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Russia watcher supreme. @meduza.io English-language managing editor. Ugly American based in Portland, Oregon. Signal: @KevinRothrock.01 / Find all my junk here: https://linktr.ee/kevinrothrock
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[monkey paw finger curls]
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No need for name-calling, dude.
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Godspeed
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Saying that Stanovaya wants to cater to Putin is simply wrong.
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Stanovaya doesn't advocate catering to Russian security concerns, but she does try to articulate them as Moscow understands them, which is her job as an analyst. Reasonable analysts can and do disagree with her interpretation of those concerns, but seeing them as advocacy is plain wrong.
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Perhaps. Or it could be Spiderweb's sheer audacity.
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gotta upgrade your tech
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That's a little too mature for the smaller ones, but it is a fantastic movie of course.
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Narrator: "It could always get worse."
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Children today are largely resistant to 2D animation, sadly. And I'm not watching Space Jam 2.
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If citizens were consulted on every national security risk, we'd be living in a very different world indeed!
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Worth the risk for their home countries and the world as a whole, I meant. Their work and work by such individuals is a public service (even if it's for relatively narrow audiences, of course). This is my view, anyway.
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There's also a whole Cold War aspect, an opportunity for the DPs with anti-communism and immigration, and as an embarrassment for Moscow, accelerating the conflict with the West. This is apparently key in Fitzpatrick's book, but I skipped that in my post.
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I can't imagine that Fitzpatrick doesn't, and I don't think Pedersen goes quite that far in her criticism, but the "lucky" rhetoric is presumably inflammatory by design. The "whiteness" of most "Soviet DPs" is the easiest example (at least for Americans) of widespread privilege.
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Clearly anyone who thinks it's inherently safe is mistaken, but continued fieldwork, whether by scholars or journalists, is extremely valuable. Perhaps you feel otherwise, but I for one am grateful for people like Jeremy Morris and Steve Rosenberg and believe their work is worth its risks.
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That's not what's happening here.
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Indeed.
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Surely the scholars still risking field work are more likely to ditch ASEEES membership than turn their back on their research? The former is nice career-wise, but the latter is essential for some.
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The people spoke!
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lol I'm arguing with a nafoid. shame on me.
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🥱
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Full-scale mobilization would be the most obvious escalation. He could also pursue further annexations, expand attacks on Kyiv's Western supply chain, intensify infrastructure strikes on Ukraine itself, etc. It's an unpleasant imagination game, but unfortunately, there are myriad possibilities.
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Aggressive nationalists (or imperialists, for that matter) are still capable of pragmatism.
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🫩
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America will never be free of its original sin.
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America used to have slaveowners as president, so we’ve done worse.
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one night at a time, Brian
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Lindsey Graham would have had a stroke seeing this, if he’d been in office at the time.
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This looks less like a cash grab for the state than a redistribution of assets within the industry.