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ukrainian noble, upstanding and right-thinking

russia/ukraine commentary on twitter is frustrating not because it's overwhelmingly anti-russia (it is), but because it rarely makes any effort to empathize in good faith with moscow's concerns and point of view, which is what you ***need to do*** if you want to compromise

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At a certain point, you have to stop treating this crisis as a test of various abstract IR theories and acknowledge right and wrong. One country is preparing to launch an unprovoked, preemptive invasion of another. The other is not. Russia is in the wrong. Ukraine is not.

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John Mearsheimer elaborates on this point, among others, in his wonderful recent interview w

on his Dishcast podcast

John Mearsheimer On Handling Russia And China – The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan – Podcast

The question of how to deal with a resurgent Russia and a new super-power in China is now an urgent one to think through. At the Dishcast, we’re going to air various views over the coming months....

4:56 AM · Feb 20, 2022