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It seems that there is internal dissent among Russian elites
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A statement from Wagner PMC group by Prigozhin.
Prigozhin claims that Wagner will leave Bakhmut by May 10 and hand over positions to the troops of the Russian Federation and 'lick their wounds'.
"Because, in the absence of ammunition, they are doomed to a senseless death."
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Finally read 's new cover story by and . Make time for it. The best journalistic exploration I've seen of this moment in Ukraine, the stakes of the war, and what victory would look like.
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So much of what passes for tankie fail-son politics is a Freudian psychodrama with one’s own family. Uncle John put Jupiters in Turkey and so let’s act out a fantasy in which the U.S. has stationed Aegis missiles in Ukraine. Monographs could be written on this genre.
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There were never any Aegis missiles in Ukraine, and especially not on the Russian border. twitter.com/RobertKennedyJ…
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If we don't want the war to drag on indefinitely, let's help Ukraine win. Here is how:
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On May 3, international free press day, I hope Western leaders were thinking about Nika Gvaramia, one of Georgia's top journalists and the founder of an independent television station, who remains in jail on trumped-up charges. We take so much for granted
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I'm as intrigued as everybody else about this explosion above the Kremlin, but noobody was hurt and if it is supposed to be pretext for escalation note that at least 21 people were killed by the Russian shelling of Kherson today.
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Russians occupied Kherson for several months. They knew exactly where they were hitting. Russians deliberately target hypermarkets and other places where civilians gather.
At present, we know about 18 dead and 46 wounded in Kherson according to official data.
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They might even try to assassinate Zelensky again
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Really, really escalatory. Don't they realize that Russia might attack Kyiv in response, even bomb it? twitter.com/maxseddon/stat…
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Obviously the Kremlin drone story is still very much a breaking one, but people should really stop talking about this as an attempted assassination attempts against Putin. That's just playing to Kremlin talking points 1/
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All day long, Ru have been chaotically bombarding Kherson with artillery and MLRS. Russians are doing the only thing they are good at - bombing supermarkets, shopping centers. This is one of the darkest days in Kherson. So far it’s known that 16 civilians were killed, 28 wounded
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This is a video of the alleged drone attack against the Kremlin 🇷🇺. I have some serious question marks. Is it really realistic - if the drone was from far away - that no air defence could have intervened until right above the Kremlin itself?
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🎯 Anyone who wants real peace in Ukraine must recognize it will only come with illegally occupied Crimea is restored and free. Leaving the terrorist invader with anything Putin can call victory lays the ground for his next invasion.
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Ukrainians have thought a lot about what it would mean for Crimea to fall, and how it could be transformed afterwards. Usually our imagination doesn't stretch that far. Maybe it should
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What an insane sentence this is to read. Russia went from bragging that they'd take Kyiv in days to clarifying that Putin wasn't hurt by a Ukrainian drone attack in *Moscow*
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Russian state-controlled media claims Kremlin attacked by Ukrainian drones.
Russian state-controlled media RIA Novosti claimed on May 3 that Russian President Vladimir Putin's Kremlin residence was targeted by Ukrainian drones.
RIA Novosti alleged that the drones were…Show more
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"The British were promised that Brexit meant more: more resources for public and private consumption. Instead, Brexit has predictably turned out to mean less, and the British are surprised, baffled, and angry." From
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Really brilliant reporting from , from Serbia:
The President, the Soccer Hooligans and an Underworld ‘House of Horrors’
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If we don't want the war to drag on indefinitely, let's help Ukraine win. Here is how:
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For our June cover story, and interviewed Ukraine’s president and people on the front lines about the conditions and challenges of a path to victory.
“The choice is between freedom and fear,” Volodymyr Zelensky said.
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Bono illustrates 's June cover on Ukraine, sketching President Zelensky and including a quote from the Ukrainian president, “The choice is between freedom and fear.”
Editor , who coauthors the cover story with , writes that after… Show more
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Really worth a read on today, about Ukraine's looming counteroffensive, and arguing that Ukraine should be supported to liberate all of its territory. Ukrainian victory is important to all of us.
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Thread on China, Russia, Ukraine
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Here's an interesting development. China (but also Armenia, Kazakhstan, and many others) vote "yes" to a UN General Assembly resolution (A77/L65) that terms Russian actions against Georgia and Ukraine as "aggression". Let's take a closer look at what this could possibly mean.
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The former is the rational choice, latter is the emotional choice. My guess is that emotion triumphs but I hope to be wrong
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Is China more interested in ending the war by forcing a Russian withdrawal (and bolstering its position in the world, especially Europe) or in supporting Putin, a fellow autocrat?
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China could play a crucial role in ending the war in Ukraine on.ft.com/3HrFK5Z
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For all the conspiracy theories that fly around, the only real conspiracy in the UK today is a conspiracy of silence about Brexit. Moderate conservatives, who ought to know better, who indeed DO know better, protect their careers by biting their tongues.
nickcohen.substack.com/p/brexit-murde
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Please read. Ukraine will be whole. Russia will be free.
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Declaration by Russian Democratic Forces
We declare our commitment to the following principles:
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Great piece by and on the 🇷🇺 aggression in 🇺🇦 and the prospects ahead!
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The future of the democratic world will be determined by whether the Ukrainian military can break a stalemate with Russia and drive the country backwards—perhaps even out of Crimea for good. @JeffreyGoldberg and @anneapplebaum report from the front lines: on.theatln.tc/6lbgTx7
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special shout out to , whose great book on Potemkin was especially useful background for this article
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Russian reporter: "We know that you don't support...aid to Ukraine...can you comment U.S Policy will change?"
: "No, I vote for aid for Ukraine. I support aid for Ukraine. I do not support what your country has done to Ukraine."
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Ukrainians talk about the "political military" liberation of Crimea -- once they cut off roads, rails, waterways and target it with drones, they think Russian inhabitants will leave. "Crimea we will take without a fight."
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To paraphrase something I think I once read. “Americans are prepared to do anything to help embattled allies across the world— except read about them.” Make this piece the exception. Fascinating, mind-changing, & urgently important.
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The future of the democratic world will be determined by whether the Ukrainian military can break a stalemate with Russia and drive the country backwards—perhaps even out of Crimea for good. and report from the front lines: on.theatln.tc/6lbgTx7
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Also... Bono drew the cover
(Bono likes to sketch Atlantic covers, so the magazine hired him)
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The impact of Ukrainian victory would reverberate beyond Ukraine. From Belarus to Iran, people are watching this war -a civilizational struggle, between different ways of seeing the world
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Ukrainians have thought a lot about what it would mean for Crimea to fall, and how it could be transformed afterwards. Usually our imagination doesn't stretch that far. Maybe it should
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