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@Thomas__Weber
Sep 29, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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1/5 Scott Appleby’s #IFSB2022
'Religion & conflict' keynote: “Violent religious extremists &
nonviolent religiously inspired peacemakers & agents of healing &
reconciliation often hail not merely from the same religious tradition but
sometimes from within the same rel. ecosystem”
2/ Following Scott Appleby’s intriguing keynote, our @aberdeenuni @CASSIS_Bonn @KeoughGlobalND panel saw intriguing discussions of human agency in conflict & repair from conflict that is motivated, inspired, & guided by religion; & of
self-sacrificial redemptive militance, …
3/ & our #ISFB2022 panel
witnessed a moving intervention by Ukrainian Consul General Iryna Shum on the role of religion in the war in her country, as well as discussions of Putin’s Mount Athos speech & commitment to ‘Holy Russia’ ...
4/5 &, finally, the #IFSB2022 panel on
‘Religion, Conflict & Politics’ discussed what public policy is required to help break violent militant narratives, to turn them into narratives of contamination, and to foster an orthopraxy of repair from conflict as well as …
5/5 … how to get religious actors to buy into peace processes.
Thank you to Josefina Echavarría Alvarez, Scott Appleby, Colin Barr, and Ulrich Schlie for a fascinating discussion!

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May 24, 2023
1/ „Wir haben uns aufgrund dieser Krise zusammengefunden“ (Johanna Findeisen, 2020)
Yesterday’s arrest of Findeisen, Prince Heinrich XIII‘s Russia liaison, is a reminder that it is a mistake to refer to Heinrich‘s plot as a ‚Reichsbürger‘ Plot. Doing to …
spiegel.de/politik/reichs…
2/… Doing so inadvertently turns the plot into a colourful,exotic and ultimately insignificant endeavour. Their self-designation is ‚Patriotische Union‘ (Patriotic Union) and they believe, not unreasonably so,to bring different protest movements together.
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/12/16… Image
3/ What unites them,as I argued in an op-ed for CNN last year, & as confirmed by yesterday’s arrest,is to be living in a world of existential crisis, a crisis that governments and elites are incapable of solving and that require immediate collective action
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/12/16… Image
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Feb 6, 2023
As Putin radicalised,he started to refer to specific Tsars more frequently &crucially references to Alexander I,Alexander III &Ivan the Terrible increased.
Betw. 1999&2008, 23 % of references were to the three men;the figure for 2014-2021 is 41 %.
From @nielsdrost's dissertation.
"The presidency of Medvedev has been a turning point in the instrumentalization of history.From the war w Georgia(2008)onwards,imperial history starts to be seriously used as a validation tool for foreign&domestic Russian policy" - another takeaway from @nielsdrost's dissertation
"Putin begins to express this idea of a united identity – in which Russians, Ukrainians, as well as Belarusians constitute one single people – in 2013, and its roots can be traced back to 2001."
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Dec 7, 2022
1/ The thwarted alleged plot to overthrow the German gov't has echoes of the Hitler Putsch & of 'Aufbau'
It centres around
a) the fmr head of the dynasty once ruling 1 of the German Reich's states,
b) a paratrooper, 2278th in line to succeed King Charles III,&
c) a AfD politician
2/ Just as in the case of 'Aufbau',the alleged Reichsbürger coup was planned by an underground network of high aristocrats & rightwing extremists &it was predicated on the dream of a new Russian-German nationalist & antisemitism alliance.
Cf this section from'Becoming Hitler'
3/ Just as in the case of the Hitler Putsch, the hope behind the alleged Reichsbürger Putsch was that after a successful coup, the armed forces & public opinion wd rally behind the coup.
BTW, a friend of the grandfather of the leader of the alleged putsch was Hermann Göring.
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Dec 6, 2022
1/ 'Swing Tanzen Verboten' - Conventional wisdom has it that it is an urban myth that posters were put up in public venues in Nazi Germany announcing a prohibition of Swing dancing.
Well, in this case, conventional wisdom got things wrong:
2/ In fact, several Gaue (districts) issued prohibitions for people to dance Swing:
3/ As did the states of Tirol and Vorarlberg:
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Oct 1, 2022
1/ Normally I resist Hitler comparisons w. modern leaders, as they tend to be facile, & I think that Putin is best understood through the lens of 18th&19th c. Russia. Yet his annexation speech follows the same structure & uses the same justifications as Hitler’s 1920s speeches…
2/ As Hitler did in the 1920s, Putin’s speech is quasi-millennial & quasi-post-colonial in character, laying out the reasons for the current mysery - Anglo-Saxon deception - & laying out a way of how the world can be restored & how sovereignty & a life in liberty can be restored
Like Hitler, Putin runs through European history of the last several hundred years to reveal purport patterns of Anglosaxon and Western deception, aimed at revealing the ‘real’ pattern of Western behaviour
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Sep 24, 2022
1/ To understand Russia’s staged referenda, it is worth looking back at Nazi elections. In a forthcoming book, @RichterHedwig looks at Nazi plebiscites & I look at the orthopraxy of National Socialist illiberal democracy of National Socialism as a political religion ...
2/ @RichterHedwig's chapter reveals how autocrats masterfully & to devastating effect instrumentalise elections & plebiscites. She lays out why autocrats have little choice but to do so in an age of mass politics and democracy. It's here where I see strong convergence w. Putin...
3/ My two chapters on the orthopraxy of National Socialist illiberal democracy of National Socialism as a political religion tease out what I see as the missing nexus between the Nazis' true beliefs and violence & genocide. It is here where I see divergence to Putin...
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