17 connected korrents · 16 moments on record from 20 Feb 2024 to 7 Sept 2026. Nearly all of them are about war.
At the centre
The war Russia is fighting in Ukraine is, in intellectual terms, the plan Solzhenitsyn formulated: a Russian nation state of Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians, and failing that, Donbas, Crimea and southern Ukraine.
Last stated 4 Mar 2024 · 3 years ago
Holds SPSerhii Plokhy
Read this korrent →
-
Same subject: Russia, war
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 weeks ago
Holds BMBranko Milanovic
-
Same subject: Russia, war
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
Holds JWJack Weatherford
-
Same subject: Russia, war
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 · a week ago
Holds TSTimothy Snyder
-
Same subject: Russia, war
Believing that Trump might yet help Ukraine is not harmless optimism: it is part of a manoeuvre that buys Putin time.
Last stated 23 Aug 2026 · 2 weeks ago
Holds POPhillips P. OBrien
-
Same subject: Russia, war
Genghis Khan's army was the greatest military force in history, and no power will ever repeat what it did.
Last stated 31 Jul 2025 · a year ago
Holds JWJack Weatherford
-
Same subject: Russia, war
NATO was the justification for the invasion of Ukraine and not its cause: if it were the real concern, half the Russian army would have moved to the new Finnish border.
Last stated 4 Mar 2024 · 3 years ago
Holds SPSerhii Plokhy
-
Same subject: Russia, war
Putin set out to demilitarise Ukraine and has achieved the opposite.
Last stated 10 Oct 2025 · 11 months ago
Holds LFLawrence Freedman
-
Same subject: Russia, war
Russia's allies have been more useful to Russia than Ukraine's allies have been to Ukraine.
Last stated 15 Aug 2026 · 3 weeks ago
Holds POPhillips P. OBrien
-
Same subject: America
A country cannot have radical technological breakthroughs and also refuse to tolerate uncomfortably rich people, because the financial system it resents is what funds the innovation.
Last stated 13 Aug 2025 · a year ago
Holds KJKeyu Jin
-
Same subject: America
A country's large trade deficit in manufactured goods reduces its manufacturing employment below what it would be with balanced trade.
Last stated 7 Sept 2026 · yesterday
Holds PKPaul Krugman
-
Same subject: America
A resilient chip supply chain cannot depend on one or two players in one geography, which is what makes manufacturing in the United States critical.
Last stated 18 Jun 2026 · 3 months ago
Holds LTLip-Bu Tan
-
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 · a month ago
Holds MHMax Hodak
-
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 · 12 months ago
Holds
Ursula von der Leyen
-
Same subject: Europe
A tiny fraction of ancestry can carry the most important thing about a population: Yamnaya is only a few percent of DNA in India and yet it brought the language.
Last stated 8 May 2026 · 4 months ago
Holds DRDavid Reich
-
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
Holds BABill Ackman
-
Same subject: censorship
Any digital identification system built for AI must preserve anonymous human speech, without which there is no genuine freedom of expression.
Last stated 1 Sept 2026 · a week ago
Holds
Dean W. Ball
-
Same subject: censorship
Arresting Pavel Durov was a historic wrong and a gigantic PR mistake that will keep founders from building in France.
Last stated 30 Sept 2025 · 11 months ago
Holds LFLex Fridman