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"If it were true that Ukraine belongs to Russia in the 2020s because a Russian dictator knows a legend about a Viking in the 860s... millions of people who actually live there would have no voice in their own identity: no choice but to accept the executions, the torture, the kidnapping of children."
"Nothing that happened in medieval eastern Europe bound future states to make war against each other a thousand years later"
My latest essay: "The myths that made Putin’s war"
www.ft.com/content/9731...
My latest essay: "The myths that made Putin’s war"
www.ft.com/content/9731...
The myths that made Putin’s war
The Alaska summit exposed the flawed history and personal vanity that fuel the conflict with Ukraine, argues Timothy Snyder
www.ft.com
August 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"If it were true that Ukraine belongs to Russia in the 2020s because a Russian dictator knows a legend about a Viking in the 860s... millions of people who actually live there would have no voice in their own identity: no choice but to accept the executions, the torture, the kidnapping of children."
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Here's what caught my eye this week -- and links to my TV appearances and commentary. open.substack.com/pub/ivodaald...
What Caught My Eye (no. 28)
Some interesting articles and podcasts that caught my eye this week
open.substack.com
August 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Here's what caught my eye this week -- and links to my TV appearances and commentary. open.substack.com/pub/ivodaald...
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Today is UA Independence Day. Z dnem nezalezhnosti!
August 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Today is UA Independence Day. Z dnem nezalezhnosti!
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One of the most terrible crimes of Russia’s terrible war.
www.newsweek.com/president-pu...
www.newsweek.com/president-pu...
President Putin Must Return Ukraine's Children | Opinion
Ukraine can rebuild its cities, its infrastructure, and its economy. What it cannot do is reclaim the lives lost or undo the profound scars left on its youngest generation.
www.newsweek.com
August 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
One of the most terrible crimes of Russia’s terrible war.
www.newsweek.com/president-pu...
www.newsweek.com/president-pu...
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Great idea. Let’s have the next US, Ukraine, Russia summit in Budapest—the same place Russia assured Ukraine in 1994 it would respect its sovereignty and borders. And look how well that turned out. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Exclusive: White House eyes Budapest for peace talks with Zelenskyy and Putin
Hungary would be an uncomfortable choice for Ukraine.
www.politico.com
August 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Great idea. Let’s have the next US, Ukraine, Russia summit in Budapest—the same place Russia assured Ukraine in 1994 it would respect its sovereignty and borders. And look how well that turned out. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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Trump got played by Putin. Again. He accepted Putin’s position on Ukraine as his own. Ukraine and Europe are now alone, needing to increase pressure on Russia and supporting its fight on the battlefield.
It’s a terrible day for peace, security, and transatlantic relations.
It’s a terrible day for peace, security, and transatlantic relations.
August 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Trump got played by Putin. Again. He accepted Putin’s position on Ukraine as his own. Ukraine and Europe are now alone, needing to increase pressure on Russia and supporting its fight on the battlefield.
It’s a terrible day for peace, security, and transatlantic relations.
It’s a terrible day for peace, security, and transatlantic relations.
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ICE, America's first interior police, are not being built up, at the cost of billions, just to monitor immigration
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...
Border Patrol Agents Show Up in Force at Newsom Rally
www.nytimes.com
August 15, 2025 at 8:37 AM
ICE, America's first interior police, are not being built up, at the cost of billions, just to monitor immigration
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...
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The meeting was a disaster for everyone except two people. Trump got his photo op and his ego boost.
Putin got his photo op, whitewashing of war crimes and no sanctions.
No one in Ukraine, Europe or the United States benefited in any way.
Putin got his photo op, whitewashing of war crimes and no sanctions.
No one in Ukraine, Europe or the United States benefited in any way.
August 16, 2025 at 4:12 AM
The meeting was a disaster for everyone except two people. Trump got his photo op and his ego boost.
Putin got his photo op, whitewashing of war crimes and no sanctions.
No one in Ukraine, Europe or the United States benefited in any way.
Putin got his photo op, whitewashing of war crimes and no sanctions.
No one in Ukraine, Europe or the United States benefited in any way.
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Trump Has No Cards
Why would Putin need to make a deal with him?
www.theatlantic.com
August 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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4/ The seating chart is the smoking gun: Trump was flanked by Treasury Secretary Bessent and Commerce Secretary Lutnick alongside his security team.
This wasn’t Ukraine-focused. The economic officials’ prominence confirms that sanctions relief and trade deals were central to Trump’s agenda.
This wasn’t Ukraine-focused. The economic officials’ prominence confirms that sanctions relief and trade deals were central to Trump’s agenda.
August 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
4/ The seating chart is the smoking gun: Trump was flanked by Treasury Secretary Bessent and Commerce Secretary Lutnick alongside his security team.
This wasn’t Ukraine-focused. The economic officials’ prominence confirms that sanctions relief and trade deals were central to Trump’s agenda.
This wasn’t Ukraine-focused. The economic officials’ prominence confirms that sanctions relief and trade deals were central to Trump’s agenda.
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A guess about a point Putin and Trump agreed on: that Putin won’t release the files about Russia’s campaigns to support Trump in 2016 and 2020 so long as Trump continues to aid Russia’s war.
"In the ancient world, people spoke of 'Ultima Thule,' a mythical land in the extreme north, the end of the earth. By venturing north to Alaska to meet Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump reaches his own Ultima Thule, the arctic endpoint of a foreign policy dreamworld."
snyder.substack.com/p/ultima-thule
snyder.substack.com/p/ultima-thule
Ultima Thule
Trump in Alaska
snyder.substack.com
August 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
A guess about a point Putin and Trump agreed on: that Putin won’t release the files about Russia’s campaigns to support Trump in 2016 and 2020 so long as Trump continues to aid Russia’s war.
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Don’t be fooled by “NATO-style” security guarantees Trump reportedly offered Ukraine with Putin’s blessing. If the guarantees are real, NATO is the best way to implement them. If Putin accepted them, they’re obviously not real. Only NATO membership is real guarantees. www.kyivpost.com/post/58328
Trump Might Offer Ukraine NATO-Style Security Guarantees
Moscow has long claimed Ukraine’s NATO ambitions prompted its February 2022 invasion, while the West now seeks ways to offer security guarantees while bypassing that issue.
www.kyivpost.com
August 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Don’t be fooled by “NATO-style” security guarantees Trump reportedly offered Ukraine with Putin’s blessing. If the guarantees are real, NATO is the best way to implement them. If Putin accepted them, they’re obviously not real. Only NATO membership is real guarantees. www.kyivpost.com/post/58328
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Here’s what caught my eye this week … Europe, Gaza, AI, Russia’s 2016 election interference, and the one and only Tom Lehrer, who passed away this week. open.substack.com/pub/ivodaald...
What Caught My Eye (no. 25)
Some interesting articles and podcasts that caught my eye this week
open.substack.com
August 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Here’s what caught my eye this week … Europe, Gaza, AI, Russia’s 2016 election interference, and the one and only Tom Lehrer, who passed away this week. open.substack.com/pub/ivodaald...
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It used to be that Summits came after painstaking preparations with all but the final details settled.
No longer. Trump will meet Putin with no preparation other than briefings from his chief negotiator who’s been played by Putin from the start.
No wonder Ukraine and Europeans are nervous.
No longer. Trump will meet Putin with no preparation other than briefings from his chief negotiator who’s been played by Putin from the start.
No wonder Ukraine and Europeans are nervous.
August 12, 2025 at 8:15 AM
It used to be that Summits came after painstaking preparations with all but the final details settled.
No longer. Trump will meet Putin with no preparation other than briefings from his chief negotiator who’s been played by Putin from the start.
No wonder Ukraine and Europeans are nervous.
No longer. Trump will meet Putin with no preparation other than briefings from his chief negotiator who’s been played by Putin from the start.
No wonder Ukraine and Europeans are nervous.
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Stephen Colbert, "You warned everyone about the future under our president"
Kamala Harris, "You're correct that I did predict a lot of it. What I did not predict was the capitulation. I didn't see that coming"
Kamala Harris, "You're correct that I did predict a lot of it. What I did not predict was the capitulation. I didn't see that coming"
August 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
August 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
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My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
July 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
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Timothy Snyder with some compressed truth about truth. www.facebook.com/thedailyshow... via @mariopro.bsky.social
When Step 1 becomes a commonplace, journalism and its practices are in peril. We crossed into that world well before the 2024 election, but it was hard to get journalists to see it.
When Step 1 becomes a commonplace, journalism and its practices are in peril. We crossed into that world well before the 2024 election, but it was hard to get journalists to see it.
June 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Timothy Snyder with some compressed truth about truth. www.facebook.com/thedailyshow... via @mariopro.bsky.social
When Step 1 becomes a commonplace, journalism and its practices are in peril. We crossed into that world well before the 2024 election, but it was hard to get journalists to see it.
When Step 1 becomes a commonplace, journalism and its practices are in peril. We crossed into that world well before the 2024 election, but it was hard to get journalists to see it.
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Two years after her tragic death in a Russian missile strike, Ukrainian author Victoria Amelina was posthumously awarded on June 25 the prestigious U.K. Orwell Prize for her book “Looking at Women, Looking at War.”
Ukrainian author killed by Russia awarded UK’s prestigious Orwell Prize in political writing
Two years after her tragic death in a Russian missile strike, Ukrainian author Victoria Amelina was posthumously awarded on June 25 the prestigious U.K. Orwell Prize for her book “Looking at Women, Lo...
kyivindependent.com
June 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Two years after her tragic death in a Russian missile strike, Ukrainian author Victoria Amelina was posthumously awarded on June 25 the prestigious U.K. Orwell Prize for her book “Looking at Women, Looking at War.”
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My Trade Secrets today. Imagine the US in 1957 had seen the Sputnik satellite overhead & said "Nah, we'll leave space to the Soviets".
Thanks to climate change denial, mindless prejudice and trade protectionism, that's just what it's doing now with China & green tech, esp EVs and batteries. 1/2
Thanks to climate change denial, mindless prejudice and trade protectionism, that's just what it's doing now with China & green tech, esp EVs and batteries. 1/2
The US is failing its green tech ‘Sputnik moment’
[FREE TO READ] Prejudice and protectionism are dismantling Joe Biden’s environmental legacy
on.ft.com
June 26, 2025 at 8:46 AM
My Trade Secrets today. Imagine the US in 1957 had seen the Sputnik satellite overhead & said "Nah, we'll leave space to the Soviets".
Thanks to climate change denial, mindless prejudice and trade protectionism, that's just what it's doing now with China & green tech, esp EVs and batteries. 1/2
Thanks to climate change denial, mindless prejudice and trade protectionism, that's just what it's doing now with China & green tech, esp EVs and batteries. 1/2
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New season of AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA coming soon! This time hosted by Garry Kasparov
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...
Coming Soon: A New Season of ‘Autocracy in America’
Defenders of the free world can no longer take their liberties for granted.
www.theatlantic.com
June 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
New season of AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA coming soon! This time hosted by Garry Kasparov
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...
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It's incredible that neither the president nor VP was here. The politicization of all facets of American life is coming from the White House. No other American president would have failed to pay their respects. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Tim Walz eulogizes slain lawmaker as a historic Minnesotan — and friend
After a hug with Kamala Harris, Gov. Tim Walz eulogized slain state Rep. Melissa Hortman as “the most consequential speaker in Minnesota history.”
www.washingtonpost.com
June 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
It's incredible that neither the president nor VP was here. The politicization of all facets of American life is coming from the White House. No other American president would have failed to pay their respects. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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Time to call crypto what it is: A criminal enterprise
Paul Krugman
May 30, 2025
Time to call crypto what it is: A criminal enterprise
Paul Krugman
May 30, 2025
Digital Corruption Takes Over DC
Time to call crypto what it is: A criminal enterprise
paulkrugman.substack.com
June 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/digital-co...
Time to call crypto what it is: A criminal enterprise
Paul Krugman
May 30, 2025
Time to call crypto what it is: A criminal enterprise
Paul Krugman
May 30, 2025
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Timothy Snyder is the one to follow as we descend into madness.
June 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Timothy Snyder is the one to follow as we descend into madness.