What to Expect When You’re Expecting Catastrophe

And What to Do. A guest essay by Laurie Winer

Timothy #Snyder Mar 13, 2025

A guest essay by Laurie #Winer

Magical thinking is far from new. Adolf #Hitler came to power amid similar lies and conspiracy theories. We should know where that leads. ...

Here, then, are things to watch for, all warnings from the well-known story of the Third Reich. ...

https://snyder.substack.com/p/what-to-expect-when-youre-expecting

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#USA #Trump #Musk #MAGA

Armored #Ambulances for Ukrainian Medics

Please join in to help!

Timothy #Snyder Mar 11, 2025

People keep writing to ask what they can do to help #Ukraine. The country's soldiers face renewed attacks from #Russia. There is a simple way to make sure that more Ukrainian soldiers survive, and to send a message that we support them: by funding armored evacuation vehicles. ...

https://snyder.substack.com/p/armored-ambulances-for-ukrainian

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#United24
#putin #russland
#Zelensky #SlavaUkraini

Unfreedom at the Washington Post

How an #editorial line fosters #authoritarianism

Timothy #Snyder Mar 09, 2025

On February 26th the Washington Post announced a new editorial line that refers to #freedom while restraining it. ...

Jeff #Bezos ... has announced ... : "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets." ...

https://snyder.substack.com/p/unfreedom-at-the-washington-post

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#WashingtonPost #liberty
#usa #Trump #Vance

#Antisemitism in the Oval Office

A confrontation seen with a historian's eye

Timothy #Snyder Mar 07, 2025

The attempt to humiliate Volodymyr Zelens'kyi in the Oval Office a week ago was an American strategic collapse. ...

https://snyder.substack.com/p/antisemitism-in-the-oval-office

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#antisemitismus #Holocaust
#JerzyJedlicki #Jedlicki #Warsaw #Warzawa #Warschau #Ghetto
#usa #Trump #Vance #putin #russia #russland
#Zelensky #SlavaUkraini

What Democracy Brings

And What the Cuts to the National Endowment for Democracy Take Away

Timothy #Snyder Mar 05, 2025

A guest essay by John K. #glenn

If we stop making the case for #democracy, we fail them. Unfortunately, this is what we are now failing to do. The United States is ceasing to support democracies.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/what-democracy-brings

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#usa #Trump #Vance #putin #russland #russia
#NED #Venezuela #syrien #Belarus
#Zelensky #SlavaUkraini

Is it a #peace process? (short video)

Five quick tests for the US in a two-minute video

Timothy #Snyder Mar 04, 2025

... it seems, in fact, designed to create the conditions for a broader and a longer war by excluding, exploiting and harming #Ukraine, strengthening #russia, ... , ignoring international law, and denying the need for any structure at all ...

https://snyder.substack.com/p/is-it-a-peace-process-short-video

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#usa #Trump #Vance #putin #russland
#Zelensky #SlavaUkraini

The War #Trump Chooses

That wasn't Trump against Zelens'kyi. It was Americans against reason

Timothy #Snyder Mar 01, 2025

The Americans claim that their attempt to humiliate the Ukrainian president in the White House yesterday was about peace. ...
The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Elon #Musk, Donald #Trump, and JD #Vance have chosen. ...

https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-trump-chooses

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#usa #putin
#Ukraine #Zelensky #SlavaUkraini

The "Fraud" #Fraud

How #DOGE destroys

Timothy #Snyder Feb 26, 2025

How does Elon #Musk use the word "fraud" to dismantle the US federal government?

The term is not as an attempt to describe the world, but to change it. It is a political tool, used by a politician to justify a political action: regime change to #oligarchy

https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-fraud-fraud

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#usa #trump #MuskTrump #Medicare #Republicans

The Reality of #Ukraine

A larger meaning of the largest contemporary war

Timothy #Snyder Feb 24, 2025

The divide in politics today is between unreality and reality. Those who seek to rule the world blur human experience and smudge memory, making cooperation and friendship laughable and unthinkable. Rather than possessors of truths, we are to serve as lonely nodes in a power network.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-reality-of-ukraine

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#putin #russia #russland #RussiaIsATerroristState

My favorite Europeans are nine years old

A view from a school in #Zaporizhzhia Ukraine

Timothy #Snyder Feb 23, 2025

In Zaporizhzhia, ... I met my favorite Europeans at a #history lesson ... in the opening ceremonies of a new, #underground #school ... . The school is underground not in some metaphorical sense, but physically. Russian missiles ... target schools.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/my-favorite-europeans-are-nine-years

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#putin #Ukraine #russland #russia #RussiaIsATerroristState

Kash Patel's Plots

Fiction and Persecution in the #FBI and America

Timothy #Snyder Feb 18, 2025

... Much can be said about Patel, who the Senate will now be considering in confirmation hearings. The circumstances of his nomination are quite unusual. He has no qualifications. Unlike previous FBI directors, he has never held a prior office that requires Senate confirmation. ...

https://snyder.substack.com/p/kash-patels-plots

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#KashPatel #FSB #NKWD #NKVD #UdSSR #USSR
#putin #trump #usa

#Peace or #Partition?

Russians and Americans speak about Ukraine, without Ukrainians

Timothy Snyder Feb 17, 2025

...

Tomorrow in Saudi Arabia, Russian officials will discuss the future of Ukraine with an handful of Americans, delegated by a president who sympathizes with the Russian view of the war. ...

https://snyder.substack.com/p/peace-or-partition

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#MunichSecurityConference
#ukraine #Ukrainekrieg #putin #trump #russland #russia #usa

#Thinkingabout Affirmative Action for Dictators
American Foreign Policy seen from #Munich
#TimothySnyder : "It is difficult to be certain of U.S. policy to #Ukraine, since the Americans contradict one another and themselves faster than any chyron or twitter feed can follow"
https://snyder.substack.com/p/affirmative-action-for-dictators

#Thinkingabout :
Appeasement at #Munich
World Wars, Past and Possible
#Ukraine #USA #Russia #geography #TimothySnyder #VladimirPutin #DonaldTrump #elonmusk #marcorubio #geopolitics #politicalgeography
https://snyder.substack.com/p/appeasement-at-munich

The Weak #Strongman
#Impotence and #Unfreedom, Together
#Thinkingabout #Ukraine #USA #Russia #geography #TimothySnyder #VladimirPutin #DonaldTrump #elonmusk https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-weak-strongman?

Absolutely worth reading ! Definitely one of the best essays by #TimothySnyder in recent times.
Crossing a line -
Borders between one kind of life and another #Thinkingabout #Ukraine #USA #Russia #geography #crossborderail #geopolitics #Authoritarianism #traintravel
@geography
https://snyder.substack.com/p/crossing-a-line

#Thinkingabout
Of course it’s a coup
Miss the obvious, lose your republic

"A coup is underway, against Americans as possessors of human rights and dignities, and against Americans as citizens of a democratic republic. Each hour this goes unrecognized makes the success of the coup more likely."

#Timothysnyder #elonmusk #DonaldTrump
https://snyder.substack.com/p/of-course-its-a-coup

#Thinkingabout :
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it by #timothysnyder
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-of-destruction?

Twenty Lessons On #Tyranny
From the Twentieth Century #TimothySnyder #Thinkingabout
https://snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-lessons-on-tyranny

#Thinkingabout
Rejected Cabinet Nominees
Some historical guidance #TimothySnyder
https://snyder.substack.com/p/rejected-cabinet-nominees