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Jul 18, 2019 • 3 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
Can’t contain excitement. Bangkok’s first Georgian restaurant. Dining tmrw coconuts.co/bangkok/food-d… @aaron_schwa @zakavkaza @b_nishanov @katharinegk
Argo, first #Georgian restaurant in #Bangkok. Here right now with @JohnReedwrites @mpeer @germanangulo. And #khachapuri! Image
In what other city can you eat Georgian food one evening and North Korean the next? Alas don’t allow photos inside so can’t show the great floor show #Bangkok Image

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Oct 26
Was @antonioguterres right to go to the BRICS summit in Kazan?

The hardest & most important diplomacy means talking to those who have done monstrous and indefensible things. Guterres also attended BRICS in 2023.

But his visit was naive diplomacy and a big win for Putin
🧵/1
2023 BRICS summit was in South Africa, and Putin did not go – possibly for ICC reasons.

No UNSG has ever met an indicted war criminal before.

What did Guterres achieve in Kazan? /2
In public Guterres called for a just peace in line with the UN Charter.

In private – but not in public – he “stressed that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was in violation of the UN Charter & international law”. /3
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Oct 23, 2022
Shoigu’s round of calls with US, UK, France and Turkey, claiming Ukraine planning to use a ‘dirty bomb’ is v worrying. We’ve seen nothing like this intense military diplomacy since war began. Its substance is even more worrying. /1
Of course, Ukraine has neither ability nor need to use dirty bomb. It’s Russia that’s losing. Nor will anyone believe Shoigu anyway –esp Ben Wallace, who was lied to during his pre-invasion visit to Moscow./2
Shoigu also warned of ‘uncontrolled escalation’. It’s Russia that is escalating: attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, apparent attacks on Western connectivity infrastructure, and mining of Novaya Kakhovka dam. And playing with nuclear fire in Zaporizhzhiya for months. /3
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Oct 15, 2022
Belarus, Russia,Ukraine: Three lessons for a Postwar Order. My latest piece in @SurvivalEditors

2020 #Belarus uprising, first stage of a violent transformation of the region, offers wider lessons:
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108… /1
1. Highly personalistic rule is prone to error. But:
2. It can suppress consequences through tight control of elites and institutions.

Not just authoritarian strength, but specifically personalistic domination, enabled Lukashenka to bend arc of history back on itself. /2
These contradictory lessons are now playing out on a much larger stage.
Russia is more autocratic (though not more authoritarian) than any time since 1953. What does this mean? /3
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Sep 25, 2022
Mobilisation is an act of desperation the Kremlin has done everything until now to avoid. And it is no quick fix. Russia has left it late, and conditions are far less favourable now. /1
iiss.org/blogs/analysis…
Regime now struggles to articulate goals and muster means. Harder than ever to believe time on its side. Strategy rests on two hopes. But both will stoke domestic fear and resistance... /2
i. Throw in enough extra mass to stop Ukraine and permanently secure at least some additional land it can claim as a victory worth the enormous costs Russia has incurred; and… /3
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Jun 29, 2022
Poll of Russian public opinion on war in Ukraine, by group of independent sociologists:
Since start of war, support up from 59% to 64%, opposition down from 22% to 9%.
Those most opposed: under 34 and greater users of online media. /1
65% of Russians would not stop the war if they could. 22% would.
51% not ready to take part in it, 39% are ready (esp. 39-58 year-olds)
71% say they understand the goal, but not all can say what is. Answers vary: destruction of Nazism, fascism; then saving Russia from NATO./2
Source: vedomosti.ru/society/articl…
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Jun 7, 2022
My latest piece just out.

Some argue that Western and Ukrainian interests differ. A serious argument, but wrong. A compromise peace with Russian gains wd be disastrous for Western interests.
themoscowtimes.com/2022/06/07/we-…
West faces inescapable choice:

Either a negotiated outcome that strengthens Russia, weakens Ukraine, harms Western security and undermines the rules-based order.

Or a fully-resourced commitment to help Ukraine defeat Russia’s invasion./2
West’s choice depends above all on how it weighs large and predictable costs of compromise vs small and theoretical risks of nuclear escalation — a risk that Russia would not rationally initiate, but fears of which it assiduously stokes. /3
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