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Thank you to Mikhail Gorbachev for helping fact check Tucker here. This whole interview was surprisingly insightful for revealing the central conflict in our world today. People like Tucker don’t hide it anymore. It’s between those who support a better rules-based world of nation states and those, like Tucker, who want to see the world dragged back to an age of empires - just as Hitler and Stalin tried together. Tucker is enthralled to Russia, repeatedly arguing that countries like Britain wouldn’t be threatened if they just let Russia take Ukraine and dominate its neighbours. Anyone with a basic understanding of history ain’t buying it. Jacob Rees-Mogg puts up a firmer defence of nation states than Tucker was expecting. He points out that signalling weakness to dictators and letting them consume ever more territory does not enhance anyone’s security. In reality, all nations are better off when sovereignty is respected within a rules-based system that allows smaller countries to exist too. It’s the most basic principle of the post-WW2 era, which helped create the most extraordinarily prosperous and peaceful period of world history. And that includes the sovereign right of every nation to decide its own security alliances hence why, as Gorbachev says, there was no agreement that countries like the Baltics can’t join NATO. Tucker refuses to answer whether it was a mistake for the US to guarantee Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, along with the UK and Russia, in exchange for Ukraine giving up nuclear weapons. He can’t answer because he clearly still wants nations like Ukraine to lower their defences in exchange for false guarantees. Remember that.
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The world’s wrongest man, John Mearsheimer, says he was effectively penniless during his recent visit to Russia because the “Russia expert” didn’t know his US credit card wouldn’t work there. Mearsheimer was in Russia to lecture Russians about Russia, leaving local audiences confused by pro-Russia talking points that he seems unaware are only meant for Western consumption.
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The CIA revised down its assessment of Russia’s threat to NATO, reports Michael Weiss on The Bulwark (The Bulwark). Despite a lot of “clickbait bullshit” this week, the CIA is aligned with European intelligence agencies, including in the Baltics. They all see Russia seeking ways to escalate its campaign of sabotage and so-called hybrid attacks across Europe, although not a direct military attack on NATO. Russia does not want to trigger a strong response. It much prefers trying to create panic. This whole episode, hosted by 26-year CIA veteran Marc Polymeropoulos, is really informative and a nice antidote to much of the coverage elsewhere this week. They also discuss why “hybrid warfare” is a terrible term, and why a strong response shouldn’t wait. Find ways to listen here:
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Hasan Piker has broken ranks with John Mearsheimer following his visit to Russia, saying that the realist scholar is too sympathetic to Russia and too overconfident about its situation. Unrealistic, you might say. Note that Hasan incorrectly uses the past-future tense when saying now that he agreed with Mearsheimer about why Russia *would* invade Ukraine. In reality, Mearsheimer and Hasan vehemently denied that Russia would invade Ukraine before the full scale invasion. They argued it would be insanely irrational. It was only AFTER Russia’s full scale invasion that they agreed to blame the West.
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![Watch this latest video from russian state TV. It will be shown at russia’s tribunal. It will be studied in history classes by your children and grand children. “You understand that this list [of territories to be conquered] is incomplete. Everyone understands that this list is incomplete.” “It doesn’t matter what you call it …denazification or demilitarisation. Call it whatever you want. Everyone knows what it really means …the restoration of the russian empire.” “There are some nations whose existence is pointless.” This is just one clip of thousands of hours of footage in which the hatred and genocidal intentions of russia are on full display. It’s all documented for history. He’s right when he says everyone already knows what is happening. This is your regular reminder that future generations will not be in any doubt that you know right now that russia is a genocidal imperial aggressor. It’s very open about it. Polling in russia shows russians overwhelmingly believe the goal of their war is territorial conquest, not any of the excuses peddled by its supporters abroad. All of us around the world will have no plausible deniability that we didn’t know what was going on. You can see these clips. You can see the dictator literally standing over imperial era maps, comparing himself to other tsars, and discussing the erasure of a sovereign nation. You can read endless, carefully documented testimonies from people who have escaped the horrors of russian occupation and its very clearly genocidal nature. You know about all this. You scrolled past it. History will judge what you do now based on the fact that you know. It’s the reason no one has ever expressed any confusion about russia’s talk of imperial conquest or its use of neo-nazis to achieve it. Not a single person has ever said: “wait, this doesn’t make sense if it’s just a special operation to denazify and demilitarise Ukraine”. No one has ever said that because, as russian TV makes clear, no one is in doubt about what all this is really about. Russian soldiers who feign ignorance of being invaders when they are captured actually have no problem boasting of their atrocities in intercepted phone calls. Academics who insist the war is in some way excusable are suddenly very articulate about why imperialism and genocide is wrong when russia is not doing it. They know. They have just chosen to support genocidal imperialism in this case. Don’t let them gaslight you with excuses. There’s one irony here though. Russia’s war is based on denying the agency of Ukrainians and all nations in the way of russia’s expansionist aggression. However, the key to ending this is for us to respect the agency of those who deny ours. Don’t think of them as brainwashed or too stupid to know what’s going on. Respect their agency as supporters of imperial genocide. They are responsible for everything they are doing and must face the consequences of that. One day, the chorus of propaganda offering excuses will fall silent, as it did during the Nuremberg tribunal. The horrors of russia’s genocidal crimes will be more fully documented. As after Nuremberg, no one in future will give a shit about the excuses offered in our era to deny or delay the defeat of the genocidal aggressor and bring its leaders to justice. Make sure you can look your children and grandchildren in the eye and tell them what you did now to help achieve that. Send this clip to The Hague, along with all the others. #SpecialTribunalNow](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1707662507966443992/amplify_video_thumb/1707662135021404160/img/jsrm6rUZqC0hfclQ.jpg)
Watch this latest video from russian state TV. It will be shown at russia’s tribunal. It will be studied in history classes by your children and grand children. “You understand that this list [of territories to be conquered] is incomplete. Everyone understands that this list is incomplete.” “It doesn’t matter what you call it …denazification or demilitarisation. Call it whatever you want. Everyone knows what it really means …the restoration of the russian empire.” “There are some nations whose existence is pointless.” This is just one clip of thousands of hours of footage in which the hatred and genocidal intentions of russia are on full display. It’s all documented for history. He’s right when he says everyone already knows what is happening. This is your regular reminder that future generations will not be in any doubt that you know right now that russia is a genocidal imperial aggressor. It’s very open about it. Polling in russia shows russians overwhelmingly believe the goal of their war is territorial conquest, not any of the excuses peddled by its supporters abroad. All of us around the world will have no plausible deniability that we didn’t know what was going on. You can see these clips. You can see the dictator literally standing over imperial era maps, comparing himself to other tsars, and discussing the erasure of a sovereign nation. You can read endless, carefully documented testimonies from people who have escaped the horrors of russian occupation and its very clearly genocidal nature. You know about all this. You scrolled past it. History will judge what you do now based on the fact that you know. It’s the reason no one has ever expressed any confusion about russia’s talk of imperial conquest or its use of neo-nazis to achieve it. Not a single person has ever said: “wait, this doesn’t make sense if it’s just a special operation to denazify and demilitarise Ukraine”. No one has ever said that because, as russian TV makes clear, no one is in doubt about what all this is really about. Russian soldiers who feign ignorance of being invaders when they are captured actually have no problem boasting of their atrocities in intercepted phone calls. Academics who insist the war is in some way excusable are suddenly very articulate about why imperialism and genocide is wrong when russia is not doing it. They know. They have just chosen to support genocidal imperialism in this case. Don’t let them gaslight you with excuses. There’s one irony here though. Russia’s war is based on denying the agency of Ukrainians and all nations in the way of russia’s expansionist aggression. However, the key to ending this is for us to respect the agency of those who deny ours. Don’t think of them as brainwashed or too stupid to know what’s going on. Respect their agency as supporters of imperial genocide. They are responsible for everything they are doing and must face the consequences of that. One day, the chorus of propaganda offering excuses will fall silent, as it did during the Nuremberg tribunal. The horrors of russia’s genocidal crimes will be more fully documented. As after Nuremberg, no one in future will give a shit about the excuses offered in our era to deny or delay the defeat of the genocidal aggressor and bring its leaders to justice. Make sure you can look your children and grandchildren in the eye and tell them what you did now to help achieve that. Send this clip to The Hague, along with all the others. #SpecialTribunalNow
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