Hints and tips:
Referring to the conflict as such only invites moral and strategic errors
...Timothy Snyder’s opinion piece “Stalemate’ metaphor hurts Ukraine’s fight” (FT Weekend, October 21) is excellent on the shortcomings of metaphor and the consequences of the west’s drip-feed of lethal aid...
...One of Snyder’s intellectual mentors — his supervisor at Oxford — was the British historian Timothy Garton Ash....
...Timothy Snyder reminds us that metaphors can be misleading (“‘Stalemate’ metaphor hurts Ukraine’s fight”, Opinion, FT Weekend, October 21)....
...In a brilliant recent piece, the historian Timothy Snyder argues that “strongman rule is a fantasy. Essential to it is the idea that a strongman will be your strongman. He won’t....
...Snyder became the leading interpreter of our dark times (The Guardian) — Subway [UK] launches bizarre Creme Egg sandwich (The Independent)...
...On January 14 1967, the American poets Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder, those icons of the Beat generation, took part in a “Great Human Be-in” in San Francisco, alongside another celebrity of the era, Timothy...
...Timothy Snyder, in his recent Lunch with the FT (Life & Arts, FT Weekend, July 29), remarked on Putin’s fascist tendencies and how Europe has found his similarity to Hitler difficult to admit....
...At a school in Van Meter, a small town west of Des Moines, Lindy Snyder caucused for Trump. “I believe he did a very good job when he was in office and we’ve been downhill ever since,” she said....
...Professor Timothy Snyder (Lunch with the FT, July 29) correctly argues for remembering history and links Vladimir Putin’s aggression against Ukraine to the Munich crisis of 1938....
...In any case, Beit’s family had become Christian (as did those later captains of De Beers, the Oppenheimers). Many of the diamond kings were unconcerned about their ethnic identity....
...Even before the Ukraine war, though, as the historian Timothy Snyder has noted, Putin’s Russia had fascist features: a strongman leader atop an authoritarian regime glorying in a heroic past — the victory...
...By contrast, says the Yale historian Timothy Snyder, Ukraine “has changed enormously in the last 30 years”, since many of its citizens discovered a sense of agency, and civil society has taken root....
...Recently it has recommended Timothy D Snyder’s Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary and Roger L Martin’s When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America’s Obsession with Economic Efficiency....
...The historian Timothy Snyder charts how Putin and his advisers built a system sustained by conflict and a view of the west as an existential threat....
...Do read on — Josh Noble, sports editor Messi in Miami: a new captain for football in the US Lionel Messi has at long last arrived at Inter Miami, a transfer for the ages that brings the seven-time Ballon...
...Depicting a young Polynesian islander who sailed to Britain on one of Captain James Cook’s ships and became a celebrity on arrival, it is regarded as a rare example of a great 18th-century work that places...
...Yale Historian Timothy Snyder puts it slightly differently, but in a similar spirit: “All I can say about Russia is what I have been saying for a year: wars end when the domestic political system is under...
The Russian president sent troops across the border on the basis of a farcical myth of enforced unity
...“Much of Ukrainians’ success on the battlefield depends on a heterogenous and self-confident civil society, capable of supporting soldiers,” said Timothy Snyder, a Yale University historian....
...Recently, a friend tweeted a fascinating, optimistic essay by the historian Timothy Snyder titled, “How does the Russo-Ukrainian war end”, while someone else riposted with erudite gloom from the scholar...
...Timothy Snyder, an eminent American historian of eastern Europe, thinks so. He and others cite the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide....
...The historian Timothy Snyder says: “It seems to me that that’s a kind of imperialism, when you say, ‘I can see reality and you can’t see reality because you’re a small unimportant country.’”...
...Putin certainly expected it, as Timothy Snyder explains very well in a conversation with the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent....
...Please read Timothy Snyder’s short piece on the history of Ukraine as well as this fascinating thread by Kamil Galeev on how geography shaped the Donbas region (and the rest of Ukraine) in wonderfully surprising...
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