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thread 1/13
“It shows #russia’s war for what it is. A genocide”
#Ukraine

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09:24 AM - Jul 29, 2023 (Edited)
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thread 2/13
"February 2022 was a second “1938 moment”, Snyder suggests, referring to the Munich conference of that year, when Britain and France fatally caved in to Hitler’s
threats over Czechoslovakia"
09:25 AM - Jul 29, 2023
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thread 3/13
"The war in #Ukraine is horrible, but the fact that
#russia wasn’t appeased is a sign that I’d like to think we have learnt something"
09:26 AM - Jul 29, 2023
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thread 4/13
“In the analogy we’re talking about, Russia is [Nazi] Germany. And I think that is generally productive as a comparison, but it’s also generally taboo.

And the fact that it’s generally taboo has been one of our problems from the beginning.”
09:27 AM - Jul 29, 2023
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thread 5/13
"People are “weirdly hesitant” to call Putin’s Russia fascist, he says. “But there are many levels on which the analogy [with Nazi Germany] holds.”
09:28 AM - Jul 29, 2023
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thread 6/13
“When Putin returned to the office of the presidency [in 2012] you could see in his Russian language proclamations, radio interviews and in print, a clear worldview, ... according to which it’s not about states, it’s about civilisations; it’s not about interests, it’s about missions.”
09:30 AM - Jul 29, 2023 (Edited)
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thread 7/13
“Putin is going to die, and when he does, does that mean everything else is forgiven? All of the crimes?
The deportations, the kidnappings of children, the rapes of women, the castrations of men, the murder of Ukraine’s elite?”
09:31 AM - Jul 29, 2023
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thread 8/13
"the last 30 years have shown quite clearly that we don’t actually have much ability at all to influence Russia . . . time after time we have demonstrated we don’t change anything inside Russia”
09:32 AM - Jul 29, 2023
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thread 9/13
"They don’t need for us to have our focus groups and our studies and our exit ramps. Anthropologically speaking, our exit ramps are not applicable to their highways"
09:33 AM - Jul 29, 2023 (Edited)
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thread 10/13
"In Russia, the west seems to forget it is not seeing a mirror nation-state to its own.

It is a different paradigm of power altogether, driven by “Weberian notions of charismatic leadership”
09:34 AM - Jul 29, 2023
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thread 11/13
“Russia can’t have a domestic policy

The elite have stolen all the money, all the laws are corrupted, and there’s almost no social mobility or possibility of change in most Russians’ lives, so foreign policy has to compensate and provide the raw material — the scenography — for governance.”
09:36 AM - Jul 29, 2023
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thread 12/13
“without history . . . the most idiotic myths become normal"
09:36 AM - Jul 29, 2023
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thread 13/13
“In the Odyssey, the sirens are so irresistible because they have the power to sing to each sailor only about himself.

Which is exactly the same algorithmic superpower that [smartphones have]”
09:38 AM - Jul 29, 2023 (Edited)
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