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Levin Professor of History at Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," with 20 new lessons on Ukraine, "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
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Published: October 18, 2026 18:37
These courageous testimonies are very much worth knowing about, and also worth keeping in mind (as the author pointed out to me) as we consider what it means to take Russia’s side.
"Rape as a weapon of war: The voices of Ukrainians"
by Sara Cincurova…
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Published: October 18, 2026 12:56
Step by step, day by day, Americans experience the big platforms becoming Orwellian political censors. The US needs a federal government that will tax them and break them up; the democratic world needs to learn the lesson and protect itself.
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Published: October 18, 2026 12:54
In other words: “You brown people should be grateful to live in a country where the vice-president calls you weasels in public”
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Published: October 17, 2026 22:34
Meta shut out Indivisible from Instagram on the No Kings Day meant to rally people to vote.
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Published: October 17, 2026 15:41
Trump’s worldview is that it is good for evil to prevail and wrong for the righteous to resist.
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Published: October 17, 2026 15:40
Putin has incomparably more influence in the West Wing than he has in eastern Ukraine. Indeed, his only hope in eastern Ukraine sits in the West Wing.
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Published: October 15, 2026 22:41
Trump’s policies kill Ukrainians who are trying to get gas and raise prices for Americans who are trying to get gas. And he wants the Americans to blame the Ukrainians. This is wrong and despicable. …
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Published: October 15, 2026 17:13
A decade ago, a few of us tried to get across the significance of Putin’s patronage of Trump. Here’s my book, "Road to Unfreedom," which puts that relationship in the larger setting of oligarchy vs democracy.…
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Published: October 15, 2026 14:41
No amount of support for Russia can end the war, because Russia is the criminal aggressor. A modicum of support for Ukraine could, however, end the war, by making it impossible for Russia to continue. This should not be a hard choice.
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Published: October 14, 2026 21:41
The Putin-Trump diesel deal is disastrous and illegal — but it is also a sign of the desperation of both men, one fearing to lose a war, the other to lose an election.
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Published: October 14, 2026 21:40
Excellent summary of the present state of relations between Russian and American oligarchical clans. Please read and share.…
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Published: October 14, 2026 16:31
It does seem like Putin is rushing fo get the most possible out of his client Trump before the electoral bloodbath of 3 November.
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Published: October 12, 2026 21:26
Trump has just extended two wars in exchange for a meaningless appeal to his vanity from Putin.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/war-through-weakness
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Published: October 12, 2026 16:22
Everything about the raid on Rep. Omar’s residence is shameful. Everyone involved should lose their jobs. For a start.
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Published: October 12, 2026 15:07
When Ukraine destroys Russian data centers, hoards of aggressive right-wing bots disappear & the internet becomes friendlier. So much of politics is driven by the internet & so much of the internet is driven by Russians who want to hurt us. Shouldn’t we do…
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Published: October 12, 2026 13:32
1/ It looks like Putin told Trump that Ukraine was causing high gas prices, a lie that is convenient for Trump.
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Published: October 11, 2026 23:52
Well, it’s a quick take, and no doubt data will come in, but it sure looks like based on today’s evidence that a lot of pro-Trump and pro-AfD bot work depends directly on Russian data centers.
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Published: October 11, 2026 22:27
"Weakness is dangerous, and Trump is dangerously weak. And, as weaklings do, he blames others for his own failures, and thereby makes everything worse."
My latest essay: "War Through Weakness: Trump’s Superpower Suicide in Iran and Russia"…
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Published: October 11, 2026 18:33
"Do something."
Front page of NYT, 9/10/26 — credit Jeff Roberson, AP.
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Published: October 11, 2026 16:05
Ramaswamy made his money through a scam. That's not success; it’s corruption. This election is the big chance in our lifetime to do something about the people who think politics is just there to enable ever bigger personal grifts.
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Published: October 11, 2026 16:00
Very refreshing to hear an elected official speaking articulately. I reckon we will be hearing a lot more from Senator Ossoff in the next few years.
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Published: October 11, 2026 14:43
Trump begging Putin for a symbolic (and illegal) gift of diesel fuel shows only that he wants others to feel as grateful to Putin as he does.
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Published: October 11, 2026 14:41
Regime Change and Corruption – a conversation with @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu
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