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🧵I’m increasingly convinced that #Putin and “Putinism” have been made possible by the accumulation of resentments across the Russian society. #Putinism has emerged from Russians’ inability to accept that they lost the Cold War because the Soviet Union could no longer compete 1/
#Putinism is akin to the Dolchstoßlegende that emerged in Germany after its 1918 loss in Wold War I. It argued that the great German people were never defeated, but betrayed by cowardly politicians-stabbed in the back. That German legend fueled DEU interwar national resentment.2/
Roughly within a decade after WWI the Dolchstoßlegende and the national resentment it fueled gave rise to Hitler and his attempt to re-litigate the outcome in 1918. Only the unequivocal defeat of Germany in 1945 buried the legend, foreclosing the path to empire through war.3/
#Putinism –
“the report concludes, this ‘presents a CLEAR & PRESENT DANGER that the President will continue to use the power of his office’ to corrupt the next election on his own behalf, & that in so doing, Trump recognizes no legitimate ‘limitation.’"
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
“the report concludes, this ‘presents a CLEAR & PRESENT DANGER that the President will continue to use the power of his office’ to corrupt the next election on his own behalf, & that in so doing, Trump recognizes no legitimate ‘limitation.’"
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
#Putinism
“We now know the lie about Ukrainian interference has been a mainstay of self-absolving Russian propaganda for years. Trump HASN’T BEEN DUPED into spreading it. He explicitly recognizes an alliance of his own interests with those of Russia...in corrupting US democracy”
“We now know the lie about Ukrainian interference has been a mainstay of self-absolving Russian propaganda for years. Trump HASN’T BEEN DUPED into spreading it. He explicitly recognizes an alliance of his own interests with those of Russia...in corrupting US democracy”
“ #Putinism” as a “worldwide movement” that allies various ethno-nationalist and illiberal authoritarian leaders against Western liberal democracy, the rule of law, international institutions and the commitment to empiricism in the face of disinformation.”
