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17 connected korrents · 15 moments from 28 Jan 2022 to 21 Oct 2026.
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The president is in Putin's pocket.
Last stated 21 Oct 2026 · today
Holds Noah Smith
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Same subject: Russia
A ceasefire along the current lines would end the killing and still leave a long-term settlement between Russia and Ukraine possible.
Last stated 26 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Branko Milanovic
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Same subject: Russia
A nation of a million people cannot rule hundreds of millions by warfare; the Mongol Empire lasted because it offered its subjects things they actually wanted.
Last stated 31 Jul 2025 · a year ago
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Jack Weatherford
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Same subject: Russia
A nuclear war between the United States and Russia would kill five billion people.
Last stated 22 Mar 2024 · 3 years ago
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Annie Jacobsen
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Same subject: Russia
A pro-West stance is mostly right: a world more aligned with the CCP or Russia seems a bad one.
Last stated 15 Oct 2024 · 2 years ago
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Nabeel S. Qureshi
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Same subject: Russia
A superpower's deferential posture toward rival great powers can alienate its allies while yielding no strategic payoff in return.
Last stated 2 Sept 2026 · 2 months ago
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Daniel W. Drezner
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Same subject: Russia
American ICBMs do not have the range to reach North Korea without flying over Russia, which is the flaw that turns a limited counterattack into Armageddon.
Last stated 22 Mar 2024 · 3 years ago
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Annie Jacobsen
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Same subject: Russia
American missile defence is a fiction: 44 interceptors that work about half the time cannot answer the 1,670 warheads Russia has deployed.
Last stated 22 Mar 2024 · 3 years ago
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Annie Jacobsen
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Same subject: Russia
American talk of Canada not being a real country echoes the way the Kremlin spoke about Ukraine, and marks Canadian sovereignty as the real issue.
Last stated 30 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Timothy Snyder
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Same subject: Europe
A company doing something at the edge of the Overton window has to hold two cultures at once — the true believers and the serious professionals who think they are crazy — and integrating them is what makes it work.
Last stated 7 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Max Hodak
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Same subject: Europe
A heavily centralised state is the most fragile kind: when Rome’s centre failed, its successors were left without the resources or administration to do what it had done.
Last stated 28 Jan 2022 · 5 years ago
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Bret Devereaux
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Same subject: Europe
A new world order based on raw power is being drawn right now, and Europe has to fight for its place in it.
Last stated 10 Sept 2025 · a year ago
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Ursula von der Leyen
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Same subject: politics
A backlash against women's economic rise is not automatic; it happens only where politicians choose to mobilise it.
Last stated 1 Dec 2024 · 2 years ago
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Alice Evans
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Same subject: politics
A candidate's political success is increasingly disconnected from their actual record of accomplishment.
Last stated 31 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Daniel W. Drezner
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Same subject: politics
A citizen deciding politically should ask what is good for the community, not what is good for themselves
Last stated c. 2000
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Joseph Tussman
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Same subject: censorship
A person's internet presence is largely controlled by large organizations subject to the decisions of their executives.
Last stated 13 Sept 2026 · a month ago
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Preshit Deorukhkar
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Same subject: censorship
A platform's failure to moderate or to cooperate belongs in a civil proceeding against the company before it becomes a criminal case against its founder.
Last stated 26 Aug 2024 · 2 years ago
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Mike Masnick
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Same subject: censorship
An independently owned platform is a necessary counterweight to the government and the mainstream media.
Last stated 20 Feb 2024 · 3 years ago
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Bill Ackman