I’m tired of people appropriating the word, “realism” when promoting fairytales. You are a naive dreamer if you think giving Putin a chunk of land the size of Portugal will produce any permanent peace or a better world. That is naïveté about Putin, power politics & world history.

Russians, go home. Leave Ukraine. Save yourselves. Don’t die in vein in a senseless war — a vanity project of one man. There will be no glory for you or your family in this war. For your mom and your children, go home. Live, even in jail. Putin will not rule Russian forever.

“Appeasement contradicts the dictates of ... realism and therefore it is a fanciful and dangerous strategy. It is unlikely to transform a dangerous foe into a kinder, nicer, opponent, much less a peace-loving state." 1/ THREAD

"Indeed, appeasement is likely to whet, not shrink, and aggressor’s appetite for conquest. In short, appeasement is likely to make a dangerous rival state more, not less, dangerous.” 2/

Source? Not me. Not @ZelenskyyUa  or @oleksiireznikov  . Not @radeksikorski  , @carlbildt  , @IlvesToomas  , @general_ben  , @PMBreedlove  , @JohnEdHerbst  , @Kasparov63  , Kagan, etc. That's from John Mearsheimer, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, 2014. p. 164. cc: @WillRuger  . 3/ END.

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I've changed my mind about policy positions. I've revised hypotheses, even those in published academic articles, after encountering new evidence. That's the scientific method. Clinging to the same ideas, no matter what new evidence comes along, is not good science or good policy.

Really enjoyed watching @krichevskaya  new movie about @tvrain  with Vera & @sindeeva  @Stanford  last Friday. So did our audience. See it!