#Russia

2011 John Baird flew to the Libyan capital with heavy security and secrecy, but also executives from Montreal engineering giant SNC-Lavalin, Alberta oil giant Suncor and Calgary-based pipeline-technology firm Pure
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While Twitter was getting mad about we are the virus takes about covid & climate, the climate policy/science community was warning that we shouldn’t celebrate the incidental positive effects on
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THREAD1)While Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) describes herself as a “journalist,” some research shows she parrots the talking points of #Iran’s regime & is quite fond of dictators.Let's dig in. 2)Johnstone is
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Going viralWhat if this coronavirus is the pandemic that public health people have been warning about for years?It would accelerate many pre-existing trends.- border closures- nationalism- social isolation- preppers- remote
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BREAKING: UK gov't "almost certain that Russian actors sought to interfere in the 2019 General Election through the online amplification of illicitly acquired and leaked Government documents." These were the
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Story of #Pakistan becoming Nuclear state on 28th may 1998 in newspaper clippings from 1998: #Nuclear #YomeTakbir #Kashmir #یوم_تکبیر In the 1998 Indian general election the BJP emerged as the
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BREAKING: THE DEPT. OF DEFENSE KNEW MIKE FLYNN WAS A TRAITOR STARTING IN 2014, NEW REPORT, wait. Says. Thread. Of course he was. Can I explain a little more? It's
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Media briefing on #COVID19 with @DrTedros. #coronavirus https://www.pscp.tv/w/cVyXJzI2MTAyMHwxeW9LTWFNWXpNbEtR6VNSbyrH4YTMWuKjXbyd-clEpeDN2KxaVqDKzI4E3YY= "Tomorrow marks 100 days since WHO was notified of the first cases of “pneumonia with unkn
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ThreadWe need fact checks. But it’s a problem when wrong or unverified claims aren’t checked from one side of the aisle.Case in point: the “Russian bounties” theory that was recently
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False Flags/Agent provocateurs/covert operations - THREAD - False flags are very commonly used military tactic to bring about a desired outcome, these attacks are done by posing as the rival
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Last week, I published my new report on the risks of pre-launch warhead ambiguity. TL;DR? Here’s a summary in 13 tweets! https://carnegieendowment.org/2020/04/09/is-it-nuke-pre-launch-ambiguity-and-inadvertent-escalation-pub-81446 (1/13
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Very good question. I would however separate it to two different topics:1. Why was the Russian army so much overrated?2. Why was the Ukrainian army so much underrated?Let's try to
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It is... interestingI'll give it thathttps://twitter.com/CursedBoomers/status/1277703131539714048 Has the USA cornered the market on covid bizarrity or do other nations have people buying into stuff like this? Brazil and Russia, the
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Congratulations to a lot of good reporters at the Intercept, who have been unfairly tainted by Glenn Greenwald simply making shit up with impunity for too long. Reminder that the
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Today's report from @TheAtlantic that Trump called Marines who died at Belleau Wood "losers" and "suckers" isn't surprising. He's insulted the military and their families constantly since the start of
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Today, Russia celebrates Victory Day. Germany capitulated on 5/8, but it was past midnight in Moscow, and Russians, who wound up calling the war Great Patriotic, are a bit Russo-centric.I've
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