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PUTIN: Ukraine Canβt Legally Sign a Peace Deal
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Europe is failing itself, and Ukraine (reading Jade McGlynn)
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SOVIET ICE CREAM, NOSTALGIA AND THE GLOBAL WAVE OF POPULISM
Written version of my latest main-channel video.
Written version of my latest main-channel video on Soviet Nostalgia and authoritarian populism.
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A teleological liberal would say this is progress. A smaller-L liberal would say it is just elementary normative reflection plus the social conditions of the modern world.
3. Everyday political sense.
This sense of liberalism is about an overt commitment to counter-majoritarian institutions.
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β a justification that they could, in principle, accept. In the modern world, you canβt escape that commitment without lies, BS, or false consciousness.
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All you are going to get here is something more than historical derivation, but no more than family resemblances.
2. Minimal political sense.
This sense of liberalism very roughly means a commitment to the idea that every person is owed a justification for the exercise of political power over them-
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Three senses of what it means to be a liberal today -
1. Substantive sense.
This sense of liberalism is about what kinds of historical images and ideas of politics make up your mind. From Hobbes to Isaiah Berlin.
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Thank you so much!
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Why Putinβs Russia Is Trapped in the Soviet Past
We donβt just miss the past.
We miss a past vision of the future.
My Soviet ice-cream memories open this video, but the story leads to something bigger: how authoritarian populists weaponise nostalgia today.
"How Soviet Nostalgia Still Rules Putinβs Russia"
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Much of the discussion of the βpeace planβ evades two blunt truths: (a) Europe has no strategy, and (b) Trump is chaotic and aligned with Putin. This isnβt ignorance but a refusal to reckon with reality - a depoliticised move that, at scale, helps Trump and Putin.
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YouTube video by Vlad Vexler Chat
Europe And Ukraine Are On Their Own
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Trump's 28 point plan: big-picture analysis
Europe and Ukraine are on their own
Europe and Ukraine are on their own - my first long form Substack on Trumpβs 28 point "peace plan"
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Events around Ukraine have intensified.
Iβve been too sick to broadcast for a couple of days, but will be back with an analysis as soon as I can. Possibly late Friday or early Saturday morning UK time.
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Intelligence is no longer tied to the ability to get informed. Itβs drifting away from truthfulness. Weβre told the issue is stupid people being misinformed. It isnβt. When intelligent people are widely misinformed, the culture is in deeper trouble.
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I think perhaps 30% of the explanation will be to do with Russian culture and 70% to do with global forces, although there too you can distinguish between countries which got a higher and lower dose of them.
Great question but in general be careful not to hang too much on culture alone.
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YouTube video by Vlad Vexler Chat
White House and Kremlin secretly concoct βPeace Planβ
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The Russian opposition and the depoliticised majority of the Russian population share the same colonising conception of the Kremlin. They view the Kremlin not as an institution Russia creates, but as a foreign power - an external authority that happens to rule them.
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Epstein Files and Post-Trump MAGA
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VLAD REACTS TO MEGHAN MARKLE'S SPIRITUALITY!
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I can't walk - Vlad health update!
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Russia wonβt be a βnormal functioning democracyβ because by the 2030s even Western countries will struggle to be βnormal functioning democraciesβ.
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The 1920sβ40s canβt be a guide to a possible collapse of democracy in the 2030s. Back then societies still had the forces needed to rebuild democracy. Today those forces are missing.
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Ukraine corruption scandal analysed for Western supporters
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VLAD REACTS: Times Radio "The end is Nigh" for Putin regime @ListenToTimesRadio
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Attention and truthfulness go together - especially the kind of attention that is willing to concentrate without understanding.
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I Asked Muskβs AI Who Won the 2020 Election
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Kremlin Ideologue Warns: "civil war" threat inside Russia
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Trump threatens to sue BBC for $1 billion
Trumpists attack BBC, and its response is woeful: my comprehensive analysis -
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The BBC chair rightly admits an error in editing Trumpβs Jan 6 speech. But he does not challenge the false Trumpian claim in the dossier: that Panorama βcompletelyβ and βmateriallyβmisrepresented its meaning. This is not impartiality. Itβs surrender to post-truth populism.
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