Timothy Snyder: Armored Ambulances for Ukrainian Medics

"People keep writing to ask what they can do to help Ukraine. The country's soldiers face renewed attacks from Russia. There is a simple way to make sure that more Ukrainian soldiers survive, and to send a message that we support them: by funding armored evacuation vehicles. I am announcing a campaign to do that right now."

Through the official Ukrainian site #United24

#Ukraine #TimothySnyder #RussiaUkraineWar
https://snyder.substack.com/p/armored-ambulances-for-ukrainian

In a thorough confirmation of #TimothySnyder's argument that #WashingtonPost's new "personal liberties & free market" editorial policy is fundamentally dehumanizing because of how it subjugates humans to fictional notions, #WaPo calls the Trump stock market crash "sustained heavy losses" — words usually used to describe casualties of #war. On behalf of everyone who was killed by #Russia in #Ukraine, fuck you #JeffBezos.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/unfreedom-at-the-washington-post

Unfreedom at the Washington Post. How an editorial line fosters authoritarianism, by Timothy Snyder.
"Jeff Bezos: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets." The use of these terms in this way demeans the concept of freedom and pushes the country in the direction of tyranny."
https://snyder.substack.com/p/unfreedom-at-the-washington-post
#timothysnyder #washingtonpost #freedom #unfreedom #democracy #politics #tyranny

Essential piece by Timothy Snyder on the #antisemitic
attack on #Zelenskyy in last week's Oval Office "meeting" with #Trump, #Vance, and #Glenn: "Multiple interrogators would encircle the dissident, and talk among themselves about his supposedly #Jewish betrayals and failures. Encirclement, bullying, belittling."

https://snyder.substack.com/p/antisemitism-in-the-oval-office

#TimothySnyder
#Fascism
#USPol

Essential piece by Timothy Snyder on the #antisemitic
attack on #Zelenskyy in last week's Oval Office "meeting" with #Trump, #Vance, and #Glenn: "Multiple interrogators would encircle the dissident, and talk among themselves about his supposedly #Jewish betrayals and failures. Encirclement, bullying, belittling."

https://snyder.substack.com/p/antisemitism-in-the-oval-office

#TimothySnyder
#Fascism
#USPol

What Democracy Brings

And What the Cuts to the National Endowment for Democracy Take Away

Timothy #Snyder Mar 05, 2025

A guest essay by John K. #glenn

If we stop making the case for #democracy, we fail them. Unfortunately, this is what we are now failing to do. The United States is ceasing to support democracies.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/what-democracy-brings

#TimothySnyder #ThinkingAbout
#usa #Trump #Vance #putin #russland #russia
#NED #Venezuela #syrien #Belarus
#Zelensky #SlavaUkraini

How to deal with #Authoritarianasm with #TimothySnyder

#RedWineAndBlue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQqLRew4F1g

Timothy Snyder was on a Red Wine and Blue webinar today. I managed to join. He is such a great voice for these unpleasant times.

#TimothySnyder
#OnTyranny

Last night, the PBS NewsHour spoke to "one of the country's leading historians on Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union":

"Strategically, what we are doing, what the United States is doing, is trading a set of Western alliances for an alliance with Russia. Now, the main way Russia engages with us is by stealing our technology and by hacking into our infrastructure. The Russian economy is smaller than Canada's, but we are nevertheless going to trade 80 years of alliance with reliable partners that are 15, 16, 17 times bigger than Russia as an economy for an alliance with Russia."

Worth watching/reading. One should expect no less, but it was still somehow reassuring to hear this sane analysis of what happened at the White House yesterday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11QBNJj_8gM
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/historian-analyzes-devolving-relations-between-u-s-and-ukraine-after-oval-office-spat

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/historian-analyzes-devolving-relations-between-u-s-and-ukraine-after-oval-office-spat “Strategically, what we are doing, what the #unitedstates is doing,is trading a set of Western alliances for an alliance with #russia. Now, the main way Russia engages with us is by stealing our technology and by hacking into our infrastructure.The Russian economy is smaller than #canada but we are nevertheless going to #trade 80 years of alliance with reliable partners that are 15, 16, 17 times bigger than Russia as an economy for an alliance with Russia.” #timothysnyder

If you haven’t done it already, it’s a good time to watch #TimothySnyder’s Making of Modern Ukraine – one of the very few good lecture series on Ruś and Ukraine’s history for western audience.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8HlMe0yXHd8-qaQFAZMJ9e3RCdLhpwMY

Bezos wants that the opinion pages of the Washington Post only write about two topics: personal liberties and free markets. He should read the book from Timothy Snyder about what freedom actually is about. It's about more than the two subjects mentioned. it's also about government that protects the weak and support those in need for example.
https://timothysnyder.org/on-freedom
#bezos #freedom #timothysnyder #washingtonpost #politics

“Know what you stand for and what you think is good.”

Cadwalladr has started writing+ on Substack: How to Survive the #Broligarchy. She's a good egg.

https://broligarchy.substack.com/

”35 years ago when communism came to an end, people made some bad conclusions:”

”End of history, inevitability of liberal democracy”
”It doesn’t really matter what individuals think, the market will bring us democracy”

”But there’s really no force in history favouring democracy but the will of the people to rule, there is nothing else”

”That great moment of misunderstanding is part of the problem, because we put the whole thing in neutral”

#timothysnyder #democracy
https://youtube.com/watch?v=nw-ObXslUo4

Great blog by Timothy Snyder.
"It’s an obvious point, but it has to be made clearly: no one in Moscow thinks that Trump is strong. He is doing exactly what Russia would want: he is repeating Russian talking points, he is acting essentially as a Russian diplomat, and he is destroying the instruments of American power, from institutions through reputation"

https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-weak-strongman
#trump #timothysnyder #russia #putin #geopolitics @geopolitics

"Think about what lines you will cross and that you will not cross. They are not as obvious perhaps as a line on a map or a line of trenches at the front, but we cannot pretend that they are not there. And if we cross them, we will no longer be ourselves."

https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/crossing-a-line-audio-and-text