My new piece on: Tucker Carlson and the Right’s Long History of Sanitizing the Nazis ⁦Susan Glasser⁩ ⁦Christian Caryl⁩ ⁦Edward Luce⁩ ⁦Steve Clemons⁩ ⁦David Rothkopf⁩ ⁦Melinda Haring⁩ politico.com/news/magazine/…

This is nonsense. I’ll have to write a response. Trump isn’t an isolationist. Like leaders of the original America First movement and CPAC conferences in Budapest, he’s an energetic internationalist. He’s just pro-dictatorship instead of pro-democracy.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

Even if Russia never realizes its imperial ambitions to take over Ukraine, at least so long as Putin lives, it’ll remain a persistently threatening terrorist neighbor. To see the hyper-aggressive security state fueled by that threat without a NATO security guarantee, see Israel.

Not only is Ivanishvili rewriting history to absolve Russia of responsibility for its 2008 unprovoked invasion, but he’s menacing Georgians with threats of a “Nuremberg trial for [his political opponents].” The time to sanction this Russian oligarch passed long ago. Do it now.

From January 6th to Springfield, Ohio, there’s a clear correlation whereby Trump incites his followers towards political violence whenever peaceful democratic processes are resulting in outcomes favoring his opponents. It’s no laughing matter.

If you see news about Ryan Routh, who allegedly attempted to assassinate Trump, he has never been associated with Ukraine’s military in any capacity. He lied about being a recruiter. This is a tweet from an actual recruiter back in June.

Suspected Trump gunman Ryan Routh had travelled to Ukraine to fight Russia but he was rejected when he tried to volunteer after Moscow’s full-scale invasion in 2022. “They said ‘You’re 56, you’re old and you have no experience.’” Story w/ John Reed जॉन रीड ft.com/content/7ef7c8…

Pro-Russia narratives, memes, “augmented reality and fakes registry”: how the Kremlin-hired disinformation agency works Thread🧵

Remember this meme about Zelensky that Elon Musk proudly shared? Leaked internal documents from a Kremlin-controlled propaganda center reveal that it was produced by a Kremlin-lead Russian troll farm. Source: radiosvoboda.org/a/skhemy-kreml…