Richard Coombes
@richtranslator.bsky.social
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Ukrainian and Russian speaker, translator of verse, lyrics and literary prose. Out now: Disbelief, Dislocation, Someone Else’s Life, The Food Block. https://richardcoombeslanguageservices.com
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Kim Jong Un has worked it out, then
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I’d rather see Ukraine producing equivalent missiles over which Ukraine itself has control
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Meanwhile Europe is so afraid of conflict that when it spots a drone it convenes a meeting to conclude “we believe it was likely a drone and possibly came here by mistake”.
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I read ‘Spoof Dick’ at first
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I listened to Peskov for years before the 2022 invasion. On Echo of Moscow or wherever. It’s always been clear that he has only two settings: supercilious and gibbering. And the actual words that come out of his mouth have always betrayed him as a man who knows that he’s reading a script.
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I’ve been advocating this as other countries’ foreign policy. Don’t call him. Don’t pick up the phone.
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As in, if Trump’s gone people come out of their trance?
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Exclusive: Europe thinks what everyone else has known for sure from the get-go
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My knowledge of Russian swearing is one aspect of my Russian that is not in decline
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Vance has noticed this “over the last couple of weeks” 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
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We’re in the somewhat strange position of hoping that the president’s dementia somehow overrides his status as a Russian asset and he makes an unexpectedly pro-Ukrainian decision
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She's pro putin and pro the status quo ante
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Desperately tired of hearing that something we could do to protect our interests and values might “provoke” Russia
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Anyone taking a shoulder shot will straight off wish they’d taken a head shot