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Timothy Snyder

@TimothyDSnyder

3 years

1/20. Democracy is precious and exceptional.

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Timothy Snyder

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1 year

China has peaked, Russia is retreating, and Trump is done. There's hope, people.

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Timothy Snyder

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Russia has a hunger plan. Vladimir Putin is preparing to starve much of the developing world as the next stage in his war in Europe. 1/16

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Timothy Snyder

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1/10. The claim that Trump won the election is a Big Lie.

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Timothy Snyder

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In April 2016, I broke the story of Trump and Putin, using Russian open sources. Afterwards, I heard vague intimations that something was awry in the FBI in New York, specifically counter-intelligence and cyber. We now have a suggestion as to why. 0/20

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Timothy Snyder

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Credit where due. Biden warned of the Russian invasion. He reacted wisely and flexibly. And now he has gone to Kyiv to give hope. We haven’t had a statesman like this in a long time.

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Timothy Snyder

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For thirty years, Germans lectured Ukrainians about fascism. When fascism actually arrived, Germans funded it, and Ukrainians died fighting it.

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Timothy Snyder

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Ukrainian decathlete Volodymyr Androshchuk will not be representing his country at the Paris Olympics because he was just killed by the Russian armed forces. In other news, the IOC announces that Russian athletes are welcome in Paris.

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Timothy Snyder

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I have been hearing the idea from some Republicans that Ukrainian resistance comes at a cost to Americans. Nothing could be more wrong. Ukrainian resistance provides extraordinary security benefits to Americans. 1/

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Timothy Snyder

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Russia has a hunger plan. Vladimir Putin is preparing to starve much of the developing world as the next stage in his war in Europe. 1/16

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Timothy Snyder

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2 years

All of you who are saying that we have to give in to nuclear blackmail are making nuclear war more likely. Please stop. When you give in to it, you empower dictators to do it again, encourage worldwide nuclear proliferation, and make nuclear war much, much more likely.

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Timothy Snyder

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2 years

Invading a country, killing the parents, and taking the children for assimilation: that is clearly genocide, according to Article 2 Section E of the 1948 Genocide Convention.

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Все буде добре, все буде Україна.

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Timothy Snyder

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1 year

найвища честь для автора – читач

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When Putin says that there is no Ukrainian nation and no Ukrainian state, he means that he intends to destroy the Ukrainian nation and the Ukrainian state. Everyone gets that, right? #Ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar #UkraineUnderAttack

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0/10 The Nova Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine, controlled by Russia, has been destroyed. This brings humanitarian, ecological, and economic disaster to Ukrainians. Here are some guidelines for writing about this catastrophe.

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To consider regarding nuclear blackmail: when you give in to it, you empower dictators to do it again, encourage worldwide nuclear proliferation, and make nuclear war much, much more likely.

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Timothy Snyder

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It is senseless to shelter Putin from the sense that he is losing. He will figure that out for himself, and he will act to protect himself. 1/17

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Timothy Snyder

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Elon Musk seems to be censoring Ukrainians–denying them communications in parts of their own country–because they are defending themselves from a Russian regime that routinely imprisons people for speech. I guess his 'free speech absolutism' means the opposite of what I thought

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Timothy Snyder

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2 years

Israeli neutrality in Russia's genocidal war on Ukraine was always an ethical error. It is now perfectly clear that it was also a strategic disaster.

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Timothy Snyder

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3 years

The more we learn, the less this looks like a coup bound to fail, and the more it looks like plain luck that all of our legislators and our vice-president were not murdered.

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Timothy Snyder

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9 months

That Trump will be tried for his coup attempt is not a violation of his rights. It is a fulfillment of his rights. It is the grace of the American republic. In other systems, when your coup attempt fails, what follows is not a trial.

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Timothy Snyder

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2 years

From Ukrainian friends: “Editors and journalists: please don’t write about the ‘conflict in Ukraine.’ Write about the ‘Russian invasion of Ukraine’ or the ‘war in Ukraine.’” #UkraineInvasion #UkraineWar #Ukraine

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Timothy Snyder

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5 years

0/50 Why we do think that Mr. Trump owes a debt to Mr. Putin? Here are fifty reasons. All of the facts are a matter of public record, and all of the sources can be found in my book The Road to Unfreedom. #RoadToUnfreedom

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Timothy Snyder

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2 years

The only sane thing for the UK is to return to the EU as quickly as possible. There is no time for irony here.

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Timothy Snyder

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The Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether a US citizen is above the law – a proposition that, if affirmed, would destroy the moral, legal, and political foundations of the Court itself.

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Timothy Snyder

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7 months

Supporting Ukraine is a once-in-a-generation chance to make the world safer. Ending that support is recklessness for which we will suffer in all the conflicts that the Ukrainians are preventing or making less likely. Let us help those who help us.

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Timothy Snyder

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1/3. Respect for the 101 Republicans who voted their conscience on Ukraine aid despite all the propaganda and pressure.

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Timothy Snyder

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When Trump came to the White House, he whined that everything was a wreck, though it wasn’t. When Biden arrived at the White House, everything was a wreck, but he hasn’t complained at all. He’s just put things in order.

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Timothy Snyder

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1/7. Nearly two years in, nearly 700,000 dead, and no free at-home covid tests?

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Timothy Snyder

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1 year

Right after the McGonigal story broke, Kevin McCarthy ejected Adam Schiff from the House intelligence committee. Schiff is expert on Russian influence operations. It exhibits carelessness about national security to exclude him. It is downright suspicious to exclude him now. 16/20

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Timothy Snyder

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Cutting off Ukraine aid makes America unreliable, weakens the cause of democracy, threatens the international legal order, encourages tyrants around the world, and hastens Chinese aggression.

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Timothy Snyder

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The Ukrainian army is undertaking a stunningly intelligent counteroffensive, and the Ukrainian president helps me with my book about the philosophy of freedom.

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1/11. Putin absurdly claims he has to invade Ukraine to protect Russian-speakers. Russian speakers in Ukraine are far more free than Russian speakers in Russia.

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Timothy Snyder

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2 years

Two million views of my open Yale lecture class on the history of Ukraine. The first lecture is here.

Timothy Snyder: The Making of Modern Ukraine. Class 1: Ukrainian...

Class 1 is an introduction to the course and an exploration of questions raised by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Pro...

www.youtube.com

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сила з нами. і щастя також

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Timothy Snyder

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3 months

Putin just took a couple of hours to say: "I must destroy Ukraine because I have no idea what Russia is."

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1/2. All I can say about Russia is what I have been saying for a year: wars end when the domestic political system is under pressure.

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Russia is planning to starve Asians and Africans in order to win its war in Europe. This is a new level of colonialism, and the latest chapter of hunger politics. 16/16

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1 year

The McGonigal question goes even beyond these issues. He had authority in the most sensitive possible investigations within U.S. intelligence. Sorting this out will require a concern for the United States that goes beyond party loyalty. 20/20

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Timothy Snyder

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1 year

Pollsters: please ask no more questions about the "situation in Ukraine" or the "crisis in Ukraine." Please ask about "the Russian invasion of Ukraine" or "Russia's war on Ukraine." That is an actual event on which people have views.

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Timothy Snyder

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What Putin did to Navalny is what Trump says he can do to you.

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Timothy Snyder

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10/10. Politicians who do not tell the simple truth perpetuate the Big Lie, further an alternative reality, support conspiracy theories, weaken democracy, and foment violence far worse than that of January 6, 2021.

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Timothy Snyder

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1 year

Vyshyvanka Day

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It is senseless to shelter Putin from the sense that he is losing. He will figure that out for himself, and he will act to protect himself. 1/17

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1/10. Cruz et al do not allege fraud, they allege allegations of fraud.

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9/20. What Donald Trump is attempting to do has a name: coup d'état. Poorly organized though it might seem, it is not bound to fail. It must be made to fail.

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Today was the anniversary of the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland. The Second World War began with a Nazi-Soviet alliance. It is illegal to say so in Russia. In Germany, where people are free to reflect upon this, it would not be a bad idea to do so.

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Trump's allies are selling out Ukraine in exchange for Russian backing in the election. 1/

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The person who led the relevant section, Charles McGonigal, has just been charged with taking money from the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. Follow this thread to see just how this connects to the victory of Trump, the Russian war in Ukraine, and U.S. national security. 1/20

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Де я?

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When an oligarch says "free speech," he means "my power to shut you up." When an oligarch says "free speech absolutism," he means "my absolute power to shut you up."

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The Russian influence operation to get Trump elected was real. It serves no one to pretend otherwise. We are still learning about it. Denying that it happened makes the United States vulnerable to ongoing Russian operations. 18/20

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I will be teaching a lecture class on "The Making of Modern Ukraine" this fall at Yale. I will see what I can do about making lectures public.

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3 years

A presidential pardon "carries an imputation of guilt" and its acceptance is a "confession." Burdick v. United States, 236 U.S. 79 (1915)

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I remember a certain frivolity from 2016. Trump was a curiosity. Russia was irrelevant. Nothing to take seriously. Then Trump was elected, blocked weapon sales to Ukraine, and tried to stage a coup. Now Ukrainians are dying every day in the defining conflict of our time. 19/20

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2 years

Putin's rule is weakening. 0/

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Timothy Snyder

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8 months

Because Russia has destroyed hundreds of thousands of tons of Ukrainian grain, people throughout Africa and Asia will be priced out of grain markets and starve. In this sense, and from the beginning, Russia's war in Ukraine was a war against the world.

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9/10. There is a cure for the Big Lie. Our elected representatives should tell the truth, without dissimulation, about the results of the 2020 election.

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1/10. The claim that Trump won the election is a big lie.

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Ending the war means thinking more about the Ukrainian people and their future, and and worrying less about problems that Putin does not in fact have. 17/17

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Looking at all of this from a great distance, of course, but wouldn’t the best economic, trade, and financial policy for Great Britain just now be to join the European Union...?

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Ukrainian celebrities are dying at the front. American celebrities, please use your platforms to make it clear that Russian attacks on civilians are criminal. #Ukraine #UkraineUnderAttack #UkraineRussiaWar

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1/8. Russia has a history of aiming for quick and decisive strikes against Ukraine, failing, then revealing the aims of the operation in media prepared on the assumption of success.

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Speaking of paying our share… If the US gave as much/GDP to Ukraine as does Denmark or Slovakia, Ukraine would win easily. If we gave as much/GDP to Ukraine as Estonia does, Ukraine would likely have won long ago. Ukrainian victory is what matters and we are the slackers.

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Timothy Snyder

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Russian murder and abduction of local Ukrainian elites today resembles Soviet and German policy during their joint occupation of Poland in 1939.

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As Ukraine re-establishes control over de-occupied territories, authorities once again have to chronicle Russian atrocities: torture facilities (everywhere), mass graves (Izyum), the absence of men (Horlivka). Russia’s war was genocidal in conception and is genocidal in practice.

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Timothy Snyder

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Now would be a great time for everyone on Twitter to subscribe to a newspaper.

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An explosion on the Kerch Bridge, which connected the Russian mainland to Crimea, cripples Russian logistics and dissolves the major symbol of Putin’s power.

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In an effort to get Americans to vote for a rapist, Senator Britt lied about the sexual violence experienced by another woman.

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Let's pay attention to Belarus these next few days.

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Ukraine is the only country in the world facing ballistic missile attacks. It can be defended by Patriot systems unused or in storage elsewhere. This needs to happen now.

Ambassador Bridget A. Brink

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Last night Russia launched more than 40 drones and 40 missiles into Ukraine. Kharkiv’s critical infrastructure alone was struck by 10 missiles, and other cities including Lviv and Zaporizhzhia were impacted. The situation in Ukraine is dire; there is not a moment to lose.

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Timothy Snyder

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So the Russian officer (Girkin) who started the Donbas war in 2014 is in jail, the only Russian general to carry out a successful maneuver in 2022 (Surovikin) has been relieved of duty, and the only Russian commander to take a city in 2023 (Prigozhin) has been murdered.

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2 years

Russia has now forcibly deported 300,000 Ukrainian children to its own territory in order to assimilate them.

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Timothy Snyder

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1 year

Russia never went through the procedure of joining the UN, and yet it is about to chair its Security Council, even as it fights a war of aggression and commits atrocities. This should be stopped.

The Danger of Russia Becoming President of the U.N.

The U.N. is about to allow the fox to guard the chicken coop. Russia must be stopped

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Somehow, despite all the evidence of the last year, despite Ukraine taking back most of its territory, despite victories at Kyiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, much of the American media has fallen back into the default that Ukraine can't do much against Russia. Very odd.

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1/6. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is also, in a sense, a Russian imperial war on its own non-Russian minorities.

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People seem puzzled as to why Trump kept the documents. That’s easy. To feel important. To pretend to be the president. And to have something to sell when the other scams failed.

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A sign of Russian colonialism is that politicians and propagandists really did not understand that people in other countries are allowed to defend themselves when Russia invades.

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In April 2016, I broke the story of Trump and Putin, using Russian open sources. Afterwards, I heard vague intimations that something was awry in the FBI in New York, specifically counter-intelligence and cyber. We now have a suggestion as to why. 0/20

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Timothy Snyder

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Please help me protect life in Ukraine. Russia has targeted Ukrainian civilians and civilian infrastructure. This means the water supplies and energy supplies that people need to stay alive, especially throughout the winter. Last winter Russia tried to freeze the Ukrainians. 1/

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Timothy Snyder

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We are on the edge of a spy scandal with major implications for how we understand the Trump administration, our national security, and ourselves.

The Specter of 2016

McGonigal, Trump, and the Truth about America

snyder.substack.com

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7/10. A Big Lie can never be told just by one person. Trump is the originator of this Big Lie, but it could never have flourished without his allies on Capitol Hill.

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"A group of Russian nationals were able to donate to newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson's campaign in 2018 by funneling the money through a U.S. company." – Ewan Palmer, Newsweek

Mike Johnson's campaign contributions from company tied to Russia

The Louisiana Republican's team previously said it returned all the money it received from a company predominantly owned by Russian nationals in 2018.

www.newsweek.com

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Timothy Snyder

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This war only ends when Ukraine wins. Ukraine only wins when it has the right weapons. That’s a problem we can solve.

Opinion | The West Leaves Ukraine Outgunned Against Russia

Putin’s army has far more and longer-range artillery. Kyiv’s allies are helping, but it isn’t nearly enough.

www.wsj.com

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1 year

If it was once your fate to claim that Russia had to invade Ukraine because of NATO or Nazis, it now falls to you to explain that Russia did so because of Satan.

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"Everything Musk thought he was making better, he made worse. Since then, Musk has doubled down, spreading the very Russian propaganda that made him a dupe, and moving closer to a common fascist position with Putin."

Elon Musk likes to think he saved us from Armageddon. He’s just brought it closer | Timothy Snyder

Whatever his new biography says, by giving into Russia’s nuclear blackmail the X boss can only encourage more threats from Putin

www.theguardian.com

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Trump & Yanukovych were similar figures: interested in money, & in power to make or shield money. And therefore vulnerable partners for Putin. They also shared a political advisor: Paul Manafort. He worked for Yanukovych from 2005-2015, taking over Trump's campaign in 2016. 3/20

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Please help me protect life in Ukraine. Russia has targeted Ukrainian civilians and civilian infrastructure. This means the water supplies and energy supplies that people need to stay alive, especially throughout the winter. Last winter Russia tried to freeze the Ukrainians. 1/

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3. Citing Russian claims next to Ukrainian claims is unfair to the Ukrainians. What Russian spokespersons have said has almost always been untrue, whereas what Ukrainian spokespersons have said has largely been reliable. The juxtaposition suggests a false equality.

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Russia is murdering Ukrainian civilians on a large scale with horrifying weapons. Getting the Ukrainians air defense, tanks, and long-range missiles is the only way to halt this terrorism and end this war.

Russians target apartment building in Dnipro with “carrier killer”

The Russians hit an apartment building in the city of Dnipro with an Kh-22 missile designed to destroy aircraft carrier groups at sea.

www.pravda.com.ua

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The reason I was thinking about Trump & Putin in 2016 was a pattern. Russia had sought to control Ukraine, using social media, money, & a pliable head of state. Russia backed Trump the way that it had backed Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, in the hopes of soft control 2/20

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Back in June 2016, Kevin McCarthy expressed his suspicion that Donald Trump was under Putin's influence. He and other Republican members concluded that the risk of an embarrassment to their party was more important than American security. #RoadToUnfreedom , p. 255. 17/20

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Timothy Snyder

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A year and a half ago, Russia undertook a large-scale invasion of Ukraine. Since that time, Ukraine has taken back more than half of the territory then lost. If we don't let them down, the Ukrainians will win this war, and bring us a more secure world.

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It helps to know history. It gives you a sense of dignity and confidence amidst the propaganda of war and genocide. Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski demonstrates this here at the UN.

Kancelaria Premiera

@PremierRP

2 months

Minister @MSZ_RP @sikorskiradek podczas wczorajszego wystąpienia w #ONZ o prezentacji rosyjskiego ambasadora: Kijów nie jest klientem Zachodu. Kijów walczy o niezależność, a Ukraina ma demokratycznie wybrany rząd i nie jest zbrodniczym reżimem. To Rosja próbowała eksterminować…