@alex_callinicos HI Alex struggling a bit to see where our differences are here. I am piecing together an answer to "who/what is thrown". Bit by bit as one must. I would freely admit that ideologies/ subjective dispositions etc of PMC to which I/we belong are the matrix we need to explore.
RT @Udadisi: @WarintheFuture's tweets have indeed become one of the main (credible) sources of analysis cf.👇🏿 Focus on Kyiv deadlock obscu…
RT @kamilkazani: Consider the cost of Урал-20Р mining machine produced by Sakurov. In 2014 it increased by 23,1%, in 2015 — by 29,9%, and i…
RT @EdwardGLuce: Please everybody: this isn't a war against Russian people. Show some sense. twitter.com/nytimes/status…
RT @IrvingSwisher: This is honestly a super important distinction rn. We want the former, not the latter but we run the risk of the latter…
RT @TheStalwart: Can’t log in to Spotify. At least I have that free U2 album that Apple gave me.
@JulianSayarer Highest compliment possible … that anything I wrote reminded you of Nick Cave … thank you!
@tahfromslc I think the interview does him no favors at all and is actually kinda problematic. Has a bit of a gotcha feel to it. M is extremely eloquent as a speaker.
RT @Thomas__Weber: Here is @adam_tooze's take on Matthew Specter's intriguing new book (The Atlantic Realists, Stanford UP): https://t.co/k…
Clearly Putin’s photoshoppers were hard at work … twitter.com/davies_will/st…
@MKocher8 @NewStatesman @GavJacobson Point taken. With more space and more time I might have made that point. BUT what explanation is actually offered in Tragedy? Japan 41 seems crazy. It isnt! Why? Because actually gambling on slight chance of ultimate success. But why the desperation? You need something more ..
@LeoStrauss3rd @GavJacobson @NewStatesman Which is really a succinct way of formulating my point. I would simply say that that black boxing, like any other black boxing, is not innocent.
RT @matjaz_nahtigal: Chartbook #94: Putin's war, China and the Euro-Dollar trap , by @adam_tooze adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-94… "There is a preva…
@LeoStrauss3rd @GavJacobson @NewStatesman Use of the term “tragedy" is itself a naturalization.
RT @NoYardstick: Russia will prepare a list of raw materials and products, the export of which is prohibited in 2022. Economic counter-sanc…
@haralduhlig @DavidBeckworth As Bernanke said: “It wasn’t I who left the Republican Party, it was the GOP that left me”.
RT @70sBachchan: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in…
Maybe what I should really have said is that I am obsessed with the “practice of realism”. twitter.com/adam_tooze/sta…
@SigPococurante @NewStatesman @GavJacobson But what then is the theory of the case … ? And in what way is it meaningful to blame the West for the horror? We pushed him so hard, he decided to swallow a porcupine? It seems like an explanatory void.
@ProfPaulPoast @GavJacobson @NewStatesman They are indispensable. Kudos and thanks.
RT @daniel_dsj2110: Great comments here on Matthew Specter's important new book on The Atlantic Realist: twitter.com/adam_tooze/sta…
Im kinda obsessed with the question of realism, in different contexts. Did a piece for @NewStatesman and @GavJacobson on the Mearsheimer debate newstatesman.com/ideas/2022/03/… Followed it up with Chartbook #95 on realism, great power politics adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-95… https://t.co/Bb7v1tksGN
@ChrisSchaef @njtmulder I really like David Runciman on this. Hypocrisy or cynicism … pick your poison. I know which one I prefer.
@asymptosis @policytensor @rkarsten a. I agree that the Mexico/Ukraine comparison is silly And b. When Germany did try to arm Mexico in WWI, the US thought about declaring war on Mexico for a minute and then decided it was a stupid idea.
Both of these are framed by a dialogue with @spectermatt excellent new book on Atlantic Realism, braiding German and American intellectual histories in interesting new ways. twitter.com/adam_tooze/sta…
@policytensor @rkarsten Hi Anusar I am surely guilty of many things, but one thing I plead innocent to is conflating Putin and Hitler. I actually think I understand why HItler acted the way he did. I find Putin’s choices much, much more difficult to make sense of.
RT @mattuthompson: People in the queue here all say the same thing. If they happened to live in France, or Germany, they wouldn’t need to b…
RT @mattuthompson: We’re outside the UK visa application centre in Rzezsow, Poland. It’s -3 degrees. People have been waiting in this que…
RT @x_delcourt: Et aussi…"L’Ukraine est-elle la faute de l'Occident" ? Sur les grandes puissances et le "réalisme" , par @adam_tooze https:…
RT @JackLCargill1: "realism is not a simple…. It is not some schema, no more in international relations than in any other dimension of li…
@policytensor @rkarsten Yup. The vast majority of Russian analysts, deeply concerned for their country’s great power standing don’t even think it is close: criminal folly and epic failure.
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