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Mar 2, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Glad Biden started w Ukraine and his words were fine, if brief considering the stakes. It’s his actions that have lagged, both in targeting the oligarchs and supporting Ukraine. Ukraine doesn’t have time and Putin is escalating by the hour.
My worry is that Putin doesn’t believe Biden. After a summit and a couple of calls, Putin clearly doesn’t think Biden is a serious threat. He thought the same about Europe, and is being proved wrong. I hope Biden does it too, but it remains to be seen.
Putin declared war on the US and the world order it represents long ago. Ukraine is the military target of that war now, but election interference, hacking, disinformation, etc are still warfare. US sacrifice & commitment are necessary and Biden should communicate that.
The GOP of old is long gone, but a reply not showing US political solidarity with the president in a global security crisis is still pathetic to see. Especially after years of Trump kissing up to Putin and blocking aid and slandering and extorting Ukraine.

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Nov 11
It’s not that they think they wouldn’t be confirmed, at least not in most cases. It’s that they want to plant a big flag early that there will be no transparency or oversight of Trump's wishes and power. Everything will be like this.
Putin steadily reshaped Russia's fragile democracy with the willing aid of the Russian Duma (Congress) and courts who didn’t want to cross him. Power is voluntarily ceded to the president and an autocratic vertical is created. Federal over state power next.
Same with all the constitutional changes that Putin made to cement his power. Why would a dictator bother with laws and elections? They want the argument of "well, everything was done legally so it’s fine". Autocrats adore sham democracy.
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Nov 6
I’ll be writing on the election soon, but a few thoughts. Beyond the tactical, the resounding result is more evidence that far-right success follows far-left overreach. The media normalized Trump, but also downplayed how strongly many Americans disliked leftist agitation. 1/7
I.e., the prevailing tone was that leftist social agendas were simply progress, and anyone who didn’t embrace them was a fascist or dinosaur. But even if that’s an argument to be had on a talk show, it provokes moderate resentment and is a losing proposition electorally. 2/7
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Nov 4
American elections vote for people, not parties. This isn’t complicated. I supported GOP candidates almost exclusively before Trump, even meeting with some of their campaigns. Trump and the MAGA GOP have nothing to do with those good men or their policies.
If you had bothered to learn anything about me, my background, and my decades of public writing and speaking on politics, or even read my article you replied to, you would realize how dangerous Trump must be for me to endorse Harris. But Trump makes it obvious and necessary.
This list of questions are about politics and social tides. What a luxury to have those arguments, to vote your beliefs and opinions! In 2028, if the GOP has recovered its sanity, perhaps I will support Harris's challenger, as I supported Romney, McCain, and Haley.
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Nov 2
When I was forced to escape Putin's crackdown in Russia and made my home in America, I never imagined I would be warning my new home about the threat of authoritarianism. But thanks to Trump, here we are. My article: thedispatch.com/article/us-des…
My endorsement of Harris is an endorsement of democracy, of institutions, of the country I grew up admiring from afar. America must not fall into the corrupt oligarchy that MAGA wants to build, one modeled on Trump's idol Putin, btw.
I warned about Trump from the beginning because I know from experience what autocrats look & sound like. I also know from experience what Communists sound like, and Harris, for all my concerns about American far left, is no Communist.
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Like the Russian oligarchs, Musk sees himself as part of a shadow government—outside and above, unaccountable. It would be far worse with him inside Trump's government, operating with great power but no transparency. I’m sure Putin is a valuable mentor.
I called the Putin system an unholy mix of Adam Smith and Marx; they nationalize the costs and privatize the profits. They loot the state and then turn the state into a looting machine. Look at how Trump runs his campaigns, his foreign policy. Friends & family for profit.
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Dictatorships export sabotage, murder, and terror into the free world, and not only against dissidents like the brave Masih. Unless there are real consequences, such campaigns will only spread.
It’s the democratic world that often downplays and covers up these attacks against their citizens, residents, and sovereignty. To avoid "escalation," of course, meaning having the courage to actually do something. This creates impunity and escalation by the terror states.
Remember what happened after the 2006 murder of Alexander Litvinenko in London with a nuclear toxin that could have caused a mass casualty event. Successive UK admins kept the investigation quiet, even as Putin's pet assassin was elevated in Moscow.
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