Videos like this show that the Russian soldiers are also victims in this. Young men sent to fight, that were told they would be seen as liberators, ending up fighting against fellow east slavs and potentially dying in a senseless war

Threads that have aged like fine milk.

Versailles was probably worse, and led to much worse despite the good intentions but yeah, this is a major and needed measure

Putin should've known... Hillary always gets the last laugh.

Versailles was reparations not sanctions, the former is more manageable as companies operate freely and ultimately it's the government that shoulders a high tax burden...which is no more than having high interest payments on debt. The Germans hated Versailles more for political reasons rather than the economic reality of it

UK govt ministers today coming out with similar lines about the sanctions being designed specifically to undermine the putin regime. Will be interesting to see what the oligarchs do now their net worths have been cut massively

Imagine that, crowds of civilians stopping tanks by simply standing there. There's some humanity in there after all.

Listening to actual military experts, it seems the Russians are using small recon groups and units and are generally trying to avoid the Ukrainian Army. With the exception of Kharkiv, they've avoided confrontation as much as possible, but now they know it's not working the tactics will likely change. Read this thread: https://twitter.com/KofmanMichael/status/1498386252315435008

https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/encyclopedia/treaty_versailles

The major sanctions imposed by the treaty included the disarmament of Germany, payment of very large reparations to the allies, and demilitarization of the Rhineland

it’s wordplay, but fine, definitions. i think our points are centered around the same general argument

also this instance of sanctions is the correct punishment of certain individuals, who unlike the german empire after WWI will still likely be around after the conflict ends. most of the 2nd reich leadership either died or fled to safety

https://twitter.com/scottlincicome/status/1498405364915703816

Thread.

https://twitter.com/RichardEngel/status/1498381591306981379



NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent derping hard.