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Damir Marusic

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5 months

The biggest blindspot liberal democracies have when facing their opponents is a belief the belief that the value of human life is a universal ideal.

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The answer, of course, is to publish all worthy arguments fearlessly. That’s the job. That an increasing number of people don’t understand this is depressing.

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@SaoSasha Surf and turf, reimagined.

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The negotiations have always been deadlocked on Sinwar demanding an end to the war (allowing him to declare victory) and Israel refusing for that very reason. It's why I've never held out much hope for a meaningful deal. And why I'm betting Rafah will happen.

Barak Ravid

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BREAKING: Netanyahu told Blinken during their meeting today he won't accept a deal that will include ending the war. He said if Hamas doesn't drop this demand there will be no deal and Israel will invade Rafah, per Israeli and U.S. officials

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To imagine a world without tribalism is to imagine a world without human beings. This kind of idealism is beyond useless.

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This is precisely why I am not a Zionist: the Holocaust teaches us that ethnostates, by definition, inherently delineate outsiders who must be excluded, or even exterminated. The goal of an ethnostate inherently contains the seeds of genocide.

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The point of protests is not to “be heard”. It is to provoke violence and galvanize opinion. It is inherently polarizing, and its logic is the heightening of contradictions.

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2 months

OK, this is a question only Balkan twitter can answer: WTF is this? (I found this CD-ROM lying around the Washington Post DC office.)

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5 months

@MacaesBruno Fair point.

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American credibility is not based on “the world” thinking America is “one of the good guys”. This is pure self-regard. Most of the world doesn’t moralize about international affairs, and recognizes that the system’s inherent anarchy is brutal.

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It’s worth recalling that the United States lost every single one of its “hearts-and-minds” wars, at great cost: Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. It’s an alluring strategy with a pretty crap track record.

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This is not being “implied.” It’s explicit.

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@BrankoMilan Tony Judt, Postwar.

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2 months

The truth is that tourism is devouring everything. The search for “authenticity” is its engine. Just stay home, don’t go anywhere.

Alessandra Bocchi

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2 months

Don’t go here. It used to be great, not anymore. It’s for rich Hollywood celebrities who want insta selfies. All the shops look exactly the same, it’s entirely catered to tourists. It’s a caricature. Zero authenticity. If you want to find authentic places to visit, DM me.

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Worth noting that the hubris is tied to our techno-optimism, which in turn is fueled by us facing inferior opponents for decades. The war in Ukraine is a real war, the first real war we've seen in a long while — a war that is a test of endurance and sacrifice, not gadgetry.

Elbridge Colby

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11 days

We shouldn't be so hubristic to think that our ways and stuff are always the best. We should be humble and take nothing for granted. "Ukrainian crews working on US-supplied Abrams tanks have told CNN of a series of the weaknesses and flaws with the armored vehicles, calling

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@shadihamid Also: Hanania’s idea that we used to win wars because we were more brutal is ahistoric, and only betrays his weird arousal by violence. We lost Vietnam. We killed plenty of people. We lost Iraq. We killed plenty of people. We lost Afghanistan. We killed plenty of people.

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If you liked your student protests up until now, wait until Israel goes into Rafah this week and the Biden administration does nothing but wring its hands.

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4 months

Navalny's politics weren't complicated. He knew what mobilized people: not universal values, but outrage against widespread theft by a clique of thugs. He informed, but also mocked. He brought down the powerful to a place where the common man can easily spit on them.

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5 months

Ah yes, the formidable deterrent effect of International Law. That solves it. Taiwan considers joining international criminal court to deter potential China invasion - The Guardian

Taiwan considers joining international criminal court to deter potential China invasion

Joining court would allow investigation of Xi Jinping if he were to order act of war against Taiwan

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4 months

Terrific piece.

The west shouldn’t beg for its reputation

Dislike of the US and its allies is often muddled and vexatious

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4 months

Your periodic reminder that Biden’s biggest blunder was reassuring European allies upon his election, encouraging complacency that is still not fully extirpated.

Trump says he would ‘encourage’ Russia to attack NATO allies who don’t pay up

White House blasts the former president’s comments as “appalling and unhinged.”

www.politico.eu

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1 month

Point 1 is absolutely crucial. And few people in the United States seem to be able to grasp it.

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1 month

This is a good thread that mostly reflects what I think happened. Three points strike me as particularly important here: 1) The idea that Israel's behavior can entirely or even mostly be explained by Netanyahu's desire to cling to power is wishful thinking on the part of people

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5 months

@shashj The West said it was up to Ukrainians to define victory. And Zelensky naturally talked about freeing all occupied territories. I'm not saying there's some nefarious plot here. It all makes sense. But we journalists also shouldn't pretend like the talking points haven't shifted.

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11 months

@michaeldweiss Yeah, they didn't like those guys either, even if they paid homage to them in public.

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Gross.

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5 months

There are so many people out there who have no idea what a war crime is.

hasanabi

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5 months

this was an american war crime on retreating forces and civilians called “highway of death” where a6 intruder jets bombed the front of the vehicle column to cause a pile up, boxing in thousands of cars they kept bombing for 10 hrs straight, you polish-govt-funded fascist freak

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6 months

@born_sage @DamonLinker @drayckes I’m exactly where Damon is at. You can try to unspool this mess to find who’s fully to blame, but at this point, we’re all circling the drain together. And the biggest damage is to the legitimacy of the whole system, which is — in my opinion — an even bigger problem than Trump.

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7 months

@whsieh Possibility: they’ve already written them off — have done the calculus that both Hizballah and Iran would suffer catastrophic losses in a wider war, regret green-lighting October 7, and have chosen to fight another day. Nasrallah’s speech may have even demoralized and hurt Hamas.

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11 months

In any case, it is notable how complete US victory on this issue was. No criticism coming from defeated EU capitals.

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5 months

@RedIsDead Bet on cynical.

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6 months

At some point, America will snap out of its senescent slumber. And it will be really ugly for everyone that took too many lessons to heart from the desperately status quo Biden Administration.

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6 months

BREAKING: Iran's Revolutionary Guards claim they can shut down the Strait of Gibraltar and access to the Mediterranean Sea

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The reality of international relations is that states will constantly try to push their advantage until it is demonstrated fully to them that they can go no further. Intellectualized peace-loving rationalism by the hegemon leads to tragic miscalculations.

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6 months

Terrific by @samuelmoyn .

The Liberal Plot Against Democracy

On Tuesday, the Colorado Supreme Court held that Donald Trump isn’t allowed to appear on state ballots in the 2024 election cycle because the former president engaged in “insurrection,” disqualifying...

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2 months

@phl43 @tedfrank Someone who wants to party! It’s right there on the label.

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6 months

It’s time for all Europeans, but *especially* CEE countries, to realize that the United States will not always be there.

Justin Bronk

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6 months

New for RUSI today We must invest urgently in ammunition production capacity to make Ukraine's war effort sustainable, we may have only a few years to get Europe's own defences in order against Russia, and why the US may not be coming to save us next time:

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Eric Schmidt: Well, one of the things that . . . it’s always useful to remind the techno-optimists in my world, is that there are evil people. Evil should be the starting point for *anyone* thinking about *anything*.

Mapping AI’s Rapid Advance | NOEMA

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt weighs in on where AI is headed, when to “pull the plug” and how to cope with China.

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6 months

Funny watching nervous Europeans on my timeline hail the Colorado decision as somehow making Trump less likely. Sorry, friends, the opposite is true.

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3 months

The most disturbing thing I've read about all week is this phenomenon of people snapping their fingers in acclamation.

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4 months

Heroic, brave, charismatic, funny — acid to the gray Soviet-era thieves that dominate Russia today. They had to get rid of him. It's a sad day today, when they finally did.

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Some fragments on what Steve Albini meant to me.

The Pursuit of Passion for its Own Sake

Steve Albini, RIP.

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6 months

@born_sage @DamonLinker @drayckes I hope it goes without saying that I believe Trump is a huge problem, and his re-election has literally kept me up at night pondering the unponderable. But Damon is getting at something bigger, and even worse. Trump is a poison and an accelerant of a more profound cancer.

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2 months

Been away for a bit — and properly disconnected from the internet. I find the whole campus protest story not even slightly compelling. Is it me?

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17 days

These kinds of provocations should be met with unreasonable overreaction. Gray-zone shenanigans are one thing, touching NATO borders is another.

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17 days

Russia is testing a new angle of its hybrid aggression - provocations against the definition and demarcation of NATO borders. Yesterday news spread on 🇷🇺 alleged (?) intentions to unilaterally redraw sea borders with 🇱🇹 and 🇫🇮, today 🇷🇺 removed 🇪🇪 buoys on the Narva lake, an

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The President of Croatia, Zoran Milanovic, an irascible left-populist, has announced new parliamentary elections in April, and has put himself forward as a candidate. This is illegal under the constitution. If he wins, expect Croatia to drift out of the European mainstream.

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I come here not to praise the liberal world order, but to bury it.

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6 months

Narrative shift whiplash. Staggering.

The Biden Administration Is Quietly Shifting Its Strategy in Ukraine

For two years, Biden and Zelenskyy have been focused on driving Russia from Ukraine. Now Washington is discussing a move to a more defensive posture.

www.politico.com

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6 months

A few days late to yet another gorgeous @b_judah piece over at @unherd . Read it.

Jerusalem is Israel's future

Extremism has punctured the city's secular dream

unherd.com

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17 days

Sweet! The United States will help run one group of Palestinians, funded by the Saudis, to hunt down another group of Palestinians, funded by Iran, in what is likely to be a prolonged low-grade civil war.

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NEW: The Biden administration is considering appointing a U.S. official to serve as the top civilian adviser to a mostly Palestinian force when the Israel-Hamas conflict ends, four U.S. officials said

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2 months

Monday Note done just dropped — some thoughts inspired by the great @lea_ypi . Hope to have her on @WCrowdsLive for a chat before too long.

The Importance of Questioning Everything

And believing in something.

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8 months

@shadihamid Done dropped.

Hamas’ Bid for Revolutionary Legitimacy

By focusing on the gruesomeness of the violence, we miss the political dimension of what's going on.

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11 months

@tretyamirovaya @SlawomirDebski Europe still has NATO. And nuclear deterrence works. At the end of the day, Ukraine can be sacrificed. It’s not ideal, but Europe would adapt. That limit disparity has been the key to the dirty game since day one. The values talk is a smokescreen.

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11 months

@SevaUT Are realists surprised by patron-seeking? They mostly seem to be agitated by moral arguments for solidarity with clients.

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@ABarbashin @SlawomirDebski Asia is the future. Europe is increasingly an afterthought. And this is a trend much deeper than Trumpism. Europeans should wake up.

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8 months

@HafedAlGhwell @shadihamid @WCrowdsLive I’ve been arguing for as long I’ve been able to argue that countries are not NGOs, and foreign policy is always a bitter set of compromises. Don’t be distracted by rhetoric.

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5 months

True. But not enunciated loudly or often enough. "Whatever it takes, for however long it takes" was the clearer rallying cry all year.

Shashank Joshi

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5 months

This confuses me because the goal at the start of this year was also “improving its position in an eventual negotiation.” The suggestion that only “total victory” was in mind is simply wrong.

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The funny thing about fights over newspaper op-eds is that they imagine the power of newspapers to shape their readers’ opinions is vast. It assumes readers are fools and are incapable of reading critically and making up their own minds.

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@SevaUT “Hot dog garden” is a uniquely disquieting image.

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Backwards way of thinking about it. Better question: what does it say about the perceived legitimacy of our institutions that one party is set to nominate someone accused of undermining them.

Orin Kerr

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6 months

We can debate whether Trump is disqualified from office under the 14th Amendment. But it is bananas that one party seems set to nominate someone about whom it is a genuine question whether his past conduct amounts to "insurrection or rebellion" against the United States.

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@phl43 I agree about the double standard. But unfortunately, it goes the other way: the "crimes against humanity" high dudgeon against the Russians is misplaced. We decided we back Ukraine's right to exist, and everything flows from that decision. International law is rhetoric.

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5 months

In some ways, we are growing more aligned — they are obviously "constructs of power". But abandon the notion that they can be deconstructed and reformed. That's obviously nonsense.

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This war is making me question some core assumptions, about what the "international community" or "Western civilization" actually mean, or if they're better understood as constructs of power. The fact I'd even say something like this suggests my critical theory grad school days

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Re-upping this as negotiations (shockingly!) falter yet again.

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1 month

The negotiations have always been deadlocked on Sinwar demanding an end to the war (allowing him to declare victory) and Israel refusing for that very reason. It's why I've never held out much hope for a meaningful deal. And why I'm betting Rafah will happen.

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There’s a belief among Europeans that all that’s missing to pass Ukraine aid is vigor in selling the idea to the American people. I’m not sure that’s true. It may be more true that the defining fact of America today is partisanship. And Ukraine has become a partisan football.

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Beautifully rendered, savage pessimism by @DrRadchenko . Must read.

Hope for Russia has died with Navalny

It was brave. It was foolhardy. It was almost unbelievable. After his near-fatal poisoning by the Russian Federal Security Service, Alexey Navalny returned to Russia. He was taken away as he disemb...

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There are some dimwit Machiavellians in the White House, it seems. Dunning-Kruger Machiavellians.

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🚨The White House informed Israeli War cabinet member Minister Benny Gantz and Defense Minister Yoav Galant in advance about President Biden's speech and gave them general details about its contents, a U.S. official told me 🚨The U.S. official said that the White House was

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I partied with @OsitaNwanevu and @samuelmoyn last week. The crowd participated. We recorded it. It's a podcast episode now.

Samuel Moyn and Osita Nwanevu on Voters vs Judges

A Wisdom of Crowds live show.

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@shadihamid Now properly internalize it. All of it is rhetoric.

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I have a temptation to question everything. Is that a dead end?

The Importance of Questioning Everything

And believing in something.

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I have no idea what effect this conviction will have. I'm exhausted by thinking about it at all. That said, the raw tawdriness of the whole case is somehow very appropriate here.

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Re-reading some Dostoevsky. —— “By the way, a Bulgarian I met recently in Moscow,” Ivan Fyodorovich went on, as if he were not listening to his brother, “told me how the Turks and Circassians there, in Bulgaria, have been committing atrocities everywhere, fearing a general

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@StevenErlanger @hanskundnani But I agree, I don’t really care for the moralizing around cluster bombs. That’s peacetime make-work for NGOs.

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4 months

Light evening reading: on science fiction and consciousness. Daniel Dennett, the Three Body Problem, Philip K. Dick, schizophrenia, dementia — this one's got it all.

The Magic of Madness

Don't look too hard at consciousness. You might get dizzy.

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This is not just the Israeli experience and perspective, it is also a correct read of the world. Universals are the wrong path.

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This is not true, but it does hint at a deep truth. Yes, the American Jewish lesson from the Holocaust is to double down on tolerance and liberalism for all, because American Jews believe they were saved from the 20th century by these features of America. But Israeli Jews

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Military coming to grips with the lessons of Ukraine (and to a lesser extent October 7): technological overmatch alone is not enough. 1/2

Taking aim: Army leaders ponder mix of precision munitions vs conventional

Three four-star US Army generals this week weighed in with their opinions about finding the right balance between conventional and high-tech munitions - but the answers aren't easy.

breakingdefense.com

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7 months

@whsieh Iran calls the shots and sees Hezballah as its best non-nuclear deterrent against Israeli adventurism. Hamas was a good supplement to that, but they seem to have miscalculated in its use. So maybe calculus is to lick wounds and take the L.

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I mean, it’s just global interconnectedness. Climate change activists learn lessons from each other, too. Same thing. And no putting the genie back in the bottle.

Nils Gilman

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I am generally averse to conspiracy theories, but in this case there are ample receipts showing that illiberals worldwide are learning from and collaborating with one another.

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I’m retweeting this for general amusement/interest. But also to marvel at the idea that people clearly like engaging on neighborhood Facebook groups. This is some kind of modern Tocquevillianism. It’s a facet of America that is most foreign to me.

David Klion

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A Palestinian restaurant, by all accounts excellent, just opened in my neighborhood. The menu includes “from the river to the sea” with a note that the phrase is not a call for violence, but for freedom. The neighborhood FB group is already in complete chaos over this.

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@michaeldweiss They weren't quite as desperately dependent, though.

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3 months

Have almost fully switched over to reading the news rather than looking for what people are discussing on Twitter. Feels real good.

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Some read this as some kind of indictment of America. I merely look at this and say "Good!" This is Europe's war to win — or lose. Ukraine is Europe's moment to, for the first time, proudly stand on its own two feet.

Shashank Joshi

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3 months

Hell of a stat. “Rheinmetall in Germany is producing way more 155 artillery shells than the entire US defense industry combined.”

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Lots of profound advice coming from generals about brilliant US counterinsurgency campaigns. Lest we forget, the United States was embarrassed in Afghanistan, and was pushed out of Iraq. Put them both in the L column.

Biden admin openly hammering Israel’s military strategy in Gaza

A parade of top officials has ratcheted up their criticism of Israel, signaling deep frustration with the country’s anti-Hamas campaign.

www.politico.com

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9 months

@ollywiseman @TheFP @bariweiss Congrats Ollie!

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6 months

Events are not driven by rational deliberation but by empirical testing of limits of power.

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4 months

So much US writing about US aid to Ukraine not coming through is self-centered — what will the Europeans think of us? FWIW, my sincere hope is that Ukraine aid somehow comes through, but Europeans are nevertheless permanently disabused of the idea that the US is there with them.

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I suppose that's true as far as it goes. But it doesn't go very far. International law doesn't exist outside the means to enforce it. And the "international community" is a mirage for similar reasons: it cannot actually do anything.

Glenn Greenwald

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Top Biden officials are compelled -- by self-interest -- to defend Israel's war in Gaza because they're the ones financing it, providing the weapons for it, diplomatically shielding it, and vowing that support is unconditional. If Israel's war is criminal, then they're liable:

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@ZaidJilani Honestly? I couldn't make it far enough in that piece to get to the part you're put off by. If Twitter was destroying brains and making writers incapable of longer thoughts, I feel like Substack is feeding self-indulgence. I don't have time or patience for pieces like these.

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I live a happily cloistered life.

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Damir Marusic

@dmarusic

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Don’t understand escalation in foreign affairs? Go to your local bar and watch how fights usually go.

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Damir Marusic

@dmarusic

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In that context, European allies coming to DC to advocate is also somewhere between useless and counterproductive.

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Damir Marusic

@dmarusic

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@aaririon @BrunoTertrais Because it is a well-known American film trope that all foreigners speak in a British accent. That's how we know they're foreigners.

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Damir Marusic

@dmarusic

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@FHeisbourg @ZelenskyyUa Zelensky is right to be suspicious.

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Damir Marusic

@dmarusic

2 months

Democracy.

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Damir Marusic

@dmarusic

26 days

Also worth thinking about how we got to this fetishization of "smart" weapons. I think part of it had to do with meeting the needs of "sanitizing" war — an imperative after Vietnam. Story of this is told well by @samuelmoyn in Humane. 2/2

Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War

www.amazon.com

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Damir Marusic

@dmarusic

6 months

@shadihamid This is why you shouldn't listen to John Lennon.

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Damir Marusic

@dmarusic

5 months

The only thing less likely to be put on hold to save the planet than economic growth is war.

Emissions from Israel’s war in Gaza have ‘immense’ effect on climate catastrophe

Exclusive: First months of conflict produced more planet-warming gases than 20 climate-vulnerable nations do in a year, study shows

www.theguardian.com

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Damir Marusic

@dmarusic

6 months

Only first read it a few years ago myself. Warmly recommend.

Lea Ypi

@lea_ypi

6 months

Such a dark, funny and heartbreaking family history set amidst the collapse of the Habsburg Empire. A little embarrassing to reveal that my favourite read of 2023 is a book published in 1932. But not too late for others to learn from my mistake…

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Damir Marusic

@dmarusic

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@phl43 Where am I off, here? What is international law but a feeble effort to civilize anarchy through the force of ideas? It can only meaningfully hold under global hegemony. It's why it got more currency after 1989. But it's a chimera.

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Damir Marusic

@dmarusic

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Worse than that, it has *always* sounded like a load of self-satisfied rhetoric to non-Western democratic, semi-democratic, and undemocratic allies across the world. It’s pure vanity and self-regard, and leads to incoherent policy and decisionmaking.

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Damir Marusic

@dmarusic

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I’m shocked.

Von der Leyen kicks can down road on Ukraine accession talks

The European Commission was expected to move forward on a negotiation framework in the next few weeks.

www.politico.eu

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Damir Marusic

@dmarusic

1 year

@SevaUT The full joke: Ancient Greek man goes to tailor with ripped pants. Tailor says, Euripides? Man replies, Eumenides?

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Damir Marusic

@dmarusic

1 year

Here’s @RachelRizzo ’s terrific essay that prompted the conversation. I really can’t recommend it enough. Just beautifully written, and incredibly thought-provoking. I really hope she keeps stretching outside of her regular comfort zone.

Do Liberals Have a God Problem?

How therapy has replaced religion on dating apps—and everywhere else.

wisdomofcrowds.live

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Damir Marusic

@dmarusic

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Waiting with bated breath to see Biden administration's reaction on ICC.

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