I spent the past 15 days in Eastern Europe, in my home country of Bulgaria, and what struck me is how much Kremlin’s talking points have permeated not only the political discourse, but people’s psyche. Why should anyone care about a small country? Because it's a case study.🧵 1. I was presented with personal opinions entirely formed on misinformation and wrong conclusions. Including that the war between Ukraine and Russia is entirely the product of America’s desire to sell its weapons; that Europe is "suffering" and Russia is "thriving" economically.

1. “We are born without choosing to, to parents we haven’t chosen, into bodies and borders we haven’t chosen, to exist in a region of spacetime we haven’t chosen for a duration we don’t choose.” This is the first sentence i read today, when I woke up. 2. It was written by the Marginalian. And what she wrote is so true, but sometimes, in these very rare occasions - we get to choose. Today, i became an American. Not because someone brought me here as a kid or because I had to escape an awful situation…

(1) Why are some soldiers in the Afghan National Army not fighting back? I have been asked this question repeatedly over the past week. Here is some background. First: Casualties and death rates. (2) Over the past several years Afghan soldiers have been fighting the Taliban and other insurgency groups daily, with the U.S. military providing mostly aerial support and training. And they have been killed and injured in large numbers.

LATEST: For the past 3 weeks we read through hundreds of court documents, statements and releases to give you a full list of the people charged on January 6th. npr.org/2021/02/09/965… There are over 200 short bios in a comprehensive database that you can read through and sort by different data points - identifying trends, but also presenting each person for their unique circumstances. An in-depth exploration of the main questions: