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Andrzej Kozlowski

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9 Jan

There is an enormous difference between deplatforming Trump and deplatforming the President of the United States. It’s really amazing that intelligent people don’t seem to understand it. The first would be nothing special, a decision by a private company of the kind that has

been done lots of times. The second (especially when it’s done by the companies that now enjoy virtual monopoly on public information) is an intolerable outrage and a danger to free freedom. It’s also curious that exactly the same people who attack Orban for monopolizing public

debate in Hungary by having all the main media sources controlled by his cronies (private companies!) find no problem when the same thing is done in the USA. By all means, impeach Trump but as long he is President, he has to be treated as such. Dorsey and Zuckerberg who are the

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Andrzej Kozlowski

@akoz33

8 Jan

As expected, the end of Trump’s presidency confirmed all of the worst things Republican opponents said about him in 2016, but it also confirmed what everyone should have known all the time, which is that he was all the time a “paper tiger”, both totally unprepared for his new

and without the intelligence or mental discipline needed for successful improvisation. Far from “playing 4D-chess” he was was worse like someone who manages to lose at tic-tac-toe.
Both those who worried about Trump seizing power by some kind of coup d’etat and those who hoped

for such a thing we’re equally naive - clearly they either never understood Trump or the American political system, and usually both. Instead of a coup we got what everybody should have expected - and self-destructive uncontrollable temper tantrum and a farce (although one

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Andrzej Kozlowski

@akoz33

7 Jan

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I have written a number of times before about the very support for Trump among the extreme Japanese nationalists (which include some prominent people, for example Naoki Momota, the former head of NHK & former Abe advisor, Kaori Arimoto).

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1347269272477659136

They fully accept the most crazy conspiracy theories, and keep quoting Lin Wood. Moreover, many of them are strongly pro-Putin. Many are antisemitic (yes, there is such a thing in Japan) although most try to be discrete about it.
But the weirdest thing is that they are both very

pro-Trump but also very anti-American. They are all completely convinced that Japan was the victim in the Pacific war, that the JIA was thoroughly honorable and that the Japanese were deliberately indoctrinated with war guilt by the Americans after the war. One of the best known

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Andrzej Kozlowski

@akoz33

7 Jan

https://twitter.com/VojnavIstorii/status/1347230344643280898

Jan Matejko’s “Jan Žižka before the battle of Kutna Hora”.
Jan Žižka was the invincible commander of the Czech Taborites - a radical Hussite wing. He certainly is a candidate for the greatest military commander and innovator in all history. Unlike the other great general, Žižka

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essentially alone invented both the tactics and even the technology of his warfare. His use of mobile artillery was a couple of centuries ahead of his time. At Kutna Hora Žižka’s army was surrounded by much superior force of the Holy Roman Emperor Sigmund and seemed doomed yet

Žiža’s artillery kept the imperial cavalry at bay and his armored wagons broke through the imperial cavalry.
Matejko also painted Žižka in his famous Battle of Grunwald painting. It’s known that at around the time of the battle Žižka

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Andrzej Kozlowski

@akoz33

7 Jan

https://twitter.com/eluttwak/status/1347187104036614145

It was not an insurrection (although weapons were wielded, explosives were found and one person was shot dead), but it does satisfy Edward Luttwak’s own definition of an attempted coup (albeit an exceptionally incompetent one). Let’s recall the definition, which is on page 11

https://twitter.com/eluttwak/status/1347187104036614145

Of my copy. Earlier the authors list other forms of violent seizure of power, such as a revolution, civil war and a “pronunciamiento”, which is the Latin American type of purely military coup d’etat, in which the army seizes power on its own behalf and then gives the following

definition: “A coup consists of the infiltration of a small but critical segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government of its control of the remainder”.
Well, to me this seems to fit particularly that we now know that Trump attempted to stop the

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Andrzej Kozlowski

@akoz33

6 Jan

I am not quite sure but I think it was it was State of Virginia National Guards that had to be brought to restore order in the Capitol because the Pentagon (not the Joint Chiefs) refused permission of the National Guard to be used. (in Washington DC the National Guard is under

direct control of the President and the request to use it was reportedly refused). This bears all the marks of (a very feeble and incompetent) attempted coup. If faced with the absolute necessity of making a choice, the Joint Chiefs of Staff would without doubt have backed the

law and crushed the attempted coup but it’s much better to deal with these ludicrous imposters by local forces, without involving the military. Yet there will have to be changes. Presidential powers will have to be reduced. The most important thing is reducing the time an acting

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