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@MEvstatieva
Sep 18, 2020 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
(1/1) Just an observation: I flew to Bulgaria a week ago. There was a COVID outbreak here too, they did shutdown, but now life is almost entirely back to normal. Kids are back in school, PCR tests are readily available and results come out in 12 hours, masks are only worn inside.
(1/2) I felt like an alien when I landed. I was so wired, it took me time to relax and start living like a regular person again. We in the US - just like in a war zone- have normalized the abnormal, so we can survive.
(1/3) But the constant anxiety and fear and worry is so draining, you don’t even realize it. I have to fly back soon and I feel unsettled. Like I have to deploy back on another tour of a war zone and I am not ready for the endless high alertness and danger. Just sharing. Sigh.

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Aug 2, 2022
I spent the past 15 days in Eastern Europe, in my home country of Bulgaria, and what struck me is how much Kremlin’s talking points have permeated not only the political discourse, but people’s psyche. Why should anyone care about a small country? Because it's a case study.🧵
1. I was presented with personal opinions entirely formed on misinformation and wrong conclusions. Including that the war between Ukraine and Russia is entirely the product of America’s desire to sell its weapons; that Europe is "suffering" and Russia is "thriving" economically.
2. That there are casualties - “young people dying” - on both sides. Indeed a fact, but on a disproportionate scale of one side being brutally attacked by the other. I also heard familiar questions about Hunter Biden's involvement in Ukraine and President Biden's age.
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Oct 23, 2021
1. “We are born without choosing to, to parents we haven’t chosen, into bodies and borders we haven’t chosen, to exist in a region of spacetime we haven’t chosen for a duration we don’t choose.” This is the first sentence i read today, when I woke up.
2. It was written by the Marginalian. And what she wrote is so true, but sometimes, in these very rare occasions - we get to choose. Today, i became an American. Not because someone brought me here as a kid or because I had to escape an awful situation…
3. …like so many people are forced to do, but because i chose to. It’s a privilege to have this choice. I love my roots, but i also love this country. I know its many flaws too well. I cover them every day.
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Aug 15, 2021
(1) Why are some soldiers in the Afghan National Army not fighting back? I have been asked this question repeatedly over the past week. Here is some background. First: Casualties and death rates.
(2) Over the past several years Afghan soldiers have been fighting the Taliban and other insurgency groups daily, with the U.S. military providing mostly aerial support and training. And they have been killed and injured in large numbers.
(3) So, it is not like the U.S. military has been training one soldier for a decade, some of them have had only several months of training, before they were killed or injured and a new recruit would take their place.
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Feb 9, 2021
LATEST: For the past 3 weeks we read through hundreds of court documents, statements and releases to give you a full list of the people charged on January 6th. npr.org/2021/02/09/965…
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Who stormed the Capitol on January 6th and what motivated them to be there? Who were the people who invoked former President Trump in explaining or defending their actions on Jan. 6? (11% of the charged)
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