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Matthew Schmitz
@matthewschmitz
founder and editor @compactmag_
Jun 16, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
In their recent Atlantic cover story, Anne Applebaum and Jeffrey Goldberg write:

“Even the worst successor imaginable, even the bloodiest general or most rabid propagandist, will immediately be preferable to Putin, because he will be weaker than Putin.” Image Presenting Putin as an all-powerful actor ruling in a “top-down,” manner, Applebaum and Goldberg overlook the fact that Putin has often been forced to defer to independent actors, including warlords and businessmen, in part due to the weakened nature of the post-Soviet state.
Feb 15, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Last year, at least 68 churches in Canada were set ablaze or vandalized following claims that 215 indigenous children had been murdered and secretly buried at a residential school run by the Catholic Church.
tnc.news/2021/08/23/a-m… Prominent Canadians cheered on or excused the violence. Harsha Walia, then the executive director of the BC Civil Liberties Association, tweeted “burn it all down.”