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Dec 15 • 28 tweets • 33 min read
OK, it’s on!

To #Ukraine With Love
Essays on #Russia’s War & #Europe’s Future

- is now out on @amazon Paperback and #Kindle

➡️a short(ish) thread of thanks
- & promotion as 📖 raises awareness &💰for 🇺🇦.

(UK order link below
others follow in🧵).

amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0BPW9…
So what is the book about?

- it collects a lot of my Essays, Interviews, Op-Eds & Analytical Commentaries for media & think tanks from Dec 21 - Dec 22

& adds ➕➕➕

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➡️ a brand new #Longread piece
‘The New Idealism’

- the deepest development of #NeoIdealism so far as an emerging approach to #grandstrategy & #internationalrelations.

- what is Neo-Idealism (& why the name?) & who are the Neo-Idealists.

#Ukraine
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⏩ New Introductory Essay
‘To #Ukraine With Love’
Talks about how #Russia’s war has changed us - me included. I share my personal journey this year & how I’ve tried to respond to the situation my doing more & doing better - & found such good company in doing so (incl. #NAFO).
There’s 4 Sections
I. #Ukraine’s fight for EU Membership &🇪🇺’s struggle for its identity
II. The Return of Central Europe & the rise of #NeoIdealism
III. #Germany: Reckoning, Reinvention & (Unrealised) Potential
IV. The #VisaBan & How to Defend Liberalism
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And here’s the full contents list.
- I added an intro paragraph to each text explaining where it was written, why and what are the key issues it raised (& reflecting on how some things changed through the year as well as what endured) - & thank those who made the text possible
I did the book for 3 reasons:
1. To provide ways of making sense of the war, why it matters and how we can win.

2. To raise money for #Ukraine.

3. To pay tribute to (& provide another anchor for) the community we formed through collective purpose
#NAFO +
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When I asked some people who I respect, admire & love engaging with to provide blurbs for the book, I was absolutely overwhelmed by their generosity - this means so much to me - thank you all. Here are the endorsements
first from @IlvesToomas
#Ukraine
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And here’s @KatyaYushchenko

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And @PavloKlimkin

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And @PhillipsPOBrien

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And @Makeiev

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And @MarkGaleotti
And @calxandr

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And @JiriPriban

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And @stefanauer_hku

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And @KristiRaik @ICDS_Tallinn

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And @KuldkeppMart

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And @OlgaNYC1211

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And @AndreaChalupa

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And @minna_alander @FIIA_fi

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And @walberque @IISS_org

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I owe so many thanks for this year to so many people & I mention as many as I can in the book - see below, in the photo tags & next tweet @calxandr @JEyal_RUSI @MarkGaleotti @IlvesToomas @MKarnitschnig @RKiesewetter @MiRo_SPD @SaraNanni @PavloKlimkin

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Thanks also to @KuldkeppMart @OlgaNYC1211 @apmassaro3 @PhillipsPOBrien @RoderickParkes @JiriPriban @james_rogers @sumuvuori @WaschukCanUA @RGWhitman @minna_alander @walberque @AaronGBurnett @stefanauer_hku

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But I’m also thankful - & say so in the book to all those who’ve supported and engaged with me here on twitter @EngstrT @Euan_MacDonald @MattPPea @BohdanaKurylo @chriswratil @EHunterChristie @PKewes @chris_pyak @Cutter8351 @MichaelaSchlic3 @Fabio_Galletti

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And my thanks to @nocturnalevd @JKleinschmidtIR @GillianCarring6 @VojtechHledik @ulrichspeck @OlgaNYC1211 @Porkchop_EXP @salisbot @Saitek31 @lewis_baston
@arnocast @Andreas_Adam @UROCKlive1 @takingaction4us
@jjsalmo @BMH_2022 @supergfetz
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And to all who have helped - & who continue to help- me develop #NeoIdealism! @spectermatt @YoungsRichard @MariamKhote
@derJamesJackson @olivernmoody @AaronGBurnett @SinkkonenVille @maggiedidrise @berlin_bridge @sumlenny
@armchairrsdt @walberque

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So, please buy the book & help spread the ways of understanding the war, why it matters & how we can win. Ukrainians have inspired us and we owe them so much - here’s a way to start paying back
To #Ukraine With Love

Thank you all.

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Mostly though, it misses a really key point about #US security & why it is boosted by supporting #Ukraine.

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#Germany needs change.
But what is the change it needs?

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Why was this cynical populist given such a prominent platform & not properly challenged?

Per @vonderburchard: this was a journalistic mess. Classic 🇩🇪Cynicism (like the #Emma letter)

Such a stunt only serves to corrode our democracies - exactly what we should be pushing back on
This is exactly the kind of thing that undermines our societies - it seems to show that you can free ride on democracy, parasite on the decency of others & get away with it. A bad example.
orban should be shut down rather than celebrated (🇭🇺 out of 🇪🇺unless it changes it’s ways)
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