Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Anyways hot take but World War I was both really bad and also, I think, a very high-contingency moment in world history. I wrote this about the Habsburgs, but the Czarist Empire was also reasonable stable absent war. https://t.co/yMXyeJA3v1 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted July 27, 2022 Hibernated

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Late-czarist Russia was on the upswing economically until they got too invested in the fate of Serbia and got themselves ensnared in global war. — PolitiTweet.org

The Soviet Union was shitty in many ways, but the fact that it managed to reverse Russia's multi-century decline fo… https://t.co/z8zF77WIih

Posted July 27, 2022 Hibernated

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The Russians just completely failed to draw the appropriate lesson from the Russo-Japanese War that their military was kind of garbage, which should have made them much more cautious about heavily backing Serbia. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted July 27, 2022 Hibernated