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1/14 My six books about #Ukraine. I am called upon to answer questions about Ukraine every day. My books, which represent a quarter century of research and thought, often do a better job than I can while speaking live or in short pieces.
2/14 I don't often mention my books on Ukraine, because I feel uneasy promoting things that cost money while people in Ukraine are suffering and dying in this horrible unjustifiable invasion. I will continue to make meaningful donations to Ukraine. If you can, I hope you will too
3/14 My book that is most immediately relevant to the Russian invasion of Ukraine is "The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America." It is a history of the 2010s that links Russia's first invasion of Ukraine (2014) to its interference in US elections (2016).
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#BlackEarth 1/3 "Perhaps we imagine that we would be rescuers in some future catastrophe. Yet if states were destroyed, local institutions corrupted, and economic incentives directed towards murder, most of us would behave extremely badly.
#BlackEarth 2/3 "There is not much reason to think that we are ethically superior to the Europeans of the 1930s and 1940s, or less vulnerable to the kind of ideas that Hitler so successfully promulgated and realized.
#BlackEarth 3/3 If we are serious about emulating rescuers, we should build in advance the structures that make it more likely that we would." ~From "Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning"
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