RT @CraigCaplan: 16 House Republicans voted No against the US Visas for Afghans bill: clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021218?… Biggs-AZ Boebert-CO Brooks-AL…
RT @_DanielSinclair: “It was terrible, women were throwing their babies over the razor wire, asking the soldiers to take them, some got cau…
RT @IanPannell: At Kabul airport, civilian side, more chaos than before. Evacuees unable to get through. #Taliban wild and dangerously firi…
This week, two crises taking place simultaneously, affecting some of the most vulnerable people in the world – the Taliban conquest of Afghanistan and the earthquake in Haiti.
These two moments in history seem as though they are unfolding on planets that are remote from each other.
They are, of course, very different events.
Telling myself this, helps me to feel less uneasy about the extraordinary amount of attention I am focusing on the events at Kabul airport rather than on the earthquake that has killed at least 1900 people and injured 10,000 in Haiti, a close neighbor in the Caribbean.
I am not, of course, suggesting that an earthquake and a war are the same or should be treated as such. But, I am wondering at the different mental silos into which we place them and the way in which one has eclipsed the other.
RT @RobinBrooksIIF: Brazil has more bond market blow-ups than most EMs, but what's happening now is ridiculous. 10-year gov't bond yield is…
RT @OlafStorbeck: I don’t fully trust the polls as they indicate a tectonic shift in voter preferences. But here’s another one suggesting t…
RT @RespectIsVital: US Rank & File Soldiers at Kabul Airport, #Afghanistan are incandescent at the position taken by US Central Command reg…
RT @RespectIsVital: Pictures of the Temporary UK Embassy at Kabul Airport, #Afghanistan. Staff requested to remain so they could help as m…
RT @RespectIsVital: Meanwhile, 2 Para are running constant patrols into Kabul to collect British, Irish and Afghan Nationals due for evacua…
RT @RespectIsVital: Things are so bad between US and UK forces at Kabul Airport, #Afghanistan, 2 Para have been tasked to observe US forces…
RT @RespectIsVital: EXCLUSIVE #kabulairport #Afghanistan Friction at airport between US & UK forces Commanders. US forces won't leave air…
RT @ConStelz: Hearing this from German civilian orgs as well who are trying to get endangered Afghans out—they are on German evac lists, bu…
RT @MacondoEterno: Interesante ejercicio de política comparada entre Haití y Afganistán por @adam_tooze; en especial por analizar el rol qu…
@FridaGhitis If you look it up, the gini commonly quoted for Afghanistan is so low that it seems barely plausible. I chalk that up to
RT @timothynunan: 🧵on historical analogies between Afghanistan and Vietnam (especially from the point of view of Afghan Islamists and socia…
Struggling to connect the two crises of this moment in Afghanistan and Haiti? Or, to interpret the disconnect? Checkout Chartbook #33 for an attempt to
RT @pseudoerasmus: @adam_tooze I know this is something you might take a little delight in 😉 twitter.com/pseudoerasmus/…
RT @ELuttwak: "During Pakistan’s 2019-2020 fiscal year, the U S was once again the top donor country to Pakistan" (US Embassy). Given all-o…
@MonaAli_NY_US Thank you Mona. As you can see I am really struggling. How do we grasp this …. ?
RT @JoMicheII: Here @MESandbu bringing the Kalecki in the FT. ft.com/content/a91aa7… https://t.co/vhLkSLtgGI
From Afghanistan to Haiti … how do we connect the crises of this moment? Chartbook #33 just dropped. Check it out here: adamtooze.substack.com https://t.co/NKQt8yt4DK
RT @fritaankaren: @adam_tooze 1988/89 may be a bad starting point – it was the height of prohibition policy, which affected more the workin…
When we say that Russia suffered a mortality crisis in the 1990s, it is important to be clear that it was, in fact, working-class Russians
In last 48 hours both US and UK veterans organizations have tweeted out suicide-prevention hotline numbers. Unsurprisingly, the mood in the Pentagon is pretty grim.
RT @pv_faria: @adam_tooze Staffers aren't joking either. An appropriate reaction to nonsense management speak. twitter.com/estwebber/stat…
How a regime falls. From inside Afghanistan’s embassy in India, before it was deleted: A central banker escapes Ahmady is American-raised. Alum of UCLA &
RT @JeremyCliffe: Truly Berlin is a land of contrasts https://t.co/QxqDj7aEuy
RT @vmsalama: How to help people in Afghanistan as Western Union suspends money transfers into the country marketwatch.com/story/how-to-h…
@Kraemer_HB Ich benutze sie weil sie die quasi offiziellen amerikanischen Quellen sind, die Basis also für die Behauptung. Sicher haben sie im allgemeinen Recht.
@counterpunkt Formulated that way it is a reasonable claim. But all too often it is framed as per se hopeless … worth making the point
US sources are repeating the claim that the “Afghan security forces were not prepared to fight”. According to Brookings, total Afghan military KIA 2007-2020 71,800!
@hana_martink @lindabartos @FilipZajicek @ezraklein @MazzucatoM @SamanthaJPower @johngreen @BarackObama @MichelleObama @HelenHet20 @TPpodcast_ @A_Prochazkova Its delightful. Very flattered. Oh to be in Prague 🙂
RT @VQuaschning: Lieber @peteraltmaier, bitte nicht mit fremden Federn schmücken: Von den 40% sind 15% Wiedervereinigungsgewinne, die Coron…
@lindabartos @FilipZajicek @ezraklein @MazzucatoM @SamanthaJPower @johngreen @BarackObama @MichelleObama @HelenHet20 @TPpodcast_ @hana_martink @A_Prochazkova Looks like fun. WHAT WERE YOU DOING?????
Turns out that unspeakable nonsense slide at Labour HQ, the one about product-mindset using agile ceremonies … that wasn’t a joke! twitter.com/siennamarla/st…
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