The West keeps making the same fundamental mistake about Russia.
I’ve spent a decade in the system, ten years in six different Russian prisons, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that switching the "Tsar" won't fix a thing.
Here is why the "Good Tsar" myth is a trap, and what actually needs to happen. 🧵 [1/12]
A Syrian artist living in Berlin posted a video now trending across Germany.
Germany welcomed Syrian refugees during and after the civil war and have no colonial past in Syria to atone for. What do they get in return? Resentment, a Third-Worldist rant basically about Western colonizers as eternal oppressors.
The contrast with Syria itself is what makes this interesting. Syrians inside Syria today want the West. They want a peaceful Damascus, a functioning banking system, trade, integration into the global economy. The loudest anticolonial voices and movements now sit in Western capitals advocating for things their own people aren’t aligned with.
Anne Applebaum: "Steve Witkoff has no experience with Russia or diplomacy. I fear he imagines a US-Russia pact where he, his son, Trump's family or their circle benefit personally.
It's disturbing that American foreign policy conducted not for the US, allies or world peace, but for private interests.
Putin knows Trump is vulnerable to such deals - that's why he keeps suggesting them.
Witkoff and Trump's entourage behave like Russians: capture the state, use it for personal wealth."
@JohannaNyman5 So many low life Putinistas on this thread. Why are they cheering for the destruction of the russian society? Russia can be better than this!
@bernpaintner Sverige är en för liten ekonomi för att ha en egen valuta. Vi är inte Schweiz. Kronans utveckling emot euron under 20 år är miserabel, från 8,50 till 11 kronor . Kronan är en skvalpvaluta. Ta bort kostnaden för valutarisk i ekonomin. Vi kommer ändå att få ha CG på mynten.
@neroincode@AStrinnholm Ja att de är kvar i Kursk, trots att ryssarna påsod att de skull var ute i oktober . Gilla läget. Ryssjäveln har inte förmåga att kasta ur UAF ur Kursk än mindre att bryta igenom UAF linjer.
@DD_Geopolitics Russians are european and russian have a problem with the relationship with Europe. The russian elite send their children to Europe. They buy european real estate. I wonder how they intend to handle the situation they have created.
@khodorkovsky_en This has been the case for Iran. Considering the natural resources in Russia it is ikely that Russia will end up in the same situation as Iran and Venzuela.