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Maria Popova πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
@PopovaProf
πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦βšœοΈ polisci prof @mcgillu, Director Jean Monnet Centre Montreal; Rule of law, anticorruption, democracy; Book on Ru-Ukraine War: tinyurl.com/4zuhk9wr
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Joined May 2013
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    Our book isn't straightforwardly about "war and peace", but about the regime and identity divergence between Ru and Ukraine, which Ru refuses to accept. We'll take the "hot new releases" label, though! Thanks, Amazon. @OxanaShevel @politybooks
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    Now this is a good, accurate headline
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    War fatigue in the West? What are we tired of? The Ukrainians are doing all the fighting themselves.
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    After failing to take Kyiv, the Russian army now appears to be abandoning Kharkiv too. The claim that Putin sees loss in Ukraine as an existential threat loses a bit of credibility with each retreat.
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    Every time I see a Westerner praising the Eastern European communist dictatorships, I cringe so hard because I remember scenes like these. Humiliation on top of deprivation.
    In the ’80s, when CeauΘ™escu visited stores, shelves were staged and workers clapped from fear, not joy. Applause was the language of survival.
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    Zelensky has nerves of steel. His ability to maintain composure in the most awful of circumstances--being hunted to be murdered, seeing sites of unspeakable crimes, standing next to awful individuals who patronize him and prepare to sell out his country-- should be studied.
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    Calling the war a « senseless conflictΒ Β» has become shorthand for undermining the legitimacy of Ukrainian resistance and diminishing the role of Russian imperialism. This war is chock-full of senseβ€” national survival for Ukraine and imperial revival for Russia.
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    Many American progressives seem deeply confused on Russia. Someone please explain to them that the Russian government opposes every single cause they care about.
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    Bulgarian govt alleges that numerous pundits, journalists, pollsters, and public figures received regular payments from the Russian embassy (~2K euro per month) to present Russian narratives in the media as independent analysis...
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    Why is Western media reporting Kremlin's PR spin as fact? No, neither Prigozhin, nor Pu, nor anybody else in this standoff is trying to avoid bloodshed or be cool headed. No, a powerless vassal like Lukashenka cannot mediate anything. No, _this_ (whatever it is) is far from over.
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    Instead of telling him to surrender, the Left should be celebrating Zelensky as the anti-imperialist hero he is. Not only is he defeating one empire militarily, but, through soft power, he has forced Western empires to take him seriously and adjust their policies.
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    The "Russia-backed Donbas separatists" term is misleading because most understand it to imply a backwards sequence, i.e. Donbas separatists existed, challenged Kyiv, and then Russia decided to back them. In reality, Russia intervened, recruited locally, and then challenged Kyiv.
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    Finland and Sweden’s unproblematic NATO accession glaringly demonstrates Mearsheimer’s delusion that Russia hated and feared NATO coming closer to it. It actually hated EEurope moving away.
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    Claiming Russia only wants Ukraine to be neutral is like claiming the Taliban only want women to be modest.