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Edward Lucas

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Edward Lucas

@edwardlucas

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Edward Lucas
@edwardlucas
Mar 8, 2025
Before she became a drone operator, Yarina Chornohuz translated Sylvia Plath into Ukrainian. I'm fundraising for her drone unit in Kherson. DM me for the IBAN. they need 1) A two-axle trailer for a car 2) Batteries: 10 units (15 thousand ampere) 3) FPV Drone Detector Whoover 2
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Edward Lucas
@edwardlucas
Feb 24, 2022
thread 1/13 Putin's risk appetite is far greater than we realised. We are deluding ourselves (I was too complacent and thought he wouldn't go this far) So forget the stirring talk about Western unity and a revived spirit of purpose in NATO.
Edward Lucas
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Feb 24, 2022
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13/13 And finally: Apologise to Ukrainians, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks (and Russians) for ignoring their warnings over so many years.
Edward Lucas
@edwardlucas
Feb 21, 2022
Thread: 1/5 Putin has done a classic bait and switch: frightened us with one thing so that we accept another. The further dismemberment of Ukraine, and an avowed Russian military presence there: in effect, two more Crimeas.
Edward Lucas
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Feb 24, 2022
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6/13 --. Remove RT and other Russian propaganda organs from the airwaves in all countries that have regulated broadcast media.
Edward Lucas
@edwardlucas
Feb 24, 2022
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10/13 -- The US to announce that foreign politicians and senior officials who sit on Russian boards or act as consultants to Russian companies must resign at once, or be blacklisted from visiting the United States. Other countries to follow suit.
Edward Lucas
@edwardlucas
Feb 24, 2022
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5/13 -- Withdraw all Western (NATO, EU, OECD) ambassadors from Moscow and send their Russian counterparts home. -- Close all Russian consulates, trade missions. We need barebones embassies, nothing more.
Edward Lucas
@edwardlucas
Feb 24, 2022
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11/13 -- Any law firm, bank, accountancy firm, consulting outfit or other professional service firm that does business with a sanctioned Russian entity must cut ties at once or face similar penalties.
Edward Lucas
@edwardlucas
Feb 24, 2022
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9/13 -- Delist these companies from the exchanges in London, Frankfurt, New York and other western financial centers. Stop trading their debt, bonds and other financial instruments
Edward Lucas
@edwardlucas
Feb 24, 2022
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8/13 -- And on their spouses, siblings, offspring, parents and other associates. -- Announce a sweeping program of asset freezes on these individuals, and on companies linked to the Kremlin or owned (even in part) by Kremlin cronies.
Edward Lucas
@edwardlucas
Feb 24, 2022
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7/13 -- visa bans on all government ministers, on all members of the Duma and Federation Council, all governors and office-holders in Russia’s regions, on all officials in the “power ministries” and security agencies, and on the 35 individuals named in Alexei Navalny’s list.
Edward Lucas
@edwardlucas
Apr 3, 2022
Today’s Mail on Sunday
Edward Lucas
@edwardlucas
Feb 24, 2022
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3/13 For the West, this may be (yet another) wake-up call. For Ukraine, it is a death-knell.We will have years (decades, probably) to mull the combination of naivete, complacency, arrogance, ignorance and — most of all — greed that brought us to this catastrophe.
Edward Lucas
@edwardlucas
Feb 24, 2022
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2/13 Warm words and high spirits do not bring the dead back to life. As you read this, Ukrainians are huddling in bomb shelters, dodging bullets, and seeing their dreams of a free, prosperous, law-governed independent country destroyed.