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Published: August 30, 2025 18:49
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Published: August 30, 2025 18:45
Talk to Putin, then fire your Russia expert. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/27/cia-officer-russia-trump-gabbard/…
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Published: August 30, 2025 18:44
Much good sense here, as usual. @ngumenyuk.bsky.social https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/real-limits-ukrainian-power
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Published: August 30, 2025 18:37
Some of the names have changed since I wrote this last November, but the central reality is, sadly, upon us. https://snyder.substack.com/p/decapitation-strike
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Published: August 26, 2025 23:05
Trump is firing the competent people in the national security apparatus because they are competent. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/politics/security-clearances-scientist-fired.html…
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Published: August 26, 2025 15:38
It’s Putinism — no one anywhere can be free because my people might get ideas [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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Published: August 26, 2025 15:37
"The seduction of Kyiv is this intensity of life, intellectual and otherwise—a luminousness born of desperation." @marcishore.bsky.social https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/08/22/kyiv-death-and-other-borders/
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Published: August 26, 2025 11:43
Protecting the Russian aggressor makes the war bloodier and longer. And that is just what we are doing. Good reporting by WSJ here but poor choice of photo.…
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Published: August 26, 2025 11:38
He’s wrong about everything, and thinks he’s right about everything. Hard to tell which is worse. The war will end when Russia decides no longer to fight. The US could make that happen with a few simple policies. Instead the Trump administration offers…
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Published: August 24, 2025 18:22
Today is UA Independence Day. Z dnem nezalezhnosti!
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Published: August 24, 2025 15:00
"If it were true that Ukraine belongs to Russia in the 2020s because a Russian dictator knows a legend about a Viking in the 860s... millions of people who actually live there would have no voice in their own identity: no choice but to accept the…
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Published: August 23, 2025 20:48
"Nothing that happened in medieval eastern Europe bound future states to make war against each other a thousand years later" My latest essay: "The myths that made Putin’s war"…
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Published: August 23, 2025 19:46
Everyone who was wrong about Trump — please say so openly to those who trust you and follow you. You have influence and thus bear responsibility.
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Published: August 23, 2025 19:44
This is horrible. Attacks on the humanities are another way to destroy our future. Now is when we need the humanities the most. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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Published: August 22, 2025 19:55
One of the most terrible crimes of Russia’s terrible war. https://www.newsweek.com/president-putin-must-return-ukraines-children-opinion-2116689
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Published: August 22, 2025 19:03
As usual, making the important points. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/trump-putin-ukraine-talks/683899/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3_ug2bBH9Nrrwvix6jZ1Aa8&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Published: August 18, 2025 20:18
Russia does this for many reasons, but one of them is to show that Putin owns Trump. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/us/russia-attacks-kharkiv-zaporizhzhia-ukraine.html
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Published: August 18, 2025 20:17
Current US policy is making this Russian atrocity worse. People in Zaporizhzhia take in refugees from occupied zones and build new underground schools to keep kids safe.…
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Published: August 18, 2025 14:26
As Ukrainian and European leaders travel to Washington for discussions in the White House this Monday about ending Russia’s illegal war of aggression, Americans would do well to remember these ten principles of negotiation.…
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Published: August 17, 2025 21:26
As Ukrainian and European leaders travel to Washington for discussions in the White House this Monday about ending Russia’s illegal war of aggression, Americans would do well to remember ten principles of negotiation.…
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Published: August 17, 2025 20:08
We need to be able to say what protests are for. Serbs are protesting for the rule of law and have been doing so in large numbers for a long time.…
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Published: August 17, 2025 20:01
1/2. The phrase "land swap" is being used to mean "Ukraine concedes land illegally occupied by Russia and also concedes territory that is not even occupied." That is not a swap.
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Published: August 17, 2025 16:28
Excellent proposals. Trump will have to summon the energy to climb out of Putin’s pocket, though. https://time.com/7310116/trump-putin-summit-appeasement/
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Published: August 17, 2025 16:26
A good summary of the Alaska fiasco. https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-august-16-2025