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23 May, 5 tweets, 1 min read
1/5. Belarus would not have hijacked an EU plane without Russian approval.
2/5. Possibly the hijacking was even a Russian initiative. Worth asking before acting.
3/5. The Russian play would be: foreseeable EU sanctions on Belarus drive Minsk closer to Moscow.
4/5. So the EU should consider sanctioning Russia as well as Belarus.
5/5. And Germany should cancel Nord Stream 2. Because of this. Because of Navalny. And because it was always an outrage to reward Russia with a pipeline for invading Ukraine.

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22 May
A series of five essays on Belarus, part 1/5: The Worst War. "Memory tends to shroud history, and those with the weaker voices are forgotten. Sometimes the lands that suffer most are least able to gather the attention of others." snyder.substack.com/p/belarus-15-t…
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11 Apr
1/5. Universal access to health care would make us freer citizens and people.
2/5. If people cannot start businesses because they cannot afford the health care costs, then they are far less free than they might be.
3/5. If people are in bad jobs because they need the health care, then they are stuck, not really free.
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1/6. Voter suppression is crowding out policy. #VoterSupression
2/6. In a democratic system, a party campaigns on policy, and it sometimes wins, and it sometimes loses. It adjusts when it loses by changing its platform, rather than by changing the rules. The Republican Party is no longer doing that.
3/6. When Republicans lose national elections, other Republicans use control of statehouses to make the country less democratic.
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1/7. The United States can restore its global influence by vaccinating the world. snyder.substack.com/p/vaccinate-th…
2/7. After a disastrous four years of diplomacy, the U.S. can emerge stronger than before by doing the right thing: vaccinating.
3/7. Stunned by our own suffering, we do not yet grasp that American state planning and industrial capacity have given us a chance not just to vaccinate ourselves, but billions of others.
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1/5. I want to write about what I am thinking about now, and I want my writing to reach those who want to read it. So I am starting a new medium, "Thinking about...", as a newsletter on @SubstackInc. snyder.substack.com
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1/5. I want to write about what I am thinking about now, and I want my writing to reach those who want to read it. So I am starting a new medium, "Thinking about...", as a newsletter on @SubstackInc.
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