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Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social |
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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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"Usually, vice-presidential candidates are selected for virtues... Donald Trump is searching, quite literally, for vice."
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Important work on impunity and war — and how to address the first to stop the second.
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"Nazi legal theorists argued that politics was a matter of defining the enemy and choosing a side. The rule of law was to yield to a special sort unrule, in which the chieftain defined politics by choosing an enemy to be blamed for his own crimes."
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My foreword to @juliadavisnews.bsky.social's new book on Russian television propagandists, "In Their Own Words," which I heartily recommend to you.
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Whenever Russia conquers territory in Ukraine, it murders civic leaders and other civilians, sets up torture chambers, and deports children for assimilation in Russia. Ukrainians resist because defeat or surrender means Russian genocidal policy on the scale of their entire country.
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11/11. A defeat of fascism is not a negation. It is an affirmation: of a future that can be more beautiful, more just, and more free.
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10/11. Compared to challenges that others face around the world, our odds in 2024 and 2025 are excellent. Americans have chances, not excuses.
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9/11. We know from history that fascism can lose. And we know today the contests that must be won.
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8/11. American fascism must lose at the ballot box. Americans can bring this about by organizing, canvassing, phone banking, donating, and voting.
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7/11. Russian fascism must lose on the battlefield. Americans can bring this about by supporting courageous Ukrainians.
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6/11. Once named, fascism can be defeated. Indeed, once named it can be easily defeated.
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5/11. Analytic clarity is needed for political clarity. If you do not know what you face, you do not know how to act.
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4/11. Fascism advances every injustice. Its victory will leave us serfs of a vengeful nature, of relentless technology, and of unquestionable oligarchy.
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3/11. Fascism is might over right, conspiracy over reality, fiction over fact, pain over law, blood over love, doom over hope.
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2/11. The people who told you that Russia was not fascist were, if possible, more wrong.
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1/11. The people who told you that fascism was not a threat were wrong.
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Political warfare from outside works only when it runs through us and takes advantage of our mistakes. I was proud to be able to testify on disinformation to the House Oversight Committee yesterday. My brief introduction is at 52:40.
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Of course Ukraine can win this war. Politicians of impotence like JD Vance want to make Ukraine lose, because they want to show that no one can really do anything and that nothing really matters. See my article on weak man politics.
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Congress must let Ukraine Win. Together we call upon Congress to do the right thing.
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6/6. Let's see though how this plays out this time.
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5/6. And some of them likely have a pretty good idea what the instructions say, which is why they can't resist laughing at Trump and at Johnson. They feel superior.
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4/6. The propagandists are right that Johnson goes to Trump to get instructions. And they know why those instructions must be delivered in person.
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3/6. Russian propagandists say they expect Johnson's visit to Trump this weekend to kill Ukraine aid once again. We shall see. There's a new nervous vibe here.
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2/6. By this point they refer to him as "our Johnson" much as they refer to Trump as "our Trumpkin"
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1/6. So far Russian propaganda has always been right about Mike Johnson – correct predictions every time that he would block Ukraine aid.
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6/6. If you are a member of Congress, please sign the discharge petition.
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5/6. Press coverage dwells now on hope rather than recalling that Johnson's entire record thus far as Speaker involves dishonest gambits to prevent Ukraine funding.
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4/6. For the last six months, all of Johnson's ploys have had the same logic. Make a promise, create some hope, generate excuses for European and executive branch inaction, weaken Ukraine, advance Russian genocide.
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3/6. By bringing up Ukraine, he is giving members of Congress an excuse not to sign the discharge petition.
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2/6. I do think what Johnson is doing now is specifically designed to prevent the discharge petition from getting enough votes.
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1/6. I don't think Ukraine aid is going to pass without a discharge petition that allows a simple vote.
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4/4. Serhyi has been working to support soldiers since the war began, and has now enlisted in the army. He has the courage to do that, while we can't even pass a simple supplemental.
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3/4. It saddens me that the absence of US support allows Russia to expand its zone of terror and puts him and millions of Ukrainians in danger.
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2/4. Serhyi's city of birth is under Russian occupation and the city where he lives, Kharkiv, is now facing a Russian onslaught.
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1/4. Serhyi Zhadan, one of the world's most remarkable creators of culture, should be holding a Nobel diploma, not a rifle.
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So perhaps what we are missing is the investigations? Or perhaps I have missed something important? We dropped the ball on Russian electoral corruption in 2016, and the retroactive investigations were less useful. Are we doing so again? 3/3.
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Is there more of this sort of thing in Europe than in the US? We certainly have Putinist activity in our politics, from bogus impeachments to campaign financing, more extravagantly so than in most European countries. 2/3.
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We have just seen several European journalistic and counter-intelligence investigations revealing Russian networks and politicians funded by Russia. 1/2
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A breakthrough on a pressing issue with obvious policy implications. Havana Syndrome now documented and traced.
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Helping Ukrainians as Congress Vacates: open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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We read Lesya Ukrainka's "Cassandra" and her "Iphigenia in Tauris" in seminar this semester. A writer of unusual range and uncanny power.
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Sending out "The Apocalypse We Choose" again, three long weeks later, as our inaction kills civilians and soldiers in Kharkiv and throughout Ukraine. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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#OnFreedom, my new book, to be published September 17th
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"Putin's paranoia: Terrorism, delusion, and self-destruction"
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3/3. Those actions reveal the enemies Putin has chosen. As the attack on Crocus City Hall demonstrated, his choices have nothing to do with actual threats facing Russians.
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2/3. Earlier that day, Russian authorities had designated international LGBT organizations as "terrorist." Also earlier that day, Russia had carried out massive terror attacks on Ukrainian cities.
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1/3. This past Friday, 22 March, a horrifying terrorist attack took place in Crocus City Hall in Moscow. Islamic State plausibly claimed responsibility. Then Russian propaganda began to spin the story in the direction preferred by the Kremlin.
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I spoke with Scott Simon on NPR Weekend Edition about what Putin's electoral farce and renewed term means for Ukraine and the west.
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7/7. It would not be very surprising if the Kremlin blames Ukraine and the United States and uses the Moscow attack to justify continuing and future atrocities in Ukraine.
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6/7. Russia's security apparatus, focused on carnage in Ukraine, has failed in Moscow. Russia's leaders, focused on demonizing the US, did not protect Russians. What next?
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