The raid of Rep. Henry Cuellar shows just how deep Azerbaijan’s tendrils of illicit lobbying (still) reach in the US: newrepublic.com/article/165140…
Azerbaijan has spent years launching illicit lobbying campaigns across the West—and not just targeting politicians.

And there’s a strong argument they’ve been most successful in the US, on both sides of the aisle.
'Allowing foreign powers to meddle in America without serious consequences is the new, dangerous normal.' responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/01/17/in-…
Rep. Cuellar 'hasn’t addressed his relationship with Azerbaijan since last week’s raid.' texastribune.org/2022/01/27/hen…

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Jan 22
If Moscow thinks it could somehow “install a pro-Russian leader in Kyiv,” Putin’s even further down the rabbit-hole than assumed. gov.uk/government/new…
The notion that the Kremlin could somehow(?) successfully install a “pro-Russian leader” in Ukraine reminds me of Yanukovych’s dreams he could return and somehow “reunite the country”: Image
Would be a good time to revisit Putin’s recent jeremiad that Russians and Ukrainians are “one people—a single whole”: en.kremlin.ru/events/preside…
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Jan 21
Going to be fantastic to watch details from this investigation on Azerbaijan and US officials/businessmen come out.
Nearly a decade ago, Azerbaijan secretly bankrolled one of the most lavish American congressional junkets (hiding the funding behind a “non-profit” organization): occrp.org/en/corruptista…
The details of Azerbaijan’s secret funding of the US congressional trip are almost comical: crystal tea sets and expensive rugs, DVDs about Azerbaijan’s dictator, etc. archive.thinkprogress.org/mastermind-beh…
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Jan 11
Quick thread on Kanye's proposed plans to meet with Putin: billboard.com/music/rb-hip-h…
In 2013, Kanye took millions to perform for the family of Kazakhstan's dictator (and never apologized, returned the money, etc): theguardian.com/music/2013/sep…
Kanye is also "working on business deals" with the Agalarov family, who coordinated the infamous 2016 Trump Tower meeting offering dirty on Hillary Clinton: newrepublic.com/article/143879…
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Jan 5
I know no one wants to talk about it, but state fracture in Northern Kazakhstan isn’t something that can be dismissed out of hand (especially given the past few years, and as KZ’s political scene turns turbulent). Quick thread 🧵:
In 1991, Yeltsin’s office claimed Russia had the right to “revisit” four different borders in the post-Soviet region.

1. Abkhazia (Russia invaded in 2008)
2. Crimea (invaded 2014)
3. Donbas (invaded 2014)
4. Northern Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan moved its capital to Astana in 1997, predicated (in part) on deterring regional separatist sentiment.

A few years later, an actual separatist plot fizzled (connected to, of all people, the fascist Eduard Limonov).
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Dec 29, 2021
Read a bunch of books in 2021! Here are my top-10 (non-fiction) reads:
1. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, by Liaquat Ahamed, on the humanity and myopia that inflicted the Great Depression on the world—and the inflection points that got us there.
2. The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America, by James Wilson, which should be required reading for every American (and then some). Somehow manages to weave a concise story of centuries of settler-colonialism in North America, and the stories buried under myth.
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Dec 15, 2021
Fascinating paper on the historical memory of imperial settler-colonial violence in Oregon, and how wonton anti-Indigenous violence was whitewashed out of Oregon's (and the Pacific Northwest's) story:
'During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many Americans understood the term 'pioneer' as reference to a soldier of colonialism. They specifically conceptualized pioneers... as people who were actively and often violently expelling Native people and overtaking their land.'
'A plurality of the Euro-Americans who came to mid-19th-century Oregon sought to create a racially exclusionary state... People at the federal and territorial level alike envisioned Oregon... as a White man’s republic, from which Native people had to be (or had been) expunged.'
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