With Russian Troops Retreating In Disarray, Is It Time To Think About A Post-Putin Russia?
Ukraine’s army has driven Russian forces out of about 3,000 square kilometers of occupied territory, an area slightly larger than Rhode...
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Thomas Neuburger
- Jun 7, 2022
- 4 min
How Will American Oligarchs Keep Control? There Aren’t Many Choices
People forget that at the end of the Roman Republic, the Republic did end.
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Howie Klein
- May 22, 2022
- 6 min
Will Putin Be Tried For War Crimes? Sure-- The Same Day As Kissinger, Bush And Blair
Madi Kapparov identifies himself as a PhD student at the London Business School. This morning, he translated a chat on video by one of...
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Howie Klein
- May 20, 2022
- 5 min
CPAC Goes All In On Fascism
Fascistpalooza Budapest-- aka, CPAC 2022 began yesterday with a keynote speech by Hungary's fascist hetman Viktor Orbán. Reuters covered...
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Howie Klein
- May 18, 2022
- 3 min
New Front In The Republican Civil War-- Pro-Putin MAGAs Don't Want To Aid Ukraine
Yesterday, the Senate voted again on a motion to proceed with the debate on the $40 billion Ukraine aid package. It passed...
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Howie Klein
- May 14, 2022
- 5 min
Wishful Thinking? Or An American Foreign Policy Endgame That Began in 1917?
I don't know if George Grylls and Alexander Motyl are Russia experts or just a couple of guys with opinions and I don't know if Ukrainian...
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Howie Klein
- May 11, 2022
- 3 min
The Putin Wing Of The Republican Party Comes Out Of The Closet... Again
Last night, the House voted overwhelmingly-- 368 to 57-- to provide $39.8 billion in aid to Ukraine, 149 Republicans joining all 219...
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Noah
- May 3, 2022
- 1 min
Midnight Meme Of The Day! Vladimir Putin Rendered In Bullet Shells
by Noah I've always felt that repression breeds great art. The portrait I'm using as tonight's meme is a fine example. Please share it...
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Howie Klein
- Apr 29, 2022
- 2 min
House Passes A New Lend-Lease Act-- Only 10 From The Putin Wing Of The GOP Voted No
On Thursday afternoon, the House voted on a bill originally proposed by John Cornyn (R-TX) in the Senate, S.3522-- Ukraine Democracy...
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Noah
- Apr 18, 2022
- 1 min
Midnight Meme Of The Day! A Suitable Gift For Any Republican!
by Noah Look at that! Kind of a conceptual art piece! The ship is there only in your mind! I used to assemble Revell kits as a kid but...
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Howie Klein
- Apr 16, 2022
- 8 min
You Want To Put All The Blame On Putin, Not On The Russian People, Right?
I spent about a month with 2 friends in Russia in 2016. We had a great time, mostly in Moscow, where we started the trip and in St....
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Noah
- Apr 14, 2022
- 2 min
Midnight Meme Of The Day! World War Three In Our Own Backyards
by Noah Trump's mentor Vladimir Putin has now officially made himself into the world's number one terrorist and he is only in the...
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Howie Klein
- Apr 12, 2022
- 6 min
Imagine Waking Up To Find Out That The Whole Putin Wing Of The GOP Are Just Crisis Actors!
Reporting for the NY Times yesterday, Robert Draper wrote that former Trump advisors are connecting Trump's pressure campaign on Ukraine...
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Howie Klein
- Apr 11, 2022
- 6 min
Will Putin Melt Down When Neutral Sweden And Finland Join NATO?
We began the day with a little historical context for Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine and I want to build on that a tiny bit as...
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Howie Klein
- Apr 11, 2022
- 14 min
This Is No Game: Putin Has To Be Stopped
I didn't read Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands. Did you? I loved his book On Tyranny. How did I miss this! My friend Melody turned me onto it...
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Howie Klein
- Apr 10, 2022
- 8 min
I'm So Old, I Remember When It Was Called "The" Ukraine
My grandfather was still a teenager when his family fled from Czarist Russia and came to New York. They were Jews from beyond the Pale--...
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Howie Klein
- Apr 9, 2022
- 5 min
Unlike Ohio Gov. Jim Rhodes, Putin Hasn't Ordered A Kent State Massacre In Russia Yet
This morning, Anton Troianovski reported in the New York Times that there's a "building paranoia and polarization in Russian society....
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Howie Klein
- Apr 8, 2022
- 5 min
The Putin Wing Of The Republican Party-- The Democrats Have A Big Tent, But Not That Big!
This isn't news to DWT readers, but yesterday Jonathan Chait told his readers that the GOP has a pro-Putin wing. He noted it is also a...
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Howie Klein
- Apr 7, 2022
- 4 min
Normal GOP Members Of Congress Celebrate Hitler's Birthday In Private-- But Not Paul Gosar!
Last night, Pelosi allowed Republican Michael McCaul to introduce a bipartisan resolution about Russian war crimes in Ukraine. It passed...
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Noah
- Apr 7, 2022
- 2 min
Midnight Meme Of The Day! Rudy Giuliani Also Has "The Best Words!"
by Noah Years ago, right after 9/11, a rightwing tool on CNN named Wolf Blitzer hammered home the nickname, "America's Mayor" that his...
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