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Benjamin Wittes

@benjaminwittes

Mar 7

@dietellewoods

Yesterday, in tweeting about Ukraine and Syria, I was deeply impressed with the comments of a young woman named Katia (@dietellewoods) in response to a rhetorical question I posed. She was, she informed me, a refugee Ukrainian law student from Kharkiv who was now in the

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Czech Republic. After a considerable back and forth by DM, we ended up recording a conversation yesterday afternoon, which will be on the @lawfareblog Podcast tomorrow.

When people talk about there being more than a million refugees, understand that each of them has a story.

Each of them had to get out of somewhere. Each of them had a long way to go. Each of them is now displaced from their lives. Each of them left people behind about whom they are now worried.

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Benjamin Wittes

@benjaminwittes

Mar 4

@Harvard_Law

I tell my law school students every time I teach that I couldn't have gotten into @Harvard_Law or wherever I am teaching. They all think I am joking. I am not. The LSAT is one reason. That @TuckerCarlson is making an issue of KBJ's LSAT scores is racist, yes. But there's also

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@Gladwell

a different issue here. It's the role we allow that test to play in the legal profession. It has a huge impact. @Gladwell did an excellent series on this a while back on his podcast. People should listen to it.

I'm not complaining. The impact on my life of not going to graduate school of any kind was entirely positive. And by the way, fear of standardized tests was only one component of the reason I never considered grad school. (Hating school was a bigger component.)

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Benjamin Wittes

@benjaminwittes

Feb 27

@EvansRyan202

Okay, @EvansRyan202, that's a serious issue. Let me try to be as clear as possible: (1) I believe Putin needs to go, (2) I believe a lot of brave Russians are working on that at great risk to themselves, (3) I believe the world has put in place an infrastructure of ....

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pressure on Putin organized around the Ukrainian conflict, (4) I believe the threat from Russia will not subside while Putin remains in power, and therefore (5) I believe in supporting Russian popular desire for change while leveraging elements of that pressure.

For example, lessening long-term European energy dependency on Russia, engaging in massive international anti-corruption and money-laundering efforts, refusing to normalize trade relations with Russia, and having NATO countries continue to operate at a level of readiness that...

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Benjamin Wittes

@benjaminwittes

Feb 27

For the benefit of anyone who is actually confused, rather than shilling for Putin, I do not believe in US military involvement in the conflict in Ukraine and have never advocated anything of the kind—much less for the US engaging in forcible regime change in Russia.

The tweet in question came in the context of a long series of tweets I have been assembling over the past several days of Russian and Belorussian protests opposing the war and demanding change.

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It came in the context of a series of actions by Western governments—which I support wholeheartedly—to isolate Russia in non-military fashions and support the international order.

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