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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Feb 28

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Eric Levitz

      I agree that to understand Putin's motivations for invasion, the key & overwhelming driver is revanchist Russian imperialism (Putin's own speeches make that clear). In order to understand Putin's rise & exploitation of a wider nationalism, though, Western role & NATO is crucialhttps://twitter.com/EricLevitz/status/1498356636460720135 …

      Jeet Heer added,

      Eric Levitz @EricLevitz
      imo, American proponents of deescalation and peace do our cause no favors by pretending that this conflict is rooted in Western imperialism rather than the Russian variety
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Feb 28

      To put it another way, it's not clear to me how many Russians share Putin's dream of revived imperial Russia. But there is a widely shared nationalism that is bitter about 1990s humiliations, NATO, etc.

      10:56 AM - 28 Feb 2022
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        1. MIKE OHARA‏ @MIKEOHA29305220 Feb 28
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Sure but what else should have been done? Without NATO where would be be now? It’s hardly clear that it would be a better situation.

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        1. Darrell  🇺🇦‏ @BlackMadness317 Feb 28
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Why do all of Russia’s neighbors feel the need to be in a defensive military alliance?

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        1.  🇺🇦 Defenestrate Putin  🇺🇦‏ @justice_then Feb 28
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Well, the humiliation is continuing, and it's their own damn fault.

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        1. Matt‏ @Emptyset09 Feb 28
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Invading smaller countries is only going to make more want to join NATO though. Like this isn't something the west is forcing on anyone. Russia's neighbors don't trust it and want the protection

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        2. SteelIsReal‏ @Bradorado1 Feb 28
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Increasingly clear that the Clintons are the most important/impactful people of the last 30 years, and for all the wrong reasons: (A) free trade (B) deregulation of financial markets (C) Allowing Russia to rot post Cold War rather than invest in it (D) Trump

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        1. Bob Brandon‏ @rhbrandon Feb 28
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          There's a context to that, too: the USSR took on an arms race with the US long before the 1990s. And wound up losing.

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        2. XLProfessor‏ @XLProfessor Feb 28
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          XLProfessor Retweeted Jeet Heer

          So tired of this idea that Russia's hurt pride was of more legitimate concern than the aspirations of all the Eastern European former subjects of Russian imperial rule in their desperate desire for protection and membership in the Western worldhttps://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1498371552877940738?s=20&t=rcS8VTPmPugyJTZ45iXgSw …

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          Jeet HeerVerified account @HeerJeet
          To put it another way, it's not clear to me how many Russians share Putin's dream of revived imperial Russia. But there is a widely shared nationalism that is bitter about 1990s humiliations, NATO, etc.
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        3. XLProfessor‏ @XLProfessor Feb 28
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          XLProfessor Retweeted XLProfessor

          I also don't care about the British and French being humiliated after the US blew up their Suez conspiracy, the French loss of pride after Vietnam and Algeria, or the British malaise after losing most of its empirehttps://twitter.com/XLProfessor/status/1498376578354532353?s=20&t=rcS8VTPmPugyJTZ45iXgSw …

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          XLProfessor @XLProfessor
          Replying to @HeerJeet
          So tired of this idea that Russia's hurt pride was of more legitimate concern than the aspirations of all the Eastern European former subjects of Russian imperial rule in their desperate desire for protection and membership in the Western world https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1498371552877940738?s=20&t=rcS8VTPmPugyJTZ45iXgSw …
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        1. nothings monstered‏ @nothingsmonstrd Feb 28
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Management of the peace between the USA and Russia after the fall of the USSR has not been as catastrophic as the fallout of the Treaty of Versailles, but that's about the only comparison that makes it look OK.

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