StB intelligence service spied on #Trump - in secret operation that was stepped up in 1988, when Trump said he would run for US president. Trump visited Soviet #Moscow the previous year theguardian.com/us-news/2018/o… with @RESPEKT_CZ
One Czechoslovak secret agent who spied on #Trump was Jaroslav Jansa - codenamed JARDA. Jansa reported on a meeting in autumn 1989 in Trump Tower between Trump and a delegation of collective farm bosses from Ivana's home town theguardian.com/us-news/2018/o…
