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How America Can Avoid Becoming Russia Political pressure must be brought to bear—through the courts, the press, and the states, but also applied to legislators while they still have any power left.

”Four votes in the Senate. Three votes in the House. That’s all it takes. Find the weakest links. Go after them, democratically.”
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

17.04.2025 20:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Imperialism Has no Clothes JD Vance in Greenland

”The American imperialism directed towards Denmark and Canada is not just morally wrong. It is strategically disastrous ”
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

29.03.2025 17:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ukraine will win — with or without our permission If we’re really standing with Ukrainians, our role is to support their choices. None of us may claim the right or authority to tell them when and what to surrender.

"I was born under Soviet occupation ... I was democratically elected to my country’s government. I am living testimony that with enough willpower, freedom can be dragged out of the blackest of black holes."
www.politico.eu/article/ukra...

11.03.2025 19:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

One Word Describes Trump A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.

Apt.

”(Trump) … is patrimonialism’s perfect organism. He recognizes no distinction between what is public and private, legal and illegal, formal and informal, national and personal. “
…
Weber called this system “patrimonialism”

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

11.03.2025 07:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trump’s Crypto Reserve Is Really Happening Now what?

”In crypto-speak, the ethos of the industry is: “Number go up.” In plain English, that means pushing the price of crypto assets higher and higher. The way to do that is to find buyers who will pay more, a phenomenon sometimes called the “greater-fool theory.””

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

08.03.2025 09:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Winston Churchill at the White House wearing a one-piece garment known as a siren suit.

Zelenskyy's character can be judge more directly by how he treats others and whether you think he's protected his country. From what I've seen, he has treated Americans with respect. His attire is to remind people he's at war, not unlike Churchill wearing a siren suit to the White House in 1942.

01.03.2025 01:00 — 👍 9960    🔁 1407    💬 53    📌 52

Putin’s Three Years of Humiliation The Russian president can’t win his war against Ukraine unless he persuades its allies to betray it.

"Today, on the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion, stop and remember what happened on the night it began. ... everyone expected Russia to overrun its much smaller neighbor. But that capitulation never came."

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

24.02.2025 20:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Putin’s Authoritarian Playbook 10 Simple Steps to Becoming a Dictator

How did Putin become a dictator? Mikhail Zygar lists ten steps

open.substack.com/pub/zygaro/p...

11.02.2025 13:38 — 👍 858    🔁 319    💬 44    📌 23

”The key to vibrant communities, it turns out, is the exercise of choice.”

That habit of mobility has now been lost

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

10.02.2025 20:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0