Zack Beauchamp

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Also worth noting that some of the big spikes in the chart were caused by those famous capitalists, Stalin and Mao — PolitiTweet.org

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Hmmmmmmmm https://t.co/UjlInxBeBW — PolitiTweet.org

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I see Putin's genius feint around Kyiv has allowed him to seize natural gas reserves in the Donbas in exactly the way he plan...wait a minute, that's all nonsense — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kainazamaria: Vox at its best here via @zackbeauchamp 9 big questions about Russia’s war in Ukraine, answered https://t.co/iXpL4uVFll — PolitiTweet.org

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@DouthatNYT okay now i gotta do a follow up — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattyglesias we actually debated that and then decided it would be a little too "what is marijuana" at this point — PolitiTweet.org

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There is *a lot* more detail on these points in the piece itself — so please, go read it if you're interested https://t.co/TAHVwnn34n — PolitiTweet.org

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Ultimately, given all the developments on the ground and globally, the most plausible way this ends is some kind of negotiated settlement. But what that looks like, and how long it might take to get there, is very much up in the air https://t.co/58zLnubdUY — PolitiTweet.org

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Here's some "good" news — both the US and Russia are, for now, taking nuclear deterrence seriously. So long as Russia refrains from cross-border strikes, and NATO doesn't intervene directly, the odds of nuclear escalation remain low https://t.co/sUDuGzvgv4 — PolitiTweet.org

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The global reaction, in my view, is widely misunderstood. This isn't a story of a world united against Russia, or democracies versus autocracies. It's something much more subtle — revealing fault lines inside geopolitical camps and sometimes within countries themselves https://t.co/mnaxPR3JMD — PolitiTweet.org

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It's hard to summarize the entirety of the sprawling NATO debate in one section of a piece, but this is my attempt to develop a more nuanced position — NATO contributed to the crisis in US-Russia relations, but it wasn't one of the war's proximate causes https://t.co/BDDKMOXbyY — PolitiTweet.org

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Russian opinion, at both the elite and mass public level, play a major role in determining how long the war can go on. Here, my conclusions are fairly pessimistic — Putin's repressive infrastructure is much more effective than many commentators seem to understand https://t.co/NbHcU4S59U — PolitiTweet.org

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No discussion of the war is complete without looking at the effect on Ukrainian civilians. The numbers here are truly staggering. https://t.co/qxDnvFfiAh — PolitiTweet.org

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The third section explains *why* Russia's military has been so bad — and Ukraine's so effective. It covers issues ranging from logistics to morale, and helps illuminate the linkages between Russia's imperial political objectives and battlefield failures. https://t.co/juDR4MeEsi — PolitiTweet.org

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The second section brings you up to date on the actual battlefield, starting from Russia's botched initial invasion through the tactics Ukraine has used to turn the tide. If you're interested in understanding the war itself, this is a good place to start https://t.co/cMFg0IhHaD — PolitiTweet.org

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I started with the long arc of Russian-Ukrainian history and used it to explain Russia behavior in the conflict. It is impossible to understand this war without grasping the political and ideological background that shaped Putin's thinking; this section lays it out. https://t.co/PeEcsy4znd — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm really proud of this big piece we put out this morning — an effort to go through the biggest issues in the Ukraine war and provide accessible (if tentative) explanations. Here's a thread on what I concluded https://t.co/TAHVwnn34n — PolitiTweet.org

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What if — and hear me out here — there were more than two books written about international relations — PolitiTweet.org

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Are you looking for a comprehensive, top to bottom explainer on the war in Ukraine - from how it started to how it might end? Well, here it is https://t.co/TAHVwnn34n — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @PhillipsPOBrien: Putin didn’t really want to take Kyiv is this war’s equivalent to the Biden did not win the election fairly. A clear d… — PolitiTweet.org

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@alexbward @blakehounshell @samstein @JonLemire of course — PolitiTweet.org

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@michaelbd @foster_type @EricLevitz I don’t think you actually believe this at this point — PolitiTweet.org

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I see it’s “twisting ourselves into intellectual knots to defend our pet theory of Putin’s war” day on Twitter dot com — PolitiTweet.org

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So this suggests little in the way of partisan or race splits, which is fascinating. Instead the big divides are 1) class, where wealthier and more educated voters are more sympathetic to Chris Rock and 2) age, with younger voters much more on Team Will Smith. — PolitiTweet.org

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I was making French onion soup for dinner tonight and @phylliskessel referred to it as “hot onion water,” which is not only a good reference but fundamentally correct — PolitiTweet.org

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Okay, people liked these, so a few more: The Atlantic: A Slap In The Face of Democracy New York Times: After Slap, Two Narratives Swirl Bari Weiss Substack: The Slap was Cancel Culture RT: Putin Announces Special Military Operation to Demilitarize and De-Nazify the Smith Home — PolitiTweet.org

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folks https://t.co/Y2uMyC6mp4 — PolitiTweet.org

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Compact: Will Smith's Slap is a Welcome Return to Chivalric Manliness American Greatness: Will Smith and the Liberal Media's Silence about Black-on-Black crime Jacobin: Actually, Will Smith Was Slapping Capitalism National Review: Biden caused the Slap Vox: Slaps, explained — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbouie @lionel_trolling i'm working on a version of this take (anti-liberalism uber alles) as a way of explaining the horseshoe dynamics of the ukraine debate, it's fascinating how certain things persist over time — PolitiTweet.org

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@lionel_trolling imagine writing accusing someone of harboring a "burning hatred of slavery" as if it were a bad thing — PolitiTweet.org