As the standoff between Russia and the United States continues, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan warns of a "very distinct" possibility Russia will attack Ukraine at "any time now." https://t.co/9BK8L7ddDD
— ABC News (@ABC) February 6, 2022
We’re seeing classic assault formations materialize. Attacks can/will come from :
— Angry Staffer (@Angry_Staffer) February 6, 2022
North (Belarus). East (Russia). South (Crimea and Black Sea)
It could get ugly, folks. Quickly. 5/5 pic.twitter.com/fIH1ixdqVs
„ this crisis … is not the result of some hostile act by the US & NATO. Nor is it a proxy conflict, nor some ‘righteous’ effort to correct some great historic wrong. This is an act of post-colonial revisionism on the part of Russia.“
— Constanze Stelzenmüller (@ConStelz) February 6, 2022
by Fiona Hill 👇https://t.co/Hx79ldvvOG
Some quotes from Lukashenko’s new interview with Solovyov: "in case Ukraine starts a war in Donbas, the Belarusian army will act in exactly the same way as the Russian army, it will be a joint response. Do you think we’re joking around on the southern border today?" pic.twitter.com/BENmsobGjr
— Tadeusz Giczan (@TadeuszGiczan) February 6, 2022
What are the odds Russia cuts transoceanic fibre optic cables soon?
— James King (@KingJamies) February 6, 2022
It's much easier to prevent a war than to get out of one.
— Joel Rubin (@JoelMartinRubin) February 6, 2022
That's why The Biden Administration was right to reveal Russia's false flag video that it wanted to use as a pretext for war.
This is diplomatic deterrence in action. pic.twitter.com/EpAesbvktT
The U.S. is locating liquefied natural gas cargoes that could be redirected to Europe in the event that “Russia chooses to level gas as a political weapon,” White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan tells @MarthaRaddatz. https://t.co/R4iYpT455M pic.twitter.com/dyY2GH5RL7
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) February 6, 2022
The only two other countries trying to use a currency other than the USD for oil? Venezuela and Iran, which sorta accept yuan and euros…but that's not a club you want to join.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) February 6, 2022
Russia, starved of the US Dollar, won't be able to export oil to fund…anything.
Retired Russian general publishes open letter to Putin demanding he resign because unprovoked invasion of Ukraine will have tens of thousands of casualties, turn Russia into international pariah, threaten its very statehood. https://t.co/cOUAVJQNPw pic.twitter.com/VQkWtWmEFT
— Lucian Kim (@Lucian_Kim) February 6, 2022
Impose Magnitsky sanctions to freeze assets of Putin’s oligarchs 'NOW' to stop war in Ukraine, UK warned | World | News | https://t.co/cBTfDRzpRR https://t.co/K2Mj65SSDN
— Bill Browder (@Billbrowder) February 6, 2022
The Republican party represents a clear and present danger to United States of America
— flexghost. (@flexghost1) February 6, 2022
Follow the money. It leads to Russia.
3/ https://t.co/4nkZ2yZ3IK
Labour calls on Tories to return money from donors linked to Russia https://t.co/AqICzTnOE6
— The Guardian (@guardian) February 6, 2022
UK's Truss vows to 'raise the cost' if Russia takes further action https://t.co/ZaSpY4xmhV pic.twitter.com/SqWlPATLin
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 6, 2022
It is shameful that Britain is repeatedly described as the money-laundering capital of the world.
— David Lammy (@DavidLammy) February 6, 2022
We can’t stand up to Russia’s aggression abroad while ignoring Russian-linked corruption at home.https://t.co/FDMZdZxe5y
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Money Money Money
Boris Johnson doesn’t have a clue about being trapped in a #CostOfLivingCrisis choices of heating or eating.
— Liz Webster (@LizWebsterLD) February 6, 2022
He persuades donors to pay for his lifestyle.#BorisJohnsonOut13 pic.twitter.com/vCWO6hU28u
Peers move to stop ‘dirty money’ being laundered through post-Brexit freeports
— Nick Reeves #FBPA #FBPE #PATH #SmashCorruption (@nickreeves9876) February 6, 2022
Lib Dems want public register to stop freeports becoming ‘hotbeds’ for illicit finance
Freeports aid tax-dodging and money-laundering. No wonder the Tory Brexiters want them.https://t.co/3I6Nt2iSQM
A company advised by the PM's new Director of Comms made a large donation to the Conservative Party and was given millions from public funds in financial support. Boris Johnson went out of his way to praise the company. https://t.co/vedSXYn6YQ
— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) February 6, 2022
— Chris Bryant (@RhonddaBryant) February 5, 2022
Harri I’ve dealt with a bit. Always struck me as a very weak venal little man. But I never imagined this weak, this venal. https://t.co/AGuYA0hSLV
— Tim Walker (@ThatTimWalker) February 6, 2022
In this banana republic, even the guys who buy their way into the Tory party now want their money back. https://t.co/Xu48a2CFoz
— John O’Brennan (@JohnOBrennan2) February 6, 2022
Again and again – smart people – Dan Rosenfield, Allegra Stratton, Simon Case and, yes, even Dominic Cummings, and Steve Barclay, have been tempted to work for Boris Johnson – believing they can change a 57 year old man – who never changes. Why? https://t.co/MYtX0mgp8a
— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) February 6, 2022
INCYMI my take on the PM’s week and why it’s important not to get lost in the dizzying events and remember the big picture: ie that even if we take just the events of this week alone, the premiership of Boris Johnson is taking British politics to a very unusual place. https://t.co/zyCRq5tpMC
— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) February 6, 2022
I am trying to imagine the universe you must be living in to imagine that, until he met Carrie, Boris Johnson was a model of personal and professional discipline.https://t.co/lb6hDg1OFb pic.twitter.com/KL4FkQbbMV
— KateMaltby (@KateMaltby) February 6, 2022
The polls have made it clear that the public do not believe Boris Johnson over Partygate – inews https://t.co/eZeyp70f5Q
— A C Grayling #FBPE 3.5% #Reform #Rejoin #FBPA 🐟 (@acgrayling) February 6, 2022
He has suggested two methods for his demise himself. One was dying in a ditch, the other was being run over by machinery at Heathrow. Or we could supply a fridge?
— Timewalk Project (@Timewalkproject) February 6, 2022
If I was a PM who couldn’t cope without being mothered by my famously efficient QC wife, I would simply not sleep with half of London until she was driven to divorce me, but whatever
— gabyhinsliff (@gabyhinsliff) February 6, 2022
Oh HOORAH https://t.co/dpVI8ToeTU
— Georgie Bingham (@georgiebingham) February 6, 2022
It's almost cliche that a government this corrupt is arguing that fraud is a victimless crime. 🤭
— Femi (@Femi_Sorry) February 6, 2022
Kwasi Kwarteng is desperate to defend Boris Johnson's clear lies about crime, but his own subconscious mind wanted to tell the truth. 😅#SundayMorning pic.twitter.com/TZLWYpTK1w
I’ve asked him how I can refuse it and he’s blocked me!
— Edielouis💙 (@SueEdielouis) February 6, 2022
Please…people are already slipping into the habit of calling Sunak "Rishi". He is no more your friend than "Boris" Johnson ever was. Don't do it!
— Anne Greensmith 💙 (@snowleopardess) February 6, 2022
…and about the fact that even if you don’t get the £200 fuel credit, you’ll still have to pay it back over the next 5 years!!!! https://t.co/bHXfz9BfNG
— Mrs Y (@Mrs_Y_) February 4, 2022
PETER HITCHENS: "Remember when Boris Johnson was Prime Minister and he let all those people die and the cost of living went way up and poor kids couldn't get school dinners and he threw all those illegal parties… ahh, those were the days" pic.twitter.com/BiAeBKPifo
— The DM Reporter (@DMReporter) February 6, 2022
I don’t want any of this “levelling up” or “Build Back Better” crap that I keep hearing from Boris Johnson and the Tories.
— jamie (@jamieee_1412) February 6, 2022
Just put everything back the way it was and leave us the fuck alone.
Benefit fraud is tiny compared with tax rip-offs, but guess which gets more enforcement? pic.twitter.com/EH35WU8Lmy
— A Very British Coup (@VBritishCoup) February 6, 2022
To pass a merry moment before Nadine Dorries gives another interview, here’s the November 2018 classic when, fully 2½ years after the Brexit vote she so passionately supported, Nadine was outraged to discover that leaving the EU would mean having no MEPs. pic.twitter.com/oI2cGrNaKg
— Nicholas Pegg (@NicholasPegg) February 6, 2022
Policy idea:
— Kate Ferguson (@kateferguson4) February 6, 2022
Every baby boomer who pontificates about how easy it is to buy a home should be sentenced to one year in a shared flat, and be forced to give up their netflix, meals out and posh lippy https://t.co/N0NJ5kb03i
Honestly, Metro, let it go. pic.twitter.com/9lxk7e0JCX
— . (@twlldun) February 6, 2022
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“F*ck it…”
“It is up to us in our time to choose, and choose wisely, between the hard but necessary task of preserving peace and freedom, and the temptation to ignore our duty and blindly hope for the best while the enemies of freedom grow stronger day by day.” Ronald Reagan
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) February 6, 2022
Clinton was wrong in applying her misguided decision to create server & destroy emails. I rep'd @GOP to help expose those facts.
— Mark S. Zaid (@MarkSZaidEsq) February 6, 2022
What Trump did is worse as it was deliberate & known disregard of US law & for malicious purposes. Now GOP is complicit in this hypocrisy. https://t.co/w3qLzdrKCh
Embedded in Little Marco’s slavish, craven interview is one little tic that you might expect from a wanna be autocrats apparatchik. He calls the disgraced defeated wedding DJ “President Trump” and the actual president “Joe Biden” https://t.co/Rs1FxoM01g
— Tim Miller (@Timodc) February 6, 2022
If by "embarrass" & "smear" Rubio means expose the truth Trump & those around him have tried so desperately to keep hidden & have lied about, well then, sure. https://t.co/S0SvDy4a8V
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) February 6, 2022
This clip of Rubio saying "this is not gonna end well" about Trump in 2016 is amazing to watch in hindsight https://t.co/OOuPBGTB3f
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 6, 2022
Elite impunity is, in fact, bad, and where 99% of our law enforcement energy should be spent (against both private and public elites).
— David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) February 6, 2022
Color me shocked that this is beginning sooner than I expected; however, don't expect an exodus by party officials until after #DonTheCon's primary efforts crash and burn–provided he's not indicted first.https://t.co/WZZxUM6p3n
— Jeff Irvin (@JefferyIrvinPhD) February 6, 2022
I think we can be reasonably certain that if Sarah Palin was never chosen as VP, Trump never would have been President, so this is pretty uh.
— Conor Rogers (@conorjrogers) February 6, 2022
Fuck it indeed! pic.twitter.com/zxqxP9JeAf
#SorryNotSorry https://t.co/BMbuTSTnhw
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) February 6, 2022
Elsewhere…
The mayor of Canada's capital has declared a state of emergency as protesters opposed to COVID-19 restrictions continued to paralyze Ottawa's downtown. https://t.co/koQtfRGDYw
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 6, 2022
The Overnight Note 