This is...bizarre. Piers is a massive proponent of aiding both of these countries. I'm not sure what he's driving at here. Maybe it's actually the opposite of based, and he's so invested he can't even imagine someone not wanting to help Israel? I honestly think that might be it.
And it doesn't look like there's any missing context, either. Nitter - Piers says:
Volodymyr Zelensky is NOT a dictator.
Vladimir Putin IS a dictator.
Zelensky didn’t start the war in Ukraine.
Putin did.
Hope this clarifies things for anyone who is confused.
Piers is occasionally based on a few issues. Foreign policy is not one of them.
Wasn't there evidence a few years ago that Ukraine launched a couple missiles to the Russian side right before they invaded the border? If so, then it would be them who initiated this more recent war.
Russia claimed before the 'special military operation' that there were attacks and acts of sabotage occurring on the Donetsk/Lugansk side. I know there were European ceasefire monitors tracking ceasefire violations, but couldn't figure out from their data whether these claims were true.
That said, way back in 2014, when people in these places (among with others were the uprising was savagely put down) did basically the same thing the participants in the US-backed Maidan coup did (e.g. occupy government buildings in protest), the coup government's response was not support but to brand them as terrorists and to start military action against them.
At that point Russia had been arming Ukrainian "rebels" and sending Russian equipment and actual Russian troops into Eastern Ukraine. For years. It didn't "start" over a couple of alleged missile strikes. It was planned for many months as part of a years & decades long ambition.
This is...bizarre. Piers is a massive proponent of aiding both of these countries. I'm not sure what he's driving at here. Maybe it's actually the opposite of based, and he's so invested he can't even imagine someone not wanting to help Israel? I honestly think that might be it.
And it doesn't look like there's any missing context, either. Nitter - Piers says:
Piers is occasionally based on a few issues. Foreign policy is not one of them.
Until he stops suspending elections this is never going to be true.
Yeeting people off the streets to forcefully enlist them to fighting and death sounds pretty dictatory.
As is having his government raid a 1000 year old monastery because they were suspected of having "pro-Russian literature".
That’s the joke OP is making.
That’s why this is “accidentally based”
Ah. Well, then, it was so weird from Piers I didn't even get it.
I really think it’s him refusing to see funding Israel as anything other than “something it’s obvious you do.”
The funny thing about this is the tweets can be read in either order and sound completely reasonable to some people.
You are correct. He's more critical of Israel than he is of fake Ukraine though.
Wasn't there evidence a few years ago that Ukraine launched a couple missiles to the Russian side right before they invaded the border? If so, then it would be them who initiated this more recent war.
Russia claimed before the 'special military operation' that there were attacks and acts of sabotage occurring on the Donetsk/Lugansk side. I know there were European ceasefire monitors tracking ceasefire violations, but couldn't figure out from their data whether these claims were true.
That said, way back in 2014, when people in these places (among with others were the uprising was savagely put down) did basically the same thing the participants in the US-backed Maidan coup did (e.g. occupy government buildings in protest), the coup government's response was not support but to brand them as terrorists and to start military action against them.
For clarification, I wasn't talking about the 2014 Crimean annexation. I don't know much about that one.
Oh, I got what you're talking about - what happened right before Russia entering the war in force in 2022.
At that point Russia had been arming Ukrainian "rebels" and sending Russian equipment and actual Russian troops into Eastern Ukraine. For years. It didn't "start" over a couple of alleged missile strikes. It was planned for many months as part of a years & decades long ambition.
I think he is engagement farming, top comments under that post are all saying the same.
It's not based. It's saying "we should help Ukraine [by getting hundreds of thousands more 'Ukrainians' killed] just like we help Israel".
That’s bad news because the Earth is US territory.