Realism as an international relations theory will never recover from this.

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OTD in 1939 Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov addressed the supreme Soviet and said that 'Hitler stood for peace" and France & UK were the aggressors as they wanted to continue to fight the Nazis. Imagine the Kremlin supporting the far right today & claiming anything like that...

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Undoing democratic backsliding is very difficult. One reason is that the enemies of democracy burrow themselves into institutions to capture them, including judiciaries. Dislodging them can be resisted by them & attacked as itself further backsliding. The US faces a hard version of this with SCOTUS.

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The evacuation of people from Oleshky has finished. Buses with people are finally in Ukraine. And I cannot stop thinking that just five years ago, these people lived peaceful lives, raised their children, tended their gardens, and were happy. Then Russian soldiers came to their land.  

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As I said multiple times, NATO's eastward expansion made them do this

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