"There is simply no way that Kara-Murza does not know how utterly disrespectful the „one people“ ideology is towards Ukrainians or the implication that killing Ukrainians is difficult for Russians."

Vladimir, the good Russian

When Kara-Murza spoke at the French Assembly, Russian colonialism and racism were on full display

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"Hitler wanted to kill me for being a Jew. Now, Putin is trying to kill me for being Ukrainian." Roman Shvartsman, an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor from Odesa, compared Russia's military aggression against Ukraine to the barbaric crimes of the Nazis during World War II. 📹: DW

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What a great example of the failure to think through the general equilibrium implications of a policy. And this case is as easy as it gets.

Paul Poast@profpaulpoast.bsky.social · 2y ago

It's possible...maybe even plausible...that World War II WOULD NOT HAVE happened if the US had 44 four-star generals, a DoD, and a national security bureaucracy in the late 1930s.

It's amazing how fast everyone jumps into "The perils of presidentialism" when it has been credibly shown that perhaps it is rarely ever about presidentialism.

Tom Pepinsky@tompepinsky.com · 2y ago

The perils of presidentialism www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

If Trump cuts aid for Ukraine, it will lead to Ukraine’s defences collapsing, which will set off a refugee crisis in Europe like we’ve never seen before (and that’s before Putin trains he guns on the Baltics). This is all avoidable if we seize the $300B of Russian reserves

Russia lost Aleppo in three days (after thinking it would take Kyiv in that same amount of time). Is now bombing random Aleppo civilians. There’s no strategy here - just bitterness and a contempt for life, hate for the sake of hate. It will turn inward.