A few critical points on Israeli civil-military relations that western observers usually get wrong + some reading recommendations. A thread 🧵: Civ-mil norms in Israel differ from western democracies. The mil’s involvement in politics is a norm, not a norm violation. Historically, Israeli civ-mil relations are symbiotic, collaborative, and the military has significant input in politics. There are reasons for that:

What did we learn about Russian Foreign Policy towards #Ukraine from Dmitriy Medvedev's article in Kommersant? (🧵) Russian attempts to engage with #Ukraine's leadership are pointless for 5 reasons
1. Zelensky is Jewish. He tries too hard to please Ukrainian nationalists, being afraid that “otherwise they will smear his brains on the wall”(No jokes, it’s in the article)
kommersant.ru/doc/5028300?fr…

Why Putin's article "About the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians" is not a nostalgic love letter but a threatening note. Some direct quotes translated into English: "It would not be an exaggeration to say that [Ukraine’s] course towards violent assimilation, the formation of an ethnically pure Ukrainian state, aggressive towards Russia, is comparable in its consequences to the use of weapons of mass destruction against us."