🔴 NEW: Russian-backed separatists declare full military mobilisation
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) February 19, 2022
Follow the latest news on the #RussiaUkraineCrisis 👇https://t.co/B22dhPTIxs
Just to be clear:
— Steven Pifer (@steven_pifer) February 19, 2022
If war breaks out between #Russia and #Ukraine, it will be because one man — Vladimir #Putin — chose to send the Russian army to attack Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/pK446RnTow
President Zelensky says he will still go to Munich today for the security conference but will return to Ukraine right after his appearance. His office told me yesterday he was considering staying put in Kyiv. Biden said it was Zelensky's decision but probably best to not go.
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) February 19, 2022
On the negative side, that's only two houses in Kensington…
— Dr Sam (@PerryWadeSam) February 19, 2022
U.S. VP Harris warns Russia of huge financial costs if it invades Ukraine https://t.co/6DYLFxBKGr pic.twitter.com/66Sves3Z6V
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 19, 2022
Russia’s neighbours seem to have a bad habit of attacking Russia when Russia has all their troops massed at their border. pic.twitter.com/URq6YH4mvG
— (((The Taiji Reporter)))🐬 (@TheTaijiNews) February 19, 2022
We're calling out Russia’s plans. Not because we want a conflict, but because we are doing everything in our power to remove any reason Russia may give to justify invading Ukraine.
— President Biden (@POTUS) February 19, 2022
If Russia pursues its plans, it will be responsible for a catastrophic and needless war of choice.
Yes it's possible but as Americans also hypocritical. But there's really no morality in geopolitics, only self interest.
— Vagrant (@dub112) February 19, 2022
In case you forgot, the guys who are about to invade Ukraine had Trump eating out of their palms right in the Oval Office as he gave them secrets. https://t.co/8TTBegPV4p
— NoelCaslerComedy (@caslernoel) February 19, 2022
Erik Prince Planned to Create Private Army in Ukraine: Exclusive | Time 7/7/21 https://t.co/k4YnUReTnx
— Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢 (@jennycohn1) February 19, 2022
2/ Example suggested by a friend:
— John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) February 19, 2022
Biden sent US troops to Poland.
Reads as: we have your back. Very meaningful to many in Poland.
Imagine how Trump would have played it?
Story: @EricSchmittNYT https://t.co/yFZTvZEZ6e pic.twitter.com/KNxDT7Lufq
If Donald Trump had won "Russians would already be in Kyiv," John Bolton says https://t.co/PEd5tcsXyt
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) February 4, 2022
China's foreign minister Wang Yi tells #MSC2022 that the sovereignty, independence & territorial integrity of every country should be safeguarded. "Ukraine is no exception," he says pic.twitter.com/23ByTHcnVj
— Noah Barkin (@noahbarkin) February 19, 2022
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Oh, Canada…
Breaking News: The police in Canada began moving in to make some arrests in Ottawa, including Tamara Lich, one of the trucker protests’ main organizers. https://t.co/8344xT50G4
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 18, 2022
Leave Ottawa or face arrest: Police in Canada warn truckers and protesters blockading the city's downtown https://t.co/ohqr2zcTlQ pic.twitter.com/2SlsSF2IH2
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 17, 2022
While this is 100% correct, the Canadian “freedom” people never were engaging in civil disobedience. It was illegal & violent from the start, using trucks & COVID-19 infection risk (they refuse to mask when all businesses have mask mandates) as weapons of coercion & intimidation
— @GOHOMETRUCKERS (@DontVoteSplit) February 19, 2022
You literally voted for a bill allowing for huge restrictions on protest in the UK. https://t.co/N1md2BHfG6
— Steve Peers (@StevePeers) February 19, 2022
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Performative politics runs amok
If Ukraine is invaded by Russia the shock will “echo around the world", says UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson https://t.co/CyVdspsnWW
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) February 19, 2022
Tells us everything about Boris Johnson when he has an RAF plane flown 350 miles to be a prop in a photoshoot.
— Kevin Maguire (@Kevin_Maguire) February 19, 2022
Vain, shameless, prepared to misuse the military to deflect from Partygate and Ukraine-Russia’s just another personal propaganda opportunity. https://t.co/1xEya4aokQ
‘I don’t believe in gesture politics’
— Paul Johnson (@paul__johnson) February 18, 2022
-Boris Johnson July 2020 pic.twitter.com/y4Ok7hYm5s
Boris Johnson returns lockdown party questionnaire to police https://t.co/p8J9J6Rlr7
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) February 18, 2022
It was always a nonsense and an insult to those who had served with him.
— Bumbo (@Bumbo13355293) February 19, 2022
As a chum said to me "I'f I'd known I could have made Colonel walking up and down my garden, I wouldn't have gone to Afghanistan"
The problems facing the UK are far bigger than Boris JOHNSON. They revolve around the people, institutions, media and systems that put him there, shielded him from accountability and kept him in power.
— Dr Matt Prescott (@mattprescott) February 19, 2022
Who in their right mind thinks the answer to any problem is to put Boris Johnson in charge of it?
— Belfast Unionist (@BelfastUnionist) February 13, 2022
Yet this is what the DUP intend to do to N. Ireland when they pull down Stormont after the May election. pic.twitter.com/0mVNxKniSF
Did Boris Johnson lie to the DUP about the Northern Ireland protocol? DUP Chief Whip Sammy Wilson on the matter to Tim Sebastian. #dwZone pic.twitter.com/BF2ITIPDXF
— DW Conflict Zone (@dw_conflictzone) February 19, 2022
#EU’s handling of #NorthernIreland like Putin annexing Crimea, claims Wilson
— Is #Brexit a Failure? (@failurebrexit) February 19, 2022
The DUP MP said @BorisJohnson should oppose the EU’s stance on Northern Ireland as much he is opposing the Russian president’s tactics in Ukraine.https://t.co/PpEZFHcoCn
Unpopular opinion, but if I know Unionists I predict that most of those booing will end up voting DUP.
— Choyaa (@Choyaa13) February 19, 2022
Long time N of I political watchers rightly fascinated by this.
— Claire Higgins (@ClarNiUigin) February 19, 2022
So what are your thoughts:
A) grassroots unionist anger
B) TUV orchestrated heckling
C) both
? https://t.co/DfaAWeZs3M
For unionists, Health, covid recovery and the economy are more important issues. The DUP collapsing the executive will affect these issues negatively Maybe you should be focusing on that instead of trying to manufacture a crisis. pic.twitter.com/hnfawsRbmw
— Beta Papa 💙 (@beta_dad) February 18, 2022