🇺🇦NEW: Russia has drawn up plans to install a pro-Kremlin former member of parliament to lead Ukraine as it considers a new invasion of the country and the overthrow of its central government, according to a British assessment shared with @BuzzFeedNews. https://t.co/l1irCs5wQB
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) January 22, 2022
With all the news breaking tonight re Putin wanting to install a puppet government into Ukraine I keep thinking of how Manafort and so many other Trump cronies were pushing just exactly this in 2016. Including one plot of bringing ex pres Yanukovych back from Russia. Go figure
— Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 (@OlgaNYC1211) January 23, 2022
"The communiqué named four other Ukrainians with ties to Russian intelligence officers planning for an attack on Ukraine.
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) January 23, 2022
"All four once worked in proximity to Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort when he advised Ukraine’s then Russian-backed president."
https://t.co/j1QONrmgnF
Russia did this in the U.S. in 2016 with Trump (& the entire @GOP), the UK with Johnson/Brexit, tried it in France with Le Pen, and are now trying it in Ukraine. It’s almost like when hostile nations face little to no consequences for their nefarious actions, they keep doing them https://t.co/5TTsqu4f0J
— Andrew—Author of America Rises On Substack—Wortman (@AmoneyResists) January 23, 2022
MSNBC INTERVIEW. GEN MCCAFFREY. UKRAINE. PUTIN. pic.twitter.com/3eXkeO8tNR
— Barry R McCaffrey (@mccaffreyr3) January 22, 2022
BREAKING: State Department orders families of U.S. embassy personnel in Ukraine to begin evacuating the country as soon as Monday: U.S. officials
— Lucas Tomlinson (@LucasFoxNews) January 22, 2022
Military trainers, missiles and over 200,000 lbs of lethal aid: What NATO members have sent Ukraine so far https://t.co/BaOhvjY3eY
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 22, 2022
Netherlands drops objections to providing Ukraine defensive weapons, big move in European landscape. Thank you, 🇳🇱 https://t.co/dm8snrdk5Z
— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) January 22, 2022
German navy chief resigns over 'ill-considered' Ukraine-Russia remarks https://t.co/lvFbKhhopM
— Sky News (@SkyNews) January 23, 2022
Perspective: The West has gotten savvier about Russian disinformation. Will that help Ukraine? https://t.co/oOInbTvso1
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 23, 2022
Somebody is spreading a video with fake BBC branding claiming the start of a nuclear war.
— Alistair Coleman (@alistaircoleman) January 22, 2022
It’s as fake as it was when it first appeared four years ago.
If you see it, it’s not real. https://t.co/uPKdCeZ6xi
It's not that Ukraine has done anything to provoke Russia. Ukraine has "provoked" Putin's Kremlin by its very existence. Its very existence — particularly as a striving democratic state –offends Putin (and his many apologists in the West). That is Ukraine's predicament.
— Jay Nordlinger (@jaynordlinger) January 22, 2022
Brilliantissimo from @peterpomeranzev. Do read.https://t.co/M1kV3KjNyh
— toomas ilves, ex-verif (@IlvesToomas) January 22, 2022
evergreen pic.twitter.com/4ujo5zpobM
— 𝙂𝙤𝙙 𝙃𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙁𝙡𝙖𝙜𝙨 (@vanillatary) January 22, 2022
Ukraine is a diversion. Putin is going to land in Scotland and restore the Stuarts to the British throne. https://t.co/n5ga7cc40T
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) January 22, 2022
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It was all out in the open
It's wild to reread this December 19, 2020, report, in light of what we just learned about the unsigned executive order that would've in effect amounted to a declaration of martial law https://t.co/UjfVNpaa1f
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 23, 2022
When fmr. Trump lawyer Sidney Powell roped “the ghost of Hugo Chavez” into her outlandish lies about election interference, @CarolLeonnig says “many of the people off camera who worked for Donald Trump were aghast.” But uh oh: “The President loved it” #Velshi pic.twitter.com/hiF6veRPWB
— Ali Velshi (@AliVelshi) January 22, 2022
🔥Trump intensified his effort to overturn the results of the election. Trump said in a radio interview that he had spoken with Tommy Tuberville about challenging the electoral vote count on Jan. 6 to formally affirm Biden’s victory. https://t.co/HCjMNmBRGz
— Venture Capital (@kelly2277) January 23, 2022
The below clip of Michael Flynn saying Trump could use the military to impose martial law and force new elections was on Dec 17, 2020. The draft of Trump's executive order that orders military tp seize voting machines is dated the day before: Dec 16, 2020. This was a Flynn coup: https://t.co/EoFcv6rPAu
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) January 22, 2022
Trump's draft Executive Order for the Secretary of Defense to use the military to seize the voting machines was dated Dec. 16th. Then two days later Dec. 18th, the Pentagon stops briefing the Biden transition team. The coup d'etat was already in motion before #January6th.
— Scott Huffman (@HuffmanForNC) January 22, 2022
Interesting if true: group allied with Gen Flynn sought compromising info on campaign finance impropriety to force PA GOP Senator & Rep to support Trump in post-election maneuvering. https://t.co/4tLswqW0WU
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) January 22, 2022
Ivanka Trump is 40 years old. https://t.co/825aErUwZa
— Miranda Yaver, PhD (@mirandayaver) January 23, 2022
“Donald cares only about Donald, more than he would care about his children," says Cohen. And “Ivanka is interested only in Ivanka.” https://t.co/K2R5WZMvkY
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) January 23, 2022
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Looks bad for Boris, again
Boris Johnson himself 'threatened' backbenchers, MPs claim to Standards Chair https://t.co/jhdUvhJuyu
— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) January 22, 2022
The momentum is now building on this story. In the short term it’s a disaster for Johnson and reverses any small recovery this week. In the long term it could be as damaging as MPs’ expenses or cash for honours. pic.twitter.com/9BaZINljyI
— Jonathan Lis (@jonlis1) January 22, 2022
I’m getting so tired of the hatreds that I’ve seen Johnson propagating for so many years. In my case, not since he became prime minister, but when I started working with this revolting individual at the Telegraph more than 20 years ago. pic.twitter.com/vVGDNZhins
— Tim Walker (@ThatTimWalker) January 22, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: Sue Gray has widened the scope of her inquiry to include claims of parties in Boris & Carrie Johnson’s Downing Street flat https://t.co/noDMt1rocK
— Tim Shipman (@ShippersUnbound) January 22, 2022
If Boris Johnson is smart he'll retitle the Sue Gray report, "the Northern Ireland Protocol," so no one in his parliamentary party reads it.
— Dmitry Grozoubinski (@DmitryOpines) January 22, 2022
he and the Brexit cabal still get away with murder at the hands of a pretty supine media. That is a fact not erased by a tougher stance on parties. 2/2
— ALASTAIR CAMPBELL (@campbellclaret) January 22, 2022
Meanwhile Johnson's sorry crew are working flat out to save his neck while brexit causes chaos at Dover and Calais and will inevitably push inflation up still further. https://t.co/6WHL25Fgzj
— Andrew Cooper (@AndrewzCooper) January 22, 2022
There was a definitely lack of understanding by “the people” that the opposite of free movement of goods is restricted movement of goods.
— Andy (@AndyMcc_) January 21, 2022
Next weeks excuses are being prepared pic.twitter.com/49WzDl2M81
— ciaran the euro courier 🇪🇺🇮🇪 (@vanmaneuro) January 22, 2022
The Overnight Note 