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Mar 17 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
We are going to have to rename some important works so they can appear in Russia:
—“Special Military Operation and Peace,” Tolstoy
—“Star Special Military Operations,” Lucas
—“The Art of Special Military Operations,” Sun Tsu
—“On Special Military Operations,” Clausewitz
—“Special Military Operation Games,” Badham
—“The Looking Glass Special Military Operation,” Le Carre
—“Man, the State, and Special Military Operation,” Waltz
—“The Internationalists: How a radical plan to outlaw special military operations remade the world,” @oonahathaway & @scottjshapiro

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Mar 13
Some thoughts for all of Law School Twitter: I've been corresponding with @dietellewoods, whom I interviewed here, about the situation of displaced Ukrainian law students, and I think there's a big role for U.S. law schools to play here. THREAD
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A note in advance: I am certain everything I am about to say applies to a lot of other professions too, and by focusing on law here, I'm not suggesting that the profession is unique or that law students are facing usual disruption relative to others. But I work with a lot of
lawyers and law schools, and this is the field about which I know something and know people. So I'm writing this about law because that's where I think the people I know can most easily make a difference consistent with the work they do every day anyway.
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Mar 13
You might have to know a little bit about about the history of opera and a little bit about the history of Italy to be moved to tears by this.
Then again you may not.
h/t @PetraGuasti
FYI @musicologyman
Background: the so-called Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from Verdi’s early work Nabucco, which expresses the yearning of Jewish exiles in Babylon to return to Israel, was widely understood and certainly intended as a metaphor for Italian national unity and independence.
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Mar 7
This is NOT a joke.
Currently ranked #2 in Amazon's list of "Best Sellers in Gardening & Horticulture By Climate" is @anneapplebaum's tremendous history of the Holodomor, "Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine."
amazon.com/Red-Famine-Sta…
Here's the ranking so you don't think I'm kidding: amazon.com/gp/bestsellers…
Here's an interview I did with @anneapplebaum when the book came out. lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcas…
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Mar 7
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
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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Mar 4
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
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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Feb 27
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 ....
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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