The only reason I'm not posting here as well is the missing feature to write threads continously. I'm not going to use any third-party app for this and I'm certainly not going to waste my time creating threads by copying additional posts as comments to the original post.
That feeling of bliss when you live in Europe, where no one knows who Tucker Carlson is and it's midnight, so no one is watching his "interview" with Putin. God bless Europe and different time zones.
My new piece for Euronews, which deals with the topic of how Putin rules through wars (war as an instrument of prolonging and centralizing power). This is an article that is dear to me personally and I feel that I managed to put on paper what I set out. www.euronews.com/2023/11/28/i...
Originally, Putin was picked as a future puppet because he fit the bill — the strongman persona was exactly what the doctor had ordered. Then he ended up cutting loose from his patrons, keeping the ...
My regular op-ed piece for Euronews is out. It's not about the Israel-Hamas War, since that is not my area of expertise. The story regards how a dictator toys with hate and how the consequential social outburst of resentment doesn't go as planned. www.euronews.com/2023/11/08/t...
Vladimir Putin had been instigating antisemitism in Russia long before the lynch mob stormed the airport in Dagestan’s capital Makhachkala, Aleksandar Đokić writes.
My new op-ed for Euronews presents a portrait of the political system of Putin's Russia from the bottom-up perspective. www.euronews.com/2023/10/27/t...
Leave, and if you haven’t yet, make plans to do so. In Russia, all of the previously eroded freedoms are now completely gone, Aleksandar Đokić writes.
When your main source of info about Putin dying is Valery Solovey, an elderly intellectual YouTube entertainer and storyteller (literally the guy from the "I made it up" meme), I would not hold my breath.
I'm very glad to see many familiar faces in this - our digital home away from digital home.
Bluesky (I wrote it right for once!) is the place people from Twitter come to, so they can complain how bad Twitter is, in hopes that Twitter will become good again so they can leave Bluesky forever. P.S. Any name is still better than X, because that's a name for illicit substances or strip bars.
I wrote an article for Euronews inspired by the flashpoints surrounding Russia's reach of influence, from Ukraine, through the Caucasus and to the Middle East. When Russia is not playing the role of aggressor, it takes the form of an agent of chaos. www.euronews.com/2023/10/18/t...