OK, here's one of my more eccentric ideas for your reflective consideration. Bear with me. /1
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I've seen this piece of propaganda from the 1920 Teschen Plebiscite a few times already and I think it's my favorite:
"Poland is bigger, better and (most importantly) has more horses."
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HUGE: At long last, Congress introduces bill to confiscate $350 billion in russian sovereign assets to hand over to Ukraine. So badly needed for so long
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 The #EasternFrontPod's live show with 's Summer Honors Program is now available as a podcast episode! Listen to and discuss the genesis of the pod + answer questions from the audience below. 👇
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The talk of expanding the use of QMV to 🇪🇺 foreign policy question is a category error -- it seeks to address a political question by technical means. My latest in .
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Very good from
We should go further though, much further. We shouldn’t be selling arms to an anti-democratic state like Hungary, which shouldn’t be in the EU or NATO.
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The United States blocked the sale of HIMARS for Hungary
The sale of the $735 million stake was blocked by the top Republican, Senator James E. Rish. In a statement to The Washington Post, he said that Hungary must admit Sweden to NATO if it wants to receive the arms package.
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"The clearer the commitment the United States and our allies make to Ukraine’s membership [into NATO], the sooner Ukrainians will want to bring the war to an end"
on the importance of #Ukraine joining NATO in ⬇️
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had done so as well, instead of hallucinating about German reparations and phantom threats from Brussels, maybe Europe as a whole would have been better prepared for what came last year. /3
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He, like many Poles, saw the threat much earlier than other Europeans. When it made sense to talk to the Russians, he did so, like everyone else. And one important thing he did as well was to keep 🇵🇱 at the heart of European debates, not at its margins. If his successors /2
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In the context of 🇺🇦 war, I've been cutting the current 🇵🇱 government more slack than others & have no dog in the election this fall, but the notion that was a Putinversteher because he tried to engage with the Russians back in 2011 is beyond preposterous. /1
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The British experiment in self-government continues
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Told Boris conveyed a message to Downing Street on Saturday that Eton always beats Winchester.
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NATO membership for 🇺🇦 wouldn't be an act of charity. It's a way of bringing continental Europe's largest military power into our orbit and stabilizing Eastern Europe for good. My latest in .
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The talk of expanding the use of QMV to 🇪🇺 foreign policy question is a category error -- it seeks to address a political question by technical means. My latest in .
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NATO membership for 🇺🇦 wouldn't be an act of charity. It's a way of bringing continental Europe's largest military power into our orbit and stabilizing Eastern Europe for good. My latest in .
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The solution to Chinese market manipulations should be a workaround, not abandoning free trade entirely, write James C. Capretta and .
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“A clear, believable commitment to bring Ukraine into the alliance as soon as the war is over, ideally with a formal cease-fire or peace agreement, is the West’s best chance to bring the war to an early end.”
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A clear commitment to bring Ukraine into the alliance as soon as the war is over is the West’s best chance to bring the war to an early end, writes.
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"Treating the war as inevitably inconclusive weakens the political case for muscular assistance to Ukraine."
argues for continued support for Ukraine in 👇
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This column shows a large portion of the resurgence in inflation can be attributed to the generosity of governments towards their citizens during #COVID19
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cepr.org/voxeu/columns/
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Some believe Ukraine will remain a frozen conflict with Russia controlling Ukraine territory including Crimea.
argues that this prediction fundamentally misunderstands the prevailing sentiment within Ukraine:
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Hey ! Your website offered me an upgrade prior to a recent flight. I duly paid the fee but the upgrade never materialized. And neither has a refund -- despite repeated calls. Not a great experience, I'm afraid to say!
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Earlier this afternoon, and did a live recording of the #EasternFrontPod for 's Summer Honors Program. Thanks for having us, ! 🇺🇸🇺🇦
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“A clear offer to join the alliance after the war ends is the best chance for a speedy settlement.”
on why Ukrainian NATO membership is the path towards conflict resolution in ⬇️
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Ukraine will survive and thrive, and Russia will lose. The question, are we doing enough to keep Ukraine on our side 5, 10 years down the road? My latest in on what is at stake in Vilnius.
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Ukraine will survive and thrive, and Russia will lose. The question, are we doing enough to keep Ukraine on our side 5, 10 years down the road? My latest in on what is at stake in Vilnius.
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Cogent arguments made by ⤵️
"The combination of no timely prospect of joining #NATO and insufficient Western assistance will drive home in Kyiv the sense that #Ukrainians are fighting alone."
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Really sharp piece by | Don’t Delay Ukraine’s Path to NATO Membership - A clear offer to join the alliance after the war ends is the best chance for a speedy settlement.
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a path towards NATO membership reduces the stakes of the war for Ukrainians, makes an early end of the conflict more, not less, likely. Anyhow, read my piece here: foreignpolicy.com/2023/06/05/ukr /6 end
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What leaves Deni's piece out, of course, is Ukraine and its own agency. A credible path to NATO is the best way towards securing Ukraine's future without having to reconquer all of its territory, especially Crimea. In other words, /5
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Giving Russian propaganda a veto over alliance's future members, as per (b), is hardly wise policy -- it is in fact exactly what brought us here. Finally, re (c), Putin doesn't enjoy a great deal of effective escalatory options. /4
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Re (a), 🇺🇦 is no less ready than Salazar's Portugal or Greece of the late 1940s. Like their membership back then, 🇺🇦's makes strategic sense -- to keep Russia away. Ukraine's borders are not being "disputed" in any meaningful, legal way. /3
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into the hands of Russian propaganda, and (c) it would strengthen 🇷🇺's resolve to continue the war. All 3 of these arguments are spurious. /2
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Should NATO's Vilnius Summit put 🇺🇦 on the fast track to the alliance, giving it full membership as soon as the war ends? In , says no, arguing (a) 🇺🇦 wasn't politically ready and its borders were being disputed, (b) NATO membership would play /1
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Just a normal day in Hungary: PM Viktor Orbán meets Rosatom CEO Alexei Likhacev in front of Russian and Hungarian flags. Since they allegedly talked about "safety rules" too, I'm wondering whether Rosatom's role in hijacking Ukrainian nuclear power plants and its staff came up?
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Extraordinary piece on the special relationship between 🇷🇺 & 🇦🇹 by . Makes one want to take a long shower, and avoid Sachertorte, Mozartkugeln, and Almdudler for the rest of one's life.
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DC tweeps: got two tickets for live show on Monday at Capital Turnaround. Mrs R & I can’t make it, alas. DM me if interested! unionstage.com/shows/the-rest