Andres Kasekamp

This is very unfortunate timing as it coincides with the @balticstudies.bsky.social bi-annual conference at UIUC, so don't expect many proposals from Baltic scholars.

Reap what you sow.

Why are they always more concerned about promoting their own books?

What a douchebag

Genuine and blatant foreign interference

The only mystery is why Americans put up with this

All the guns in the US make that scenario more plausible

In that analogy, Vance is AH, but he is not really his own man.

I certainly don't have full confidence that the Western European leaders won't fall for empty US promises of security guarantees and lean on Zelenskyy to accept.

We have already found out the answer months ago.

That recalls the "Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, when Moscow cut a deal to divvy up an Eastern European country with a Western ex-democracy that backslid into fascism under a convicted criminal with a cult of personality."

Excellent analysis

That moment has already passed.

And the news doesn't even mention it. Dementia has been normalized. Had it been Biden...

It says more about him not respecting any constitutional restraints on himself.

Sadly true

Could the Baltic States be the new Ukraine? - ABC listen The Baltic States, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania – once part of the Soviet Union - are now all members of NATO. But Latvia and Estonia both have large Russian speaking minorities. Analysts worry that...

Provided historical context on Baltic geopolitics for Australian Radio. Ignore the headline. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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Rääkisin Trumpi tollimaksude mõjust vikerraadio.err.ee/media/video/...

What impressed @markhertling.bsky.social the most while visiting each Baltic state wasn’t that their governments are clear-eyed and proactive, but that the ordinary citizens were, too...they harbor no illusions about the threats...they are not merely reacting to danger, but preparing for it—together

Trump keeps crossing major lines...

Musk's fate will be more like that of Khodorkovsky than Prigozhin. Still early days in the development of the authoritarian regime.

Mart Laar, Lennart Meri, Edgar Savisaar: the Estonians who led the Singing Revolution that led to the demise of the USSR

Excellent, I will make use of this with my students!

Might be teaching Harvard students in September. Toronto's Munk School will host Kennedy School students in our classrooms (Trump has cancelled Harvard's right to enroll foreign students).

And great Canadian players on both teams.

You are assuming Trump learns. See remarks by Mark Cuban about him only getting dumber.

Can confirm that military history is off-limits in one of the largest history departments in N. America.

"what could Trump get from Israel in return for an agreement to bomb Fordow?" Nothing meaningful - Netanyahu has been playing the US brilliantly.

As the only prof teaching a course on fascism at U of Toronto, this is exactly what I have been saying since January.

But a significant step in the incremental, months-long regime change process.