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Levin Professor of History at Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," with 20 new lessons on Ukraine, "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
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The premise of American foreign policy to Ukraine, today, is one of grievance. It is worth patiently considering the proposals. They reveal little about Ukraine, but much about America in February 2025. snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the...

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Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it. understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

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Musk will now sue Bannon for not paying to use the Sieg Heil feature on Twitter

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Germans have been subjected to covert Russian propaganda as well as overt American propaganda - jointly in support of the far-right www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/w...

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The DoD has never passed an audit and no doubt its spending should be reviewed. But Sec Hegseth knows little about how DoD works, and less about national security. It would be a good idea to bring in some expertise rather than just throwing the axes.  www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

submitted 10 hours ago • 214 comments

This is an excellent and timely factsheet on Ukraine, U.S. v. European security assistance, and other misunderstood or lied about aspects of the war, by our friends at @thestudyofwar.bsky.social. I'll summarize a few main points below, with additional sources of my own:

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Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

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Helpful explanations here. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

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Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

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The premise of American foreign policy to Ukraine, today, is one of grievance. It is worth patiently considering the proposals. They reveal little about Ukraine, but much about America in February 2025. snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the...

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Such hostile nonsense from Americans in power just now. I wish we would listen to people who have suffered for reporting the truth, like Stanislav Aseyev, combat veteran and survivor of a Russian torture camp.

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François Heisbourg, one of the world’s leading strategists and a cool head:

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Don’t usually like this genre, but interesting here to see how Musk-Trump’s Putinist stance on Ukraine brings out articulate agreement on some fundamental issues. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

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"The increase to Musk's wealth since Trump was elected president three months ago is greater than all of the American aid given to Ukraine over the last three years."-- @timothysnyder.bsky.social

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Americans proposed that Ukraine concede half of the profits from its mineral rights in perpetuity... in exchange for essentially nothing. This is not a monetary proposition, let alone a "deal," but rather the demand that Ukraine become a permanent American colony. snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the...

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Trump:Canada=Putin:Ukraine. Rhetorically. One more expression of Trump’s admiration for Putin. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Great time to follow David Pepper and read his work.

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We've collected our articles and videos to help you understand why Zelensky's legitimacy is being questioned and how that plays into Russia's hands.

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

Timothy Snyder is an expert of modern authoritarianism.

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As Trump makes concessions to Russia, he is showing weakness on a level unprecedented in modern US history. His position is so weak that it is unlikely to convince anyone. Trump is a sheep in wolf’s clothing. The wolves can tell the difference "The Weak Strongman" snyder.substack.com/p/the-weak-s...

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I am sending around "Oligarchs’ Island" again, written in November 2024. The White House has become an island of international oligarchs. snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...

submitted 3 days ago • 37 comments

If Trump wants to see elections in Ukraine, all he has to do is use the power he keeps talking about to get the Russian invaders off Ukrainian soil. Then martial law in Ukraine ends, and elections will follow.

submitted 3 days ago • 81 comments

The Air Alert map of warnings of Russian air attacks on Ukraine just now, as #Putin is supposedly talking peace with #Trump

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Trump likes being #2, he likes doing the PR work, being in front of the camera, getting the adulation, but serving the boss. Musk will dominate him at home and Putin will dominate him abroad. He will deliver their lines, as he has just done for Putin in shocking fashion, and does for Musk every day.

submitted 3 days ago • 70 comments

Current American foreign policy is about draining power from the US and its allies, thereby creating atmospherics in which Donald Trump feels good and Elon Musk converts lost state capacity into personal profit. The weakness, in other words, is the point. snyder.substack.com/p/affirmativ...

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The United States is in the midst of a regime change, in which Kash Patel, if confirmed, would be useful. snyder.substack.com/p/kash-patel...

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🔴 Trump’s proposed deal imposes harsher economic terms on Ukraine than those faced by defeated aggressor states like Germany and Japan after 1945, The Telegraph reports. 1/3

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Talking about freedom in Kyiv with the great Volodymyr Yermolenko earlier this month youtu.be/8IpyP1PbubM

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'It's morally disgusting': Trump torched for lying Ukraine 'should have never started' Putin's war

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TONIGHT: @timothysnyder.bsky.social joins @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com on The Last Word. Tune in!

submitted 4 days ago • 50 comments

This, from @quinnslobodian.com , is the most insightful thing I've seen about the ideological strands within the Trump-Musk DOGE project. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

WATCH: Trump blames Ukraine for being invaded by Russia, scoffs at the idea that Ukraine deserves a seat at the table, throws Zelensky under the bus, and capitulates to Putin in every possible way. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGOuUOX...

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Trump is simply repeating a Putin talking point here. Russia has insisted on intervening in basic issues of Ukrainian sovereignty for more than a decade. Now Trump is doing Putin’s PR work, making unsustainable arguments for an unjustifiable invasion. www.axios.com/2025/02/18/t...

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In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce how the Elon Musk’s Election Interference Machine™ (EIM) works. Since Musk and his broligarch allies won the presidency for Trump, they’ve now harnessed the machine to interfere in European elections, including the ones in Germany and Romania. 1/23

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My thoughts on the Russian-American talks on Ukraine, without Ukraine. The simplest interpretation of the available facts is that the Americans are using Russian violence to try to exploit Ukraine. snyder.substack.com/p/peace-or-p...

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Roses are red Violets are blue

submitted 7 days ago • 137 comments

After we let Russia occupy part of your country and steal your resources, we will occupy the other part and do the same. Quite the starting point for the Americans.

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Is Musk demanding the data held by the Social Security Administration in order to make it more efficient? Unlikely. Here's a better explanation: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.

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"Appeasement at Munich: World Wars, Past and Possible" The symmetry between Germany-Czechoslovakia in 1938 and Russia-Ukraine in 2022 is uncanny, and pausing for a moment on the resemblances might help us to take a broader view of today. snyder.substack.com/p/appeasemen...

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The rule of law we take for granted was centuries in the making. But it can be destroyed in weeks. www.stevevladeck.com/p/124-the-th... @stevevladeck.bsky.social

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"I am on a night train from Kyiv, bound for Zaporizhzhia, a city in the southeast of Ukraine which is about twenty miles from the front... As I get ready to go to sleep, I find myself thinking that Americans are also speeding towards a line." snyder.substack.com/p/crossing-a...

submitted 9 days ago • 90 comments

While tonight's event with Ivan Krastev and @timothysnyder.bsky.social is fully booked, it will also be broadcast on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/live/Bc6hZqB...

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"Making Sense of an Unsettling World" I'll be in conversation with Ivan Krastev @iwm.at this evening, Feb 13, 18:00 CET / 12:00 ET. Livestream available: www.youtube.com/live/Bc6hZqB...

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The great Yale historian, Timothy Snyder, expert on fascism and on Ukraine and Russia

submitted 10 days ago • 48 comments

Removes much that deals with foreign disinformation. And other important topics. This is deliberate state self-destruction under the pretext of removing DEI.

submitted 12 days ago • 81 comments

It's sad that so many media outlets have fallen for all the distractions, from Greenland to Gaza to tariffs that keep getting delayed, when the real goal is Musk's dismantling of the government The Philadelphia Inquirer gets it. Our latest editorial: www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...

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