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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
These musings were inspired by @IChotiner's interview with Mearsheimer, where the latter tries his damndest to make facts fit the theory and comes up empty https://t.co/Y9CVWF0LL5 — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
The reason Mearsheimer-style analysis seems so far off is that he’s approaching an IKEA assembly with one bag of screws. Sure, that’s part of what you need to put the desk together, but it’ll never work without the other parts. — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
The reason Mearsheimer-style analysis seems so far off is that he’s approaching an IKEA set with one bag of screws. Sure, that’s part of what you need to put the desk together, but it’ll never work without the other parts. Oh — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
My IR theory take on the Ukraine crisis is that it shows different paradigmatic logics are at work in different places, or sometimes in the different aspects of the same situation. Dogmatically trying to fit everything into a “realist” or “liberal” box is a fool’s errand. — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
RT @mattyglesias: https://t.co/ZVcOt0YNjD for advance text of all State of the Union speeches, but with more zoning takes and occasional mu… — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
I think they cobbled this speech together from a handful of @mattyglesias newsletters — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
The "test-to-treat" policy sounds very good, a model for how to design simple and popular service delivery — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
Interesting to see AOC wearing a Ukraine pin, subtly positioning the elected left away from the tankies — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
I'm having a really hard time caring about Biden laying out a series of policies that will mostly never pass in the midst of arguably the biggest geopolitical crisis in post-Cold War history — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
Lol @awzurcher @mattduss https://t.co/MRV4qsGtYM — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
Pretty sure Biden just said that Putin will never gain the hearts and souls of the "Iranian" people — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
Clear signaling in a nuclear crisis is extremely important. The Biden team can't lay out their red lines enough times, and a high-profile public speech you know the Russians will watch is a smart venue for it. — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
The NATO part of this speech is really strong. Sending a clear and plain message to the Russians that the US will not directly intervene in the Ukraine conflict — but that any attack on a NATO state is a different story — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
This is going to be the most bipartisan part of the speech, a fascinating reversal from the Trump era — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
RT @HeerJeet: On the folly of a No Fly Zone agains Russia, this @zackbeauchamp piece is definitive https://t.co/Yoqpm2wiCg — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
When I wrote a few days ago that talk about a No Fly Zone was not merely wrong but actively dangerous, this is what I meant — PolitiTweet.org
John Hudson @John_Hudson
The West’s uncertainty about Putin’s access to credible information is particularly concerning to U.S. and European… https://t.co/jX8Ng9tU8Q
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
RT @ruth_deyermond: A short thread on the war and where we are with the Russian government’s goals of re-writing the European security orde… — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
Nothing but contempt for this https://t.co/X7VbfzOr1Q — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@HeerJeet But a lot of the problem with whataboutism is that it's not a substantive critique of why X is bad, but a reference to X in a conversation about Y. It derails the debate rather than advancing it — the geopolitical equivalent of "not all men" — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@HeerJeet That's not really relevant to the question of argumentative form and intent? The Soviets did this in plenty of contexts that weren't civil rights too — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
One sign of whether someone is engaging in "whataboutism" or legitimate critique: if they consistently couch any criticisms of foreign government's crimes in the context of alleged American hypocrisy — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@MattBruenig this is also bad — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
Wright is arguing that bringing up US crimes in contemporary debates about Russia or China can be good. I agree, they *can* be. But whataboutism today refers to the use of those references to derail debates on Russian and Chinese crimes. That happens, and Wright can't defend it. — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
Whataboutism of this sort is not defensible. It is not a real attempt to prompt critical self-reflection on the part of Western audiences, but to paralyze their critical faculties and turn them away from supporting actions design to frustrate human rights abuses abroad. — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
In this sense, it's a propaganda tactic rather than a good faith argument: an attempt to exploit one set of atrocities to cover for another — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
The original use of "whataboutism," a Cold War term, refers to bad faith arguments from the Soviets and their defenders. Their references to US crimes were not an attempt to engage in legitimate political critique, but to *distract from and legitimize* malign Soviet behavior. — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
This is interesting - I love a good Hume reference - but wholly and entirely unpersuasive https://t.co/qLvRTEzq1F — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
Here's why the Russian offensive went so badly — and why it's still likely to succeed https://t.co/l6NLDGJKTy — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
Two books on Russia I found useful in understanding Putin's domestic situation: "The Future is History," by @mashagessen "Putin's Kleptocracy," by the late Karen Dawisha — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@yeselson and some of the people boosting the truckers are now undermining the ukrainians, curious — PolitiTweet.org
