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Joining Bluesky in a migration from x. Tell your friends about it.

How to Stop Fascism, by @TimothyDSnyder

Just borrowed Clear Thinking from the Internet Archive. https://t.co/1JiX3s1PXH . Donate to them.

Powerful clarity from Oleksiy Danilov calls for the West to learn from history.

Beyond the pitiful game of US Republicans and Hungary's deleterious blackmail, the Allies still have neither a strategy in Ukraine nor an in-depth understanding of the radical nature of Russia's war. My 104th long-read on my strategy blog explores why. https://t.co/sWbn2UxTc7

The full report can be found in this link. https://t.co/4udF1QURLE

It's an extraordinary historical moment when three winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, from three different countries, come together to plead for weapons to be sent to Ukraine immediately. @berlin_bridge https://t.co/LWz2SRvcY2

This is well done.

My Twitter posts are always about politics. Now, I’d love to share with you a fascinating podcast. Edward Frenkel is one of the greatest mathematicians (more importantly, one of the kindest academics I’ve met) and someone who has inspired me for years. I can’t recommend enough

This is very interesting article about isolated indigenous tribes and stories about their characteristics. A fascinating read. https://t.co/a0gSBbThDH

1/ We are currently experiencing a decolonization moment in East European and Eurasian Studies that is becoming a new paradigm in the field. Over the last few months, I have attended several conferences in the area, and here are some of the observations and reflections. 🧵

p87 describes how Russian propaganda aims to make the Western audience impotent by paralyzing their moral compass and critical thinking - best short synthesis I've read anywhere so far.

p72 - "It is therefore fair to say that disinformation is a crime against humanity in the mostuniversal sense. As Immanuel Kant put it, lies are morally wrong, because lyingcorruptsthe most important quality of being human: the ability to make free,rational choices."

p61 - ‘the West must stop escalating.’ ... a fallacy resting on a deliberate wish to ignore Ukrainian agency and–what should be the obvious truth–that the war is between Russia and Ukraine. It is therefore not possible for the West to escalate, because the West is not a party...'

"📷 p58 - "Conversely, much of the brain fog in thinking about Russia can be mitigated againstby conscious rejection of the mental blueprint of a state and adoption of that of theMafia. This change in frame of reference allows for a more clear-sighted view of [what] Russia is..."

"Western commentators are very often led down a garden path of false assumptions, each building on the original mistake of ascribing conventional rationality of government to what is in fact a criminal organisation."

Here from @KuldkeppMart -

Read the one about nuclear propaganda from Russia for some moral clarity on page 28 - [Firstly, there are no ‘tactical nuclear weapons’ in this war because there are no tactical targets. Any Russian use of nuclear weapons will constitute strategic use and elicit...]

"It's disturbing how ill-informed & naive the average American is on China." @USNavy Admiral publicly states #China is the "number one challenge" of the 21st century and represents the most dangerous trend in #geopolitics. Eye-opening speech. I cut the 60 mins down to 5 👇