Branislav Slantchev
@slantchev
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Professor of Political Science at the University of California San Diego IR theory and conflict, formal modeling. All views expressed here are strictly personal
Del Mar, CA
Joined January 2022
Friends: Hein Goemans and I have a piece in Foreign Affairs explaining why negotiated peace is very unlikely because of Russia. https://t.co/EglsXh8PNv
foreignaffairs.com
Russia’s extreme demands—and Ukraine’s desire to survive—make negotiations unlikely.
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Your most reliable guide to fascists are the fascists themselves:
Латвийские власти – фашисты! Они хотят депортировать сотни русских людей. Речь идёт о гражданах РФ преимущественно пенсионного возраста, кто не смог подтвердить знание латышского языка. И за это их депортировать? Гореть в аду тем, кто принимает такие решение. Это фашизм. Позор!
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I don’t understand. We were told that the epochal generational peace is secured and Trump is getting all Nobels at once for it. The reality is that Hamas is not disarmed and will not disarm voluntarily. No Arab force is going to go into Gaza to fight it. Only Israel can do it.
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Online right: "Chicago and DC and NYC are unsafe, San Francisco and Portland and Seattle are dysfunctional hellholes." People who actually travel: "Those are six of the best cities in the US."
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Putin ruined the talks with Trump in Alaska by reading him his ridiculous history lecture — just like in the Tucker Carlson interview Putin rejected Donald Trump’s proposal to partially lift sanctions in exchange for a ceasefire in Ukraine and instead gave the U.S. president a
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Trump — whose life has been spent slapping his name on shiny things and peddling image over substance — seems to think that the mere suggestion of Tomahawk deliveries would be enough to get the Kremlin to offer a deal. So naturally he expects Putin to call to reap the fruits of
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Hegseth does not approve. Low warrior ethos and questionable lethality.
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Thank God he’s not Zelenskyy, I guess.
If I were Zelensky, I would refuse to see Trump tomorrow (October 17), since he has so clearly declared today (October 16) that he is merely Putin's obedient servant.
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Baghdad Barbie is a total loon.
Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."
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Imagine being this fucking stupid.
🚨 BREAKING: Following a TWO HOUR phone call this morning, President Trump announces he and Vladimir Putin have agreed to meet in Budapest, Hungary to try to end the war in Ukraine once and for all The Peace President NEVER stops! Make this the NINTH war you’ve ended, 47!
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Ukrainian officials told me that they withheld attacks on Russia oil and gas infrastructure at the request of the United States for 6 months prior to the meeting with Putin in Alaska. If Putin wouldn’t stop the war, then attack attacks on oil and gas would start to impose cost.
“Ukraine has launched at least 58 attacks on key Russian energy sites since the start of August, sending drones as far as about 2,000 km (1,200 miles) into Russian territory to bomb refineries, pumping stations, storage depots and export terminals.”
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BREAKING: Serbian President Vučić confirms three Russian nationals were present at a secretive camp in western Serbia allegedly training Moldovan citizens to destabilize elections. The revelation comes amid EU pressure on Serbia over ties with Moscow.
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“San Francisco is on track to have the lowest number of homicides in more than 70 years — potentially beating last year’s 60-year low.” “The stunning, sustained decline comes as Trump described San Francisco and other liberal American cities as ‘very unsafe places.’”
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Who is “we”?
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Rightwing claim: "High levels of gun ownership discourage burglary." The reality: The region of the country with the highest gun ownership rate has by far the highest burglary rate, and the region with the lowest gun ownership rate has by far the lowest burglary rate.
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A new US–Ukrainian drone dubbed Artemis ALM-20, seen as a high-tech counterpart to the Shahed, has been successfully tested against targets in Russia. Built by Auterion, it features AI and self-guidance with a 1,600 km range and a 45 kg warhead. Production is set to begin in
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Russia is, as usual, counting its chickens a bit too early.
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NEW: California will be the first state in the nation to sell its own insulin. It will be $11. No Big Pharma price gouging. Simple, affordable healthcare. As it should be.
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Russian looters sell stolen Ukrainian furniture “from the SMO area” on TG. “We have very good imported furniture (sofas, armchairs, tables, wardrobes, etc.) at a very good price. Recovered from war zones. Undamaged. Mostly from abandoned, decent apartments and houses. Items
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There just aren’t enough pearls in the world for this man to clutch. He’s shaken to his core. By a defaced billboard. All hope is lost. Send Tylenol.
This has shaken me to my core. I can't believe this would have happened here in Asheville NC. I knew things were bad, but even still... I had hope that things weren't as bad as they seemed. I was wrong. I was so wrong. They destroyed a billboard honoring Charlie Kirk.
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